[tomkuegler]

Hello All:

The Cockroach Theory says that bad things always follow other bad things (wrote about it on our financial blog).

And boy was Bear Sterns the king of all cockroaches!

[hugh009]

You are right on the money! See what I have been saying way back before even my former colleagues in the media were talking about the economy at Survival of the Prepared

Thanks,
Hugh

[Gaulkin]

"Yes, you had better think of growing your food hydroponically and learning to can if you want to EAT! My new e-book coming out tell you how to do both."

Yeah alittle drastic there with his propaganda.

[byzantium]

Actually, I'm seriously considering a move to Nevada, and not Las Vegas or Reno either but way out in the desert where I can grow my own food without having to worry about anything getting it except wild horses and jackrabbits. I would do this even if the doomsayers weren't stampeding (since it's 1978 again, do we have to wear leisure suits and listen to disco again, will Sanyo be calling its TVs Space Command?) because I am fed up with cities.

The rats in a cage analysis is especially apt when talking about the suburban monstrosities Americans call cities. An American city is a place that's a third bluegrass but has nowhere for kids to play, nowhere to grow crops, nowhere to go for a break (since the city stretches for 150 miles; some kids in LA have never seen a wilderness!) and needs a total reliance on cars and supermarkets to function and remain livable. The American city is increasingly unlivable. All the good farmland is now growing tract houses-the farm my grandfather grew up on is now a rundown trailer park.

Speaking of grandpappy, he used to talk to me for hours about living on a farm, 36 acres in rural Sacramento County. Pigs, chickens, a few cows, enough vegetables to feed the kids. One day he was driving me to get my car from the mechanic, down Florin Road which is a ghetto of 60s houses, and he pointed to Southgate Mobile Home Park and said "there's my mom's farm". And he cried a little. He's gone now, but I want to live on a farm too.

Problem is, you can't buy just 30 acres today. Farms are commercial operations involving thousands of acres and big agri-corporations. I want to live on a real farm, not Frankenfarm. I can buy 20 acres near Silver Springs, Nevada, for $40k. Yes, it's rocky and sandy, but it's better than living in a suburb. Maybe I'll look into hydroponics. (No fruit, the cold winters kill the trees.) In truth, the US HAD only a little arable land (able to be farmed), and it's gone now. I still am sick of urban decay.

I want to be free. "It's tough to be free when you're bought and sold in the marketplace" -Easy Rider

[hugh009]

Hi, Byzantium! you are smart to be looking at moving away from the crowd. Gaulkin may think that my approach is a little radical but I'm also probably just a tad more older than he is and experienced! I live in the mountains and still with good soil I think that you should consider hydroponics. There was a tomato plant in I think Japan that set a record for growth and produced well over 1000 tomatoes. VERY few people know that our military used hydroponics in WW II in the Pacific. Also mega grower Archer Daniels has literally miles under glass with hydroponics! So what do they know they we should know?


Hugh