Posted by
Phoenix Lady on Thursday, March 19, 2009 1:19:42 PM
It’s hard to say how long we have to prepare for economic disaster (in whatever form it appears). At the moment, the economy is actually showing tentative signs of improvement. But the rush to pass cap and trade, national health care, and assorted tax increases—to say nothing of throwing money at problems money can’t fix—will eventually increase the price of everything, especially fuel for travel, heating/cooling, etc. I’d like to have something in place to serve as a refuge for the responsible. A place where the John Galts can go and live in small, relatively self-sufficient networks that have no need to provide goods or services to the irresponsible. It’s really kind of a sustainable networking thing, like what Mike Callicrate (
Ranch Foods Direct) does. Essentially, we’ve gone too far in terms of division of labor.
What will also be interesting to observe is if the PRC actually buys large swaths of the US in payment on the Treasuries they own. Would they buy the federally owned land? Or would they buy populated land through a form of eminent domain? They might do the former since that’s where all our raw resources (e.g. oil shale, gas, coal, base and precious metals, etc.) are locked up. Not only that, but if they bought the federally owned land, they’d have lots of space to put their own excess population to work the land and/or diggings. If they bought populated land (e.g. cities), more likely they’d buy either individual parcels, or companies that own and/or manage the parcels (e.g. warehousing companies, or, in the grain belt, corporate farming/ranching outfits like Tyson).
More on this idea in a later post.
BTW, if you want really good beef and buffalo, check out Ranch Foods Direct at the link above. Mike even runs Waygu (or half-Waygu) beef cattle. You think maybe Mr. Obama might be buying his Waygu beef for a lot less than $100 a pound from Mike? I'd hope so, because he'd be supporting American ranchers in that case. Mike is a good friend, and we buy about half our groceries from him. No hormones, no anti-biotics, and no chance of mad-cow disease.