‘12 Days of Christmas’ Items Would Cost Over $86,000
While this little funny, tongue in cheek article is only slightly amusing to most people, there’s a real piece of data that we should all be looking at:
“The price is up $8,508 or 10.9 percent, from $78,100 last year.”
Hello? Not one mention of inflation in this article. 11% rise in prices in just one year. Keep that in mind the next time you hear that the National Inflation Rate is about 4% – 5%.
- Rob
It’s something many have decided will happen. Now there is a report from a bipartisan commission stating it publicly and with enough candor that it sounds like they are certain.
Still wondering if preparedness is something that needs to be done? With everything else going on, these types of reports and urgings from officials act like a bunch of roadsigns pointing to the need to be prepared. Honestly, did anyone really think with all the misguided people out there that we’d never experience another attack on our soil. The scary part is that when it happens is less likely to be a concventional attack, but more likely one involving NBC.
Do you have the ability to protect and isolate yourself from NBC threats?
All the above items can be found easily and inexpensively with the exeption the ability to provide filtered postive pressure air to your home. An option for this is what’s commonly referrd to as a “fan in a can.” It may not fit your needs exactly but it should get you started in the right direction.
-Mike
Nebraska was the last state in the union to pass Safe Haven laws and in there inability to agree on a maximum age, a bill was passed without an age restriction. This has resulted in people dropping of many of their older children, I mean teenagers…
according to the target new article:
To me, that’s pretty amazing, but it begs the quiestion:
Are these people turning in their older children just dirtbags and no longer want the responsibilty of parenthood, or are things really that rough for them that surrendering their children is a better option.
Personally, I think it’s a little of both, but let’s take a look at the first part. Dirtbag parents. How many people these days are popping out babies when he or she really have no business doing any such thing and the only reason they’re kept around is because getting rid of them wasn’t an option. You don’t want to know what I think should happen to these parents.
The other side of the coin is economic and is something that is hard to imagine but could this just be the leading edge of coming hard times and some of these folks are just some of the first effected? Just to think that things could get that bad is a terrifiing concept but is parts of the world today things are worse with mothers having to choose which child lives or dies. Rob, has a great blog post involving this subject and is definately worth a read if you haven’t read it already.
Are we really going down this road as a country?
I have a simple exercise for today and it’ll only take a minute:
First, try to imaging that things have gotten so bad that you are willing to give up your child. If you’re unable to come up with anything other than, “I’d never give up my child.” they you’re doin it wrong.
Second, imaging a situation in which you would be forced to choose which of your children eat, or worse yet, which one dies because food is that scarce.
Take your time and let the image fully develop in your mind, not pleasent is it? Now ask yourself if you ever want to be caught in that situation. Yeah? niether do I! As a parent I beleive that I have an obligation through an unspoken oath to provide and do what I can to protect and provide for my children and my wife, to my last breath…
Not that I’ll survive, and not that I won’t fail, but I’m not allowing my family or myself go down without the proverbial “fight”
What about you?
-Mike
The National Bureau of Economic Research, a private organization, proclaimed today that we entered into a recession in December 2007.
Yup, you read that right: December 2007. It took this whiz-bang groups of economists a full year to figure out what you and I already knew; that the economy sucketh.
Here are some informational points to consider:
On this CNN Money page (click for link), there is a table to the left of the article that shows the previous 10 recessions since World War II. Of those, the two longest recessions lasted 16 months. We’re now into the 12th month of this recession and there is no sign that it will end soon. This clearly means that this will be the worst recession in 60 years – unless it’s reclassified as a Depression.
But, we’ve already seen the dirty little trick they use – we entered into a recession a year ago, but they’re just telling us now. Why? Simple. You’re no longer surprised to hear that news. Governments prefer to keep telling you everything is fine until it’s clear that it’s not fine and then they’ll tell you what you already know.
If they would have told us in January that we entered into a recession, many Americans would have changed their spending habits immediately; and that would be bad for the economy. Not your economy, but for the bankers and corporations economy, as they need us to keep spending as long as possible. Anything to separate you from your money.
So, what can we learn from this? First, the Government is not hear to help you; they think you’re a child and can’t handle the truth. Second, the Government is too slow to be effective. For the most part, they are reactive instead of proactive. Third, because of the previous two lessons, the Government can only make it worse.
If you haven’t started to prepare, what are you waiting for? Start preparing now! If you have started, use this information to prepare harder. Next year, 2009, is going to be an incredibly bad year economically and you need to be ready for it.
-Rob
