News Flash my good people!
Oil is on the rise!
Besides the fact that oil is a "non-renewable" resource and the inevitable truth that prices will only trend up, the crisis and revolt in Libya, Bahrain, Iran, Egypt, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia and the like will only cause prices to climb. Production will be slowed if not halted and exports will be reduced if not stopped all together.
With prices soaring, we will see a rise is gas prices, a rise in the cost of goods that use oil in production (pretty much anything that is plastic), and we will watch the shipping charges rise, sending the market price of goods even higher.
All in all, we are about to pay a lot more for the same things.
The question becomes "How do we survive?"
Quite simple really. Community Self Reliance.
The times are coming when just a quick trip to Wal-mart will be expensive. The drive itself will cost more, and not to mention the goods. So what do we do?
Learn to support yourself!
Learn to lean on your community, your neighbors, your own personal work, and yourself.
Plant a garden, plan neighborhood weekend events, use services that are accessible in your town.
Do local shopping, eat at local restaurants.
Is there hardly any of that available? Good! Start it!
The belief that creating a job is more noble than taking a job is a pillar of Ameircan values.
This country and its people have lost the virtues and values that made us what we are.
Somewhere along the lines (around the 1930's, with FDR's "Great Expansion", to be exact) the citizenry lost its independence.
Instead of making a living, we started demanding a living.
We wanted an entity to come in and give us everything. An education, a home, a job, a paycheck, and the list goes on and on.
It was hard to keep your independent values when you were watching your family starve to death, but the thing was, we had already lost the drive.
When the government said "Hey, we will pay for everything, don't worry about it!" we were more than willing to pack up our liberty and toss it in a communal bonfire.
I may not be free, but at least I'll be fed.
Now, in 2011, (which, in all honesty, we were seeing the effects back in the 70s) we have figured out that we are broke. More than broke actually, we have been broke, and now, we are in debt. A debt so large that if everyone took what they made for an entire year and used it all on paying our debt off, we MIGHT pay it off..maybe.
Fact is, the party is over. People have been living off of a government dime that was borrowed and the collector is coming.
The day is coming where the government won't have the money to pay your bills. The day is coming where the liberal domestic spending will come to an end and if you have been riding on a public gravy train (See Wisconsin, Ohio, New Jersey, Indiana, Florida..etc.) you're going to have to get off at the next station.
Whichever politician or political party takes up this mantle of telling people who have made a career of sponging off entitlement programs, that they have to stop, that politician or party will be despised.
Nobody likes to hear that they are broke, nobody likes to stop getting free things, no one wants to stop receiving benefits, and "NO politician will take it away from me!"
I urge the American people to be steadfast in this stance.
Support your own liberty and reduce the size of your government. Reduce your dependency on government. Support Community Self Reliance.
Depend on people who depend on you.
Your family, your neighbors, your community.
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