09-10-2021, 10:47 AM
(09-09-2021, 11:26 PM)Ninurta Wrote: A large part of what made me who I am today was the influence of my Dear Old Dad. One thing he always stressed to me, probably because he grew up during The Great Depression, was that I should learn and be able to do damn near everything for myself, because there will be times that I can't afford to pay someone else to do it, or that "someone else" will not be available to do it, or I may have to get things or get things done that the government frowns upon.
So he taught me to do such things as farm with actual horse-power, from live horses, how to build, wire, and plumb my own digs, how to doctor and feed myself out of the woods, and a number of other things the knowledge of which is dying out. One of those "other things" was how to make my OWN alcohol, so that I didn't have to rely on stores, supply chains, and government goodwill to catch a buzz.
So I ain't skeert. matter of fact, I sense a business opportunity on the horizon! What my Dear Old Dad taught me of self-reliance, together with other "things" I learned on my own out in the Big Bad World of how to get things into places where they were not wanted to be gotten to, all adds up to a grand business opportunity in my mind...
Fuck their covid, their masks, their vaccines; fuck them, and the tanks they rode in on! I can still git 'er done...
This is how one person can f*ck-up a perfectly presented thread about the facets of relying on the Government teat.
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