Great Depression of 2016

[Bluebonnet]

Keeping your rights to water, minerals and any energy sources you might have such as wind, solar, hydro etc., is important.

In my view, the more off-grid you can get, the better. Less dependence on others and more self reliance is a good thing.

 

[oldrooster]

Keeping your rights to water, minerals and any energy sources you might have such as wind, solar, hydro etc., is important.

In my view, the more off-grid you can get, the better. Less dependence on others and more self reliance is a good thing.

That is well said but hard to do since many times the mineral rights (that is all the rights you listed and then some are defined) could possibly have been sold off for an entire county by all the previous land owners many decades ago. My parents purchased property that the gas and oil rights had been sold off sometime in the 1920's and they remain sold of for as long as the company pays the lease payment into eternity, My folks get a dollar an acre every year. yes a buck an acre, some of the neighbors don't even try to cash the checks because it costs them more in bank fees (they are charged for making deposits either in person or in a night drop or atm) than what the check is for them.

 

[Dwkuska]

That is well said but hard to do since many times the mineral rights (that is all the rights you listed and then some are defined) could possibly have been sold off for an entire county by all the previous land owners many decades ago. My parents purchased property that the gas and oil rights had been sold off sometime in the 1920's and they remain sold of for as long as the company pays the lease payment into eternity, My folks get a dollar an acre every year. yes a buck an acre, some of the neighbors don't even try to cash the checks because it costs them more in bank fees (they are charged for making deposits either in person or in a night drop or atm) than what the check is for them.

Sounds like they need a new bank. I have never heard of being charged for making a deposit. I have heard of being charged a fee for a non bank member to cash a check though.

 

[rufus]

That dollar is probably a shut in royalty. If you are approached to lease minerals, always have the lease prepared by your lawyer.

 

[hemet dennis]

Dennis, yes countries can specify what currency their goods are sold in, but China makes everything now days. Right now, the dollar looks doomed and the renminbi looks to be the next reserve currency. The Chinese currency system is a somewhat complicated thing. It has always been an iffy thing. Provinces issued their own money, or their own variation of the same coin. The currency was always being debased, and the printing press made millionaires out of some people.

I have wads of old Chinese currency that my family hung on to. I doubt they will ever have any value.

Supposedly, the renminbi is going to eventually be backed by precious metals. That would make it the primo currency. Time will tell.

That is why the Chinese currency cannot be the reserve currency.

Precious metals are not money.

What is the U.S. dollar not backed by ?

 

[hemet dennis]

I spent a good year looking for the land that met my needs. I had a vision of what I wanted and I had to check local laws before deciding on area where I wanted to settle down. I had to invest a good deal in clearing the land to make it suitable for what I wanted, but I am glad I went through the extra leg work to make this happen.

Government policies have made farming unprofitable for many, except for mass production. They also had a healthy hand in creating GMOs. Check out the history of Agent Orange and Monsanto and follow the money. For a worse shock, check out how our own government conducted illegal human experimentation on its own citizens without their knowledge.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentation_in_the_United_States

Where is this magical place, that is so quiet, that roosters should not be allowed to sully the silence? Farmers and roosters came before other, far more common and widespread noise makers. If this is about rights, what about the rights of Americans to maintain a traditional lifestyle, that was once the norm, without exception across the United States?

Some places have restrictions, but my point is that such restrictions should not be there in the first place.

Being able to be secure in your person and possessions, as well as secure in your food supply and traditional American way of life should be held higher than a noise complaint.

Why do the Amish, who have a religious cause to back their traditional ways, hold more weight than any other American, who wishes to maintain the traditional lifestyle of our ancestors?

Why should we need an exception or excuse to own a rooster?

The concept is completely ridiculous to me.

I was wondering what your opinion is on this.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...ornias-requirements-on-cage-size-for-chickens

 

[rufus]

Dennis, I realize that question was not directed at me, but I suspect a lot of people in California will be eating cereal for breakfast. I have to wonder about people imposing their own view points on other people.

It seems to me that a lot of the people crying for the legalization of marijuana are the same folks wanting a ban on big sugary drinks. It boggles the mind.

 

[rufus]

That is why the Chinese currency cannot be the reserve currency.

Precious metals are not money.

What is the U.S. dollar not backed by ?

On the other hand, what is the US dollar backed by? The printing press? I am afraid when the dollar starts to fall, that all of those dollars held abroad will be exchanged for goods. We could see a lot of our agricultural products and minerals going overseas. That would mean a rapid inflation at the same time we are suffering high employment. Stagflation is the term applied.

The problem with the Chinese currency is not what it was, but what it will become. Time will tell.

 

[Bluebonnet]

I was wondering what your opinion is on this.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...ornias-requirements-on-cage-size-for-chickens

My opinion is that if I could take and chisel away at California's border in order to chip it off and shove it into the ocean, no longer including it as part of the United States, I would do so.

 

[Dwkuska]

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Just make sure you salvage the Marines at Camp Pendleton in San Diego... no sense wasting the most bad *** killing force the US has. Besides they are not from cali