Now don’t get off on this tangent.
I fully believe in not expanding a family if you can’t afford them.
I have no kids and sure as hell don’t want to pay for somebody elses.
The handyman should have tied a knot in it after two.
Buy bit coins now ! LOL
The speculators are scared off now, along with everyone else. Except for smugglers, tax dodgers, and money launders. The remaining crew has a real need for bit coins, and will make it work. Unless you believe crime doesn’t pay.
Here is an update article.
If you like speculating, the time to do it is when it goes against popular expectation.
this is different here:
- I pay taxes that benefits the kids (yes … it’s true here)
- and when they are grown-up they pay for my retirement (unless they are jobless :o)
it’s called a “community” …
I assume we are talking about sales tax here? He only pays 6 times as much if he buys 6 times as much food. That sounds fair enough (not necessarily for Gilby). I am all for his freedom to have as many kids as he wants, as long as he (and his family) are able to raise them.
As for Bitcoin, I’m just going to watch from over here.
I agree whole heartedly. If you have the means to provide, have as many children as you desire. Unfortunately the majority of families with 6 or more children that I’ve had any dealings with are getting government aid in one form or another.
Sorry, no more thread jacking from me.:o
Here in Oz we are ALL getting some form of government aid. And that is as it should be. We have a single payer health care system and liveable gov’t aid to those who are unable to find a job and the minimum wage is about $16 AUD. Seems funny such things are a bone of contention to our friends across the pond. All kids are the future, not just some kids.
As for Bitcoin, I think it’s a neat idea but still warrants watching.
Cheers
money
we are told that the united states dollar is based on gold, and gold prices fluxuate.
if some crazy event happened that rendered all current forms of cash worth nothing gold would still be worth something when the next form of currency gets adopted.
gold has so many uses, not just in electronics either, and best of all it will not corrode if stored for thousands of years, so it is very stable.
so get some gold and bury it somewhere before the government collapses, don’t tell anyone about it, and wait until the government stabilizes and has new form of currency and sell the gold for that, or make some fancy gold trinkets out of it.
make sure to store the gold in your bomb shelter along with several decades of supply’s so you can re surface someday. just make sure to stay underground for a few years so you don’t have to deal with all the dead rotting bodies of hipsters that killed themselves when their smartphones stopped working, and of course by then all the prepper types should have also died because they ran out of mre’s and bullets to kill critters with to eat.
A unicycle will probably be the only practical vehicle in the post apocalyptic world but you should have enough gold to trade to mutants to live comfortably.
Actually, the value of the USD$ is not backed by gold. I’m feeling old now, I remember when all the change was silver or copper, and dollar bills had “silver certificate”, printed on them. I suppose you could stroll over to Fort Knox (where the yanks have the gold and silver bullion) and they would give you a silver dollar for the cloth one. Also the price of gold was set at a standard of 35 $/oz, with a catch, you weren’t allowed to buy any.
Now though, I am pretty sure the USD just kind of floats. Sure, there is still a few tons of gold and silver stashed at Knox, but it means nothing, it is just an anachronism, they won’t sell you any of it.
I’m not really that concerned with currency collapse, but if I was, I would buy bags of worn old silver coins. They are sold by the pound, and should hold their value ok, and be more practical for small daily transactions than gold. I wouldn’t trust a gold bar was real, never mind being able to make change, but a 1960 quarter is what it looks like.