This article is written as both a representative disconnect of the current administration, and also as a direct warning to readers of a never before seen increase in U.S. food prices. As grandma always said: “charity begins at home.”
Earlier today in Paris, France, Kamala Harris waxed as philosophically as she could about the inequities around the globe. Specifically, she proclaimed that world leaders have no excuse for some unknown “we” creating enough food to “feed the entire world” while children are hungry.
The words written for Harris to recite may sound good to an audience who values their own virtue through hollow soundbites and empty phrases; however, there is a very stark and concerning disconnect specifically when it comes to U.S. leadership making these proclamations. Watch first 30 seconds (prompted):
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“Why have we allowed so many of the world’s children to go hungry when we know that we produce enough food to feed the entire world. […] We must instead agree that these growing gaps are unacceptable,” Harris proclaims with maximum virtue-signaling emphasis in the effort to raise her approval rating.
Meanwhile, the Biden-Inflation cost of food in the United States is increasingly becoming a problem for working class Americans. Forget feeding children around the world, we are weeks away from people not being able to feed their own kids, and massive shortages in the stop-gap systems like food banks.
I’m not sure people understand yet exactly how desperate things are going to become, so let me be very specific for an audience of long-term readers who have my track record of accuracy to measure my predictions. Within the next 120 to 180 days, you are about to see butter cost $8 to 10.00/lb at your local supermarket. Bread will cost $6.00 a loaf, minimum, and other key staple item food prices, in the first two quarters of 2022, will increase 20 to 30% from where they are right now.
Maybe you don’t have kids at home, maybe you don’t pack lunches or care what the cost of a pound of bologna will be, maybe you are retired and the stove hasn’t been operated all year as you prefer to dine out…. but I can assure you, to a demonstrable certainty, that almost all middle class working Americans will be making decisions on what food products they can afford. Head lettuce at $4 to $5 each, eggs at $3/doz, milk around $6/gal, butter around $8/lb, and citrus so expensive getting an orange in your Christmas stocking will be a trend again in 2022.
The background conversations in the raw material, processing, manufacturing, wholesaling and food contract networks are enough to make you lose sleep.
[…] Tyson sent a letter to at least two regional distributors last month in which it said that prices on Ball Park, Hillshire Farm, Jimmy Dean, State Fair and all deli meats will increase by a range of 5% to 10.2% beginning Jan. 2 for “all retail customers.” … “We continue to face accelerating levels of extraordinary inflation,” Tyson said in the letter. “The sustained duration and significant impact of the inflation necessitates additional pricing action.” (link)
The traditional net terms at 30, 60 or 90 days are right now a hot topic, as producers and suppliers in the food supply chain can no longer commit to contractual prices for future goods delivered. The upstream price increases are so large the downstream suppliers will not contract on fixed prices, EVEN for the big box retailers.
Only those who know the scale of Walmart buying office pressure and dominance can appropriately contextualize a current WM supplier telling the behemoth to “go spit” if they don’t like the fact that price guarantees are no longer part of the equation. Yeah, it is THAT bad.
We are only a few months away from seeing massive inflation that will fundamentally change the way everyone looks at food shopping, or highly consumable purchases, and what the middle class formerly considered to be “luxury” purchases. Inflation, in the background, is going to come through the supply chain like a thundershock…. and it’s not just food.
This recent insider comment caused me to do some digging, and this is 100% accurate:
“I am an executive in the detergent chemical industry that supplies all of the major pharmaceutical companies, and am in charge of pricing and purchasing of large quantities of raw materials – both commodities, and surfactants, which are the main ingredients in detergents. Here is a brief overview of the situation.
Commodities, such as sodium bicarbonate (baking soda), sodium carbonate (soda ash), and other basic additives that adjust pH, thickness, anti-redeposition, rinseability, and other properties are up around 10-15% on a raw material cost basis from February. Not a single material is unaffected.
Citric acid is up nearly 40-50% when it can be found, at minimum. There is a nationwide allocation, which means that they give material to whom they feel like. One of the major domestic manufacturers of these materials shut down production of citric acids and other acidulants due to maintenance. Many companies in my industry are paying nearly 300% (not a typo – three hundred percent) increases on citric acid.
Domestic primary surfactants, which are made by a handful of companies such as Stepan Company, Solvay, Huntsman, and many more, are up 15-20%, due mainly to oil cost, transportation, etc.
Domestic specialty surfactants, specifically of a class called ethoxylated surfactants, are nearly gone. Not hard to get, not difficult to find – gone. In February, the ice storm took out piping and power lines along the entire gulf coast. The two towns that got hit hardest were Houston, TX, and a little town called St. Charles, LA. St. Charles is where all ethoxylation takes place in the USA for everyone from Dow to Sasol to BASF, and is the key process to make these specialty ethoxylated surfactants. Then, after 4 months of shutdowns, just when everything was getting back into swing, Hurricane Ida wrecked everything all over again.
Dow, one of the largest companies in the world, only restarted production at their facility there in early October.
The crisis of transportation and at the ports is only adding to this crisis of manufacturing in the chemical industry. News to everyone? It was never covered, not even once, on the news.
If truckers are going to be forced to be vaccinated come January, there will be even less trucks than there are now.
The wheels of the world are being purposefully and deliberately ground to a halt. We’d be better off with the mafia back in control of the ports worldwide.
This is going to get so much worse before it gets any better, and the administration in office is doing everything in their power to make sure it is as bad as possible.” (link)
And this on “Industrial Price Increases“:
Meanwhile, Kamala Harris is worried about feeding children of the world, while millions of working class Americans are worried about feeding their own kids?
Infuriating is an understatement.
Please prepare yourselves and your families accordingly.
The proactive window to prepare for what’s coming is approximately 60 days from today; and then options begin to diminish quickly.
This is all being done by design.
We the American farmer have always not only grew food for Americans but we supplied food to the world.
Are the words coming from her mouth a sign the American farmer will soon be targeted again and put out of business ?
The American farmer has been targeted for quite some time already.
Read/watch some of the dire warnings from The Ice Age Farmer, as he’s been following agricultural trends quite closely:
https://www.iceagefarmer.com/
https://www.bitchute.com/iceagefarmer/
I thought Bill Gates was buying up most of the farm land.
Dystopian lies.
And doing so for a very demonic reason…certainly NOT to feed the American people who cannot afford to feed their children.
We are going to love grass burgers!
After Biden is done we probably won’t be able to afford grass burgers either.
Yes, and that really bothers me. I’m concerned that Gates might sell the farm land to China.
I did a Duck Duck Go search on “can china buy american farmland?” (without the quotes). I found some very interesting articles, such as https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/19/china-buying-us-farms-foreign-purchase-499893 and https://americanmilitarynews.com/2021/07/china-is-buying-billions-in-us-farmland-and-lawmakers-are-scrambling-to-try-to-stop-them/ . These articles say that China is already buying up US farmland.
It’s bad enough that a lot of our manufacturing has moved to China. But it’s even worse that China is buying our farmland.
Not to worry. Theres that Fed Gov board, made up of heads of various depts, SoS, etc.
They review all foreign purchases, to insure Natl Security of U.S. isn’t compromised,…you know, the ones who approved selling U.S. Uranium to Russia?
THEY will make sure the CCP doesn’t buy up our famland, like they kept them from buying up our hogs.
We are SO screwed!
And pigs. Smithfield is owned by Chinese.
Dutchman and Lori, right! I sure don’t trust the current administration to protect our farmland.
How I wish Pres. Trump had been the one sworn into office, last January!
And a lot of people don’t realize how many different brands fall under the Smithfield labels. Check out their website to see how many brands they control now.
Saudi Arabia has been buying farms in Mohave and La Paz counties in AZ that have access to Colorado River with unlimited water rights. Same in other areas in California. They grow alfalfa and other crops using tons of water and send back the crop to their country.
in OKLA the chinese are buying farmland, going into the MJ growing business, sucking all the nutrients out of the soil and all the water from our aquifers and lakes to grow MJ. You think all that MJ is then sold in OKLA? No, I think we are supplying the world. BTW what they are doing is mostly illegal but enforcement is not getting the job done.
China holds all of our debt. China owns all of our farmland. Uh huh…. come and get it.
But the actual land is going nowhere.
Bill Gates would have to buy States to own “most of the farm land”.
Well, we are having an “extreme drought” in CA after Gavin dumped all of our water in the ocean and the geoengineering is being sprayed to dry us out. It was over 90 degrees 3 miles from the beach today, not in Palm Springs, by the beach. This is all done on purpose, perhaps you are not far off…after all, China would own us by now if not for the previous administration in DC.
That is a huge problem, the government allowing badly needed water for agriculture to be diverted for some crackpot enviro issues.
This worries me more than China buying the ag land.
Here in the West if you control the water you control everything, water is “liquid gold” and often the water rights tied to the land is worth more than the land.
If you are a land owner hang on to your water rights!
They’re coming for those too.
Carol Roth talks about a water shortage here: https://www.glennbeck.com/radio/how-to-prepare-for-possible-water-shortages-in-the-near-future
There is also a fertilizer shortage. On purpose?
Him, his buddies and China….
Bill and China too.
Think China is buying more of it plus producers of chicken and pork. Beef is not very popular with the Chinese.
My feeling is YES, they want farmers out of business. Farmers are supporters of conservatives and putting them out of business is one way to cause chaos/food riots and to destroy the opposition.
….while at the same time putting crony corporations in charge of these previously privately owned farms.
The white American farmer will be targeted and murdered, but mostly murdered. Reparations and all that.
Reference: See the new South African apartheid state …
free farmer (self sufficient small businessman) = kulak
look up War Against The Kulaks
And identify who did it and why
aka Holodomor
A book recommendation – Execution by Hunger – first person account of the Holodomor
From my life experience, as a farmer’s kid, we have been targeted and purposely destroyed since the 1950’s…that’s just my recollection and my Dad teaching all his kids that the government lies and destroys; do not trust anyone from the government.
I bought a farm when I left for college. 26 pages of paperwork and they declared me to be a farmer. My second cousin farms the land. I get $1.34 check for NOT planting rye. I have never thought of planting rye.
The problem with your subsidy check for not planting Rye is that you are not playing the game.
Farm subsidies have gotten so out of control that large farmers can plant a certain amount of acreage and make a good living. If they play the game, they can put their land into a government program to NOT plant something, and make enough money off that subsidy to rent other farm land and put it into crops.
I am not saying farming is a grift, but farming has become such a cut-throat business with massive amounts of debt that must be managed and costs that have to be managed that farmers of a certain size are forced into the grift. Smaller farmers can’t compete on farming a few hundred acres any more, so they give up, sell their machinery and rent their land to larger farmers for enough to cover the property taxes.
I asked a farmer one time, what does he farm? His answer, “I farm the Government”.
Yep, been like that since before Lady Bird Land.
A farmer friend of mine jokingly said he always knew there was money in farming, so much goes in and so little comes out that there HAS to be money in it.
I was told how to make a small fortune farming. Answer; “Start with a large fortune”.
Farm equipment and assets are generally immediate 100% write off. Most farmers pay themselves low wages and reinvest all profits to expand the business, which is what they should do to keep income taxes as low as possible.
They are not always an immediate 100% depreciation.
And most farmers do not pay themselves wages because they live off the profits of the sales of their product.
They often have a loan from the bank that they live off of and they pay off as soon as they harvest their crop or sell their calves.
This is done once a year and then if they have a good relationship with the bank they roll the loan over and on they go.
Year after year after year living off the borrowed money, hopefully paying down the big principal loan on the farm or ranch which is used as collateral for both the the loan to purchase the property and to live on while they work the farm and ranch.
The smaller loan is payed off each year while the huge property farm/ranch loan is just paid down and takes decades to pay off.
Often the wife works a full time job and then the farmers can use a smaller working loan.
There are many different ways to keep income taxes low but unless a farm makes at least a small profit about every 5 or 6 years the feds come checking to make sure you are not cooking the books.
Until the big loan used to purchase the property is paid off most of the profit goes into paying that loan down.
I have seen some ag producers expand too quickly by using a farm that has not been paid off but because land prices in the area have risen they remortgage using one property higher value , borrow money to buy more property and then when land prices go down and they are under water in value and if they miss just a few payments they lose it all.
Most seem to be conservative and try to get out of the debt.
so what you are saying is that farming is just a big savings account. farmer works for 40 years, then sells out to get his “savings” back. ?
Yep. Live poor; die rich.
Talking with a neighbor who works in the AG industry he says costs of fertilizer is now tripled and quadrupled over the last few months. He also told me to stock up on Round Up if we use it before it is unavailable. We don’t use that but will get some extra Weed N Feed and Weed B Gone.
We live near an Amish community so hopefully we will be able to get things like eggs, milk, cheese, etc. from them for a reasonable price. I need to keep stocking up staples but on a low fixed income I can only do so much a month.
Hubby read an article that said when the depression ended farmers were asked how they survived all the years of want.
Many of those farmers said they didn’t even know there was a depression, since they continued farming their land, living a modest life, and selling their crops.
Having Amish neighbors — who believe in sharing with their neighbors — will be a blessing to you. Find out now what you might be able to do or make to help your Amish neighbors while they are helping everyone else.
All talk…She has done nothing for her own country, how is she going to help the world…
Go back to hiding Kameltoe…
“She has done nothing for her own country…”
Where exactly IS “her own country”? She is only an “American” because her mother, a foreign student from India, met her father, a foreign student from Jamaica (where his family had owned slaves), while both were studying at UC Berlkey in the 60s and her mother happened to give birth to her in a hospital in California.
She is even less of a natural born citizen than Barry Soetero! Oh, and after her parent’s divorce, her mother raised her in Canada! She has no real knowledge of or appreciation for America and the fact that she is parading around the world purporting to represent OUR country (not hers!) is a disgrace!
“The trouble with America is that it’s full of Americans, comrades!”
I think Jordan Peterson would have a few choice words for her.
How is everyone preparing? We have been building our dry herb and spice cabinet,non perishables and getting a larger freezer. Although I don’t know how far that will get us. Wish I grew up in a family that lived off the land.
When our freezer is empty in 8 or 10 months, we’ll switch over to our large stockpile of rice and beans.
Barter with any deer hunters you know.
Get some extra propane tanks for the grill.
Furnaces filter shelves were half empty at Lowes.
Wow! I never thought about stocking up on furnace filters. Thanks!
I am going to order more charcoal for the smoker and grab more propane! Thanks for that tip!
My local Ace Hardware was fully stocked on filters when I bought them a week ago and they were on sale. Prices and size selection are both better than Lowe’s and HD.
Learn what wild plants are edible in your area. Winter is the worst time of year to forage, but it can be done.
Around here in warmer weather there are tons of wild foods. Even Kudzu is edible, and quite delicious.
Drove through the south a few years ago and thought all the green that covered everything was beautiful. Now, after checking-out what Kudzu is, I know what that green covering is.
Looks like what others see as a bad thing may end up being a glorious thing when the food shortage hits hard.
Don’t have Kudzu in Minnesota, and I tried all summer to grow Tree Collards — the worlds’ super food. My friend’s tree collards grow to soaring heights in San Diego, but here in soil rich, water plentiful Minnesota they hardly put on new leaves before dying.
I did learn that every part of a grape plant can be eaten, and grape plants are great sources of many vitamins. Before the onset of fall I pressed and froze a stack of grape leaves that I hope to add to winter soups. And if/when the Poxyclypse (one of the Mad Maxx movies — which seem prophetic these days — called the apocalypse the polyclypse) happens, we can boil and eat all the dead grapevine wood.
Use Evergreen needle “tea” to fight off scurvy (but there are a few that are poisonous, so make sure to check now what is and is not poisonous in your area. Yew and Norfolk Pine are poisonous.)
And Aspen and Willow tree cambium is safe to eat and have a pain-relieving benefit. The cambium can be eaten fresh, dried and powdered for breads, tinctured, or chunked and dried for making Aspen or Willow Tea.
Here in the cold country everyone has a freezer right outside their door for many months of the year. Once summer comes, if the power is out, keeping food will be a bigger deal — like those of you in the south may already be preparing for.
I recently learned about preserving meat by placing it in lard. Crazy thing. We are now saving all our bacon grease (that has its own preserving qualities) in case we need it later on.
Remember my husband’s dad often saying that as a kid his family on the farm was so poor that they spread bacon grease on their toast instead of butter. Gave it a try last week and it wasn’t all that bad.
I’m stocking up on staples, salt, flour, sugar, oatmeal, rice, beans, baking soda, powdered milk, canned goods, lard, tea and coffee. Will order some powdered eggs too. I try to keep our freezer full of meats while I can still get some at affordable prices. Will be buying more laundry soap, bleach, vinegar. As long as the electricity stays on we’ll be good. Going to also get some vegetable seeds so we’ll be ready to plant a garden come Spring or earlier if I plant in pots inside. I have faith our Lord God Almighty will see us through this if it is His will that we must.
? ? Thanks for the list.
As are we. Thanks for the tip on powdered eggs! Did not think about that. I told hubby we need to get items like lightbulbs, duct tape, home repair supplies as those things will likely be scarce as well. Blessings to you & yours during these days. I wish I knew how to bake bread. ?
Oh gosh, that’s easy! Go to Pinterest and search easy bread recipes- they’ve got loads of them with video tutorials. If that’s still too daunting for you, search EBay for used or open box bread makers that will do the work for you. Warning, though, if you bake your own bread you’ll never be able to go back to store bought. Even if the good times roll again. ?
Don’t forget the yeast!!
Yeast packets could become great barter items.
There are very easy no-yeast required breads you can make on your stove top, or on a wood fire or barbeque grill if/when the power goes out.
Find a recipe online, print it out and test it now so you’ll be sure you’ve found something you like when you are your own best chef!
And make sure to store up lots of grease, lard and oil for baking. Once we are on our own, having enough fat to eat will become a huge issue to everyone’s health (crazy to think now, when most of us have fat rich diets!).
Navajo Fry Bread is easy. A child could cook it.
https://thestayathomechef.com/authentic-indian-fry-bread/#jump-to-recipe
Don’t forget Pasta..and tuna, heck you can make a meal by mixing
pasta with tuna..
pasta and home canned tomatoes is delicious too
Freeze your flour, oatmeal and any grains for 3 days, then let them thaw out. Once fully thawed let them sit out for a week, then freeze them for 3 days again.
Doing that helps to kill any weevils that may be hiding, which could eventually eat the food your family needs.
Besides stocking up on food stuffs, I’ve added things like a food dehydrator, grow lights, a pressure canner, a water bath canner, a kerosene heater(Goodwill), crutches and a walker(Goodwill), 2 burner Coleman camp stove (also from Goodwill), Big Berkey water filter(expensive but worth it), a pitcher pump for the well under my back porch.
Try to go a weekend without electricity at your house, and see what the problems are that you have a hard time dealing with, so that you can prepare accordingly.
There are multiple survival blogs that are good for info. The one I check most regularly is modernsurvivalblog.com, I see posters from there also posting on here
Generator with fuel and a solar generator may be worth it.
A small refrigerator &/or ice machine as a back up take less power off your generator than trying to run a full size one.
If you can;t afford a generator you can buy Power banks one brand
name is jackery but there are many others. they are the size of a car battery
but portable…lightweight. they come with AC plug multiple usb ports and some
12 ports. you can use the AC one to charge computer run small lamps and
other things.. it is better than nothing and they can be charged in the wall
in the car or you can buy solar panels to charge them with.
I just got the EcoFlow Delta Max and a portable solar panel.
Berkey, Berkey, Berkey and extra filters! When people ask me how to prepare I tell them they need to take care of 3 things — a safe place to live (involves a lot), food to eat (involves a lot, too), and safe water to drink.
In the land of 10,000 lakes water is usually very accessible. It is cleaning the water to make it safe to drink I keep telling people about.
Even when someone living in the country says they have a well and lots of well water I ask them if they can get the water if/when the power goes out and they have no pump to get the water out of the well. Most, like my husband and me, would be without well water once the pump stops pumping.
And Berkey’s have been proven in many tests to be far superior in filtering out all the bad stuff more than any other water filter. The fact that it is all done in a small container that requires no power is also fabulous.
Now I need to find out what a pitcher pump is!
We live in rural flyover land and I am so thankful. I’m a physician and hubby farms/ranches with my family. We have 94 mama cows and 60 chickens. Right now I have eggs running out of my ears. Took 14 dz to the local food bank yesterday. Still have 10 gallons of eggs water glassed for winter when the chickens slow down laying. 4 freezers are completely full of beef/pork/elk. I’ve been stock piling Charmin ultra soft for a year. Pantry completely stocked with canned foods, dry pasta and rice. We have an orchard with 4 apple trees, 3 pear, 3 cherry, 2 plum and one peach tree. Have 8 established grape vines. Large garden area. Loads of seeds. Herb garden now moved inside for the winter. Bulk fuel tanks are full. Natural gas free from our own wells. 30KW auto generator to run the ranch. Stock piles of medications. Fireplace with plenty of wood cut. Ponds full of fish. Loads of guns/ammo. Neighbors with a milk cow and equally prepared. Bring it on!
Herbs and spices are good for barter. Also, hot sauce! Also, airplane-size alcohol bottles.
Massive food poverty in the US, and soon after many millions around the world will starve.
President Trump said many excellent things in his speech to the GOP today.
One of them was “there are many more of us than there are of them”.
When and if things get so bad that our children are hungry we will go after the food and those that have it.
We will be desperate and take it by force from those who have it even if they think they are protected by hired guns
Our desperation will out fight those who are hired and who will not die to protect rich peoples life style when we will die to feed our children.
Hopefully things will not get this bad but if it does it will not end well for those who think they can hire some one to protect their selfish interests against some one who will fight to the death for their families.
It never does, history will prove this if you check.
#Soon from MSLSD: “Why the Starvation We’re Seeing is a Good Thing.”
Sanjay Gupta.reporting Americans down to healthy lean bodies
Like it was in the 30’s.
I remember as a kid paying 10-cents at the circus to see the “Fat lady”. Now I see her everyday for free down at the Donut Shop.
Interesting comment Fangdog.
I was looking through my HS annual a few weeks a go an there was a picture of one of the kids we considered fat.
Now days he would not even be considered chubby but at the time we all considered him and his two brothers the “fat kids” in school.
They were well liked and we did not tease but even in the photos they were heavier than the rest of us.
I was amazed because now they would not be thought of as heavy at all.
We looked healthy and happy even the brothers who we considered overweight still looked pretty good.
So many kids now days look sluggish and have no sparkle in the eye.
They sag all over some how, I can not quite put my finger on it.
All of us in the photos in my annual looked alert and full of life and energy.
I swear it’s the flour.
They changed the tall wheat to a shorter one to prevent lodging from the wind and I think the protein in it is alien to us. Plus the use of bromine, a toxic halide, is used in place of iodine in all baked goods and pasta.
“So many kids now days look sluggish and have no sparkle in the eye.
“They sag all over some how, I can not quite put my finger on it.“
They know their future looks grim.
My brother works in a mine in Canada. Big snow storm tonight. The mine is out of fuel after one day of snow.
The supply chain is absolutely on the brink of collapse!!
Folks. We need to ensure that we protect those of us who are like minded and who are lovers of God and country. Stock supplies while we can still get them.
Stay strong. Keep the faith.
DD
Cheers D.D.
Yet the disconnect from reality is stark.
A dear friend and his wife just last week, sold a modest 1 bedroom den condo in an affluent community here in Southern British Columbia.
They have put bids on 3 different townhouses they went in over ask, on all three bids and got neither of them.
Their last bid was outbid by an offer of $100,000 over ask..
We have never seen mania such as this, and we bought our first investment property in 1983.
Our local grocery bills are up nearly 30% gasoline likewise.
Our youngest son is a GM of a major import automobile dealership.
Just today he told me this is not a time for even me to buy a new vehicle, as every unit they sell will go for over MSRP. as demand is far outstripping supply.
It may be a year before inventory stabilizes.
Cheers!
Is there the same amount of institutional home buying there as there is here?
Our son and his wife near Austin, Texas are building a home and last weekend put their house on the market. It is a very modest house but by Monday they had two identical over asks. While they were discussing which to take, an offer came in for $15,000 more. I asked if it were a Blackrock type outfit, and at the time he didn’t know. There’s a lot of that going on here now. Just wondered about Canada.
I don’t know about institutional buying.
However ethnic families primarily Sikh, and Chinese will pull their resources and buy any property of value.
I am friends with a number of Sikhs and they have a saying “ never sell dirt”
The Chinese have the really big cash and buy homes and leave them vacant.
We have a vacant home tax here in British Columbia to dissuade Chinese buying and just sitting on property as they often do not require income from said property.
They transfer the paper work to “ wash” illegal money schemes or just sit and await capital appreciation.
Cheers!
Very interesting. The Chinese seem to have their hooks in a great part of Canada. I believe it’s the same here, though mostly hidden. Thanks so much for that info!
They sure do, it really started in a big way around 1986 and expo.
The downtown waterfront was sold to a H.K. based company.
For “ peanuts” billions, yes billions have been made off the said purchase as the waterfront condos sell for multi millions, and dozens of cranes dot the cityscape.
The only guy in politics that understands the magnitude of what’s really going on is PDJT.
I sure pray to see him in office again, and to watch him take a flamethrower to these leeches and parasites.
Real Estate is no longer viewed as a home here in B.C,
But as an asset class.
The whole property game is a gigantic bubble..should politicians do something silly and the Chinese pull their cash lookout!
Well they have property problems of their own at the moment. Thinking Evergrande.
They sure do, hence the liquidation of capital and its flight to “safe havens “worldwide
While IMO it is immoral?
The reality is our system of governance has proven to be a fraud, both figuratively and literally.
We here will likely do alright. However the naive and the sheep..they will be slaughtered.
Cheers!
They are easy to identify. They are the ones still voluntarily wearing masks.
My brother sold his house in Las Vegas in 2 days well over asking. The buyer was an investment outfit and they agreed to rent the home back to him for 1 year. He is retiring in 1 year and leaving the area. Hopefully he sold at the top of the market. Austin real estate is crazy. I have long wanted to retire west of there and don’t think I can afford it any longer.
Yes! That was one thing that made me ask. They can live in theirs until they’re ready to move to the new one. Lease free. AND no inspection. Pretty certain they’ve been bought by an investment company. Zillow was doing this but had to stop be cause they were over bidding so much that they were losing money.
My son said it really bothered him because they have such lovely neighbors and he’s worried about who will follow them into his house.
sounds like blackrock bought it
I sold a rental property in a small Kentucky city (industry and college town). We priced it at $30K over what we thought it might bring and it sold for $10K more than that. We had it under contract in less than 7 days. We are keeping our vehicles maintained. We have an extra in case we cannot fix one. We have three freezers. This summer we cleaned out two of them of old stuff that was no longer good. Refilling them with things on sale. Bought a dual fuel generator. Lot’s of ammo and backup pharmaceuticals. We live in the country on 140 acres. Debt free since 2000. I need to get another couple of drums of diesel for the tractor, just in case. We will survive.
Cheers Vibeman,
CTH posters are the best!
Likewise, our 1995 GMC 3/4 ton 4×4 xcab is a keeper ( I want to be buried in it)
Our putt putt is a 2009 Honda Fit. 35 MPG ( approx)
Our cupboards are full. Produce, eggs, meat,fish and chicken are all sourced locally.
Like many here at CTH we grew up with very little, but were resourceful and frugal.
We will outlast these pukes..
Cheers to YOU Dekester!
After regularly inviting you Florida, I’m now wondering whether I might want to move in w/you!!
Warmest Best,
skipper
You need to treat the stored diesel with an anti-bacterial treatment or else it will be useless in a few months.
Congratulations! I think you’ll be fine.
The amount of money that Nancy Pelosi spends on ice cream alone could feed half the starving people in Africa.
The amount of money spent on the recent getty wedding could probably taken care of the homeless population in San Francisco where the wedding took place. I will never understand how the ultra wealthy can spend so much money on themselves for frivolous items ( dresses, decorations etc) that could be used to help so many others especially now.
US economic policies will worsen world hunger.
Food shortages and famine will then be blamed on climate change.
Another grift by the elites.
Why Mr. Gate buys up farm land, to put it out of commission.?
She’s the only thing keeping the big guy in office! ?
So this dirty looking woman doesn’t want kids to go hungry, does she?
Perhaps she best have a word with whoever it is in India who has allowed so many of their poor to actually starve to death because they couldn’t sign on to their Luciferian Globalist Digital Passport that the NWO totalitarians have decided we all are going to live under.
Old , young, definitely poor, starved. And, Kamala…that includes children you are so falsely and disgustingly faking concern for.
This woman cares nothing for anyone, except for her wretched self. To expect her to pay any attention to the people of this country is futile. Her heart is missing.
I might, as an aside, also add that Macron declined to welcome her with the double French kiss, proffering only a handshake. I can’t fault him for that. The pant suited Kamala doesn’t exude professionalism or feminine qualities.
When he received President and Mrs Trump, he kissed Melania’s hand in that respectful French manner. It was Mr Trump who got that double greeting.
What an interesting observation! Now I want to go back and find footage of it, just to see Kamala getting dissed – she probably didn’t even realize it!
The Europeans are complete snobs about class structure and can say more with a simple raised eyebrow or a less than effusive greeting than almost anyone else. Queen Elizabeth is always utterly polite, but even she could not hide her feelings for Michelle Obama…
I, too, noticed how warmly Melania Trump was welcomed everywhere she and the President traveled during his first term, by young and old alike!
She probably didn’t. The snub was pretty obvious.
I seem to remember Macron greets even Angela Merkel the proper French way…and she’s no prize.
Says a lot, don’t you think?
I have kept a couple of picture of the Queen positively beaming at both of them, but particularly President Trump. In one they are both laughing, absolutely comfortable with one another.
I keep those pictures because they are a joy to look at. Her Majesty is a keen judge of whom she’s dealing with. Mr Trump’s Scottish mother adored the Queen. I’m sure they had much to speak of.
And they remind me of much better times when we were represented abroad by two people who loved this country. I could weep with the remembering of it.
Betsy jones,
She probably reeked of weed….
Like Killary, she probably just reeked.
Kamala is the poster child for all the elite. She represents it is all about ME and nothing about THEM.
So what are we buying?
Plumbum and plumbum delivery systems…
Sugar, flour, salt, baking powder and baking soda, pasta, beans, rice, powdered milk, frozen vegies and frozen meats, a year’s supply of toilet paper and paper towels and kleenex as well as dish detergent, laundry detergent, vinegar, rubbing alcohol and don’t forget the tylenol and ibuprofen and vitamins and as many generic antibiotics as you can get your hands on. I probably have more stuff, but that is a good start. Also, bottled water and ways to store water and make it suitable for drinking as necessary. Lots of gold and silver, if you can get it! Gasoline and generators. A good bicycle! Dried food storage if you can get that. It usually lasts about 25 years. Store the things you like because you will be miserable if you have stuff you can’t stand to eat. I can’t believe this is happening. I hope Biden rots in hell.
To add on to your last part: a few “indulgences” both to make life more tolerable, and as barter items; chocolate bars, things that can, briefly cause one to forget the misery, and recall earlier times become extremely valuable.
Think of the stories of WW2 G.I.’S, with chocolate and nylons.
I figure sealed cans of tobacco, and pints of whiskey (and I don’t drink) may be valuable barter items?
Liquor stores sell those tiny bottles of liquor like the ones airplanes give out.
I have given a bit of thought to buying stashing some of those away for barter.
Instead of giving away a whole bottle in trade.
Perhaps one of those tiny little things for a bit of something some one else might have than I wanted.
They only cost $1.50 at our local store and they had quite a selection.
We have bags of those tiny little candy bars like you give out at Halloween and you give me the idea now Dutchman that those might also be good for barter.
ammo is the currency of the future
I’m seeing those tiny liquor bottles in MI at $1. Good for barter. Don’t forget sewing needles & thread, as well. Good for barter.
Cheap vodka for other uses too- medicinal. Apparently it never goes bad either.
Remember the bleach, ammonia, iodine, aspirin baby and regular.
Don’t forget the fur babies! I’ve stocked up on dog food, Cosamin, rawhide chews, dog shampoo and even seed for my bird feeders.
Indeed
I find it hard to find the canned cat/dog foods especially the
cat food that isle in my grocery store is alway half empty same with
cat litter..and to order from like Petco they seem to be out of the
things I want many times.. will get more dry food..
Add Bread Crumbs..
“… a year’s supply of toilet paper…”
Verbascum thapsus, AKA Aaron’s Rod makes an acceptable toilet paper. Rural Russians commonly use Curly Dock weed for the same purpose.
I doubt whether this stuff is biodegradable in your septic tank but if things get really bad, we will be be using slit trenches for our bodily wastes.
Cases of dry pasta, spaghetti & macaroni. Cartons of canned goods like black beans & corn. TP & paper towels when available. At least 10lbs of salt in double sealed containers. Some 15 or 20lbs of white rice, keeps much longer than brown rices.
Various cheeses kept factory sealed in fridge. Lots of coffee, sugar or sweetener substitute, & powdered milk. Some things from the consumables list.
How long before the Dems abandon the call for a $15.00 minimum wage and demand a more livable $30.00 minimum wage?
This is completely nuts, especially since it’s so easily corrected – like I’ve said many times in other posts, February 2019 was the best month in a majority of people’s lives: great wages, great energy prices, great food prices, abundance, etc.
“it’s the economy stupid” – how are the Dems gonna hide from this disaster in Nov 2022? There’s no way they’ll be able to out fraud the vote (I know someone will comment with until 11-2020 is fixed nothing can be done, I agree we need to address and be aware of the fraud going forward but nothing from 2020 will be undone – we need to stop living in the past hoping a miracle will happen and focus on marching forward never letting the fraud occur again)
These are the actions of people who have no fear of elections. Their actions are the best proof that we cannot, without fundamental corrections, vote our way out of this.
I think they have no fear of elections, in 2022 or 2024.
By their figuring, either a Dem-Uniparty candidate will win, or a Rep-Uniparty candidate will win, and as long as its Uniparty, it doesn’t matter.
The GOPe is doing yeomans work (for the Uniparty) in blocking America First candidates, so that the few that get thru, are easily marginalised (like MTG).
Hence “no worries” about elections, they have them rigged two different ways; both by Dominionating them, and by GOPe false opposition.
When I said that this is only going to get worse. I meant it.
This will all change in a several months. Trump will come back with a massive welcomed following.
Good luck with that. They released a virus and have driven fear across the entire planet. They literally control every corporate, political and social system in place and are currently burning the Constitution.
You only need a small percentage of the population to stage a successful revolution and with ~60% vaccination rates, they think they have more than enough lemmings to roll right over the rest of the country.
What comes next will not be Trump, will not be a rescue, and he will not be welcomed either.. Trump can’t even rescue himself from the adulation and praise that conned him. He knows business but not politics which is why he keeps touting the vaccines being safe and keeps getting booed for it at his rallies. When the US catches up with the UK and the deaths of NBA, NFL and other sports stars picks up followed by children across the country. Trumps admin is likely going to be blamed and the MSM will jump on it like they always do.
The graph has the title of FRED. In train lingo, does anyone know what FRED stands for? I think very appropriate here. 🙂
No. And my grandfather (died before I was born) was railroad engineer. Please tell me what it means.
“Flashing Rear End Device”, for cabooses or the last car.
Malatrope,
Do I remember you from my Breibart days?
I thought so. Glad you kept your screen name. I used to be aebjr (at BB). The got wise to my profile. (Told them I was jesse jackson). Anyways, great to see you. I always enjoyed your comments.
Best,
skipper
Flashing Red End Device. Replace flashing with the common F word.
Let’s play Jeopardy…
The category is Railroads…
For $1000: ‘Flashing Red End Device’…
Answer: How did Buttigeig meet his husband? 🙂
LOL that’s good WORDMAN. I like It.
The end of train device (ETD), sometimes referred to as an EOT, flashing rear-end device (FRED) or sense and braking unit (SBU) is an electronic device mounted on the end of freight trains in lieu of a caboose.
Federal Reserve Economic Data, an online database created and maintained by the Research Department at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, consisting of hundreds of thousands of economic data time series from scores of national, international, public, and private sources.
Supposedly …
Thanks to all who defined for me. My dad’s cousin (aged 93 who passed last year) told me a story that is now ringing a bell. The red light on the train caboose had something to do with the red light district, but I cant remember the connection.
The red light meant the house was open. Or maybe it meant it was closed. I can’t remember, and I guess it is important if one is a potential customer. The one in our town used a milk can. If the milk can was out they were open.
At least I think that was the it. Might have been can out is closed. Should have gotten one of those flashing signs from Sam’s Club.
https://fredhelp.stlouisfed.org/fred/about/about-fred/what-is-fred/
Federal Reserve Economic Data. I had to use it for classes at Ohio State.
Regarding trains:
Flashing Rear-End Device (FRED) or End of Train Device (ETD) Is an electronic device mounted on the end of freight trains as a replacement of the much loved caboose.
… has she been anything else than an opportunist?
No.
Mopy Dick,
Is that a fancy word for…. whore?
These people live in a fantasy world in their heads of their own creation. Educated far beyond their abilities. Never understood anything. Never made anything. Never accomplished anything. Empty suits.
And cheated their way thru college, to boot.
Last time I checked, she was still a blithering fool.
“Why have we allowed so many of the world’s children to go hungry when we know that we produce enough food to feed the entire world. […] We must instead agree that these growing gaps are unacceptable,” Harris proclaims with maximum virtue-signaling emphasis in the effort to raise her approval rating.
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Alternate Harris DogEater-Whistle: “The trouble with America is it’s full of Americans … and we shall have to remedy that, then.”
Liberals love to use the Royal “We” when trying to attach some kind of group guilt to a problem that none of us really have any responsibility for but they fully intend to make us responsible for the solution and to make us suffer in the process.
We have nothing to do with the worlds children going hungry but Kamala has just hung this problem right around our neck, declared it the worst thing the world has ever seen and demanded that it must stop now and we (whoever that is but we know she means the American taxpayer) is going to pay the price to fix it.
I say I did not cause this problem and I do not have the money to feed the worlds hungry children and Kamala needs to think twice if she thinks she is going to make me.
Kamala has no idea whatsoever that there is far more than one reason for becoming poor.
The world became a different place, human reality became a different thing with the birth of the welfare state in the 1930s.
The worship of government as a magical entity began in the 1930s.
Is there a serious book that examines this profound change in human truth? Let some intellectual giant write it.
The madness of the vaccine mandate is founded on the government as god sickness.
All of human reality, since the birth of the welfare state, is founded on the cargo cult delusion that government can supply everything to everyone.
I am thankful, grateful that I am not young (I’m 64). The western world appears headed into a trauma of unspeakable madness. A meteor strike at the Yucatan Peninsula would be preferable to the unspeakable suffering humanity is about to feel.
For many centuries, humans existed as peasants. They rose, they labored, they survived.
That world will persist, for a small minority of humanity. And this is the plan from our leftists. This is all they want for the human animal. Wake up.
SMOD 2024!
I had to look that one up! Sweet Meteor of Death — death wish. The evil party strikes again!
If there is a bright spot here it is that 60-75% of the nation will know with 100% certainty who is the cause and who is to blame for our problems such as…..
no rule of law
massive illegal immigration and a border less country
huge increase in crime, narcotics and trafficking
forced mandates and thus the loss of millions of jobs
ignoring natural immunity even when they know it works better than any jab
incredible inflation to the likes many have never seen
a vastly weaken military
a destroyed economy coupled with a potentially huge decline in the market
and finally a strong likelihood of a major decline in home values.
Once this destruction begins to effect the masses, including middle of the row Democrats, The American people will come to despise any and all of these leftists democrats and they will also know unequivocally who the RINO’s are that supported and conspired with these destructive idiots.
I expect the outcry to be massive whereby any leftists will be shouted down massively making current FJB chants look like whispers.
I think Bannon is right, if PT or DeSantis runs in 2024 it would not surprise me to see them carry at least 50% of the Black vote and 65-70% of the Hispanic vote.
After today’s debacle calling Satchel Page the Great Negro, that 50% just might be a teensy bit high.
I’m praying so.
not my sister-in-law – she’ll still blame The Donald
She must miss him terribly /s ?
I bet she watches The View and CNN.
Why was the above flagged?
I’d love for you to be right. But if Trump or DeSantis runs in 2024, either would be lucky if (on a good day), they pull 15%-20% of the Black vote, and 40% of the Hispanic vote.
That is enough to cause a shockwave in politics. If 50% of the black vote went to the republican, the Democrat party would cease to exist. The measures that will be taken to keep those voters in their column will be extreme.
In the first few weeks of the next congress, marijuana legalization.
Then later in the year student loan forgiveness (maybe vice versa). What’s that do for poll numbers & voter turnout?
Lesko Brandon FJB
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My kids are not finishing their degrees bc of vaccine mandates. Weed is legal or at least medical marijuana is in Pennsylvania. I would have agreed with you before, but now I wonder.
They tell me many kids are pliable, but I also point to the college football games whose attendees popularized Let’s Go Brandon. Our kids are not sociopaths, they see their families struggling.
Student loan forgiveness.
I just received my Congratulations student loan notice….Paid In Full
20 years of paying $249.95/month has come to and end.
And they want to just “forgive” the debt of these SJW’s!
? ? ? ? ? ?
If 20 percent of “the black vote” went to the Republicans, the Dem party would cease to exist, but,…
the “black vote” is the ballots tabulated and turned in, coming from the large “black majority” voting districts, and thats where the Dems have ballot harvesting, and other hijinks, down to a science.
So, even if black voters vote Republican, that doesn’t mean their vote will be RECORDED as Republican.
Or, as Joe would say, “If you don’t vote for ME, you ain’t black” (so we’ll just correct your vote, for you).
I don’t think you have been keeping up with the Black voters, you tubers or the great wave of Black conservatives that is emerging. FJB
Any administration before now would be in a panic and trying to at least fool the electorate into believing they were working to save the economy and the rule of law. Hell, an unemployment rate of 7% and a much smaller rise in inflation than we are seeing would usually have already made an administration a virtual lame duck.
They are not destroying everything as a rhetorical exercise or philosophical statement, knowing that they will be slaughtered at the polls and reversed in 2022 and 2024.
The true election numbers in 2016 and 2020 proved that the tyrants had lost the debate, at least in the USA.
They appear to have decided that it is now or never for their global tyranny.
They ain’t walking away like good sports.
Get rid of the machines linked to the internet, stop early and late voting, require ID on one election DAY or….I don’t even want to think about the alternatives.
Only way to get rid of the machines, is country wide civil disobedience and vandalism.
Find out where they are being warehoused, and ala Tea party, smash the machines beyond repair.
Do it at night,…and dress as Antifa.
I agree Dutchman
We need so solve this problem locally.
Find these machines and give them an old fashioned ” Boston tea party”.
Instead of dressing like Native Americans, dress like Antifa.
Burning is easier.
I’m hoping the masses march on DC and hang every SOB there.
Hey, I can dream can’t I?
Dreams won’t cut it now – action is required if we want to save what’s left of our country.
We had our ONLY chance for that, on Jan 6th.
Hence, the fence and lockdown with NG, since.
The Duly Elected President-in -Exile already got these numbers from the minority communities in 2020…
Due to a national emergency, they will mandate no elections take place. Forever.
Another distraction rears its head. Nobody is listening to this Bi*ch anyway; she is an empty gourd.
That is the reason that we use GMO seed, glyphosate, and lots of fertilizer.
To feed the world.
Otherwise, people starve.
Your choice. You are one of the people currently in charge. Choose wisely.
The dollar is strong which means after exchange rates, buying grain from America is more expensive.
Years ago the ethanol lobby inflated the price of corn and tripled the price of corn tortillas in Mexico.
I’m just wondering, since Heels Up Harris is not a “woman” (bad word now a days), what are we supposed to call her? She’s not a birthing person either, since she’s never done that. Person with a uterus? I’m not a medical doctor and seen no proof of that.
Maybe I’ll just settle on slut?
Works for me.
Blow-up Sex and Politics Doll.
Skank
Lawlessness is coming in every walk of life. Today’s story of Project Veritas’ phone records being given to the New York Times which they published is beyond simple malfeasance of our government. The Democrats in power intend to destroy all media that opposes their reset to destroy middle America. Yesterday’s new bulletin by the DOJ further targeting anyone who protests the overlords is another intimidating piece of information.
Anarcho-tyranny
Sam Francis wrote of it.
We have 1 year supply of butter and cheese in Gubment warehouse. Grain and meat protein not so much. Diesel and fertilizer prices have not yet wacked at the meat prices.
Butter still $3 a pound here. Maybe I need to put a case in the freezer. $6 bread makes me happy we do not eat bread.
Explore buying Ghee — canned butter. Doesn’t need refrigeration. It’s available at most grocery stores, often in ethnic aisles.
I saw some video blurb on Gab where the dude stated that the gov’t is paying farmers 1.5X their crop values to let the crop go to waste, and if they don’t, they don’t get their subsidies.
I have no idea if that’s true or not, but damn the bastagees if it’s true.
Not here. We just harvested corn. Had a good yield and hoping for some inflation to pay for inflated diesel and inflated fertilizer.
Good to hear. Thanks!
We have just had an excellent harvest of potatoes, wheat and oats.
So far the cattle ranchers are all doing OK but that might change.
Our alfalfa yield was good and the price is good also.
But we are still stocking the pantry and freezer.
Interesting. First biden* cuts down our energy independence. Now VP* demands global leaders feed the world while at home biden* hobbles our ag producers. I wonder what the end game is.
Besides making the world hate America more?
The great climate jihad marches on in order to save the world, for some.
Total collapse.
It appears the plan is for a food famine much like the Soviets used in the 1930s to take Crimea.
I was shocked last week when a neighbor who raises cows told me the new infrastructure bill calls for a $2,500 a head tax on cattle for small operations like theirs. She said they’re done.
Can this be so? It reminds me of obama’s people trying to make it illegal to grow your own food garden.
https://apnews.com/article/election-2021-maine-right-to-food-605019e60df5b3e32bc70c86dcf957b3
Maine voters passed the nation’s first “right to food” constitutional amendment on Tuesday.
A statewide referendum asked voters if they favored an amendment to the Maine Constitution “to declare that all individuals have a natural, inherent and unalienable right to grow, raise, harvest, produce and consume the food of their own choosing for their own nourishment, sustenance, bodily health and well-being.” It was an experiment not tried before by any state.
Politburo member jayapal has the answer to higher gas prices:
“It isn’t really that you have to reduce the gas price, what you have to do is reduce the costs for families” and that reducing cost “doesn’t have to be through lowering gas prices. That’s what I’m saying with Build Back Better. If we lower costs, that’s what a family is looking at.”
Subsidized bread lines? These people are criminally insane.
Jayapal really gives us Indians a bad name.
Look, we really can’t take her back, but we are willing to let Afghanistan have her.
Bread lines were replaced by EBT cards during the first two Obama administrations
And this is all without some kind of hot war over Taiwan.
You know that chip shortage? A Toyota exec said the other day that 90% of chips for autos are produced in Taiwan.
There will be hot water everywhere. Starving people tend to fight.
you mean all those quarters i put into the unicef cardboard boxes back in the late 60s and early 70s didn’t do the trick?
I went to catholic schools. Back in the 60ies in grade school, we adopted pagan babies to support the missions, get the pagans baptized and maybe clothes and feed them.
What makes America great is our disposable income. In the 50’s up to 1/3 of our income went to food. US farm programs lowered cost and competition in other goods lowered cost of living further creating disposable income and stimulating our consumer driven economy.
This administration is raising cost of living to the point of reducing consumer spending and shrinking our disposable income thus collapsing the economy.
Exactly. Without disposable income the economy grinds down to a crawl. I worry about the company I work for being able to stay in business.
Not a day goes by that the Satanic Demo Marxists do not inflict maximum harm on our once great Country.
Unlike the feckless GOP, the Dems are relentless in their evil.
This is not going to end well for anyone. Deny it if you will but we are now in a civil war.
Talk to your brainwashed relatives and friends. They are in total denial. They believe ALL the BS the hear on the MSM.
You can’t fix stupid.
We would talk to them but they won’t answer our calls anymore. We are shunned. We are leaving the door open in case they decide that faith in God and love of family supersedes what they believe in politics or covid or whatever may come to each of us. It’s a hard challenge. I think their faith is in government now and God is just an aside but idk as they no longer speak to us. The crap that is coming will come to all of us. Idk what they will think when it happens and how they will justify it, but I know they will.
I think it will only be through prayer/faith that we can mend those fences.
Keep praying for them as I do. Praying for wisdom and discernment for my family/friends who are asleep.
It’s so hard.
God bless.
The RINOs are predictably impotent at everything.
THEY have been at war with US, for many, many years, but it was an undeclared “stealth” war, and we were unaware.
Now, in the 11th hour, largely due to PDJT, we are becoming aware.
And the GOP are not “feckless”, they are COMPLICIT, and a KEY part of the plan.
They POSE as “the Conservative alternative”, and talk the talk (to a degree) while enabling the Globalist/Conmunis agenda to proceed, all while effectively blocking a REAL “Conservative alternative” from forming.
Without GOP complicity, our center right republic could NEVER have been jerked so far to the left.p
So true! I think that has been my biggest awakening (I started that awakening when the Reps came after the Tea Party…I couldn’t believe that!) — I think the denial was great, however, and the scales fell totally from eyes when Trump was elected and none of them had his back. Never realized there was a UniParty until Sundance told me. I didn’t want to believe it (there’s that denial again). Once I grasped it, I have spread it around until folks look at me cross eyed! The absolute betrayal of Americans who are imprisoned without bail in that D.C. hell hole they call a jail is the worst thing. I have no words for that — yes Dems=Evil Party, Reps=Evil Party #2.
Emergency food kits are still going up in price. 30 day kit now costs $140. Dehydrated everything. Just add water. I have Angus steer just purchased this spring. Would be a shame if I have to butcher it @700 lbs.
Dehydrated is expensive, and frankly for most items, unecesary.
Simple canned goods, without dents and properly stored, will last plenty long, even if not 25 years.
Given what Sundance is predicting, its not going to go unconsumed for 25 years, anyway.
And given you can buy a lot more canned goods, for the price of a small amount of dehydrated, it really doesn’t make sense, IMHO.
Perhaps a few items, that just aren’t available in cans,…
Not if you dehydrate your own.
2 pounds of frozen veggies go into one jar, so that does save on freezer space.
But, I get what you’re saying.
I started storing canned goods in 2008. Have eaten all 2008/2009/2010 and working on 2012. I find the green beans and green peas need opening to tell if edible or not.
Don’t throw out cans until you check..I have cans with BB dates older and edible and generic brands with better shelf lives than name brand.
The situation depends on the shelf life of the cans while in manufacturing –most cans last a lot of years.
Fruit, pears and peaches, do not have great shelf lives. I open and put in glass jars and vacuum seal.
It is difficult to judge some of my cans–I am widowed, like to cook from scratch, and was never a big eater of canned goods. So, since I have no one to share with, I need to just start opening one can a day and use it with my mashed potatoes and BBQ chicken and other meals.
I used chicken and ground beef from the freezer and made meals, put them in one dish containers, and froze them….a nice thing to just get up each morning, get out dinner even if I have to cook bread with it or potatoes.
Remember when there was a problem with EBT cards being read in grocery stores? Near riots because those who have them were unable to buy groceries?
Shortages will likely become so dire that trying to buy groceries may become a blood sport.
I was in Tractor Supply one day a couple weeks ago and was surprised to see a rack of seeds. I have been planning to buy several packs of vegetable seeds, and completely forgot.
It won’t be long and they too will likely be unavailable.
Always choose heirloom, not hybrid. Heirloom means you can save the seeds from your drop and plant them next year.
e.g. This year I’m saving seeds from 45 okra pods. Usually one or two are sufficient for my needs. They’re out there on the stalks right now. When they rattle, they’re ready!
Takes more than having seeds,…if you haven’t any experience with growing your own food, know there is a LEARNING curve.
I suggest starting with already in the pot SPICES, as they are relatively easy, and there is a YUGE markup. Often can buy a starter plant, for the same price as a bottle of the spice.
And, more flavorful when fresh. As you gain experience, you can move up to germinating seeds, and growing in the ground.
Poor people on EBT don’t know how to save money, because they don’t have too, that is the big problem in the USA. That problem reverberates throughout everything because they vote for more free sh1t!
EBT=Eatin Better Tonight!!
If you want to save seeds from any variety of pepper, make sure the peppers have turned color. At that point the seeds are mature. Seeds saved from green peppers shrivel up once taken out of the fruit, and will not germinate.
Otherwise, pepper seed is very easy to save.
I suspect we will be talking more and more about food & supply-related subjects in the near future…
Like Black Friday every day?
Europe cant even feed itself. Shut up and sit down Kammy.
And the globalists signal, “Two heels up!”
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I would add, get your teeth taken care of while its semi affordable, while you have insurance to help. Lack of dental care is a hallmark of poverty. It’s excruciatingly painful to live with as well. Stock up on toothpaste and toothbrushes too.
Ive also put tires and brakes on my car because i dont want a shortage to affect my driving safety.
If you can get antibiotic to keep on hand as well as clove oil and of course good pliers.
Good advice on the tires and brakes! FYI baking soda and /or salt work as toothpaste. In the 1960s, my family of 8 kids often couldn’t afford toothpaste. Baking soda and salt did the trick.
Sundance, thank you for your warnings about future food prices.
I went shopping this morning. Fortunately most of the food that I get was still pretty cheap. (For example, 86 cents for a 12-oz microwaveable bag of frozen vegetables.)
However, there were some areas where fresh produce just wasn’t there. One table that usually holds fresh fruit was completely bare.
And they didn’t have any whole cabbage, shredded cabbage, or shredded carrots for sale, as they usually do. They did have a few heads of lettuce, and some whole carrots, for sale.
I’ll see if I can find a farmer’s market. Or maybe an organization, that will deliver food to me from a local farmer.
Kamala Harris said, “… we produce enough food to feed the entire world.” I don’t think that’s true.
kUMALA is not saying ship our food to the World, she is saying the World should come here to eat.
I seriously doubt that there will be an election in ’22……if there is, I doubt that it will be a red wave simply because of election fraud.
But let’s say that there is a red wave election. In that case I seriously doubt that they will ever be seated.
I’d pretty much guarantee that somewhere along the alluded to aforementioned time-line there will be an event that will preclude a red wave taking office.
Whether it is a false flag event, an armed invasion or the blue helmets, I don’t know which, but it will happen.
Prior to the ’16 election my peers would ask who I was voting for. I’d reply “Trump but I’m betting a hundred $$$ on biden”. They’d look quizzically at me & ask why. I’d tell ’em the dhimocrats can’t afford to lose.
Same, if not more, holds true now. Don’t think for a moment that they don’t know what they are doing.
Stock Up. Keep your powder dry and your Bible handy.
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No wonder “They’d look quizzically at me & ask why.” Biden wasn’t running in 2016.
Aw shucks……I meant ’20 …….can I blame it on auto correct? How ’bout old age?
Lesko Brandon FJB
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A “Red wave” of Rinos, does US absolutely no good, as more Rinos like Mitt and Murkowski will continue to enable the Conmunist Brandon admin to destroy our Republic.
Bernie Sanders, The United States first Secretary of Soup and Bread Lines. You heard it first here.
Build Back Bolshevism
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy, the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
Another sticker for the pumps and shelves –
I’d hate to think Mayor Pete didn’t get the credit he so richly deserves.
Is it me? Or does that slag look permanently stoned? And she is “representing” OUR country?
My friends in Europe are in disbelief as to just how embarrassing “our” pair of vacuous bloodbags are!
“This is your vice president”.. “This is your vice president ON DRUGS!”
Most hookers are, it is how they can do their job….
Not mine!! China’s choice! The Tech Industry’s choice, Facebook’s choice.
I am so frustrated! This is so bad,but I am glad I come to this site. For the past few months my deep freezer is so full I can barely move things around in it. I also decided to start stacking up on staples such as beans, rice, pasta. I buy meat when I can, ,but it is expensive! Thank you Sundance and let’s go Brandon!
I bought a small $200 freezer to move items from the other 3 freezers and it was well worth it. I don’t have stuffed freezers now and can move foods around if I need to.
I work in the manufacturing industries here in the Midwest. Price increases have been a fact of life for almost two years now (far above the previously normal background inflation). I get letters via email from my biggest suppliers, who are among the big boys in industrial supply. Now, the letters are not so much about price increases as they are about being able to get the goods at all – at any price. Raw material shortages and allocation (a very dirty word in the supply world). Quooted prices are good for thirty days max, or until another raw material increase. We haven’t even felt the energy price increases yet.
We are in for a he!! of a ride. I might throw up during it.
Steel is up 2x-3x end user cost can be up as much as 4x, Steel suppliers around me used to have quotes available on website. Now they can’t even offer a quote until you buy material. Biden and his Commies have Truly F*cked up every crevice of the USA that they can. California Ports are the biggest example of such negligence.
The importance of what is written here cannot be overstated.
True, but what’s not being stated is that in boardrooms all across the country what is being said “sure there’s inflation but what a great time and excuse to raise our prices even higher”.