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Saturday, June 19, 2021

Without Another Stimulus Package the Little Guy Isn't Spending Any More Money

Without Another Stimulus Package the Little Guy Isn't Spending Any More Money

It used to be,  you raise taxes, or even secretly make up new taxes, mostly done by democrats, and we'd think, "SOME DAY WE'LL HAVE TO PAY THIS BILL". The federal reserve will make the government print more money for them, and we'd say "SOME DAY WE'LL HAVE TO PAY THIS BILL". 

Well, not anymore. It's a perfect storm. We have the great reset, an immediate jacking up the taxes and new taxes upon taxes, and half the country isn't working, and they're spending unemployment checks like drunken sailors. The small business market is imploding from lack of employees and big business is imploding from lack of customers, because no one has any money. That great reset didn't  quite work out how they thought it would, put people on the government payroll and they'll love us and accept less in life.

But hold on, they forgot, we have a republic, not a kingdom. Each state, is basically a country all to its own. Everyone seems to forget this. So, when the federal government says, pay the people money, from taxpayers. The state is perfectly ready, willing and able to say no. In fact, not only can they say no, no more  unemployment, because the state is actually paying, not the federal government, they can say, you either work, and make your own money, and businesses better open up, or else. And, there's nothing the federal government can really do.

When you are the one footing the bill, you make the rules. That's pretty much what ever dad says, right? I think this is why there's such hostility against dads. But, that's a whole other video, isn't it.

When we had the typical federal government, with wall street, thinking, we can milk that cheap labor, so let's get as many "undocumented workers in here as normal", but what they forgot was, there was a whole great reset going on, so no one was working, and the low skilled workers weren't working either. So boom, we have a border crisis.

The white house was caught with its pants down, because there's no demand for low pay workers, because no one is working. HOWEVER, also, the typical wall street squeeze of raising prices, when the little man is getting "free" money, also started kicking in and that's where it finally hit. The states said, no more unemployment. So no, there was no "free" money. Also, the states that were still giving out the free money, were also the states that were in the midst of the great reset and no one could come out in public, freely, and spend their money.

So the choice for wall street was, raise the prices in places that didn't have free money, or raise the prices in places where they couldn't spend the free money.

I'm not one to say the sky is falling, the sky is falling, but they all shot themselves in the foot. But here's the kicker. The little guy, in BOTH places, said that's it, no more, we're cutting you off. No more drinking up the little guy's money willy nilly.

In wood and computer graphics card, we've reached the peak. Prices are starting to fall. The white house tried to launch a shaming campaign to get the little guy to keep spending, for wall street, but it can't work, when the little guy doesn't have money.

People are also retiring early. So there's another 40% reduction in the economy. People who would have been happy to get going 10 more years, are calling it quits right now. Instead of going bankrupt or losing their business, they're packing up and retiring. It saves their credit score so they can still buy a house or a car and get decent rates on car loans and home loans.

And speaking of home loans, the other shoe to drop, is about to happen. We can have 800% price jump in wood, and not see it in home prices. Well, again, the little guy is saying no, no more. While other people are talking about a housing crash, what they're failing to educate you on is that, it's not a crash of the home prices or home loans, it's the little guy saying, I am not going to spend $500,000 on a home that yesterday was $100,000.

But wait, that's not all. Banks are saying no we're not extending credit to most people, because we know most people aren't working. So credit AKA home loans are being denied. Surely you can't have skyrocketing home prices if banks say no, we're not lending. That means, we're in the middle of a housing crash, it's just invisible right now. When it reaches something like 40% of people no longer paying $500,000 for a $100,000 house, that's the day this stops and wall street has to stop.

You got good credit? That's just you. You're lucky. People are scrambling for credit and loans. Several new companies launched with the gimmick of no credit check, no hard pull on your credit. If credit was easy to come by, do you think such companies would exist? No. There'd be no need for this. You think the white house would be saying, we need to cancel the credit rating system? It's all a thing to get the little guy credit, so he can keep buying.

I'm no fool. I know 90% of the people that get credit, aren't going to use it wisely. All the studies show it. Banks know it. Banks are saying no.

You want to hear some proof? Something like 40% of all americans, including those with a 700 credit score, are getting payday loans. You would think, with a 700 credit score the little guy doesn't need a pay day loan, but you'd be wrong. Don't bother checking google for that. Google won't share it with you.

For those of you that think, why would you need a loan, because you don't use money like that, for a person a bit more sophisticated than the average joe, money is a tool, not an end. So, an emergency loan, which is another name for payday loan, is useful to them. When banks so no, the people have to go somewhere else to get money.

We're in a bad bad situation folks. We have all these spokes in the wagon wheel pointing at us. When you think you have a handle on one problem, 20 other problems show up and say, if you fix that, you'll got 20 other more problems.

People aren't just packing up and moving back home with dad and mom, because dad and mom don't have it either. They've accepted at 50% cut in their retirement. They're eating tuna sandwiches just like you.

Hey the good news is, there's TONS of job openings. But, be warned, the company you go work for, might actually be about to shut down, permanently. Did you know Google has that as one of the categories on business listings? Closed Permanently. It's so normal, that when i was looking for something, it kept popping up, by accident, and then showing Now Open until 6pm or whatever.

So sure, you can go get a job, but in your interview, you should directly ask, how long are you all going to be in business?

Unfortunately, some companies don't know they're about to go out of business. The distributers can go out of business and boom all the companies that rely on them are done for. Imagine 5 distributers go out of business. Then the companies have no options.

We started out fantastic in 2018 and 2019, but now we're here. And My message is, no one is winning. They thought they were going to win, but, sorry charlie, your greed didn't work out this time.

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Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Are You to Blame for Our Runaway Government?

The Government Relies on Your Participation


Script



Scenario #1 - You just turned 24 and graduated from college.  You secured a job with a 50 year old firm as an entry level manager.  You move to the city.  You pay your first and last month's rent, plus deposit.  You have a moving company move your meager college level  furniture into your new apartment.  After meeting several girls and inviting them over, you decide to trash all of your furniture and just furnish out the entire place in rent-a-couch furniture.  You eat out every single day and night.  You finally meet a girl you like.  She doesn't like the city and you get a promotion to super peon manager step 2.  You end the furniture renting contract.  And, you go put a down whopping 2% down-payment on a house and put an entire house's worth of furniture on your credit card.  You take out a car loan, since you need a car to commute to work now.  Two kids later, you're enrolling your first-born into soccer and have to get a second job to pay for all the extra expenses.

Conclusion: the economy crashes and you lose your job, both jobs.  You lose your house you've been paying on for 2 years, because you now have negative equity in it.  Your car gets repossessed although you were a few months shy of paying it off.  You look up to the heavens and wonder where you went wrong.

Scenario #2 - You graduate from high-school with a C average.  You go get a job down at the steel mill working opposite shifts as your dad.  Your parents are alright to live with, but you dream of moving out one day.  One day your dad turns to you and asks you have you thought about where you want to live for the rest of your life.  That night at the kitchen table all of you, mom, dad, brothers and sisters, all discuss what would be the best place to live.  Your dad says there is absolutely nothing wrong with the little town you're in right now, but if you want to go see more that's fine too.  Your mom would like for you to go see other places a bit before settling down.  Your kid brother, the genius, brings a print-out of all the places and cities around the country of where the best jobs are and how long it has been that way.  He also brings a print-out of home prices and commute times to the city.  Your sister makes remarks about schools and kids.  Finally your dad says you should get a house with land on it, so you can always grow much of your own food on it, like you have right now.  So even if things go bad, you will always have food.  After much thought you do exactly that, after saving up for buying a house and buying a car full price.  You move to the city, the entire family helps you move and even helps you plant your garden / mini-farm.  You buy a small house, and furnish it with heirloom items and some other items you buy second-hand.  You get a job working construction just outside the city about 2 miles from your house.  You meet a lady and get married.  Two kids later, instead of soccer, they are tending the farm, and learn about plants and animals.  You never eat out, and your wife doesn't have a job.  She tends to the farm when you're not home and sells any extra produce on the front lawn when it's in season.

Conclusion: the economy crashes. But, you're an independent worker to begin with so you don't lose your job.  You don't lose your house since you bought it outright. Your don't lose your car since you bought it outright. You look up to the heavens and wonder when is it going to rain next, so the tomatoes can bloom.

In each scenario the jobs are of course different, but also the person's approach is different. While people are very hesitant to living, what they feel is, a backwards lifestyle, when the system crashes, they go down with it.  Way down!  While the person who is still tied to the earth might not live the jet-set lifestyle of a penthouse playboy, they also have a much more worry free life.

The government now is in bed with business.  The two are so intertwined that the business of government is now the government of business.  50% of all policy and government laws is geared to assist business, not govern people nor do the job that they were created to do, protect people.  But, the government only gets away with any of this, if you participate in the scam.

Scam #1 - CREDIT: credit is the biggest and largest systemic scam out there.  You are barraged daily, not just with the message of borrowing and spending, but that having good credit, to begin with, should be your goal for a happy lifestyle.  The message goes beyond just having credit, to the point that you should be so ingrained in the credit system as to assist yourself in it, by upping your "credit worthiness".  Financial planners now advise you how to get better credit.

-- STOP --

It's all a lie.  You don't want credit at all.  Your participation in the scheme is what they want.  Noone presents you with an alternative.  Now the average adult would say, oh everyone should know that, but in practical speech, 70% of adults are never confronted with even the possibility that you don't have to participate in the credit charade.

Credit cards launched a massive marketing campaign to not only get people involved in credit, but banks even started issuing  credit cards down to a local level, so that the entire system, top to bottom was saturated with the credit doctrine.  Stores launched their own credit cards.

But, it is all a lie.  You do not need credit.  Hell, even a debit card is not something a savvy person should use.  The person, adult, that knows anything about money, knows that you will never personally leverage yourself enough to have a winning side in the equation of banking and credit.  That means, that the message of use credit so you can have a better lifestyle now based on a fraction of the cost, is a losing position to have.


Use of borrowed money to increase production volume, and thus sales and earnings. It is measured as the ratio of total debt to total assets; greater the amount of debt, greater the financial leverage. Since interest is a fixed cost (which can be written off against the firm's revenue) a loan allows a firm to generate more earnings without a corresponding increase in the equity capital requiring increased dividend payments (which cannot be written off against the earnings). However, while high leverage may be beneficial in boom periods, it may cause serious cash flow problems in recessionary periods because there might not be enough sales revenue to cover the interest payments.

Here's the part that gets you, as a person, tripped up. Your leveraging, credit, does not generate you any income.  Even borrowing for a house or car, never generates money for you.

Scam #2 LOANS - taking out loans is a new thing.  There is still a very large percentage of the population that saves up money and buys a car in cash, or a house in cash, or all of their home furnishings and appliances in cash.  Noone is telling you this, because they are on the take and in on the scam of loaning you, your own money.

Here's the promise.  You take out a loan and you can buy far more house than you ever could, if you saved up.  It is completely and utterly untrue.  If you ever set aside the amount of money, in total, that you pay for the amount of time that you spend in a house, you would always come out ahead in savings, to loans.

Let me help you with the calculation: [ warning this might be forgetting some things ]
  • loan
  • down payment
  • impound and taxes
  • home insurance
  • 3% to seller agent and 3% to buyer agent
  • title insurance
  • mortgage insurance [FHA]
  • lender points for doing loan
  • loan origination fees
  • escrow fees
Now add in the devaluation of the dollar over that time period too.

If you saved that same amount of money for that time period, let's say 15 years, you could buy a house twice as expensive as the one you took out a mortgage for.  THAT is what everyone is trying to make sure you don't realize.

Americans used to save up and buy a house.  Or, better yet, live in the same house and the father and mother pass it on to the kids, while they are alive or when they die.  Americans also did not kick their kids out at 18.  This is more of the inner city phenomenon.  I have no idea when it started, but it has no logical thought behind it, nor no financial logical thought behind it.

The best possible thing to do as a parent would be to have a savings account for each and every child you have and put funds into it very single month.  Your child would even be better served by you taking that money and buying them a house with some land, at 18, than paying for their college.  If you did it right, you could have enough money for both school and a home.

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Friday, August 28, 2009

10 Things You Need to Ask Before You Marry Her

Before You Get Married to Her Money



Here's a quick quiz you need to ask your "soul mate" before you even pop the question. The reason for this, is that so many young people ruin their credit, right at 18 and then take 30 years to get it right. With that in mind then, could you be walking into a financial mind field? Oh you bet. You are right.

It would be wise, it would behoove you, to quiz the person about their money, before you go that "next step". It could be a massive fall financially, if you tie the knot, and her creditors come after you. Or, you were planning on buying a house right after marriage, and BLAMMO!! her credit is so bad you can't get a decent rate, or worse, a loan.

I knew a girl who was so far in debt and her attitude was just so ... childish that it boggled my mind. She had a car; wrecked it; still owed on it; let it default; then went back to the same company and they tacked on both car notes to her car. So in essence she was paying for two cars while driving one, she was upside down in the car. And, she didn't even care. She thought it was funny. She was already married at the time. I can't imagine what her husband thought. I didn't know him, nor never met him.

By that example, and some women just use "I'm only a woman" as an excuse to not deal with financial matters. I can't count the times I've heard, "oh my husband takes care of all of that." And, when he dies? She has no clue what to do.



The Pre-engagement Quiz



10. You receive a credit card in the mail. It says "free" and "you were preapproved." What do you do with it? The correct answer is - send it back.

9. You see an ad on t.v., at night, selling something you were actually going to go shop for the very next day, and it's $10.00 cheaper, even after shipping and handling. However, the company gives a P.O. BOX address. Do you order the product off the T.V. The correct answer is - go buy the one at the store.

8. Your cousin / nephew / niece asks you to co-sign on a car. You haven't seen them in a few years and you have no idea if they have a job. Do you co-sign the loan? The correct answer is - no.

7. Do you have a savings account?

6. Do you have a C.D.? [certificate of deposit]

5. How many cars have you had, and have you ever paid off one, and is the current one paid off or payments up to date? You should never, ever pay for another human's car expenses. If they can't pay for it themselves, that's a warning sign to leave.

4. Her living situation might be temporary so it's not adequate to ask about that. However, the ideal woman may be purchasing a house. If she is renting however: How much is your rent? How much do you make? Is your rent current? You should never, ever pay for another human's living expenses. If they can't pay for it themselves, that's a warning sign to leave.

3. You live one block away from a ritzy yuppie grocery store and one block away from a dollar grocery store. Of course the food at the dollar grocery store is rather bland, yet healthy. You need a better car to get ahead at your job, since your boss sometimes asks you to drive him / her to staff meetings. Do you scrimp and save and buy from the dollar store? The correct answer is - yes.

2. The latest magazines have crowned bubble bottom jeans as the must have jeans of the year, however, they cost $250. You know some shoes that would match but they cost $213. Your friend is having a party next weekend, and they are always getting on you about the clothes you wear. So far you have $800 [ask her] saved up in your bank account. Do you go buy the jeans and shoes and surprise your friends? The correct answer is - no.

1. If you lost your job today, and had no family, and couldn't get welfare, and couldn't get unemployment, could you go an entire year without finding work, from just your saving account? The correct answer is - yes.

If the girl that has caught your eye, answers any of these questions incorrectly, my advice is to move on. I'm sure love is a great thing and all, but being financially miserable is setting yourself up for a divorce. Those are just cold hard facts. More people get divorced over money than any other subject.

Since you're an adult, think like an adult. If you are going to dedicate yourself to a woman, it's not just physical. When you get married you are agreeing to: dedicate your body; dedicate your mind; dedicate your soul; dedicate your time; and dedicate your pocket book. If you are going to mix your pocket book, you have to know what you're getting into. If the person is just starting out financially, then you have to know how they think about money.

If you have $10,000 in savings it makes no sense to marry a woman that has none. You're not equal and the marriage would be awkward. Keep in mind $10,000 isn't a whole lot of money. But such a small amount is the difference between someone who makes a salary and someone who works hourly. Such a small difference is the difference between someone who doesn't have leisure time, nor leisure money and isn't used to neither one.

I've had friends and I mean a lot of them, whom if I said let's go see Batman and stop for a burger on the way would say "I don't have money". They didn't mean they were saving their money and didn't want to waste it on lunch and a movie. They meant literally they didn't have that much money to spend. Ultimately I had to get a new group of friends. I couldn't be "friends" with people I couldn't hang out with on my level.

Just as you see "lifestyles of the rich and famous" those people wouldn't hang out with me. Nor, could i hop on a jet and meet them in Paris. These are just financial facts.

Don't let your mouth write a check your behind can't cash. Don't get all head over heels in love with some girl AND THEN after the fact find out she's not only broke, but so deep in debt, it affects your credit.

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