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The Road Ahead, 3.2

What does a good citizen do when faced with a bad government? Well, as I’ve pointed out before, in a representative reublic–which in theory is these (dis)United States–we have a responsibility to be directly involved in the process of selecting our leaders, not just by voting but also by doing all we can to influence the selection of candidates and to keep our representatives’ noses pressed firmly to the grindstone of OUR choosing.

But more, much more than that, we need to do everything we can to educate our local, state and national representatives as to their poper place in the scheme of things as public servants, employees of The People, not all that important in our daily lives, mostly warts on the body politic.

In order to achieve this objective, we must

1. Give due honor to genuine public servants
2. Give the raspberry to politicians exercising illegitimate power as though it were legitimate authority, but most of all,
3. Be a daily example to our children, friends and relatives of persons who consider the law a negative thing and politicians’ proper role in the scheme of things to be that of chidren in the Victorian age: seen rarely, rarely heard.

*huh*?

Yep. We must train those around us and future generations to view the purpose of the law as mostly negative: punishing–harshly punishing, in most cases–malefactors who harm others by violence, theft or deceit. (Hmmm, that’d place 90%, at least, of our congresscritters in harm’s way PDQ.) We must peacefully, quietly, consistently refuse to acknowlege laws and regulations that violate basic human and civil rights as noted in the founding/source documents of this nation (BTW, for any illiterati having this post read to them, that does include the Bible–check the Founders’ own words, if you can.) Sure, some of us will run afoul of some nancypants government bureaucrat intent on doing us harm, but we must do what’s right for the good of our progeny.

And as we go about our daily lives, simply doing what is good and right and just, as instructed by the same wisdom that instructed the Founders, that means that we will do the ordinary things of life purposefully, as revolutionary actions in resistance to the growing anarcho-tyranny of various civil governments and quasi-governmental agencies (like public schools).

In that vein, expect more “beer posts” and more “compgeeky posts” and more other such posts apparently unrelated to politics, societal decay, etc. Just figting the good fight in quiet ways…

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The Road Ahead, 1.4

As we face uncertain economic times, one thing to keep hammering on is being careful what we spend and how we spend it…

Over at Lucy’s Frugal Living, I ran into the meme-of-the-week:

I think people are just afraid to buy things right now, with all of the uncertainties…

Well, good! People (we all) buy too much stuff. Stuff is the bane of our society’s existence. We buy too much, hoard too much and throw away too much. Almost all of the “too much” is of the wrong stuff. Junk food and flashy toys that break and faddish clothes, etc., instead of staples and healthful food and really durable goods that we need and clothes that will last us for years.

And we–as a society, not all as individuals–have been buying this crap for years on credit! Maybe a few credit junkies buying crap with other peoples’ money will be scared straight by a crash. Maybe. One can hope.

Maybe congresscritters will grow some brains and rent some intestinal fortitude and allow big car makers who’ve made stupid financial decisions for years reap the whirlwind they’ve sown. Maybe. One can hope.

And maybe a few grups will actually GROW UP and act like adults for a change, putting away their irresponsible, childish pursuits of childish pleasures long enough to actually BE adults, begin eschewing spendthriftism for frugality and actually contribute to society. Maybe (but I doubt it).

*feh* Enough of this. Two or three tightwad, money-saving tips for the “scared straight” among credit abusers and junk hoarders:

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The Road Ahead, 2.2: Live and Learn…

I used to say (probably stolen from Lazarus Long *heh*) that you live and learn, or you don’t live long, but in today’s rubber-bumber society, that no longer applies. It’s be more accurate to say “You live and learn, or you don’t really live at all.” Or perhaps,

“‘A learning experience.’ The traditional three-word preamble to a burial.”

*heh*

I had occasion to sit down the other day with my parents–both in their mid-80s. They live a few hours away, so I don’t have a sit down with them all that often, though we do chat once or twice a week on the phone. One thing that struck me during our chat was that each of my now elderly parents are still learning… and using what they learn in productive ways.

Over the course of our conversation, it turned as it often does with them to the time when they were the most active in my life as parents. After all, that period does contain the most mutually shared memories. And yes, school came up, and, as usual, my status as the family changeling entered the conversation. *heh*

Now, unlike most Mass Media Podpeople, politicians *spit* and Academia Nut Fruitcakes, all my siblings easily have more intellectual capability than a head of cabbage. In fact, no dummies need apply at our family reunons. Still, I’m the odd one out among my sibs. For one thing, I’m almost certainly the only one that’d go back to school at the drop of a hat, were time and money pressures a tad different. Oh, not for a degree. Have enough of those. For the pleasure of sitting in a class taught by someone who knows more than I do and likes to share that knowlege with people who want in on it.

Oh, and I like taking tests. Just a wee tad competitive. No, not with fellow students, my competitiveness usually manifested itself in striving to outdo my teachers in some way. If it showed up to party at all. *heh*

Still, my sibs and I caught the learning bug from our folks, to one degree or another, and so learning new things is just what we do, even if not in formal school settings. Not all the same kinds of things, of course, but curiosity and imagination have made us into lifelong learners.

Some people aren’t like that, though. Some folks have to have new information crammed down their throats, packed into their heads like sand into a rat hole, poured into their stopped up ears and then hammered. And still they refuse to think about what they’ve (not) “learned”.

I think that’s a large part of the political and societal mess we’re now in: a large population of sheeple who have a hard shell of stupidity wrapped closely around a cotton candy fluff of contrafactual “truths” they’ve been drip-fed, NG-tube-fed, by the Mass Media Podpeople Hivemind after long and careful enstupiation (with the sheeple’s mostly willing cooperation, of course) by Academia Nut Fruitcakes’ and remote educrats’ Prisons for Kids, enstupiated parents (yes, it’s a generational thing, now), “edumacators” and real teachers who’re trapped in the machinery of “public schools” and dumbed down colleges, forced at every turn to surrender teaching to “edumacating” (lobotomizing) young minds.

What to do, what to do?

1. Don’t attack directly. Chip away at the hard shell stupidity covering the cotton candy ignorance with humor, ridicule. When the enemies of The People are shown to be fools, the sheeple may be open to being fed real food. Dennis Miller’s biting sarcasm comes to mind. Oh, you’ll not be able to reach a True Believer in Leftardism with Miller’s material, but those who are just among the common enstupiated sheeple might find a bit of the hardshell stuidity eroded by his ridicule of Leftardism.

2. Once you find any crack in the hardshell of stupidity, start pouring facts through the cracks. Facts are stubborn things. Amazingly, once facts can be brought into juxtaposition with the “reality-based fantasies” of Leftardism’s many lies, the lies begin to unravel. The difficulty is in finding the cracks in the hardshell of stupdity into which one can pour a bit of the antidote.

Lather, rinse, repeat. Unceasingly.

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The Road Ahead, 1.4

This might almost be “TRA, 3.2,” because controlling personal debt could easily be seen as a citizen’s duty… at least modeling the concept for our wonderful Triumvirate of Greed and Envy and the rest of the little piggies in Congress…

Fred Reed proves once again that anyone can say something of profound wisdom. Talking about recent news:

One story says that Americans owe some bizarre sum on the credit card and god knows how much on the McMansion and on the five-hundred horsepower riding mower with a mini-combine, backhoe attachment, and satellite GPS for mowing the half acre. I think I’m supposed to feel sorry for them. Actually I think they are a persuasive argument for eugenics.

I don’t get it. What is wrong with these idiots? Debt is easy to avoid. Herewith some blinding wisdom: If you can’t pay for it, don’t buy it.

“[O]we some bizarre sum on the credit card”? If you’ve begun implementing a frugal, tightwad lifestyle, then you’ll have a lil extra at the end of every month to stock your pantry, add to your collection of silver (or some other form of savings) and pay down your debt. If we pull through the next four years and emerge bloody but unbowed, well and good. You’ll be in better financial shape than your neighbors who kept trying to ride the credit gravy train.

But, IF (and it’s still a remote “if”) the SHTF and we find ourselves facing TEOTWAWKI (Ragnorak, Armagedon, whatever), you might think owing big bucks to your credit card companies would be no big deal. The big reset button will have cleared all your debt.

Bum thinking, dude. It’s all about owning up to personal responsibility. Surviving with integrity. “For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul,” as someone once said…

Think of it this way: pay down/pay off your debts and there’s no TEOTWAWKI event, you have the monkey off your financial back and you are an honorable person. Pay down/pay off your debts and TEOTWAWKI does happen, you can start over knowing you satisfied your honor and are free of the moral debt you owed to pay your financial debts. Both good things.

Individuals practicing personal responsibility: essential for victory over The Triumvirate of Greed and Envy*.

*What?!? No one commented on “Triumvirate” referring to “Greed and Envy” (just two things)? The “triumvirate” of greed and envy resides in… the third part of the equation: the person who allows them living space.

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The Road Ahead, 2.1

Note, the 2.X volume of The Road Ahead will briefly touch on the politics of idiots, and what we can do to provide remedial education for such self-handicapped voters.

The schizo voter:

Even as black voters overwhelmingly backed Barack Obama — a homosexual-rights supporter — in the presidential race, about seven in 10 of them voted against same-sex marriage, compared with about half of white voters.

Denise Fernandez, a 57-year-old black woman from Sacramento, said she voted for Obama and Proposition 8. “I believe a Christian is held accountable,” she said.

Let’s see, she–along with over 70% of blacks who voted for California’s Proposition 8 (marriage=heterosexual, monogamous union)–saw no problem with asserting that “I believe a Christian is held accountable,” was a valid reason to vote for Prop 8, but voting for a man for the presidency who is an ardent supporter of Black genocide is completely disconnected from accountability because… he’s supposedly “Black”?

WTF?!? “Black genocide”?!? Yep. Aborted babies are disproportionately “Afro-American” babies. Black women are only about 17% of the oopulation, but abortions of Black babies runs at about 35% of abortions. Obama supports open season on babies in utero, therefore he supports killing off Black babies at twice the rate of Whites. Heck, this doesn’t even fit well with his “blame Whitey for everything” past, but there you are.

How to reach people with such a disconnect?

Well, for one thing, we can’t tell them to their faces that they are racist idiots, though they are. What we can do is constantly, unremittantly, without ceasing (what I say three times I really, really, really mean :-)) shine the light of truth upon what The Triumvirate of Greed and Envy says and does, because the Mass Media Podpeople Hivemind won’t. In our every contact with others–especially The Others who hypocritically voted against their self-proclaimed “principles”–we must firmly press the truth into theiur hands, clearly funnel the truth into their ears and carefully point their eyes to revelations of the record and current behaviors of The Obama-Pelosi-Reid Triumvirate of Greed and Envy.

Without ceasing.

But. Couple such firm, continual truth feed with offers of genuine help–however small–in dealing with the woes brought about by The Triumvirate of Greed and Envy. Only by demonstrating a genuine concern (genuine concern offers genuine help) to individuals who are negatively impacted by their creepily hypocritical votes against conscience and even against their own UNenlightened self interest can we make genuine converts to the idea of genuinely voting ones principles.

It’d be a start.

Next up: what are genuine conservative principles… and genuine liberal principles? Given the state of current public discourse, Mass Media Podpeople Hivemind propaganda and Academia Nut Fruitcake Bakery “education” you might be surprised to find how close real liberals and real conservatives are.

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The Road Ahead, 3.1

In The Road Ahead, “3.X” series, I’ll be looking at our responsibilities as citizens.

Romans 13:1Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. 2Consequently, he who rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves. 3For rulers hold no terror for those who do right, but for those who do wrong. Do you want to be free from fear of the one in authority? Then do what is right and he will commend you. 4For he is God’s servant to do you good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword for nothing. He is God’s servant, an agent of wrath to bring punishment on the wrongdoer. 5Therefore, it is necessary to submit to the authorities, not only because of possible punishment but also because of conscience. 6This is also why you pay taxes, for the authorities are God’s servants, who give their full time to governing. 7Give everyone what you owe him: If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.

If you are not a Christian, then the passage quoted above has no power for you. But if you are, mark well: you are enjoined to obey the law and to show respect to civil authority. Peter makes clear elsewhere (I Peter 2:13-20), that obedience to civil authority extends even to abusive civil authority.

If you don’t find those scriptures and others persuasive, let me make an appeal to conscience. Our society owes a deep debt to a tradition of the rule of law. While we see that tradition widely abused nowadays–often by those charged with enforcing the law–that does not render our obligations null and void. People of good conscience will obey the law and seek to change bad law by good conduct, working within the system to make changes as much as humanly possible.

Praying meanwhile for divine intervention in the cause of justice.

But more, it is our duty as citizens in a representative republic too much tainted by a legal fiction of democracy and dominated by a political elite and their bureaucratic leeches, to work, to strive, to peacefully militate for good law, justly enforced.

To that end, I am asking for contributions–through comments or guest posts (contact me via email or in comments if you wish to guest or cross post on this subject matter) dealing with, “What I can do to make our government, our laws and their administration, more just.” Anything from the nuts and bolts of building a precinct structure to effect political change to pressuring congresscritters and others to Do the Right Thing–and any other common sense actions that common citizens can take–is welcome.

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The Road Ahead, 1.3

Sometimes, the bravest, most patriotic thing you can do is just mind your own business. By that I mean simply live your life as best you can, providing for your own, saving for the future, preparing for foreseeable disasters.

On that last point, make no mistake that I believe The Trimvirate of Greed and Envy (Obama-Pelosi-Reid) has plans in store for you that are not for the good of you and your family, but only good for the advancement of their Marxist-socialist political power plays. Raid/nationalize 401Ks? In the works. It may not succeed, but expect/prepare for a negative impact on YOUR financial future. Artificially raised energy costs via depression of development of oil resources at home, encouragement of inimical foreign powers in holding us hostage with their oil, extortion of coal-fired electrical plants (thus either forcing them out of business or forcing higher electricity pricing… or both)–and more coming from The Trimvirate of Greed and Envy. The policies of The Trimvirate of Greed and Envy are designed to squeeze the little guy past all endurance… and falsely point the finger of blame at “the evil corporations” forced by their policies to raise prices, cut down on (or cut out) 401K participation, etc., etc.

Standard Saul Alinsky “community organizer” strategies.

So, in the face of these and other pressures to knuckle under and say “Uncle Sam!” what is a patriotic American to do?

First, make sure your own affairs are in order. I made a few modest suggestions in “The Road Ahead,” 1.1 and 1.2. Do those. Find another job or start a small business you can (for now) run from home. If you have a hobby or outside interest that can be made into a money-maker, try making money with it, for heaven’s sake! Take ALL the tax advantages you can of such a business, and sock away all you make from it into precious metals, your home, a sound mutual fund or other relatively safe (there is no safety in investment, only relative degrees of risk) investment, and…

Disaster preparedness. Seriously. Treat preparing for the next few years of rule by The Trimvirate of Greed and Envy as you would preparation for a natural disaster. Build up your pantry with long-term and medium-term food storage. Make what preparations you can for power outages and brownouts. Learn first aid (or brush up on your first aid skills) and stock medical/health supplies. Stock up on clean water. Make sure you have basic hand tools and the skills to use them. Just basic disaster preparedness.

Check your self-defense measures. I’ll leave those up to you, but think about the topic carefully. Do you really want to be dependent on your local cop shop if/when the SHTF?

Make necessary home and car repairs NOW. Take care–as much as possible–of ongoing health/dental issues, NOW.

For worst case scenarios: have a “bugout bag” for every family member and SHTF bags in your cars–AND plan a place to go and several routes should things become untenable where you live.

Being paranoid, any? Nope. Just thinking ahead to possibilities and measuring them against straws in the wind.

And besides, any stockpiling of goods you do in preparation for emergencies will ALWAYS be useful. Food and water pantry? Use and replenish on a regular basis. Heck, if you experience a natural disaster (the TWC Great Ice Storm of 2007 comes to mind for me–no power, and mostly no water for a few weeks can lend a little perspective, eh?) you’ll be able to be “Warm and fed, nice and toasty” w/o any sweat. And if The Trimvirate of Greed and Envy takes your job through their shenanigans, your savings and your food pantry and your part time job/hobby business may just pull you through all right.

Don’t be a crackpot survivalist; be a survivor. Your country needs you more now than ever before.

A few disaster/emergency preparedness links:

http://cdtactical.com/survival-guide/
http://survivalism.blogspot.com/
http://areyouprepared.com/554845-554511-66551/guidebook.pdf
http://theepicenter.com/information.html
http://www.homeandhospicecare.org/disaster/home.html
http://www.ahrimangate.com/freePDFpage.htm

A simple web search will turn up many, many more in depth sites, but these are some places to start.

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Just an Observation

“News” the last couple of days about “McCain aides” anonymously “smearing” Sarah Palin? Keep in mind: this is Mass Media Podpeople Hivemind claims that anonymous McCain aides are smearing Palin. With no direct attribution, all we have is some pseudoreporter pods of the Hivemind making unsupported claims designed to stir up trouble in a camp opposed to Hivemind views. You trust these Hivemind pseudoreporter pods any more now than during all its lies, half truths and coverups for Obama during the campaign?

Where did you leave your brains, people? Wait for something that approaches a credible report before jumping on this. Hivemind pseudoreports have NO credibility. As in a big zero with the rim kicked off. Wake up and sniff out the bullshit, OK? There could be some truth to these pseudoreports, but so far, all we have is Mass Media Podpeople Hivemind fakery, lies, and bullshit to back them up. Wait for some verifiable facts.

Let me repeat: so far, all we have is Mass Media Podpeople claiming that “anonymous McCain aides” have said some nasty things about Palin. *feh* That doesn’t even qualify as juicy gossip.

IF we ever have credible, verifiable reports of actual McCain staffers making remarks such as have been pseudoreported by Mass Media Podpeople, THEN it’d be time to get out the tar and feathers, but until then, ask yourself, who benefits from this lil tempest in a teacup?

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The Road Ahead, 1.2

I’ve pretty well settled on the 1.X series of “The Road Ahead” posts dealing with simple things the average Joe and Josephine can do to deal with the financial impact of rule by the Trimvirate of Greed and Envy. Now, a disclaimer: I’m not a financial expert, and anything I suggest is simply common sense, not advice from a competent financial advisor. If you can find some such person and are able to afford consulting with them, you might be well served to do so.

How to cushion the blows of a government ruled by he Trimvirate of Greed and Envy? One obvious route for common folks is to focus on real wealth: precious metals, ones home, etc. If you’ve already been setting aside resources in precious metals, good on you. Gold is good, but perhaps significant investment in gold is a bit beyond your means. If you need to start really small and build up, try collecting–or even small-time buying–pre-1964 US silver coins as a decent place to start. Even if all you do is keep an eye out for them in your nightly change, pretty soon you’ll have a small collection of coins that are worth more for their metal than for their face value. You might even find a few collectables that are worth more to a collector than their silver content. Cash those in for more silver–or even gold–coinage that’s not worth as much to collectors and keep on growing your precious metals pot. Silver and gold aren’t the only choices for precious metals, but they’re a very smart place to start as you climb the learning curve.

Another obvious place to build and/or protect real wealth is your home. Look around. Are there maintenance things that you’ve put off? Do them as soon as possible! Any capital improvements that have a good ROI prospect? Do them as well, as soon as you are able. Money–and especially sweat–spent here are better than money in the bank, even in a market of housing price downturn, especially if you intend to make your home yours for a long time. (Here at twc central, for example,we don’t plan on moving, and the bank won’t even own a piece of us after next year–but our “payments” will mostly continue in maintenance and improvements that have good ROI prospects.) Even at “depressed” real estate pricing, compared with other homes in our area that are selling, our investment in this house has a value that well exceeds inflation over the term of our nearly-retired loan. But do look very, very closely at potential ROI on further investments in your home.

Another way to improve your home investment is to accelerate your loan payoff. Look at how your loan is structured and find a way to pay a little extra on the principal with each house payment. Really own your home sooner. Sure, you’ll lose an interest deduction on your income taxes when you pay your home off early, but there are ways to deal with that, too, and if the SHTF and a really big financial collapse hits, you’d have only maintenance and property taxes to deal with–a Good Thing.

What? You don’t “own” your home (aren’t buying it)? If you’re single, consider this: we “talked” our single adult children into moving back in and saving the money they were throwing away every month on rent, etc. But do NOT just spend any money saved. If your parents are amenable to the idea, use the opportunity wisely. Learn what it is to truly live frugally. Become a tightwad and ELIMINATE every single solitary luxury item you can. SAVE every single penny you can and put it to work making money, so you can pay OFF any debt you may have accumulated, save for a home of your own, emergencies, etc. Learn to forgo that cuppa humongously overpriced Starbucks coffee, etc., and really save every red cent you can against future need. Learn to effect delayed gratification.

Of course, those same principles can be wisely applied by anyone.

Married and renting. Learn to live cheaply and save for a wise investment in a home you can afford. Dream home? Don’t count on it, and DO NOT PUSH YOURSELF into a home you cannot REALLY afford.

Simple things, eh? I’ll talk further on things like this as time goes on, but for a tip to a frugal living blog, just CLICK HERE. You’ll find further links there. Start your research going for tips, tweaks and principles of the tightwad living style. Prepare for the worst in the coming days of rule by the Trimvirate of Greed and Envy, or be expect to be caught with your pants around your ankles right when you need to move quickly.

Not a happy thought.

Do note: my lil automated “scripture of the day” feature on my right sidebar notes Matthew 6:19-21 today. Ironic? Not really. I’m not advocating, here, “lay[ing] up treasures on earth” but simply taking prudent steps to protect ones finances and provide for ones family, instead of relying on a fickle government run by people who do not know you and do not give a fig for you and yours. Do what you will.

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The Road Ahead, 1.1

I’m going to try to nibble away at dealing with a nation “ruled” by a Pelosi-Reid-Obama Trumvirate of Greed and Envy. Yes, I may settle on that label or another similar label that’s descriptive of the fundamental governmental policies of the Dhimmicrappic rule. Think about it: their base is founded upon class envy and stealing from workers to give to drones. Between them, they’ll run the two houses of Congress and the bureaucrappic nightmare that is the Executive branch of government–giving them full power to pack the judiciary with like-minded Cupidic Envycrats, so “Trumvirate of Greed and Envy” seems appropriate.

But enough of that. First nibble: suppose the “chicken in every pot” promise of Obama to take from the rich and give to the, well, not “poor” because there are too few really poor folk in America. Let’s say, “Give to folks who haven’t actually earned it.” How to deal with that?

OK, suppose you are someone who pays no federal income taxes, because your earnings are too low to have to. One can survive on such income but only by living very frugally. So, that’s the first thing you must do: live frugally. Do without convenience items. Do without luxury items. Redefine “essentials” to real esentials and live within your means. It can be done, and I know it can, because I and many millions of others have done so. Don’t whine, gripe and complain about “doing without” when you are fully capable of stocking your larder with decent food, putting clothes on your family’s backs, keeping a roof over your head. Just do it.

Then, suppose you do get one of those government welfare tax checks of money stolen from “the rich” (as redefined by the Trumvirate of Greed and Envy), what do you do? You can’t do the absolutely right and just and moral thing and track down the person the Trumvirate of Greed and Envy stole it from and give it back. Spend it on some of those luxury items you’ve been foregoing because they are outside your “pay as you go” frugal lifetyle (you have avoided credit card debt, etc., haven’t you? hmmm?)? That wouldn’t be right, and it would set the tone for other bad behaviors down the road.

How about this? Put that money to work doing the things it might well have been doing had the “rich” person(s) it was stolen from had it to work with: invest it in the economy in such a way as to encourage business/job growth. Find a well-performing mutual fund that focuses on areas of the stock market that have both done well–even through the current financial woes–and that create jobs through business growth. Look back over a five-ten year period or more. Learn ehat and where and how these funds have achieved their success. Avoid companies that participated heavily in the mortgage immorality of the past couple of decades. Put the money in where it can help create jobs, reap what rewards it offers and reinvest those as you can.

Take that general idea, and become a vest-pocket capitalist. Since you’ll be unable to return the wallet from the mugged “rich” person, stick it in the eye of the Trumvirate of Greed and Envy by chosing to do this for the good of the economy and for the poor souls whose finances have been raped by the Trumvirate of Greed and Envy–both the genuinely poor (who will be paying much higher hidden taxes as businesses are forced to pass increasing government-mandated expenses on in end-user pricing) and the “rich” who have been stolen from.

A well-performing mutual fund isn’t the only road to giving the stolen monies back to the economy, and there are other obvious ways to put the money where it will do some good for others, but it’s probably the easiest way with the pittance the Trumvirate of Greed and Envy may vomit up.

More to come as The Road Ahead continues…

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