atlas shrugged...

this should get a rise out of some of you obama socialists.
instead of growing my companies, i'm folding them. instead of paying into the system and being criticized for not paying enough, i'll pay nothing. instead of sending a check to the power company every month for iffy service with a shaky grid future, i'm now off the grid and making my own power. no more income tax, cause i won't have an income. my few remaining business interests will be non profit and tax free.

i'm growing my own food, and i will barter right past this out of control raging monster we call government. i will live a cashless lifestyle, so i won't care what the stock market does (i'm out), and i won't need money. i haven't had insurance since i bought land, because the insurance companies betrayed my trust years ago. i'll pay my property taxes and contribute to my community.

i won't create new jobs because obama's government is uncertain and wasteful. instead i will stockpile food, whiskey and ammunition...

when the government collapses under it''s own weight, i might loan them some bailout money, but right now i doubt it. i'll just be working my land.

ben franklin was right... he said "when the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic". most people don't even know what a republic was.

 

i hope you have a pension and electricity... and food... this is only half cheeky... people will be killed stealing food. i have no problem with shooting looters. we'll see who the crying drama queens are...
my enemy won't be china or iran, it will be the people with enough gas to barely make it to vermont, once ahmadinejad sets of the nuclear bomb in america, obama is so anxious for him to get. whoops
how about water ?? got water ?? thirsty ???

 

Isn't this what the rich are doing? You know, by not voting but corrupting the system? I'm pretty sure that most Americans aren't "voting" themselves money.

 

I retired a few years ago, and I would love to do just that - unplug from the system. every summer I spend a month in the mountains in Wyoming, and I think about "unplugging".

 

Feels good and healthy to be free of our dirty culture, doesn't it. I, too, have dropped out.

 

I bet for 100 fools to claim to have "dropped out"......99 were at retirement age already, or so unskilled to not be able to find a job in their 50's....lol

White, middle-aged to elderly, male, drama queens mad at the World, listening to right wing AM radio all day, blaming their problems on Obama....LOL

 

Are you an Anarcho-capitalist?

 

So in other words, because of all the money you saved from the Bush tax cuts, you can retire and become another non-productive member of society.

Yep. Those tax cuts sure do incentive production. Just like the conservatives tell us.

 

LOL, the preconceptions here are hilarious. He must be a loser because he doesn't believe in fiat culture. blah, blah blah

 

it occurred to me that i don't need much, and i have done it and it feels great to unplug and get free tv from the air with 12 volts of solar wind and geothermic. we don't need all of that (*)(*)(*)(*). and it makes sense for me to withdrawl until the hurricane of obama corruption passes by, the country is so much bigger than he.

pelosi, the "champion of health care" with the big gavel... she's given a waiver to a highly disproportionate amount of restaraunts in her very own distict ....that's dirty scandalous hypocritical scum... pelosi is worth 50 million dollars... joe wilson was right... free health care for illegals ?? you lie obama

yeah, i'm going to create hundreds of new jobs to support that (*)(*)(*)(*)...

i'll hire people to work on my farm... feed them, clothe them, educate them and their children, i don't need a criminal government for that.

i'll be taking matters into my own hands... no unions no government... how do you like me now...??

 

that's pretty good... when you think about it, it's just a throwback, easy for me, cause i've always been an anachronist... think about the amish, they've always had it... native cultures...

back to nature i say... i'm taking this to washington... (so to speak)

 

Being self-sufficient is derided from the left. Figures.

Btw, what exactly does he OWE you, Iriemon???

 

Interesting concept.

Does your county assessor accept chickens and pipe dreams for payment of your property taxes?

 

And where will you go when you shoot yourself in the foot, since you're done with "us"?

Reminds me of the 60's hippies who didn't want nothin and no one bothering them. All they needed was their guitar... and this little outlet you plug it into...

 

if you really go by the Ayn Rand rule book.. post your address so that the fittest can have a shot at your stuff.. all is fair right?

 

i'm twenty six... you think iran is a make believe enemy, do you know any jews ?? ??

 

Your a screwball. .. what the heck is an anachronist..?... The Amish are a native culture?

 

i'm not done with "us"... i'm just done with people like "you"... i actually got rich playing guitar... that's how i can do this... i'll still have an outlet to plug into, if you know anything about power.

 

.....LOL..... i was born a hundred years too late for my own taste... no... the amish and the native cutures, the native tribes of this land...

the amish and mennonites live simply, cashless...

 

First, you don't know me, so you can't generalize about me. And for the record no- I am not an anonymous poster like you whose words go "off into the sky"- you can easily Google me and find out everything about me- I'm even on Facebook.

And second, apparently my "hippie guitar" reference went over your head so I will try and explain it.

The hippie, "only needing this little plug" means the hippies is refusing everything while ignorantly accepting it all by plugging in. Because power plants are an integral part of society at large...it's like denying evolution while staring at a billion year old Trilobite.

Want to be a famous guitarist? Then pick up your acoustic and play into a battery-powered recorder. Otherwise you are accepting the system you suckle off.

Finally, I never got rich playing guitar but I can guarantee you I had more fun as a guitarist than you over the past quarter century playing guitar.

Don't generalize- we are all individuals. Your purpose in this forum is to spread YOUR opinions looking for people to agree or debate- don't assume.

 

What I find the most telling is that the ones that seem "outraged" about your idea and are throwing around insults and belittlement comments are those I would say are "left" leaning.

I guess they feel you still owe them more.

 

That's because the left cares about all people while the right only cares about the rich and entitled. Jesus would be a Democrat. Get yourself in line, young man.

 

Good, more room for me in the market. Don't let the economy run your lazy, indolent ass over.

 

Like Col Blake said to Hot Lips: " . . . well Hot Lips, resign your god d*mn commision!"

 

Yeah, I can tell how you'd really unplugged and dropped out of the economy, what with your electrical service, internet service, computer, and presumably some place to keep it. Glad to know you're roughing it.