Way Outback

Way Outback

by Bill Rosoman

Copyright 2011 Bill Rosoman

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I am a Baby Boomer (born 1948), I am 63 in 2011. I have been chugging along in life but trying to improve my lot as best I can

I worked as a Public Servant from 1965 to 1988 (New Zealand Post Office then Telecom when Privatised, as a Lineman, installing/fixing Telephones).

Up until 1984 New Zealand had a closed economy with import tariffs, price controls, a fixed currency and large subsidies for farmers etc. mostly under Prime Minister Muldoon. We were living in lala land and going broke.

Rogernomics was a complete change to a modern economy were a lot of Government Enterprises were flogged off to private enterprise and the exchange rate was floated under the Lange Labour Government.

I always say that we needed to change but it is the way they went about it and the speed of change. All the workers got screwed and the rich got much richer.

We were told to accept the pain as there would some gain done the track. Well 25 years on I am still feeling the pain.

I have lived a pretty simple non-extravagant lifestyle and have not gambled much, taken drugs or drunk much, but the money has just disappeared!

I sold my house in Tokomaru Bay on the East Coast in 1999 as there was just no employment. I moved to Gisborne and had some employment there but that dried up in 2002. I then moved to Hamilton and in the last 10 years have had some employment but have also had long periods of unemployment. I did spend a year and got my Diploma in Computing (not that it has helped in the way of employment)

At this time (September 2011) I am working 12 hour night shifts as a security guard on a bridge building site on the minimum wage of $13 an hour.

I am also concerned about the current World Economic melt down (see next Chapter)

I started looking around for property in the region of Huntly in the Waikato were I have been living on and off for the last few years.

BTW I should mention I live in a Mobile Home (RV).

Anyway all the above led me to buy a section in Glen Afton which is 15 minutes from Huntly, which is 30 minutes from Hamilton City.

Partly I have brought the section to hunker down if I loose my job and or the world economic crisis is going to bite harder.

So this book is about my adventure at going bush or frugal living or fringe dweller or survivalist or prepper or off-grid or homesteader or downsizer or when the SHTF.

Disclaimer

This book is not anti American, it is anti greed, anti multinational corporations, anti banksters.

Mind you I am reminded of Churchill, who said, the Americans always do the right thing, when they have tried everything else.

I think all western countries and the OECD, World Bank, IMF, the Fed Reserve all need to kick in the pants and need to rain in the banking and corporate thieves.

It is time for a sea change in the way we do business, the way we share resources and look after the poor and vulnerable.

The Status Quo is not an Option.

It is time for a change.

As mentioned in this book, one Ron Paul is standing for the Republicans as a potential US President http://www.ronpaul2012.com/the-issues/ron-paul-plan-to-restore-america/

SYNOPSIS:

America is the greatest nation in human history. Our respect for individual liberty, free markets, and limited constitutional government produced the strongest, most prosperous country in the world. But, we have drifted far from our founding principles, and America is in crisis. Ron Paul’s Restore America plan slams on the brakes and puts America on a return to constitutional government. It is bold but achievable. Through the bully pulpit of the presidency, the power of the Veto, and, most importantly, the united voice of freedom-loving Americans, we can implement fundamental reforms.

SPENDING:

Cuts $1 trillion in spending during the first year of Ron Paul’s presidency, eliminating five cabinet departments (Energy, HUD, Commerce, Interior, and Education), abolishing the Transportation Security Administration and returning responsibility for security to private property owners, abolishing corporate subsidies, stopping foreign aid, ending foreign wars, and returning most other spending to 2006 levels.

But he wants to severely curtail government spending and business restraints and we would be left with economic and social anarchy.

He also wants to completely abandon foreign policy and foreign aid.

Sometimes I think some Americans are a bit deluded and are very slow learners.

Mission on, TSHTF

Well after months of preparing and writing this book finally TSHTF.

It was not as I had expected but still it was going to happen. For the first time in my life I got fired from my Security Guard job.

I made a small error of judgement and paid a large price. It could have been handled very differently by the company, but that's life.

I had been working extra time of a few weeks, so one morning I decided to leave early from my job at a mined shaft drilling site. That started a whole chain of events that I had not expected.

I thought if I got caught I would get told off and warned but not sacked. They are an areshole company, they are part of Tyco International, a very mean company.

The job I was doing was going to run out in mid-January 2012 anyway, so it is no great loss.

But you know how bad luck runs in threes!

Well in the past week, I have been fired and lost my job, I finally went to an optician with my worsening eyesight and was told I have cataracts, if I am lucky I will get on the public hospital waiting list, wait six months or more and then maybe get one eye fixed for free. The third disaster was a large truck clipping my parked van in a compound were I was picking up some of my stuff to move to my new place. The damage was not too much just another pain in life.

Oh well, today is beginning of the rest of my life.

Now it is time to practice what I preached in this book, LOL.

I am fairly well prepared and have most things I need for now.

I sold my old large mobile home for $9,000,I have paid off my credit card and have ordered a solar panel and regulator and will have a large tree felled on my property.

That will set me up for the next year or two till I see which way the wind blows.

I have a meeting to see if I can get a benefit, probably a sickness benefit to see me through till I retire on nation superannuation at 65 in eighteen months time. Then I will get $350 per week and a few other perks and that will be plenty for me.

Reminds me of my Dad who died a year ago, he t=retired at 62 and died at 97, a long retirement. He lost his driver licence at 93 when he ran a red light and hit a ladies car side on. A pretty good innings.

So I am sitting at my new outdoor table I built recently, planning the rest of my life.

I need to get this book finished and up online. and then get stuck into my other crafts.

I have plenty of food and am eating produce from my garden. I go to town 14km away now and then for food, water and to empty my porta-potti.

It is summer and life is great!

Kia Kaha, Be Strong, Every day is a good day,

World Financial Meltdown

At the present time (2011) we are in the middle of a an Economic Meltdown, which they say will probably get worse and taken one to two decades to ride out. The so called GFC, Global Financial Crisis.

Late-2000s financial crisis

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The late-2000s financial crisis (often called the Credit Crunch or the Global Financial Crisis) is considered by many economists to be the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s.[1] It was triggered by a liquidity shortfall in the United States banking system[2] and has resulted in the collapse of large financial institutions, the bailout of banks by national governments, and downturns in stock markets around the world. In many areas, the housing market has also suffered, resulting in numerous evictions, foreclosures and prolonged vacancies. It contributed to the failure of key businesses, declines in consumer wealth estimated in the trillions of U.S. dollars, and a significant decline in economic activity, leading to a severe global economic recession in 2008.[3]

The collapse of the U.S. housing bubble, which peaked in 2006, caused the values of securities tied to U.S. real estate pricing to plummet, damaging financial institutions globally.[4] Questions regarding bank solvency, declines in credit availability and damaged investor confidence had an impact on global stock markets, where securities suffered large losses during 2008 and early 2009. Economies worldwide slowed during this period, as credit tightened and international trade declined.[5] Critics argued that credit rating agencies and investors failed to accurately price the risk involved with mortgage-related financial products, and that governments did not adjust their regulatory practices to address 21st-century financial markets.[6] Governments and central banks responded with unprecedented fiscal stimulus, monetary policy expansion and institutional bailouts.

On Radio New Zealand National they have just had a three part series from the BBC on the Commodity Bubble that is looming.

Are we headed for a crash in commodities like the one in 1987 in equities? I doubt it. But, I am concerned that the commodities bubble is getting well out of hand. Certainly, the rationale for commodities as an inflation hedge and in a world of scarce resources is well-founded. However, the rise of late is downright frightening.

Soros says commodity bubble echoes '87 climate

George Soros agrees. He went before the U.S. senate and testified that he believes the commodities bubble has hallmarks of 1987 written all over it. Now, that's frightening.

MarketWatch has an article prefaced with this summary:

The investment flood into commodity indexes bears eerie similarities to the craze for portfolio insurance that led to the stock-market crash of 1987, according to hedge-fund investor George Soros, who warned that the rush into oil has created a bubble.

Later the article spells it out. Financial institutions like mutual and hedge funds are going crazy.

Lured by cheaper prices in longer-dated futures contracts, financial institutions continued to pile into the asset class as that initial opportunity disappeared. That's because commodities turned out to be more profitable than other assets -- a classic case of misconception that is liable to be self-reinforcing in both directions, he commented.

MarketWatch, 3 June 2008

Stay tuned. This is a story whose ending you will be interested in.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/world/5120593/US-debt-default-seen-as-big-global-risk

Forget reverberations of Japan's quake, high oil prices and Europe's debt crisis. The biggest risk to the world economy currently is the US government defaulting on its debt.

At least that's how St Louis Federal Reserve Bank President James Bullard sees it.

The US fiscal situation, if not handled correctly, could turn into a global macro shock, Bullard said in an interview on Wednesday. The idea that the US could threaten to default is a dangerous one.

It's a hotly debated issue: Some Republican lawmakers think a brief US default is acceptable if it forces the White House to deal with large budget deficits. Few Wall Street analysts believe it will come to that.

Bullard worries about reaction overseas if the US government would technically default -- basically delaying interest payments for a couple of days. That could happen in the absence of a political compromise on this year's budget.

If it were just US markets, it might not cause too many problems, but we've got people participating in foreign markets who are probably not as tuned in to the US political situation, Bullard said. The reverberations in those global markets would be very severe. That's where the real risk comes in.