Live Free in an Unfree World

Today begins a new schedule at work - 12:00 noon to 9:00 pm - and a new surge to embed critical activities into my life.

I have no choice. The job is tough and beating me up, but diabetes is kicking my ass.

Actions I have to take at my age (54) include:

• testing my blood sugar levels daily
• absolute control over my food intake
• not giving in to food temptations
• walking twice a day (for diabetes and the dog’s sake)
• having sunshine hit my skin everyday(it’s South Florida - it’s always available)
• using dumbbells during breaks every hour from the computer
• getting serious about taking care of my teeth and oral hygiene in general
• write and post - daily - to my self-hosted blogs
• write like a scanner about what you like then find the products to monetize it
• work affiliate programs like a borrowed mule
• be collateral damage in a dangerous world
• be in a position to quit my job in 33 days - whether or not I decide to stay
• revive dating blogs where income was coming in
• keep my personal notes online in this blog so I can access them whenever I need to
• scratch and claw and be the online marketer and blogmeister I need to be
• master Twitter, Hubpages, Squidoo, and Facebook

Failure is not an option.

Charles Lamm

Are we heading for the “Greater Depression”? Doug Casey thinks we are in it already, even though he has made a point of predicting doom and gloom since 1979.

There is one advantage of preparing for the worst. If it happens, you are ready. If not, you are still ready.

This blog will help people get ready for what I believe are catastrophic events to come.

~ Charles Lamm

Here are just a few things the Federal Reserve, Congress, and the Bush (or next) administration could do to help this nation recover from the current recession - or prevent a larger depression - but are nearly 100% not likely to do:

1. require that each Member of Congress, under Penalty of Perjury, certify that he or she has read every word in every bill before voting on that piece of legislation
2. remove U.S. troops from every foreign country - we are a republic, not an empire
3. all future laws passed by Congress must have a sunset provision and be voted on again every 4 years
4. stop rescuing financial institutions that are about to fail just because they are large
5. stop the presses - the dollar has lost 96% of it’s value since the Federal Reserve was created in 1913
6. no deficit financing of government expenditures
7. have a group of researchers whose job is to ferret out unnecessary regulations and to recommend them for quick decertification and repeal of the underlying statutes
8. every government job (non-appointee) that becomes vacant due to retirement or resignation must be kept vacant for 6 months to see if the position can just be eliminated

This is just a start. More tomorrow.