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The Smiling Dog Saloon Files

What a good looking web site David - Hats off to you! It’s going to take a while to go through it properly so I  book marked it for later on as I’m way too busy today. >>Mark P

In This Issue:

1. 1.     DIY Composting toilet plans
2. 2.     Medicinal properties of honey
3. 3.     The Basil Box
4. 4.     Gardening for survival, Pet Preparedness
5. 5.     What does it mean to be ‘middle class’ in the US anymore?

For Today's Issue Go To: 

http://poormansurvivorblog.blogspot.com/2013/08/affordable-hydropon...

A few gems…

Have you digested the "wonderful" jobs numbers reported from Washington last Friday?

Well, don't get too excited about the economy. We've been conned again.

First off, 59% of all jobs created this year are in 3 sectors: Leisure/Hospitality, Retail Trade and Administrative/Waste Services. Wages in those sectors have fallen by 0.7%. These jobs pay an average of $15.80 per hour versus the $23.98 average hourly wage. Which means "jobs creation" just equals cheaper labor.

The American jobs participation rate is at 34-year lows and falling, as people give up and leave the workforce.

Underemployment is between 14% and 15% and rising.

America still suffers from 2 million fewer jobs today than it did when the financial crisis started.

But perhaps worst of all is what I call the "part time-ification of America.”

Thanks to years of punitive hiring regulations, taxes and Obamacare, American companies are going "part time." Meaning, Americans themselves are living on less and less.

USA Today, for instance, reports that the "ranks of part-timers have swelled to 791,000 people versus 187,000" since March. In other words, for every full-time job created over the past 6 months, there have been 4.22 part time jobs created.

Since the beginning of the year the data is even more graphic. According to Keith Hall of George Mason University's Mercatus Center, 97% of the net job creation has been part-time employment.

Misleading the sheep is something DC (district of corruption) does well…

Email Company Reportedly Used By Edward Snowden Shuts Down Rather Than Hand Data Over To Feds…our hats off to this guy for standing up to Uncle Scam!

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2013/08/08/email-company-re...

Shelter in Place – Free Report

Federal officials have closed 19 US embassies throughout the
Middle East and warned all Americans traveling abroad...

TSA Agents now ‘patrol’ all public facilities (your home is next but Obama told Jay Leno ‘we don’t have a domestic spy program’).

As we saw after the Boston Marathon bombing, it has now become
standard procedure to put entire American cities on house arrest when 
a terrorist attack appears imminent.

Get your Shelter in Place report today…

In this report, you'll learn:

• The 50 most-essential items to      hoard
• Perimeter security tactics
• Rainwater collection basics

Find this and other useful, free reports at:

http://www.poormansurvival.com/Pages/citizenpreparedness.aspx

Americans renouncing U.S. citizenship surged sixfold in the second quarter from a year earlier as the government prepares to introduce tougher asset-disclosure rules.

Expatriates giving up their nationality at U.S. embassies climbed to 1,131 in the three months through June from 189 in the year-earlier period, according to Federal Register figures published today. That brought the first-half total to 1,810 compared with 235 for the whole of 2008.

The U.S., the only nation in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development that taxes citizens wherever they reside, is searching for tax cheats in offshore centers, including Switzerland, as the government tries to curb the budget deficit.

We’re the only country to tax its citizens living abroad…sick bastards.

Your muckraker at large, Bruce `the Poor Man'

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