Do It Yourself

That is the key to surviving the impending collapse of the economy. As the stock market is manipulated higher by the murderers and thieves destroying my country, I realize that we may be but a few weeks or less from the next bankster initiated war. This one may very well turn into a world war too. Of course once the shooting starts in Iran or North Korea or perhaps both plus any of the other countries in the world who might want to join in - for certain the plug will be pulled on the economy.

This is because in the feeble mind of Joe Everyday-Man, the war will be all the reason needed to explain the bad economy. Be that as it may, this bankster engineered collapse and war will be much worse than all of the previous ones. There are many reasons for this but one glaring one is how dependent most Americans have become on the kindness of others enforced by the state. That safety net that you liberals are always defending across the aisle against those pesky conservatives has been but a worm on the end of a hook. In the grand Utopian scheme of things, free food, housing, health care and cheese for the needy sounded like a grand noble concept. The sad reality is our safety net has been nothing less than a passage used by our conquerors to get inside our once protective wall of independence. Now that the fractional reserve fiat money scheme has let the air out of the price bubbles again by cutting the money supply many people are finding themselves squeezed to make ends meet.

My family is doing okay for now. One defense against the conquerors is family and friends. Add to that as much do-it-yourself knowledge and you have a wall of defense against these traitor aided foreign attackers. You will be able to hold out longer than those who do not possess these time tested American defense systems.

For example, my daughter tells me that her AC is not working and the shop says it's going to cost $700 to fix it. But I said nuts to that and ordered the compressor clutch for $179 including free shipping then spend the morning the day before yesterday installing it. It's not rocket science. I take the parts that are in the way out of the way then label each and organize them for easy re-installation later. The internet is filled with advise and a Hayes or Chilton's car manual is cheap and very helpful. Most Americans would have been out that half a grand to have AC again.

My daughter and her husband are expecting a baby as well. We have a five bedroom house which is occupied fully by my family. My son in-law began talking about them moving out and getting their own place. But I said hold on a minute. I advised my daughter and her husband that this was not a great time to strike out on your own with the economy and war on the horizon. Credit is tight and they will need tens of thousands of dollars to have a down payment necessary to buy their own place. But in the mean time they will have to pay thousands for rent while trying to save money. To make a long story short, we took an unfinished portion of the basement that I was using for my quasi workshop and turned it into a bedroom. Plus we added a shower so my daughter and son in-law would have their own complete bathroom in the basement where they reside.

Here's how we did it. First I used some pressure treated wood that I recycled from a fence gate in N.E. Washington, DC and the shelving wood from the unfinished basement area to build a workshop on the outside of my house. Then all my tools and table saws and such were hauled out to my new workshop which is way more functional than trying to work with long boards in a narrow basement area cluttered with stuff. My wife and I did that and also the shower. I moved the dryer electric service line and the hole in the wall for the dryer vent so that we could relocate the dryer. Again not rocket science. Turn off the electric so the dryer won't run then pull the staples out holding the wire down and reposition the dryer outlet where you want it. The hole I hammered out in about a half an hour with a chisel and it looked way better than the old one I filled with cement. Where the dryer was I built a box that the shower would stand on so the water would drain down to a pump used to remove the shower water through the old open pipe that the clothes washer water used to drain into. Now the washer just drains into the big utility sink. I built the frame for the shower with my wife nagging me all the way to make sure I didn't screw up. I had my son in-law hold the piece of cement board up for the ceiling while I drywall screwed it in. I installed the cement board for the walls by myself. My wife installed the PVC drain pipe to the pump, did all the tiling and hooked up the electric for the shower light so it comes on when the bathroom light is turned on. We both grouted the shower. Finally, I customized an off the shelf shower door to fit the hole I cut into the wall for the new shower. I also did the plastering and I painted the bathroom. Oh yes...I soldered all of the pipes for the water supply and the main water line that had to be moved out of the way of one of the walls we were going to build for the room.

Those projects took us about three weeks and stunned my son Mathew who figured once we began building the shower it would take a year. He's a doubting Tomas devil's advocate type of personality. But the shower got everybody excited about building the baby's room especially my daughter and my wife.

In only a matter of days those two had strong armed Tiree's brothers in-law into framing up the baby's room. That next Saturday they were cutting and banging away all day. But by evening the room was framed up including drywall on the ceiling and some of the walls. From there my son in-law and I finished installing the drywall. I taped the joints and applied the compound then sanded the drywall. I also painted the room the hideous color my daughter chose and installed the covers for the electrical switch and room plugs that my wife installed. We're now just about ready to lay the carpet donated my my son in-law's step mom and we'll finish up in the next couple of weeks by installing the trim. I'll put up before and after picture when everything is done.

Now my daughter and son in-law can live there as long as it takes for the economy to turn around. They can save away some decent down payment money plus have any number of built-in baby sitters once their daughter Kylie is born in October. Heck we could jam in another two or three grand kids into bunk beds if we had to into our new sixth bed room. Everybody came together including several of my kids' friends to help make it happen. This is how to survive our defeat by the foreign bankers until we can rally our defenses and throw the banker bums out once and for all along with their counterfeit fiat money.