hahaha! Praise God another Texan! howdy today @willymac..I had no idea they had this program, I wonder how many ended up being Texans?
This is classic Texas all the way, thank you sir!
hahaha! Praise God another Texan! howdy today @willymac..I had no idea they had this program, I wonder how many ended up being Texans?
This is classic Texas all the way, thank you sir!
Howdy, Mr. Jonboy! Yep, I thought a little humor might lighten the load.
I told you I'd always wanted to be a real Texan, and this is my best claim on that honored title so far. I never hears what the total count was, but it's the kind of thing where there probably are not many of the certificates still around.
It was a good trick because the cartoonist just ran it and Texas found out when everyone did. Really gracious of them to go along with the joke becaause it must have make more than jus tme happy about it. After all, at least 30,000 people wanted to be Texans, too.
These days, I keep wanting to make it a real move but inertia (and real estate) have me tied down and the next six months look pretty bad for the economy. All that's got me in a HODL frame of mind lately.
I understand that you are making @glenalbrethsen chase you in the statistics race. Don't you ever take a day off to build fences or punch cows?
Okay, so it's getting around that janton is making me chase him? Hunh. :)
He told me last week he was going to be doing some yard work. Didn't mention any cow punching. Something about some acreage that needed tending to that he was putting off by being on Steemit. Anyway, my guess is, he's decided to postpone it for another week, if I'm suppose to be chasing him in the standings. :)
haha! that's pathetic if someone is saying that, that's the first I've heard of it. Like I told Willymac you don't chase anyone nor need to chase anyone. yes, this week I am saying again that I gotta some work done outside next week! we'll see what happens. I'd love to break that 1,000 comment number.
Okay. So, it did get postponed. :) I was starting to wonder since I've ran across posts where they're saying you're everywhere in the comment section. I know I see you regularly, so it must be true!
I haven't necessarily been chasing, but I wouldn't mind keeping up. No way I'm staying with you on the comment front, though. That's just an amazing amount of comments.
well sir, that's what I can say about you as far as the comment lengths, that's an amazing amount of typing. my high volume of comments is just because I have a hard time making long comments so I have to make it up in volume.
haha! thanks for getting back to me willymac. that Texas citizenship thing was such a hoot and a great post! You mentioned that the next six months look bad for the economy, of Florida?
why would that be? I thought it was booming over there?
As far as the highly esteemed @glenalbrethsen goes..I don't think he chases anyone or needs to chase anyone. He's the real deal being an actual author and writer, I'm just a friendly guy who asks alot of questions and people are kind enough to talk to me.
I just saw Glen's comment lol. yes sir, I am pitifully far behind on work that needs to be done on our property. Thank goodness it's been dry and hot because the grass stopped growing. I haven't had a day off, at least not a full one, in decades. thank you sir for the excellent comment!
I hate that "I'm behind on things" feeling. Five years ago, I was going to put in a wide gate in a fence and I got the posts and gate and they have been waiting so long to be installed the gate is rusting! I'm going to get it done but it must not have been as needed as I thought! It's the other things that pop up. Things like replacing the septic tank drain line and patching holes in the driveway and cleaning up fallen trees (and homesteading new dogs) that keep moving the to-do list on down.
The external worries are about the country and world's economy getting trashed. Inflation is bound to kick in and the US is looking at a one TRILLION dollar deficit on our credit card this year. That kind of thing can't go on when we already owe 60 trillion and don't have a prayer of a chance in paying it off, even if we wanted to, which we don't. On top of that, the banks have a QUADRILLION dollars worth of derivatives and there ain't that much money on the planet. Guess what's going to happen to them when the cookie crumbles?
yes sir, when you look at all the insanity and the cliff that we are on financially and knowing that something could trigger a collapse of the whole house of cards it's not a stable feeling. I have no idea what's going to happen.
I got into the financial part of that when I was working on my MBA and it has been a point of fascination ever since. The simple fact that the US does not have its own money is mind boggling! The Dollar is an IOU issued by the Federal Reserve Bank (that is neither a Federal bank nor does it have a reserve) and it is not an obligation of the US!
Treasury bills are IOUs we issue to get cash to spend. Everything goes on our credit card and we make interest only payments with no possibility of paying anything on the card balance!
Pure financial insanity, and people don't pay any attention!
On top of that, we are going to "borrow" another trillion dollars more this year than we will have in revenue and no one blinks an eye that we already are 20 trillion in the hole - 60 trillion if you include the obligations the US has that don't show on the books! We even borrow the money every year to pay the interest on what we already owe! How's that going to work out?
You could not have all that as a believable plot in a bad movie!
I'm proud to see that the Great State of Texas has started its own central bullion depository in Leander where you can deposit your gold and silver to back verified transactions when the Dollar becomes useless and the banking system implodes one Friday night.
HODL and keep on stacking!
howdy today @willymac! yes sir, Texas has been working for a long time to be able to stand on it's own if things collapse such has having their own Fort Knox with actual gold in it and our electric grid stands on it's own in case the rest of the country goes down.
yes I understand about the finances, and it seems like I read that with derivatives included in the debt it's something incomprehensible like 200 trillion or something like that! lol.
and so it is your opinion that it could collapse at any time?
Yes, any time. More closer than farther away. When the Dollar loses reserve currency status, maybe this fall.
With derivatives, it is one quadrillion dollars, since all banks will be caught when the dominoes fall in a few minutes. That is why it is beyond belief. Anyone with money in a commercial bank will have zero. It actually is not theirs anyway, even if it was real money in their bank, and that is something else people don't focus on.
Texas will have a depository with real gold, as opposed to Ft Knox that once had gold before it was all re-hypothicated out.
That, along with a disconnected power grid, a decent sea port, oil and nat gas. And Texans!
It really is frightening to see how fragile it all is and how massive a failure would be.
And that's my positive outlook for it :)
hahaha! I'm glad you're so cheery about it!
where do we keep our money then, and does it matter what bank? ours is a locally owned bank, not a national one
you think we will lose the Reserve Currency status that soon?