I'm looking forward to doing a prescribed woodland burn this winter. 
Gn Webster county Missouri.
It's my belief they are American. I'm holding out hope the real story will come out eventually, perhaps on their passing.
One could make a reasonable argument the US Dollar, backed by the US government, is already in a state of collapse and has been mostly replaced or at least overshadowed by the Eurodollar aka dollars created by foreign banks.
Indeed I do believe the dollar will likely continue to be strong *compared to other fiat currencies* probably throughout the rest of the decade.
As someone from way outside the system of finance, I've taken a deep dive trying to understand both the current world financial system and Bitcoin.
I'm still no expert, but a few things stand out.
1. The problems of the US dollar and the US government are not necessarily one and the same. If the US dollar were to somehow vaporize into thin air, it is entirely possible the dollar would continue to exist and perhaps even flourish.
2. The dollar is a worldwide ledger system that can potentially have remarkable staying power as it is backed by debt even though reserve requirements seem to have mostly going away entirely.
3. Our current banking system existed well before the Federal Reserve and the dollar as we know it. I will continue to exist after the Federal Reserve is gone.
4. Even if we were to go to a hard money Bitcoin standard and/or some sort of truly free market system, it is not unthinkable that fractional reserve banking could continue to exist. In fact, it may be inevitable.
5. It seems clear that the US dollar/eurodollar will continue to strengthen in relation to other currencies around the world.
6. It is possible that the US dollar managers could mess it up by doing things like weaponizing it as they did with Russia.
7. The US Federal reserve has little real power but significant influence.
8. Treasuries are bought around the world as a hedge against devaluation of collapsing currencies and for other reasons as a safe haven virtually ensuring a robust treasury market well into the future, probably at least through the rest of this decade which will likely allow the US government to continue It's drunken course of unrestrained spending.
9. Bitcoin seems like it is here to stay but will likely coexist alongside the US dollar and be incorporated into the current banking system.
10. Even if Bitcoin reaches mass market adoption, we may still be swiping Visa cards and have access to dollars.
11. How the US government financial crisis will end is far from certain. I'm leaning towards some sort of hard default. Given that the current administration is poking Texas with a stick right now with immigration policy, I could see a situation where if states were to secede, the government would hard default on certain debts and obligations as the states deciding to secede would be very unlikely to choose to take the debt with them and the remaining states would probably be unlikely to want to retain it assuming a significant loss of revenue from multiple states. A scenario like this playing out sometime within the next 50 years seems entirely plausible to me. But how this ends, is far from a foregone conclusion. The only thing that is certain is that it is not ultimately sustainable forever.
12. Given the significant uncertainty, these are times to increase your personal and family's resilience in every way.
I've thought about outfitting and electric cart but I have steep hills so I would have to have the high torque motor. Also It would be more challenging to get around without four-wheel drive.
Are you going electric or gas?
Happy Thanksgiving from Webster County Missouri!
Drug and substance abuse, poverty, access to necessities and services, over-criminalization and high arrest rates, taxes, fines, and systemic discrimination against poverty,, broken families and absentee parents, insufficient housing and transportation, obesity and poor mental health, lack of access to financial services and jobs, generational history of poverty and oppression etc.
Make no mistake, while there are significant cultural differences and nuances among economically gutted inner city and rural communities, the plight of the poor throughout the US and the broader western world isn't black vs white or immigrant vs natural-born.
While the degree and nuances vary among communities, they share the same reality of hopelessness and oppression.
Can we just unite and support each other already and stop allowing our toxic leaders to divide and oppress us?
Webster county, Missouri sunset
Fall in southern Missouri
Went to my direct primary care provider in Springfield today for a yearly and had normal blood pressure.
#carnivore
There is no price discovery in government.
The more recklessly a politician spends, the better they look.
The leaves are turning in Webster County Missouri!
Have you ever had a friend, that all you had to do was think about, and it makes you smile?
The air is so fresh this morning. Webster County, MO.
It's a cool drizzly morning with the fall leaves just starting to turn.
I remember reading that! I love books in that genre.
In the quest for business success, why are we studying billionaires?
They literally have nothing we want.
They obtained extreme wealth by means we are both unwilling to use, and unable to access.