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Editor’s Introductory Note: This young man is prayerfully seeking a wife. He is offering an after-marriage gift of up to $50,000 to whoever introduces him to his bride with $18,000 after their marriage and another $16,000 to the individual who provided the introduction after the first two births of healthy children born to him and his wife, for a total potential gift of $50,000. For further details, see this link to his article posted on February 24th, 2025: My Quest For a Wife.

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There was another Golden Age that ended in a spectacular fashion almost bringing down the country for many years along with the economy. In this Golden Age of the Roaring Twenties, many believed that prosperity would be everlasting and ever-expanding: The President of the Pierce Arrow Motor Car Company Myron E. Forbes has been reputed to have said on January 12, 1928 that “…there will be no interruption of our permanent prosperity.” In less than two years, the “Great Depression” began in October 1929 and in less than a decade Pierce Arrow would be out of business. The Golden Age of the 1920s was followed by the “Dirty Thirties” of the Depression years which was a grimy age and only “ending” with the entrance of the United States into the Second World War.

I am trained in understanding situations. I understand my capabilities and do not bite off more than I can chew. I understand the capabilities of everyone who will be at our retreat. We are realistic people. In the event that this retreat and retreats around the country are ever activated in an emergency where the law and order has collapsed, supply lines are gone and not coming back from an underdetermined time which could realistically be decades. This is not the Second World War where supplies will flow in. The “issue was never in doubt” once the United States entered and mobilized and the Axis forces had very little possibility of being able to realistically strike the industrial capacity within the continental United States interrupting our factory output as the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) (later known as the USAF becoming an independent service branch after the war) did to Axis factories.

Factories in the United States which would ordinarily produce civilian household items such as sewing machines could also produce handguns. The Singer Sewing Machine company had the capability of producing .45 caliber pistols, but these were such high quality that the company’s mechanical abilities, while not being able to produce a hundred pistols a day as was originally contracted, eventually were used to build items where the company’s commitment to quality control and exceptional mechanical tolerances could produce fine instruments (If you have a true Singer .45, it is worth a lot.)Continue reading“Preparedness in the New Golden Age or Grimy Age – Part 3, by Single Farmer”

Editor’s Introductory Note: This young man is prayerfully seeking a wife. He is offering an after-marriage gift of up to $50,000 to whoever introduces him to his bride with $18,000 after their marriage and another $16,000 to the individual who provided the introduction after the first two births of healthy children born to him and his wife, for a total potential gift of $50,000. For further details, see this link to his article posted on February 24th, 2025: My Quest For a Wife.

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(Continued from Part 1.)

We are not a wealthy society and it is doubtful that we are on the cusp of a golden age. We are a dying republic likely at the stage of “twilight’s last gleaming” before descending into 1,000 years of darkness unless it turns around really quickly. There is still time. When asked, what type of government we had in 1787 at the close of the Constitutional Convention Benjamin Franklin remarked, “A republic, if you can keep it.” Our republic is currently riddled with corruption that it has been recently accused of being a “oligarchy” and this cancer is pervasive as a kleptocrats pilfer the rotting scraps on our nation’s bones. We owe more money than any country in human history. On average, our countrymen have lost much physical vigor compared to their counterparts of the 1960s with the average man being 30 pounds heavier composed of most likely not muscle and are the most medicated our nation has ever been. Morality is dying with a miniscule population of morally upright, virtuous people. Civic virtue is gasping for air: In the Second World War, boys would try to get into war and many succeeded. Within a generation, legions of grown men would dodge their civic duties starting in Vietnam. Even the smallest things reflect our decline: the currency in circulation has very little intrinsic value.Continue reading“Preparedness in the New Golden Age or Grimy Age – Part 2, by Single Farmer”