The article in question might be the case of a writer not knowing what he is talking about, and speaking more from personal prejudices than from a position of knowledge.
What is argued is that “homesteaders” or others who live ‘off the grid’, that being highly self-sufficient and rather low-tech, are a drain on society as it is alleged that they frequently take advantage of social services and the other things modernity provides without contributing anything of value to society.
It’s a poor argument that is riddled with errors – containing only a bit of truth. What is the author’s motivation? Difficult to say. Perhaps he has a prejudice against those he sees as “country bumpkins.” Or maybe he was just lazy when it came to researching this topic. In any event, he misses the mark more often than he hits it.
More on page two.
I like being almost off-grid – it saves us on utility bills – mooching my ass
I absolutely detest stupidity! And this jack$#%&!@*is stupid.
How is that?
Eric L Runion now talk about the debt for each year…..
Why you will never actually accept the truth that the bush administration did not add in the war cost to the debt but obama did and then had to spend even more to get the recovery we have now …but you don’t care fox has your head all fucked up with misinformed bull$#%&!@*.now run alone useful idiot just keep voting against your families and crying about the outcome
several implications, the most important of which is that Donald Trump had to have known that Flynn committed the violation of the Logan Act as well as the more serious crime of lying to the FBI. Vice President Mike Pence went on national television repeatedly to insist that Flynn had done nothing wrong and that the “f**e news media” was simply out to get him due to their bias against Trump.
That means that the president or the vice president, or likely both, knew they were lying and covered up the information into Flynn’s crimes, to which he has now pleaded guilty.
Like it never happened before.
How did people exist before there was a “GRID” .
It’s been done before.
Great! Let the Libertarians do it again, without the social infrastructure they use and bemoan supporting it.
Actually, our “social safety net”, (nutritional support, WIC, prenatal care, the CHIPS insurance program for children) are relatively tiny slice of the federal budget. That cost is dwarfed by corporate welfare, the long-standing practice of providing enormous tax breaks and cash subsidies to very profitable billion dollar companies. The oil industry costs us more than the entire food stamp program.
But of course, it’s our indefensible defense spending that consumes nearly half of our annual budget. Our military is larger than the NEXT TEN COUNTRIES, COMBINED (including Russia, China France and Great Britain). Yet Congress just gave them another huge increase.
When you call out “welfare moochers”, you’re talking about the elderly retired, children and our veterans. Shameful.