Living Free in Tennessee - Nicole Sauce

Today, we talk with two clever folks who have figured out how to monetize their 3d printing and we cover things you will want to know about getting your own system set up - or if it is even a good fit for you. Announcements Christmas Reception Tickets on sale now for members, Tomorrow around 9am for nonmembers: https://www.livingfreeintennessee.com/2020/12/04/2020-lftn-christmas-reception/ Dec 19, 1pm-4pm Show Resources https://www.facebook.com/twelvehounds https://www.etsy.com/shop/12hounds https://www.ebay.com/str/ferriertreasures Main content of the show We run a 3D design and printing business. We have been selling online since 2016. We also sell locally, as well as run multiple side hustles like reselling on eBay and other e-commerce platforms, transporting dogs, dog sitting, and small engine repair. We have a small homestead called Half-Ass Acres where we are just starting out. We sold our house in Florida and moved to Tennessee. We bought our land outright and have been building and adding ever since. Topic 3D Printing: Why do it? How can you make money with 3d printing, what technology do you need to learn, what kind of printer should you get, what is "difficult" about 3d prin ting, what about getting designs? AND MUCH MORE! Make it a great week GUYS! Don't forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce. Advisory Board The Booze Whisperer The Tactical Redneck Chef Brett Samantha the Savings Ninja Resources Membership Sign Up Mewe Group: https://mewe.com/join/lftn Facebook Group: Facebook.com/groups/lftncoffeebreak/ Instagram: @nicolesauce Twitter: @nicolesauce Holler Roast Coffee

Today we take the third step in developing your live strategic plan by choosing three areas of focus for you to take in order to reach your vision and purpose. Holler Neighbor Livestream Thursday at 7pm - Discussing Cooking Keto Christmas Reception tickets will be released on Saturday -- Friday to members. Sat Dec 19; 1pm - 4pm at the Holler Homestead in Lancaster, TN (Bring an appetizer to share, Plan to camp if you drink) Tales from the Prepper Pantry In never fails --- venison Canned 30 quarts of stock (Chicken and Turkey) Starting to consume the canned foods Homemade mayo season is upon us Operation Independence All KS orders that have forms filled out have shipped (Minus the custom mugs and some t shirts) Venison Bounty Main topic of the Show: Choose Three Places of Focus OLD Vision: The Holler community supports healing and mutual prosperity by tapping into and connecting the resources and knowledge of agorists and homesteaders who wish to build an alternative to the violent systems currently used to support our society. UPDATED Vision: The Holler community supports healing and mutual prosperity by connecting resources and knowledge of agorists and homesteaders who wish to build a peaceful, voluntary alternative to society's violent systems. Purpose: The holler provides an inviting, supportive place where aspiring agorists and homesteaders can connect, rejuvenate, share best practices, and prosper together in freedom. With that in mind, we need to assess what we have and where we are going and choose three places to put our focus for development or improvement. Three areas of focus where making big forward strides will steer this plan to the right place. The three things need to be the best choice for our community both from a "making progress" standpoint and from a "makes a difference" standpoint. A great way to start seeking these three places to put your effort is through the good old traditional SWOT analysis. What is a SWOT? https://www.liveplan.com/blog/what-is-a-swot-analysis-and-how-to-do-it-right-with-examples/ Questions to ask Strengths: Internally, what do we have that helps toward our vision? Weaknesses: Internally, what holds us back from the vision? Opportunities: Externally, what things outside our group can help us toward our vision? Threats: Externally, what external things could hurt us most? Make a list/brainstorm Example: Strength: Building relationships and mutual exchange Weakness: Tracking and clerical Place to focus/endstate/perpetual Community members both gain and provide value to the whole to set a peaceful foundation for healing, growth, and freedom. Deploy and way to keep track of our traded goods, labor, value and knowledge that is so simple a 6 year old can use it so that Community members are able to spend our time where our talents are and not on tracking who owes whom what. Make it a great week! Song: Special by Sauce GUYS! Don't forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce. Community Mewe Group: https://mewe.com/join/lftn Facebook Group: Facebook.com/groups/lftncoffeebreak/ Instagram: @nicolesauce Twitter: @nicolesauce Advisory Board The Booze Whisperer The Tactical Redneck Chef Brett Samantha the Savings Ninja Resources Membership Sign Up Holler Roast Coffee

As promised, I will share with you the recipes we are using this year for Thanksgiving. Hope you enjoy these ideas. Connect on the NEW social Media: Mewe: https://mewe.com/join/lftn Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@livingfree:b Telegram Group: https://t.me/LFTNGroup Channel: https://t.me/lftnupdates Parler: https://parler.com/profile/Nicolesauce/posts Email feedback to nicole@livingfreeintennessee.com What's Up in the Garden Nothing New Main topic of the Show: Thanksgiving in the Holler It doesn't really feel like Thanksgiving this year, does it? Certainly not around here. I made the choice to do a crowdfunding campaign and things got very busy around here. I have been in the roasting shak toasting beans as fast as possible to get all the crowdfunding orders sent out the door. About half have now shipped and I am taking a pause this afternoon to clean up for guests, prebake my dressing breads that are not breads, and basically get ready for a real holiday here. Yes. We are doing thanksgiving, but unlike previous years, I did not spend last weekend getting ready. But over the past year, we have grown from the Holler Homestead, Nicole Sauce cooks thanksgiving, to the Holler Community gathers for Thanksgiving. Despite the busy coffee shipping schedule with Christmas orders and the crowdfunding orders, we are taking the whole day off tomorrow to enjoy a holiday. If I am lucky, the weather will permit a hike and my neighbor will shoot a deer. (One can always hope). To keep myself from losing my mind, I decided to hold strong to the side dish approach to Thanksgiving this year: I make a turkey, dressing, and gravy. The rest of the meal arrives as side dishes made by everyone else. Here is what is on the menu and the recipes: Turkey: Brine = 1 cup salt to 1 gallon water with garlic powder Dressing = Chestnuts, bacon grease, onion, garlic, keto friendly bread (https://www.ketocopy.com/cheesy-bread), brith, sage, rosemary, salt and pepper Gravy = I mean if you can't make gravy - go listen to my gravy episode. Roasted Brussels Sprouts Turkey Day Brussel Sprouts 1 ½ lbs of brussel sprouts Bacon Bacon grease Sea Salt Black Pepper Parmesan cheese (optional) Cook bacon 6-8 strips extra crispy Eat two pieces of bacon and chop the rest Preheat oven to 400 F Blanche fresh Brussel sprouts 3-5 minutes (3 for smaller and 5 for larger) Cover a baking sheet in parchment paper Drizzle bacon grease on parchment Cut brussel sprouts in half and place cut side down on the baking sheet Drizzle more bacon grease on top and bake for 40 minutes or until they are browned Remove from oven, top with sea salt, cracked pepper and bacon To put it over the top, sprinkle shredded parmesan cheese. Keto Cheesecake w chocolate ganache (Recipes in show notes) Crust- 2 cups of almond flour 5 tbsp of melted butter 3 tbsp of monk fruit Filling- 24 oz of cream cheese (room temp) ½ cup of sour cream 3 eggs ¾ cup of monk fruit 1 tbsp of vanilla 1 tbsp of lemon zest 1 tbsp of lemon juice Preheat oven to 350 F Grease an 8 inch springform pan and line with parchment Cover the outside bottom of the pan in tinfoil (you don't want water coming in the pan) In a bowl, mix the almond flour, butter and monk fruit until it looks like breadcrumbs Press the mix into the bottom of the pan and put in the fridge to firm Make the filling Beat the cream cheese and sour cream in a bowl until smooth and fluffy Add the monk fruit and beat until smooth Add eggs one at a time making sure the mixture is smooth Add vanilla, lemon zest and lemon juice and blend Pour filling into the springform on top of the chilled base Place springform into a larger pan and fill with water up to about 2/3rds of the side of the pan (this is why the tinfoil) Bake for 1 hour and 15 minutes until the cheesecake is firm to the touch Cool for a minimum of 4 hours (overnight is best) Feel free to add a topping or enjoy as is I like using 88% cacao to make a ganache BONUS- Dark chocolate ganache 1:1 ratio 8 oz of chocolate 8 oz of heavy whipping cream Finely chop 8 ounces of dark chocolate (70% or more) Place in a heatproof glass or metal bowl Using the double broiler method, add a little cream at a time while whisking the chocolate. When it's well blended and creamy smooth it's time to use it. Ganache will thicken as it cools. Cranberry Relish: 8 oz cranberry, 2 oranges, 1 cup spicy pickled relish, garlic, onions, bourbon Green Bean Casserole Mashed Potatoes Mashed Sweet Potatoes Watercress salad Even in busy times, you can find a way to enjoy your folks, get a bit of a break, and share good times. Make it a great week! GUYS! Don't forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce. Advisory Board The Booze Whisperer The Tactical Redneck Chef Brett Samantha the Savings Ninja Resources Membership Sign Up LFTN Gift Registry Mewe Group: https://mewe.com/join/lftn Facebook Group: Facebook.com/groups/lftncoffeebreak/ Instagram: @nicolesauce Twitter: @nicolesauce

Today, we have a hybrid show both live on Youtube and recorded for the audio podcast. The last few Mondays, we have discussed the process of developing your life's vision and purpose. Some folks have had questions as they dive in, so I will take these questions today. Direct Download Connect on the NEW social Media: Mewe: https://mewe.com/join/lftn Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@livingfree:b Telegram Group: https://t.me/LFTNGroup Channel: https://t.me/lftnupdates Parler: https://parler.com/profile/Nicolesauce/posts Unloose the Goose Wed at 4pm Tales from the Prepper Pantry Thanksgiving keto Style - we have way too many boxes of potatoes 27 more chickens were tucked into the freezer this week Preparing for the cow in December Getting through the freezer vegetables first Operation Independence The chickens, or course 110% on Christmas Coffee (hence the late recording of this podcast) Main topic of the Show: Episode 367 - Life Plan Q & A Krystal -- I'm not sure if you saw my post on the group page, but I'm struggling with the deep, deep indoctrination by my parents/schools that there is one "right" way to do life... the go to college, get a good job working for someone else, start living when you retire mentality is so beaten into my brain that even though I see people living happy and successful lives on their terms, there is still a strong built-in fear that tells me it won't work. Not sure if you have insight you'd like to offer in that vein. I KNOW the standard "American dream" we were taught isn't the only way and that our world is changing so much it's becoming harder for people to achieve. Just trying to get over this mental hurdle. JEFF: I have a question.. If you moved into your parents home (or any home) that was NOT what you wanted as a "forever" home, where would you concentrate your efforts? I have chosen to concentrate on building a library, both paper and E-books, and I garden and keep chickens. I am concentrating on knowledge and skills instead of investing in infrastructure here. Mom's cancer has a 40% survival rate @ the five year mark and we are at the end of year 5 this month. Three months ago, they found a 10 mm spot on her "good" lung. She may have 1 year or 20 years. Either way< I will be here with her. Lettie: when are going to turn it into a book? Make it a great week! Song: Wolf Outtro GUYS! Don't forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce. Community Mewe Group: https://mewe.com/join/lftn Facebook Group: Facebook.com/groups/lftncoffeebreak/ Instagram: @nicolesauce Twitter: @nicolesauce Advisory Board The Booze Whisperer The Tactical Redneck Chef Brett Samantha the Savings Ninja Resources Membership Sign Up Holler Roast Coffee

Today, I am joined by Dennis Alan to share his journey from rags to riches to off-grid living. He shares what it took for him to decide to take ownership of his life journey and build a life grounded in happiness. Sign up for this Saturday's Webinar: Canning Green Beans: https://www.livingfreeintennessee.com/2020/11/16/canning-green-beans-with-nicole-sauce/ Schedule Next Week Show Resources - How to find Dennis and Dennis-related projects www.ingleblend.com www.inglebean.com www.inglebeanicecream.com www.dennisalan.com/camping www.youtube.com/c/DennisAlanCityBoyHomesteader @dennisalanhomestead www.anchor.fm/dennis-alan Main content of the show Dennis Alan grew up in poverty on the wrong side of the tracks and got into trouble along the way. He realized at a young age that he would need to take control of his life to prosper and chose a good job in sales and rocking the corporate world over a life of crime. After going from rags to riches he realized that none of this ever made him happy. After getting into gardening, he started looking for a better life. He found permaculture and after asking himself what happiness is, he started designing his own life. He quit his corporate job, sold both properties in the city and bought 30 acres of raw land to build a home and a new lifestyle in central PA. Now he lives in an off grid 1975 Airstream on a big hill with a great view and is truly happy. Interview Make it a great week! GUYS! Don't forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce. Advisory Board The Booze Whisperer The Tactical Redneck Chef Brett Samantha the Savings Ninja Resources Membership Sign Up Mewe Group: https://mewe.com/join/lftn Facebook Group: Facebook.com/groups/lftncoffeebreak/ Instagram: @nicolesauce Twitter: @nicolesauce Holler Roast Coffee

BTC is above 17k today. Great time to buy, right? Well maybe not, but it is a great time to get to know how to use cryptocurrency at a very basic level. So many people are confused about it that I thought I would do the 101 --- scratch that 00 level of using it. A word on social networks. Sign up for this Saturday's Webinar: Canning Green Beans: https://www.livingfreeintennessee.com/2020/11/16/canning-green-beans-with-nicole-sauce/ Holler Neighbor Livestream 7pm Thursday: https://youtu.be/Lya-xtvbQns What's Up in the Garden Jenni/Indoor Growing Winter Aquaponics Main topic of the Show: Transferring Seedlings Into Your Garden What in the world is crypto currency? (BTC, BCH, ETH, LTC) How do I keep from having my money stolen? What do I need to know about the blockchain? How do I sell something for crypto? How do I make sure my transactions are never seen by the IRS? Why should I use crypto currency? Make it a great week! GUYS! Don't forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce. Advisory Board The Booze Whisperer The Tactical Redneck Chef Brett Samantha the Savings Ninja Resources Membership Sign Up LFTN Gift Registry Mewe Group: https://mewe.com/join/lftn Facebook Group: Facebook.com/groups/lftncoffeebreak/ Instagram: @nicolesauce Twitter: @nicolesauce

Today we are going to focus on making the rubber meet the road in our life strategic plan by developing a vision statement. Sign up for this Saturday's Webinar: Canning Green Beans Holler Neighbor Livestream Up In The Air This Week Story from last week: Dr Ken Berry - https://www.youtube.com/user/KenDBerry Primer on the Proper Human Diet (Which is not carb based) Described metabolic disease >>What I realized Operation Three Sexy Bitches Main topic of the Show: Develop Personal Vision Set: The difference between vision and purpose is both simple and complex: Your purpose is your why. Your vision is your so what. And both of them have some "how" built in. This is why we so often see overlap in these statements. But your vision defines your true north. It is the one flag you can set. I am going here so that these things will happen. And your purpose comes along to add "because this is why I exist." Today we are going to focus on making the rubber meet the road in our life strategic plan. This phase will take some work as you go through it. I have found that it is much faster to come to a conclusion on vision if I have a coach poking holes in what I say. A coach asking the same questions we will ask in this podcast. And a coach willing to tell me "That is bullshit" or "I dont understand what you are trying to say." So as you embark on this, think about who you can use as a sounding board. Two weeks ago, we agreed to build our own success no matter what our environment. We talked about it the day before the election. A day before people started calling for lists of Trump Supporters so that they could be tracked down and punished for their support. A day before the nation, once again saw an election that was so close that it was impossible to know who won. We are divided despite the fact that most of us want mostly the same things in life. We just think we are different. We think that our differing opinions are vast chasms rather than slight leanings. And once we are so divided, it is easy to control us by eliciting emotional reactions. And that is ScaryAF because you and I know that most will not wake up until it is too late for them. But you and I are different. We are willing to do the work now to set ourselves up for stability and success. We are willing to ask ourselves hard questions. We are willing to set a goal post, and to walk toward it no matter what the environment. We will take the steps we need to take to make our lives as good as they can be and own that we sometimes will make mistakes and have to deal with them. And we will stop blaming things in the environment when we stumble. Because that is a waste of energy. A waste of energy that you can use to get up faster and keep moving. Two weeks ago, we ran through developing a life purpose. Did you do it? Or was it just another podcast porn episode where you wish you would someday maybe think about getting started on something for you. I know you might be tired. Hell -- I am super tired. But even though you are tired. Take an extra few minutes to go back and work on that purpose if you have not. Because purpose is your why. Why? Why are you here? Why is your family here? This was the question you answered in our last show about developing your family or personal strategic plan. Or more straightforwardly: You answered your aspirational why. Holler Homestead's Why: OLD: The holler provides an inviting, supportive place where hollerites can rejuvenate, learn, grow, and prosper as well as connect with people who are truly free. (It will be clunky, that is ok) NEW: The holler provides an inviting, supportive place where aspiring agorists and homesteaders can connect, rejuvenate, share best practices, and prosper together in freedom. Today is the day to embark on discovering your "So What" or vision and the process is much easier after you have a life purpose articulated. Basically you now know what you "do." But what does it mean that you are doing this? We broached this topic last go around by asking what has changed in the world because of your family or yourself. The best way to find your vision is to keep asking but what has changed because of our work? Do people have better access to truly healthy vegetables because our farm is a local alternative to big ag? And because of this, what is better? Are people healthier? Is my local community more stable? And as a result of that, are other families providing value to the community because they are in a better place? You see how this goes? It becomes iterative. In fact, if like me you are the journaling kind, this is a great thing to write on. Always asking your self -- but so what? How are things better? What other things are better. Do this over a period of time until you have a collection of things you have positively impacted. It can be that your kids are a benefit to society rather than a weight. It can be that people in your community can count on getting support through the loss of a loved one. It can be that there are no longer stray dogs in your area. The key here is go back to your purpose and hammer on each element and bring in the SO WHAT factor. Here is how this goes for the Holler Family: Purpose: The holler provides an inviting, supportive place where aspiring agorists and homesteaders can connect, rejuvenate, share best practices, and prosper together in freedom. Elements: Inviting Place Supporting Environment Connection for aspiring agorists Connection for aspiring homesteaders Rejuvenation and Healing Best Practices Mutual Aid True Freedom The So What 1.0: The holler is an alternative option to ruling a society through violence, mob rule, and enforcement. (True Freedom, Mutual Aid) What is missing? (LOTS OF STUFF and the SO WHAT) Next Try: The Holler community supports prosperity so you need not rely on violent systems put in place to control us, and so that we prosper together. It's getting there. Here is what we covered Supporting Environment Connection for aspiring agorists Best Practices Mutual Aid True Freedom Here is what is missing: Inviting Place Connection for aspiring homesteaders Rejuvenation and Healing For some reason, I am riffing on the freedom for this and not the rejuvenation. But if we are not healing and growing together, will we ever get where we need to be. This is something to think on, go for a walk with that in your mind. Journal about it in the evenings as you take some time to work through your vision. Talk about it over dinner. Challenge those around you to make this vision statement better. Then give it another go… Next Try: The Holler community supports healing and mutual prosperity by tapping into and connecting the resources and knowledge of agorists and homesteaders who wish to build an alternative to the violent systems currently used to support our society. What is missing on this one? True Freedom could be better articulated but it is in there. The sentence is too damn long though. From here, I go back and bold or underline the words that need improvement. For example, our "So What" is a negative statement rather than a description of the alternative. I would prefer to adjust that toward a positive description. On the other hand, we are witnessing a move, worldwide, toward a society that inflicts controls on we the people in order to serve a twisted vision that is disguised as the "greater good." And it is kind of scary because at this point, they are saying what they want to do and people are not al all alarmed. Sort of like -- so we want to kill you and your friends slowly to reduce population so we save the earth. And that is scary. The pretty words hide what they really want to do and folks are just too lazy to figure out what things really mean. One day we may do a show on that. Like with your purpose, setting your vision takes iteration and sharing. When you get that clunky phrase as I have above, the next step is to let it percolate. Look at it every day. Run it by each other. Run it by other people. Ask yourself these questions about it: Does it force trade-offs? Can I take anything away and still retain the most important meaning? Did I just build an unintended consequence into my life (Like my example with travel) Am I lying to myself? Can I just say this without grappling around? Is this dead- assed simple and understandable? Once you have spent a week with your vision, you will find that it is a little different than it was before, but a much stronger (and hopefully shorter) sentence. And yes. ONE sentence. One for your vision, one for your purpose. There is extra credit at this point if it help you - the mission marrys in one sentence your purpose and vision. You do not have to have one, but some people find it nice to put in the extra work to get both their vision and purpose into one sentence. Next Monday, we will attack strategies, then move into 2021 goals. Make it a great week! Song: Wolf by Sauce GUYS! Don't forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce. Community Mewe Group: https://mewe.com/join/lftn Facebook Group: Facebook.com/groups/lftncoffeebreak/ Instagram: @nicolesauce Twitter: @nicolesauce Advisory Board The Booze Whisperer The Tactical Redneck Chef Brett Samantha the Savings Ninja Resources Membership Sign Up Holler Roast Coffee

Happy Wednesday! Today we replay episode 173 from May of 2019. This was before "all this mess" came to land. On this episode, I talk to you about what to do when your time isn't yours. You now what I am talking about right? When you are in a job, relationship, volunteer organization or other situation where you have agreed to do a thing and it was a trap where people now depend upon you and you can't get away. This happens to all of us from time to time and navigating gracefully back to a freedom mindset is the solution to this problem.

Today is a TOTW day where was have a shorter episode about just one random thought I have had. And Nashville is threatening to (and probably will) retroactively enforce a 33% property tax increase on its people. I am one of those people and it made me think of taxes, thuggery and the company store. KickstartHollerRoast.com New perk: JUST A MUG for $30! Direct Download Let's talk about how we want to evolve as a society shall we? How we think things could be? I imagine a world where the "human nature" approach of bonking someone over the head with a club to steal food, their spouse or children, gold, or clothing from them is not acceptable. Where we are free trade, to give, to help, to feel, to be. What do you envision? Because right now, we still find it ok to steal food, children, money and life from people in the interest of serving the greater good. What does the greater good even mean? This definition gets so twisted. As if clubbing someone over the head is ever in service of the greater good anyway… How can it be good if the only way to get there is via pillage and thuggery? It makes me think of the Company Store approach in mining towns. Workers had to buy their housing, food, supplies and health care from the corporation they worked for. Full stop. What could possibly go wrong? Plenty. Plenty went wrong. By establishing this dependency on one source for basic needs and extending store credit from time to time, these mining operations established a legal form of slavery. The overpriced goods, underpaid employees and if you pushed back, they sent their thugs to beat you. And slavery is bad is it not? Why then is it any different to demand payment from people at the cost of their property, their personal freedom, their lives if the do not pay? Why is it ok for anyone to keep part of my labor and work? Why can they take my children if I do not pay and put them in a system with a long history of sexual and physical abuse? Why do we allow this to happen? Some people think I am crazy for thinking of taxes this way, but that is what they are. People are extorted for money in order that it can be used to pay for things like an education system that is failing our children, social services rife with abuse, medical services that can fail the individual with a one size fits none approach, and yes. The roads. They extort money for the roads. No opt out. Fines, loss of property, jail time and loss of your children if you do not pay. How is it not thuggery to get money in this way? How is it not slavery that you do not keep what you earn to spend as you will? How is it not thuggery to take my money and force me to finance your foreign wars? Your ripping apart of families through the drug war? People will answer that I signed a social contract to live in the US — I have to pay to live her. I signed no contract. People will answer that it has to be because if we did not force everyone to pay for some things, people will use drugs, die on the street, never fix the roads and children will stop learning. To which I ask – really? Is that really what will happen if we move away from a forced-taxation system? Are you sure? What if instead of fighting with me about defining taxation as thuggery, you put your creative energies toward something a bit more creative? Like ask yourself this: How can we care for people in our society without a taxation structure? How can we build and maintain roads without enslaving people? How can we do this a different way? Just because we do not do it this way right now does not mean it cannot be done and really the core issue that seems to get in the way of truly solving this question is envy and greed. Not what you may think of in this regard though. It is the greed of some who have less than they wish they had wanting to force those who have more to use it toward this end. Meaning those who wish they had more want to force those who do to spend their money in a way the person who has it may not wish to spend it. They have more so they should spend more. Really? Is that any of your damn business? You have no right to tell other people what to do with their labor, their capitol. You have no right to send armed men to their homes to arrest them just because they earn more than you and you think they need to give more than the do, do you? Well, some people think that they do have this right> the right to force people to pay, to steal from them, to harm them if they do not comply. And the tricky thing is that they frame it in humanitarian terms. But stealing from Michelle to help Amanda isn't a moral act. Helping Amanda is a moral act. And we seem to have forgotten the difference. We've talked a bunch about prioritizing the will of the masses over the rights of the individual — a practice that ends in abuse of the many individuals that make up the collective in the best of cases. Taxation is just a fancy word for piracy and thuggery. A way to make you feel good when your labor is stolen to support things you may or may not agree with. Let's work to do better than this — to envision a world where we answer this question: How can we care for people in our community without pillaging everyone? How can we care for people without greedily judging your neighbors and coveting what they have accomplished? How can we care for people in our communities with compassion rather than through enslavement? That is the world i want to see and that I know we can build. Make it a great week! GUYS! Don't forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce. It makes a great Christmas Gift! 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Today we have a thought of the walk on land ownership. No shows next week (replays coming all focused around developing your life strategic plan) Episode 363: TOTW on Land Ownership Forget your guns, the bigger threat is that they want to take you land. Yeah. You heard me. There has been a systematic erosion of your rights to use your land to better your future for a very, very long time. Don't believe me? What happens if you do not pay your property tyth to the state? Do you get to keep your land? This morning, a visiting LFTNer told me about several properties he got for $50. Because people did not pay their taxes on it, the county was unable to auction them off, so several years later, they sell them for $50. But what about the person who lost these lands? If they foreclosed due to nonpayment of a loan, it is one thing. But if it is due to nonpayment of property taxes? Quite another. They didn't pay the masters -- game over. Or what about people who grew up on their family farm? And Dad dies? And they have to sell part of it to pay the inheritance tax? And then that land becomes a housing development? And then their taxes go up until they have to sell to a developer? And don't get me started on zoning. Zoning is the sneakiest and worst way that our land is taken from us. You THOUGHT you could do what you wanted to create value for yourself -- say by building a village of tiny homes and renting them out? Nope -- not zoned for that. Or perhaps by installing a few cabins so people can come stay and interact with your livestock and learn how a homestead operates? Not if you are zoned agricultural. Or let's say your city home burns down and you want to rebuild? Sorry. You are R2 and required to put a duplex there. Wait. What? Some people defend this because they claim it saves farmlands, keeps property values from being diminished by the choices of your neighbors, or is better for the environment. But is any of that true? Or are they are not seeing the forest for the trees? We have so many misguided people who use their feelings of guilt about being wealthy enough to have time to worry about those less fortunate to save things through voting in bullying rather than giving those they can a hand up. One of the greatest freedoms that our country gave to the most impoverished has been an opportunity to become landed. Why does becoming landed get you ahead? Because it gives you something that you can use, time and again, to generate stability and wealth that "they" cant take from you. It broke free from the systems of feudal control that would keep you from being able to move beyond serving your masters and to become the master. With your own land, you no longer require THEM to feed you if you do it right. But we've made it feudal again. We are letting our control of our lands go. And if you think about it this small chance to prosper is a really big deal. There was a time when you could not own your acre, grow your ducks and sell your eggs. It was someone else's acre, their ducks and their eggs and you mings got 1 egg from the deal -- or you might be told you can't eat them but you must care for them. And in setting this up, you would let yourself be controlled just to survive. This is why the forces that wish to control populations do their best to gain control of the lands, be it your city home, quiet quarter acre in the country, prosperous farm, or simply a mailbox and a shack. They know that a people who can take care of themselves, who have hope to build a better future for their children, who have assets to leverage are harder to control. Better is to lock us down supporting land we will never own, barely making ends meet from month to month, so that we must do what they want or face the loss of what little we have. Better to foster insecurity, debt, fear, and then turn it into hate not for those that set up the scam, but against another population with the same problems so that we will trade the potential for prosperity for a perceived security of property values, a monthly paycheck, and better environment. But it is all a fiction. The densest cities with the most draconian land use plans oriented toward smart growth that is supposed to keep us from polluting the planet are giant pollution bombs into the air, water and lands that cannot possibly absorb or process that level of destruction. The trash alone is shipped out of the area to another location, or dumped in the ocean, or who knows what. The poop is problematic. The drain off causes die offs. How is that better than allowing us to live with more space so that each reduces their impact? This could be a thought of the walk on its own really. At the end of the day, empowering personal land ownership may not be the best solution ever, but there is this: If you support land ownership for anyone who can achieve it, you support letting anyone set the foundation for a prosperous future. This is so much better than the alternative of no hope to break out. Taking this one small thing from us through zoning, declaring land unownable, taxation or any of the other tricky ways they seek to lock us out sets a foundation for an elite few to control most of us. The last 100 years have been a gastly attack on land owner's rights and we are seeing it accelerate. And that is cause for more alarm than which talking head is president or how they got elected -- it is this bottom-up attack on fundamental foundations that remove barriers to people who have nothing to grow into people who prosper. And it is done under the guise of helping those who have nothing Very clever isn't it? The thing that has been running through my head as I walk alone or drive is this clever, bottom up erosion. It is ironic that the forces that want a top down control on the economy, on our day to day, to take over control of the lands and our lives are finding success from the bottom up. While those who believe in "free markets" are trying to protect them through a top-down political effort and ignoring the power of the very people they want to see freed. The ones who if they vote with their feet will win. Time to shift focus, I think. Go back to protecting your rights, one person and one right at a time, from township to township, zone to zone, county to county --- and see where that lands us in 50 years. And don't support the taking of our lands. Make it a great week! GUYS! Don't forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce. It makes a great Christmas Gift! 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