Past 12 months inflation highest since 1982 is 7.9%
Month over month .8% increase since January
This is as of February 2022.
This is from CNN at 11:19 am PT on March 10th 2022
In 1980 I bought remote land at 4000 feet on Mt. Shasta without electricity or running water then except for a spring on the land and I built along with my father who came to help from Southern California an A-Frame house for my family and I.
It was very bad inflation here in the U.S. and at the time I believed that the U.S. government was going to go bankrupt from the excesses of the Viet Nam war. So, I took a stance that was then called a "Survivalist" stance there is even a movie a comedy about this that Robin Williams made called: The Survivors(1983)
However, I wasn't into weapons as I had already been trained with rifles and pistols since I was 8 years old by my father and a .22 rifle my grandmother gave me in 1956 when I was 8. So, guns and hunting were not my thing really after I was 15 years old. So, the last thing I shot was in the 1970s which was a rattlesnake which is a little thing called a Green Mojave which was trying to go into a house where my family was in the desert. The problem was that this rattlesnake is 9 times as poisonous as a diamondback Rattlesnake so I didn't want it to kill my family so I shot it with a pistol before it could bite anyone as it tried to go through an open door into the house where everyone was.
No. I wasn't into hunting or weapons like in the funny Robin Williams movie. I was more into burying non-perishable food in 50 gallon drums in case people couldn't buy food anymore during the economic collapse of the U.S. However, I was wrong. What I hadn't counted on is that Europe and Japan came to our aid and loaned the U.S. money because we had loaned them money when World war II ended to rebuild their economies. So, Europe and Japan loaned the U.S. enough money so there wasn't an economic collapse here. But, inflation was really scary dealing with if you were a young family like we were with 3 children living out in the country then. So, we bought inexpensive beautiful remote property and lived there for 5 years until the inflation problems had passed for America after I had built us a house. OFten in winters it snowed then up to 7 feet at a time and the sloped roof of an A-Frame kept the roof from collapsing if we weren't there when it got this deep. In other words it was so steep it shed all the snow easily. We had two wood burning stoves, one for heating the house and an antique wood stove for cooking and baking bread and cakes and things like that. At that time we didn't have a refrigerator though and so we had to shop for perishables about twice a week. However, the water in our spring was ice cold at around 35 degrees usually so we used this ice cold water to keep our perishables fresh at that time. Also, solar panels were too expensive to buy for us so we used Aladdin Lamps for lighting at night and sometimes candle lanterns with reflectors to read at night. We also built a loft for sleeping because it was warmer higher up in the A-Frame at night especially during the winters since we were heating with wood stoves then.
Here's more on those times in a very funny form and movie called "The Survivors(1983) with Robin Williams:
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