Self sufficiency

As a child of the depression and WW2, the lessons learned are, get out of debt, as your circumstances allow, withdraw or minimise any official and/or government involvement as possible, become as self-sufficient as possible, have on standby a way to cook, boil, heat and store. Form a trade channel between trusted friends and families. Stay under the radar, control your own finances. Where possible, have a 12 month cash nest egg on hand in keeping with a routine budget, including rent and overheads. Our motto was: tell 'em nuthin, take 'em nowhere and give 'em nuthin! On that basis a family of 14 survived intact and reasonably healthy and happy.
There is another agenda afoot. I repeat what my mentor said: 'When things don't add up, take a step back and ask, what is the other agenda?' And the only thing in a common-sense way that reveals itself to me is power, profit and control. Power, profit and control