Budget Books

Sure, this book has some helpful hints and ideas, but it has got to be the most difficult book to read of any on the subject. The bulk of the book consists of parenthetical, smart ass digressions. Of 149 pages total, the book is 83 pages short and the other 66 pages are appendices of other books to read as well as films to see. They never do break down a "micro budget film" into $5000, $10000, or $25000 a day as their title suggests they will. My suggestion is to buy any other book on the subject (maybe even one they recommend in their appendix).

This book was a complete waste of money. The author indicated nothing new. The only good piece of information I got out of the book was the weather prediction guide (The Old Farmers Almanac). Other than that, the author did not give any new tips. This book should cost $5.00 only. It is not worth the price that it corrently is.

This book claims to have "all the information you need and nothing you don't", but in point of fact, it merely has very little information. I picked out the book thinking it would have more information for people travelling on their own, using public transportation, but it doesn't. It does contain some maps and schedules, but only for specific routes the book has picked out. Basically, the book is composed of a series of suggested routes, each of which are described in fairly limited detail. If you like being ordered around without being bothered with the facts, you might enjoy this book. On the other hand, if you want a resource for planning your own independent vacation, you'll be disappointed.

Save your money. I got this at the half-price bookstore for...$1.00. That was $1.00 too much.
The first 3/4 of the first tape is all about creating a budget. Then there is a whole list as to what's on sale each month.
Coupons can be tricky so BE CAREFUL! Don't buy on impulse. Shop around. Do research. Save. Use cash, not credit.
The last 1/4 of the second tape was all about...
...ads for other tapes they wanted you to buy.
I felt I didn't really learn anything from these two tapes.

I won't criticize the technical skills of the writers in preparing this book, but rather its content and conclusions that bode the American people a disastrous future if taken seriously. I present the thinking of a Real Scientist who has undertaken to review the domain of the Social Scientist, a hitherto forbidden domain except to those indoctrinated from their early days of wide eyed innocence to accept by rote whatever nonsense may be forced into their minds. The entire fraternity of Economic professionals may take the content of this book seriously, as it is based totally on the "holy writ" of Economic Philosophy, taught by rote to eager young minds who attain an A+ and a PhD degree by accurately reciting what they've been taught, like recording machines. But this discipline, "Economics, the Science of Scarcity," is as much a "dead end" philosophy as were Alchemy and the Flat Earth Theory, that should have ceased a century ago and replaced with a completely new reality, "Economics 2, The Science of Abundance." There is no original thought here as there is in the chronically successful Real Sciences, which are nevertheless made subservient to the Social Science question, "where is the funding to come from?" Within the Real Sciences progress is made by ever leaping forward into the vast unknown without looking back. Would one refer to Thomas Edison to resolve a knotty problem with say, semiconductors? The Social Sciences incestuously and circuitously refer to each other, present and past, as support of any doctrine and concept they may conceive with absurdities of logic analogous to "water flows uphill." Such incest produces monstrosities of logic, such as is the total content of this book, "Mirage...." The members of this profession are the most prestigious in our society, resident in all our universities. It is they who advise Presidents and Kings, and are the direct cause of all the misery, crime, violence and war throughout the ages. It is most particularly so for the last century, when the reason for all these ancient ills of mankind could have easily been eliminated as the age old Food Scarcity was superseded by Food Abundance, a success of the Real Science technology of Food production, the very condition the analogy of Adam and Eve had presented re the Garden of Eden and leaving it. We could have had by now a modern Garden of Eden on earth for us all to return to, had we not ignorantly succumbed to the blandishments of the fraternity of Social Sciences, trying desperately to maintain their validity and function. "Balance the Budget?" Throughout ancient history, the Food Budget, (which is the only validity to any "budget") was inadequate for the needs of the entire population. Upon this ancient and then logical "budget," the entire fabric of modern Economic Philosophy was woven. Even then, proposals by such as Marx were that despite Food scarcity, perhaps those with enough, could at least share with those that had nothing. That was the basis of "socialism" and "communism" which was never practiced though their names were used to describe the "every man for himself" doctrine that is the basis of "capitalism" and the Economics of Scarcity that is destroying the world. Ironically, Marx's concept of "one for all and all for one" is the very reason for the success of any "capitalistic" group where within the four walls, cooperation is a must if the group is to succeed. However, today, there is no need for "sharing," except such minor things as library books, parking spaces, and the like, as there is now more than enough of vital things for everyone. A century ago, it was announced that "excess grain was dumped into Lake Michigan." For what reason, but that for the first time in world history, (other than the ancient analogy of the Garden of Eden) Food became enough of a drug on the market to threaten DEflation. The ancient marketplace, a means by which Food could be Denied to those lowest on the social scale, simply because there was not enough, a marketplace which was created, along with all its shibboleths, such as Barter, Money et al, suddenly threatened obsolescence to the Economic fraternity. The Food "budget" could now meet the needs of the entire population. By clever manipulation of the ignorant minds of the hoi polloi, these economic mountebanks first tried to reverse Food abundance by deliberately destroying Food, a still ongoing practice via farm subsidies NOT to produce, and failing that, managed to create a diversion of man's age old obsession with adequate Food into an unholy obsession with what was invented to be only a surrogate for Food, a "ticket of access," Money. And Money was deliberately planned to be issued in just as scarce supply as Food had once been. That is the function of the Federal Reserve. So, all the ancient, miserable, violent history of man is maintained to the modern day, our environment continuing on the path of destruction, but most insidiously, the Economic profession -- no the entire field of Social Science, notorious failures in their proposed function of resolving Social Problems, continue to be maintained with a totally undeserved respect and adulation. Today we suffer a totally illogical anomaly. The country that is the first in world history to create such an over abundance of Food and its derivative GDP that floods the market, yet we must suffer a shortage of a totally imaginary device Money. Money "budgets" are deliberately kept in too scarce a supply to satisfy everyone, a fictitious wealth that is meant to provide a "ticket of access" to our Real Wealth, our Land, Labor and GDP, of which there is more than enough. Overriding that "budget deficit" by Deficit Spending is held to be anathema, though it supples those of us not privileged to be among the class known as Haves, is held to be an evil that must be corrected by driving the underclass into more and more poverty, despite the over abundance of whatever it is that we all need. No one seems to want to think about it, except the negative means of "balancing the budget," by curtailing expenditure of imaginary Money. It seems to enter no one's mind that the "budget" ought to be balanced in the other direction, by INCREASING the "budget" until it means enough for everyone. So long as the Federal Reserve maintains its destructive attitude, we must bypass their resulting evil by Deficit Spending, as the easiest approach out of the morass we've been led into. An approach that was successful while we were in the midst of the Great Depression, (a result of Hoover's success in "balancing the budget") as the exigency of WW2 was thrust upon us, was to throw all spending restrictions to the winds and concentrate on the people in toto, and see to their every need. We prospered as a result, despite the waste and destruction of the war. We can now do the same in peacetime, see to the needs of the entire population as we did then, and again we will prosper beyond our wildest dreams. There is no "debt" to be concerned about, its absurdity especially evident if one considers just who is supposed to be the "creditor" and how such a creditor can in any way compromise our welfare as a country and individually. A senseless fiction has been created that attempts to emulate the ancient taxation of Food of the citizen food grower to support those in the public service, that made sense. Today, no one is permitted by strict edict to produce Money, as Food is produced. Yet everyone is subject to pay a tax in Money, that may pass through his hands as it circulates. This is a consummate fraud that serves no useful purpose but to maintain a "gun to the head" control of us all. Such Money is deliberately called "taxpayer's money," to further instill this nonsense into all our minds

one word for this: BORING! what a snoozer! I could barely read this and hold up my head! why someone would get enjoyment out of this is beyond me! yawn-a-rific!

Oh the Bushes. How will we ever get over them. Everyone has their bad moment, but come on? First, he breaks the promise, but how do you glorify lying to America about something important like this? What a publising company will do for a buck these days

Very expensive for a workbook that comprises of copied forms from other companies. In addition, this book is put together with a simple Staples like binding machine, and it is very unprofessional. I do not recommend the purchase of this book.

This book is nearly worthless. From the title, one would reasonably assume that there would be discussion of specific good-value boats or perhaps off-the-beaten-track places to look for cheap moorage, but no. A large chunk of the book is wasted on suggestions of where the reader can obtain sailing lessons (the Red Cross apparently) followed by handy suggestions for how to learn on-the-job, so to speak (ask people that have boats--and now you've gotten the Cliff Notes for chapters 1-5). Oh, I forgot one juicy morsel of knowledge: magazines often offer discounted subscriptions!

The only useful information I gleaned from this book stems from a list of a handful of used and discounted gear stores in various coastal locations throughout the U.S. listed in chapter 11. If you want what this book should have been, try Daniel Spurr's Your First Sailboat : How to Find and Sail the Right Boat for You.

Who would want to make a tribute to a Klansman? Whoever they are (Senator Dodd? Kennedy? Kerry?) ought to have their heads examined.

There is nothing at all in Mr. Byrd's record, outside of making scores of empty speeches as if that would exorcise a sordid past, that is worth commenting upon, let alone saluting.

I'm sure he made plenty of speeches in those backwoods with the rest of the white-hooded creeps. Lerone Bennett and Julian Bond, do take note.

So who will the U.S. Senate pay tribute to next? David Duke? Louis Farrakhan? Maxine Waters?

Do better things with our taxpayer dollars, please. Provide electricity to Native Americans in the Southwest. Save the beautiful wild horses in Nevada and elsewhere that are threatened with death. Provide the funding to give our men and women in Iraq and Afghanistan with body armor. But please, no tributes to an (ex?) Klansman.

And stop wasting the lives of trees for guys like Byrd.