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Would I be welcome in the Gulch?

Posted by GaryL 8 years, 4 months ago to Ask the Gulch
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There is no question my heart is in the Gulch but I have always wondered at this stage in my life would I be welcome.
The basics being I am age 64, retired with a state pension and collecting SS. Wife still works but I stay home keeping up the home and property and care taking for my neighbors property while they winter in Florida and California. I have many skills yet I chose to keep mostly to my self with them and have done all the outside mechanic, woodworking, cabinet making and handy man fix ups that I care to do any more. I am certainly not lazy but will admit I have had just about enough of being used and abused where outside work is concerned. Friends and family on a reciprocal basis get my attention these days and I no longer hire myself out as I did in the past. These days I am in cruise control and just enjoy fishing, light hunting, hiking and relaxing. Would I be welcome in the Gulch?


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  • Posted by term2 8 years, 4 months ago
    I wonder if the Gulch would really benefit you at this point. You are already feeding off the state. Its unlikely you will run afoul of the government edicts for the rest of your life on earth. Might as well enjoy it right where you are.
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    • Posted by 8 years, 4 months ago
      "Feeding off the State" rubs me wrong as does sucking of the government teat for collecting SS. I went to work for the state for the promise of a meager pension and worked 27 years to earn it. I started working at age 14 and paid SS taxes from every dime I ever earned. There are far too many feeding of the state and fed who never did a thing to earn it but I do not include myself in that group. I carry no guilt on pay days or at any other time.
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      • Posted by term2 8 years, 4 months ago
        Actually I didnt mean anything bad about "feeding off the state" in my comment. It was just that you were surviving on getting back what they took from you and the extra earnings they promised you after you retired. You are pretty much free of the state at this point (except for property and sales taxes) so enjoy it. For me, I am still working and would like being in the Gulch as it were to gain some future freedom from the state.
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  • Posted by Temlakos 8 years, 4 months ago
    The question becomes immaterial once you realize the premise of the Gulch. According to that premise, the government is going to collapse. Social Security will, when that happens, disappear--if it doesn't disappear sooner. And in fact, Ragnar Danneskjöld, or his counterparts, would be out there trying to get your money back for you in his unique way.

    I wouldn't worry, then, about drawing Social Security as a disqualifier. And it sounds as though you would have a job waiting for you: as groundskeeper for Midas Mulligan and many of his earliest tenants. Including John Galt, Ragnar Danneskjöld, and perhaps even Francisco d'Anconia, if he didn't already hire one of his Old Family Retainers to take care of his property while he was out spying on the Outside and trying to recruit Hank Rearden. Plus, you could fish in the Uncompahgre River, maybe even enough to have extra fish to sell at Hammond's General Store. And who wouldn't want your cabinet-making services?
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