by Gary C. Gibson

Created on: December 24, 2009

Homesteading so far as I know is pretty much dead in the United States. The government until as recently as 1988 had allowed for federal property to be homesteaded in particular locations.  Then they stopped giving away real estate except to corporations perhaps, or through the mining claims approach where if you can find traces of color on the property you can patent a claim and get an effective lease. In the west large corporations may take thousands of acres under such rules-I think.

Attending the University of Alaska Fairbanks in 1988 I took out a 20 acre homesteading parcel with the Federal Government. In the Kantishna District northwest of Mt. McKinley the property was fair enough-yet I needed to get the land surveyed in order to own it and that cost was beyond my means-so I let it go. That was one of the last opportunities in the history of the U.S. Homesteading Acts. There wasn't any kind of work available in Fairbanks then-its always these off-line issues that bring down the plain and simple plans from happening.

Remote home sites are still available through several means besides those of federal homesteading opportunities of course. The farther away one is from work areas in cities the more difficult it is to cash to live the rural life. 

Many people do not have much of an opportunity to rise in the corporate dominated social environment of the cities. They choose their own sort of people to prosper and reinforce their own kind. The some of those choose to exit, perhaps with a bag of corporate profits, to move to rural quarters where society is a little more removed-yet very little. The social distance between a rural property at Wrangell Alaska and the politics of Charles Wrangle’s district in Harlem may be less than the physical distance. Everything is instantaneous involving communication and the traditional will of politicians to exert their power globally has not changed with the saturation of the planetary atmosphere with broadcast signals of various wavelengths.

To afford rural property and build there an acceptable lifestyle requires a variety of very real life-long expenses such as mandatory education for children if you can afford to date, a car if you want to afford to date, building materials and tools made in China or India. Fertilizer made by a trans-national corporation some place, government approved sewage treatment such as an incinolet, wind and solar power generators and so on. Modern ideas of a homesteading environment are a little different than in former times.

Some government officials will want to make sure that you aren't a secret Al Qaeda terrorist training base-the number of reasons society wants to get its fingers into your favorite pie is lengthy. Human nature is social and of too bizarre a nature to go into much here,  yet in the modern world or at least in the United States it will be very difficult to live the highly desirable Robinson Crusoe or little House on the Prairie kind of lifestyle. Besides the trans-national corporatists want every soul to pay them rent.

All citizens and illegal aliens must pay global corporations rent so wealth and power can be concentrated no matter where they are. Twenty-five percent of the rental properties in America are owned by foreigners. Homes must be expensive and on 30 year mortgages so globalists can collect interest or take a share of your earnings for half a life. It isn't really possible to avoid working for the evil empire altogether,  though you may try.

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