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AmericanSwiss wrote: TEOTWAWKI wrote:Americans at some level know they have been sold out, lied to and used but they want so much to remain blissfully, willfully ignorant and continue to put their childlike hope in political parties and politicians....
The warning signs are everywhere that things have to change because America is both broke and broken. Things are not hunky dory in the US of A.
The stock markets are grossly overvalued and manipulated by the Fed to keep up the illusion that things are great. The real value of the stock market right now should be down around 6,000, not where it is today. Touted value and real value are not the same.
The real inflation rate is near 6% but they lie about CPI and exclude the cost of energy, electricity, food and medical as if those now cost $0 and are not escalating.
Why do they lie? If they set the interest rate above the real inflation rate DC cannot afford the interest payments on the national debt. Then it would get very ugly and fast.
The USA has been downgraded from AAA and is facing another downgrade. The rest of the world looks at Congress, too and sees irresponsible and lunacy for what those words mean.
I saw this coming in 2005 when I made the decision to exit both the USA and the USD. Weak dollar means high energy prices in a world denominating energy sales in USD. That is why so many are going to start purchasing energy in their own currency and many have. The end of the petrodollar is the end of the standard of living in America.
I laugh every time I see the USA version of wealthiest people in the world. There are people in this world that could buy Bill Gates or Warren Buffett out of their petty cash drawers. The King of Abu Dhabi is at over $700 billion and he never makes the list.
The financing behind my company eclipses Gates or Buffet and is not a name that Americans have ever heard of except 2 that I know of because they are partners of mine in a gold mine.
Gasoline in Europe is almost 4 times as expensive as USA.
There was a time when the USA could justify its consumption of 25% of total energy supplies and was the leading producer in the world. Those days are gone and now the demand for 25% of all world energy supplies is doing nothing more than supporting an air conditioned life style that is consuming, not producing.
The rest of the world is fed up, their economies are growing and US policies are harming that on energy cost alone.
Minimum wage in USA: 7.25 USD per hour (Jul 24, 2009)
What is that? By any definition is Poverty Level, is not even sustenance pay except living at the bottom of the barrel in the US of A.
DC is so broke in real cash terms many are having Medicare and SS benefits cut and cost of living is still rising. I told the USA long ago that I do not consider SS part of my retirement planning. I have better ways to handle that without paying them into an IOU because they blew the SS money a long time ago on DC follies.
I have a letter from the SS Trustees to Biden as the President of the Senate as to how deep the hole really is. A group in America wants me to file RICO against the USA because I am the only US citizen that ever made that STICK against the US government. That is a major reason they leave me alone.
I am thinking about it because DC has plundered every fund, tapped every dollar they can latch onto (legally and illegally) to keep this America Empire illusion intact.
No minimum wage in Switzerland but straight out of high school people make $20 per hour and up and the work ethic is strong. One of my Swiss partners has a 17 year old son in masonry apprenticeship right now. When he graduates next year his minimum income will be 5,050 CHF, which as of today is 5.689,44 per month. It is not a union, is an agreement between companies and workers called an Employment Contract.
Skills here are rewarded, laziness and welfare entitlement expectations are not.
The pensions here are mandatory and in real cash terms, not an IOU from a spendthrift government.
Look around at the phenomenon in the USA of children with BS or MBA degrees that either cannot find a job or are underemployed and still living with parents. People with BS, MBA and PhD working for WalMart at minimum wage and less than 35 hours per week so the world's largest corporation does not have to provide medical insurance to part time employees.
NINJA Generation, No Income, No Job, Assets.
Under Bush and Obama the number of Americans on food stamps, welfare, unemployment benefits and under the poverty line has grown by the tens of millions.
My sources say the real unemployment rate in the USA is above 15%. They exclude those that cannot find jobs after their benefits run out.
Financial stress creates crime very easily, no mystery to me why the USA has about the highest crime rate in the world and the largest number of incarcerated persons.
Freedom? In many ways even Russia is freer than the average American.
There was no $1 trillion surplus under Clinton when the true level of fraud had to be 'marked to market' and American investors lost over $2 trillion of their hard earned money when the vaporware of the dot.com crashed and the illusion of telecom deregulation came home to roost.
For the record, the telecom deregulation that Wall Street and DC pushed so hard was for two reasons. NSA spying and the creation of secret trading networks so Wall Street could conduct fraud, launder US government money and manipulate markets.
I recently shared that information with the DOJ because they are engaged in criminal investigations of the US and UK banks. They had never heard of those networks. I trust some Americans have heard the term Shadow Banks, that is not a conspiracy theory.
The bogus Bush housing boom was financed by capital markets fraud and theft from non-US investors to the tune of $4 trillion in Europe alone. In the EU nations are not allowed to just print money and rack up national debts. Their economy is now $2 trillion per year bigger than the USA and climbing.
Iceland is the only nation that recovered from that debacle fast and here is how they did it, a quote from their president:
"The government bailed out the people and imprisoned the banksters, the exact opposite of what the USA and Europe did."
Just since Obama took office those Americans under the poverty line has skyrocketed. The number of Americans on food stamps has skyrocketed. That is CHANGE but not for the better, nor is it 'Change We can Believe It' but for the realistic horror of it.
Why his fawning fans cannot read, do math and understand what DOWNHILL looks like beats the Hell out of me. Maybe they are so stoned and 'entitlement' minded they do not know the difference between UP or DOWN.
What makes me laugh, and this might be the only thing PACEDOG and me agree on is when the Dems back an antiwar candidate and find out that their Pet Dem is a warmonger. SOS from the Oval Office. If that is not a hint or a clue as to who is really the puppet masters in the USA, I do not know what it would take to wake them up.
What is for sure is no American is going to like the UPHILL battle it will take to fix what is wrong with America. The hole is very deep, the problems are many and it is uphill all the way to get out of it.
Maybe Americans need to look one word up and come to grips with what it means, FASCISM. America is now the world's leading fascist nation. Fascism is by definition a corporate controlled government run for the benefit of the wealthy elite and own those corporations.
Health care in most EU nations is either government program or private insurance and both are mandatory. Obamacare is an unmitigated disaster because in DC they are not the lawmakers, the lobbyists are. They write the laws, pay for the campaigns and get the votes they want.
One thing that might help America is to implement a referendum system. That way DC could no longer pass laws and cram them down the throats of states and persons. The 'unfunded mandate' debacle has gone on long enough. Congress just loves to hand out those unfunded mandate IOU's hoping they never get called in. Makes them look wealthy and important in DC.
Many US states cannot file bankruptcy due to their constitutions. My sources say 27 US states are by very definition bankrupt right now. Even though everyone heard about the Detroit bankruptcy, there have been over 2,300 cities and county bankruptcies that have not been reported on that much.
Check into Stockton CA, they must have all been on drugs on that City Council.
The tedious part of the American Rep v Dem debate is that the color knobs on the TV are way out of whack.
What is a person 'entitled' to. Frankly, air, heart beat, and life. Anything else is earned. There is no entitlement to social security, medical insurance or even a job. There are no presumptive rights just because someone is born American.
My daughter turns 20 in April and holds Japan and USA passports. By age 22 she has to choose because Japan does not allow dual citizenship. She is sticking with the Japan passport due to what she sees going on in America.
What is the difference between a political issue/debate and a moral issue/debate?
The PTB want Americans arguing over moral issues thinking they are political issues. That was a contrived debate that the CIA implemented and pushed hard to get Americans to fracture into little camps. Abortion, gay rights, gays in the military, etc. are moral issues, not political issues.
They want Americans to not know the difference. A confused herd of sheep is easier to lie to, easier to guide. A bickering herd is very easy to fool.
Now Obama wants to do away with what corporations are doing and defer their taxes from offshore income. That will put a huge torpedo in job creation. Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Amazon, Twitter etc. all do it and many use the technique shown at this link:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/10/19/of-course-twitter-is-using-the-double-irish-with-a-dutch-sandwich-theyd-be-mad-not-to/
Most Americans do not know what In-Q-Tel is. It is the venture capital arm of the CIA and was the money behind AOL, Facebook, Google and some others. All part of the spying agenda.
Belief in politicians, hmm. Old joke, how do you know a politician is lying? The lips are moving.
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