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"I Fear For What’s Coming" – 68% Of Americans Believe The Country Is On The Wrong Track

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Submitted by Michael Snyder of The Economic Collapse blog,

Are you deeply concerned about the future of America?  Is something in your gut telling you that our system is fundamentally broken and that the mainstream media is not telling you the truth about what is happening?  If so, you are definitely not alone.  Right now, there are millions upon millions of Americans that are absolutely horrified as they watch this nation deteriorate.  In fact, according to an analysis of recent polling data conducted by Real Clear Politics, approximately 68 percent of all Americans believe that the country is on the wrong track and only 23.5 percent of all Americans believe that the country is on the right track.

And of course our problems did not appear just recently.  In fact, many of them are the result of decades of very foolish decisions and they are not going to be fixed easily.  Unfortunately, there is very little consensus among Americans about how to fix any of our problems.  There is more anger, frustration, hatred and division in the United States today than there has been in decades, and there is very little hope that the great storms that are looming on the horizon will be averted.  Those that are wise are preparing for what is coming.  Those that are not are going to be absolutely blindsided by what is rapidly approaching.

Once upon a time, America was the wealthiest nation on the entire globe by a huge margin and it had the largest and most thriving middle class the world had ever seen.  But now America is drowning in the biggest ocean of red ink in the history of the planet and the middle class is being systematically destroyed.

If you read my articles on a regular basis, you already know all of this.  But now there are certain factors that are going to cause the problems of the middle class to greatly accelerate.

For instance, just consider what Obamacare is going to do to millions of American families.

The Foundry recently posted a story that detailed the extreme hardship that Obamacare is going to impose on one middle class family in Sonora, California.  This particular family is very healthy and does not have a history of health problems.  Up until now, they have had a health insurance policy with Anthem Blue Cross Insurance that they have been very happy with.

Back in 2011, this family was paying $389 a month for health insurance.

In 2012, due to changes in California law that figure went up to $499 a month.

Now, this family has just received a letter informing them that their current plan is being canceled and that if they want a new plan it is going to cost them $1,252 a month.

Needless to say, that news did not go over very well with that family.

Just think about it.

Can you come up with an extra $753 a month for health insurance?

Most American families certainly cannot.

Well, Kate Joy and her husband sat down and started trying to figure out how they could squeeze the new health insurance policy into their budget.  It turned out that they would have to cut out a lot of things.  The following is a list of the proposed cuts that they have come up with so far...

  • Stop paying the extra payment on my mortgage: $100/month
  • Stop eating out: $150/month
  • Don’t go to the movies: $36/month
  • Switch to getting a haircut every other month: $15/month
  • Stop getting manicures: $40/month
  • Stop monthly charitable donations to Wounded Warrior and Habitat for Humanity: $70/month
  • Stop saving for an annual anniversary getaway: $60/month
  • No Christmas gifts to extended family: $40/month
  • Quit buying beef at the grocery store: $100/month
  • Teeth cleaning only once per year: $30/month
  • Cancel all magazine/newspaper subscriptions: at least $30/month
  • Cut DISH service to cheaper plan: $50/month
  • Cancel land line phone service: $70/month

If they make all of those cuts, it will save the family $791 a month.

Understandably, that family is having a very hard time feeling optimistic about the future right now.  In fact, at the end of the article Kate Joy is quoted as saying the following...

"I fear for what’s coming."

And of course her family is not the only one that is being absolutely hammered by Obamacare.

In a previous article, I discussed the results of one study which showed that health insurance premiums for men are going to go up by an average of 99 percent under Obamacare and health insurance premiums for women are going to go up by an average of 62 percent under Obamacare.

 

And a different study found that health insurance premiums for healthy 30-year-old men are going to go up by an average of 260 percent under Obamacare.

All of this is going to suck a tremendous amount of "discretionary income" out of the economy.

In addition, millions upon millions of Americans are going to make the choice to go without health insurance altogether.  And considering the level of care that we get in many of these hospitals that is understandable.  For example, the body of 57-year-old Lynne Spalding was recently discovered in a stairwell at San Francisco General Hospital 17 days after she had disappeared from her hospital room.

Those that provide our "health care" don't care about us as much as they did in the old days.  Instead, the health care industry just wants to get as much money out of us as rapidly as they can and then move on to the next victim.

And of course health care is not the only thing that middle class families have to be concerned about these days.  Our national employment crisis is getting even worse, incomes are shrinking, and Obama is pushing Congress to approve a secret treaty that will ship millions more of our jobs out of the country.

And there are certainly a lot of troubling economic signs as we head toward 2014.  Just consider the following examples...

-Pending home sales in the United States have fallen for five months in a row.

 

-Machinery giant Caterpillar is reporting negative retail sales growth in every region on the globe.  Historically, the sales growth of Caterpillar has been one of the most important indications of where the economy is headed next.

 

-Major banks are warning the Federal Reserve that they may have to start charging depositors a fee.  In other words, you may soon have to pay for the "privilege" of putting your money in the bank.

Of course this is just the beginning.  Things are going to get much, much worse in the years ahead as our economy continues to deteriorate.

And as things continue to fall apart, people are going to become a lot more desperate.  To get an idea of what is coming to America, just look at what is happening in Greece.  Some poor people in Greece have become so desperate that they are literally infecting themselves with HIV just so that they can get monthly government payments...

Suicides rose by 17% between 2007 and 2009 and to 25% in 2010, according to unofficial 2010 data (398). The Minister of Health reported a further 40% rise in the first half of 2011 compared with the same period in 2010. Suicide attempts have also increased, particularly among people reporting economic distress (610). Homicide and theft rates have doubled. HIV rates and heroin use have risen significantly, with about half of new HIV infections being self-inflicted to enable people to receive benefits of €700 per month and faster admission on to drug-substitution programmes. Prostitution has also risen, probably as a response to economic hardship. Health care access has declined as hospital budgets have been cut by about 40% (398) and it is estimated that 26 000 public health workers (9100 doctors) will lose their jobs (611). Further cuts are expected as a result of recent negotiations with the IMF and European Central Bank.

If you doubt this, you can find the original report with these findings right here.

A lot of people accuse me of being a "doom and gloomer" for writing articles like this.

A lot of people accuse me of trying to spread worry and fear.

But I do not see it that way at all.

I was recently asked what the number one issue is that has me so worried that it keeps me up at night.

Do you know what my answer was?

"Nothing."

Nothing that I write about keeps me up at night.

I am not worried about what is coming and I do not believe in giving in to fear.

Rather, I believe that there is hope in understanding what is happening, and I believe that there is hope in getting prepared.

Do you want to know who is going to be totally giving in to worry, fear and despair in the years ahead?

The people that are not getting prepared right now.

Do you want to know who is going to be jumping off the top of tall buildings in the years ahead?

The people that are laughing at articles like this one.

For most adults in America, they primarily define their lives by their jobs, their material possessions and by all of the toys that they have accumulated.  When those things get taken away, we are going to see a national hissy fit that is absolutely unprecedented.

The Republicans are not going to save us from the storm that is coming and neither are the Democrats.

It is coming.

 

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Tue, 11/26/2013 - 15:14 | 4191304 LawsofPhysics
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< meh > at least half are dumbasses.

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 15:19 | 4191336 DoChenRollingBearing
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Yes.  Thank you Obama voters, just hastening our decline.

Obamacare.

 

Q.E.D.

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 15:26 | 4191351 nope-1004
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The other 32% are single parent, black, unemployed, choomers too.  F'n idiot leading us.

Junk away, cuz I'm rayciss.  Yet, prisons are full of them.  Foodstamp recipients are the majority of them.  Call it for what it is for Pete's sake, instead of hiding like he's some great leader.

He's a doped up loser.  And when you have a loser as your leader, you're headed nowhere.

And no this isn't a Red vs Blue debate.  I hate both of them.  They're both run by the banking cabal.

 

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 15:30 | 4191374 hedgeless_horseman
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Things are going to get much, much worse in the years ahead as our economy continues to deteriorate.

Stay fit.

Stay calm.

Stay quiet.

Stay proficient.

Stay liquid.

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 15:34 | 4191404 AlaricBalth
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The following is a video of our economy. Enjoy. 1:24

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFeWw2YFXlM

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 16:09 | 4191596 James_Cole
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A lot of people accuse me of being a "doom and gloomer" for writing articles like this.

Sounds about right but more specifically making a career out of writing sensationalistic doom and gloom.

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 17:04 | 4191731 CH1
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But what are they going to DO about it?

"Sit around and bitch" won't cut it.

If we want to avoid this state-made disaster, we have to ACT WITHOUT PERMISION

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 17:37 | 4191917 markovchainey
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Shut down Washington D.C., it's the only option.  I'm not waiting for it to happen through the "legitimate" political process, just waiting to see it happen naturally due to a defunct currency and the natural result of human stupidity/arrogance/hubris/etc. 

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 19:54 | 4192288 CH1
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Think what would happen if a couple of million people just stopped obeying their rules.

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 20:05 | 4192305 DaddyO
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It's called nullification and the Founding Fathers wrote it into the Constitution!

Look up Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 to see how nullification has worked in the past.

http://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2013/08/the-misrepresentation-of-nullification-with-respect-to-slavery/

We've become a bunch of sissies who are afraid to step out of line because the gestapo will thump the miscreants.

The headlines play it out everyday!

Now we're in a position that we have to wait until the flag goes up before acting.

When the unwind happens it will be fierce.

DaddyO

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 20:17 | 4192350 TeamDepends
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It is error alone which needs the support of government.  Truth can stand by itself.

-Thomas Jefferson


Tue, 11/26/2013 - 20:23 | 4192373 Herd Redirectio...
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Banks already charge people money for the privilege of keeping money in the bank.  ZIRP + service charges.

And the charges are increasing, as of Jan 1, 2014. 

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 21:32 | 4192503 Shocker
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So that means only 68% of Americans are actually paying attention.

Layoff List - http://www.dailyjobcuts.com

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Wed, 11/27/2013 - 00:47 | 4192927 Anusocracy
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It means 32% of Americans are on some bad crack.

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 22:37 | 4192650 Harry Dong
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Ahhh, an authentic quote. Refreshing.

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 20:17 | 4192356 nmewn
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Is it wrong of me, to make a pistol sign with my hand when I pass some arrogant, smiling motorcycle cop, giving some working stiff with a ladder on his truck a ticket? He's just trying to make a living.

Everyone knows they've done it or thought about it.

Is that against the law, yet? ;-)

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 20:25 | 4192372 The Alarmist
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My driver in Indonesia argued wth a machine-gun armed cop about whether or not an important person like me should be allowed to speed ahead of the traffic jam in the empty lane.  I wondered if I would end up with a bullet in my backside.  Perhaps the only time in my life when I was included in the criminal elite, and I must admit it felt good, but I doubt most of the core membership of the criminal elite ever spend much time worrying about their entitlement to the empty lane.

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 20:33 | 4192399 nmewn
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The "criminals" are going to have to decide on which side of "law" they wish to stand pretty soon.

They had better choose wisely ;-)

Wed, 11/27/2013 - 00:55 | 4192950 Imminent Crucible
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Among the fine upstanding Americans that I consort with on a daily basis, I really can't find much concern for what is legal any more.

"Non-compliance"---it's the new bell-bottomed jeans and long hair.  Because, "If the government doesn't care what the law says, why should we?"

Wed, 11/27/2013 - 08:36 | 4193281 Clark Bent
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That's the DUI industry, another form of saving us from ourselves imposed upon us by the nanny (local) State. If a cop sees a truck with ladders on it at eigth pm on a friday night, the assumption is that this guy has been to happy hour and is easy pickings. Who cares that his meager earnings will be wiped out feeding the fines, alcohol intervention programs, probation departments, etc., etc. Who cares that his blood alcohol was a mere 0.08% and he was not endangering anyone. And who the fuck cares that the suspensions will further disable his career prospects for the balance of his life probably, leading to demoralization and quite possibly a serious alcohol problem or suicide. Fuck the strivers, they don't have a lobby. They are not in the "victim" category and hence are open game for the predatory State. 

Just in case you're wondering, this is not a personal problem. But one I have seen destroying the whie male working class trying to earn a life in America today. 

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 20:18 | 4192360 The Alarmist
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You have to ask yourself, at what point will the Big O regime have faced its Leipzig moment? The one where the leaders of the state security apparatus realise it is not prudent to "fire" on the populace.  The more interesting question is, will they be sensitive to the fact that that is the question with which they are posed.  These are some pretty ham-handed folks we are dealing with here.

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 21:19 | 4192483 Race Car Driver
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> We've become a bunch of sissies who are afraid to step out of line because the gestapo will thump the miscreants.

 

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 21:02 | 4192447 Son of Captain Nemo
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Ask me about the number of rallies I've been to that include Anniversaries for the Iraq and Afghan occupation(s) and 9/11... Where are they?

Keeping quiet certainly won't fix it.

I believe MLK said it best when he quoted Dante in the speech that most probably ended his life thanks to the MIC -

"the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a time of moral crisis do nothing by maintaining their neutrality"..

I believe that if he could speak to that anti-war speech on Vietnam that he gave he would have said now that I'm gone who is willing to pick it up where I left it? 

The same with JFK, and this is why we have the situation we are in today.

 

Wed, 11/27/2013 - 02:56 | 4193063 John_Coltrane
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Such as ignoring obamacare and its phony unenforceable mandate?  Its already happening and its much more than a couple of million.

On the other hand NRA has been increasing voluntary membership by hundreds of thousands since Sandy Hook.

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 22:50 | 4192674 harleyjohn45
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If our government fails, it will be replaced with a military government.  I don't think anyone wants that.

Wed, 11/27/2013 - 00:40 | 4192910 willwork4food
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If the government fails & some dick replaces it with a military gov, then that gov better have a LOT of bullets.

Wed, 11/27/2013 - 03:13 | 4193070 Socratic Dog
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It has.  1.5 billion, I believe.  About 5 for every person in the US.  Which, come to think of it. means we are pretty safe, because these clowns have about 1 hit for every 100 bullets fired.

Wed, 11/27/2013 - 06:14 | 4193185 Pizza man
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and we are assumming all the military will have the desire to fire upon the citizenry? Call me naive, but I have to think a very meaningful portion will not.

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 22:49 | 4192670 harleyjohn45
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Forget changing the direction the country is headed, get debt free, hoard some metals, food, medicine, firearms and ammo.  All you can do is sit tight and keep your mouth shut.

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 23:19 | 4192742 Son of Captain Nemo
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Not deceiving myself at all where this is all headed.

But...

What an absolute tragic waste that the individuals that inherited it will do nothing to save it.  If you haven't seen this yet it's worth the 20 minutes. What Turley quotes at the end will certainly make you think and ask "why"?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12kKTYHJ3gw

Wed, 11/27/2013 - 01:09 | 4192971 Anusocracy
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The crux of the problem is that the US imported 200+ years worth of socialists and fascists and the individualists are never ever going to set the tone and direction of the country again.

Only a couple percent of all the humans on earth are libertarian or anarchist and one of the biggest clusters of them ever occurred in 18th century America - never to be repeated again (until space colonization).

Wed, 11/27/2013 - 06:28 | 4193191 Confused
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Forgive my ignorance, but exactly who are these "200+ years worth of socialists and fascists?" 

Fri, 11/29/2013 - 21:16 | 4200918 Anusocracy
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The very unlibertarian immigrants from the Old World.

Wed, 11/27/2013 - 00:48 | 4192921 Drifter
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"Sit around and bitch" is the only thing that will happen.   Ok, that and making empty threats about "revolt" and "guillotines" and similar bullshit.

No type of grass roots revolt will happen.  Stop dreaming about it, stop making your empty threats, you sound like raving lunatics. (and you are)

Military coup and state secession are the only possibilities, and neither of those will happen.  The military is too compromised and no state government has the balls, state politicians are just as gutless as the general population.

America will collapse like the Roman republic did, and from the very same causes.

The Roman republic never was rebuilt, nor will the American republic be rebuilt.  No nation in history has ever gone back to their founding principles, nor will America.  The Constitution is gone and won't come back.  The Bill of Rights is gone and won't come back.

What America will become is some sort of 2nd or 3rd world banana republic with a despotic dictator or communist ruling class.  I think communist ruling class with a dictator figurehead "president", what we're close to now, closer than most people realize.

Wed, 11/27/2013 - 00:53 | 4192944 Anusocracy
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Like France.

Wed, 11/27/2013 - 08:50 | 4193299 Clark Bent
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The Roman Republic did not collapse. It was overthrown by a very conservative heroic leader names Julius Caesar. After shitting up the Republic into a mere mockery of its former self, the elites in Rome acted as our vermin do, and indeed as all elitist vermin usually do, turning the system of representative governmnt into their own little money machine where the mobs are manipulated by slick lies to their own enslavement. Caesar was looked upon by many as a moral man who would by force correct the ills of the Republic and restore morality and law. So of course he was murdered by the elite. 

Nevertheless, after a civil war Octavian became the first true Emperor and managed the state autocatiocally for his lifetime. The "collapse" of Rome was piecemeal, over centuries. Perhaps the greatest destructive force was, and is, human nature. There are always elitits thieves with dreams of making themselves feel significant, and there are always fools to be manipulated by their lies. Currently not one in a hundred can actually define the word "demagogue" or understand that the entire Democrat party is based upon this necromancy of lies and psychopathology pandering to human weakness. Why the "bruthas" think they are strong because they can get away with punching an old white lady or an adjunct professor in the fac randomly. they haven't the slightest idea that they are far more degraded slaves than their forbears of 200 years ago ever were.  

We are heading for violence no doubt. The only thing that can prevent this most common human denouement is a surprising burst of understanding or the intervention of the Almighty, or both. I am praying for both in large measure. 

Wed, 11/27/2013 - 11:28 | 4193643 Cloud9.5
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Drifter, I disagree.  We have spent generations teaching the ideal.  The ideal of a constitutional republic restrained by the Bill of Rights has been instilled in the hearts and minds of millions of children in the small towns and hinterlands of this country.  People know what is happening is immoral, illegal and unconstitutional.  They understand it.  They just don’t know what to do about it just yet.

 

Nobody outside the circle is going to embrace a dictatorship.   The Sugar Daddy has no sugar.  He never did.   All he ever had was a scheme to debase the currency.  That hundred year old scheme is coming to fruition.  Forget the puff pieces.  Get up from in front of your flat screen and look around.   Look at the vacant houses, the failing businesses.  For the ninety percent the dream is collapsing.  As energy drains out of the system, the promises are being rescinded.   Services are being cut back.  Infrastructure is rotting. 

 

If we can’t sustain Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, how in God’s Name are we going to put the Affordable Health Care act in place?

 

We have maybe three years before the general public realizes that shale oil was just a surge not a solution.  The price of gasoline is collapsing the car culture.  Bitumen and kerogen are our new energy sources.  They cannot sustain our previous levels of economic activity.  Contraction is the order of the day. 

 

The cities are in mortal danger.  They cannot sustain themselves without the just in time delivery from supply lines that reach around the world.  These supply lines were built and maintained by cheap lite sweet crude oil.   Cheap oil is now in the dustbin of history.  Teaming millions depend on  a system that is collapsing all around us.  In that sense, Washington is no different than New York.   Detroit is their business model.

 

As the federal government becomes more shrill and hysterical in its efforts to maintain control over a collapsing system, more and more people will simply walk away.  The legions that the oligarchs depend on for security are not loyal apparatchiks.   They are mercenaries.  Their business model is the New Orleans Police Department.  Various fiefdoms will scramble for remaining resources.   Those agencies not politically connected to the current regime will suffer fate of the night of the long knives.

 

Hitler never imagined at Nuremburg when he presided over his hundreds of thousands of worshipers that within a few short years he would be hiding in a cellar from the Russian Army.  He never imagined that he would end his own life and that his image would become illegal in his own country.  But, it happened.

 

The centralization of power that we have witnessed over the last 150 years was made possible by cheap abundant fossil fuels.   As energy drains out of the system, that concentration can no longer be maintained.   The depopulation of Detroit is a harbinger of things to come.  Centralization is reversing course.  As that course reverses, the organs of tyranny are becoming more impotent.

 

The Constitution and the Bill of Rights never were about what we are.  They are about what we ought to be.  As such they are unrealized goals.  Even now there is a resurgence of the call for individual freedom.  Out of necessity, we will return once again to a much less intrusive federal government that minds our nukes and secures our borders.  States will once again assert their power.  County government will become the dominant force in our lives. Unemployed code enforcement officers and police officers will meddle much less in the private affairs of our citizens.   This will not be brought about by some great revolution.  It will be brought about by entropy, the natural consequence of history reversing itself.

  

Wed, 11/27/2013 - 13:55 | 4194067 Drifter
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"The ideal of a constitutional republic restrained by the Bill of Rights has been instilled in the hearts and minds of millions of children in the small towns and hinterlands of this country.  People know what is happening is immoral, illegal and unconstitutional.  They understand it."

"Even now there is a resurgence of the call for individual freedom."

"States will once again assert their power."

You really do live in a fantasy world.

Wed, 11/27/2013 - 19:43 | 4195267 Cloud9.5
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Lot of kids supported
Ron Paul.

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 16:06 | 4191442 TruthInSunshine
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So long as Panem et Circenses are provided in adequate quantity to satiate the FSA, nothing will happen.

And both the Red Team & Blue Team who work for the same exact Money Masters will try to ensure that the Panem et Circenses rations are adequate, while their bosses continue to steal anything & everything from the former, rapidly dwindling middle class.

Upcoming distractions:

#KimKardashianButtCheekImplantSurgeryLiveStream

#WhiteHouseFreeCarl'sJr.&Brawndo4LifeRaffle

#KanyeWest-vs-ObamaFeud

#BlackFriday$98HDTVs@China-MartHordeInvasion

#Ow!MyBalls!!!onABCfamily-night

#Re-ObamaMortgages(in-wake-of-re-re-defaults)

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 23:36 | 4192780 Rusty Shorts
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His world is under observation
We monitor his station
Under faces and the places
Where he traces points of view

He picks up scraps of conversation
Radio and radiation
From the dancers and romancers
With the answers but no clue

He'd love to spend the night in Zion
He's been a long while in Babylon
He'd like a lover's wings to fly on
To a tropic isle of Avalon

His world is under anesthetic
Subdivided and synthetic
His reliance on the giants
In the science of the day

He picks up scraps of information
He's adept at adaptation
Because for strangers and arrangers
Constant change is here to stay

He's got a force field and a flexible plan
He's got a date with fate in a black sedan
He plays fast forward for as long as he can
But he won't need a bed
He's a digital man - RUSH
Wed, 11/27/2013 - 09:57 | 4193327 Drifter
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"So long as Panem et Circenses are provided in adequate quantity to satiate the FSA, nothing will happen."

And when the FSA gets cut off (as they always do when a communist govt takes over) they won't turn on the govt, they'll turn on you. 

Homeland Security with their new heavily armed 4 - 5 milllion strong "domestic security force" (former federal, state, county, and city LE with a few hundred thousand foreign mercenaries brought in for good measure) will stand by and watch the bankrupt middle class and FSA fight each other in the streets, not really caring who wins, hoping you wipe each other out actually.  And yes the FSA is fairly well armed.  Govt isn't taking guns away from the FSA, just the middle class.

Every new communist govt starts out with a massive purge to wipe out the educated middle class, and it'll happen here.  Your "college degree", nice home, nice car, will become a target on your back, and they'll let the FSA do the first round of purging.

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 15:48 | 4191460 RSloane
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....and stay healthy by growing your own food. I showed my husband the pic you posted yesterday of Mrs. H's dinner she served. You, Mrs H., and people like you can survive almost anything because you have taught yourselves how to do so without reliance on anyone else. There is no government, no political party, and certainly no politician that can do that for you nor anyone else. If anyone is going to have the 'teaching moment' it will be them.

This year's Christmas presents to friends and family will be homemade jams, relishes, and sauces grown on our land and canned by us. I do not hesitate to tell you that you have been inspirational. Thank you.

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 16:08 | 4191590 Praetorian Guard
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Thats all fine and dandy, until you have a bad grow season, or fertilizers become hard to get... same goes with animal feed, etc. As s supplement, thats probably not an issue, as a sole means... might have issues...

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 16:33 | 4191669 SubjectivObject
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"... until you have a bad grow season, or fertilizers ..."

While exhibiting no evident competancy with home gardening (done all over the world, by the way), .... why comment about it?

"... might have issues ..."  You're talking about yourself and ~95+% of the population, ar'nt you? 

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 17:06 | 4191796 Praetorian Guard
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Absolutely not, grew up in a rural farming community. Have hunted my entire life... however, I am a realist. Something apparently you are not. I said nothing wrong with growing a garden, however, there are limitations...

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 17:54 | 4191974 NidStyles
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People have done it for centuries now, I am pretty sure they will survive just the same as before.

Being scared of dying is a foolish notion, as it's inevitable. That is why we raise families, and even through hardship families will continue.

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 20:13 | 4192343 DaddyO
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I raise a lot of my own food without much in the way of off-farm inputs.

Self Reliance is a mind set as much as a method of living.

All the vegetables we ate for dinner tonight were grown on the farm.

All the eggs I eat are from my chickens who eat most of the table scraps we clean up.

My horses supply all the fertilizer I use in my garden.

I do not subscribe to the modern farming techniques where everything comes from off the farm.

We harvest our own seeds, fertilizer and produce unlike modern agribusiness that gets everything from someone else.

DaddyO

 

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 20:43 | 4192414 Paveway IV
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Plenty of self-reliant buried during the Holodomor. I'm not suggesting that you should do anything different - sounds like a pretty rational existence. Then the world sneaks up out of nowhere and kicks the best of plans square in the ass. 

It's done with tunnels. I think the Chinese are involved.

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 20:56 | 4192441 DaddyO
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You places your bets, you rolls the dice...

You wouldn't want to come to my house uninvited!!

I live a long way down a dirt road, plenty of opportunity if you know what I mean.

Don't even see the local gendarmes but every so often.

DaddyO

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 20:58 | 4192436 RobD
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A good plan would be to store up a year supply of dry goods such as wheat, corn, beans and rice for the times when the crops/animals fail to produce. Hedge your harvest so to speak. May not be as healthy as fresh produce and meat but it would get you through if something fails. If stored correctly those items are good for up to 20 years.

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 20:59 | 4192446 DaddyO
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That's exactly right, the dry storage and canned foods are for the in-between times, sort of a hedge against drought, failed crops and what have you.

They can also be used to get you into the growing season should a disruption occur in the dead of winter and so forth.

DaddyO

Wed, 11/27/2013 - 02:35 | 4193047 The Heart
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"This year's Christmas presents to friends and family will be homemade jams, relishes, and sauces grown on our land and canned by us. I do not hesitate to tell you that you have been inspirational."

Here, here RSloane.

We be a doin the same.

One other new batch of tricks came along last year when we gots us a de-hydrator. One apple tree produced many de-hydrated apples coated in cinnamon and honey. Made lots of cinnamon apple sauce too. These will be fancy Christmas gifts for family this year.

On an interesting note, with snow on the ground, there was a magnificent harvest of broccoli and arugula this evening that came out of the make shift greenhouse the tomatoes were in. These plants were rejects and left in there where the freezing temps have been sharp in the last weeks after a good first snow. What is amazing, is the durability of these plants, as well as some of the Brussels that want to keep growing. Were they planted late in a slightly warmed greenhouse, one could go further in imagining lettuces, spinach, and possibly a few other cold season plants could conceivably be grown in the winter time.

Hummm..things to set up for next year...IF...we have one.

Merry Happy seasonal best to ALL!

Empowerments to the lightbrigaders.

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 16:24 | 4191635 GovernmentMule
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And well armed.

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 21:49 | 4192543 max2205
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Kick.......can......moar

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 17:26 | 4191870 Wahooo
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They are paying $100 a month for beef? What the heck are they eating?

You can buy a quarter beef for half that and it would last two people about the entire year.

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 20:11 | 4192340 Erudite Redneck
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At that price I think you might be getting the horse meat special.

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 17:35 | 4191908 25or6to4
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May I add stay armed

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 18:35 | 4192087 SWRichmond
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Hedgeless, 

I would add "stay proficient" and "keep farming".

OP: For most adults in America, they primarily define their lives by their jobs, their material possessions and by all of the toys that they have accumulated.  When those things get taken away, we are going to see a national hissy fit that is absolutely unprecedented.

I am seeing more and more people stuck on themselves and their status in their income and their perceived sense of self worth based on their own perception of their social class.  Their arrogance is rising rapidly and I am interpreting it as fear and a growing sense of impending doom.  I am gonna have a lot of fun with these folks.

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 23:38 | 4192640 scrappy
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OP: For most adults in America, they primarily define their lives by their jobs, their material possessions and by all of the toys that they have accumulated. When those things get taken away, we are going to see a national hissy fit that is absolutely unprecedented.

Spreading like a disease, which is what it is.

At my work it is a microcosm of what's going on in our country today, a few lie, cheat, and steal, and most others in the organization get shafted.

- Then there are those who aspire to be like THEM! Good grief.

Very sad.

This too shall end.

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 20:05 | 4192322 stocktivity
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Stay Fit...most Americans can't "stay fit" because they're not "fit" to begin with. Being fit is probably the most important for what's coming. Most fat lards think their guns and ammo will protect them. They won't.

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 20:17 | 4192351 Dave Thomas
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And stay frugal. Stop achieving and buying so much. It just funds evil. See the Joneses? Fuck the Joneses.

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 20:28 | 4192385 The Alarmist
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Only if the Joneses look like Demi Moore.

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 23:23 | 4192748 TruthInSunshine
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3 Questions Every Moral & Intelligent Person Should Ask Before Purchasing Anything

1. Do I need it, or want it. If I merely want it;

2. Does it relate to a true, core, deep passion in my life, of which most people only have 2, 3 or maybe 5 (fishing for some, rebuilding motors for others, hunting, growing crops, playing golf, mountain climbing, running, etc.).

3. Will the acquisition of the object significantly & truly benefit the physical, mental and/or social health of myself and/or a family member or loved one.

If yes to any of these 3, buy it.

Minimalism isn't about deprivation. It's about consuming wisely, often in a way that leads to greater productivity, and that ensures one will never find themselves in the sheer misery, relentless stress & unhappiness suffered by a debt slave.

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 21:39 | 4192517 Notarocketscientist
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Stay fit?  hahahahaha..... this is America mate... nobody is fit

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 23:02 | 4192698 scrappy
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Wait a minute! Not Fit? I can guzzle with the best of them!

Wed, 11/27/2013 - 08:33 | 4193274 Keyser
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Please don't lump all Americans into the beer-gut, fast-food, no-exercise category. Some of us treat our bodies like temples, although most treat their bodies like a tent. 

 

Wed, 11/27/2013 - 08:03 | 4193249 new game
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"oN THE WRONG TRACK" and heading sraight to oncoming train - that train could be defined as the .0001 percent that are taking from the rest....

but will we derail the other train before they confine everybody in the their camps of servatude and death?

yea, I said death (camps) with complete loss of freedom...

wake the fuck up!

\o is a very bad o man

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 15:30 | 4191380 daveO
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He's the King of Fools. Qausimodo Obama!

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 16:09 | 4191591 wee-weed up
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That 68% number is only a current snapshot...

Look for it to rocket up soon.

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 16:15 | 4191615 Ignatius
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68% matches pretty well the number of Americans who know JFK was murdered by a conspiracy.

Hmmm...

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 20:29 | 4192389 The Alarmist
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It's a 100% certainty that JFK was done in by a conspiracy ... the salient question is, which one?

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 23:02 | 4192700 wee-weed up
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Big bankers who were not TBTF back then.

Wed, 11/27/2013 - 03:24 | 4193078 Diogenes
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LBJ and the CIA did away with JFK. Graffiti from 1966 that turned out to be true.

Wed, 11/27/2013 - 08:08 | 4193254 new game
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and how about the 911 event? huh, or invasion of iraq? huh, did gw know there wasn't wmd? duh

how could o not know he wasn't going to withdraw from afg and iraq? duh facisim - plain and simple.

and eventually the corp uses the mite of gov to enforce what it wants...not good future for uusa

Wed, 11/27/2013 - 08:35 | 4193278 Keyser
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As always, follow the money. In the case of Iraq, follow the petrodollar. 

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 15:30 | 4191384 LetThemEatRand
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"The other 32% are single parent, black, unemployed, choomers too."

Not quite.  1% are bankers or otherwise in the small sub-class benefitting from endless QE.  They could give a shit which direction the country is going so long as they have a new Bentley in the garage.

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 16:33 | 4191671 therearetoomany...
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Right, but at least, thanks to Obama, the rich are paying their fair share.  

Aren't they?

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 15:31 | 4191390 kaiserhoff
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Nope.

  Only 31%

  The other 1% own banks or health insurance companies. 

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 15:31 | 4191392 Boris Alatovkrap
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Barry problem is not racist, Barry problem is junk up lazy population of mix color that is allow egomaniacal indiscipline amateur with bad crack habit to lead nation. This is not new. Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Ilyich Lenin is white as driving snow and crazy as bat in bell tower, but pre-condition citizenry is make to leader position. Boris is believe in individual, but when group is amass, amen to sanity.

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 15:41 | 4191447 Headbanger
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"Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one."  - Charles Mackay

Restated as:

"Men go crazy in congregations; they only get better one by one."   - Sting

 

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 16:31 | 4191665 therearetoomany...
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Down arrow, cuz I hate Sting.   If anyone was more pretentious than Bono...

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 17:27 | 4191882 Boris Alatovkrap
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Boris is like Sting, reference to Nabokov, re-use of chorus in other song ("Don't Stand So Close to Me" = "I wants MTV", "Every Cake you Bake" in "Everything is Do for Magic"), and smart clever lyrical, "In Europe and America is growing feel for hysteria, condition to respond to all the threat..." Sting is clear to understand psyche of Modern Age military industrial complex.

Okay, maybe is pretentious, but much better poet than is for Boris:)

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 20:14 | 4192347 mumcard
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The President looks in the mirror and speaks
His shirts are clean but his country reeks
Unpaid bills
In Afghanistan hills

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6wiWXw3voY

 

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 22:23 | 4192617 Quentin Daniels
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...

while the nation around him sleeps.

 

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 21:36 | 4192514 acetinker
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Boris is also likely to know that our Mr. Snyder is reacting irrationally to a phenomenon known as mean reversion.  We know damn good and well that the US is a shithouse compared to 50 years ago.  If we're honest, we also know that this is perfectly normal.  Empires rise- empires fall, and always for the same root cause; Imperialism.

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 21:47 | 4192528 Boris Alatovkrap
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Boris is was going to say because of "ungodly wickedness", but okay, "imperialism" is good enough for root cause.

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 22:55 | 4192689 acetinker
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Boris is create new colloquialism!

Wed, 11/27/2013 - 15:33 | 4194423 Boris Alatovkrap
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Boris head is full of new colloquialism!

Wed, 11/27/2013 - 20:38 | 4195443 acetinker
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Ace is have personal relationship with such individual named Vasiliy, who has found self in north georgia, US (not Ukraine) but is from Georgia (Ukraine) by birth.  Vasiliy is much like Boris- incredulous that the very things he fled in the 80's have followed him to his new home.

Maybe you are Vasiliy?  Only if your last name starts with a D.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 15:52 | 4191511 firstdivision
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Please describe the difference of a black male colleting foodstamps and welfare, and a white male trading free QE money and getting a bonus from it?

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 17:11 | 4191821 JoBob
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One of them got off his lazy butt and went to work and the other waited for a handout.

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 20:26 | 4192379 Erudite Redneck
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I laughed out loud at that one.  Just a matter of perspective I guess.

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 20:05 | 4192324 Calmyourself
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One will shiv you for fiat, one will pay the other to shiv you for fiat..  Capiche'

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 18:10 | 4192016 Larry Dallas
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The fact that you have (as I write this) 20x more up arrows than junks, this leads me to believe many agree with you but don't want to publically shout it from the rooftops.

If this site is a general proxy for a population who can think on their own, then I would say there are far, far more people in this country who feel the same.

I just don't understand why folks will breed if they can't support their kids. My wife and I - both in our late thirties have thought twice - about having kids. Its a huge responsibility, but what will they face? What calamity will we face after we have them? The "Ohioans" breed like crazy. 

This system can't support itself without something major happening inside of 20 years. That what I think. The fuse has been lit. 

 

 

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 20:14 | 4192083 therearetoomany...
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Nice point but isn't this exactly  "Idiocracy" ...the smart people don't breed, the idiots do.   Thus, the idiots have taken over.   

You must have children to defeat the idiots.

I always thought I would never be a good parent, so I didn't have any kids.  But I always said to myself and anyone that would listen, "the fact that I thought about whther or not I'd be a good parent makes me a better parent those most people that do have them based on the idea, "I gotta have a child"."

EDIT: Speaking of idiots, my full moniker on here is "therearetoomanyidiots"...but it gets cut off....

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 20:23 | 4192375 Sam Clemons
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I'm a smart, decent looking guy that reads shit like Zerohedge and can explain how the Federal Reserve system is screwing over the country.  It's impossible to find a girl that likes guys like me.  Girls like "Fun Bobby."

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 20:39 | 4192409 The Alarmist
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Look at the bright side .... if you took any girl you'd have a better than 50% chance of spawning a taker rather than a maker.  Hang in there, bra!

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 21:55 | 4192553 Cognitive Dissonance
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Mrs. Cog and I found each other here on Zero Hedge. So there's hope for you yet Sam.

<Ya might want to shower more than once a week though. Just sayin'. Mrs. Cog makes me wash behind my ears daily.> :)

Wed, 11/27/2013 - 08:42 | 4193288 Keyser
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Head east young man, head east.  Or south for that matter.  American women these days are a non-starter, for the very reason you mention. 

Wed, 11/27/2013 - 11:10 | 4193588 Raging Debate
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You need to get out more Sam Clemons. Chicks love a bright, confident guy but your not going to meet any here.

As for the country, it will change the cycle is rotten so I recommend keeping your eye simple and find happiness with growing friends and sharing luxuries over info on how to not become a serf flipping burgers.

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 18:39 | 4192092 gaoptimize
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My wife and I are "breeding" to help rebuild our civilization once this shit storm is over.  If I do say so myself, with stats and other evidence in hand, it is our little eugenics project to counter all the dependent "baby-mommas" out there that are currently leaching our society to death ($1T/year according to Heritage.org).  We teach them the values that built Western Civilization, God's law, common law, The US Constitution, classics, math, how to survive, and science and all the soft sciences they need to know to interpret current events.  Just consider it a hobby if you wish, but it the principal purpose of our lives.

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 23:59 | 4192833 Yenbot
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Beware CPS, the Great Stop Out of the Righteous...

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 19:07 | 4192161 nightshiftsucks
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Just ask yourself one question,if you had a choice of being born or not,today....would you want to be born knowing whats coming and how difficult life will be ?

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 21:16 | 4192479 nonclaim
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Regardless,  if I survive to an old age I'll have great stories to tell to some future kids.

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 23:00 | 4192664 Mike in GA
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Think about what you said within the context of history.  What if all whom had difficult lives during the countless wars and famines and oppressive tyrannies of the past had decided to just not bother with childrearing?  What if all the shit that passes for standard equipment in our lives today is really just unaffordable luxuries that we grew accustomed, and now think we're entitled, to?

If you do not have children you cannot know so many really great things about life, love and living.  You will never know the joy in your old age of grandchildren.  You will be alone with your certainty that you did not want to bring children into an imperfect world which was imperfect when you came into it and will remain imperfect long after we're history. 

Don't let the fear of what you think might be coming keep you from completing yourself.  Times have been hard before but when we look back and see nothing but progress, why should we look forward and see nothing but ruin?  This too, shall pass.

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 22:49 | 4192671 Quentin Daniels
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Yes. Absolutely yes.

There is always a way out, through, under, around, no matter the hardships or obsticles.  Even in a worst-case collapse that sees modern civilisation disappear and 99% of the world's population die off, I'd still want to be here, to try and survive, and be one of the 1% who make it through.

To choose not to exist is to choose to not even have the opportunity to make things better.

And what better way to say fuck you to the assholes who have created this mess than to make it to the other side and have a hand in rebuilding the free, civilised society they sought to destroy.

 

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 22:50 | 4192673 bigrooster
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Man up bitch and prepare for the future.  Children of educated people are the only hope that we have.  Otherwise do us all a favor and pull the trigger now.

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 20:22 | 4192370 Sam Clemons
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While you can blame the poor and worthless, I think the country has been more fucked up by the top 1% buying political favors and syphoning most of the nations' wealth to themselves.  A lot of the system is set-up to keep these people in poverty and dependent.  War on Drugs is a great example.  

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 21:45 | 4192522 NMC_EXP
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"...like he's some great leader."

"And when you have a loser as your leader, you're headed nowhere."

1.  The President of the US is employed by the citizens.

2.  By definition, a leader has subordinates or at least followers.

As for myself:  (a) I do not allow an employee to lead me, (b) I do not need a leader, and (c) I am damned sure not subordinate to any politician or bureaucrat.

Before anyone uses the term "leader" in reference to a politician he should ask himself "Do I need to be led by anyone in government?" 

Jim


Wed, 11/27/2013 - 01:32 | 4193002 Dubaibanker
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Pay cuts, higher unemployment are the current symptoms in Spain and worsening. http://www.thelocal.es/20131126/spains-workers-pay-high-price-for-recove...

It is a matter of time, other countries, perhaps including America, where wages have stalled and gainful & fruitful employment is in decline, people may be forced to accept lower wages over the next few years, despite the rise in equity markets.

Equities may keep rising due to 5 reasons:

1) due to unemployment itself, the corporates save fixed costs for an assumed same dollar of revenue. Productivity also rises somewhat due to the fear of unemployment.

2) due to having so much cash from around the world on their balance sheets eg Apple or Microsoft or Starbucks etc or Govt support to scamsters... sorry bankers... and GM, Ford, AIG et al.

3) corporates issuing bonds thus reducing their costs for loans from banks and keeping tremendous amount of cash on their balance sheets as reserves 

4) growing exports whether of natural gas or cars or food stuff or whatever that US produces and;

5) defence industry that keeps selling equipment and recurring consumables to everyone around the world.

not to mention low borrowing costs for these corporates and higher revenues from overseas and ZIRP, that makes corporates even more stronger.

Change is only a Hope, now! :)

Might as well BTFATH! :)

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 15:51 | 4191507 Czar of Defenes...
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*Most* schadenfreudelicious are the Obama voters who cry, "I was all for ObamaCare, but I never thought *I'd* have to pay for it!"  Let *them* meet the IPAB Death Panels first....

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 16:25 | 4191584 roadhazard
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If only repubicans were in charge... heh.

was that too red/blue, wingers crack me up.

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 21:24 | 4192493 Diogenes
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Yeah if Mitt Romney were in charge he wouldn't bring in government  medical insurance... oh wait.

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 17:19 | 4191851 Mr Poopra
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It's all part of the plan.  I can't believe intelligent people like those that frequent this place still don't see that this was intricately and systematically planned to perfection.  The US has been War Gaming dollar collapse scenarios since the 1950s.  Currency collapses cannot be prevented, they can be controlled...and always for a purpose.

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 22:29 | 4192625 Dr. Bonzo
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Exactly. It's a controlled demolition. People seem to forget Universal Health Care was the brain fart of Hillary, who, not coincidentally, seems to be on track for her crown Queen Bee at long last. Think people will connect Bill Clinton to the housing market bubble or Iraq? Fuck. No.

Obama was a wrinkle in the grand plan, but given the bitter mood the country was in after 8 years of Shrubya, the Clinto-Bush Monarch's Duopoly Scheme had to be put on hiatus until the left was thoroughly swindled. And Obama did that in spades. He drones chocolate people with reckless abandon to standing ovations from the left. Dick Nixon was a rank amateur compared to these genocidal maniacs.

The plan continues uninterrupted. And no one's going to stop it.

Wed, 11/27/2013 - 00:42 | 4192915 TheReplacement
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Given the recently outted state of Chinese debt maybe the plan was to use these voodoo economics to break them before we had to fight a real war.  It's going to hurt us and supposedly the Chinese are in way deeper than us, as is seemingly everyone that could actually be a major threat to us militarily. 

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 21:02 | 4192449 Shizzmoney
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All voters are the problem. 

Wed, 11/27/2013 - 09:00 | 4193314 Keyser
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All voting machines are the problem.

Fixed that for you. 


Tue, 11/26/2013 - 22:42 | 4192660 rbg81
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The problem is most voters think we can get on the Right Track by giving out more free shit.

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 23:31 | 4192734 TheFourthStooge-ing
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Yes. Thank you Obama voters, just hastening our decline.

Hilarious. Tragic, but hilarious nonetheless. So many intelligent people, perceptive enough to see through the bullshit of Bernanke, Krugman, and the other shell-less terrestrial mollusks which comprise the field of economics, perceptive enough to see through the centrally planned 'capitalist' economy, and yet they still cling desperately to the biggest fraud of all, the biggest scam ever perpetrated on the US, an illusion which they were born into, will fight for, and, for most, will carry to their graves: the two-party system.

As a state religion, the two-party US political system is one of the best. Like all good state religions, indoctrination begins early, starting in the home and in the school. Television, radio, movies, print, and other media surround everyone with true believers and immerse them in theocratic reinforcements, including annual rituals like the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November pilgrimage.

The illusionary two-party scam is why the US has taken longer to lose the Cold War than the USSR. Ironically, and unlike Russia, this scam will also be responsible for the inability of the US to recover in any meaningful way when it also finally loses the Cold War.

From TFA:

There is more anger, frustration, hatred and division in the United States today than there has been in decades

Of course there is. The system requires it. Specifically, the system requires partisan division and hostility of the type strong enough to ruin friendships and tear apart families. It requires a belief in it so strong that, at a visceral level, the citizen-victims will divide others into groups of friends and enemies based upon where they fall on the one-dimensional, carefully crafted continuum of left/right, liberal/conservative, democrat/republican.

This was the mistake of the USSR. They had a one-party system which didn't even try to pretend that it was something else. A system like this can limp along indefinitely, powered solely by inertia, as long as things for most people don't get unbearably shitty. If things get really bad, though, it will collapse, because there is one entity, one party upon which the citizen-victims can place the blame, and their anger is focused and united.

The success of the one-party system in the United States, though, can be attributed to its ability to completely fool almost every US citizen-victim into believing in the two-party state religion. It's one of the most brilliant divide-and-conquer schemes ever implemented. The ruling party, the real one, is so successful at hiding in the shadows that virtually none of the citizen-victims has even the slightest clue that it exists.

This system works great during good times, because election hoopla and petty partisan bickering draws the attention of the citizen-victims away from what is really happening, allowing for massive undetected fraud, looting, and skimming. However, its true brilliance can only be appreciated during difficult, stressful, soul-wrenching times. Instead of being united in their anger and focused on those responsible, the citizen-victims turn on each other along ideological lines, hating and blaming the other side without understanding that, for them, there are no sides. They are subjects who are ruled, one and all.

The true beauty, though, of the two-party state religion is that it is self-reinforcing. As unrest grows, so does partisan divisiveness. This bitter partisan divisiveness, identical in every way to faith, is what keeps the state religion alive and strong. It is this left/right liberal/conservative religious fervor which keeps citizen-victims blinded to what is really happening to them.

Nothing will be fixed because most Americans, even intelligent and perceptive ones, are afflicted with a fanaticism for the state religion. They will dutifully and obediently make their pilgrimage every first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, knowing that things will get better if only their candidate is chosen as savior. Until the day they die, they will continue to worship the idol of their Donkey-Elephant god.

Wed, 11/27/2013 - 04:09 | 4193122 Pizza man
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Ain't just O-idiot voters. 68% of folks think we are going in the wrong direction? But 92% of voters vote back the same pols who are screwing us. It's always the OTHER GUYS rep that is wrong and OUR GUY is just fine. Right? 90% of DC should be fired, IMHO.

And the solution is easy to understant. It's all structural. No mystery here. 80,000 pages of tax code, almost 2 trillion in annual reg costs and an entitlement system that is eating us alive are killing investment and job growth.

But these are the very programs that keep the crony money making machine going. They will never change.

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 15:19 | 4191345 King_of_simpletons
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You take any given decade in the past and you will find atleast 1/3rd of the population who fall into the armageddon group.

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 15:47 | 4191382 Ham-bone
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You take any decade when the US's public outstanding debt quadruples from $3 T to $12 T...and one or two citizens may get nervous...especially since the entirety of this debt is purchased by the Fed and "foreigners" while domestic holdings remain unchanged

Where growth crumbles to it's lowest since the great depression despite massive increases in debt...one may give a quisical head nod.

Where unfunded liabilities grow in excess of $5 T annually...not likely anybody even knows or cares...cause this is like a 1000 yrs away, right?  Plus they haven't a clue how big the economy is or how much tax revenue comes in so you may as well be spouting Russian at these poor folks.

Where students graduate in-debted  by a Trillion and absent skills or opportunity...you'd think a few young would care, but not really

Where the old won't retire because they still need the income plus the transfer payments from the young who can't work because the old are still working...old get pissed at young for not pulling their weight

blah blah blah...oh, actually you can't find any decade like that???

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 16:54 | 4191743 linniepar
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Well said.

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 15:32 | 4191397 Diogenes
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You mean like armageddon addahere?

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 15:24 | 4191361 Boris Alatovkrap
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Expression of facial surprise when discover half of population is below median intelligence... But below median population maybe is not sufficient to understand what is meaning.

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 15:34 | 4191409 Freddie
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Only 1% smart enough to understand Boris.  (spoken in Natasha voice of Moose & Squirrel)

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 16:29 | 4191658 WOAR
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Where is Natasha yet, anyways?

I've been waiting for a duo to appear for a while now...

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 17:22 | 4191861 Boris Alatovkrap
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Small known is Natasha is die of malignancy of prostrate.

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 22:23 | 4192621 acetinker
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Natasha was a tranny?  I'm crushed!

Wed, 11/27/2013 - 15:36 | 4194437 Boris Alatovkrap
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Not is so much "tranny", but is aspiration of olympic athlete and in course of training, is over take of hormone pill in 1960s. You can tell hear in voice, no?

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 18:24 | 4192051 Blano
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Missing Boris lately I have, yes (using my best Yoda voice).

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 15:30 | 4191386 Freddie
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Don’t go to the movies: $36/month

F Obama-Hollywood.

He mentioend cutting back on cable or sat TV. NO - get rid of it.  It supports the regime - all of it does.

F TV.

He also mentioned "stop eating out."

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 16:44 | 4191710 jimmytorpedo
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My wife doesn't charge me for that.

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 15:39 | 4191430 Nothing but the...
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Just maybe the sheeple are waking up to the truth and all the bullshit going down - just maybe.

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 20:27 | 4192382 DaddyO
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I spoke to a group of OathKeepers last night on self Reliant living, the room was full, people are waking up!

What comes next is the beatdown of selected rebels to instill fear.

DaddyO

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 17:30 | 4191896 doctor10
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Our prefessional political class has committed malpractice with consequent damages upon individual americans.

 

where are all the 1-800-SHY-STERS on this one? 

 

any other group of professionals in this country would be up front of a judge and  jury explaining and justifying their conduct  for doing this to thier fellow Americans

 

"We have to pass it to find out what's in it " Pelosi should be happy if that's all she ever has to do as consequence to this.

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 20:49 | 4192419 lasvegaspersona
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The Greek suicide by HIV has been retracted with apologies. It is not true...an 'editing' error.'

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 20:57 | 4192440 rubiconsolutions
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"Well, Kate Joy and her husband sat down and started trying to figure out how they could squeeze the new health insurance policy into their budget.  It turned out that they would have to cut out a lot of things.  The following is a list of the proposed cuts that they have come up with so far..."

I only have one item on my list Kate - don't pay taxes. Screw 'em. If everyone did the same thing then the state would get the message. The government of the US are thugs and they only understand thuggish behavior. Put the screws to them, choke them by way of the pocketbook. And yeah, I am following my own advice.

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 21:34 | 4192511 jballz
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And the rest are a bunch of pussies.

Where can I get an HIV infection with a grand a month stipend ?

I'm not there yet but I'm putting it on my list of options

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 15:14 | 4191307 Headbanger
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It's already here!

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 15:15 | 4191311 texas sandman
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Don't fear what's coming, beat the Christmas rush and fear what is already here.

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 15:27 | 4191366 A Lunatic
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Ho, Ho, Ho, Bitchez.......

http://www.xmasclock.com/

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 15:42 | 4191445 Freddie
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Don't Fear The Reaper.

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 16:04 | 4191561 Czar of Defenes...
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You want Santa to bring you a cowbell?!

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 21:11 | 4192470 Dadburnitpa
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Never question Bruce Dickinson.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRyE5mqv5wk

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 15:16 | 4191313 Agent P
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And 32% don't participate in surveys. 

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 15:45 | 4191463 Freddie
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42% can't ****ing read.

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 15:54 | 4191527 oddjob
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and 28% know all statistics are made up.

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