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This Seems To Be Going Well...
Submitted by Simon Black via Sovereign Man blog,
Gallup released a new poll late last week showing how many (or few, as it were) Americans are ‘satisfied’ with the direction of the country. 23%. That’s it. 76% are NOT satisfied. Only 1% aren’t sure.
The chart below shows the astounding, long-term decline since 2000.
Note, this is a trend that has outlasted three Presidents and six Congresses. It’s not about a single politician, or even ALL the politicians. It’s about the system itself.
Bottom line, people are fed up. The system has failed. And people are starting to realize it. Where do you think this goes?
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How far back do you have to go to be able to say, He was a good and worthwhile President????
JFK.
1960, then 1954 before that.
Calvin Coolidge.
Soon AFTER 9/11 we peaked at 70 percent. Interesting.
2 years after the EURO was launched...
Interesting indeed.
We didn't have a terrorist problem until the EURO.
EU falling apart, now we have a really really big terror problem??
Surely they wouldn't be funding terror in Euro's now wiould they?
Unpossible!
As I remember...the sheeple got all 'patriotic' for a while after 9/11. We were gonna blow things up and get the bad guys. That always get the crowd into line....and makes them feel like the country is "united" and "we will over come".
Of course...that didn't last.
USA! USA! USA!
I didn't. But I was repeatedly accused of hating the troops and being a 'liberal sociatlist' for not supporting the bullshit lies. The same bullshit persists to this day.
It didn't last, because the red white and blue ribbon magnet (made in China) that we put on the bumper of our car fell off at some point.
The solution (obviously) involves a new ribbon magnet and a fresh set of American flag lapel pins.
There'll be a "POP!" at the lower right corner.
On a long enough timeline all graphs go hockeystick??
By design. Just like the "educated" electorate...
Polls are completely irrelevant and have been for quite some time...
"The few who understand the system, will either be so interested from it's profits or so dependant on it's favors, that there will be no opposition from that class." — Rothschild Brothers of London, 1863
"Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes it's laws" — Mayer Amschel Bauer Rothschild
Voters are the only people stupid enough to believe the system has failed, while the rest of us realize that it works very, very well for the 0.1% who own it.
And yet they still continue to vote for more and more tyranny and the feet of the god of government!
Confidence, sheep!
Good things come to ungulates who think positively and keep to their pens.
The financial and insurance sectors are sucking too much money out of the real economy, watch out for CEOS in these sectors bailing with big bonuses....will signal that firm is about to collapse from lack of receipts and too high administrative costs. what happens when 0% approve?
Or can we get to NARP - where approval rates are so poor, they must be measured as negative sentiment?
I dunno.
Eddie Lampert has turned into his own mini IMF with SHLD.
Meats gone. He's gnawing on the cartilage.
Bastids.
Oh, so Amerikans are fed up huh? THEN STOP VOTING FOR THE SAME ASSHATS WHO GOT AMERIKA INTO ITS PROBLEMS IN THE FIRST PLACE. Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid? Really? When's the last time either of these two fuck-ups did anything for the country? The real problem; Amerika is filled to the brim with 1) victims, 2) slackers, 3) college educated idiots, and 4) "I-want-what-you-got" total losers.
www.traderzoo.mobi
So what you're saying is "Stop voting and throw rocks" that starts at 12% satisfaction.
"then stop accepting those paper promises in exchange for the fruits of your labor" - FIXED.
voting has always been mob rule.
Exactly…Solution in my post below.
"ASSHATS"
The Syrian ruling family doesn't even vote in Amerika, let alone run for office.
Apparently they do have the capacity to really screw up WH policy though..
I think the best way to deal with your “1) victims, 2) slackers, 3) college educated idiots, and 4) "I-want-what-you-got" total losers.” is to do the opposite of what you said in bold.
The only way you can change the direction of our country is to prove the ideology of the socialists wrong. You can tell people it is wrong all you want, make brilliant points and reference history, but as long as someone is promising free stuff to the majority you can never change the direction of this country through the ballot box. The only way to change the direction of this country is to prove it to the nation by allowing the things we warn of to happen to them. In other words allow the system to break.
Let’s be honest the system is going to break anyway and I would much rather it happen on my watch and not my kids. So that said the fastest way to get the system to break is to allow the Pelosi’s and Reid’s of the country to maintain power and put in place every entitlement, high tax rate, government expanding, and easy money policy they can think of. If you don’t allow them free reign they will always blame it on someone else. Give them enough rope to hang themselves and stand well clear, gathering strength. We’re going to need it to rebuild. Once the crash happens as long as there are enough of us, who believe in private property, sound money, small govt, free markets and individual freedom to get the nation back on track, we will be prosperous again in no time.
If we fight them every step of the way we will weaken ourselves, only delay the inevitable and only give them someone to blame when it does break. If we give them free reign, they have no one to blame but themselves. The last thing we want is a Rand Paul in office when it breaks. If I were him I would not run until the reset happens.
True. Very true.
Let's break the fucker then. I'm finished with the charade.
My money gets deposited NOWHERE except whenI decide.i
I came to this same conclusion about 3yrs ago, hence now I advocate EVERYONE to get as much Free Shit from the system as possible. But with the understanding that it will not last and to continually prepare for when this shit goes sideways. I know many will contest this position, but bring more then your pull yourself up by your bootstraps or we can fix it if [insert cliche here] nonsense. The only other options is violence and alas very few are truly ready to deal with that option despite all the bravado that comes with their impassioned cries for the next 'meriKan revolution. I eagerly await the responses...........
Thanks for your response. I don't see any other way to go about it. Stop fighting and live to fight another day. Not only is fighting the socialists only delaying the inevitable, but even if they start to fail we don't want to be within arms reach of them to pull us down and blame us for it.
Agreed. That would be like trying to save someone who is drowning when you're only an average swimmer yourself. You both sink.
Revolution is pointless unless the fighting force can agree what the end result will be afterward. Otherwise it's continuous warfare between factions with shifting alliances until everyone grows tired of fighting and a new tyranny coalesces.
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So both sides of the aisle embrace cloward-piven?
Does it matter the cloward-piven plan will fail.
Unfortunately, you're right, but the problem is they can do a hella lot of genocide between now and then, and that might include your kids.
Though I think Reid and Pelosi can do plenty of damage that will cause death through decline prosperity I don’t think we have to worry about direct genocide from that crowd. Now what comes after the crash they cause, yes those people historically can be capable of genocide. We should not waste our strength trying to prevent the inevitable crash of our system. We should stand back, watch the show, and be engage when we restructure. If there is a 10 ton bolder rolling down a hill toward your house, you don’t stand in front of the bolder. Call the house get the kids out and let it crush your house. If you try and stop it you get crushed, if you stand back and allow it to destroy your house, you can be there to rebuild.
Does anyone think we can stop the collapse? If so how? If not why fight it? Stand back and be ready to rebuild.
We can fix if only if we elect ______________ </sarc>
I think they'll resort to genocide before giving up. Hope I am wrong.
Well if they do I'll rethink my strategy.
@bwh1214
You have an interesting strategy. Call it "Doormat" or "Please Tread on Me".
Hey don’t make it seem like giving up or cowardly. Its not about the battle its about the war and we can’t afford to keep trying to win a battle that can’t be won. Its called flanking, allow the enemy to think they have the upper hand and hit them from another direction after they have been weakened.
I've had the same thought. I believe TPTB have as well. I believe they will crash this fucker on somebody like Rand's watch. Then, half of us won't do a goddamn thing about it since its "our guy".
You gotta admit it, half of us are going to shut the fuck up if he gets elected and, of course, nothing will change.
I guess the passive action for my plan would be not to vote, the active path would be to vote for the ones you think will break the system fastest. Not sure I would have the balls to do that myself. I guess it we could start a movement called "let them break it", it might have more direction.
Preach it brother. I'm with you. I don't know who the 4 fuck heads are who voted you down. Must have done it on their way to the mail box to get their welfare checks.
Pelosi and Reid? Thats it? At last count I see 535 fucking losers fucking over America every which way they can. Every private meeting with a corporate lobbyist is a felony and treason... just because its not deemed that by the letter of the law... by the spirit of the law... it is at minimum collusion and subversion.
"Where do you think this goes?" The trend will continue down. Where it goes is into the bars, pyscho wards, poor houses, jail, all the ususal. Nothing will change because the few that bother to vote this year and in two more years will waste their votes on either Rebulicans or Democrats.
Every person you ask will have a different reason for why they feel this way. Until enough people begin to get at the root causes for this decline, it will continue to approach zero.
Root causes are the Federal reserve, feminism, climate change and/or sugar. Throw a dart and we'll war on it.
Those are symptoms I am afraid, the root cause is human nature. Until we are strong enough to truly examine it, recognize it and put logical individual controls in place this cycle will rinse and repeat ad nauseum. Oh wait there were some folks once that kinda got it in 1776 even with all their flaws [and there are too many to list] they atleast 'got it' about true human nature, but successive generations lost it............
Here's a question then: Does social media mold human nature?
Zuckerfuck thinks he's a God King with his kingdom of lobotomized voters.
Climate Change ?
Unless you or a trustworthy member of your family is a member of the Politburo of the United States or its Satellites, the US is a very bad place to be.
The Constitution used to protect us, but no longer.
THE BILL OF RIGHTS .... Void Where Prohibited by Law.
Defund and it all stops.
I think the funding stopped about $17,000,000,000,000 ago....
http://www.usdebtclock.org/
As the $ loses more and more of its reserve status, China, Japan and Europe may really and truly defund us, as their struggles compel them to - they'll be headed down the tubes too, but will be scrambling to stay higher up in the toilet bowl, while the fiat currencies swirl down the train. Hmmm...what will I use for toilet paper?
Operator / Pilot error.
It's actually up a bit from when Obama was elected (and when he took office). We may have reached a permanently low plateau.
It goes to Hell. That's where it goes. We all have opinions (good, bad and otherwise).
The "system" is breaking down. The "safety net" is soon.
Thanks Fed. Maybe Janet and Ben can float you Fiat loan.
The money-obsessed kikes have presented to us the BRINK. Welcome.
K-Street has become an archaic malfunction to growth cycles. The system is dying by design.
They are so unhappy that they keep voting for the same President twice.
Clinton x2
Bush x2
Obama x2
With Hilary waiting (panting) in the wings!
Panties with wings is all I read. I think you meant Adult diapers for the sh!t storm brewing.
Slightly OT:
I just watched a movie entitled Rampage 2: Capital Punishment
It really pales in comparison to its predecessor, but then it has always been difficult for a sequel to exceed the original. The director Uwe Boll, was responsible for Assault On Wall Street, another anti-establishment, vigilante themed movie. It is a rare occurrence that a movie attempts to relate the truth of the world that is absent from any newscast or headline.
I will apologize in advance should you feel like you wasted 1 1/2 hours of your life watching this. The rant contained in the final scenes feels like it was ripped from the articles of Zero Hedge....or at the very least, the comments section.
AWESOME I just dl'ed that and am going to watch it tonight, kinda thought it might be interesting. Yeah the 1st one was ok IMO.
Where do you go to find this movie ? Link? Please.
Utorrent + The Pirate Bay = keys to the video store.
Someone can't draw a chart.
The trend was down only until '09, since which it is clearly flat. Evidence that the shock-n-awe economic collapse of '08 did the job.
This is critical. It means that 25% of the people will never understand that they've been tooled. Will never lift a finger. Will never take a stand. When you add in the 40% on government assistance (doesn't have to be the same people) you get back to something like 60% of Americans who won't want things to change.
And that is enough for anyone who promotes BAU to win an election. Which is why we will only ever get people waving the BAU/TBTF flag forever.
I think I agree with your comments except that it's not that someone doesn't know how to draw a chart, it's the interpretation of the data.
How things are going in the United States? What things? It is what it is. The null response. I would be part of the 1% that is not sure.
Can't deconstruct that question. In general... are you satisfied... or unsatisfied...
I would say that things are going along with a satisfactory degree of redundancy, deception and self-delusion, but I am somewhat unsatisfied with the recent False Flags. On the other hand, gas prices are down...
US needs a Second Republic. It should abolish the Imperial Presidency and stop having Darth Sidious in DC
http://www.starwars.com/video/the-emperor-arrives
If the American people do not bring the system to heel it will be global war that does and that will visit upon the US the kind of horrors Asia and Europe and Africa have experienced and now the Middle East.
Watch the Russian movie Tycoon
http://www.amazon.com/Tycoon-Vladimir-Mashkov-%C2%A0Mariya-Mironova/dp/B...
See why Putin had to save Russia from the gangsters - see what gangsters look like operating behind the curtain in the US
This Simon Black post is worthless without a LIST!!!!
Also, all the complainers need to get with Janet's suggestion to just STFU and start building assets.
The 1% that are not sure, live overseas, and have all the money..
They need MOAR..
Articles of Confederation sound good to me!
DoublePlusGood
Bottom line, people are fed up. The system has failed. And people are starting to realize it. Where do you think this goes?
If it were a company, it goes out of business. Being that it's about government ... it goes to getting "all" the business. An overplot of ever increasing govenment size would confirm that.
Where do I think this goes?
It looks pretty obvious to me we've got people trying their damndest to implement either full communism or as far left of a Euro-style social democracy as they can, except they have no fucking clue what they're doing and think they can make a Norway model work in US in spite of having a massively more heterogeneous population and no massive input from government-owned oil field revenues, and no desire on the part of the civil service class to actually provide services. There's a handful on the right that lean towards dictatorship, but most of the evidence I see on both the faux left and right supports this oddball fascist socialism vision.
When things break they're going to go into a "let no crisis go to waste" mode and try to pull off the full takeover. Rest assured part of that includes deleting the bill of rights, especially numbers 2, 4, and 10. Given all the investment in remote-control war, I think they may have a Hunger Games level vision of DC controlling the states via drone. Whatever they do, it'll be "for our own good," since they know better. /sarc.
I hope when it happens we get balkanization to a degree big enough to freak out TPTB to they point where they think the original state-centered republic is a better idea, and let them feast on CA and NY before they turn their attentions elsewhere and try to re-federalize things.
LOL. communism? really? rofl
monopoly is more like it. monoploy of power, money, control.
communism is a boogey man created by the monopolists to scare you.
do a little more research man. the banksters own the communisists, like everyhting else.
P < P + I
communism is a boogey man created by the monopolists to scare you.
Such a tripe line repeated ever so often by those that beLIEve that its a good thing, right? lulz
Well this squares as far as I can tell.
Pick you -ism, power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Whichever way you go seems to lead to fascism/cronyism over time. It is just that with capitalism capital (banksters) steer the bus a little sooner maybe, while with the other two, at least at the start, it is more about relationships and favors, vs. straight up bribes.
cap·i·tal·ismhttp://www.merriam-webster.com/styles/default/images/reference/audio-pro...); background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat;" title="Listen to the pronunciation of capitalism" type="button" /> noun \?ka-p?-t?-?liz-?m, ?kap-t?-,British also k?-?pi-t?-\
: a way of organizing an economy so that the things that are used to make and transport products (such as land, oil, factories, ships, etc.) are owned by individual people and companies rather than by the government
so·cial·ismhttp://www.merriam-webster.com/styles/default/images/reference/audio-pro...); background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat;" title="Listen to the pronunciation of socialism" type="button" /> noun \?s?-sh?-?li-z?m\
: a way of organizing a society in which major industries are owned and controlled by the government rather than by individual people and companies
com·mu·nismhttp://www.merriam-webster.com/styles/default/images/reference/audio-pro...); background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat;" title="Listen to the pronunciation of communism" type="button" /> noun \?käm-y?-?ni-z?m, -yü-\
: a way of organizing a society in which the government owns the things that are used to make and transport products (such as land, oil, factories, ships, etc.) and there is no privately owned property
It could be at 100% and NOTHING WILL BE CHANGED. Americans are pussies now. Face it. There are no Alpha males that get'er done. Too many Ipad/Iphone pussies and manpurse wearing BITCHES! The American woman wears the pants and has more balls than your avg male.
May I assume this PSA is from an Alpha male quoting Larry the Cable Guy?
Don't forget Obama and his cronies have made off with $10 TRILLION DOLLARS. Where is Jon Corzine?
In the Caribbean, lounging in a deck chair, with Margarita in hand? And a smile on his face?
Corzine just did a fund raiser for Hillary in Martha's Vinyard.
http://abc13.com/news/5-stories-youll-care-about-in-politics-this-week-/...
Hillary Clinton isn't just spending her vacation in the Hamptons, the super pac urging her to run in 2016 "Ready for Hillary" is holding a swanky fundraiser in the Hamptons on Friday.......The co-hosts are even more interesting, especially embattled former New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine who is joining New York philanthropists and real estate investor Dan and Brooke Neidich to throw the party. Corzine was at the center of the $1.6 billion MF Global collapse and has laid low politically since, but Republicans seized on the news of the event immediately trying to link Corzine to Clinton.
Sheeple get and deserve what they elect.
BTW that is the plan - keep the sheeple as dumb and ignorant as possible.
Obviously they are doing an excellent job.
Stonage will never end.
Humans a failed experiment.
Where is it going? It looks like it is following the dollar to me...
Sell Simon, sell!
Umm... can I have "below zero" as an answer?
Don't worry, Hillary, the next appointment to the Presidency will make it all better for everybody.
No surprise; people have to indebt themselves to raise their "standard of living." Same as it ever was.
Maby on en good thing with Ukrainans, when they don´t like it they go out and start a riot. When this happens in US...we´ll see
seems like people would need couple of years without wars and bombing iraq which they wont get.. you only need to lose few more wars and then it will reach zero together with vix
long on prozac
People, younger ones in particular, have little hope because the system has been hijacked by the bankers and bureaucrats. Each group is sustained by inflation. Inflation keeps asset values up and bankers in power. Inflation keeps tax revenues up and bureaucrats in power. The SOLUTION to stagnant real wages is LOWER PRICES. It will never happen.
So when do we start hanging the bankers and bureaucrats. It's in our childrens best interest if we have a complete turnover of politicians.
Note, this is a trend that has outlasted three Presidents and six Congresses. It’s not about a single politician, or even ALL the politicians. It’s about the system itself.
but , but i thought it was b cuz of bush
Note, this is a trend that has outlasted three Presidents and six Congresses. It’s not about a single politician, or even ALL the politicians. It’s about the system itself.
WRONG
Its not the system the system works fine until one group gets control of the banking, taxes, media, courts, ect. This happens every 75 to 100 years by the same people. Maybe its time to throw those people in jail and take away their wealth and power.
no sir, you are delusional. the current level of shit is the SYSTEM. the human system. Look back.. all Governments become corrupt, all police and military eventually become merely mercenaries for the 1%.
ALL. EVERY FUCKING SINGLE GOVERNMENT THROUGHOUT ALL RECORDED HISTORY
any system that allows distant, un accountable beauracrats to central plan anything.. ALWAYS goes this way.
ITS NATURAL. we will burn it down and begin again. standard proceedure.
begin
Its happening to you lot just as much as us lot.
It ends when we say it ends. No more, no less.
Fuck Diabold and owt associated with it. The people, 'Us', the 'Plebs', will only take so much before the straw breaks the camels back.
The 'Gaffers' know this. They are fucking shitting into buckets knowing the games up.
Carry on bitchez......
:-)
Chart going in teh opposite direction of FEDs balance sheet. Says it all
Since 2000. Trend down.
A little late. 100% of booms end in a bust. The trend should have been going down before 2000, as the direction of the country was already going the wrong direction with the Nasdaq climbing up to 5,000. Bubbles burst.
Butt, the only thing that could possibly change it (two other chart lines which if superimposed on the that one,s showing the length of time in power and the number of Incumbents in both parties), is off the table.
While the approval ratings for CONgress are in the 17% range, 90% of those who could get rid of their own Incumbents are not going to do so.
So the chart is as useless as yesterday's slightly skid marked toilet paper.
The system is fine. It's the voters who don't want to use it that are the problem.
People continue to "believe" in political parties. A whack-a-mole contest made of clones with different rhetoric but clones nonetheless
Until "the people" who are dissatissfied with the system realize that the system is the problem, that trend line will keep on keeping on. Right now most don't know what the system is.
Bottom line, people are fed up. The system has failed. And people are starting to realize it. Where do you think this goes?
Are they "so fed up" that they are willing to do anything including risking there own personal safety in order to do the right thing so that the letter of the law in our Constitution is preserved which means everyone in Washington goes to jail based on their voting record(s) both past and present -most important among them at the head of the line the Attorney General and the President of the United States for the treason they've committed?...
That would mean we'd be too preoccupied to watch fottball, basketball and baseball 5 times a week showing up in the Nation's Capital to tell our representatives we're not leaving until you are in jail!....
Just imagine the possibilities culminating from those actions. No wars, not the level of subversion and graft we have in government today...
And last but not least "No" Federal Reserve Bank!!!
I agree, but you fail to include the understanding that the people are incapable of the actions you demqand. you dont think we became a nation of sheep by accident, do you? that would be childishly naive.
no.. the SYSTEM created the problem for them to solve it.
ordo ab chaos bitchez...
BURN IT DOWN. STart Over. ready , set, go!
SOP
g_r
Agreed. And unfortunately I'm with you that this Country won't be the one that will make it happen.
It will be the likes of Spain, Scotland and select EU member Nation(s) that are fed up with the system who will set the standard for the rest of us -hopefully
Too much "bread and circus" in this Country. But the worst side-effect is that it is also the one that has the reserve currency status that it wants to maintain along with the largest military it will continue to use in order to get what it wants through force!
People are fed up? WTF, they're again awaiting another Messiah to stem the rising oceans and do all their thinking for them. They don't follow current events, they can't even identify the VP, or a picture of that skank Pelosi. They don't know how many senators the federal gov't has, or where the Eff France is on a map. In fact almost 1/3 of the population cannot even name the nation from which this nation was created. The system has failed? My ass. They're ignorant neo 21st Century peasants, and more importantly they don't give a crap...they just want a king to direct them. What's that song, "no rest for the wicked."
They're ignorant neo 21st Century peasants, and more importantly they don't give a crap...they just want a king to direct them. What's that song, "no rest for the wicked."
ff
Unfortunately +100
So long as they reload my EBT card twice a month, why should I care?
Fractional Reserve Banking . . . That's the whole of it folks.
Fictional reserve is it?
May we get past historical data? I'm wondering if there's been more larger fluctuations rather than than this linear line.
Give the poor more food, that will keep them sweet: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=6e6_1410736613
You should put this on top of the IQ chart and then one on disposable income...tells you everything you need to know.
Good Thing - Fine Young Cannibals
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrOek4z32Vg (3:30)
Durr-Rection, ya says?
Die-Rection?
Diebold..
When Clinton showed the country the kind of politics he would play with the Crime Bill I saw the slime of Southern politics for the first time. Until then the Kingfisher was just a story. Clinton brought shame, slime and divisiveness to this country like it had never experienced.
To me Clinton is mostly to blame for our current situation. The number 2 culprit is the American voter for electing W. I never understood how anyone could get excited about the guy. I hated Gore more but not enough to vote for Shrub. I think I went with the "L" candidate.
Yes, my thoughts on "W" were confirmed when he signed off on the first bailouts. Then it made sense, all that stuff my father had been babbling about since 1971. My grandfather's (now mine) stash of PM's also made sense. I have been stacking and arming ever since. Nothing worth doing is without effort and sacrifice, nothing. Liberty and independence from a corrupt system is no different.
Some people will live, most will die.
same as it ever was...
Surely, you don't blame the system?
If it's anybody's fault, blame the Founding Fukwads who devised the system and failed to adequately protect it from itself.
If George Washington had know that one day an asshole, draft dodger the caliber of Dick Cheney could become Regent to the worthless Baby Bush, he certainly would have surrendered to Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown and begged for good terms.
One of the Founders wrote that the Republic would not survive without a "virtuous people." How prescient he was. I think it was B. Franklin.
dupe
He certainly was more prescient than the horde of American couch potatoes who voted twice for Barack Obama and have since discovered he is the epitome of Uncle Tom.
The chart looks like a wage earner's standard of living since 1978.
It's over. Enjoy what you can with your love ones or self and make the best path away from shit. Vanity oh vanity,all is vanity (Meaningless)
In the Intergalactic Markets everyone is naked shorting the World.
I'm convinced that there are no more 'citizens' awake to reality than was the case in 2008. Voter participation in the party primaries are down, even within the Goiter Ole Party. There were people who were pretty average willing to take on the Establishment incumbents, i.e. Cadaver McConnell (Senate Minority Leader), but again maybe 15% of the registered party voters turned out, so one of the most corrupt ugly pigs of the GOP is still likely to lead the party in the Senate. People are fed up....no they're not. They wouldn't know their anus from a rabbit hole. I'm fed up, disappointed, distressed, and disillusioned with the alleged most educated in the world. Sorry for the rant.
I voted against him, although they moved my polling place unannounce into the middle of a working contruction site, with no signs visible from the road. When I complained about it, and mentioned the other voters I had seen driving aimlessly around the area trying to find a polling place, the asshole running the show said I should be happy there was a polling place.
McConnell lost the primary in my county anyway, otherwise I would have brought the problem higher.
I was called today for a "poll" and they presented three choices the democrat woman, decepti-con Mitch and undecided. I told the guy none of those three. He said Whhhhat??? I said there is a Liberatarian on the ballot, David Patterson, and I am voting for him. Stunned silence.
In just a few more years you should be getting negative values. Right on track. LOL.
Americans can not tolerate pain. Let me put it another way...any form of cutback from the government spigot. Hence, no change to the status quo. Then there are the brain dead that keep saying "we keep re-electing the same people over and over again." In case you haven't noticed, the country is terribly divided. Something like 47% vote for Dems and 47% vote for Repubs. So how exactly are we suppose to wrap our arms around one another and sing kumbaya? The Dems will continue to vote Dem and the Repubs will continue to vote for Repubs. Hence, no change to the status quo.
As I see it, Washington has two choices. 1) The Fed voluntarily abandons all their attempts to stimulate and we land hard but we gradually recover. 2) Continue down this merry road toward total currency collapse. Option 1...we've got some resemblence of a chance. Option 2....only the fit survive. Societal breakdown with the norm being Ferguson. When the dollar goes, so does the country. At the current pace, in 2023, interest on the US debt will exceed all other expenditures.
On second thought, forget everything I just wrote. I'll go back to what I said in the beginning. It takes leadership to produce cohesiveness which would result in shared sacrifice but then again the US population can not handle pain. Remember in grade school the teacher saying "....the US is blessed with natural born leaders..." What happened..?
I just had a conversation at work the other day with someone that was convinced, "Mitt was right." I just smiled and nodded....and tried not to show any change in facial expression changes....
1965 Civil Rights Act ? Nothing civil has come out of it, particularly for black people, but a whole lot of $$ have gone to the least productive part of US society...... the politicians and Big media whores.
Roger Miller has a word on the matter; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lw33d7K12E
I thought you were linking to Hang me, Hang me, you outta take a rope and hang me, hang me from the highest tree.....
Somehow "Chug-a-lug" seems appropriate.
Free iphones.. Problem will be solved
You just have to ask the right people. They're doing a a great job. Maybe we should do what Europe did, let's join forces with Canada and Mexico. Start printing "Dollaresos"....
Here's the solution to America's problems - start a War with Germany and let them win! Then have the Germans do a reverse-Marshall Plan to rebuild America. That way we can live off the German feed trough just like the rest of the EU!
It is obvious that while we remain zombiefied with our ipad/iphone, big screen tv, all the creature-comforts no one will want to make a stand. But cut off the power/food for just a couple of days and then watch the fur fly. Until that day happens take life with a grain of salt, ...plus a slice of lemon and a shot of tequila.
Viva le revolution
Things could start really falling apart on Thursday.
I haven't really thought this through but what if:
1. Scotland declares independence on Thursday (go Scotland!)
2. Customers run on the banks in the UK Thursday night/Friday.
3. UK banks have almost none of their deposits backed up (like almost every other bank on the planet), so the UK banks quickly collapse by Saturday. UK goes total berserker Sat/Sun.
4. Monday, a chain reaction of bank/country economy collapses ensues. The UK goes off the cliff, Tuesday, Japan goes off the cliff, Wednesday, Italy goes off a cliff, Thursday Spain goes off a cliff, ... Saturday, after taking Friday off, the US goes off a cliff...
5. Then starting on Sunday, just as Obama planned, Ebola is found in about 20 people in the US next week, to add to the fun.
6...
Hopefully somewhere in there, probably more towards #6, the People take sweet vengeance on the politicians, bankers, anti-constitutional judges and anti-constitutional police cheifs who helped bring all this about.
With any luck, I'm wrong about the whole thing.
Ha! Look, RBS and HSBC... RBS is huge in Scotland/UK... they're trying to quickly shut down money flow to anything other than their greedy mitts...
http://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/bitcoin-tumbles-banks-shut-down-bitcoin-i...
The BofE will print faster than the Scots can withdraw....
Should that happen, one might consider the MOA of the FDIC & BOE.
“Where do you think this goes?”
We’re looking at the inauguration of the next Dark Age.
Americans have consented to the cannibalization of their young to the end of time, according to data and formulas given by a financial report of the US government. This will be the result of governmental debt beyond counting.
Thus, we discuss a society that cannot survive, and does not deserve to survive.
It’s too bad; you see, Americans have the power to stop it, and make accountable all who perpetrated this evil; and they (Americans) refuse to use that power. There are three main reasons for this failure: one is that they have no knowledge of such power; the second, they’ve been herded into a kind of impotent stupor by medication and indoctrination; the third, that they aid, benefit or were complicit in such evil (full article).