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Murray Einwohner has a background as an entrepreneur and businessman over the past 50 years. Fields of expertise include ... advertising, manufacturing, fundraising, public relations, dealing with foreign governments and a host of other business related activities. He grew up in a time of middle class opportunity and watched how it was battered and became almost nonexistent. Now retired, Murray devotes his time and effort to doing whatever is possible to bring the ongoing demise of America to the awareness of those willing to pay attention.
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The Bamboozled Generation
Today's generation has been so well inundated with lies from an out of control government that they can no longer tell which is up or which is down.
They no longer have the slightest idea of what it was to be a middle class family. They are far removed from the truth that not too long ago their parents lived in a more gentile time, a time when dad worked, mom took care of the home and children, there was job security, some money in the bank and the future for their children was to live in a world that was even better than theirs.
Well, such aspirations just never materialized.
Helplessly and more to the point hopelessly that generation that lived in the golden age of America are morning the morass their children have been forced into.
The family of the past has become a fairy tale and treated just that way.
A couple today that insists on calling themselves middle class because they too have a house, two cars and children on there way to college have been led to believe they are doing just fine.
What that couple has been bamboozled into accepting is that both husband and wife must work to support what they claim is a middle class status.
They have been bamboozled into accepting that it's OK for their children to grow up without the proper supervision of either parent, its OK to be hopelessly ensnarled in credit card debt, it's OK to live from paycheck to paycheck, it's OK to live under the constant job insecurity, it's OK etc. etc.
Here is a perfect example of what a secure job and the money earned was like in your parents time.
A middle class single earner family with an income of $150.00 a week lived in a fair sized home ( over 2,000 sq. feet ) That cost under $10,000 with a mortgage of $90.00 or less. That included interest, amortization, taxes and insurance. Percentage wise ( the proper way to evaluate then and today ) that consumed approximately 15% of income.
Today the average couple is struggling with mortgages that are consuming 50% or more of their income.
The above example can be extended to the cost of feeding a family, medical expenses, transportation, college costs, taxes and every other aspect of family life.
So why hasn't this bamboozled generation fought back and taken this entrapment seriously?
It's the fairy tale syndrome. They just can't comprehend what was and what has been denied to them.
They have been brainwashed so thoroughly that it may bee too late for them to think on their own and wake up from the snake pit they have been programmed into.
Job opportunities have diminished because corporate has been helped by government to move factories overseas, corporate has been helped by government to outsource every conceivable job overseas, government has turned a blind eye to the huge growing illegal population that has depressed the hourly wage and opportunity of even the minimum wage market.
This socioeconomic redevelopment of Americas workforce has for all practicable circumstances eliminated the truly middle class and taken away the ladder for upward development of the lower class.
I urge this generation to wake up and smell the "bullshit" join together and overthrow the mob in Washington that has taken the dreams of your parents the dreams they had for your future and relegated them to the trash can.
A revolution is not only needed but it is your duty.
God bless America and may it return to what the founding fathers meant it to be, limited government and certainly limited corporate power.
Full text of Bush's speech 11/18/05
Edited to highlight what was deliberately sidestepped
Good evening. Three days ago, in large numbers, Iraqis went to the polls to choose their own leaders a landmark day in the history of liberty. In coming weeks, the ballots will be counted, a new government formed and a people who suffered in tyranny for so long will become full members of the free world. [ Something on his wish list that may or may not happen. ]
This election will not mean the end of violence. But it is the beginning of something new: constitutional democracy at the heart of the Middle East. And this vote _ 6,000 miles away, in a vital region of the world _ means that America has an ally of growing strength in the fight against terror. [ One thing is right, it will not mean the end of violence that has been the history of this region for thousands of years. ]
All who had a part in this achievement _ Iraqis, Americans, and Coalition partners _ can be proud. Yet our work is not done. There is more testing and sacrifice before us. I know many Americans have questions about the cost and direction of this war. So tonight I want to talk to you about how far we have come in Iraq, and the path that lies ahead. [ Hey! we got into this mess through faulty intelligence that eased the way for a fight the Bushes were waiting to start. ]
From this office, nearly three years ago, I announced the start of military operations in Iraq. Our Coalition confronted a regime that defied United Nations Security Council Resolutions, violated a cease-fire agreement, sponsored terrorism and possessed, we believed, weapons of mass destruction. After the swift fall of Baghdad, we found mass graves filled by a dictator, we found some capacity to restart programs to produce weapons of mass destruction but we did not find those weapons. [ Hooray! some truth in that statement but it has come to late and is a poor justification for the lack of knowledge about the mentality of the rulers in that region. ]
It is true that Saddam Hussein had a history of pursuing and using weapons of mass destruction. It is true that he systematically concealed those programs, and blocked the work of UN weapons inspectors. It is true that many nations believed that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. But much of the intelligence turned out to be wrong. And as your president, I am responsible for the decision to go into Iraq. [ So! where are you going from here? More mistakes? ]
Yet it was right to remove Saddam Hussein from power. He was given an ultimatum and he made his choice for war. And the result of that war was to rid the world of a murderous dictator who menaced his people, invaded his neighbors, and declared America to be his enemy. Saddam Hussein, captured and jailed, is still the same raging tyrant only now without a throne. His power to harm a single man, woman, or child is gone forever. And the world is better for it.
Since the removal of Saddam, this war like other wars in our history has been difficult. The mission of American troops in urban raids and desert patrols fighting Saddam loyalists and foreign terrorists has brought danger and suffering and loss. This loss has caused sorrow for our whole nation and it has led some to ask if we are creating more problems than we are solving. [ The one and most important problem is your administrations lack of the regions history. They have and will use more suicide bombers than we have soldiers. ]
That is an important question, and the answer depends on your view of the war on terror. If you think the terrorists would become peaceful if only America would stop provoking them, then it might make sense to leave them alone. [ Israel should be a perfect example of terrorist mentality and the frustration normal fighting men trained in normal warfare are up against. How come this insurgency has come as a surprise? ]
This is not the threat I see. I see a global terrorist movement that exploits Islam in the service of radical political aims _ a vision in which books are burned, and women are oppressed, and all dissent is crushed. Terrorist operatives conduct their campaign of murder with a set of declared and specific goals _ to demoralize free nations to drive us out of the Middle East to spread an empire of fear across that region and to wage a perpetual war against America and our friends. These terrorists view the world as a giant battlefield and they seek to attack us wherever they can. This has attracted al-Qaida to Iraq, where they are attempting to frighten and intimidate America into a policy of retreat. [ What a great statement! Another why didn't you know beforehand what you were getting us into? ]
The terrorists do not merely object to American actions in Iraq and elsewhere _ they object to our deepest values and our way of life. And if we were not fighting them in Iraq in Afghanistan in Southeast Asia and in other places, the terrorists would not be peaceful citizens _ they would be on the offense, and headed our way. [ Unless we are prepared to spend a generation in Iraq we will fail and Bush knows but wont admit it. He full well knows the American people wont accept that long a commitment. ]
September 11th, 2001, required us to take every emerging threat to our country seriously, and it shattered the illusion that terrorists attack us only after we provoke them. On that day, we were not in Iraq, we were not in Afghanistan, but the terrorists attacked us anyway _ and killed nearly 3,000 men, women and children in our own country. My conviction comes down to this: We do not create terrorism by fighting the terrorists. We invite terrorism by ignoring them. And we will defeat the terrorists by capturing and killing them abroad removing their safe havens and strengthening new allies like Iraq and Afghanistan in the fight we share. [ Why are we not also protecting our borders at home? Do terrorists have an aversion to entering our country this easy way? ]
The work in Iraq has been especially difficult _ more difficult than we expected. Reconstruction efforts and the training of Iraqi Security Forces started more slowly than we hoped. We continue to see violence and suffering, caused by an enemy that is determined and brutal unconstrained by conscience or the rules of war. [ That enemy has an endless supply of America Haters. We are the infidels that are poisoning there land. Don't you get it? ]
Some look at the challenges in Iraq, and conclude that the war is lost, and not worth another dime or another day. I don't believe that. Our military commanders do not believe that. Our troops in the field, who bear the burden and make the sacrifice, do not believe that America has lost. And not even the terrorists believe it. We know from their own communications that they feel a tightening noose _ and fear the rise of a democratic Iraq. [ Every Arab country in that region will do everything it can to prevent the rise of a democracy. Who is kidding who? ]
The terrorists will continue to have the coward's power to plant roadside bombs and recruit suicide bombers. And you will continue to see the grim results on the evening news. This proves that the war is difficult _ it does not mean that we are losing. Behind the images of chaos that terrorists create for the cameras, we are making steady gains with a clear objective in view. [ It would be great if you would explain that objective and how you intend to get there.]
America, our coalition, and Iraqi leaders are working toward the same goal _ a democratic Iraq that can defend itself that will never again be a safe haven for terrorists and that will serve as a model of freedom for the Middle East.
We have put in place a strategy to achieve this goal _ a strategy I have been discussing in detail over the last few weeks. This plan has three critical elements. [ Really! ]
First, our coalition will remain on the offense _ finding and clearing out the enemy transferring control of more territory to Iraqi units and building up the Iraqi security forces so they can increasingly lead the fight. At this time last year, there were only a handful of Iraqi army and police battalions ready for combat. Now, there are more than 125 Iraqi combat battalions fighting the enemy more than 50 are taking the lead and we have transferred more than a dozen military bases to Iraqi control. [ So! Why are our soldiers forever in harms way if the IRAQI military is improving? ]Second, we are helping the Iraqi government establish the institutions of a unified and lasting democracy, in which all of Iraq's people are included and represented. Here also, the news is encouraging. Three days ago, more than 10 million Iraqis went to the polls including many Sunni Iraqis who had boycotted national elections last January. Iraqis of every background are recognizing that democracy is the future of the country they love _ and they want their voices heard. One Iraqi, after dipping his finger in the purple ink as he cast his ballot, stuck his finger in the air and said: "This is a thorn in the eyes of the terrorists." Another voter was asked, "Are you Sunni or Shia?" He responded, "I am Iraqi." [ No doubt! left to the citizenry the majority want to live a peaceful existence but they are not the ones that have the final say in the matter. ]
Third, after a number of setbacks, our coalition is moving forward with a reconstruction plan to revive Iraq's economy and infrastructure _ and to give Iraqis confidence that a free life will be a better life. Today in Iraq, seven in 10 Iraqis say their lives are going well _ and nearly two-thirds expect things to improve even more in the year ahead. Despite the violence, Iraqis are optimistic _ and that optimism is justified. [ That there optimism is justified does not negate the political opposition of those that want power and are indeed using every terrorist means to get it. ]
In all three aspects of our strategy _ security, democracy, and reconstruction _ we have learned from our experiences, and fixed what has not worked. We will continue to listen to honest criticism, and make every change that will help us complete the mission. Yet there is a difference between honest critics who recognize what is wrong, and defeatists who refuse to see that anything is right. [ Just admit that it might take generations to turn the corner to democracy in a region that has no idea of what that word means and the way it can bring them into the new world. ]
Defeatism may have its partisan uses, but it is not justified by the facts. For every scene of destruction in Iraq, there are more scenes of rebuilding and hope. For every life lost, there are countless more lives reclaimed. And for every terrorist working to stop freedom in Iraq, there are many more Iraqis and Americans working to defeat them. My fellow citizens: Not only can we win the war in Iraq _ we are winning the war in Iraq. [ Pure gobbledygook! ]
It is also important for every American to understand the consequences of pulling out of Iraq before our work is done. We would abandon our Iraqi friends _ and signal to the world that America cannot be trusted to keep its word. We would undermine the morale of our troops _ by betraying the cause for which they have sacrificed. We would cause the tyrants in the Middle East to laugh at our failed resolve, and tighten their repressive grip. We would hand Iraq over to enemies who have pledged to attack us _ and the global terrorist movement would be emboldened and more dangerous than ever before. To retreat before victory would be an act of recklessness and dishonor and I will not allow it. [ Hey HEY! that is the truth but sadly it's because we were unprepared in the first pace and now must endure the consequences. ]
We are approaching a new year, and there are certain things all Americans can expect to see. We will see more sacrifice _ from our military, their families and the Iraqi people. We will see a concerted effort to improve Iraqi police forces and fight corruption. We will see the Iraqi military gaining strength and confidence, and the democratic process moving forward. As these achievements come, it should require fewer American troops to accomplish our mission. I will make decisions on troop levels based on the progress we see on the ground and the advice of our military leaders _ not based on artificial timetables set by politicians in Washington. Our forces in Iraq are on the road to victory _ and that is the road that will take them home. [ There is a timetable but you are afraid to let the American people in on it. As I said before the time table is generations. ]
In the months ahead, all Americans will have a part in the success of this war. Members of Congress will need to provide resources for our military. Our men and women in uniform, who have done so much already, will continue their brave and urgent work. And tonight, I ask all of you listening to carefully consider the stakes of this war, to realize how far we have come and the good we are doing, and to have patience in this difficult, noble, and necessary cause. [ Generations! Stop evading it. Look at Korea. ]
I also want to speak to those of you who did not support my decision to send troops to Iraq: I have heard your disagreement, and I know how deeply it is felt. Yet now there are only two options before our country _ victory or defeat. And the need for victory is larger than any president or political party, because the security of our people is in the balance. I don't expect you to support everything I do, but tonight I have a request: Do not give in to despair, and do not give up on this fight for freedom. [ OK! Despair is the wrong adjective for how Americans feel. We are disillusioned because truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is withheld.]
Americans can expect some things of me as well. My most solemn responsibility is to protect our nation, and that requires me to make some tough decisions. I see the consequences of those decisions when I meet wounded servicemen and women who cannot leave their hospital beds, but summon the strength to look me in the eye and say they would do it all over again. I see the consequences when I talk to parents who miss a child so much _ but tell me he loved being a soldier, he believed in his mission, and Mr. President, finish the job. [ Will you and how? ]
I know that some of my decisions have led to terrible loss _ and not one of those decisions has been taken lightly. I know this war is controversial _ yet being your president requires doing what I believe is right and accepting the consequences. And I have never been more certain that America's actions in Iraq are essential to the security of our citizens, and will lay the foundation of peace for our children and grandchildren.
Next week, Americans will gather to celebrate Christmas and Hanukkah. Many families will be praying for loved ones spending this season far from home _ in Iraq, Afghanistan and other dangerous places. Our Nation joins in those prayers. We pray for the safety and strength of our troops. We trust, with them, in a love that conquers all fear, and a light that reaches the darkest corners of the Earth. And we remember the words of the Christmas carol, written during the Civil War: "God is not dead, nor (does) He sleep; the Wrong shall fail, the Right prevail, with peace on Earth, good-will to men."
Thank you, and good night.
We Are Losing Our Freedom Of Choice
I haven't posted any new articles for a while as I have been involved in a whirlwind of medical tests. However, the latest government intervention into our lives has gotten me steamed beyond beyond description.
The power of government colluding with private industry, has in fact reached a level of control over what we do that it has become overbearing.
In order to combat the loss of revenue (sales tax) our elected officials have persuaded the credit card companies to stop processing credit cards for internet orders of cigarettes.
That it does harm to legitimate business (plans to destroy them) is one thing but the bottom line is that the credit card companies under pressure from government has arbitrarily instituted an action that limits what I can buy with my credit card. Where this can lead to is anyone's guess.
The reason given for this extraordinary action is that the internet cigarette companies have no way to verify age and that is broadening the ability of teens to buy cigarettes.
Bald face misrepresentations for the actions they have taken is indicative of what control our so called servants have over us.
The no sales tax on items shipped out of state has always been in practice and existed on the internet in the same legal way as any other means of buying goods.
We the credit card holders are now open to regulations meant to restrict how, when and where we buy our goods.
So! here is something to think about.
The endless debate in congress on how to regulate the porn industry, the biggest money maker on the net, needs no more debate. The answer has been found. Stop honoring credit card transactions from the porn industry. Simple! No!
It will never happen. Why? The porn industry has more muscle than government. It is run by an element that government has no stomach to do battle with.
Here is another situation to consider. We could be prevented from using the internet to buy life saving drugs from Canada. Are you getting the Idea of what this newest illegality could lead to.
Again I ask, where does it go from here? What might government add to the list of items we legally buy and what means might they find to hinder our freedom and ease of choice?
Have I lost My Marbles?
After spending 76 years believing I have a better than average comprehending mind I am beginning to doubt it.
The political-speak that is flooding us is attempting to drown us in a "Tsunami" more devastating than the that which recently wiped out entire populations.
This political mumbo jumbo is becoming just as effective in its destructive onrush but there will be no worldwide relief effort to save the survivors.
Sure, politics has always been a game of doublespeak. Sure there has always been graft and coruption. Sure there has always been a division between the agenda of those in power and those controled by power, but never in my lifetime has it been so brazen and in your face.
Not so long ago those in power, on the take, in order to stay in power gave generous handouts to the electorate that put them there. This is no longer the case. NOW those that put them in power are forgotten as soon as possible.
This is but one example of forked tongue double talk:
I received a booklet that was meant to describe the benefits of the Medicare drug-card program. As I read page after page I became more and more frustrated. My comprehending mind was sinking into a morass. I placed a phone call to what I believed would be an authority on the subject, explained my lack of understanding of the voluminous verbiage and asked for clarification. The supposed expert on the other end of the line replied, I don't know myself what it is supposed to mean. That was that.
Now let's be practicall, the book sent to me, could, if the writers wanted to truly describe the program be accomplished in a page or two.
The writers however created a web of confusion that required voluminous confusing political double talk. They are damn good at it.
The foregoing is just one example of the destructive blueprint that the arrogant servants we put in office are rewarding us with.
On second thought I'm not losing my marbles but I surely belong that that part of the population that is dwindling, disappearing into oblivion.
Unless we who remain in control of our senses can ignite a revolution to take back America ... all will be lost forever.
Economic Freedom ???
by Richard E. Wagner, Ph.D.
Since 1995, the Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street Journal have published an annual Index of Economic Freedom available at www.heritage.org. This index measures the extent of economic freedom throughout the world. The idea behind this effort is that economic freedom expands as people are allowed to engage in economic activity free from governmental control.Response by M.E: As usual I have found those engaged in accumulating facts and figures compile there information in a windowless room that never permits the light of reality to penetrate. The relationship is not government restriction but rather government collusion with the masters (not we the people) they are beholden too.
When corporations are subsidized by government for removal of their product or services overseas the result is a dwindling job market here at home. Therefore the ability to engage in a wide range of economic activity shrinks proportionally. The more the opportunity for selecting you economic future is curtailed the more control government can exert on your present and future activities.
In particular eliminating the middle class, which is happening at an exponential rate, a group that was effectively challenging our government misdeeds has been substantially deteriorated. That part of society, lower income) has also been effected as their upward mobility ladder has had the rungs cut from it.
The very next action that is designed to prevent the reemergence of that part of society so successfully disenfranchised was to flood our country with millions of "Illegal Aliens" and then mount a campaign to abolish the word illegal, remove it from our vocabulary and law books, and instead of encouraging lawful deportation, let's declare an amnesty and hold on to this intrusive influx of uneducated, below minimum wage workers that corporate is using to full advantage.
Get the picture?
Who Cares?
While the country our forefathers created is disappearing before our very eyes, at least to those who still have their eyes connected to a brain, mainstream media entertains us with diversionary garbage.
Who cares weather there will be a battle over abortion, a religious agenda the government has no business toying with. It was never their mandate?
Who cares weather lesbians and gays want to get married. This political football should be stopped dead in its tracks. Nowhere in the history of mankind was marriage other than between a man and a woman. How the hell do these people, less than 1% of society expect to change procreation of the race?
Who cares weather one party or the other gets the power to b__ s___ to us. We are getting the shaft from both of them?
Who cares weather an idiotic pronouncement that the election was won because of moral values when moral values does not exist in government?
Who cares that we are told the economy is growing when corporations will be the only ones to benefit from sending our jobs to another country?
Who cares that our health system is going to hell in a handbasket as we are told its the finest in world, even though millions are trapped without medical necessities?
Who cares that our energy costs are going through the roof as we struggle to pay for it?
Who cares if we win the hearts and minds of the people in Iraq as they kill our soldiers by the hour?
Who cares that our unprotected boarders are an open invitation to terrorists and yet our government wants to grant amnesty to almost 10,000,000 illegals already floating around?
Who cares that the present generation has been brainwashed and unable to recognize what is being done to them?
Who cares that are civil liberties are disappearing one right at a time?
Who cares that Afghanistan and Iraq will probably lead to additional wars and more dead soldiers?
Who cares that the UN residing in New York City is trashing the hosts that house them?
Who cares, etc. etc. etc..
We care, we who still can think, we who have lived in the golden age, we who still have the desire to act against our out of control government.
It is up to the dwindling few, the few who have the interest of the many at heart, to reverse the trend and recapture our country.
All of the above will have little meaning if we lose our Republic.
This is a monumental task and sooner or latter must have the cooperation of those that are standing on the sidelines watching the struggle.
We all are under an obligation to revolt and do our best to win this war. Our forefathers warned us this might happen and justified any revolution that is created to preserve the gift we were given.
They new from the beginning there would be powerful forces intent on rebuilding a new "Kingdom" in place of the one that was expunged.
Diogenes is still looking
I feel like I have become a modern day Diogenes but rather than looking for an honest man "I" am looking for those who are capable of realizing "what is going on."
Sure, there is no shortage of Americans that know something is wrong.
Sure, they complain, form focus groups, become quasi activists, then leave the gathering having gotten something off their chests, but accomplishing nothing.
This is an exercise in frustration that I have come upon all to often.
So! why is it that a gathering of well meaning intelligent folk are just spinning their wheels and will continue to do so?
I have arrived at this conclusion/possible reason.
The preponderance of those who are valiantly trying to turn a catastrophe around just aren't equipped to succeed.
They are devoid of an education that even remotely addressed the deterioration of our from of government ... a "Republic."
They have been subjected to a relentless stream of disinformation spewed forth from the very officials they elected to preserve their heritage and reinforce their future.
They have been bamboozled by the very government that was to protect them by giving corporate the same rights as humans and then some.
They have been snared by the contemptuous installation of a two party system that is just a facade set up by the elite as a means of controlling the populace.
What then can one expect from a befuddled, dumbed down population that is trying their best but incapable of getting it right?
This then is the crux of our present dilemma and it is very very serious and it is getting worse by the moment.
Can I ever find some Americans that are educated enough and determined enough to counterattack, the evil forces that are destroying our Republic?
If I thought not I would not submit myself to a hopeless endeavor.
Yes! I do believe there are enough of us left, the ones that successfully resisted the purposeful transformation of the population, the ones who are still capable of turning the tables on the sharks that are dealing from the bottom of the deck.
So! I will still carry the lamp and continue my effort to find those that can still save America, our Republic, and the cause that created the edict, "of, by, and for the people."
Is The End In Sight
At age 76 I have witnessed and participated in more presidential elections than I care to remember. None of them were devoid of political skullduggery. However, none came close to the reprehensible filth that the opposing candidates are hurling at each other.
We expect, at least I think we do, that we are voting for a person that will protect and advance the founding principals this country was founded on, a government of, by, and for the people. They are expected, so I think, to preserve the advances the people have made in relation to achieving the good life ... an American dream.
After the 2nd world war that dream advanced at a rapid pace and more and more found out that integrity and hard work allowed them to climb the ladder to a better life.
In a nutshell, that ladder has turned into a squirrel cage where the faster you run the more quickly you are back at the point you started from.
So! the dirt that engulfs the candidates in this presidential battle has no relationship to the dilemma that is destroying the heart and sole of our country ... a middle class family.
Beside the incessant, unproductive infighting about who served America honestly, who is lying more than the other, what if anything is being debated that highlights the plight of Americas backbone, the middle class family that made this country great, and as it did so made the fortunes for the elite that is now in the process of destroying that source.
We the people that did the work are about to have our heads cut off. The process is well under way.
America, the richest most powerful nation on earth, rather than promoting a better future for its citizens is now destroying them step by sinister step.
We remain the only industrialized country that is not providing health care for its entire population.
We are being taxed beyond a fault. Lower federal taxes and local taxes rise to take up the deficit. It is an endless shell game.
We, the middle class, have become known as the working poor.
We are being subject to more and more eradications of personal liberties under the guise of national security.
We are being forced to compete with an astronomical, protected, influx of protected illegal aliens who could care less about what America was all about. For the illegal we are just a source of money.
We have an increasing population of impoverished struggling to stay alive, yet we generously provide for the same living in other parts of the world.
Yet as all the above threatens our very existence, the combatants in this presidential farce have studiously avoided any mention, let alone debate the essence of what is happening to us.
This again brings me to ask the question, what in the world can you be thinking about that allows you to make a decision as to which conspirator you will vote for. What in the world beckons you to become a part of this grotesque game?
I can come to only one conclusion, you are one of those that has been completely brainwashed or you haven't any brains at all.
How can I come to such a harsh conclusion?
Simple!
When talking recently to a man I respect for his intelligence, we spoke of the upcoming election. He illustrated his hatred for Bush. When I asked him what alternative he had in mind his reply was even Mickey Mouse would do.
In my estimation this displays unchecked, irrational emotion present in so many I speak to.
If this growing segment are to become the trendsetters of our future ... we must face the facts ... there is no worthwhile future.
However, I for one, still believe there are enough un-trapped, free thinkers, genuine patriots, that are still left to fight to regain our inheritance and it is a war that can be won.
Getting More Stomach-Churning By The Hour
As I dutifully monitor what is going on in our U.S.A. using whatever is available to do so ... my blood-pressure is reaching a critical level.
The conventions and the talking heads that crowded the air-waves was misleading propaganda of the worst kind. How it is possible ( from a constructed limited choice ) to pick a president from either camp when either camp receives funding from the same source is a mystery to me.
Lets face it, once every four years we are presented with a staged extravaganza that is designed to augment the clap-trap being hurled at us every day.
This down and dirty contest defies the imagination as to how polluted are the producers of this travesty. When one side publicizes their bucket full of muck the opponent comes through with a barrel-full to fight back. And so it goes.
Nevertheless, voters will go to the booths and cast a ballot. What trash from either candidate lured them to pick one from the other is beyond my comprehension.
Does it all boil down to where the vote is cast by either Bush haters or Kerry haters? If so, we are not witnessing a government "of-by-and for the people "a republic" but we are witnessing a government elected by an effectively brainwashed population.
This does not bode well for the future of our republic. Unless you are blind to what is going on around you, how is it possible to get the message out that time is running out?
In a few sort years the very complexion of our population will have changed so critically that the European multiple generation builders of America will become a minority. The overtaking ethnicities will be solely focused on what the country can do for them, not what they can do for their country and that has been the ongoing plan of the elite forces that are bent on altering the essence of America, a country our founding fathers created to protect us from another king that will try to replace the one we got rid of.
Is there anything we can do at this late stage of destructive transformation? You bet! It's up to the few remaining true patriots to fight back, another revolution, one without arms. What might that be?
Get knowledgeable, really learn how to use your computer and become a "hactivist."
Where Was It Written
Where was it written that our republic was to eventually morph into a make-believe two party system.
It was never the intention of our founding fathers, though they did warn against the inevitability and cautioned the public to stay alert and fight back.
They openly stated that the dark forces of power would work "without letup" to regain the power that a republic was meant to strip from them. The remedy for restricting and or eliminating such treasonable actions was to replicate the very actions brought to bear on the king ... revolution.
We established our republic by revolting against a king and our founding was accomplished with blood, sweat and tears. Today, the subversion that is stripping us of our republic requires no less an effort.
The apparent remedy for replacing errant servants we elected to do our bidding has become a farce. We have been reduced to selecting between "tweedle-dee and tweedle-dumb" either one a surrogate of an all powerful hidden ruler, a ruler that has been evolving since the beginning of our republic.
Not too long ago any attempt to inform the public that we are in the beginning stages of a new world order was fraught with disbelief and ridicule. That has changed. We can no longer dispute the fact that a new world order is a reality. The new world order is now a subject that is out in the open and being debated as if it is a subject that has any merit. How foolish! There is no reasonable defense of treachery.
The clandestine perpetrators of organizations intent upon totally eliminating our republic, our sovereignty, must be taken down ... eliminated.
Does that mean another revolution?
Why Not!
Our founding fathers cautioned us that it might become an necessity.
Our founding fathers cautioned us to the reality that our republic would come under attack.
Our founding fathers cautioned us to remain alert and to defend the republic they installed, a republic that was meant to eliminate any chance of being once again ruled by a monarch.
Are you getting the picture?
DISGUSTED
Its been a while since I last posted an article for this page. What can I say?
The media has become more offensive than ever. Reporting news that is meaningful and accurate has become a far-fetched figment of the imagination. An item deemed to have sensational aspects is picked up by all news media and beaten to death by publishing it over and over and over again, until you are sick of it. While this is going on really important events that you should know about, events that are essential to your every day life never make the grade.
The news, or rather misinformation releases, has become completely politicized and is polarizing society as never before. This exercise aimed at creating a constituency for one candidate or another will tear this country apart. That this will be the end result and put a sophistic candidate on the throne is the intent and make no mistake about it. No matter what party gets to sit on the throne they win and you lose.
Daily, you are bombarded with up to the minute polls. Not only are they a joke to those endowed with a modicum of imagination but they are a mind bending drug to the majority that have surrendered to the propaganda/misinformation this area of reporting is meant to induce.
While the possessed media concentrates on misdirection or government (a format that was meant to be "of-by-and for the people" is becoming more obscure as each day passes.
If you are sick of hearing the spin masters tell you how the economy is improving, health care has been enhanced, you are earning more now and living in a far better environment than ever before, the world is a safer pace now and so on, you are among the minority. Unfortunately the ignorant mass are still ready and able to swallow the lies that are designed to entrap them. Unfortunately they never wise up.
My feelings of disgust represent a fair amount of the voting public but not enough. The rest have been force fed a deadly potion of political mind bending drugs that have put them in a state of empty-mindlessness.
To those that can still think clearly and asses the damage already done to our republic and what is coming to finish it off the fight for survival is in your hands. May you retaliate with vigor and succeed in reversing the take over of America.
I will fight on with you.
YOU ARE BEING SYSTEMATICALLY DESTROYED
Have you become so toally reprogrammed you don't realize it?
I'm getting to the point where I want to fling a brick through my television screen.
This main source of news maliciously beamed at us, our primary source of knowing what is going on, has become a horror of misinformation. The agenda inherent in an increasingly controlled media is becoming more and more apparent.
The proliferation of perverted shows aimed at the destruction of moral boundaries is another atrocity foisted on a purposely dumbed down population that has lost any semblance of understanding there is a right and wrong way to live.
As a result of a planed restructuring of what a family was the "middle class" have become the working poor, the "lower income class" have lost the ladder that enabled their ability to rise above it. They are being undercut by still cheaper labor from the unrestricted flow of illegals from Mexico.
Those that are higher up the income chain, I repeat "the working poor" are being eliminated because of the ever increasing movement of manufacturing to other countries and adding insult to injury the outsourcing of our promised. "glorious service economy."
As this is going on (news misinformation, family destruction, morality decline, shrinking of a good paying job market) the further stealthy damage foisted on us is accepted out of ignorance of how prosperity was a generation or so ago.
This mumbo-jumbo spin about our economy rebounding and unemployment decreasing is just that ... spin. How we are supposed to accept that hogwash is beyond me, yet it seems, this recent history deprived population has no benchmark to compare the present with the very recent past. Those golden years have been abolished from their memory banks. Sadly, the momentum of the new world order is moving forward at an unrestricted pace.
Living in this age of turmoil may be our introduction to the beginning of the end. It may be our send-off to a world that will have total power over our every move. Sounds ominous? Wake up! Control of our life is now in effect and growing exponentially every day.
(1) Need medication but can't afford to buy America ... it's illegal to buy from Canada.
(2) Live in a rural area and need a car to get to you job ... driving is considered a privilege not a necessity.
(3) Smoke cigarettes, a legal product ... you are paying sin-taxes galore.
(4) Taxes were lowered across the board ... but dollar-wise favored the wealthiest.
(5) If you are considered to be obese ... how to counter that is in the works.
(6) If you have the slightest idea who to vote for ... electronic voting will eliminate a paper trail of truth.
(7) Family and the age old concept of marriage ... is being undercut by the judiciary making instead of following law.
(8) Can't afford medical insurance ... cross the boarder as an illegal and get all the help you need. Corporate needs illegals.
(9) Try to create a third party that might reverse the trend ... unless you are a Perot with billions the rules are stacked against you.
(10) Any hope of lobbying congress to reverse the destruction of America ... is overridden by the power of corporate.
(11) In a war, the reason for it has become so ambiguous ... I defy anyone to make heads or tails out of it.
OK, that's enough items to display. The list of restrictions and directives could fill a novel. Surely if you still are among those that have half a brain left the implication of present controls point out the direction were being herded to.
Is there still time left to recapture America? Are there still tools remaining to overcome what has been done to us?
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The best prosperity ever? You're better off than ever?
BULL !!!
How much more of this "sophistic garbage" will you take?
The existence of a substantial sized middle class is one of America's greatest accomplishments. But look at American today. The middle class is shrinking. And along with the shrinking of the middle class, comes the shrinking of democracy. Witness the greed, corruption, and control of the political system by the super rich in America. What is even scarier about now, compared to other times in history, is that today we have propaganda machines that the rulers in the past could only have dreamed of to control, distract, and subdue the masses of good and hard working people.
Perhaps one of the things which most characterizes the 1950's was the strong element of conservatism which ran throughout much of society. One of the best indicators of the conservative frame of mind was the addition of the phrase "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance.
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Let's explore life in the 50's, the life your parents lived, the lost age of golden opportunity, a middle class with a future.
Let's define that life in a realistic way by using percentage of income rather than the distorted comparison using then dollars against today's dollars.
Let's also focus on the prime ingredients that made up the emerging middle class values and opportunities for continued advancement.
In real dollars, the wages for the U.S. middle class have been stagnant or falling since the mid 1970's. What has helped increase family incomes is that many more families have both parents working today than before.
In his 1956 book The Power Elite , sociologist C. Wright Mills warned of the growing power of big business that had accompanied the post-war economic boom.
The great majority of the wealth creation of the 90's went to a very small percentage of people. We are moving back to a social system where there is a very small number of very rich and powerful people and a very large number of poor people. The middle class is disappearing in America. Unfortunately, this is the social system that you see most often throughout human history. A large middle class is a very rare thing. "Democracies" have existed before in history but they have all disappeared. One of the hallmarks is a return to a feudal or aristocratic social systems.
Aristotle talked about how important a strong middle class was over 2000 years ago:
"Thus, it is manifest that the best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class, and that those states are likely to be well-administered in which the middle class is larger, and stronger, if possible, than both other classes."
Home Ownership
Throughout the 1950's, the American economy grew at an unprecedented rates:
(1) National income doubled in the 1950's, and nearly doubled again during the 1960's.
(2) Americans were only 6% of the world's population in the 1950's, but enjoyed 40% of its wealth.
(3) By the mid-1950's, 60% of Americans were in the "middle class," having incomes between $5,000 and $10,000 per year.
(4) By the end of the 1950's, the vast majority of American households owned their own car and washing machine, and nearly 90% owned at least one television set.
(5) Almost 60% of American families owned their own homes by 1960.
Remember, we are going to focus on what %of income it costs to live a middle class life style. OK. Let's take this Levittown house and and say we use $7,500 earnings per year. That would give you $625.00 per month. As a returned G.I. you would get a 30 year mortgage at %3.0 or less, which would make your monthly payment ( interest, taxes, amortization ) less than $50.00 per month on average. Using $625.00 per. month figure you are spending under 5% of your income to own a house. The down payment is $100.00. All figures are approximate as related to actual income and mortgage interest secured. This example is based on a "One Income" family.
Today owning a home usually requires a "Two Income" family. Say you bought a home with about the same square footage as the Levittown house, close to a major city, you would be looking at prices around $150,000 with a down payment of at least %10 ($15,000). Using average income (two wage earners of today) $60,000, a 30 year mortgage at %6 ( interest, taxes, amortization ) would be looking at about $1,300 per month. Basing this on approximately $5,000 per. month income you are spending over %20 of a two person income to own a house. And that could well double if only one in the family was working.
So! what are we looking at?
(1) The essential reason for being a family has been altered. Mom has to work therefore children are less supervised and other expenses increase, such as child care, transportation, insurance, etc.. Get the picture? Is this a better life?
(2) Can you even get a house loan of $150,000 if your incomes are only $60,000? Chances are you wont be able to come up with the down payment and even if you could the cost of furnishing the home would put you in dangerous debt.
(3) Is the struggle to live in anything approaching a middle class existence worth it anymore?
(4) Has the quality of life been improved over the past generation?
TRANSPORTATION
In the early 50's one could buy a new economy model car for under %1,000. Using the same $7,500 dollar yearly income that would come to approximately %15 of one years gross income. Today, the average cost of a like full size mid range car is about $20,000. Using the $60,000 (two income family) that will be about %33 of 1 years gross income. Of course that too would double if 2 cars are needed and most often that is the case. Using a low 5 year repayment plan for 2 cars and $5,000 monthly income the cost will average for both cars $500.00 per month. That will total out to about %10 of monthly income.
(1) The above does not take into consideration the enormous cost of today's insurance, maintenance, repairs and gasoline prices. In the 50's you could buy gas @ .20 per gallon and that included full service.
(2) Another consideration (if you are going to vacation with the car) the cost of toll roads, parking, high room rentals, (in the 50's one could get a room and continental breakfast for $1.50) and expensive dinning.
(3) Has the quality of life been improved over the past generation?
FEEDING A FAMILY OF 4
On average, depending on how thrifty a family was, the average monthly food bill was about $80.00. Using the $625.00 per. month figure that will come to about %12 percent of income. Today if we use $600.00 for a family of 4 at $5,000.00 per month earnings that will total about %12. It appears there is no change. True, if we fail to include the abundance of other than food items we now purchase in the modern supermarkets. Paper diapers (mother once washed regular ones), a variety of personal items (hair spray, shampoos, over the counter medications, pet essentials, etc.). This can easily bring that %12 up to %20. If the commentary below is the rule that %20 can easily climb to %30.
Back when Swanson TV dinners were introduced, housewives were valued as cooks and TV dinners were the food you let the baby sitter serve or what you ate when Dad was out. Today, women are no longer preparing from scratch. Instead, they are assembling food from a variety of sources, ranging from the freezer case to fast food restaurants to supermarket take-out.
"Women are becoming food assemblers, not food preparers.In fact, the overall trend in dining is to let someone else do it. Today only 33 percent of all dinners are cooked from scratch, and that number is declining.
"It's all attributable to one fact and that is that 77 percent of all dinner in America is prepared by women who are by necessity working to support the family. And you can't tell me that with all the demands and pressures this has on a women's time that the job of cooking is a job they would rather not have. Women by limited time available are transforming meal preparation."(1) A good example was the introduction of Swanson's TV Dinner of turkey, stuffing, gravy, peas and sweet potatoes cost only .98 cents. A comparable frozen food meal is now selling at over $4.00.
(2) If you have been snared by the food industries campaign to join the million eating their so called (generically engineered) healthy foods your cost will skyrocket.
(3) A family once sat down to the dinner table and it was a time for pleasant discussion. To day dinner must be sandwiched in to the hectic pace of a new forced style of living.
(4) A couple could eat out in an authentic French restaurant and eat their full for a mere $4.00. Today you would be lucky if its under $100.00.
(5) Has the quality of life been improved over the past generation?
HEALTH CARE
The current crisis and chaos in U.S. health care provide both the motivation and the opportunity for Americans to develop a national health care system that meets the needs of all the people. The health care system is full of inefficiencies, inequities, waste, fraud, and abuse created by our having allowed health care -- a fundamental human right -- to be converted into a mere commodity in the marketplace. So we are witnessing an undignified, anarchical squabbling over services, profits, and position among warring vested-interest groups that include workers, employers, labor unions, doctors groups, HMOs, insurance companies, and the pharmaceutical industry. The United States holds the singular position of being the only major industrial nation in the world not taking care of the health of its own people. It is timely for the people to insist that the government take control of health care delivery in this country.
The current disorganized, commodified approach to health care is a national disgrace. It costs us a whopping 15% of our GDP, yet has resulted in an unjust distribution of health care, with 45 million uninsured people, plus millions of underinsured people, and millions of insured people to whom health care insurance is becoming an increasing financial burden. The total number of people in these categories, augmented by all the compassionate people who deplore this social inequality, could well add up to some 100 million Americans.
When doctors made house-calls and accepted food for payment
Dr. Eli Boggs, who brought so many people into the world, delivering more than ten thousand babies through the years, making house calls at all hours of the night. House calls were the norm at that time. It was considered to be a doctors duty. His nephew, Dr. Fitz Gilbert recalls that he was frequently paid by his rural patients with chickens, eggs or preserves.
He practiced medicine as a doctor was expected to. The patient came first and his remuneration last. House-calls no longer exist and the sign in the doctors waiting room lets you know you are expected to pay before you leave his office.
He certainly wont accept food and rather than the $5.00 fee of the 50's chances are you wont leave (even a walk in service using practitioners) with less than $150.00 bill for a five minute look at you.
If you do not have insurance and can't pony up the cash "you will not be admitted."
Medical insurance for a family of 4 can easily come to $1,000.00 a month. For the family of 4 with two workers bringing in $5,000.00 per. month that is %20 of income. Even if you were to get insurance from your employer, a growing number of corporations are hiring on a shortened work week to stay under the number of hours worked that would require them to enroll you in their plan. To boot, most of the plans require a ever greater contribution from you and diminished services by the provider.
Even if you can save by ordering your meds on the internet government is making it difficult by enacting laws to curtail that possibility.
(1) Has the quality of life been improved over the past generation?
MORALITY - VALUES - CHIVALRY
Nowhere was the desire for conformity more apparent than in the suburbs, where newly middle class couples rushed to buy "cookie cutter" homes. In suburbs like Long Island's Levittown, families enjoyed a new post-war affluence. Dick and Jane readers, which first appeared in 1927, crystallized American suburban life. Formica kitchen cabinets, wall-to-wall carpeting, dishwashers, two-car garages: to the nuclear family of the 1950's these things meant security after decades of sacrifice and deprivation (the Depression and World War II).
Several factors contributed to post-war suburbanization. First, the G.I. Bill of Rights (officially known as the Serviceman's Readjustment Act of 1944), gave returning members of the armed services new opportunities to find themselves in the middle class. Congress was concerned whether the nation's economy could absorb the 15 million veterans who would be returning home after the war. The G.I. Bill attempted to address this problem by providing generous financial aid to veterans enrolling in school, including technical and vocational programs as well as colleges and universities. The G.I. Bill revolutionized higher education in the United States. More than 2 million mostly working class men attended college, another 6 million received vocational and technical training. Education was further advanced after 1957, when in response to the Soviet launch of the Sputnik satellite, the Congress authorized additional monies for math and science teaching. The National Defense Education Act (NDEA), created even further educational and career opportunities for Americans, new avenues to become middle class.
The G.I. Bill also authorized the Veterans Administration to guarantee loans to veterans for buying homes, farms and small businesses. Home ownership suddenly became realistic for millions of young families, and a post-war construction boom naturally followed. A post-war population explosion (the Baby Boom) also contributed to the demand for inexpensive suburban housing. More than 50 million new babies were born between 1945 and 1960, taxing resources such as housing, schools and childcare. The baby boom also created a generation of young people who grew up in relative affluence.
It was an era referred to as the "Golden Age"
The "Golden Era" is a general term used for the decades of the '50's and '60's.
Number 1: Back in the Golden Era, instead of husbands and wives sleeping in the same beds like they do today, couples generally slept in separate twin beds.
Number 2: Back in the Golden Era, going to the theatre to watch your favorite movie cost a lot less than today's prices. Going to the movies cost from 10 cents to as much as 20 cents a person! What are the prices nowadays? Oh, somewhere in the range of $5.00 and $10.00 per person, depending on the time of day and the location of the theatre. This is one thing I wish we could go back to.
Number 3: Back in the Golden Era, there was a milk man that came around to your door every week or so, and delivered you milk that came in glass bottles. You would give him the empty bottles and in return, he'd give you a fresh supply. Today, a person has to go to the grocery store and get the milk. Today, milk comes in plastic containers.
Number 4: Back in the Golden Era, the price of ice cream was much more reasonable. Ice cream bars sold on the street cost about 10 cents. Today, you're lucky to get them at $1.50.
Number 5: Back in the Golden Era, during a warm summer day, you could wait by the curb side and listen for the Ice Cream man coming around the corner to deliver the daily ice cream treat to you on his bicycle.
Number 6: During the first season of Leave It To Beaver, the show had troubles with the censor, and it dealt with the very first episode of the show! The censors would not allow the episode to be aired because there was a toilet shown in one of the scenes! In this episode, Wally and Beaver are caring for a pet alligator, and they are keeping it in the toilet tank because they need a place to hide it from their parents. This show was not aired until about ten weeks later, when the producers of the show won the case. Now a day, you see a lot more than just a toilet. You even see toilets in hardware store advertisements!
Number 7: Hearing profanity back in the Golden Age of Television was an extremely uncommon case. In fact, the only expressions even remotely close to being profanity are words like heck, creep, rat, dope, sap, so on and so forth. There's not even a comparison to today's television. TV was much cleaner back then, and that's not just with profanity either.
Number 8: A rare difference against the Golden Age of Television compared to today's TV is that people smoking cigarettes, pipes, and cigars, along with drinking beer, wine, and whiskey are much more common then than they are today. Government and special interest groups were not interfering in your life. Not saying that you never see people doing these acts on today's television comedy and drama shows, but more so then than today.
Number 9: People of color on television was another huge thing of difference between then and now. The only black person to be seen on Leave It To Beaver was a woman who played the part of a maid. This is the "Parking Attendants" Episode. Today, our nation has made great strides in improving this problem. More black comedies have come out after the Golden Age of Television. A few famous black comedies include Sanford and Son, The Jeffersons, The Cosby Show, and Family Matters.
Number 10: Back in the Golden Age of Television, women were portrayed as staying at home and being a homemaker. They cleaned the house, washed the clothes and dishes, did the cooking, and took care of the kids when they got home from school or when they stayed home from school for being sick. Women also did most of the shopping, but they did get help from the husbands to lug the bags into the house. Today, women are portrayed as much more than homemakers in today's comedies. Women are working for publishing companies, advertising agencies, as well as producers and directors. Not only do they have the work to deal with supporting the bills to retain a middle class status, but they also have the work at home. Women are substancially busier individuals today than during the Golden Age.(1) The family must work harder to sustain their middle class standards.
(2) The family is so involved in survival it no longer has time for one another, in the traditional sense
(3) Morality is lost and has been replaced with an "I Me" society that has no interest in preserving any of yesterdays values.
(4) Has the quality of life been improved over the past generation?
SLIDING INTO POVERTY
When mutual fund powerhouse Fidelity Investments wants new ideas, one of the places it goes is Inferential Focus, a New York prognosticating firm.
In their efforts to predict the future, the company's staff of seven, led by President Charlie Hess, read 350 publications on a regular basis. They ignore most of the noise -- surveys, prognostications, formal speeches and staged events -- and look for actual occurrences that can point to changes in American society, which can then be spun off into investable ideas.
What they are finding now is this: We're going down. Downwardly mobile, that is.
Even though the worst of the bear market might be behind us, the American middle class will continue to lose ground and the American consumer will continue to be squeezed for some time to come, said Hess and Gail Eisenkraft, one of his partners, in a recent interview.
They find that to be true at both middle and upper levels of the income spectrum. That has implications for the way we all spend and invest our money.
It's no secret that the U.S. has been on a rich-get-richer, poor-get-poorer track for several years. Most recently, the Labor Department said that the top 5 percent of America's wealthiest households earned 22.4 percent of national income in 2001, the most recent year for the compilation of these figures. That is its highest share since figures were first collected in 1967.
The lowest class, meanwhile, earned its smallest share, 3.5 percent. The middle section is slipping too.
Middle income households, which in 2001 earned between $33,315 and $53,000, earn 14.6 percent of American income every year. That's another 35-year low. Hess and Eisenkraft now say that this slump is spreading to the better-off, who are starting to act more like the less-well-off.
There are specific economic forces that will continue to hold the middle class down, says Hess.
Here are some of the events and trends that he sees working together to create a middle-class slide: the export of technical jobs and the continued unemployment of many American tech workers; the squeeze on state economies that will result in higher state taxes, fewer state services, and higher-priced state educations; the triple threat of high health-care costs, high debt burdens and continued weak stock prices and battered portfolios.
As a result, even the upper-middle class is starting to downscale spending habits and life style.
'We're seeing those pressures converge on the reasonably affluent household,'' says Hess.
More resourceful parents are sending their children to community colleges for the first year or two of higher education, just to save money. Everyone is shopping discount.
``The Dollar Store near Beverly Hills has shown more growth than any other Dollar Store in the country,'' Eisenkraft notes.
Maybe that's not all a bad thing. Perhaps if everyone is worrying about their money, they will spend less on empty status items, and nobody will have to be ashamed of being budget conscious. It might even be considered cool to shop the sales.
What, besides handwringing, can a squeezed middle-class person do?
Shop down and invest like everybody else is shopping down, suggests Hess. ``We are talking to our investor clients about the many plays that might result from the search for cheaper upscale and cheaper downscale.''
You can live well and spend less by nailing down a 15-year mortgage instead of a 30-year mortgage while rates are low; by buying used cars instead of new, and by looking for freshman-year college bargains, Hess suggests.
You can make money in the market on this trend by buying companies that sell used cars, good clothes at a discount, product manufactured homes or quality items at commodity prices, like the big warehouse stores.
Look, too, at for-profit trade schools that could benefit once middle-class students realize they are graduating college with tens of thousands of dollars in debts and no solid job prospects to speak of, suggests Eisenkraft. That's just one more way of investing in the downscaling of America, so that even if you're down, you can be up, at least a little.So what you are seeing isn't that the poor are getting poorer, only that the poor are noticing that more and more people are getting rich, and that the rich are getting rich faster and faster.
What you are seeing is that an entire generation of economic growth and productivity has benefited only a very small percentage of the population. The average guy has actually gone backwards. This is not "capitalism" but a Marxian parody of capitalism. And we haven't seen the real bad times yet. If a real depression hits, you'll see pent-up hostility explode like hasn't been seen in the US since the thirties, if ever.
If this article hasn't helped to light your bulb you're brain dead.
Would you choose life or death?
Prior to your execution your are given the option of two choices.
(1) You can chose to be killed by gas or lethal injection.
(2) You can opt for being allowed to escape with the possibility of survival by evading recapture.
I have no doubt that you would choose #2. It makes sense because above all other instincts embedded in the human psyche the survival mode is by far the strongest.
I am using the above parody to dramatize the next question I ask you.
You are now being asked to choose - Bush - Kerry - for your next ruler and using the word ruler is as accurate a description of what our terminology of president has plummeted to.
Unfortunately, over the past few decades our society, a society of multi-generational Europeans has been intentionally watered down with a planned infiltration of an illegal society ( governments watered down vernacular "undocumented" ) that had no participation in building America and making it the superpower of the world.
Before you take affront at the previous paragraph, I want you to think, that is if you still can, if you are the ones that have escaped governments insidious process of dumbing down the population it intends to control.
Let's list a "few misconceptions" you may have fallen prey to. The "sophism" of misdirection our elected have blanketed you with has been going on for decades and is continuing at an unprecedented pace. They see their goals coming to fruition and as a result are becoming more brazen as each day goes by.
(1) You are told everyone's taxes have been reduced. True! Fact! Those in the lower tax brackets received far less of a deduction than the minority in the upper income range and municipalities throughout the country have taken up the slack by increasing a myriad of other taxable essentials.
(2) You are told Medicare is improved and will now have a prescription drug benefit. True! Fact! The cost of Medicare rises every year while government allowed treatment is reduced every year. That individuals and states can benefit from buying drugs from sources outside of the country is resented and being painstakingly prevented by government.
(3) You are told "no child left behind program" is designed to improve their education and future. True! Fact! Our education system keeps plunging into disrepair and this is being covered up by using idiotic methods of reporting progress. Testing as a method of determining students achievements has been doctored to cover up educators failures. Eliminating holding back a students advancement because of failure to achieve promotion in actuality is a failure to provide that student with any chance of making it in a growing technological society.
(4) You are told that departing from a manufacturing based income to a service society is the bridge to a glorious future. True! Fact! Government encourage ( with grants and tax breaks ) our brick and mortar manufacturing to leave the country. One of the prime deceptions was the creation of NAFTA. Seemingly there were immediate results as Silicon Valley and such did grow at a furtive pace. What was misunderstood was that this submergence into modern technology made it even easier for corporations to move their business out of the country. With a single click of the mouse "outsourcing" became the future of our glorious service society. What's next?
(5) You are told we went to war to fight an enemy (terrorism) over there to prevent further massacres over here. True! Fact! The rhetoric meant to excite us to follow the leader was tainted. That with our overwhelming armament we are capable of destroying a country and reducing it to rubble is a fact. That we are capable of achieving a more acceptable country as a result has proven, beyond a shadow of doubt, unachievable. The end result is every elected official is spewing misinformation to protect their behinds. We the public will pay and keep on paying for their inexcusable failures. Every outcry from responsible members of society calling to enforce the protection of our borders is thwarted by our government up to an including our president.
If by now you haven't got the picture you have become totally sedated by those put in charge and have become hopelessly irrelevant when it comes to recapturing the essence of our Declaration Of Independence.
So! in a roundabout way I come back to "what if you had a choice" what would you choose and ask you this.
(1) You can choose to get caught in an election debacle succumbing to The Sophism of Bush or Kerry, each calling the other a liar.
(2) You can vote "none of the above" and opt to live another day, fighting to recapture the original intent of our founding fathers. They gave us a Republic and "knew" future generations would have to keep a wary eye on those intent on subverting its purpose and fight tooth and nail to preserve it.
Are you ready to protect the inheritance those brave, courage's souls left you? Are you ready to fight back or do you rank amongst the defeated wailing their mantra ... it's too late, what can we do now.
A Peaceful More Genteel Time
It has been taken from you and exchanged for turmoil and servitude.
Only a generation ago the middle class, with sufficient disposable income, was growing too close to a level reserved for the elite's escalator to power. This threat had to be squelched.
And it was.
The demolition was so thorough that "now" this generation hasn't the foggiest notion of what has been done to them and what their future might be.
The result is a nation infested with self serving, reckless, individuals that are running around like chickens without a head, with no idea of where they are or what they are about.
The traditional family is under attack; every long standing social moiré is under attack, the core society that created the fundamentals that molded America is under attack, the notion of providing a better future for your children and grandchildren is under attack.
Your very existence is under attack.
Under attack from who and from where you ask.
From the money that controls our government, who in turn does their bidding and that filters down to that ever growing part of society that is gullible enough to swallow and perform to there wishes. They are even importing a more pliable and controllable population { illegal immigrants ) to displace the remaining true patriots that wont conform, that are still doing their best to recapture America and protect the inheritance the founding fathers left in there hands.
How many are left today that will fight on against apparently hopeless odds? You may not think so, the powers on high may not think so, but there are still enough left to get the job done. America was formed as a Republic that has slowly and surely brazenly altered. That alteration is a work in progress that is moving ahead at an accelerated pace. The transformation will be completed in short order ... if we allow it.
Democracy: Rule by Man - eventually creates tyranny & nation's destruction as rulers use policy for their own short term gains.
Republic: Rule by Law - preserves freedom & nation's productivity while ensuring long term liberty welfare.
We need a way to speak to government without violence. The usual stuff doesn't work. We need a way to get rid of the liars and thieves short of exercising our God given right to defend ourselves with tar, feathers, and shotguns.
You are viewing this page with the only appropriate tool left to fight and win this war.
Use it to the full extent of it capabilities. Learn! Fight! Prevail!
Wake Up and Smell The Stench
If you are among those that have not yet been completely brainwashed, altered by the conspirators of the new world order, the stench from rotting bodies murdered by those connivers is overpowering.
Make no mistake we are living in the advanced stages of this renovation of mankind, a renovation that fits their scheme to shape the future to their benefit, a world undeniably under their control.
This enterprise, furiously percolating over the past two generations, has been on the burner longer than that.
With their goals becoming more and more realistic, the light at the end of their tunnel coming into view, their brazenness becomes more and more apparent.
The middle class, the class that made this country great has been effectively dismantled. As a result the opportunities for those lower down the ladder has been stymied. They now have no where to climb to. In effect the end result is the elimination of any class that can accumulate the money needed to fight against felons that stole America. Money, is what makes the wheels go round.
We don't need the rhetoric of demagogue ( a leader who makes use of popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power ) that deceptively focuses on war in Iraq, wmd's, taxes, gay marriage, abortion, etc., etc..
They use every trick in the book and then some to divert our attention from the crucial tribulations, the whole story, the story that truthfully displays the eventual end of the America "we the people" built and thought we could preserve for our children and generations to come.
The joke that has been perpetrated on us is the vaudeville show of a two party system symbolically suggesting that we have a choice. If you believe that you are hopeless and stand in the way of ever winning the war against the arrogant enemies of mankind.
Still not convinced elections have become meaningless? Then what are the money givers trying to accomplish when they donate to both parties at the same time?
Get the picture? They could care less who the suckers ( the indoctrinated constituency ) vote for. No matter what party gets the power, the power is really in the hands of the contributors.
Are we in a war that we can make any headway in. Yes!!!
We must know "in advance" what their next move to further capture us will be.
We must build a data base about their method of operation is, just as they have built one about our very existence, and use it to disrupt and shut it down.
Our privacy, our liberties, our future, are rapidly being extinguished and it is our duty to fight back and preserve the inheritance of the founding fathers of America.
Let the "Hacktivists" advance.
Exercise Muscle Or Become Chopped Meat
Selected from my book "Pushing Hamburger" chapter 36
We are being forced to face a choice that is perilously approaching a point of no return.
This “mecca of technology” flowing from the enterprise of power is sold to us as the way to the future ... a future of milk and honey. As increasing numbers of our population seriously question that scenario, power is aware ... yet they still tune us out. Our significant and growing absence from the voting booths should make them worry. I believe it is beginning to dawn on them that we are stressed to the limit, suffering severe emotional burnout, and close to being precipitously explosive. Congress in the present campaign contribution investigations have all expressed a concern that we have come to consider the lot of them irrelevant.
Technology has reached heights that were unthinkable only a generation ago. Still, it has not yet proven the machine would better our lives. The question Americans are trying to resolve is, will all this technology eventually better our lives collectively, or will it serve those in control particularly?
What value does a computer enhanced car have, if the cost of purchase, maintenance and repair, rises faster than our pay check?
What value is there in work reducing home appliances ... if mom has to join dad in the workplace to pay for them?
What good can result if mom and pop are too exhausted from work to pay attention to children left on their own ... deprived of normal parenting?
The answer is obvious. Technology has trapped and diminished our lot. Those who created the dilemma persist in advertising its benefits. Why not. We took the bait.
Who’s purpose is served by advances in information gathering if our access is strictly from the software produced solely for us. Walk into a software store and 90% is taken up by games, most of them are the blow-em-up or rip-em-apart variety. What is missing for us