Posted on 04/04/2005 10:46:18 AM PDT by ex-Texan
The average American in the year 2005 lives a fragile existence, in a struggle for survival that can be ended by missing a few paychecks. The carrot at the end of the stick which was formerly known as "the American dream" has been replaced by a whip that can best be described as the "American nightmare" * * * You no longer work to achieve a better life for yourselves and your children. You work to keep a roof over your head, and you pray that you don't lose it. You became a slave when fear replaced incentive as your motivation to work, but I still suggest that you work while you can, because if the company you work for can't send your job overseas, the U.S. government is allowing 2000 people per day to enter this country illegally, because they're willing to do your job for less.
It doesn't matter if you're a "white collar" or "blue collar" employee. If you're an American, you're too highly paid. There are billions of people who want your job, and your government is doing all they can to see that you lose it to them. You see, we're not really American citizens anymore. We are viewed by the government as "consumers" and "tax payers." Now we're just anonymous faces in the "global village," because our government has sold our nation to foreigners and international bankers, and the new bankruptcy law has doomed the American citizen to a life of debt slavery.
Government will insist that illegal immigrants are only doing jobs that Americans refuse to do, and you'll probably believe it, because if you're watching the "Mainstream Media" that endorses this nonsense, you probably still have your job.
Illegal immigrants are doing jobs that Americans always did, and every unemployed American I talk to cannot find a job anywhere. And just like the European immigrants that flooded this country before the economic depression of the 1930's, today's illegal immigrants also have no gripe with a government that has allowed them work for high wages in America, and send billions back to their homeland. Nor do they care very much about our constitution, bill of rights, or way of life. They're only here for what they can grab, and our government has welcomed them with open arms, because they're grabbing it from you.
You're already working much longer, and much harder, to achieve a much lower standard of living than the previous generation, and 25 percent of working Americans no longer even get a vacation. The Social Security retirement age has been raised to match the life expectancy of American males, so apparently, you're also expected to work until you're dead. When you do finally get a vacation, they only trip you'll be taking will be in a pine box, and that's only if you're one of the lucky ones. Most of us will only get the state-issued canvas bag that gets tossed into the pit with all the others.
If you don't mind the fact that you'll be working until you're dead, you might also want to consider the fact that you'll get nothing for your labor, because this nation's economy may be about to crash like a freight train, and when it does, everything you've worked for will vanish. After the depression gets ugly, and your family has made the adjustment from three meals per day to three meals per week, the newspapers will blame your hunger on "the economy," as if it were some magical force that uncontrollably ruined a couple hundred million lives. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Politicians and international bankers can manipulate national economies at will, much in the way the media manipulates your mind, and a decision has been made to impoverish Americans, because global government requires that everyone in the world have an equally low standard of living. Simply put, we're being robbed of all we've worked for, because our government wants us to be poor, hungry, and docile, dependant upon them for our existence, and in fear of them for our lives. The government of the United States is intentionally destroying the economy of the United States, because the politicians and the international bankers they work for have decided that the American way of life, and catering to the demands of the American constitution, is simply too expensive.
Regardless of how wealthy you think you are, you actually have no real money at all. The "federal reserve notes" that are in your wallet, and your bank account, aren't really money, but are actually only paper on a debt that can never be paid, not even by combining all the assets and labor of every American alive today. Any loan-shark with a third grade education will tell you "that paper's no good," and naturally, the foreign investors who allow us to float this debt, have come to the same conclusion.
What is commonly known as the "U.S. dollar," represents a debt that is owed by the U.S. federal government, to the federal reserve bank. The federal reserve bank happens to be the privately owned entity that lent the money that's represented by the paper in your wallet. The federal reserve act signed away everything you own, and the fruit of your labor as collateral on this debt, and as foreign investors are becoming increasingly unwilling to invest the $2 billion per day needed to cover the interest, our creditors will want to collect it.
They don't want you to pay off your balance every month.
CitiBank will eventually transfer you to somebody else's card if you do.
Wow, a thread that's NOT about the flu.
adults facing adult consequences of making adult decisions. i don't see a problem per se.
responsibilities can be tough, especially for unforeseen events that are unplanned for, but isn't the debtor the one who made the decisions?
On the bright side, I can report that there's some new life to the tech job market, now that H1-Bs sell out by January 2nd. It's not easy at all anymore to get a foreign worker into the US for a tech job if they're not already here.
Where it comes to unskilled labor is where the problem is most severe, and the people on the lower rungs of the ladder are being hit the hardest.
The Branch Davidian Siege? Ruby Ridge? That was over a TAX on guns...
Maybe debt management needs to be taught in high school ?
DEBT IS DUMB!! Live on less than you make, or expect your labor to make someone else rich! IT'S BEEN THAT WAY SINCE THE BEGINNING OF MONEY, AND IT WILL BE THAT WAY UNTIL MONEY NO LONGER EXISTS!!!
This isn't rocket science... STOP OVERSPENDING! Live on less than what you make TODAY and BUILD WEALTH.. or don't and make someone else WEALTHY! I don't care what lies you're being told by others, THAT'S THE TRUTH!.
Tech help is slowly coming back. Businesses are not amused when they have to wait hours just to get someone who speaks English on the phone. In house trained Network people and IT support is rebounding, from what I've seen.
~Corey
CC companies also target young people - 18 years old and in college, with no job or income and no credit history? Here's a credit card with a $1000 limit! Also, did we tell you that you can use it like an ATM card and get cash? (at a higher rate?)
Also, the United States as a country is very debt ridden and always borrowing more(from China no less).
Sure,.....but,...
....these slaves are ......dressed in T.V. Movie.....'designer' clothes!!!
....Burkas uniform of the future slaves.....
....save the oil,.....buy a camel?
:-)
Spoken from a person who already has their house paid off, or locket in a price that is probably 1/4 of the current asking price of ones house. It's a little different for people now-a-days. You have to fork over a ton of cash to live where the jobs are at, AND where you don't dodge bullets to get to and from work every day. I'd like to see YOU try to buy a house in Northern Virginia now if you were in your 20s and didn't have money from Mommy and Daddy to help you out. Stop looking down your nose at those just starting out now.
it would be better to teach debt management than half the social junk they do teach.
but the real threat to the economic well being of the public is federal taxation.
The real problem is that the same folks who squeal the loudest about people being eaten alive with credit card debt and bad decisions, are the same folks who tend to make people believe that they deserve nothing but the best and they should have it all. When I was growing up, people understood that if you lived beyond your means, you would end up in the street. Today, it's those who expect payment for goods and services that are getting kicked.
They have been needing to teach practical economics in school for over 30 years now.
"....save the oil,.....buy a camel?
LOL, LOL, LOL ! I know people who buy Camels everyday. Of course, they are very heavy smokers.
Seems to me it's Americans hiring all those illegals.
To learn how to get out of debt, visit www.daveramsey.com. We're in his 12-week course right now and it's AWESOME!
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