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 The carrot at the end of the stick which was formerly known as "the American dream" has been replaced by a whip that can best be described as the "American nightmare" * * * You no longer work to achieve a better life for yourselves and your children.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.
Interesting tag line, do you really believe that?
They sold me to another bank.
Having worked in the pharmaceutical industry for umpteen years I firmly believe that the first and foremost purpose of the controlled substance laws is to empower the government to grant drug monopolies.
The company I once worked for is the only legal manufacture of bulk narcotics (codeine, morphine, fentanyl, etc.) in the country. All other companies that manufacture dosage form narcotics get their bulk raw material from this company.
In the mid-eighties to the early nineties this company quadrupled prices every year because (A) they are a monopoly and (B) they are a monopoly.
The entire medical cost crisis can be laid at the feet of the controlled substance laws.
Exactly, living below ones means gives one the ability to capitalize on opportunities when they present themselves.
Any investor paying over retail, is some idiot from Cali or some other inflated market being stupid, which I do know is happening in AZ etc..... Trust me, be patient, you will find a deal in EVERY SINGLE MARKET OUT THERE! The important thing is to have MONEY and be patient.
What is it like to be perfect?
Why so negative?
All I was trying to get across in this whole discussion is that things aren't as rosey for people just getting out of school. That is all. I know that salaries have now way increased in ratio to housing prices in MANY areas around the country. Yet the old farts here are trying to call me crazy and how everything is just as it always was. It is not. But you can't make people listen if they don't want to hear.
It's not easy. But everyone has challenges. The kind of thinking you are entertaining, in my opinion, makes it even harder. If you look for reasons to fail, you'll find them. Much better to tell yourself it's easier now. That any fool with half a brain can do it. There's plenty of idiots who can handle it. Hell, I'm an idiot, and at the moment (knock wood), I'm kicking it. And I swear sometimes I'm not even trying. It can't be that tough. It might seem tough, but there's got to be a way.
I forgot to add one thing in my last summary post to you. Some jobs just aren't to be found in cheaper areas of the nation. If you are a techie, you will most likely be VERY uneremplyeed in a unfulfilled job if you go to a place where decent houses and neightborhoods are to be found cheap.
I'm in the same boat as you(being an idiot) and I have managed. But then I started out of college a while ago. I couldn't imagine staring a $500K+ single family house in the face with zippy in my pockets. But then again, I didn't have to.
Poor and hungary has never a docile made. As Adam Smith wrote: Power corrupts, absolutel poverty corrupts absolutely.
Fat and lazy with a disposable income don't start revolutions, poor and hungry do.
This year's quota is being raised by 20,000.
Credit was also tighter and for the less educated, jobs paid more.
I haven't finished paying off my first college debt and I'm in grad business school because the tech market died out around here and with R&D moving overseas, the writing is on the wall. Should have stayed in the Army.
The way I see it, even in the places where the jobs are more plentiful, you ought not take it for granted that they'll always be there, or that they'll want you. Maybe it's because I didn't go to college, and sort of view my career as a big fluke, an improvisation, that I look at it that way. Know what I mean? I know people who live as if they will always make the money they are making now. I'm too paranoid for that.
But ppl are always telling you why you can't do something. I still say it's a bad way of thinking.
This is a joke. I hope no one is buying into this pap. We have it better now than anyone has ever had it.
Sure we do. But, there's no denying that millions of folks are playing fast and loose under mountains of debt. You know, the paycheck-to-paycheck people who make minimum payments on their credit cards.
Something here to be learned about the "responsibility of freedom." We are made slaves, literally and figuratively, by way of our own permission.
Today's 20 year olds expect to move out of mom & dad's house and into the same standard of living. It's not a reality for most.
Didn't check the link. The excerpt has some truth in it, even if it is a little shrill...
I would call that stupid. Living from paycheck to paycheck, no matter how big they become and even when your wife is working, is just really dumb. And I see it all the time.
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