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 The carrot at the end of the stick which was formerly known as "the American dream" has been replaced by a whip that can best be described as the "American nightmare" * * * You no longer work to achieve a better life for yourselves and your children.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.
BAD DEBT IS DUMB!!
GOOD DEBT MAKES YOU RICH!
I thought Waco was about Koresh having an arsenal of weapons and allegedly that Koresh was abusing children. I'm not defending anything the government did, but I don't recall it being over taxes.
The only difference between an "illegal" weapon and a "legal" one is the tax you have to pay to own one. The entire "raid" was based on the rumor that the Koresh had bought/modified weapons without the proper paperwork and fees paid.
You people are amazing. I'm outta here because people just can't see a big problem. Optimism isn't going to pay the morgage, and neither are people coming out of school now with housing prices as high as they are now. But what the heck, as long as you are perfect.
Mad Dawgg, don't confuse em.. most folks have no idea what good or bad debt is... folks aren't declaring bankruptcy because they have "good debt".. they are because they live beyond their means, period.
Yes, housing prices are terrible, I had to pay 2000 dollars more for my latest 2BR/1BTH than my Mom and Dad paid (6500.00) for theirs back in 1953.
Of course, I have to fix it up and put another 20K in it (work starts in 2 weeks) also shopped for about 12 months before we found it and bid on it. But hey color me optimistic. I have bought many homes and buildings for less than most folks pay for a new car.
It is done every day, just because the sheeple are herded into bad purchases does not mean that the rest of us can not prosper.
You got to decide, are you a grazer or a hunter?
Yes, we would define most folks as sheeple, herded around by fads and commercials and such.
I have never lived in a McMansion. The idea of paying half a million dollars for someplace to live is beyond ridiculous. The only time I would pay that kind of money for a building is if it mas mandated by law to have anti-collision beacons to ward off low flying aircraft.
hahahah heard this same line of Bunk out in Silicon Valley in 2000 and 2001... and guess what, it went POP and POP hard.... Real Estate is NOT a one way street... cycles every 8 to 12 years on average... People always forget that.. or choose to be ignorant of it. Few years ago Atlanta was HOT, now its cooled considerably, last year Vegas was insane, now its collapsing leaving lots of folks in the lurch.... In Boston in the 80s people thought it woud never end and would spend 500k to buy a house then tear down the old house abuild a new house on the land (so effectively paying 500k for a LOT) and POP went the weasel....
You think NVA is going to be so hot when government priorities change and spending shifts? Etc etc... I've seen markets go from can't build units fast enough.. to can't find a buyer to save your life in a matter of months.... Trust me, irrational exhuberance leaves lots of folks holding the bag hopeing someday they can just get back above water. When will it happen in NVA? Can't say, but if you believe its not going to happen, you are naive.
They don't want you to pay off your balance every month. True
CitiBank will eventually transfer you to somebody else's card if you do.
False, as others have pointed out.
They did it to me.
Well the problem with the government is two fold... even if you could get the government to stop overspending and start running surpluses (PROBLEM #1) that they invested to generate revenues... folks on both sides of the political isle would scream bloody murder over it... (PROBLEM #2)
The left would want it spent on social programs and the right would bitch they want a refund! Reality is if the federal government truly took about 1-2% of its annual revenues and invested it and only got about a 6% return on that money.. the federal budget would be completely self funded just on the interest these savings would generate inside of a few decades! And our children and children's children would never have to worry about ever paying an INCOME or any other federal tax again. Same would be true for state and local governments as well if they did this.
Oh please, get my share of the pie off others.... I no more get my share of the pie off others than GE get's its share of the pie off others because it takes raw materials and produces products with them.
Believe me I'm not offended, If I worried about every ignorant person who had preconcieved notions about life, the universe and everything... I'd be broke like most of them.
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