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Post by avordvet on Apr 12, 2012 13:37:13 GMT -5
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Post by Cujo on Apr 12, 2012 19:37:55 GMT -5
I'd really like to comment on this but American Idol is on. Really, there has been squat about the down grade. Remember the day that if the weekly unemployment first timers was 320,000 the market went down? Now it sky rockets. Can you say "Manipulation"?
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Post by Michael Downing on Apr 12, 2012 19:46:07 GMT -5
I would not be surprised even the "alternative, conservative" Fox network did not make to do about this. I was surprised when I posted the message below a week ago... "Amazing that no one seems to care and that this is not big news as we plummet to third world status. Many will not wake up until it has dramatic impact on them personally and then it will be too late...' Read more: alarmandmuster.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=10406#ixzz1rsPrabl2
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Post by avordvet on Apr 13, 2012 4:02:30 GMT -5
"Amazing that no one seems to care and that this is not big news as we plummet to third world status. Many will not wake up until it has dramatic impact on them personally and then it will be too late... Plus Equals
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Post by midnightrider on Apr 13, 2012 7:25:51 GMT -5
When the Gov. checks stop? Hold on to your asses!
Keep your powder dry, and at the ready!
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Post by Michael Downing on Apr 13, 2012 10:30:05 GMT -5
48% pat no tax but we have record numbers depending on government subsidies. If the checks stop then welcome to the beginnings of hell on earth... blog.heritage.org/2012/02/08/dependence-on-government-at-all-time-high/•One in five Americans—the highest in the nation’s history—relies on the federal government for everything from housing, health care, and food stamps to college tuition and retirement assistance. That’s more than 67.3 million Americans who receive subsidies from Washington. •Government dependency jumped 8.1 percent in the past year, with the most assistance going toward housing, health and welfare, and retirement. •The federal government spent more taxpayer dollars than ever before in 2011 to subsidize Americans. The average individual who relies on Washington could receive benefits valued at $32,748, more than the nation’s average disposable personal income ($32,446). •At the same time, nearly half of the U.S. population (49.5 percent) does not pay any federal income taxes. •In the next 25 years, more than 77 million baby boomers will retire. They will begin collecting checks from Social Security, drawing benefits from Medicare, and relying on Medicaid for long-term care. •As of now, 70 percent of the federal government’s budget goes to individual assistance programs, up dramatically in just the past few years. However, research shows that private, community, and charitable aid helps individuals rise from their difficulties with better success than federal government handouts. Plus, local and private aid is often more effectively distributed. Just a year before it was still one in six... money.cnn.com/2011/04/12/news/economy/government_safety_net/index.htmBeyond all this there are subsidies to farms and businesses and corporations. What happens when not if this all comes crashing down? It most probably won't at first coem to a complete halt. First there will be cutbacks and then there will be inflation where one buck buys what tem used to and then what twenty used to and so on. There will be assistance but it will slowly become meaningless. Myself I doubt we can turn the ship ariound so I will just continue to prepare for the crash....
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