46 Articles

Thursday, November 12, 2009
FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH
(1 comments) Futurist Jim Quinn: "In 2025 America will be indistinguishable from the America of today. It could be better, worse or non-existent. This is why proclaiming the truth today about how the ruling elite have hijacked America is so important. When civil unrest overtakes the nation there will be many who urge the American people to rally around a dictator or stronger Central Government."

Friday, November 6, 2009
THE NANNY STATE
(2 comments) “Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”

Wednesday, October 21, 2009
AMERICAN PIE
(1 comments) Rise up and take the power back, it's time that The fat cats had a heart attack, you know that Their time is coming to an end We have to unify and watch our flag ascend

Monday, October 12, 2009
RATS IN A CAGE
(4 comments) Households with income under $13,000 spend, on average, $645 a year on lottery tickets, about 9 percent of all their income. Our government feeds this addiction by siphoning off billions in taxes from these gambling revenues to redistribute as they see fit. Government sponsored gambling is a regressive tax on the poor and is immoral.

Tuesday, October 6, 2009
BET ON STUFF
The recent bout of low commodity prices and the continuing weakness of the financial system are setting the stage for another, even bigger commodity boom. For a short while, high commodity prices had been drawing capital into commodity production, but that stopped when prices fell.

Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Founding Fathers of our New Country
(5 comments) The ruling elite, backed by the powerful banking cartel, who control the political reins, the mainstream media, the military industrial complex, and the foreign policy of the United States, have trampled on the U.S. Constitution. They take every opportunity to denigrate its principles, call it an antiquated document meant for a simpler time, and scorn those who risked their lives to write this noble governing document.

Tuesday, September 15, 2009
WISH YOU WERE HERE
As I survey what passes for governance in this country today, I yearn for the days past when truth meant something. The supposedly “progressive” politicians who call themselves leaders of this country would not know truth if it dropped from heaven into their laps. The men and women who fought for and founded this Republic were driven by the aspiration for liberty, justice and truth.

Wednesday, August 26, 2009
THE FEDERAL RESERVE MUST DIE
(10 comments) The Federal Reserve in collaboration with the giant banks has created the greatest financial crisis the world has ever seen. The foolish notion that unlimited amounts of money and credit created out of thin air can provide sustainable economic growth has delivered this crisis to us.

Wednesday, August 19, 2009
AMERICAN IDIOTS
(2 comments) The American people's ignorance, stupidity, and disinterest in the governance of this nation have allowed an oligopoly of politicians, bankers, and powerful corporations to seize control of the country and loot its riches for their personal gain. By failing to educate themselves, millions of ignorant Americans have lost all of their power and are now dictated to by the few with knowledge.

Friday, July 31, 2009
Decline and Fall of the American Empire
(3 comments) After ruling much of the known world for centuries, Rome fell due to a number of factors that, historians believe, would not have been fatal in isolation, but that proved terminal in combination. Military overspending and overreach, an untenable economic system, and currency debasement all played a role.

Monday, July 27, 2009
ANIMAL FARM - 2009
(4 comments) The American people are like sheep being led to slaughter. Our Founding Fathers declared that the common people were in control. Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government. The time has come to abolish the corrupt system and institute a new Government.

Monday, July 13, 2009
BOOMERS - WINTER IS COMING
(10 comments) Thus might the next Fourth Turning end in apocalypse – or glory. The nation could be ruined, its democracy destroyed, and millions of people scattered or killed. Or America could enter a new golden age, triumphantly applying shared values to improve the human condition. The rhythms of history do not reveal the outcome of the coming Crisis; all they suggest is the timing and dimension.

Sunday, June 28, 2009
YOU CAN'T BORROW YOURSELF OUT OF DEBT
(14 comments) Time is running out. The public relations campaign being conducted by the Obama administration, Federal Reserve and largest banks is beginning to fail. The lies, half-truths, and cover-up regarding the solvency of the largest banks in the U.S. will be revealed as reality interrupts their master plan. The politicians and government bureaucrats know that 80% of the population don't understand or care about economic issues.

Friday, June 12, 2009
ABBY NORMAL
The time has come to accept the bitter medicine of a lower standard of living for the foreseeable future. Saving, not spending, will save this country. Until most Americans realize the insidious web of debt that they have been trapped into by the poisonous banking cartel, they will never emancipate themselves from their state of slavery. Who is to blame for this catastrophic state of affairs? We the people are.

Thursday, June 4, 2009
An Economic Lesson from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
(5 comments) In this brilliant and entertaining essay futurist James Quinn traces the economic development of the US and China and predicts, "Sometime between 2030 and 2050, China will overtake the United States as the largest economy in the world. ... There will be no denying them the economic crown by the middle of this century. It is inevitable. ... and we will become the Great Britain of the 21st century." Unless ... (read on).

Saturday, May 30, 2009
AIN'T NO REST FOR THE WICKED
(11 comments) To put it in the most basic terms, what has happened in this country in the last decade is that evil wicked people have attained positions of power in government, banking, and industry and have committed sins against humanity for their own glory and enrichment. Those who should have stood up to these evil doers are just as guilty as the engineer driving the train to Auschwitz.

Saturday, May 16, 2009
Jesus of Suburbia
(18 comments) Beneath the finely groomed blissful suburban facade of America lurk desperation, denial, hypocrisy, and anger. The Ozzie & Harriet idealized version of suburbia from the 1950's has degenerated to the Green Day nightmare vision of today. The suburbs have mansion-like homes with spotless interiors, entertainment centers, three car garages, manicured lawns, and no soul.

Sunday, May 3, 2009
If You Believe - Banks Are Recovering
(2 comments) The government has something up its sleeve this time. The conspirators are Barack Obama, Timothy Geithner and the Treasury Department, Ben Bernanke and the Federal Reserve, Sheila Baer and the FDIC, and Barney Frank and the Democratic Congress. They have colluded to commit taxpayer funds to enrich bankers that brought down the financial system, without getting Congressional approval.

Thursday, April 30, 2009
Keep on Rockin' in the Free World
The false prosperity we have been experiencing for the last thirty years has come to an abrupt conclusion in the last 18 months. The amount of wealth destroyed is beyond comprehension. Household net worth has declined by $12 trillion in a matter of months. It will take years for average Americans to restore their wealth to 2007 levels.

Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Know Your Enemy
(4 comments) Based on historical patterns, America will hit a once-in-a-century national crisis within the decade...'like winter,' the crisis or 'fourth turning' cannot be averted. It will last 20 years or so and bring hardship and upheavals similar to previous fourth turnings, such as the American Revolution, the Civil War, the Great Depression and World War II.

Sunday, April 12, 2009
$200 OIL
(2 comments) When oil prices collapsed from $147 a barrel in the summer of 2008 to $35 a barrel in January, American drivers, Congress, government bureaucrats, and the mainstream media refocused on other more pressing issues like executive bonuses, Michele Obama's wardrobe, and the tax law knowledge of Obama's cabinet.

Thursday, April 2, 2009
WAR PIGS - COST OF A GLOBAL EMPIRE
(3 comments) Any doubt that the Military Industrial Complex is as strong as ever should be removed after examining Obama's 2010 budget just put forth. It calls for 26% more in spending on Defense than President Bush spent in 2006. The Soviet Union collapsed in 1989, leaving the United States as the only remaining superpower on earth. Since 1990, the United States has depleted the U.S. Treasury of $7 trillion for spending on Defense.

Friday, March 27, 2009
WHEN AMERICA RULED THE WORLD
(3 comments) America has squandered the human sacrifice, blood, sweat and tears of two generations in less than seventy years. We have been an independent country for 226 years. From 1783 until 1946 was an unrelenting upward trajectory for the beacon of the free world.

Thursday, March 12, 2009
GRAND ILLUSION - THE FEDERAL RESERVE
(7 comments) The whole world is in a state of complete confusion. Americans are coming to the realization that their lives have been a grand illusion. You thought your neighbors had it made. They were driving a Mercedes, spent $40,000 on a new kitchen with granite countertops and stainless steel appliances, sent their kids to private school, had a second home at the shore, and took exotic vacations all over the world.

Friday, March 6, 2009
STAIRWAY TO RETAIL HEAVEN
(3 comments) The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get rich quick theory of life.

Saturday, February 28, 2009
As Goes GM, So Goes the Nation
The decline of GM is a testament to how poor strategic decisions over the course of decades will ultimately lead to collapse. The United States has followed the GM model of failure for the last three decades. The U.S. has too much debt, too much bureaucracy, too many government supported industries, too many agencies, too many employees, and $53 trillion of unfunded future liabilities.

Thursday, February 19, 2009
The Burning Platform
(1 comments) The US government is on a "burning platform" of unsustainable policies and practices with fiscal deficits, chronic healthcare underfunding, immigration and overseas military commitments threatening a crisis if action is not taken soon.

Thursday, February 12, 2009
Boomers - Your Crisis Has Arrived
(15 comments) Their rendezvous with destiny is underway. Will it be a rendezvous with history that results in World War III, the collapse of the Great American Republic, dictatorship, or a return to the original Constitutional principles upon which this country was founded?

Saturday, January 31, 2009
TURNING JAPANESE - THE AUDACITY OF REALITY
(2 comments) Eventually, we will reach a tipping point where too much debt will result in a hyperinflationary crash. It may be in two years or ten years. I don't know. Ben Bernanke, Timothy Geithner, and Barack Obama also don't know. It will catch us all off-guard, just like the current crisis caught them off-guard. Turning Japanese would be a best case scenario for the U.S.

Sunday, January 25, 2009
ORWELL'S 2009 - NIGHTMARE IN AMERICA
(2 comments) Government has progressively acquired more power over the lives of Americans. They have done it subtly for decades but it has accelerated at warp speed in the last eight years. Since 9/11, Americans have seen their liberties taken away on a scale reminiscent of the McCarthy years during the 1950s.

Tuesday, January 20, 2009
GHOST MALLS - COMING TO YOUR TOWN
(8 comments) With shrinking cash flow, looming debt refinancing, and dim prospects for a resumption of conspicuous consumption, Mall developers are destined for a bleak future. Picture Clint Eastwood from his spaghetti western days riding a horse through the middle of your local mall with tumbleweeds blowing past the vacant KB Toys and Victoria's Secret.

Saturday, January 10, 2009
Unintended Consequences of $1 Trillion Stimulus
(8 comments) The average American needs to wake up from their materialistic stupor and understand the risks that lie ahead. An educated concerned citizen is our only defense against tyranny. Orwellian governmental policies will be inflicted upon the populous. Seek out those who are telling the truth.

Saturday, January 3, 2009
Government Statistics are a Fraud
The solution is for government to stop micromanaging the economy and let the market adjust, as painful as that will be for some. We should not force taxpayers, including renters and more frugal homeowners, to switch places with the speculators and take on those same risks that bankrupted them.

Sunday, December 28, 2008
Black Swan Nation - Compliments of Alan Greenspan
(2 comments) We are in the midst of an extreme Black Swan. No one saw it coming and no one knows what will happen next. When plans to save the financial world every other weekend are slapped together, the law of unintended consequences is likely to rear its ugly head. It is hard to step back and try to understand what is going on at this point in history. What I do know is that whatever is happening is not good.

Friday, December 26, 2008
What Happened to the American Dream
(8 comments) George Bush, Henry Paulson and Ben Bernanke have decided to seize money from the vast majority of Americans who lived within their means, utilized debt sparingly, and worked hard to get ahead, and give it to the most appalling failures in our society. They have shoveled billions to banks that operated their businesses like gambling parlors.

Tuesday, December 23, 2008
The Great Consumer Crash of 2009
(2 comments) Writer Jim Quinn exhaustively documents the evidence that we are in a "category 5 hurricane" of economic distress. "It is easy to ignore the storm if you look at the opposite horizon. When the storm reaches your location there can be no more ignorance." He argues that those who gambled should suffer the consequences. [ed]

Tuesday, December 23, 2008
On Board the U.S.S. Titanic
(5 comments) There are 305 million people living in the United States. The net worth of all the households in the U.S as of June 30, 2008 was $56 trillion. The 450 billionaires have a net worth of approximately $1 trillion and the 3,000,000 millionaires have a net worth of approximately $11 trillion. So, 1% of the population currently owns 21% of the net worth in this country.

Tuesday, December 23, 2008
There's No Problem, Just Solutions
John Lennon was murdered on December 8, 1980. He was truly a gentle soul. The country was in the midst of a terrible recession in 1980. His lyrics were hopeful and optimistic. His brutal death seemed to usher in a more divisive, materialistic, greedy, selfish, consumer society. Lennon's lyrics from his song, Imagine, are farther from today's reality than ever before.

Saturday, December 20, 2008
Could GE Collapse?
(17 comments) General Electric (GE), the legendary American institution, founded in 1878 by Thomas Edison, is in deep trouble. Its PR machine has been in constant spin mode as the company sinks deeper into despair. It is one of the few companies in the U.S. that still retains a AAA rating. Considering Moody's and S&P's track record, rating companies and financial instruments, that AAA rating is not worth the paper it is written on.

Thursday, December 18, 2008
Is America on a Downward Slope?
(4 comments) America has given indications that it has reached its peak and is on a downward slope. The U.S. government has taken measures in the last 11 months that appear to be a desperate attempt to keep our dysfunctional corrupt financial system propped up.

Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Looming Financial Catastrophe: A Real Inconvenient Truth
(9 comments) The United States of America is about as far from united as we've been since the Civil War. The two major parties agree on virtually no major issues. The only time they agree is when it involves tax rebates and pork projects for their constituents. They have no problem spending our grandchildren's money to get re-elected in November.

Wednesday, December 17, 2008
An American Tragedy
(5 comments) "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie.

Monday, December 15, 2008
Turkeys Can't Fly
"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!!!" -- Arthur Carlson, WKRP in Cincinnati

Saturday, December 13, 2008
The Shallowest Generation
(19 comments) The Baby Boom Generation will never be mistaken for the Greatest Generation that survived the Great Depression and defeated evil in a World War that killed 72 million people. I hate to tell you Boomers, but putting a yellow ribbon on the back of your $50,000 SUV is not sacrifice.

Saturday, December 13, 2008
True Cost of Military Industrial Complex
(9 comments) "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hope of its children."

Saturday, December 13, 2008
The Gathering Storm - Our Coming Depression
(3 comments) "Gentlemen, I have had men watching you for a long time, and I am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the bank. You tell me that if I take the deposits from the bank and annul its charter, I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen, but that is your sin!