What I also thought was interesting, we continue to here the current POTUS claim that the economy is stable, and we are coming out of the recession, and yet we have these statements that would refute that claim:

At the height of the economic downturn, the mayor of Detroit admitted that while the “official” unemployment rate in Detroit was about 27 percent, the “real” unemployment rate in his city was actually somewhere around 50 percent.

and this:

In a recent article entitled “City of Ruins“, Chris Hedges did an amazing job of documenting the horrific decline of Camden. Hedges estimates that the real rate of unemployment in Camden is somewhere around 30 to 40 percent,

20 percent of the residents of Los Angeles County are now receiving public aid of one form or another.

Its just maddening!

Thank you for the contribution.

I ended up reading the entire article during lunch. WOW, sums it up very nicely. It is scary to think that this could happen in little ol rural West Grove (where I hail from)!!!

Words of advice:
- Stock up on food and Ammo
- Stockpile Charcoal and other heat / cooking sources.

You have heard it all before, just STOCK UP! It CAN and will happen in your neck of the woods eventually!

God bless those poor people...

Whats happening in this world.

Good luck to everyone

Of course President Obama and the MSM are going to say that "the economy is recovering and doing well".

It's all part of the big lie, kind of like Donald Trump saying "I'm worth way more than Forbes says" while refusing to say how much, or where it's coming from.

The Government and the markets are banking (literally) on the fact that the average person really isn't paying attention to what is going on. The market rally is a completely false rally, based on market manipulation by the Federal Reserve and the US Treasury. If the real value of the US dollar was realized, it would be worth a lot less than it is right now.

People have to look at the amount of money that the Fed are just printing off, completely unbacked, as part of their "quantitative easing" programs, makes me laugh that they are calling these "economic easing programs" when they should be called "economic crisis delay programs". If a household does this sort of spending with unbacked borrowing, sooner or later (usually sooner rather than later) they pay the price, and it's the same for Government.

The USA is like the rich neighbor who has a massive five bedroom house, two SUVs, a boat, a snowmobile or two and four kids in private schools. They have all the toys, with the lifestyle to match, and pretend that everything is fine. Meanwhile, they're in debt in tune of hundreds of thousands or in many cases over a million dollars, and completely ignoring that fact because "everything is fine".

In the case of the USA, they are heavily spending on all the "toys" that they can't afford, while completely ignoring the fact that they are trillions of dollars in debt. In case you haven't noticed, not a SINGLE person in Washington is talking about DEBT reduction, they're all talking about "how can we reduce the amount that we're adding to the debt each year".

Fiscal responsibility 101 - any financial adviser will tell you the first rule of financial responsibility is to quit spending beyond your means and eliminate debt completely, before any additional spending takes place. Rule 1? Cut up the credit cards, immediately. When you're trying to get back under fiscal control, the first lesson is that you have to make hard choices of (a) cutting things that you don't want to like cable tv and (b) raising income by getting a second job or working overtime.

Governments have to realize that for (a) it might mean unpopular cuts like defense spending and getting rid of or drastically cutting entitlement programs like medicaid, medicare, social security and for (b) raising revenue means higher taxes, for EVERYONE, or new taxes like a national sales tax.

Neither option are popular with anyone, but both options are completely necessary. The sooner the USA figures this out, the better off they'll be.

Have any of you ever thought about what the end game for America ultimately, -- might be? No trick question, I really truly have been wondering, in regards to those Powers That Be who have been and are directly and helping, turn this nation into a wasteland. Do they intend on just leaving it stripped, a baren dustbowl of 300million desperately impoverished citizens, or do they intend for some different paradigm to sieze power within? The old America I remember as a youngster, is gone. Thats clear. If it's supposed to be part of the global village, well, I look at other countries who'v become so, and they were not laid to waste first.(Well, after World War II.) So what gives? Can we blame China? It -seems- like a good start. Also outsourcing Corporations. But they now have their desperaqte populace, which to set their sweat shops near, HERE. Is something profoundly spiritually evil at the root? I know, I know, I TOO keep hearing MSM shills every day, say that our Supreme Potus deems everything coming up roses, out of the manure of the Depression, and I too, see the extreme opposite, as true, with my own eyes and ears. Very very confusing and strange to me.
And what are all of you going to do, come the next Presidential election? Go racing to the voting booths and put Republicans right back in? Sheeple to the shell-game trough?

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.
Barack Obama