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A Nation at Risk
With the recent plunge in the S&P 500 of over 5%, has the
long-anticipated (and long-overdue) market correction finally begun?
According to the Sacramento
Bee, 9 million elderly
Americans across the country “can’t afford to eat”, and in one of their recent
articles they featured the plight of 71-year-old Floridian Janet Burke…
Burke
is one of the nearly 9 million elderly people at risk of hunger in the United
States. In Florida, with the highest percentage of people 60 and older, more
than 750,000 elderly need food assistance, according to experts.
The
problems confronting the elderly have become one of the hot topics for
candidates this election year. Candidates in South Florida have pointed to the
needs of the elderly as one of the key concerns voiced by voters.
More
than 100 million Americans receive assistance from the government each month,
but many citizens do not believe in receiving any help and so they just quietly
suffer as they search for a way to make things better.
You’ve
seen my writings regarding how government at all levels nickel and dime citizens
with continual inflation, non-stop increases in the costs they force upon us
[fuel taxes, postage hikes, insurance & auto registration increases, property
tax hikes, water bill increases, etc.]… no break [in most states] is given to
families or seniors.
Most
Americans seem to want corrupt politicians in Washington, a Federal Reserve System
that is bankrupting future generations, an exploding national debt, a deeply
oppressive system of taxation and a bloated national government that is
becoming more monstrous with each passing day.
In
this day and age, “liberty” and “freedom” are seen as antiquated concepts that
are standing in the way of “progress”, and more government always seems to be
the “solution” that is proposed whenever any crisis arises.
The
world economy is at risk of another financial meltdown, following the failure of
governments and regulators to push through
all the reforms needed
to protect the system from reckless behaviour, the International Monetary Fund
has warned.
With
global debt levels well above those at the time of the last crash in
2008, the risk remains that
unregulated parts of the financial system could trigger a global panic, the
Washington-based lender of last resort said.
And
the IMF report also seemed to indicate that global central banks were
responsible for the situation in which we now find ourselves.
In
the report, an “extended period of ultralow interest rates” was blamed
for “the build-up of
financial vulnerabilities”…
The
IMF Global Financial Stability report read: “The extended period of ultralow interest
rates in advanced economies has contributed to the build-up of financial
vulnerabilities.
“The large accumulation of public debt and
the erosion of fiscal buffers in many economies following the crisis point to
the urgency of rebuilding those defences to prepare for the next downturn.”
It
got so bad in 2008 that even high level bank CEOs were taking cash out of ATMs
because they simply didn’t know if their own banks would be open in the morning.
NOTE:
Security Enchanced Cell Phones:
As I’ve written, police can
now scan your phone [textalyzing] once you’ve been pulled over. How to safeguard your data: One of the most secure mobile phones you can
buy ‘off-the-shelf’ is the Blackphone 2.
It was developed by Silent Circle, a firm developed by pioneer Phil
Zimmerman and runs on software called PrivatOS and is billed as “NSA Proof.”
Another privacy-enhanced phone is the BlackBerry PRIV which features:
·
Data & messaging encryption
·
DTEK monitoring of apps
alerting you to privacy risks
·
Password Keeper & Picture
Password
·
Protection from malware &
hacking
Additional
News Items
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Alexa, Should We Trust You? (Hell No!) We’re all falling for Alexa, unless
we’re falling for Google Assistant, or Siri, or some other genie in a smart
speaker. When I say “smart,” I mean the speakers possess artificial
intelligence, can conduct basic conversations, and are hooked up to the
internet, which allows them to look stuff up and do things for you. And when I
say “all,” I know some readers will think, Speak for yourself! Friends my
age—we’re the last of the Baby Boomers—tell me they have no desire to talk to a
computer or have a computer talk to them. Cynics of every age suspect their
virtual assistants of eavesdropping, and not without reason.
Paul is a vocal libertarian known
for an ardent grassroots fan base that propelled him to multiple presidential
runs, as well as his grim warnings about the economy. Yet he has been warning
investors for years that an epic drop of 50 percent or more will eventually hit
the stock market. He predicted the February correction, but not in size and
scope.
After a surprising slump in the use
of revolving, i.e. credit card, debt when in the months of June and July US
consumers "charged" only $639 million during the peak summer months,
moments ago, the Fed reported that in August, consumer credit posted a
significant rebound, rising by $20 billion, above the $15.0 billion expected,
and bringing the total to a $3.94 trillion, a 6.2% annualized increase from a
year ago, and a new all time high, largely on the back of a newfound love with
credit cards.
“Most data breaches involve
financial information, but your Facebook account can be misused in a number of
ways that are harmful,” says Justin Brookman, the director of consumer privacy
and technology policy for Consumers Union, the advocacy division of Consumer Reports.
“Accessing your private communications and posts by itself is pretty invasive,
but that information could also be used to crack account security questions or
to scam you and your friends.”
This is not to say that we do or do
not agree with how Freedom House determines the level of freedom, because
taxation (government theft and the most obvious violation of basic human civil
rights) rates were obviously not a factor in their rankings. Nor were the
number of government services the public is forced to fund at gunpoint whether
they use them or not taken into account. It appears they judge only on a few
very social layers. But read the reports and see for yourself.
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Living Frugally In Suburbia
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You live differently than your neighbors.
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Frugal Food-Rescuing Tips from Grandma
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These depression-era frugal tips still work today!
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Have more money without working harder!
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Stocking up could save your grocery budget!
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2 comments:
Always an interesting read!
Ron Paul warns that when the “everything bubble” finally bursts “America will experience an economic crisis much greater than the 2008 meltdown or the Great Depression”…
The Fed will be unsuccessful in keeping the everything bubble from exploding. When the bubble bursts, America will experience an economic crisis much greater than the 2008 meltdown or the Great Depression.
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