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Thursday, January 18, 2018

Rising Above the Divide and Conquer Strategy


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Rising Above the Divide and Conquer Strategy

 

 

If you’re many other Americans, you’re mighty angry…why do you suppose that is?

 
Do you ever feel—despite the supposed economic "recovery" of recent years—that something in America is still not quite right?

If so, you are not alone.

After all, how can things be "OK" when nearly half the men ages 18-34 now live with their parents—the highest level since the Great Depression?

How can it be "normal" when in one of America's richest cities (Seattle) there are now 400 unauthorized homeless camps under bridges and along freeway medians?

How can it be a "recovery" when 78% of the U.S. population now lives paycheck to paycheck, with essentially zero savings?

How can you explain things like the dramatic rise of the militant left-wing group ‘Antifa'... the resurgence of White Supremacists... and the booming popularity of the Democratic Socialists—they've doubled membership in recent months.

Sure, some people—CEOs, tech entrepreneurs, and other members of the "1%"—are doing great. There's never been a better time for wealthy Americans. But the truth is, for most people, the situation is getting much, much worse.


Our Founders never imagined that the government would ever get to be so massive. Soon after their deaths, the government began to grow. Like a cancer, it kept silently expanding, and two hundred years later, it was a gargantuan monster that was never, ever envisioned by the Founders in their wildest nightmares.

The government is now a mutant tumor that's threatening to destroy America, and deep within this tumor is the Deep State, what could be called the core of the disease...

 

There is one set of laws for the rich and another for rest of us…explicit inequality has become commonplace in America.  Obama demonstrated that with his lack of prosecutions of those responsible for the great Wall Street crash.  Instead, he piled on the most massive amount of money ever spent in taxpayers name to bail out banks and Wall St. in the history of our nation and taxpayers got shafted.

 

Obama, who campaigned and railed against the policies of Bush kept those same policies in place and many of the same political hacks who carried out those same detrimental policies AND he increased the amount of illegal spying on Americans that he chided Bush over.

 

For decades politicians from both parties have promised gullible taxpayers a better future only to swindle us time and time again while lining their own pockets.  Democrats and Republicans who continually bray about ‘family values’ and tradition fail to mention that the policies they create have wreaked havoc on families [keeping generations of the family on welfare for example, burdensome regulation which make creating a business prohibitive, etc.]…our economy no longer delivers a sable, well paying job system that made the American dream possible.

 

Instead, they created a tax system which favored their wealthy benefactors who set up off-shore tax havens thus avoiding paying into the US tax system…while corporations such as Walmart and McDonald’s encourage their employees to milk the welfare system for health benefits and food stamps because they won’t pay a living wage.

 
The Regressive Left Aids in Building National Stupidity


Americans have voluntarily and passively surrendered the accountability of their government and have given up their privacy and much of their freedom aided by false appeals from politicians like Bush to their patriotism along with periodic doses of fear…we’ve become anesthetized by a slow, incremental rise of the Deep State take-over of our government.

 

We’ve become impotent in our own country, sidetracked by sideshows of non-stop sports and celebrity nonsense used to distract the masses.

 

According to a 2011 study reported in the Economist, the US [in terms of economic freedom and social mobility, poverty prevention and equality now ranks 27th out of 31 advanced industrial nations ranking only ahead of Turkey, Chile, and Mexico.

 

For example, the joke around the world is that our Amtrak rail service offers Russian quality at Swiss prices.  It is the shame of the developed nations.  In reality, rail service in Switzerland is cheaper and on time and the Swiss Franc is worth more than our dollar!

 

 

“Today the path to total dictatorship in the U.S. can be laid by strictly legal means, unseen and unheard by Congress, the President, or the people. Outwardly we have a Constitutional government. We have operating within our government and political system … a well-organized political-action group in this country, determined to destroy our Constitution and establish a one-party state…. The important point to remember about this group is not its ideology but its organization… It operates secretly, silently, continuously to transform our Government…. This group … is answerable neither to the President, the Congress, nor the courts. It is practically irremovable.”
— Senator William Jenner, 1954 speech

 

The mainstream mentality is obviously a breeding ground of propaganda, deceit and outright violence, which reflects why droves of sheep are jumping the fences and exploring the self-uncharted lands of independent thought and practice.

 

This is no surprise when the masses have been very successfully dumbed into a philosophically separate and behaviourally shallow engagement with the reverence of life. They distractingly fight amongst each other in both status and ideology, with the most powerful one currently being the sex (not gender) wars. However, the infighting and grandstanding is not just limited to the primary herd; unfortunately those who are exploring the wilderness are also subjecting themselves to the whims of central control.

 

2017 and the beginning of 2018 has stunningly illustrated how far so-called self-thinkers have fallen victim to the divide and conquer strategy.  More here:

 
http://www.wakingtimes.com/2018/01/15/rising-divide-conquer-strategy/

 


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Friday, November 7, 2014

Why is the US Middle Class Collapsing?


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“A smaller government reflecting the needs of the middle class and poor is superior to a big government reflecting the needs of the privileged and powerful.”
Robert Reich

 

Why is the Middle Class in the US Collapsing?

 

The U.S. dollar is progressively buying less and less. The middle class and savers are impoverished…

 

When I was growing up, my father was able to support his family of five on a single income. And when he was growing up, his father could do the same.

This sort of security simply doesn’t exist anymore.

These days, it typically takes two working parents just to be able to afford a comfortable standard of living. And even then, just barely.

Today people have to borrow on their credit cards just to get by. And young people are forced to indebt themselves decades into the future simply to pay for an increasingly worthless university degree.

 
A  typical family suffers from inflation—retail price inflation.

This is when the cost of goods and services outpaces their wages year after year.

People easily lose track of this. But enough time passes and they find that now two parents have to work just to afford a basic lifestyle, quality food, medical care, and education that one parent used to provide.
 

Just since 2005 we’ve lost 40% of our purchasing power because our monetary system has been put into overdrive printing more and more fiat currency [in reality, digits on a computer].  Since our own government has given up control over our currency, we’ve lost 95% of the value of our dollar since the Federal Reserve was created!

 

A new report just released by two academics at the London School of Economics and UC Berkeley shows just how rapidly the middle class is collapsing in the Land of the Free.

The top 0.1% (160,00 families with total net assets of more than $20 million in 2012) owned 7% of all wealth in late 1970s. That jumped to 22% in 2012.

The bottom 90%, on the other hand, went from a 36% share to a 23% share in the same period.

 

Thanks to the Federal Reserve, the middle class is slowly being suffocated by rising food prices.  Every single dollar in your wallet is constantly becoming less valuable because of the inflation the Fed systematically creates.  And if you try to build wealth by saving money and earning interest on it, you still lose because thanks to the Federal Reserve's near zero interest rate policies banks pay next to nothing on savings accounts.

 
  The Federal Reserve wants you to either spend your money or to put it in the giant casino that we call the stock market.  But when Americans spend their paychecks they are finding that they don't stretch as far as they once did.  The cost of living continues to rise at a much faster pace than wages are rising, and this is especially true when it comes to the price of food.

 
The Land of the Free used to be a place where you could work hard and build wealth for yourself, either by starting a business, taking some investment risk, or working your way up the chain.

Yet today, authorities chase away children who have the audacity to operate a lemonade stand without a permit.

The nanny state legally bars most grown adults from investing their own savings in lucrative private enterprises, forcing the masses into overheated, central bank- manipulated stocks and bonds.

And today you’re lucky to work for the same company for more than a few years. As a colleague told me a few months ago, few people have careers anymore.

Instead, human beings are ‘rented’ by companies to perform tasks. There’s no longer a career track, growth, or significant advancement.

 



This is dreadfully, terribly wrong.

The people in charge of this system have completely broken what capitalism is supposed to be. And they’ve replaced it with a new form of feudalism.

This is something that can’t possibly last.

All the technology and tools already exist for individuals to take the power back and divorce themselves from this reality.

You no longer have to live, work, and play in the same country where you were born.

You no longer have to hold the heavily manipulated, degraded currency that they destroy, or use the banking system that they control.

You no longer have to educate your children in the state-controlled school system, or feed your family the genetically-modified crap that the corn lobby bribes onto the store shelves.

You can break free. It’s a matter of choice.

 
Condensed from a post by Simon Black


 

 


When the autopsy is written on the death of the middle class where will you be?

 

The Social Security Administration has just released wage statistics for 2013, and the numbers are startling.  Last year, 50 percent of all American workers made less than $28,031, and 39 percent of all American workers made less than $20,000.  If you worked a full-time job at $10 an hour all year long with two weeks off, you would make $20,000.  So the fact that 39 percent of all workers made less than that amount is rather telling.  This is more evidence of the declining quality of the jobs in this country.  In many homes in America today, both parents are working multiple jobs in a desperate attempt to make ends meet. Our paychecks are stagnant while the cost of living just continues to soar.  And the jobs that are being added to the economy pay a lot less than the jobs lost in the last recession.  In fact, it has been estimated that the jobs that have been created since the last recession pay an average of 23 percent less than the jobs that were lost.  We are witnessing the slow-motion destruction of the middle class, and very few of our leaders seem to care.

The "average" yearly wage in America last year was just $43,041.  But after accounting for inflation, that was actually worse than the year before...

American paychecks shrank last year, just-released data show, further eroding the public’s purchasing power, which is so vital to economic growth.

Average pay for 2013 was $43,041 — down $79 from the previous year when measured in 2013 dollars. Worse, average pay fell $508 below the 2007 level, my analysis of the new Social Security Administration data shows.

In recent years, the number of men that are struggling to find work has reached new heights.  In fact, the inactivity rate for men in their prime working years (25 to 54) is now at the highest level that has ever been recorded.

It has been estimated that it takes approximately $50,000 a year to support a middle class lifestyle for a family of four, and so the fact that 72 percent of all workers make less than that amount shows how difficult it is for families that try to get by with just a single breadwinner.

The way that our economy is structured now, both parents usually have to work as hard as they can just to pay the bills.

American people don’t believe that we can have economic collapse followed by economic and social chaos. They suffer from normalcy bias.

 

 
Yours in freedom,

Bruce ‘the Poor Man’

 

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Sunday, August 17, 2014

Revenge of the Middle Class-Well, Sort of!


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"Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks.
Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools.
And their grand-children are once more slaves."
-- D. H. Lawrence

Retail sales have missed expectations for three months in a row and we just had the worst reading since January.

A Reminder before you dig into today’s issue and an announcement…

 

   Many of you already know that my health has not been good and recent tests have confirmed this.  As a one-person show I am finding my ability to keep up with the maintenance of our Poor Man sites a challenge.

 

We’re are a DIGEST of resources (like Reader’s Digest)in that I find, report and post a variety of content. For example, I frequently use material from Mother Earth News which they provide to me free of charge.

 

 I always try to credit those sources but as I mentioned, my brain isn’t always firing on all 16 cylinders and as the Google blog police recently reminded me, I must have neglected to credit someone so they yanked two posts (shoot first, ask second is their modus operandi).

 

Regardless, I will be transferring this blog to the site I own, one that is not subject to arbitrary deletion and I have placed all of these internet properties and storefront inventory up for sale so I can devote my remaining time to Habitat for Humanity, and my efforts at helping returning military veterans to start their own business, etc. [see the link below].

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Revenge of the Middle Class?  Sort of…

 

The Rage And Revenge Of The Middle Class »
President Barack Obama and the Democrats are facing a disaster at the voting booth in November. Yet Obama and his Democratic supporters are so ideological, delusional and out of touch with middle-class America that they don't understand why this is happening
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# Things have gotten so bad that even Wal-Mart is really struggling.  Same-store sales at Wal-Mart have declined for five quarters in a row and the outlook for the future is not particularly promising.

# The tech industry is supposed to be booming, but mass layoffs in the tech industry are actually 68 percent ahead of last year’s pace.

# According to the Federal Reserve, 40 percent of all households in the United States are currently showing signs of financial stress.

#The U.S. homeownership rate has fallen to the lowest level since 1995.

As the Middle Class and the tax base for cities, states and the federal government continues to decline, I strongly suspect our political system will continue its slide toward a total collapse while our economy spits up blood and the government no longer functions or serves the people.

During my lifetime I’ve seen much  America become like Detroit…a population and city in decay from 50 years of socialist policies and crooked leadership while most have their hands out in expectation of a handout.

Corruption and dysfunction continue to plague Congress and the White House leaving a few in this nation to serve as its moral minority.

What do you think or are you one of the unthinking masses? 
 

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Saturday, August 9, 2014

Citizens Have Rights-Don't They?


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 “Watching middle-class conservatives vote for politicians who've proudly pledged to screw them and their children over fills me with the same exasperated contempt I feel for rabbits who zigzag wildly back and forth in front of my tires instead of just getting off the goddamn road.”
Tim Kreider, We Learn Nothing

 


Citizens Have Rights – Don’t They?

Obama wants to look like a man of the people, saying he supports NSA reform. While at the same time, his administration keeps pushing policies in support of mass surveillance.

Reporters revealed that Obama bureaucrats are putting pressure on local law enforcement agencies. They want these agencies keep quiet about the tech they use to gather information.

Obama is speaking out of both sides of his mouth. On one hand, he “welcomes” a discourse on government surveillance. While on the other, he is hushing any local public officials who might talk about the actual, practical aspects of such programs.

Obama's people have even gone so far as to meddle in public records requests. In several cases, police departments have withheld documents – documents they would normally release under public records laws.

Have You Heard of Stingray?


Stingray is just one of the technologies that the Obama administration is trying to keep a lid on. Let's take a look at what it really is.

This bit of snooping technology mimics a cell phone tower. When it does, your phone shares a wealth of information with the fake tower, called a Stingray. The Stingray collects this information without the help of cell phone service providers.

You don’t even have to make a call or send a message for it to figure out that your phone is in the vicinity, and that it belongs to you!

Not a lot of other details are available about Stingray technology. In part because of federal pressure to conceal how the technology is used and how it works.

An AP request for more information about which police departments use Stingray technology fell on deaf ears. No information has been given.

As usual, government officials are hiding behind the all-too-familiar “security” excuse. They argue that keeping the technology secret is the only way to protect against terrorists and criminals.

Citizens have the right to know when and how the government is collecting data on them. And never mind the real question at hand here, which is "Does the government have the right to gather such information about its citizens without a warrant?"

Be Part of the Push Back


The NSA surveillance scandal has turned into a full-fledged debacle. The NSA is plowing ahead with its massive data-gathering programs despite public outcry. And Obama's administration has called for only small changes to the program.

In the meantime, in response to public outcry, the House of Representatives passed a reform bill, though it was watered-down.

Senator Rand Paul joined with two other senators in a statement protesting the House version of the bill. They stated it did not offer “meaningful reform.” To contact your Congressman and let him know how you feel about meaningful NSA reform, visit this site to get his/her information.

Senator Paul is not the only one disappointed in the House's version of the bill. Several tech giants including Apple, Microsoft, and Google joined together in calling for the Senate to do more to put an end to bulk data gathering by the NSA.

Many citizens are taking matters into their own hands. They are attempting to start a movement among Internet users to use stronger encryption and better passwords— anything that will make the NSA’s efforts to data gather more difficult…FRANKLY, We’re tired of an out-of-control BIG NOSY BROTHER government prying into our lives – Our message:  STAY THE HELL OUT OF OUR LIFE!

Our analysis has shown few Americans care about their liberty and privacy – many are blind, dumb and stupid to what is going around them. But for those who do care, you’ll find useful resources offered at:

 http://www.poormansurvival.com/Pages/Privacy.aspx




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