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Wishing You a Happy Thanksgiving
Here in the States we'll celebrate Thanksgiving this week.
And, for most of us, we have plenty to be thankful for. But I know that's not
true for all of our readers. So I encourage those of you who have been blessed
to share with those who have had a harder time of it. And not just those who
are struggling financially.
Anyone who has read my columns knows I put forth a lot of
support for our military and our veterans and others less fortunate and I am
blessed to be in a position where I can do that.
In addition to supporting the USO, VFW, Volunteers of America,
Wounded Warriors Project, Disabled Veterans, and other national organizations,
we also support several local charities as well…my wife and I don’t buy gifts
for each other any longer but choose instead to use those funds toward various
charities each year. [Each year we
choose different non-profits for our charitable allocations].
This can be a hard time of year for those who have recently
lost a loved one. Just by being there for them you could be the thing that
they're thankful for.
Regardless of your circumstances, it is almost always
possible to help another person.
We wish each of you a blessed Thanksgiving!
Yours for a brighter season,
Bruce ‘the Poor Man!’
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Monday, November 19, 2018
How Democrats Destroy Jobs & Business Start-ups
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How Democrats Destroy Jobs
& Business Start-ups
That’s what the market is saying, what CEOs
are worried about offline.
Steen
Jacobsen, Chief Economist and Chief Investment Officer of Saxo Bank sees
economic slowdown ahead.
Specifically,
his "Four Horseman" indicators: the drivers of economic growth, are
all flashing red.
Our
hat is off to Simon Black for his input…
What
will drive wealth accumulation in the coming era?
Investors
are going to soon realize that without dependable gains, income becomes
paramount. Specifically, income that will retain its purchasing power as
inflation and interest rates rise.
AND..less
interference from meddling government!
Nothing demonstrates the
“imminent bankruptcy” problem better than the financial obligations of New York
City. Rubino says, “They just announced that they have unfunded liabilities for
retiree healthcare, just retiree healthcare and not the rest of their pensions,
of $100 billion. That’s for a city, not a state or a country, and if you add
their unfunded liabilities for their pensions, which is another $50 billion or
so, and their official debt, which is $50 billion or so, you get $200 billion
that New York City is on the hook for that they have not put money away for. If
a private sector company had finances like that, they would be insolvent, and
their accountants would force them to say that.”You can tell the same story for
cities, states and countries around the world swimming in unrepayable debt. So,
what will be done when bond defaults and financial failures begin? Will Trump
let it go like the failed debt of Puerto Rico or have massive bailouts?
Despite the fact that the Fed
keeps raising rates as it tightens the noose around the supposed economic
“recovery”, there are still many people out there who refuse to accept that the
central bank would deliberately implode the fiscal bubble that it has spent the
last ten years inflating. Even today, I still see arguments proclaiming that
the Fed will be forced to pull back if stocks fall beyond 15% to 20%. I also
see claims that Fed officials like Jerome Powell had "better start looking
for another job" because Donald Trump won’t be happy with Fed policies
that could cause a crash. This is pure delusion from people who do not
understand how the Fed operates.
Silver:
Supported by D.C. and The Deep State (GE Christenson)
The ever-expanding debt feeds
dollars into circulation. Those dollars levitate stocks, bonds, real estate
and/or commodities. Stocks have rallied since 2009, bonds since the early 1980s
and real estate has reached bubble territory again in 2018. Commodities have
been weaker for five to ten years. The Deep State, Federal Reserve and U.S.
Government want rising stock and bond markets because they increase wealth for
the political and financial elite. They have created a “borrow, spend, blow a
bubble, let it collapse, and rake in the spoils game,” and it will not change
easily.
While President Donald Trump and
elements of the mainstream media describe a strong United States economy -
America's economic future has significant problems on the horizon. Peter Schiff
joins Stefan Molyneux to discuss the United States's $21-plus trillion-dollar
national debt, skyrocketing unfunded liabilities, federal deficits of $100
billion per month, the end of retirement, coming Corporate bankruptcies, the
myth of a strong stock market, the subprime auto loan bubble, the role of
China, upcoming inflation, flooding the market with treasury bonds, the day of
reckoning for the Federal Reserve, Bernie Sander's Jobs program and the end of
the second-longest economic recovery in history.
SIDEBAR-INFLATION
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Thursday, November 15, 2018
The United States is Being Radicalized Along Two Lines: Socialism and...
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The US is Being Radicalized Along Two
Lines: Socialism & a Post-Modern Form of Leadership
America
is changing in ways that are hard to understand...and even harder to
predict. During the mid-term elections
64% of people aged 24 and under voted for socialist candidates [aka: far-left
Democrats] such as socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez [who then whined about
not being able to afford an apartment in DC]…78% of young people voted for
left-wing candidates in support of FREE college, free health care, universal
health care and other socialist policies.
I
studied cultural anthropology for years and it has been both interesting and
alarming to watch how young people have become increasingly stupid [poorly
educated], addicted to so-called “smart” devices and a growing anti-traditional
value sentiment. It has early roots but
took off with the Bernie Sanders campaign where the younger generation openly
embraced socialism.
Just a decade ago, “socialism” was a dirty word
in American politics.
Politicians like Ocasio-Cortez, Michigan’s Rashida Tlaib, and
Kansas’ James Thompson have proudly held up their endorsements from Democratic
Socialists of America, the country’s largest socialist group, whose numbers
have swelled since Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign.
Young
people have been slowly indoctrinated by such thinking by socialist-oriented
teachers and professors for nearly two decades in our public schools and
colleges where American history has either gone by the wayside or has been
significantly revised to make our Founders appear to be racist bastards and
capitalism is now considered disgusting [books about Marxism are now very
popular sellers on campus].
For the first time since Gallup has asked the
question, more Democrats approve of socialism than of capitalism…
Despite
record low employment and a great economy and rising wages, voters were
especially in favor of going backward in states such as MI [except in rural
counties where the GOP outdid Democrats by double-digits] where ethnic groups,
Blacks and union groups succeeded in flipping the vote back to Democratic
majorities. America is being torn
between two rival cultures, two regimes if you will-socialism and normal
conservative politics.
Do
you ever feel like what used to be called common sense is
now mocked by a biased and arrogant mainstream? Just look at Yahoo. There is a never-ending stream of
anti-Trump “news” and bashing…Nearly 97% of the reports on this left-wing
search engine are anti-Trump.
Political
loyalties diverge more and more as visions for the future for America differ
radically…Progressives [socialists] see a so-called “living Constitution” which
implies our old one is no longer good or that it is on life support and should
be infused with how they view the world such as the elimination of the 2nd
Amendment for instance, an even bigger government with a complete take-over of
life including socialized medicine and guaranteed income for all and free
college tuition for all. Until the
1960s, most liberals believed it was inevitable that their perspectives would
replace conservatives through evolution.
However, during 60s, the new-Left wanted something faster, they wanted a
revolution even when conservatives fought back attempting to return America
back to her roots.
By
the 70s and 80s it became apparent to the Leftists that a new kind of ‘cold’
civil war was taking place and they began to sharpen their approach and attacks
via various channels including race baiting, schools, PR lobbying, ethnic and
legal challenges at every level often circumventing the legislative process and
currently the placement/embedment of less divisive political candidates all
levels of government in an effort plant their members into the legislative role
they need to initiate the change the Left desires.
The midterms offered a warning that the GOP had better take
seriously. While the infection of liberalism is slowly spreading to cover
nearly the entire East Coast, and has essentially destroyed the opposite shore,
it appears to be metastasizing to far-flung regions of the American body.
Senator Ted Cruz defeated "Beto," but he hardly stomped him flat, and
O'Rourke's campaign taught the Democrats that they can use their control of the
media in concert with a monster spending campaign to great effect. [Nearly $5 BILLION was spent,
the majority by Democrats-a new record].
In Arizona [my former home state], voters gave John McCain's
already-shaky Republican seat to far-left Democrat Kyrsten Sinema. The changing
demographics [CA voters have moved there in droves and Latinos have organized
to support Leftist policies which help illegals] in the desert turned their
backs on badass A-10 pilot Rep. Martha McSally to embrace a liberal who spent
half her campaign discussing how much she hated them.
Deep in the heart of Dixie, the Democrats, who haven't dominated the landscape since they still had real KKK members on their roster, made noticeable noise. Although Stacey Abrams didn't win, she made a hell of a splash. Again, a "red" state turned purple by fawning media coverage working hand-in-glove with liberal cash. Considering Abrams on her own was a gaffe-prone curiosity, it's fair to say that her success essentially means Oprah Winfrey almost bought a governor's mansion.
Deep in the heart of Dixie, the Democrats, who haven't dominated the landscape since they still had real KKK members on their roster, made noticeable noise. Although Stacey Abrams didn't win, she made a hell of a splash. Again, a "red" state turned purple by fawning media coverage working hand-in-glove with liberal cash. Considering Abrams on her own was a gaffe-prone curiosity, it's fair to say that her success essentially means Oprah Winfrey almost bought a governor's mansion.
Having
plenty of left-oriented media on their side helps their effort and every
independent media rating agency has shown the majority of media has an
anti-Trump and anti-conservative bias [watch Yahoo for example, newly acquired
by the Leftist Verizon Corporation which amply demonstrates a 98%
anti-conservative bias].
Some of my thoughts on this…
There
was once a time when journalists often had intelligence, integrity, and
competence. Today, reporters have none of
these qualifications-Leftist sites such as Yahoo and the Huffington Post are so
far left they couldn’t even be bothered to run any stories in support of
veterans on Veterans Day!
I’m actually for open borders. But it’s only possible if
there is zero welfare to attract the wrong types… And if all property is privately
owned… to help ensure everyone is self-supporting.
Now,
people from all kinds of alien places are being imported by the hundreds of
thousands by NGOs; they then go
on welfare in enclaves in different places around the country. This is unlikely
to end well.
The next
two years will be years of gridlock, Democrat-instigated investigations and,
likely, attempts at impeaching Trump and maybe even Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
Those attempts will be fruitless endeavors begun not to achieve
"justice," but as show trials and theater for their leftwing
base.
Here's what we expect for the next two years:
- Democrats will
tie Trump up with investigations into his taxes and his history of
business dealings.
- House Democrats
will make a spirited attempt to reprise the phony allegations against
Kavanaugh in order to try and impeach him.
- A bill to ban
so-called assault weapons will pass the House. It will not pass in the
Senate if it is even brought up (not likely, unless there is another major
mass shooting).
- A bill to
restrict and regulate the purchase of center fire ammunition will pass the
House and Senate. This will likely come on the heels of another mass
shooting.
- House Democrats
will push for – and likely pass – a measure to begin the process of
amending the Constitution to eliminate the electoral college.
- The stock market
will see a significant correction on the order of the one seen in 2008,
and a recession will begin.
- War with Iran
(undeclared, of course). Trump's foreign policy team is full of Iran
hawks, and nothing rallies the base like a war.
- Trump's tweets
will get more bombastic as we draw closer to the next election.
- Senators Kamala
Harris, Corey Booker, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, failed
senatorial candidate Beto O'Rourke, former Vice President Joe Biden,
former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, creepy porn lawyer Michael
Avenatti and Hillary Clinton will all test the waters for the 2020
Democrat nomination. Most will run.
- A challenger or
challengers to Trump will step up for the Republican nomination from the
GOP. Likely one or more from CIA operative Evan McMullin, Governor John
Kasich, Senator Jeff Flake, Senator Ben Sasse and someone unexpected with
deep pockets from the globalist corporate community.
- Alternative
media will essentially be purged from Facebook and Twitter and strangled
by the tech giants that begin to refuse to host the sites or handle their
financial transactions.
Nothing good will be accomplished, as both Republicans and Democrats will be preening and jostling toward the 2020 presidential contest and their congressional reelections. That will be good for Americans as it limits the politicians' opportunities for stealing more of our liberties.
If
history is any indication, everything is cyclical and today’s crop of
socialists will learn [as their citizens in South America are learning] this
form of government is seldom workable.
Sources: PEW Research, Hillsdale College, American
Demographics
Parting Note:
Now that Democrats have regained some
power & their Ego is no longer in check…
“I think the smart money on Wall Street right now is inviting the
sheep in for one more slaughter. The smart money is
getting out. The point is very simple, there have been extraordinary profits
made as a result of a stock market bubble that was stimulated by this massive
money pumping by the fed and all the other central banks, we're at the end of
that.
“We're at the peak of that and you can take profits and live
happily ever after and wait for a new opportunity at prices in the market which
will be far lower.”
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Yours for
smarter living,
Bruce ‘the
Poor Man’
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Other
notes of interest…
Living Frugally In Suburbia
You live differently than your neighbors.
You live differently than your neighbors.
14
Frugal Food-Rescuing Tips from Grandma
These depression-era frugal tips still work today!
These depression-era frugal tips still work today!
8 Simple Ways to Put More Money in Your Pocket
Have more money without working harder!
Have more money without working harder!
Knowing
When and How to Stockpile Groceries
Stocking up could save your grocery budget!
Stocking up could save your grocery budget!
10 Stores That Give Discounts to
Shoppers Age 50 or Older
You don't even need an AARP
membership card to qualify for the "senior" discounts at these
retailers.
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