Comments on: 40 Bizarre Statistics That Reveal The Horrifying Truth About The Collapse Of The U.S. Economy

By: Common Martian

Common Martian — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 02:31:19 +0000

I’m a common Martian that arrived a long time ago to this beautiful planet when the USA became the most powerful country through greed over other countries.
Everybody believed in power and success flirting with the idea to become one of the few “true winners”, a multimillionaire. So, everyone supported this kind of behavior because each felt as a player. The big problem now is that most of the people in the USA don’t want to accept, that “the winners” took their winnings (never mind they cheat or not) to other countries that are more profitable to keep winning in this Monopoly game and become “Masters of the Universe” by being “On top of the food chain”. In the meantime every American still like to play another game as dangerous: Expending money they haven’t earned in things they cannot afford to impress people they do not know.
Amazing!

By: Eric Keppner

Eric Keppner — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 21:53:51 +0000

I do apologize. A Friend pointed out to me that the article was written in 2010. I stand corrected!

By: Eric Keppner

Eric Keppner — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 20:42:08 +0000

I think you need to balance this out. For example you are making your case with nothing but negative news. You need to inlcude other facts that are out there and not use old facts like the housing foreclosure listings from 2010. That is true, but not up to date like most of the satistics you are siting. I truly believe we are heading for a collapse as well, but when I educate people on the economy I use current statistics from late 2011 early 2012. You are correct aout the unemployment numbers being screwed. They always have been and that needs to be changed. The true unemployment rate is 22% and that is unacceptable. We are mounting all time debt and that too is unacceptable. Let’s fight this and let’s educate people, but let’s tell the whole truth and use current statistical data.

Respectfully

Eric Keppner

By: Farwell Perry

Farwell Perry — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:05:04 +0000

FEAR! This answers so many rhetorical questions.

We have feared the decline of our economy….. yet, I welcome it for the sake of mankind’s awakening.

Great loss seems to be the mother of realization and we will endure loss. Compassion and awareness of past foolishness and reactivity will make these times easier to bear. FORGIVE and CORRECT.

Judgment and separation cause suffering. See the people of the world as being just like you , so that you won’t suffer.

By: Richard Bell

Richard Bell — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 01:21:23 +0000

Well, the reality of all this is, the greedy bunch that has all the money and has been responsible for this will be living is total chaos like the rest of society. They will not be protected at all. They will have a VERY rude awakening about how poorly the rest of society lives. I will not matter how much money you have when it has no value whatsoever. If the super rich only paid back what they really truly did steal from the American citizens, this can be avoided, but I fear greed will get in the way, and they too will suffer. This really sucks because no matter how much money you have, you can’t live to be 300 years old. Good luck.

By: paul

paul — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 23:07:35 +0000

debt is slavery. Free yourself. If you cant pay cash for it then u can’t have it. Trade services for tangibles & vice versa. Grow your own asap. When the Nukes go off- don’t panic – the fall out will likely only be a few square miles, besides, death is your friend. Jesus died for you & your sins. Believe it!

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:38:20 +0000

Doesn’t matter. The Federal Reserve is privately owned and all you’re seeing is the Fed’s owners tightening the screws because the public protested their enslavement.

What else is new? It’s happened over and over in US history. The battle for who gets to create and issue the money into circulation.

Oh well. I don’t rely on the American public for anything. They’re absolutely the dumbest (and most lied to) people on Earth.

By: stefaan

stefaan — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 22:30:32 +0000

hello world. get real. maybe it’s time to review the old capitalism theory…
you are not alone, and you’re not only in it for the money.
When will the American people realize that the American dream just happens to selfish bastards, who don’t come near to your true hero attitude.
believe me I’m not a communist, but your politicians would most likely classify me as such.
nope, we’re Belgian, we share, and we’re OK, for now.

By: a guy

a guy — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:58:51 +0000

Hmm, so we can’t trust politicians and we can’t trust corporations. OR really, we can’t trust people who aren’t us to be on our side; profit in image or cash is more important to them.

Obviously, our systems are broken and obsolete. We must create new ones that we CAN control, where EVERYONE has power over their own lives. People are apathetic and “stupid” now, filling voids of meaning with instant gratification, because they can’t affect their own situation; they stop trying to escape the cage around them when they realize they can’t do it alone. But if PEOPLE WORKED TOGETHER, instead of blaming this group or that group or letting this guy or that guy do things for us, and STOP ACCEPTING THE WAY THINGS ARE WITH SHORT-TERM SOLUTIONS and TAKE ACTION, the cage would break.

Thinking people are “higher” or “lower” than each other, slicing people apart into “us” and “them”, denying that every person on this earth was born from a human mother! Why always “me over you” or “you over me” or “you or me” instead of “us” or “you and me”? Competition is fun for games but it is divisive to absurdity; when it comes to living your life, why can’t we all work together? Is it chaos to trust your neighbors and friends to help you out?

Do we really need abstract behemoths in countries around the world, with more power than some of the small ones, some with more power than the larger ones, all of which can buy any politician in our country NOW, constantly reinforcing themselves in our daily lives from birth to death, destroying ecosystems that help sustain our life, cutting wages, raising prices, only to get larger and larger as they struggle for the last drop of profit, killing everything around them in the process?

Why is LOVE so HATED? Why do those in power ignore the suffering of their fellow humans just like most people do? Is it so idealistic to put trust in your fellow man, who suffers like you do when a few people with power use it to scold, imprison, pillage, rape, enslave, and kill you? Why do we always respond with ANGER instead of ACTION, with FEAR instead of RATIONALITY?

WHY DO WE LET THINGS CONTINUE
BY DOING NOTHING OURSELVES?

By: Johnny de Vulcan

Johnny de Vulcan — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:35:54 +0000

Sometimes it is necessary to go to the root of the problem; the Rotschilds (adress in Kiwiallegiances post) owns more than 50%s of all wealth on the planet,that includes ALL (but 7) central or National Banks -157- ,largely running the total economy of states all over and printing money out of thin air ,like Schickelgruber did. They own the military-industry and the press – and the politicians. All that wealth carries a lot of responsibility for its use. Will you still send your young people to war so they can spend as much ammunition and tanks and drones etc. as possible so they (Rotshits)can make some more money from replacing it with even more expensive and complicated hardware ,meant only to be destroyed. Seen from the other Universal cultures this is cause of much head-shaking and compassion. We have to solve it ourselves- and as said-the adress is up there in Kiwiallegiances post.P.S.: don´t forget: besides wars they also de-populate us with chem-trails- and lately Corexit in the food-chain. STOP THEM!

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 10:31:11 +0000

As Machiavelli made clear, power and control are the objective of the prince. Not compassion and justice. Welcome to the age of Corporatocracy.

By: Daniel J. Lavigne

Daniel J. Lavigne — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 09:25:10 +0000

The Salivators

Sheep like humanity, howling as wolves.
To evil deferring, destroying the good.
As foulmouthed cowards, wasting their breath
Flashing fools fashions, ignoring the threat,
Of a flash that will fashion . . . Humanity’s death.

Looking Away

Society’s victims, aloof, askance
Suffering the poison of indifference.
Living in violent pinpoint balance,
In subservience to political whores.
COWARDS!

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By: Ariel Gail MacLean

Ariel Gail MacLean — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 07:25:54 +0000

One significant statistic I never hear reported on is the huge number of unemployed 60-somethings who were forced into early Social Security Retirement before their account matured simply because we could not survive without a job and opted to save our life and be thankful for the lower amount rather than starve and wait for the higher amount. For example, because I could no longer compete in the job market with younger (and cheaper) employees, my only choice was to lock in, at 63, for the rest of my life, to a monthly check of $897, rather than the nearly $1400/month I had long intended to retire on had I been able to remain employed a few years longer. This issue is especially pressing when you consider there are many more females in this predicament than men, and that we (females) almost universally receive 40% to 60% less SS$ than our male counterparts because of the unavoidable reasons we all know. This is creating an almost instantaneous deep poverty class out of the increasingly vulnerable aging population. We are going to need to develop new ways of sharing residences, resources, food, and this will likely occur within a shadow economy because the government has created more ways to discourage entrepreneurship than I can keep up with. My solution has been to devolve my lifestyle (out of my car now and living in a barn), reduce consumption to a notch above camping, and grow as much of your own (and for those around us) food. I started a CSA and grow food for a shrinking group of middle class families, and truck their “Share” of vegetables into the city weekly. Committing to local food security initiatives is only one way to save your own life but it is sure a meaningful one. Oil has peaked….peak water and peak soil and peak food is next….

By: Larry

Larry — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 22:05:58 +0000

We need to all starting buying American made products or not buy at all. Check out http://www.petriot.com on where to find American products.

By: Harry Canary

Harry Canary — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:54:21 +0000

The country started failing when it became an economy of marketeering and salesboys. These people try to crate demand for unnecessary products by lying and twisting truth. They sit around at the golf course getting drunk and slamming the people who work in the factory or construction sites producing the things these leeches use every day. When marketeering became tolerated let alone respected it was the beginning of the end for America as a country. Today sales and marketeering adds far more to the cost of everything we use than the cost of producing it but we still here unions blamed for high costs. Finance also adds more than the cost of production. None of these activities, sales, finance, or marketeering, adds anything of value. They just increase cost. Cut the number of salesboys and their compensation to something the country can actually afford, do the same to the banksters and get the spinmeisters and marketeers out of the rooms where decisions are made and things will start to turn around. Not likely to happen in the near future. As long as the salesboys and marketeers are around do not expect to hear anything but lies.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:28:30 +0000

Left/right,liberal, communist,libertarian,republican,Blah blah blah!.
All of our problems can be summed up like this:
Lazy,economically ignorant people (and their politicians who depend on their votes) wanted something for nothing and got away with it for some time,now reality is arriving and it won’t be papered over with more debt to hide it.

Fortunately, the constitution ignoring parasites who managed to get this racket going will be the ones hurting the most when the currency is devalued by a factor of 5
Reality will soon force you lice to work like the rest of us!

By: X

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 04:58:47 +0000

Smitty for president.

By: h5mmind

h5mmind — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:09:15 +0000

Here’s an even more gruesome statistic: there are over 40,000 full time lobbyists in DC today, more than double the number from 2007. If you want to know why good jobs, small businesses, domestic manufacturing, and personal freedoms continue to disappear regardless of who you vote for, don’t blame China, or the opposite party– blame the hordes of professional usurpers who stole our government and made it “their” government. Virtually everything that happens in Washington benefits the largest corporations at your expense. We have become so anesthetized to this ongoing larceny that we pretend it’s just the way of the modern world. But don’t kid yourself. It’s the dark alchemy of corporate duplicity mixed with public apathy. We will continue to fund the weapons of our own mass destruction until we decide we prefer peace, prosperity, and freedom. And we will never see any of it until the ‘Armani Army’ is thrown out of Washington for good.

By: Hayden Roth

Hayden Roth — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:01:53 +0000

One more item to add to this list is the stupidity of people willing to pay 6 or 7 times more for a house than it is actually worth.

By: Dr J

Dr J — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 20:55:57 +0000

The looting of America is taking place ie Wall Street Bailout, right in front of our eyes. Right before a Nation collapses folks raid the banking reserves.

Btw- As per the 1984 Grace Commission Report findings under then POTUS Ronald Reagan- none of our tax dollars go anywhere except to pay off the debt ie all tax collected by the IRS goes straight to the Federal Reserve Cartel of Bankers to pay off the debt.