Jeffrey Immelt, the head of Barack Obama's highly touted "Jobs Council", is moving even more GE infrastructure to China. GE makes more medical-imaging machines than anyone else in the world, and now GE has announced that it "is moving the headquarters of its 115-year-old X-ray business to Beijing". Apparently, this is all part of a "plan to invest about $2 billion across China" over the next few years. But moving core pieces of its business overseas is nothing new for GE. Under Immelt, GE has shipped tens of thousands of good jobs out of the United States. Perhaps GE should change its slogan to "Imagination At Work (In China)". If the very people that have been entrusted with solving the unemployment crisis are shipping jobs out of the country, what hope is there that things are going to turn around any time soon?
Earlier this month, Immelt made the following statement to a jobs summit at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce....
"There's no excuse today for lack of leadership. The truth is we all need to be part of the solution."
Apparently Immelt's idea of being part of the solution is to ship as many jobs overseas as he possibly can.
A recent article on the Huffington Post documented how GE has been sending tens of thousands of good jobs out of the country....
As the administration struggles to prod businesses to create jobs at home, GE has been busy sending them abroad. Since Immelt took over in 2001, GE has shed 34,000 jobs in the U.S., according to its most recent annual filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. But it's added 25,000 jobs overseas.
At the end of 2009, GE employed 36,000 more people abroad than it did in the U.S. In 2000, it was nearly the opposite.
GE is supposed to be creating the "jobs of tomorrow", but it seems that most of the "jobs of tomorrow" will not be located inside the United States.
The last GE factory in the U.S. that made light bulbs closed last September. The transition to the new CFL light bulbs was supposed to create a whole bunch of those "green jobs" that Barack Obama keeps talking about, but as an article in the Washington Post noted, that simply is not happening....
Rather than setting off a boom in the U.S. manufacture of replacement lights, the leading replacement lights are compact fluorescents, or CFLs, which are made almost entirely overseas, mostly in China.
But GE is far from alone in shipping jobs and economic infrastructure out of the United States. For example, big automakers such as Ford are being very aggressive in China. Ford is currently "building three factories in Chongqing as part of $1.6 billion investment that also includes another plant in Nanchang".
Today, China accounts for approximately one out of every four vehicles sold worldwide. The big automakers consider the future to be in China.
Just a few decades ago, China was an economic joke and the U.S. economy was absolutely unparalleled.
But disastrous trade policies have opened up the door for a mammoth transfer of jobs, factories and wealth from the United States to China.
China has become an absolute powerhouse and America is rapidly declining.
Beautiful new infrastructure is going up all over China even as U.S. infrastructure rots and decays right in front of our eyes.
You can see some amazing pictures of the stunning economic development that has been going on in China here, here, here and here.
America is being deindustrialized at lightning speed and very few of our politicians seem to care.
Back in 1979, there were 19.5 million manufacturing jobs in the United States.
Today, there are 11.6 million.
That represents a decline of 40 percent during a time period when our overall population experienced tremendous growth.
We used to have the greatest manufacturing cities on the entire globe. The rest of the world was in awe of us.
Today, most of those formerly great manufacturing cities are decaying, rotting hellholes.
The following is what one reporter from the UK saw during his visit to Detroit....
As you pass the city limits a blanket of gloom, neglect and cheapness descends. The buildings are shabbier, the paint is faded. The businesses, where they exist, are thrift shops and pawn shops or wretched groceries where the goods are old and tired. Finding somewhere to have breakfast, normally easy in any American city, involves a long hunt. ‘God bless Detroit’, says one billboard, just beside another offering the alternative solution: liquor.
You can see some really shocking images of the decline of Detroit right here.
Our politicians insisted that globalism would not result in a "giant sucking sound" as millions of jobs left America.
But that is exactly what has happened.
Sadly, most American families still don't understand what has happened. Most of them are still waiting for things to get back to "normal".
Millions of unemployed Americans are dealing with incredible amounts of stress right now as they wait for jobs to start opening up again. But the jobs that have been shipped overseas are not coming back. In a globalized economy, it doesn't make sense to hire American workers when you can legally pay workers slave labor wages on the other side of the globe.
Millions of good middle class jobs have been replaced by low paying service jobs. Today there are huge numbers of Americans that are cutting hair or flipping burgers because that is all they can get right now.
Many others are only able to survive because of the safety net. One reader named David recently left a comment in which he shared his story. David did everything that the system asked him to do, but the promised rewards never materialized. Now David is broke, unemployed and he feels deeply frustrated....
A year ago I had a job, we were struggling, but bills were getting paid, and somehow we were getting by. Then I made the mistake of getting sick, one day before my company insurance kicked in. An auto-immune illness almost killed me, if it weren’t for the amazing efforts of my physicians and an emergency spleenectomy, I would not be here.
My wife would have been a single mother,raising two young sons, one of which is autistic. Instead, I pulled through. The disease damaged my liver, leaving me with a chronic condition, and even after a year, it is hard to get up and go some days. My “employer” dumped me as soon as I left the hospital, and I haven’t worked since. It isn’t for lack of looking. There just isn’t anything.
Oh, I get my government cheese money. Here I am college educated, unable to find something that can pay the bills better than the money that we get from the government. It sickens me to be this dependent on the system like this. But the system de-incentivizes work, and makes living on the dole make a perverse economic sense.
I used to have dreams, but I have given up on them. My wife and I have no savings, we have no life raft and if it weren’t for the generosity of her parents and mine, things would have ground to a halt a long time ago.
I believed every thing adults told me. Work hard, I did. Get an education, I did. Find a nice girl and settle down, I did. Two cars, a dog, a cat and couple of kids, a nice townhouse…the american dream. Yep.
I love my country. My heart is broken, broken because I have been betrayed. I did what you asked, I played by the rules. I did what you said to do; I submitted, I conformed, I stopped dreaming. Now what?
I am willing to pay for my faults and transgressions; my failures are my own, I get that. My children should not have to suffer for my failures, they did not do anything wrong. My youngest boy is autistic, we hope he will be able to integrate into society, but the fact is we may have to take care of him for the rest of his life. How do I do this with nothing, and no opportunity in the foreseeable future?
Depression, stress…yep, I’ve got all that. I used to be hopeful and optimistic about the future. Now all I am is afraid.
As the United States continues to bleed good jobs, stories like the one you just read are going to become much more common.
So what are our politicians doing about all of this?
They tell us that we need even more "free trade"!
Barack Obama says that we need more free trade.
The Republicans say that we need more free trade.
In Washington D.C. our politicians do not agree on much, but one thing they do agree on is that we need to keep shipping jobs out of the country.
Until the American people wake up and start demanding an end to the globalization of the U.S. economy, the job losses are just going to continue to get worse.
The United States has lost a staggering 32 percent of its manufacturing jobs since the year 2000. If this trend continues, millions more Americans will soon be surviving on food stamps or living in tent cities.
The American people are deeply concerned about the economy, but they still have not connected the dots on these issues. The mainstream media and most of our politicians keep telling them that the globalization of the economy is a wonderful thing.
It is so sad that people just do not understand what is going on right in front of their eyes.
Whether you are a conservative or a liberal or a libertarian, you should be against the deindustrialization of America.
Allowing our industrial base to be raped is not a good thing.
Allowing big corporations and foreign governments to pay slave labor wages to workers on the other side of the globe making things that will be sold inside the United States is not a good thing.
Allowing the destruction of our industrial capacity to threaten our national security is not a good thing.
Allowing millions of precious jobs to leave the country is not a good thing.
The biggest corporations are making some extra profits by exploiting cheap labor on the other side of the globe. Corporate executives love to shower themselves with larger and larger bonuses.
But our current trade policies are not working for American workers.
We need "fair trade", not "free trade".
The United States is being taken advantage of, and the Democrats and the Republicans are both laying down like doormats and letting it happen.
If you want to know where all the good jobs went, it is not a big mystery.
They have been shipped out of the country and they are not coming back.
Unless fundamental changes are made, things are going to get worse and worse and worse for American workers.
So what is going to happen next?
It is up to you America.
Our country is being gutted in the name of globalism. Welcome to the New World Order hope you like. The time will be way to late before enough Americans wake up to the robbery. I guess Ross Perot wasn’t so stupid after all.
Ron Paul 2012 He’s our last best chance …
Exactly Captain Woodrow. Ross Perot was a very good man and would have been a great President. But the International Bankers/Illuminati kingpins were not going to have it. They are about 10,000 times richer than Ross Perot; and the warned him that they had their man already prepared, William Jefferson Clinton would be our next President. And he was. This was actually their first Dictator/President. And Bush was their best Dictator/Puppet President. And President Obama has been brought forth to finish us off.
And as for Ron Paul; true, he is our only hope; but how long will he last? Kennedy only lasted 3 years before they assasinated the 3rd greatest President in American history. But in hell will they be weeping and wailing and agonizing for their billions of deaths and wars and genocides and revolutions.
I would like to ask every American to look in their houses and in their garage and see how many foreign manufactured material they have in their homes. They will find furniture, tools, automobiles, food, appliances, and just about anything else you can think of. Many American houses were built with illegal alien labor, foreign materials, supplies, and tools. Look at the internet , television, Ipones and they are cluttered with foreign made product advertisement. Then I would like to ask them if they thought about the jobs they were sending overseas when they purchased the products. I have purchased foreign product and I did not ask myself this question. Why? Probably because I didn’t want to, probably because it was the only thing I could afford, probably because at the time I didn’t feel that it was unpatriotic to do so, Probably because I didn’t want to think about the children assembling the product under slave conditions, or maybe there are so many Americans doing it that I too have become cynically irresponsible. Whatever it is, it is wrong, unconscious, and ignorant. That is exactly what Jeffrey Immelt and many other cynical CEO’s and politicians rely on. Our ignorance and our own cynicism. How can we demand that the politicians and business leaders be responsible when we are not. The one thing that I have always bought American, or so they say, is automobiles, I bought a truck from chevrolet and it was supposed to be a 2007 truck but it turned out that it was a 2006 left over truck that chevrolet just gave a new name and re-registered it as a 2007. The workmanship is lousy, and the truck is expensive for the quality. I will however keep buying American vehicles, and I will try to buy American products even with lousy sales tactics and even with low quality simply because that keeps Americans working. I just wish that more Americans took more pride in what they do, do the right thing regardless of the consequences. I wished that they would get out of their safety zone and downgrade their living standards as necessary to get America back on the right track. Many Americans are living a lifestyle way beyond what they can afford. Take a look at Washington and the circus that all the politicians are clowning in. The politicians the CEO,s, the banks, and wall street are not going to save us, they are not even going to try. They are too cynical they are smart enough to know that the country is and has been in a non-sustainable path for a long time, but they don’t care. They are all setting themselves up in other counties so that they can just move. Kind of like when you yourself just move out of a bad neighborhood. It’s up to us the average American to take control of our own lives and become independent of government and corporations. I believe that we know deep inside of us just what needs to be done, We have to gather our courage, bring it out and get it done.
Interesting story you have, I’ll say there’s a Japanese car in my driveway (Toyota Corrola, nearly 10 years old, still in excellent condition) and it’s nothing fancy but it’s been very very reliable, and it gets sent to the local Toyota-approved service center and it gets genuine Japanese parts.
Am I bothered that I’m not helping local guys get jobs? Well to some extent I am bothered, but on the other hand, if some guys in Japan want to work hard and make a good quality car, don’t they deserve a reward for that? If I keep paying money for crap, then they guy serving me crap every day will never learn, and I’ll get worse and worse crap until I can’t take it any more. Why should I hate the Japanese? I’ve met a few Japanese and they were very trustworthy people.
I believe that a free market can work, and part of that process is buying the best value products you can buy, wherever they come from. When I work my job I expect that people are depending on me to deliver quality, and I’m not there asking for charity or expecting other people to pull their weight instead of me.
By the way, I also have an American Weber BBQ (the traditional Charcoal burner), and it’s well made and it cooks a great meal. I’ve never regretted paying a little bit extra for it, because it’s a quality product. I don’t mind parting with a bit of money when I see I’m getting something in return.
Repeal NAFTA and all of those other wicked trade agreements.
Re-instate the Glass-Steagall Act.
Re-instate Tariffs and Income Tax Rates to 1960 levels.
A few other tweaks and changes but this boat would start turning around quickly!
Yes, tariffs and import taxes on foreign corporations goods….In Asia, you will pay almost three times the cost for a bimmer or merc due to the import tax on it.
Baiscally, domestic made goods have protection in place. Wanna buy a swiss watch in Asia? You will pay extra for it.
Same thing needs to happen in the US. Wanna buy a Merc or Bimmer that doesn’t have 100% “made in america” on it (think X5 made in South Carolina) than it should be taxed at 100%. That is how most american cars are taxed throughout Asia!
Who in Washington is getting kickbacks from these foreign auto companies for not instituting import tariffs on these luxury vehicles?
Re-instate Tariffs and Income Tax Rates to 1960 levels.
Yes that’s correct tax the rich HARD and spread the wealth.
More and more Americans-over 80% agree with me—-tax the rich!!!
This is not my opinion but the facts. Google for your self. You all know I am correct it is just your false pride preventing you from saying I am correct.
YIKES!!!!!!!!
Its not just Immelt. All of the CEOS who make up Obama’s “economic advisory council” have cut jobs in the U.S. …American Express, Dupont, Boeing, Intel, etc.
During the recession Citigroup laid off an astonishing 50,000 workers! And took $45 bililon in taxpayer dollars!
http://www.foxbusiness.com/on-air/willis-report/blog/2011/06/06/obamas-jobs-advisors-cut-jobs-dont-grow-them
Apparently the advice Obama has been getting is how to kill jobs – not create them.
Remember that funny Ross Perot guy?
I grew up in a poor but proud working class family. Lots of times there wasn’t enough food to eat in the house. Both of my grandfathers fought in WW2. One was at Pearl Harbor when it was bombed. They finished their lives as proud working class people purchasing Chevrolets and supporting America.
I was always told to get an education. After serving a stint in the military, I worked my way through 4 years of college to get my degree while supporting a wife and two kids. I was rewarded for a time by acheiving better and better jobs and experience. Just a few short years ago I had a nice house and two new vehicles.
Since then, my life has come crashing down all around be. I acknowledge and realize I have made some poor decisions in my life as we all do, however, in a normal world, I would have been easily able to rally back. That has not been the case
After losing my near six figure position at a really good company I assumed it would be easy for me to hop back into a position quick with my credentials as I have done in the past. Not so. After years of struggling and attempts to start some businesses, I am now utterly destitue.
I have lost almost all worldy posessions. I am now living in a travel trailer. a few days ago, I was wondering where I was going to get enough money to eat some food. I am working seven days a week now. I work weekdays in an office where my pay directly depends on whether I bring in business. Unfortunately in my industry this is spotty at best. On weekends I am now working up to 14 hours a day doing deliveries for a service company. Not the life I ever expected to end up in. I am middle aged now and expect the next 40 years of my life is going to be a lot worse than the first 40. No prospects of ever retiring.
I have read volumes on the current situation in America as I am an avid reader. I have come to the conclusion that the entire house of cards must come crashing down for America to wake up and make changes. Our current situation has been 30 years in the making. Read “Winner Take All Politics”. We have been in political drift in this country for a long time. Our government is completely corrupt. You can’t have big business lobbyists in WADC. They must go. Politicians in office must not get their campaign money for special interest groups. It should be capped and provided for by the government.
I was a business major in college and once was Republican and believed in free trade and all the crap they taught me in business school. I know now I was dead wrong.
It is time for it to come crashing down so the “People” can be in control once again as it was supposed to be all along. Americans have to get their material wealth taken away before they will wake up and realize how much they have let the country go into the gutter. We have all been too busy gaining possessions and entertaining ourselves on mindless crap, while the gov incidiously changed the game and sold the American Dream overseas.
At least I have a trailer and can head for the hills pretty easily when things get really bad.
I sincerely hope that a new beginning can start soon. Maybe it is but a mere few days away. I’ll keep my fingers crossed
Randy:
Don’t ever give up hope. Yes, the economy is heading for some incredibly difficult times, but those that lose hope are not going to have any chance of making it through what is coming.
Michael
I am amazed that so many people have made so much money and have lost it all. To make $100,000 a year plus and not have your house paid off shows a lack of wisdom. It seems that many in America do not have the any idea that to gain wealth you must live below your means in order for wealth to build. Our government, both local and national cannot constrain themselves from spending away our future potential growth. It is hard to see and read about the pain of many, but it has always been there. Hard times are now hitting more folks considered sucessful. I started buying old junk rental property in 1981. You know we were thankful if you could get a loan at 10% back then. I used my learned skills to fix them up. From cleaning toilets to doing unlawful detainers and all of the remodeling was a lot of work. We lived well below our means. Many of my tenents had newer cars and furniture than us. We did this inorder to pay off the debt on the property. This took about 25 years to do. I never made anywhere close to six figures and had to often work long hours after my construction job. I am glad that we were prudent and hoped for the best and prepared for the worst. Some years ago, I had to give up my work in constuction for health reasons. Other than the one year of temporary disability isurance, we stayed away from all government benifits. We went camping instead of cruises for vacation. We stayed with our plan and when we had extra funds, we paid down the principle balance on property loans. It might have been only a hundred or two a month and over the years the loans were paid in full. We took our lumps through the years. A tenants kid playing with matches burning up an apartment, fires are nasty. Or down cycles in prices, when it seemed like you lost 10 years of paper value in the property. There are always ups and downs in life. We should look at our glass as half full instead of half empty. Even with the hard times coming we can turn this around if we prepare and help out our neighbors.
The book winner take all politics was a great read. I can relate totally to your circumstance.
It really sucks working just as hard and only making 1/2 as much and all the while hearing from the right that we need to cut taxes on the rich and corporations who are sitting on piles of cash already.
The right in this country with their bankrupt philosophy has destroyed this country and they are trying to destroy what little is left.
These MF actually are still saying cut taxes on the rich and cut safety net programs.
If I was saying this 40 years ago one would think I would be making this shit up. I wish I was making this up.
You can not negotiate with republicans or conservatives just like you can not negotiate with a cancerous tumor. If you do not completely remove the tumor is grows back.
You are right. It will all come out in the wash, but laundry day will be a bit**.
Reading about the journalist from the UK who visited Detroit and was horrified by what he saw reminds me of various conversations I have had about The Banana Republic of America (formerly the USA) when visiting foreign countries. I have done quite a bit of traveling abroad (been in about 15 different countries), and what saddens me is the way the rest of the developed world perceives this country. In the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, the American economy was the envy of the world. There was an old Italian song from around 1957 by Neapolitan singer Renato Carosone called “Tu Vuo’ Fa’ l’Americano,” which is a humorous tune about Italians longing to be Americanized. But times have changed, and when I meet Europeans and Australians abroad, it is painfully obvious that they see the BRA for what it has become: a rotting, decaying, collapsing basketcase of country that is in serious decline. They realize that the BRA is becoming more and more of a Third World hellhole with each passing day. In 2009, I met an Australian businessman who used to do a lot of business with U.S. dollars but won’t touch them now—he realizes that the U.S. dollar is a failing currency.
“A giant is falling: the American empire.” —Gerald Celente
Gerald Celente is absolutely right. The American empire is collapsing, and things will only go from bad to worse for most of the people who have the misfortune of being stuck here.
Welcome to The Banana Republic of America, a Third World nightmare with a truly grim future.
i think who is a closet republican but we shall see with the tea.(party)
How did it play?
You want to act like an american,
but the money for your “camels”
you’re taking from your mothers’ purse ??!!!
Regards
Vladimir: Yes, That’s exactly what “Tu Vuo’ Fa’ l’Americano” said in the Napoli dialect:
“Ma è solde p’è Camel
Chi te li da
La borsetta di mamma”
Translated: But the money you get for your Camels comes from Mommy’s purse.
Ha ha! Great lyrics. And I love the part where Renato Carosone sings:
“Tu vuoi vivere alla moda,
Ma se bevi whisky and soda
Po’ te siente è disturba”
You want to be fashionable
But when you drink whiskey and soda
You get a little ill
Hanging out in places like South Philly, Howard Beach, Arthur Avenue (Bronx) and Staten Island back in the day, I used to hear that song all the time. Ho sentito quella canzone molte volte.
Not true! We are stealing from our children and grandchildren!
If Immelt is the best Obama can do our country is doomed. Too much regulation and taxes is driving business owners overseas.
If we lower taxes and regulations in the US we will see fewer jobs leaving and maybe even see people excited to create jobs over hear.
You are crazy if you think regulatons have caused companies to invest overseas. Its the $2/ day they can pay to workers. You can have a job too for $2/ day. So if you and the likes of you keep complaining that businesses leave because of regulations you deserve what you get.
Oekoman. The reason for the corporations and companies going overseas is to make sure that the American economy suffers a great collaspe; so the New World Order International Bankers/Illuminati kingpins can give us their new One World (Luciferic) 1984 Super Orwellian Government; where we will be their slaves and serfs. Grow up and smell their sulfuric plight in hell-fire and brimstone.
Wow David – you really hit raw nerves hard. Very well chosen words!! Bravo.
Does this guy know everything about destroying American jobs and nothing about creating American jobs ?
I wonder if his post requires congressional approval. I would not surprise me if it did not.
Thanks for telling it like it is. There are a few sources not blowing smoke. http://truthalert.net/Offshoring.htm
Just checked my box of poisonous GE light bulbs…yep, Made in China!!!!
I don’t suppose we can hit these Corporations with a “Treason Tax”, can we?
How about just charge them all with treason, don’t for their boards.
forget
I am originally from the UK, a naturalized US Citizen. As an outside observer, I have watched in amazement the loss of America’s manufacturing base, as outlined. The amazement is primarily regarding the lack of reaction to these events in the US. The lack of understanding that this is a structural alteration, not part of the usual ups and downs of the business cycle, which is propelling the US towards financial collapse. There is no sense of urgency that policies to revive employment, to facilitate investment here at home, are a current necessity if a financial implosion is to be avoided. This may be in part due to a self delusional hubris, originating from former US wealth and world dominance.
The loss of manufacturing in the US has been a long time coming. The geniuses in the universities have said that manufacturing didn’t matter. That “service” jobs were the next big thing. Manufacturing was dirty, and we didn’t want it. We don’t want any oil drilling either. Just buy everyone else’s oil with printed money. Print more money to hand out to everyone that can’t get a “service” job.
Our only hope is that the conservative “Tea Party” movement can put an end to this instanity before the country collapses.
The tea baggers are the problem and not the solution.
They are a bunch of simpletons who dress up in 17th century garb and look and say stupid things. When they are not being retarded they are reenacting the civil war.
Hey dumb MFers, this is 2011 not 1776
I was working for GE in Switzerland and it was the most horrible job i ever had.
When i entered the job i was given high gloss bochures full of nice pictures and promising words but that has proven to be only empty promisses. The whole company was full of vavoritism. Just a few people with questionable qualification had too much power in this company. They always demanded from the employees to work overtime in order to fullfill their targets and financial goals, but they never gave something back. It was not the qualified staff that were rewarded and appreciated but rather those who were able to present the best show in front of the superiors. There was no support from supperiors at all but rather pressure. They did not appreciate or incentive good ideas, they didn’t even gave a feedback. They didn’t listened to the words of a team leader. They thought they know everyting much better, but they expected loyalty to the company. They took decisions to remove somebody from it’s job just as they felt it fit’s well without to talk to the affected person beforehand. They really managed to demotivate a big part of their stuff with their behavour. Thanks god i’m out of GE. I’ll never return at any price. That they are outsourcing their jobs to china doesn’t surprise me. An employee doesn’t count at this company, just profit matters, but they will receive the bill once in the future for their way of doing business, that’s what i am sure about.
Here in Miami all manufacturing jobs that were in Healiah were shipped to Central America, they make t shirts, all kind of clothes, there are no jobs now here in Miami.
Just goes to show you that Obama does not give a damn about this country.
mr o =ok
Well if all the jobs are going to China why not follow the jobs
http://jobs.echinacities.com/
Mind you, you don’t get paid so much but it is cheap to live here and if you are lucky they give you are apartment and a visa
Tea Partiers Call For Pell Grants Cuts.
The stupidity of the tea baggers is astounding. These retarded f**ks want to give tax breaks to the rich and cut pell grants for poor students?
WTF???
Gary you progessive Marxist scum are amazing that you can figure out how to set your alarm clock with out having a Government grant to hire a professional to teach you idiots how.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpZtX32sKVE
College Conspiracy
Watch the video maybe you can learn something besides saying tax the rich. It must be nice to be a braindead progressive Marxist just blame everyone else for your poor life choices and lack of planning on your life.
Nice language! No wonder you have problems.
We are being played by China,.. bad.
U.S. companies are lured to build plants in China, train their workers and engineers, all at U.S. company expense.
The result is the Chinese get the technology and know-how to do it themselves.
China is a strategic enemy of the United States.
They have ICBMs, (with 1 megaton thermonuclear warheads on them), targeting western U.S. cities.
You are right. Unfortunately, our politicians think that China is just some benevolent nation that just wants to help us by selling us products at rock-bottom prices, while they get to benefit from the payoffs the big corporate executives keep lining their pockets with. They’re a bunch of greedy sellouts that are willing to jeopardize the safety of our nation all for their own self-interest.
As I watch what is happening in Washington, I feel disheartened. As I watch what is happening to our family, I feel depressed. As I evaluate my life, I feel hopeless and small. The depression I feel induces feelings of anxiety and stress. Like two great pythons, they are suffocating the life out of me. As I cling to life, I begin to realize there is no relief. Do I succumb to these and commit suicide? Some will say that suicide is a cowardly action. I disagree. Suicide is one of the most courageous actions a person can perform. I believe you are performing a conscious choice by choosing to escape from a life that has become a prison. Sadly, for myself, while I may contemplate such an escape for myself, I am too cowardly to perform such an act. Yet, if conditions do worsen, and my life worsens in result of, the choice may become the only option.
I know that others, and I believe many more in the future, will have chosen to end their own lives in this economic malaise. I do not believe that our leaders, and even some of our voters, in this country care that these people have taken their lives. I think for them that it is a blessing if someone has taken their life for they are no longer their problem. I have read the comments on this blog and American Dreams, and I have noted the utter vehemence these people have for the victims of this calamity. I know that if I commit suicide, that I will be another statistic. So what. I am already another statistic. I am already a statistic for I am unemployed, and, as I never applied for unemployment benefits as I worked under the table, in someone’s accounting I don’t exist.
I am dying as a person. I am becoming more and more isolated. I am becoming more and more disassociated from what it is said to be an “American”.
In the past, a man could pack his belongings and travel a great distance to re-invent himself. In this day, that’s not possible. The nightmare that is unfolding in this country is occurring everywhere else. Eventually, even China will succumb to this disease and will sicken and will become weak and infirm. Someday, not so far in the future, nations will be fighting over the remnants of our planet’s great mineral resources, and that these nations will be housing massive populations of indigent peoples.
So, let the wealthy do what they want today for tomorrow their children will reap the harvest their parents have sown. A harvest of misery and desperation, a harvest of strife, a harvest of fear.
Colin:
Listen to me – you must never, every give up.
No matter how much pain you are in, giving up is never the answer.
There are people out there that care about you and love you.
Please hang in there.
There really is a God and He really does love you.
You can have a future that is greater than you can possibly imagine right now.
But you will never find out if you give up now.
Please hang in there.
Michael
Move to Nova Scotia in Canada.
Suspend your judgement on my statement.
You will understand in due time.
Regards
Colin:
Be thankful you are aware and reading what is actually going on. It is a small cadre of like-minded people who understand everything is, ‘not what it seems.’ You should be grateful for this opportunity and take advantage of it as best you can. God is good – ALL THE TIME. Your valley today could be a summit tomorrow. Do something nice for someone today without any thought of payment, it helps. Hang in there buddy!
I hope you never give up. This difficult time in your life is intended to become your finest hour. I, along with many on this site, believe that what our economy is suffering is divinely allowed to get our attention and to bring our hearts and lives back to God.
I would encourage you to pray, turn from any sin you know of in your life, trust in Jesus to save you in this life and the next. Get your heart right and trust and expect him to show you how to get through this crisis.
I did this once in a crisis in my life and have trusted him over and over ever since. He has never let me down. I have never known him to let anyone else down that has trusted in him. I have never met anyone that regretted trusting in him, not only for eternal salvation but for whatever crisis they face.
I know you are feeling crushed but this can be the greatest turning point in your life. Your best years lie ahead for you. Throw this burden on him, do what you know to do and trust and expect him to show you the way through this. All things are possible to those who believe and the truth will set you free. I believe this with all my heart. If I can be of any more help to you and your family, you let me know. Colin, God bless you and I am praying for you.
Move to the dark side and feed at the public trough. In a way you would be helping to kill the beast.
Colin,
You are suffering from a classic case of depression which is a very rational and normal reaction to a world that’s gone wacko mad.
As someone who has struggled my whole life with depression and thoughts of suicide, I can tell you there is a lot of help for depression these days, and I would recommend you talk to a doctor and get on an antidepressant for a while so you can get the strength, willpower and optimism back to get thru these really hard times.
good luck to you.
Hear Hear mate.
Robert S. Finnegan
Jakarta
I’m encouraged by the number of posts that appear in a relatively short period of time for this website. Back in October, when I started to follow this site regularly, there were maybe 30 posts after a couple of days. Now there are over a hundred on day one. It’s encouraging to see more people take the red pill and open their eyes. It is truly a blessing to have any type of foresight regarding ominous smoke signals being sent miles away. If you’re able to see the warning smoke, you’ll be able to hit the ground running when the storm finally reaches you. MAKE NO MISTAKE: when those forty-five million lemmings on the dole for food stamps start being unable to buy adequate food they will NOT sit quietly in their government subsidized housing. They, and many millions more will be out to “get theirs” from anyone perceived to have it. I’ve got my AK locked and loaded as well as a destination should things get hairy here, do you?
Your time will come, Mr. Immelt and your wonder why your stock plunges day after day…
Nothing new here in terms of what corporate amerika does to make a buck. What this proves is that labor unions and working class people should have abandoned the two wings of the war party (both Republicans and Democrats) as soon as NAFTA and the WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION (WTO) became reality…………
Immelt is a pinko commie rat.
Immelt needs to be taxed HARD
What is Immelt thinking?!?
You can’t create more good American jobs by shipping existing good American jobs to China, where the workers are paid a tenth of what an American worker is paid.
This guy, along with the rest of Obama’s “Jobs Council”, does not have America’s interest in mind. Sure he’s in the business of creating jobs. In Beijing.
We are slipping, and slipping fast. China has one of the fastest trains in the world (Beijing to Shanghai). We have Amtrak. They must be laughing their rear ends off. “You still have 1970s choo-choo? We have fast bullet train!” And China now also has the world’s fastest supercomputer.
If we ever get the resolve to “get it together” again (and it can be done – look at how we geared up to fight WWII) – the U.S. will once again be a force to be reckoned with. But the sheeple are happy for the most part, and time is running out…
It’s better to light a candle than curse the Chinese made CFL’s….
How do we best prepare for the crash landing of the U.S. economy? The Global elite are simply following their well documented agenda to totally deindustrialize America, thus it should come as no surprise that Government Electric GE is all about outsourcing jobs while GENBC Newstainment blows government propaganda in our face.
Washington D.C. (District of China) is owned by the Government Sachs Banksters, and their debt addiction will continue if anyone but Ron Paul becomes President in 2013.
Our government has been hijacked and Homeland Security/TSA real role is to protect the Bankster Hijackers.
We could declare: “Let’s Roll” and attempt to storm the Cockpit, yet even that would be in vain:
Ladies and Gentlemen the crash is inevitable, our best action is to brace for impact!
I hear a lot of good things about Ron Paul, but hasn’t he been in congress for a loooong time?
I wish they had just let the chips fall 3 years ago, instead of the trillions borrowed and spend to give us a softer landing….Now we are 4+ trillion and counting, deeper in the hole with nothing to show for it…When we sink into a depression, we will never come out of it because of our increasing debt…
It would have been a rough three (nightmare) years, but I agree that we would be three years closer to recovery.
Yes Patriot Alice. And the NWO International Bankers/Illuminati kingpins are making quite sure that we will never come out of it; because they want us to be their beast chipped zombie slaves and serfs in the very near future. That way; they will be our gods and lords.
And if you take their mark of the beast chip in your forehead or hand; you will be tormented 24/7 in hell because it will mean that you have rejected God and Jesus and have chosen Satan and his antichrist beast leader and their wicked world leaders as your god and lord and saviour.
About the only bright side of the energy problem is that if energy becomes too expensive, shipping goods long distances (from China, for example) will no longer be feasible. The cost of shipping them would be so great that it would be better to make them in each country that sells and uses them. That could cause an industrial rebirth.
Alas, the greed kings will probably find a way to get around this potential solution to energy hassles and keep their fellow countrymen dependent (if even that) and unemployed.
The desperate, satanic criminals in the White House, senate and congress are toast in 2012 just for having their faces seen in connection with this attempted murder of the American People. They are CRIMINALLY INSANE AND CAPABLE OF ANYTHING, and must be stopped at all costs from terrorizing and killing the old, disabled and middle class, the “useless eaters” as War Criminal Henry Kissinger and pal eugenicist William “Kill ‘Em Bill” Gates so succinctly put it. These “lawmakers” that have terrorized millions of Americans will never see re-election – that is IF there is an election in 2012. Regardless, as of now the “Barry and The Boner Show” has been cancelled by The People due to bad ratings and the feces eaters of the left hand in the White House, congress, the senate and their various and sundry sycophants are in for one hell of a surprise.
Robert S. Finnegan
Jakarta, Indonesia
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$230,000 For a Guard Dog: Why the Wealthy Are Afraid Of Violence From Below
As inequality in the US grows, the ultra-rich are pouring their spare cash not just into private jets, but into private security. Think there’s a connection?
There’s class warfare, all right,” Warren Buffett, the world’s third-richest man, said in 2006, “but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.” Buffett had done the math and realized that he paid far less, as a fraction of his income, than the secretaries in his office.
Yeah stupid fing tea baggers we do need to tax the rich HARD. You foolish MF dolts are RETARDED!
Gary2 in Wisconsin: When I read the excellent Sarah Jaffe article in Alternet ($230,000 For a Guard Dog: Why the Wealthy Are Afraid Of Violence From Below), I thought to myself, “Yes, that’s EXACTLY what I’ve been saying: if the gap between the haves and have-nots continues to widen in The Banana Republic of America, the haves will need round-the-clock bodyguards just like they need them in Third World countries.” And the “violence from below” will not only include riots and social unrest—it will also include the dreaded Desperate People Doing Desperate Things Tax (kidnapping, armed robbery, carjacking, violent home invasions).
Maybe if you weren’t so hateful and envious of others and worked on self-improvement, you could get a job.
As for Warren Buffet and the rest of the socialist billionaires, they are more than welcome to send all of their money to the US Treasury. For some reason they don’t do that. Instead they hide their money in “charitable” trusts, and tell me I should be taxed more.
If you really believe Buffet, Gates, Soros, Immelt and the rest of the billionaire socialist democrats care about anyone else but themselves, then you are the “retard” my friend!
Yea Gary, the rich are responsible for all your problems. If it makes you feel better, keep believing it.
Can someone find me a bar of soap to stick in Gary2′s mouth.
We are 93rd in the world as far as equality is concerned, and if the debt ceiling deal (or as is looking increasingly more likely, the lack of one) includes a cut to Social Security benefits or an end to the unemployment extension, inequality will only get worse as the poor get, rapidly, poorer. Meanwhile the rich, as has been noted many times, are just concentrating their wealth.
HOW’S THAT CAPITALISM WORKING OUT??? #93? TIME FOR A GOOD DOSE OF SOCIALISM.
Gary2,
I disagree. Time for the Amerikan asylumites to take their medicine with a very hefty dose of economic collapse……………
The only way for USA to evolve to socialism would be after a complete meltdown of its federal institutions.
One of the effects of a “default” could well be the dismembering of the union through secession. Such a political decision might be imposed through the UN by the creditor world, in primis the Russian Federation and the PRC.
Another effect of a “default” (or a low based agreement), would be the impossile management of the multiple army bases around the world due to the lack of cash flow.
A complete geo-political earthquake would happen.
As I said previously to Michael, these are times to evaluate the “imponderable truth” about everything (even Alaska)!
“”Today Americans would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order; tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told there was an outside threat from beyond whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will pledge with world leaders to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well being granted to them by their world government.”
- Henry Kissinger in an address to the Bilderberger meeting at Evian, France, May 21, 1992.
(in an address to the Bilderberger organization meeting at Evian, France, on May 21, 1991. As transcribed from a tape recording made by one of the Swiss delegates. )”
Regards
long live mr/mrs tea(Party)
Every country that has tried socialism has crashed and burned. We have been moving away from capitalism to a croney, central planning, socialist state for over 30 years. As we have moved so has our economy decayed. Capitalism, if you studied history, has produced greater wealth and prosperity than any other economic model.
Russia collapsed. Europe is about to collapse due to their socialism. Spain, Italy, Portugal, Greece, Ireland, are drowning in socialist debt. 20% unemployment and rampant inflation. France and England are not far behind. They have promised socialist benefits to their citizens they can’t afford. As long as they can borrow it seems pretty, but when the credit card limit is reached they fall apart. Europe is borrowing from us to keep their socialist state going. Socialism is destroying them all and this is your model for us?
What scares me is that you believe our country needs to drink more of this same poison to solve our problems.
the Scandinavian countries are beating the daylights out of the USA. Much more socialistic than here. If socialism is ok for the rich and corporations then is is ok for the working people who DID NOT get bailed out.
Yea, THAT has worked out soooo well in the past.
Capitalism is not the real problem. If USA was a capitalist country, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, GM, Chrysler, et al would have been relegated to the dustbin of history and we would have let someone else pick up the pieces.
Gary just tell the truth you are progressive Marxist anti American. Cry whine and stomp your feet about taxing the rich. You have no solutions and trying to act like adult is so far above your tiny mind set it is scary. Do us all a favor just hang out with the rest of your Progressive Marxist friends and worry about some fake endangered species that has put millions of Americans out of work. Then cry about high gas prices too. You know all the American oil we can’t drill for here on land cause of the progressive Marxist Eco freaks shut land off to we the people. Yep everyone else fault Gary but the true problem. Look in the mirror.
I agree we should drill here and I do not give 2 shits about some endangered insect, Other than my tax the rich belief we probably agree on quite a bit.
perhaps its time to nationalize any company that “rapes” and runs….perhaps an”alternative minimum tax” for for those who wiggle out of paying a fair share, similar to the one for us common folk….
We should place a 10 to 100% Federal sales tax (sin tax) on any imports from China and other non-Democratic states because its simply not in the US interest to promote the economic rise of countries that oppress their own people.
CHINA RULES = URFOOLS AND U DONT MAKE ANYTHING EXCEPT POVERTY AND SQUALOR
The word democracy in the USA is an oxymoron.
This corrupt government needs to be flushed down the drain.
The alopathic medical model needs to go too.
Read Dr Mercolas information to see alternatives.
Plant some seeds and trees to do good for all.
Remember Johnny Apple Seed?
It will never happen in the USA as it is currently configured, but a tarriff policy resembling a mirror might help.
Mega corporations have no loyalty to anything or anyone. They exist to chase almighty wealth. They will lie, cheat, steal and even kill to make their wealth. Business ethics died years ago.
Politicians have no incentive to change anything. Many of them have profited tremendously (immune to insider trading laws) and have no desire to curtail their gravy train.
Congress and corporations work together against the greater good of America.
I used to believe a solution to this problem existed this side of an economic collapse. It doesn’t.
We are absolutely going to experience the hell of this economic depression our grandparents warned us about. Our solution is somewhere on the other side of it…in the Land of Oz…where everyone including politicians and corporations value integrity over personal profit.
Riiight…
We just better be praying this isn’t the time foretold in the last book of the Bible.
You all voted for them.
Why complain now? Why not vote for someone else?
How many percent of Americans go to election? 30%
What if all the others (70%) elect a third party?
The greens, the commies? Who cares? Could it be so much worse than Democrats and Republicans?
1. So What’s your point?
2. You know as well as I do that the United States is desperately looking for an excuse to attack China and I know as well as you do that you’ll be the first to support it.
There is precedence for this. Nobody actually knows the exact reason for the onset of WW1. The reality is that Britain resented Germany for its incipient strength, especially on the high seas, and its challenge to the British Empire… and it found the flimsiest of excuses to attack Germany. So powerful was Britain at the time that nobody TO THIS VERY DAY accuses Britain of instigating the war.
Check out -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqoGORXAv2o&feature=player_embedded
worth a look…….
I really feel sorry for the USA. You have gone from the most powerful country in the world to a virtual laughing stock in barely 40 years – a hollowed out banana republic in fact.
I could not believe how after the crash in 2008 your “democratic” president handed out billions to Wall Street criminals who caused the crash in the first place and left the backbone of the country – its workers and middle class to ever increasing unemployment and poverty.
There is one and one only problem that has to be solved before you can recover. That problem is the rich and powerful in your country who control literally everything – the government, the courts – there is one law for them and one for the rest of you it seems, the economy – which they have raped and left to die, the military – which wages endless pointless wars that cost you money you don’t even have.
Once your dollar ceases to be a reserve currency – and that time is not far off – you won’t even be able to buy anything that is imported – no one will sell their goods to you for worthless pieces of paper called dollars.
A similar scenario happened in Europe at about the time of your American Revolution – in France – the people became so oppressed and impoverished by the rich and powerful that they spontaneously rose up and lobbed off their heads.
I wonder how long it will take……….
Time for a Jubilee. End the Fed, issue tax free money for the real economy, tax speculation, put the debt through bankruptcy proceedings.
Good plan Henry but the NWO International Bankers/Illuminati kingpins don’t want that. They own our government and they want to totally bankrupt us and collaspe the whole system. So they can bring about their Satanic One World Government, where you guys will be their slaves and serfs.
“… where you guys will be their slaves and serfs.”
OR DEAD.
Don’t forget, they want to reduce the population to 500 million. Stay away from enforced rides on trains, planes, and military style vehicles to “underground bunkers,” FEMA camps, military installations, etc., even when events occur that our omnipotent, omnipresent, beneficent, and ever growing and intrusive government wants to “protect” us from!
China has the largest Special Interest and Lobbyists Groups in Washington, DC. We can only imagine how much this country is pushing through irregular channels into the U.S. for influencing decisions.
The biggest lobby is the israeli lobby, AIPAC. Not China
Whether you are Republican or Democrat or Independent or Libertarian, shouldn’t the common denominator be that we believe in the authority of the Constitution?
In every decision we need to hold it up to the “light” of the Constitution to determine its legality and further, its legitimacy.
I challenge you all to stop thinking in terms of left/right, Republican/Democrat, think “what does the Constitution say about this?”
We all might be surprised to discover how many of our current laws violate the Supreme law of the United States of America.
It is so simple. The complexity, twisting, and circumventing of the Constitution usually has to do with politicians looking for money or power. Do not be deceived, most politicians are in it for themselves.
It is time for true change from the status quo. Do your own due diligence first, and consider strict, Constitution principled candidates. No more voting for the “lesser of two evils.” I cannot tell another who to vote for, but I am standing behind Ron Paul in 2012.
God bless you all, and may America once again bless God!
Yes MDK Ron Paul is our only human hope. Unless they that assasinated the 2 Kennedy brothers and Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, kill him too.
Democrats see the Constitution as an obstacle to their agenda. This is why they constantly urinate on it. Many Democrats believe it needs to be rewritten.
Democrats are against free speech, they are anti-gun, they support the destruction of the 4th Amendment, and on and on.
Heck, many Democrats are on record saying they want to control the media i.e. against a free press. Hillary Clinton stated “we are losing the information war.” Democrats cannot take it that the “right” has one measly news channel that IMO is hardly conservative. They hate talk radio and alternative news sites like this one. It’s all about controlling the masses. It’s how liberal fascists grow their corrupt thieving governments of enslavement.
I’m with Ron Paul as well
Last time I checked, Rick Perry is a Republican who wants to make 7 changes to the Constitution.
Besides, everything that you just wrote is untrue and completely nonsense. Nice try though.
It is apparently obvious that I am not the only one who feels this,or is in this situation. There are millions of us out here in the wilderness. Politics aside, what do we do? This is no longer about politics, and policies. This is about people. Families struggling to keep together in what is an obvious collapse and failure of our system. How to we protect ourselves and provide for our families?
Don’t talk about political abstractions, and objectivist twaddle. Don’t present wild eyed libertarian/ survivalist non-sense. Don’t tell me to buy gold, when I have to choose between filling up my car and getting food. Don’t tell me it is this group’s fault or that group’s fault. It was all of our faults, we were all there, we saw it happening, but we got caught up in our lives. We were heads down, when we should have seen it coming. And those of us who saw it coming, you did what you could. Shouting in the wilderness is not easy, but now it’s too late for shouting.
We need reasoned, pragmatic and immediate solutions. Organization and focus have accomplished more than any soapbox tirade. It is hard to talk about political solutions when your kids are going without. It is hard to get all wonkish on policy when you are making the real hard choices about survival. We are down to 4th and long, and we need to come up with a solution.
In all honesty, if I had one, I would share it. There are a lot of people out there who want to blame the right and the left, who want to blame the banks, who want to blame someone. I suppose it is human nature to find the culprit; the Snidley Whiplash type, twirling his mustache, cackling in insane glee as the Capitol dome burns in the night. Now is not the time for that, let history sort out who the good guys and bad guys were. Now is the time to hold fast, and take care of ourselves.
We know what the answers are to our questions, and they aren’t found in cabals of evil doers, plotting dirty deeds in the night. Everything that has been done has been done by people who thought that they were doing the right thing, who’s only motivation was their own self-interest, who only cared about the goal and never about what sacrifices had to be made to get there. It was done in broad daylight, we just didn’t pay attention.
So now what? What do we do? How do we harness all of this energy? Do we just wait for the collapse, hoping to pick up the pieces afterward? If the best outcome is that everything we know and hold dear, comes tumbling down around us, how do we avoid being lost in the crash? I’ve got many questions, I’m desperately looking for answers, and so far, I haven’t found any.
David I was very touched by your honest and heartfelt concerns. And the only solution that I can tell you is that God will help those who come to Him and want to get to know Him. Otherwise, the New World Order Bankers/Illuminati will give you their prescribed solution; to follow them and accept their One World Luciferic Government; that will require you to accept them as your provider and lord and saviour; instead of God and Jesus Christ.
Some advice for you if you want it. The system is already broken beyond repair, so it’s not IF economic collapse will happen, it is WHEN. Reading the writing on thr global wall it looks like it will be very soon, within the next several years.
So, not to throw survivalism at you…just use common sense….have some reserves of water, food, ( even long term food, MRE), firsdt aid kits, etc. Plan on the wirse case, and if does not happen, big deal, you have some extra supplies. Look at it like insurance. Lastly, get a gun and substantial amount of ammo. Personally, I would suggest a 12 gauge shot gun, and a semi auto hand gun, like a Glock 9mm or something. If you live any where near a big city, and that city has a lot of welfare, subsidized housing, (people living off government), when the checks and food stamps stop, many ( not all) of these people will be on the streets rioting and trying to find someone to take food and water from, and they will do whatever it takes to do so. A hungry man has a lot of determination to get food, and will do anyhgting to do so. Be prepared to protect your homestead.
Get you spiritual life in order. Get a Bible if you don’t already have one. Seek the Lord Jesus Christ while there is still time, and find out how to gwet right with God, ( saved, born again) The Bible has MUCH to say about what we are currently going through and what awaits planet earth in the very near future…. distressful times are coming.
He who has ears, let him hear.
God Bless you and yours
well said David,
WM has a good point but I am hopeing we still have some time to change things. We are generally afraid to vote third party for fear the dems will win but really what is the difference? no matter who is in power the results are the same. So, we have to find someone who has real guts and intelligents. Ron Paul, maybe.
Doing Debt Ceiling Battle the FDR Way
At times of national fiscal crisis, President Franklin Roosevelt ever so firmly believed, you don’t give the awesomely affluent a free pass. You pound them — and then you pound some more.
Jesus H. Christ WTF is wrong with the people who do not think we need to tax the rich hard?????
The clarion call is: Don’t tax the “job creators.”
The obvious fallacy of this argument is that the taxes here are personal income taxes. A small business owner who has taken income out of the business has already decided not to use it to create jobs, rather to use that income for personal ends. That’s why we call it personal income tax. Raising the tax rate in this case is, in fact, a tax on people who have decided not to create jobs with the proceeds of their businesses.
There-I have completely debunked all the dolts who think raising taxes on the wealth will hurt job creators.
People need to get a f*ing brain cell. These dumb tea baggers are so stupid I am surprised they remember to breath.
http://bangordailynews.com/2011/07/27/opinion/contributors/income-and-taxes/?ref=mostReadBox
Gary I can remember when Former President Bill Clinton and his Cabinet said that they needed to tax the middle class more. And it was said that the middle class in the 1990′s were those who made only $48,000 a year. Ridiculous right? And then they also said that they would tax the rich; which they saw as those who made $120,000 a year. And I learned then that it all depends on what they perceive as the middle class and the rich. But it is the middle class that these Banker/Illuminati globalist want to destroy.
We are the ones who they say are making between $70,000 to $140,000 a year. And as they continue to peck away at everybodies disposable income (money that is left over every month after you pay all of your bills and living expenses) by this gigantic gasoline hoax; then Americans will suffer greatly. But their solution will be to accept their new world order One World Government; where their antichrist beast leader will be your god and lord.
disposable income…whats that…have not had that luxury in years since loosing my last good job in 2006. I now have a negative disposable income as do a lot of others but hey lets give the rich another tax cut maybe trickle down will work this time.
How about tax the rich and spread the wealth and have trickle up???
Sorry Gary, but I was very hurt when I read your blog because so many Americans are going through the same thing. Many of them are just holding on; and are one paycheck from financial disaster. And many more will be hurt because the god of the International Bankers/Illuminati kingpins, Satan, has taught his people how to bankrupt and crash economies like they did in 1929. Now they are doing it again.
Only this time; they have our governments blessings. As their One World Satanic Super 1984 Orwellian type Government will enslave the whole world. And only the Great God of Heaven can and will defeat them and have them all spitting out fire and brimstone in the future!!
Gary2
August 3rd, 2011 at 12:49 pm · Reply
disposable income…whats that…have not had that luxury in years since loosing my last good job in 2006. I now have a negative disposable income as do a lot of others but hey lets give the rich another tax cut maybe trickle down will work this time.
How about tax the rich and spread the wealth and have trickle up???
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Gary2, nothing in the constituiton says that you get a free check or get to live off of someone else because they make money. You sir need to re-educate yourself if uou want to earn a decent money.
I’m not rich, but I am living comfortable, why should I pay for some parasite to live off of my hard work and sweat?
Share the wealth?, how about get your arse out and earn it. If you can;t earn your keep, see ya!
You complain about losing a job in 2006, what have you done to improve your job skills, did you cut back for awhile to inprove your education?
Why should I help anyone, if they won’t help themselves?
Give a man a fish, or teach him to fish. If you give, he will never learn!
It’s official…Gary has lost it. (I wonder if he kisses his wife with that mouth!!!)
yes and I also eat with that mouth! Sometimes I get so worked up at the republicans balancing the budget on the backs of the poor and again the rich pay less and less. At least in the past they threw the poor a small bone. They do not even do that anymore. They are not even subtle about it anymore. Frustrating!
The dems are almost as bad.
Just an observation: Jeffrey Immelt, rich guy heads a rich corporation, GE – doesn’t pay taxes- supports Barrak Obama’s campaign- is appointed to Obama’s jobs council-moves American jobs to China- really? I thought all those tax evading, job sucking scoundrels, at the top were republicans?
btw, The blame game is getting us nowhere.
As a SMALL business owner, I just want the goverment to get out of my way, and let me take care of me and my own. I had a thriving business for 13 years, I paid taxes, I paid my bills, I took care of my children and my granmother, I gave to my community, I gave to my church. In the last two years, My business has tumbled, taxes have gone up, costs have gone up, and I am strugling to pay my bills. Now I can’t help my family, the community, my church. Still I consider myself blessed compared to many who have lost their jobs, homes, etc.. But my blessings have not come from our oversized Fed. Government…
Your All missing the BIG PICTURE: The One World Government (U.N.) has to break the U.S. to take over the United States / World. Obama is following Hitler’s playbook to get us under control. When your broke and starving you will do what they want.
Hillary is working with the U.N. to get around the 2nd amendment to collect your guns. Then they will herd you into a concertration camp, kill off the ones they can’t convert, bad health or refuse to comply with what they want. Obam is killing us for Islam. He will lie, cheat and steal and anything else to bring us down for Islam.
These wars are to break us and to wear out our military so they can’t revolt, plus make big corporations a lot of money.
When we are all broke, who going to buy all those cheap chinese products they are making? They will have to sell them to each other. It’s not about helping or saving American, but killing it so the U.N. (One World Government AKA
New World Order)
It’s going right down the road just as the bible stated so the anti-Christ can come to power. Say what you want, the end is coming and you better have your act together with GOD. Right now they are working on blending Christanity and Islam together, plus the others for a one world religion of which the Pope/ Antichrist are to rule and YOU are to worship them or you will be killed. They are working on implentmenting the “Mark of the Beast / 666″ through a nation ID card with biometics information on it so they can track you. If you refuse then you can’t “Buy or sell” or no job etc. It’s about to get much worse. I pray the American people have balls to fight back. I figure the “Home Land Security” and FEMA are the SS troops for One World Order to force compliance and spy/arrest/ kill you when it hits the fan. So do you march to the camps or fight back. I figure Obama is the last president of the United States and the first dictator as there may not be a 2012 election and even if he loses they may just set it aside and say he won anyway. He’s done about anything else he wants without approval from the ball-less congress. Better be making plans for what your going to do besides pick your jaw off the floor when it happens. Good Luck,God Bless America and GOD help her good people.
Po except for the bad language I agree with everything that you have said. However, the 666 mark of the beast is a chip that the Verichip Corporation makes. And it is not the national ID Card; but this card is the fore-runner of the real Mark. And soon; after WW3 or some other great catastrophy; they will force everybody to take it or else die in their internment camps.
And like you said, you better know Jesus and get right with God. Because that is the only way! And when you really know God and Jesus; death is sweet and being a martyr for God has great rewards. But according to Revelation 13 and 14:9-11, if you take their Mark (chip) you will be tormented 24/7, without rest day and night, because it will mean that you have rejected God and Jesus Christ; and have taken Satan and his antichrist beast leader as your lord and god.
If you thought the fallout from the bursting of the housing bubble has been bad, imagine what will happen when this government debt bubble and fake money printing bubble bursts.
Imagine when the government can’t borrow except at 30% interest, when prices rise as fast as the federal reserve prints money, when the welfare state can’t afford to buy food or shelter with their government checks, when the 200 million government checks issued each month are basically worthless.
When these things happen, it will be a brave new world. Maybe GE is just making these moves in anticipation of the coming storm. Emelt certainly is in the inner circle along with Soros. I say watch what they are doing very carefully.
Buy American made only!
http://madehereinamerica.com/appliances.aspx
But, avoid GE.
Time for protectionism. The United States is the richest country in the world, and the wealthiest customer. If these corporations refuse to support the United States, the United States should stop supporting them. They should no longer be allowed to sell in the US unless they have a certain number of jobs in the US. Period.
There are HUNDREDS of smaller companies and start-ups who would LOVE to be the next GE, and who would be willing to support America.
I agree
Why hasn’t a cabinet level department like the Economic Security Department been set up?.
Anytime a company wants to move jobs overseas they should be required to meet with government officials to try and work something out to keep jobs here. And there should be restrictions to keep them from going to China.
America needs a statesman. We need someone who could articulate our ideas and present them to the american people, someone we trust who is not a politician. Include that in your prayers, please.
For those who are trying to buy American made products, I’ve recently purchased products from these companies that were listed as “made in USA”:
Nexcare brand bandages
Cooper tires
New Balance sneakers
Check labels to make sure. Some companies may not be entirely US producers and have other plants, it probably varies.
So, what have the rest of you found to purchase that is “made in USA”?
Lets work together to starve these outsourcing companies and help our fellow Americans. Are you with me?
Also found an Ozark Trail brand sleeping bag made in USA at Walmart, if anyone cares. Not everything sold by this company is made in USA though.
You can strill get the following products that are still USA made:
Redwing shoes/boots, ( the USA Made selection is small though). I bought some steel toe boots for work, cost me $199, but are very comfortable and well built.
Maglight flashights. I have (2) and both are made in USA
Guns: You can buy American made guns and ammo.
Bicycle Frames: For those who want an American made bicycle frame, there are quite a few out there, but prices are not cheap. Most everything else for the bike will most likely be chinese or Japenese made. But at least if you want a domestic frame, you can get it.
I am not too sure of anything else. I know there are still a lot of smaller consumer things still made here, as well as some food and snacks.
Cameron Socks, (Sheboygen, WI) has a huge selection of Wigwam brand socks that are all made in the USA. They have a website.
The USA still makes world-class pocket knives:
Benchmade, Buck, Spyderco and other brands.
And of course Sears Craftsman tools.
Yes, they’re moving at a blistering pace. But will we have time for dessert? Maybe an Economic Collapse Crumb Cake?
http://apocalypsecakes.wordpress.com/2011/08/01/economic-collapse-crumb-cake/
Hi Shanky..
I used to have the most competitive independent chain of pharmacies in the USA according to Drug Topic a national professional magazine back around 1995. Then the $40,000 a week checks from the State of Calif. stopped coming for the Welfare prescriptions I filled honestly and in good faith. I used to advertise on TV and full page newspaper ads pushing the lesser expensive generic drugs. I could see this happening back in the early 70′s. I did not know about the Elite Big Pharm then. Maybe,.. just a suspicion.. they did not like what I was doing and this was the way to get rid of me through bankruptcy? It reminded me of the fellow I just read who is contemplating sucicide. Desperate!!
I packed up an headed south across the border to Mexico.. A reverse migration. I did not know what to do but to get away from it all. Coming back North two years later.. yep they had me on their radar at LA International. Spent four months in Club Fed ..they had the audacity to charge me for Bankruptscy Fraud. Spent 4 months “inside” until I had a meeting with my probation officer, Charlie who asked me, “What are you doing here with all the Drug Dealers, Bank Robbers, Murderers, Forgers, Hi Jackers, the former PM of Ukraina who is in for 30 more years — poor bastard.. Antonio who took the cocaine rap for his son. etc. Anyway, time served..4 months. Headed straight south after seeing my Auntie who just passed on last year. And I ain’t coming back. Rent.. 1300 pesos ($110 usd) a month for a 3 BR, light bill about $20/month, telephone with internet hook up $85 a month (that is the big one), satellite TV $10.. Food $100 weekly and that is splurging.
Ok .. I am sure you can add that all up. Yes, I do miss my family and friends and what used to be the American way of life..but that has changed.. I missed the subprime real estate disaster. My “wife” is from an established military family here in Mexico.. beutiful, moral, a great cook .. I wish I could give her a better life..but we are doing fine..considered to be middle class on my Soc.Security. She is studying to be a Homeopathic Physician. With my medical background in pharmacy, I just figured out how we can have a very nice life here in Mexico with a specialy where there is no competiton and a huge demand here in Mexico and the from Medical Tourisma from the USA.
Narcotraffic assasinations.. no different than living in the U.S. but non existent where we live..essentially zero crime..actually safer than the U.S. My Auntie says they are like imprisoned in their own house in Oakland, Calif.. they go across the Nimitz Freeway to shop in Alameda so they don’t get assaulted and are now afraid to go to watch the Oakland A’s play.
So what I am saying.. come to Mexico.. there are many nice place here with many Gringo Americans and not expensive if you stay away from the Beach Resort areas.
It is not going to get better in the USA. You will be all slaves to the system except for the 1% who control 42% of the US Economy who just made the largest bogus rigged transfer of wealth in the History of the World. Don’t you see .. you don’t have a chance or opportunities. 40% of the jobs just went to China and more to follow.
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Clayton Tom, I think you have the right idea. The US will collapse and soon. It’s unavoidable. Better to flee the sinking ship than to go down with it.
cut corporate tax rates and loopholes. bring back american jobs or we wtll boycott your products.repeal congerssional perks.re-instate glass-steagall,and abolish the FED!
Wow! If you appoint someone to handle an issue don’t you want them to lead by example? Thats pretty bad. Im sure there is more to it for GE but thats saying something to the US that they need to fix cost issues for employment on companies. We have employees here in California and the cost of them after taxes is nuts.
First, seditious, scumbag traitors like Immelt and the thousands like him should be arrested and tried for crimes against the American people. Weakening America while bolstering foreign adversaries like China ******************************************************************************.
Second, the cost of products coming from countries like China should be adjusted accordingly:
- A currency value adjustment should be applied since China’s is undervalued.
- An environmental, safety and social services tax should be applied to account for their lack of OSHA, EPA, ADA, social security benefits, etc.
- We should start to demand reparations for rebuilding countries like Japan and Germany after WW2 and protecting their asses with our military for the past 70 years.
Alas, these are only pipe dreams and the USA will continue to erode until a complete collapse happens and anarchy results. That’s what the Oligarchy wants and that’s what they will get
True information here….incredible but true. Now several ivy league or big ten MBA programmes have a new requirement class in cinder and culture and students must spend at least a few weeks to one full semester in china.
My dad’s Stanford MBA from 1977 is practically useless,as he didn’t have the Chinese experience. Writing is on the wall folks. Also, isn’t it odd timing that us colleges are actively recruiting Chinese students? American kids are priced out of higher Ed. But no problem…just get the kids of Chinese industrialists to pay 50k a year
“Free trade” is only part of the problem. Thousands upon thousands of regulations to contend with are to blame as well. Some of them make sense, but a lot of them just make work for government bureaucrats at a cost of more than $1 trillion to businesses every year. Taxes are also some of the highest in the world. Compliance with the sheer number of tax laws and regs sucks billions out of our economy every year, in addition to what goes into government coffers.
Lastly, we have a finance dominated economy. The banks are the driving force behind the loss of industry in this country. When bankers gain dominance in an economy, the divert all surplus value created by industry away from the producers and into their hands. Soon it becomes pointless for producers to keep on producing, so they pack and move to friendlier, less expensive locations, where bankers can’t steal every penny they make. Eventually, the parasites will come to the new locations to resume their thievery.
In reality, free trade is the least to blame. Our government and the bankster crooks who run it are the ones who are driving the economy into the ground.
In case you missed this before, this video gets the point across very quickly.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3SRWmV2WIE
You mean one of the 2000 discriminating Obamacare waivers given to GE isn’t going to keep jobs here?
Silly rabbits, tricks are for kids.