Those of us you call Socialist/Communist Idealogical believers are actually Free Market Capitalists who realize that if that market is not confined mainly inside the boundaries of our country that we will become a third world nation.

The fact is that our form of government now is Facism. Big Business has bought our government. What we have is Fixed Market Crony Capitalism which in the end will result in no economic opportunity for you, unless you are one of them. You probably are.

We’d need to pull the root of the corruption, and get the whole system revamped.
Those that want the system to stay in place…. hop into the catapult- Cuba is nice this time of year. g’bye-

Tell the WTO to take a hike…. Is it impossible? Not really….

Then we wad that ‘contract’ up, and set it on fire. What is so hard about taking the hard stance against someone who’s stated goal is YOUR DESTRUCTION? This is only self preservation, on a national level. We didn’t need this **** destructive system to build this country the first time…. Why stay tangled up in it now that it’s obviously a one way ticket to our demise?

(by the way, I don’t condone the use of firearms unless your life depends upon it… if you haven’t yet noticed….now it kinda does)

Alan Watt said a few days ago- We’re like a cow on a farm…
The farmer has broken the cow’s legs, and is now kicking it for laying around.
We get the blame for the economy-
(we get the blame for being unemployed and sucking off the welfare teet when nobody asked us if we wanted our industry shipped to china- AND we caught blame for the housing crash…. it was designed to lure in people and go belly up-) I didn’t vote the industry out of the country-Did you?

Now we hear about population reduction…. I say…. go cordless bungee jumping if you want to reduce the population- Wish Granted! One less asshole!

For a full-on look at what is really going on, check out Alan Watt at cuttingthroughthematrix.com –
He’ll fully wake you up, only if you let him.

(I’m not taking anything away from this site- there is a lot of good and useful info here- Please keep up the good work!)
Cheers!

As history tells it, none of these beliefs have ever even come close to working yet you people cling to the belief YOU can make it work.

FACTS are a sticky thing. YOUR IDEAS have never and will never work. Move onto to something that has worked and STFU. Thank you!

Sorry, teabag types, you are misguided. It’s admirable that you recognize something is wrong and have mobilized, but your stubborn loyalty to the dog whistle issues of Republican party and your closeted hatred of black people (not all of you, but too many) have made your efforts counterproductive.

It’s the rich vs. everybody else now. Not right vs. left, red vs. blue, black vs. white, Christian vs. non-Christian, none of that.

It’s the rich. They want it all. And you’re empowering them.

I’m not defending Obama. He’s a tool of the corporations, too, though not as much as the last guy, or any Republican for that matter.

Please wake up and use your efforts for good. Because right now, you’re part of the problem, not part of the solution.

May God save America. But I think it’s probably too late.

I appreciate your points on finding an avocation to keep you busy and create a trade to fall back on, and the worthiness of using something until it’s completely worn out.

But if you’re only getting your info from Talk Radio, you’re vision is skewed, and I can’t trust you.

It’s not right vs. left, or red vs. blue, or any of that. It’s the rich vs. everybody else, and they’re continually trying to distract you with all this other stuff. You’re half falling for it.

Good luck. There are things about you I admire.

The deficit imposes a net burden on future generations. This was a major theme of Ross Perot when he was running for the Presidency in 1992. There is some truth to this statement, but not much. This statement conjures up an image that the younger generation(s) has this huge tax bill hanging over their heads which must be paid off entirely. But countries never die (or at least they never plan on dying). Therefore, there is no reason why our children and their children’s children cannot keep passing on the debt forever. In fact, so long as the economy continues to grow, future generations can continue to pass on ever-larger debts. Simarlarly, if I lived forever, I would never have to pay off my credit card debt entirely – just service the monthly interest payments.

Moreover, payers and recipients of the debt are both primarily U.S. citizens, so income is simply redistributed from one group to another. Suppose Ross Perot was elected President and decided to pay off the national debt once and for all over a period of say, 5 years. How would he do it? He would have to raise taxes and cut spending so that we ran significant surpluses (on the order of $1 trillion per year). The government would then take the funds directly from the tax payers and indirectly from the citizens who lose the benefits they used to receive from government services, and pay off the bond holders. Does the money leave the country? No. It is simply transferred from all tax payers to the bond holders. In fact, many bond holders may find that the value of their bonds were offset by the higher taxes and/or lower level of government services.

There is one case where the net burden argment may hold some weight. Right now, about 15% of US debt is held by foreign investors. To the extent that future generations must pay off this debt, and the income leaves the country, future generations are burdened with the current generation’s run-up in debt. Fortunately for the US, the foreign-owned portion of the debt is still fairly small.

The national debt will bankrupt the nation. Huge debts have bankrupted some nations, but we are far from that scenario. The main difference is that most of our debt is internally owned. Also, the government never has to pay the entire debt off at one time since the government never “dies.” Furthermore, the government has an enormous power to raise revenue via taxation.

We COULD buy American. Look at the labels, if it’s not from here, pass it up. Pass up stores that sell foreign garbage. Most of all, patronize LOCAL businesses. Buy from the Internet only if that item you want can’t be found locally, or if they won’t/can’t order for you.

Be more self-sufficient. During WW II they had a jingle: Use it up, wear it out. Make it do or do without. I recycle the heck out of stuff. Plastic shopping bags become mini garbage bags. Those without holes are great for scooping kitty litter into. Plastic margarine tubs are great for leftovers, glass jars for hardware storage. The latter is also good for making emergency candles. Learn gardening and canning.

Get a hobby, or better yet, several. Some of your hobbies should be those whose skills you can fall back on when things get worse. It’s okay to have a hobby like scrapbooking or model railroading, but you should also have something that could be a trade when things get worse. Leatherworking, car repair, gun smithing are some. Tandy Leather has an online book on making sandals. Also, there is on the Internet itself, in PDF format, a really old book on making shoes. (I’ve got that one downloaded and printed, and I’m not sorry about it. Why patronize Nike when I can make my own?) Take up hunting and/or fishing if you are a carnivore or love fish. A hobby is far and away better ENTERTAINMENT than a television could be. Besides, a hobby makes you think. Television doesn’t.

Get rid of television, specifically inane television programs and propaganda masquerading as “news.” It’s easy for me because I live in the country, I’m too far away for Internet cable. I watch only movies and classic television DVDs. News? There IS talk radio. Radio is more immediate than television, and has less propaganda. World news and business news I can get from dozens of sites on the Internet.

Now is the perfect time to own a home, preferably in the country. Plenty of land to start a large garden (not like in the cities). Also, according to several economists (Gerald Celente and others), the cities could soon get ugly, especially with massive Obama tax hikes 1/1/11, and as the numbers of unemployed/underemployed continue to increase. Where do you run to if you are forced to flee? People in the country are generally nice, but in times of civil strife, pull into someone’s property, and all you’ll get is a load of buckshot.

Codex, as it’s referred to in brief, was started in 1962 by the UN. It was created as a trade Commission to control the international trade of food. But like everything else, including our own FDA, in our 21st Century world, it has been completely taken over by multi-national corporations including the pharmaceutical, pesticide, biotech and chemical industries.

These are the folks deciding what’s good for us and writing draconian regulations to make sure we get plenty of what they’re serving–plenty of pesticides, GMO’s and chemicals so then we’ll all need plenty more pharmaceuticals.

If you haven’t heard of Codex, please get informed. It’s big, it’s bad and it’s in our face in the US right now. In 2011, Europe will be losing it’s ability to get most of the supplements we take for granted because of these draconian regulations. The US is next on their list. Dr. Rima Laibow of HealthFreedomUSA is out there in the trenches fighting tooth and nail against Codex.

Go to our site http://www.aquaponicsusa.com and click on “The Big Picture” page, which will give you the scoop (via YouTube) on what just happened at the last Codex Meeting this summer. We really have to start paying attention. It isn’t just the air we breathe out (CO2) that’s being attacked–it’s the Food we take in.

RE: the WTO
Usually the countries of the third world are complaining about unfair trade, but USA …
Actually poor is our fantasy and weak is our imagination to depict what will happen with the World Trade if organisations like Lemon Bros., Bear Stearns & Sir Goldman take in charge of the world trade.

“Be the change you want to see in the world”
M.K Gandhi

Greed is right, greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms; greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge has marked the upward surge of golden parachute lover.

What you said is one of the truest things I’ve seen posted here. Only when the cheap goods disappear from the shelves will the ones who disagreed with you have a Bridge Over the River Quai moment, if at all.

Did the Colonel who fell on the plunger device that set off the explosives on the bridge die or not? I don’t remember.

The Tea Party was immediately attacked by the Republican party. Who could think it would not be? Republicans are more responsible for globalization, Democrats are more responsible for growth of government and anti business conditions, but both are doing the jobs they have been assigned by the ones who control both parties: he who has the gold. Hence, one party. The assigned job? – destroy the United States because of a hatred for the principles found in our Founding Documents. A hatred for OTHERS to have those rights that is. They want those rights for themselves only and even more rights – an infinite number of rights. They want a world wide customer base and complete world control.

They are so few in number, but with their power of money control, there are so many who will sell themselves.

And we all just sit around watching it happen. With no physical action to stop it, it will continue until the end, which is just about here now.

You arrive home from work and a bunch of thieves are in the process of hauling your stuff out of your front door, and you ask them: “please stop”. But with no preventative action on your part, they quickly recognize there will be none, laugh at you, push you aside, and continue on. You can wave bye bye to them as they drive off and then go sit on your bare floor, suck your thumb, and have a good cry. At least your t.v. will be gone.

When every job is outsourced in America who will have money to buy anything? The few at the top of U.S. companies who outsourced the U.S. will soon learn that they can’t make any more money, because people have no money.

It’s time to stand up. You only have two choices if you want to survive. 1. Boycott foreign made products. 2. Move to another country like China. It’s time for the American worker to revolt again.

I strongly disagree with this sentence.

This IS capitalism, this is exactly what capitalism has always been about, only a bit more visible now (or say more visible in the US) than in some previous times and places.

What we are experiencing today is extreme, globalized capitalim, but it IS capitalism, there is no denying it.

I haven’t had cable TV in 7 years, after price increase every single year and very little new channels, I cancelled. If I do get the opportunity to watch TV it is 4 channels. Nevermind the fact that some people are paying a cable company $100 a month to spend 30% of the hour watching commercials?? Seriously?! Who gives a sh*t about watching reality TV shows anyway. If i want some drama i can just go to the office next door at my job and ask what is going on there, instead of paying to see it on TV.

For those of you that read this and are living paycheck to paycheck. It will only get worse unless you act. Get rid of your smart phone and pricey voice/data plans. Cancel cable and get cable internet instead so you can watch TV shows for free. Get netflix to watch movies/shows for cheap. Designer clothes?! new cars?! forget about it, you don’t need those. A car’s purpose is to get from Home–>Work–>Grocery Store–>Friends House–>Home again. That is all. You don’t need all that extra stuff that you get sold in a new car.

China is making cheap products to sell into the US and bringing a lot of inland people out of poverty. If only the american dollar corrects to its true value considering the huge debt burden, the flow of products would be the otherway with banks financing Chinese consumption. America is the innovation capital of the world, and is bringing out so many countries out of poverty. I’m sure the leadership can find another way!!