~jude

It’a a conundrum which all goes back to management versus Labor and management *Needs* cheep labor…thus the first out – sourcing…

Our government has increasingly become not OF nor FOR the people but rather for the corporate elitist, the bankers and the government puppets. Until we can find some way to turn this around, I am afraid in the very near future all those who are not survivalist will have a very rude awakening…Gas could hit 5-7 dollars this summer and food costs are not only escalating but also there will be a shortage…

My best advice right now is to not put away any money in the market but rather use it to pay off mortgages, make improvements, stock up on food goods/supplies, guns and ammo [for hunting and protection], keep if you can close to 20,000 in cash on hand, and if possible have some physical gold and silver…Always keep your vehicles topped off with gas and in good repair. Sell everything you don’t need unless you want to keep it for trading purposes and don’t spread the word that you are *hoarding* supplies ( I do advise we try to inform as many people as we can on how desperate our situation has gotten…

I couldn’t have said it better than your statement with a few small exceptions~
~hugs jude

I’ll be back for more info periodically…

Thanks and keep up the good work…

First of all, I don’t know where the long treatise on Socialism and Communism came from. The mission acknowledges there is a role for the state, but thinks that tension between the state and individuals is healthy. I agree. That tension is one important way to help keep the state honest. There is no specific “ism” espoused or denigrated in the mission. How that got construed by the commenter, I don’t know.

Then there was comment that Socialism is the step just before Communism. They are different systems entirely. I don’t need to go into the details as any good economic textbook will explain the difference. There are countries that have practiced Socialism without becoming Communist. The American economy is partially Socialist: public roads, public airports, public parks, public education, public libraries, Medicare, etc. These aren’t inherently bad things even though there are ideological differences about them. Of course, we also have Corporate Socialism—a heavily subsidized military-industrial complex (more than $1.2 trillion/year, not counting our debt-based middle east wars), subsidies (i.e. corporate welfare) in various forms to various sectors of the economy: energy, agribusiness, extractive industries, bank bailouts, etc. Corporate Socialism, I do view as a bad thing.

To say, as someone here did, that the problem with government is that it “tries to make too many decisions for us”, is an oversimplification and a bit of a distraction. Sometimes the state does dumb things. The state is run by people and people are not perfect. However, the real problem is that the state can and, in the case of America, has become corrupted by moneyed interests that end up pushing government to act on their behalf rather than that of the people. Some people call it a Corporatocracy. Some people call it a Plutocracy. Some people call it Fascism. Call it whatever you want, but it’s why we got taxpayer funded bank bailouts. It’s why we have a food system that makes unhealthy food cheaper to buy than healthy food. It’s why Americans can’t buy their prescription drugs from Canada. It’s why Congress passed a healthcare bill that wouldn’t “offend” the insurance industry and make them run ‘Harry and Louise’ ads. It’s why the healthcare bill doesn’t actually bring costs down in a meaningful way or even take enough of a holistic look at health to acknowledge that good health requires more than just insurance.

The modern American government doesn’t care about its people. It cares about who funds election campaigns. The two major parties that run our government care about winning elections, even if it means prostituting themselves for campaign money and distracting voters with divisive and counterproductive wedge issues and poisoning the political discourse. They stay in power by working with the corporate media to keep people divided so we don’t focus our attention where it really belongs: on the corruption and collusion that has stolen political control from the people.

Again, the modern American government doesn’t care about its people. This is why people can’t afford health insurance. It’s why medical problems cause too many personal bankruptcies. It’s why a significant percentage of those bankruptcies due to medical problems happen to people who have insurance. It’s why there is little interest in prosecuting those who caused the financial meltdown. It’s why the US Supreme Court brought us the Citizens United decision and all of the other decisions since the 1800s that have cemented the right of corporate personhood into case law in direct contradiction to the ideals of America’s founders.

As for my views on the state, no I definitely don’t need the state to do everything for me all of the time. People have to be responsible with their finances. People have to have a sense of responsibility to the communities they live in. But people also can’t allow personal liberty to be equated with selfishness and greed.

Even though my household earns what we consider a decent 5-figure income and we are financially responsible, live below our means, are responsible about our health, there’s no way we can get the numbers to add up that will allow us to fully fund our own retirement (it is highly likely that I will lose my pension before I’m allowed to collect it), pay for college for our child, and cover all of our healthcare costs (without employer-sponsored or gov’t-sponsored insurance). It’s not possible. I know several people who were responsible, but had their retirement savings devastated by the financial meltdown. Besides, the endless growth paradigm that has allowed savings to grow with interest is now running head on into the laws of physics and is coming apart at the seams.

Therefore, I see one of the roles of the state as meeting people halfway. In the case of healthcare, education, and retirement, I see that as by truly making healthcare affordable in some way and by taking a holistic approach to healthcare by addressing policies that are counterproductive to good health (like food policy, among others), making college affordable, and somehow making sure that people don’t have to absorb 100% of the financial risk when it comes to their retirement (don’t misconstrue this as me saying people have no responsibility for their retirement either—I’m not saying that at all).

In order for the state to meet people halfway, it has to start caring about its people again. That won’t happen as long as the moneyed interests call the shots. But, “we the people” are partially to blame here because too many of us: choose infotainment and celebrity-worship over substance, let the corporate-controlled media define the discussion, equate the acquisition of stuff with happiness, blindly accept debt peonage and consumerism as a healthy way of life, equate liberty with selfishness, and think liberty comes without any responsibility. As James Howard Kunstler said earlier this year: “America has transformed itself from a nation of earnest, muscular, upright citizens to a land of overfed barbarous morons ruled by grifters.”

We cannot look outside ourselves for the leader. Until we choose in sufficient numbers to join together and walk away from the corrupted system of infotainment, debt peonage, consumerism, and divisive politics we cannot return our nation to one of government by, of, and for the people. Get out of debt. Turn off your television. Turn off the commercial radio stations. Cancel your cable or satellite. Abandon recreational shopping. Move whatever money you can into credit unions and truly local banks. Get to know your neighbors. Cut back or eliminate overly-processed food from your diet. Learn to grow and preserve some of your own food. If you live in an apartment, then work with your neighbors to start a community garden in your neighborhood. Shop at farmers markets when you can. Organize a local currency or time bank in your community. Develop barter networks in your community. Assess the skill sets in your community that can be shared whether it’s carpentry, sewing, knowledge of herbs, gardening, food preservation, plumbing, or whatever. No, we cannot walk away from everything in the current system, but we can walk away from enough to discover that we don’t need as much as we thought, we can do more for ourselves than we thought, we have more in common with each other than we thought, and the media, politicians, and political pundits have all been playing us for suckers.

~History Repeats~

http://www.enterprisecorruption.com/

~jude

Theres never a mention of what damage the pill is doing to the water and the resultant oestrogen pollution lowering sperm count.

If anyone here wants two good websites to look at try tpuc.org or cutting through the matrix, a free 3o odd min mp3 daily digest of whats been going on, no political bias, no adverts, no agenda that i have found in about a year of listening to it.

theres also a couple of free ebooks you could hunt out, the crooked cross, about the vatican mafia n such the second is the synagogue of satan.

no its not anti jewish, its the history of rothchild and such.

There was an article on b fulfords blog that says they have done a deal to build a new zion-temple in jerusalem, as to its veracity i leave that for you to decide.

A great place for free films is http://www.esoterictube.com/

hope this is useful.

World awareness is knowing that the Fed/Bankers have orchestrated the bankruptcy of the civilised world and will line up the countries in debt to the IMF, which will be the World Governments bank. In the UK now, private equity companies manage over 25% of all UK jobs, and people don’t even know who these people are!