Thank God (or Al Gore I guess) for the Internet. Without it, we would be forced to get our news via CNN or NBC, and anyone who is at least partially awake knows that the MSM (mainstream media)selects the news they provide based on the political views of the parent corporation; overwhelmingly liberal. There's one drawback to being able to get your news relatively unfiltered and uncensored....at least for now. That drawback is that some news demands a reaction. The particular news that I am thinking of, that I read this morning,inspired me to follow up an initial query into "what the heck is Twitter??" with the act of creating a blog. Whether it ever gets read by anyone is moot...the fact is that this news p*sses me OFF. Disregard the infowars portion of the link...the original article was published in Rolling Stone magazine...not what you'd think of as a conspiracy publication:
http://www.infowars.com/goldman-sachs-engineering-every-major-market-manipulation-since-the-great-depression/
I pretty well knew that the oil prices of last summer were manipulated, and that there are forces that some folks refer to as a Plunge Protection Team that prevents un-planned market crashes. If you believe that the Fat Cats in gov't and Wall Street are content to let unruly investors control their wealth via emotion based market decisions, you are simply a fool.
So you can read the news about how our Federal Gov't has provided BILLIONS to bankers out of the tax revenue coerced out of struggling families and shrug it off and click over to a news site that tells you the details of Michael Jackson's life and death, and the latest gossip about Brad and Jennifer and Angelina, and go on with your futile day to day activities, or you can start to ask yourself if it isn't time to start making your plans for which type of person you will be when the SHTF. And it WILL hit the fan. If you think that only wild-eyed conspiracy nuts are saying there is a planned crash in the economy coming, check this out:
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/schultz-paints-bleak-picture-of-future
So what's going to happen? A cursory reading of financial history tells us that any nation issuing a fiat currency (unbacked by anything other than "The Full Faith and Credit of the U.S. Gov't." in our case,) has eventually found it necessary to highly inflate that currency as a consequence of financial silliness. So let's just imagine for a moment that the stock market crashes big time, and the dollar crashes big time as a natural and commonly anticipated consequence of the debt being loaded on the backs of the American taxpayer. When food stores demand unimaginable prices for simple food staples, what will you do? Since late 2008, gun stores have reported record sales, and most standard ammunition is simply unavailable for any price. Good or bad, that means record numbers of citizens are armed, and when food becomes difficult to obtain, things not just MAY, but WILL get ugly.
What's your plan?
Does it disturb you that the people who run our Treasury and the Federal Reserve are all alumni of the corporation that is benefitting most from taxpayer funded bailouts? If the bailouts aren't the most egregious abuse of taxpayer money in our history...what do you call it? Think about it, Goldman Sachs was complicit in the manipulated oil prices of last summer (did that hurt you at all?) and right now they are receiving BILLIONS of your money even though they made BILLIONS through bilking Mom and Pop out of hard-earned dollars at the pump? And are in the process of doing it again? Not to mention they made BILLIONS off the "sub-prime mortgage" fiasco that most folks say is the trigger for the crisis that right now has devastated the families of the 9 million people thrown out of work just since the first of the year? Does that piss you off?
What's your plan?
What are you going to do...shuffle along with whatever the government response to the final crash is? Or will you unfurl your Gadsen flag and tell them "Don't Tread On Me"?
What is your plan?
