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 Why onlookers did nothing
The sad fact of this matter is that the onlookers did nothing because Americans have been terrorized by their own government to fear authority and follow orders. Americans fear their government. That alone is a dangerous situation, since the balance of power in a free society actually depends on a government fearing the people!
When the people fear their government, that government has complete power over the people. And our government in particular has used fear as a weapon of mass terror against the American people for several decades now. The U.S. |
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 All governments and government organizations seek to expand their power. It is a natural law of bureaucracy.
Want the ultimate example? The entire U.S. government was supposed to be operating on power granted to it by the people. The U.S. Constitution specifically said that all powers NOT granted to the federal government are reserved to the people (the States). But look around you. Do you see a government that feels it owes its power to the people? Do you see a government that humbly serves the people, or that keeps its hands off powers not directly granted to it by the Constitution? |
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| Americans fear their government. That alone is a dangerous situation, since the balance of power in a free society actually depends on a government fearing the people!
When the people fear their government, that government has complete power over the people. And our government in particular has used fear as a weapon of mass terror against the American people for several decades now. The U.S. |
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 And it's not the household that is of concern here; it's the entire government of the United States of America.
U.S. adults are making spending decisions by voting themselves larger and larger entitlements that their government simply cannot afford, and, like the children in the example above, these adults don't seem to understand, nor concern themselves with, the fact that the "national household" -- the federal government itself -- cannot afford these expenditures.
The voters in our country act like a bunch of children. |
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 Just last week, Citibank itself reached out to the Abu Dhabi government, desperately seeking a loan of cash to bail it out of a house-of-cards debt collapse scenario. It agreed to pay a whopping 11 percent interest on a loan to save it from collapse. That technically makes Citibank a sub-prime borrower itself! (When the largest banks desperately need high interest rate loans to bail themselves out of bankruptcy, you know something is seriously wrong with the debt bubble... |
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 So if you want to be a fiscal patriot, go ahead and die early to save the government from bankruptcy. But if you want to be healthy, focus on those things you can control and make the best of them. This nation may end up flat broke, but at least you can walk away from it all with your health fully intact.
To me, that's a lot more valuable than a bunch of IOUs from a government that's already neck-deep in the tar pit of financial ruin. |
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| The subpoena is troubling because it permits the government to peek into the reading habits of specific individuals without their knowledge or permission," Judge Crocker wrote in his ruling. "It is an unsettling and un-American scenario to envision federal agents nosing through the reading lists of law-abiding citizens while hunting for evidence against somebody else."
Welcome to Police State Amerika
This News.com story by Declan McCullagh documents how AT&T opened up its massive telecommunications network to U.S. |
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| When the people fear their government, that government has complete power over the people. And our government in particular has used fear as a weapon of mass terror against the American people for several decades now. The U.S. government now has Americans so scared of fictitious threats that the citizens have submitted to the most insane security processes, such as surrendering bottles of water at the airport before boarding an airplane, or submitting to random searches of vehicles at roadside checkpoints. |
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| It will take at least two generations to pay off the national debt, and that's if we radically slash government spending on war and health care right now.
Of course, there is no candidate other than Ron Paul who has any intention of even thinking about paying off the national debt. The issue is simply ignored from one presidency to the next in a great pass-the-buck game that can only end in a sudden a total collapse of the U.S. economy (and its currency). Recent news reports reveal the U.S. debt is now increasing at the rate of $1 million a minute!. |
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 And now they're getting the government they deserve.
Remember, friends, when you vote for Washington to solve all your problems and give you something for free, the actual cost of all that is many times higher than just paying for it yourself. In an honest free market system, a patient could buy this $1 drug for maybe $5 at retail. It's a simple, direct transaction. But by the time you add in all the do-gooders, medical monopolies and campaign promises, the cost of that $1 drug has reached $150. That's how Big government works. |
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| Do you see a government that feels it owes its power to the people? Do you see a government that humbly serves the people, or that keeps its hands off powers not directly granted to it by the Constitution? Not a chance. Our government RULES the people. It has take the power granted to it by the U.S. Constitution and expanded it into an empire that now rules over the very people it was supposed to serve.
Government power always expands just as sure as sewage runs downhill. |
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| Hyperinflation will wipe out the savings of every person in the country with money held in banks. Retirement accounts? Gone. Savings? Wiped out. FDIC insurance? Worthless. Real estate? Collapsed into a decades-long depression. (Think the FDIC will save you? Don't be so gullible: The FDIC can only bail out a tiny percentage of failed banks in a massive, national bank run, perhaps 2 to 3 percent.)
Just last week, Citibank itself reached out to the Abu Dhabi government, desperately seeking a loan of cash to bail it out of a house-of-cards debt collapse scenario. |
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| You can bet that if there were a system where people somehow paid more money to the government for every day they lived past 70, we'd see all sorts of government-funded investments in longevity research. They'd be banning dangerous food ingredients and toxic prescription drugs daily. Cigarettes would be outlawed. Junk food advertising would be banned. Subsidies would be offered for monthly fitness club memberships. And the average lifespan of U.S. citizens would skyrocket.
But that's in la-la land. In the real world, nobody makes any money when you live longer. |
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| That alone is a dangerous situation, since the balance of power in a free society actually depends on a government fearing the people!
When the people fear their government, that government has complete power over the people. And our government in particular has used fear as a weapon of mass terror against the American people for several decades now. The U.S. |
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| Next, we have the Bush / Big Pharma conspiracy, whereby the government's drug benefit program actually made it illegal for the federal government to negotiate volume discounts with drug companies. Just another Big Pharma handout? You bet.
And finally, we have the fact that the taxpayers are footing the bill for everything.
Tracking the flow of money, waste and fraud
Let's track the flow of money for prescription drugs, shall we? These numbers are just rough estimates, and this description is greatly simplified, but it gives you an idea of how the system works.
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| Your tax dollars are paying for all this waste, fraud and government pork. It's your money being flushed down the toilet, all in the name of a "benefit" to voters.
You gotta love politics. In no other arena can such a huge lie be so successfully marketed to so many people. Seniors voted for this in droves. And now they're getting the government they deserve.
Remember, friends, when you vote for Washington to solve all your problems and give you something for free, the actual cost of all that is many times higher than just paying for it yourself. |
| And nobody in the history of the United States has made Big government bigger than President Bush.
Big government used to be the political refuge of Democrats, but now Republicans have beat them at their own game (both Reagan and Bush were record spenders. Clinton, on the other hand, actually cut spending. Not nearly enough, but he did make major cuts.) The "game," of course, is seeing who can offer the most handouts to voters while claiming with a straight face that nobody has to pay for them. And the bigger the lie, the better it seems to go over with voters. |
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| We need to start investing in prevention, but of course, as I've pointed out many times, if we actually had a healthy population, the government wouldn't be able to afford it. Taxes would have to go up considerably if the average lifespan increased by only five years. And if people started eating fruits and vegetables, if the food supply was cleaned up to remove metabolic disruptors and toxic ingredients, and if hydrogenated oils were banned, then the average lifespan in this country would increase even further. That will cost the government billions of dollars that it doesn't have. |
| That's your own fault, not the government's. Even people who know what's unhealthy still manage to conspire against their own good sense and eat that stuff anyway.
That's the real conspiracy here, folks.
Because remember this: you can't control the lawmakers in Washington. You can't control the future of social security. You can't even control the FDA. But you can darn well control what you put in your own mouth. Your health is the one thing about your future that you do control.
So if you want to be a fiscal patriot, go ahead and die early to save the government from bankruptcy. |
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| When the people fear their government, that government has complete power over the people. And our government in particular has used fear as a weapon of mass terror against the American people for several decades now. The U.S. government now has Americans so scared of fictitious threats that the citizens have submitted to the most insane security processes, such as surrendering bottles of water at the airport before boarding an airplane, or submitting to random searches of vehicles at roadside checkpoints. |
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| The Federal Bureau of Investigation, as well as local government police and law enforcement personnel, repeatedly engaged in heinous crimes against the "Black Power" leaders of the day. They planned and carried out literally hundreds of attacks, bombings and executions of black leaders. (This is not conjecture: It's all on-the-record testimony from former FBI agents. |
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 Ross Perot, a man with such well-grounded ideas of cutting government spending that he was immediately branded a crackpot by the status quo.
Even worse, there's not even recognition among the masses that a financial problem exists. As long as the President continues to proclaim the economy is in good shape, and the press remains complicit with its printing of economic half-truths, few will recognize any problem at all. Besides, any such recognition of the financial problems now facing this nation requires the observers to actually be able to do basic math. |
Samuel S. Epstein, M.D.
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 As evidenced in an extensive series of government Accounting Office investigations and Congressional hearings, USDA and FDA regulation is in near total disarray, aggravated by denials and cover-ups. A 1986 Congressional report concluded: "FDA has consistently disregarded its responsibility—repeatedly put what it perceives are interests of veterinarians and the livestock industry ahead of its legal obligation to protect consumers, ...jeopardizing the health and safety of consumers of meat, milk, and poultry" (U.S. HR, 1985). |
| Monsanto either failed to report contamination, substituted false information purporting to show no contamination, or submitted samples to the government for analysis which had been specially prepared so that dioxin contamination did not exist.
The earliest-known effort by Monsanto to cover up dioxin contamination of its products involved the herbicide used in Vietnam, Agent Orange. |
| Observer in February, 1999, a Canadian government drug researcher's notes of a November, 1997 phone call from Monsanto's regulatory chief revealed that the company received an advance copy of the JECFA position paper from Dr. Nicholas Weber, of the FDA's Center of Veterinary Medicine and member of the 1998 JECFA. Dr. Weber's supervisor at the FDA was Dr. Margaret Mitchell, who before joining the agency, directed a major Monsanto rBGH laboratory. Dr. Weber also provided Monsanto with an advance submission by John Verrall, a British pharmaceutical researcher and member of the U.K. |
| November, 2005: The South African Milk Processors Organization (SAMPRO) issued a November 1 Press Release calling on the South African government to ban the future use of rBGH, and announced the submission of a formal application for the deregistration of the drug.
On November 9, Marian Burros reported in The New York Times that "growth in organic milk is largely driven by continued use of hormones, such as rBGH, and antibiotics in the conventional dairy industry. |
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| The idea of ever having to pay back their debt and live within their means is as foreign to most Americans as it is their own government. Financial consequences have been put off so habitually, for so long, that people forget they even exist. And thus the reality awakening becomes ever more rude when it finally appears. To say that most Americans will be in a state of shock when their life savings are suddenly wiped out is an understatement: These people will have never even imagined such an event is possible, much less contemplated how it might affect them. |
| These radical reforms are necessary because the future gap between what the government owes and what it stands to receive in revenues is already monstrously large, and it's growing by the minute. This gap, called the Gokhale and Smetters measure, currently stands at an astonishing $65.9 trillion. (Yes, with a "T".) As Kotlikoff explains, "This figure is more than five times U.S. GDP and almost twice the size of national wealth. One way to wrap one’s head around $65.9 trillion is to ask what fiscal adjustments are needed to eliminate this red hole. The answers are terrifying. |
| The result of this is not in question: The United States government is already running on fumes, and in a few more years, it will suffer financial collapse.
"Countries can and do go bankrupt," says Kotlikoff, and the U.S. is no exception to the laws of economic reality.
Oblivious to what's coming
The American people, as usual, remain oblivious to the financial future that awaits them. Even as the housing bubble is now beginning to burst in the nation's most overpriced real estate markets, most people don't have a clue what "hard times" really means. |
| Hyperinflation is inevitable
As Kotlikoff explains:
"Given the reluctance of our politicians to raise taxes, cut benefits, or even limit the growth in benefits, the most likely scenario is that the government will start printing money to pay its bills. This could arise in the context of the Federal Reserve “being forced” to buy Treasury bills and bonds to reduce interest rates. Specifically, once the financial markets begin to understand the depth and extent of the country’s financial insolvency, they will start worrying about inflation and about being paid back in watered-down dollars. |
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