Please enjoy this time-lapse video of food stamp participation in the United States, which may be "the only thing keeping 43 million Americans from going postal."
"Food Stamp Nation" is the logical result of our blind faith in government ... the State's legacy ... our "new [socialist] normal."
Tent Cities, Homelessness And Soul-Crushing Despair: The Legacy Of Decades Of Government Debt And Mismanagement Of The Economy
For decades, our politicians have been deeply addicted to government debt, they have stood idly by as millions of our jobs have been shipped overseas and they have passed countless business-crushing regulations and they never thought that it would catch up with us. Well, it has. America has been living in the biggest debt bubble in the history of the world, and now that bubble is starting to pop. There has never been such an extended period of unemployment in the United States since the Great Depression, and millions of Americans are losing their homes. Homelessness is skyrocketing, tent cities are popping up everywhere and countless numbers of American families are experiencing the soul-crushing despair that comes from desperately trying to hang on for month after month after month.
Now, because of the horrific hole that our politicians have dug for us, we are faced with some heartbreaking choices.
It's not just the rapidly rising number of homeless Americans that is the problem. Millions of Americans are not going to be able to heat their homes this winter. Millions of others are going to have to choose between buying medicine and buying food because they will not be able to afford both.
How would you like to be at a point where you could not go to the doctor because you knew that you could not pay the deductible?
How would you like to be at a point where you had to decide whether to buy diabetes medicine or to buy macaroni and cheese to feed your family?
More than 42 million Americans are now on food stamps, and that number keeps going up month after month after month.
Just think about that.
42 million Americans would not be able to eat if the U.S. government did not give them handouts.
The safety net is getting awfully crowded.
If you really want to see some soul-crushing desperation, go check out the flood tunnels under the city of Las Vegas. But do not do this alone - it is very dangerous down there. Today, there are hordes of "tunnel people" who call those dark tunnels home. Nobody knows for sure how many people are down there (some people say that it is well into the thousands), but everyone agrees that the number is rapidly growing.
But in many major U.S. cities there are no flood tunnels to go to. Instead, in many areas of the United States huge tent cities have sprouted. The following is a video news report from the BBC about the tent cities that are popping up all over America....
But it is not just "drug addicts" and the "mentally ill" that are going to these tent cities. One anonymous unemployed woman identified only as "Kaynonymous" is a highly educated professional who figures that she will end up in a tent city soon....
"I'm a 99er too. 53, female, single and once on track with an IT career. No one in their right mind would consider me for an IT position after being gone from the field for over 2 years. I have officially been a 99er since May 2010. In Aug. 2010 all of my savings and retirement funds were finally depleted--not only can I no longer make my mortgage payment, I can no longer afford utilities either. I'm just not sure that the 99ers ever had a voice outside of union organizers and even with them it was too little too late. Guess I'll be seeing ya'll in the soup kitchens and tent cities. I do still have my tent..."
So we should just extend the long-term unemployment benefits, right? Well, according to a recent poll commissioned by the National Employment Law Project, 73 percent of Americans want Congress to continue paying out extended unemployment benefits.
But it is not just that simple.
America is broke.
The entire financial system is dying.
The U.S. government desperately needs to stop spending so much money.
But how can we turn our backs on people who are desperately hurting?
As a society, we will be judged by how we treat those who are the most vulnerable. It can seem easy to bash those who have lost everything, but someday you might end up in that position. In the following video, police in St. Petersburg, Florida are seen using box cutters to slice up the tents that the homeless were sleeping in....
Hopefully you were deeply disturbed by that video.
We have gotten ourselves into a giant mess, and things are only going to get worse.
Unfortunately, some extremely painful decisions are going to have to be made.
The truth is that we are so deeply in debt that the U.S. government just cannot be spending any extra money right now.
However, we also cannot turn our backs on millions of American families that are going to lose their homes and go hungry if we do not help them.
So what do we do?
The U.S. economy is dying. There are going to be even more tent cities and even more hungry Americans. The scale of the economic nightmare that we are facing in the years ahead is going to be unimaginable.
So if you get to enjoy a warm dinner and you get to sleep in a warm bed tonight, please consider yourself to be very fortunate. Someday soon you also may find those things cruelly stripped away from you.
This is the America that government built.
Left, right, it doesn't matter. Everyone is to blame ... keeping us safe from monsters, sheltered from the cold, and our bellies fed ... Government became our own personal Jesus. Politicians to hear our prayers, politicians who care ... or so we thought.
So what do we do?
There are no easy answers because there is no path to recovery without pain.
On one hand, since government is the primary perpetrator of our economic mess, I want them held responsible to bear the costs of those they pushed out of work. But that only means government digging itself even deeper into debt, sucking more earnings away from hard-working Americans and thus, the further down the economic black hole each one of us falls.
Nice system, uh? The government screws people over and the only way to hold them liable is to have them screw even more people over ... This is how collectivism works.
Partisan politics provides no answers. Democrats won't ever stop spending, and Republicans aren't serious about cutting the budget either. Let's face it! Members of the Ruling Class on either side of the aisle, don't give a rat's ass about anyone but themselves. It's the nature of the beast.
Unfortunately, I'm not so sure their partisan supporters do either. After all, everybody has trillion dollar boondoggle they just can't live without, and sheep need "leaders."
Why don't we rip up more homeless people's tents? Straight-up evil ... and people wonder why I hate the State.
Of course people don't need handouts, they need jobs! This requires slashing government spending, slashing taxes, and slashing business regulations immediately. Because when people are forced to hand over 50% of their income to the government, and little girls can't even run a lemonade stand (let alone a more serious business), there can be no job growth. Only economic rot.
Since there will be no serious budget cuts, tax cuts, or regulation cuts ... What does America's future look like?
Riots and desperation? FEMA Camps? Are we even allowed to talk freely about these things? Will they shut down this blog?
The natural tendency of government to destroy economic and civil life has reached it's pinnacle. The America Empire is now dying a slow and painful death.
