What's not to like ? Here's a start : Be careful about that military stuff. Military does not get us into wars. Your elected leaders (dictator-in-chief ?) does. Ya forgot Illegal immigration.....or not politically correct, Wet Backs. Is it not politically correct to cite "not politically correct ?" Should we count the kill-plotting Islamics ? ...Who do they vote for, btw ? Besides....it may have to be the military that will defend your borders after the current president's open border (implicit) policy brings in new Democratic voters. Ya think the military will have a hard act to follow after the official statement from the current president's cabinet member for HomeLand Security Napolitano has created (what did she say ... ?) "The border has never been so secure as it is now." Can we include a mass media that suppresses significant incompetency of favorites ? Does an uninformed public contribute to a nation's decline ?
We need help here, Zr1Trader.... You cited Unfunded liabilities of the Federal Government in the 9 digits ? ($ 123 trillion ? ..... I see only 3 digits.) What about the states' unfunded liabilities. My recent John Mauldin essay emailed me cited a chart of all 50 states in which only 3 are very slightly over 53% funded for state employee pensions; the rest are under 50% funded. And 8 states have constitutions not permitting alterations of state pensions. (Appears it will be a fine and pleasant misery for them.) Does the most fearfully intimidating federal agency that does Federal Tax Collection and self-admittedly does political repression count to the erosion of independence of citizens, or is this only an economic thread ? Ah....let it pass: Silencing the voice of the nation's citizens who are attempting to right the economic ship should be counted as part of the economic death spiral. (btw....Where's the guy who "promised to get to the bottom of this ?" No internal agency investigations as promised, you say ? What ?)
With little background in geopolitics and business/economics , still, watching and reading alternative news, it gets scary. To sum up in a nutshell. There is $17 trillion in national liability debt. All the U.S. wars recently have been funded by the Fed and the Chinese lenders buying the bonds. The dollar should have collapsed long ago like Weimar Germany except that the U.S. has to keep control of the major supplies of oil flowing to support the petrodollar or come clean with the U.S. public. Iraq tried to defy the petrodollar and got invaded. Once China and other countries defy the U.S. and start to buy oil in other currency then the dollar will collapse and the economy will go out of control. Where the money in the U.S. is: http://youtu.be/cIAm0OrRKCI How the "system" is currently supported: http://youtu.be/0tsUZinrCo8 A scenario clip on the "day" it all breaks down: http://youtu.be/N3q5NyxI8nk
Been there, done that, have the T-shirt: "Stop institutional corruption in Congress !" "Start term limits. Citizen representatives only." "Next time, find just 1 thing your candidate accomplished before voting him/her into the most powerful office in the world." I am a very T A L L and W....I.....D.....E person.
You excel at recent history and current events per your narrative. I haven't seen your links yet. Your last sentence is thought provoking: If other nations shirk the U.S. dollar, then the hugely vaunted U.S. oil and gas boom to come will only get us pennies on the dollar for whatever of it we export. That is true of anything we export. And of course, everything we import from nations who shirk the dollar will cost us much more. I have heard the Chinese and Russians have been trying to work something out between themselves to avoid the U.S. as a reserve currency. Yes, should our indebtedness that keeps U.S. citizens afloat with a mirage halt a more sane world from honoring the U.S. dollar as a reserve currency, we probably will be cooked. Just a matter of time ? Alternative news = is the news (One still has to be careful though of agendas.) Main stream media outlets = alternative truths (surgical omissions, blatantly untold truths, and half truths.) The ones that don't fit this description, have the highest ratings. Even the biased citizen wants to know the truth, even if he hates it.