When did we decide that it was okay to treat very young school children as if they were terror suspects?  When I was growing up, I don’t remember a single time that the police ever came to my school and arrested anyone.  But now police are being called out to public schools at the drop of a hat.  All over America, very young school children are being arrested and marched out of their schools in handcuffs in front of all their friends.  For example, down in Georgia the other day police were called out because a 6-year-old girl was throwing a tantrum.  The police subdued her, slapped handcuffs on her and hauled her off to the police station.  Instead of apologizing for this outrageous incident, the police are defending the actions of the officer involved.  But this is not an isolated incident.  All over the country young kids are being handcuffed and mistreated by police.

The following are 10 more disgusting examples of very young school children being arrested, handcuffed and brutalized by police all over America….

#1 At an elementary school in Baltimore recently, three nine-year-old girls and an eight-year-old boy were arrested for fighting and marched out of their elementary school in handcuffs.  The police department is defending handcuffing these kids….

“It’s our policy, regardless of the age, when a suspect is arrested by police, they’re handcuffed. And the reason is just not for the suspect’s safety but also for officers’ safety,” Det. Jeremy Silbert of the Baltimore City Police Department said.

#2 In New Haven, Connecticut a 10-year-old boy was actually arrested by police for giving another student “a wedgie” on a school bus.

#3 Just last year, a 5-year-old boy at a public school in Stockton, California was arrested by police and handcuffed with zip ties because he was committing “battery on a police officer“.

Really?

How much damage can a 5-year-old kid really do to a police officer?

The boy was ultimately sent to a hospital and forced to undergo a psychiatric evaluation.

#4 A 6-year-old girl down in Florida was “throwing objects, hitting administration personnel and screaming uncontrollably” so police handcuffed the 40 pound little girl and shipped her off to a mental institution for evaluation.

#5 In San Mateo, California a few months ago a 7-year-old special education student was blasted in the face with pepper spray because he would not quit climbing on the furniture.  Police were then able to subdue the boy and he was “committed for a psychiatric evaluation”.

#6 Down in Florida, an 11-year-old student was arrested by police, thrown in jail and charged with a third-degree felony for bringing a plastic butter knife to school.

#7 In Texas, a 12-year-old girl was recently arrested by police for spraying two bursts of perfume on her neck.  She was formally charged with a misdemeanor.

#8 A 13-year-old boy at a public school in Albuquerque, New Mexico was recently arrested by police for burping in class.  The police marched him out of school and hauled him over to a juvenile detention center.

#9 Back in 2010, a 12-year-old girl at a school in Forest Hills, New York wrote “I love my friends Abby and Faith” on her desk.  The police were called out and she was marched out of her school in handcuffs in front of all her friends.

#10 A teenage couple down in Houston, Texas poured milk on each other during a squabble while they were breaking up a while back.  Instead of being sent to see the principal, they were arrested by police and sent to court.

In the old days, if a kid got out of line a school administrator would give that child a little paddling and that would be the end of it.

These days, police are called out for even the most minor incidents.  I would say that being arrested by police, put in handcuffs and marched down to the police station is far more traumatic that a couple of whacks with a ruler or a paddle.

But the world has changed and our entire society is becoming one big security state.

In our public schools today, even the most minor incident could end up being put on the “permanent record” of your child.

This is especially true for anything having to do with sex.  School officials have become hypersensitive when it comes to this area.  The following are just a couple of examples….

-When a very young girl recently kissed a very young boy at one Florida elementary school,  it was considered to be a “possible sex crime” and the police were called out.

-A 6-year-old boy was recently charged with sexual battery for some “inappropriate touching” during a game of tag at one elementary school in the San Francisco area.

Do you want your child to be charged with a “sex crime” if he inadvertently touches another kid the wrong way?

Do you want your child to be thrown to the floor, handcuffed and hauled off to a mental institution for burping in class or doodling on a desk?

If not, you might want to pull you child out of the government schools while you still can.

The truth is that U.S. public schools more closely resemble prison camps at this point than they do institutions of learning.

Millions of our children are “graduating” from high school dumb as a rock, but all of them are definitely being prepared to live in a Big Brother police state.

If there are weapons or drugs involved in an incident, then it is appropriate for police to be called out to a school.

But for virtually everything else, the administrators and the teachers should be able to handle it.

Yes, our children are more out of control today than ever before.  But what did we expect?  The family unit in America has been crumbling for decades and our society has become a cesspool of filth and corruption.  Of course our kids are going to behave horribly.

But there is no excuse for what police are doing in many of our public schools.

Police should not be arresting, handcuffing and brutalizing our young children for minor offenses.

What in the world is happening to this country?

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For arguments sake, lets say that the number of 348,000 new claims is accurate. Reuters in their article on the subject starts out with this, “The number of Americans claiming new unemployment benefits dropped to a four-year low last week, offering further evidence the jobs market recovery was gaining traction.”

When they say new claims, and I must add that my understanding of the English language is quite good, do they mean that there were 348,000 more people than last week asking for unemployment benefits, or an additional 348,000 people asking for benefits?

What did I just ask? I used the same kind of misleading language the government uses, and the media repeats, to ask what is essentially the same question. Did we not just add 348,000 people to the unemployment role, and what the heck difference does it make if we’re averaging some 355,000 people on a seasonally adjusted basis? And what is seasonally adjusted mean?

If I’m seasonally adjusted, should I feel good about the fact that I have to head on down to the unemployment office and file for a claim so I can keep putting food on the table, and maintain a roof over my family’s head?

Let’s take a step back here for a moment. Having been a former markets analyst, trader, and broker I tend to ask questions. One of the questions I have in the past asked the labor department is, can this number be right? And the answer was, and I kid you not, how would we know?

What? Well the truth of the matter as I was told is that they don’t actually know what the number is until all the data is compiled, and that is probably not for several months. But Reuters notes, “The claims data covered the survey week for March nonfarm payrolls.” And since it is a survey you have to ask the questions; was everyone filling out the survey? Did some information fall through the cracks in this survey? Why isn’t it an actual compilation of data obtained through adding up numbers from real sources like the folks over at unemployment?

But wait; there is some good news according to the report. Employers added 227,000 jobs to their payrolls in February. I hope they hired some of the 353,000 people, who not only claimed new benefits from the week before, but also were revised upward from 351,000. Which I might add reflects the fact that they really are not sure what the numbers are when they publish them, and I have no idea whether being revised upward or downward eases the pain of being unemployed. I tend to think not.

“The Federal Reserve has said it expects the jobless rate to “gradually” decline.” I suppose this could be the case if you happen to leave off some vital numbers such as the ONE MILLION TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND people who were not counted in the February numbers, but simply dropped out of existence because they were no longer entitled to benefits. For more on that you should to take a browse over to John Williams Shadow Stats where you’ll actually see the real numbers such as the overall figure that is 22.4%.

Why can’t the numbers be straightforward? Because then people might, and I say this with some hesitation because we seem to be much more concerned with sports and American Idol than reality, begin to see what is actually taking place, and the government just can’t have that.

I propose that the numbers should look something like this. There are about 150 Million people eligible to work. Of that, 35 Million are not working because of some choice like stay at home mothers, students, retirees, disabled, or lazy. That means that there are 115 Million potential workers, but there are 25.75 Million unable to find a job. That would be pretty straight forward, and then people would say, that many?

Before I go further let me just comment on the stay at home moms. Bravo! You have one of the toughest, and probably the most important job out there, raising a cohesive, and hopefully productive family. I hope your husband tells you how much he appreciates your work.

Let’s get back to those numbers because I just can’t wrap my head around the fact that the so-called mainstream media does not ask questions, and simply parrots the words. Have you ever noticed that if you go from one TV station to the next you’ll hear the same thing over again?

I asked the question sometime back based on information I knew had to be somewhat true about immigration. Why, at this critical time in the nation?

I was appalled when I heard Frosty Wooldridge quote a number that was beyond the legal limit set by congress. The numbers are confirmed. We allow over 258,000 new legal immigrants in a month. The actual legal limit is 100,000, and of course this doesn’t include all the illegals that come into the country.

Does the number of unemployed reflect those immigrants that are eligible to work, or do we simply throw them into the welfare coffers? Are they obtaining jobs that should be going to unemployed Americans? And why is it, with our unemployment rate where it really is, that the congress has not suspended immigration completely, and revoked most of the H1 visas?

Why all the questions? Because no one seems to be able to give legitimate answers. We now have a country that runs purely on propaganda, and perception.

Those who have a job don’t think it’s that bad. Those who don’t understand the hardship, but most are shackled with guilt rather than the realization that they need to demand of their representatives that they must abide by their oath of office and stop the influx of immigrants. Stop the burdensome myriad of regulations designed to inhibit the growth of small business, and restructure the tax code to reward American made, and discourage the off shoring of jobs, and the importation of foreign goods. All well within the constitutional authority of the congress. All of which they refuse to do.

Why don’t the people who have jobs do something? In a country where the education system is designed to indoctrinate, rather than to teach, we have a majority who don’t care about productivity or reality. I have mine, and I’m going to get more because that tells everyone how good I’m doing. The guy who doesn’t have a job, or the family who lives in a tent? I can’t change what’s happening so why bother?

Yes, we do have those who care, but they simply operate under the illusion that we have a system that functions lawfully, and that they must work within the system to which they were indoctrinated. A system that has been re-engineered to guarantee that they fail.

America is based on perception, not reality. Everyone needs a college education, but what good is it to obtain a degree that essentially has no productive value. Trust me, there are many, and those degrees are counted for something by others who have the same worthless degree. Those people, whether they realize it or not, are part of a good-ole-boys club that validated their worthlessness. That mid-level person is going to hire the degree rather than look to find someone who can contribute to productivity.

America is based on perception, not reality. If I hear it on the TV, spouted off by a parrot, it must have some legitimacy. Don’t question the numbers. Don’t question the politicians. Don’t question the police, or the judiciary. Don’t question the bureaucrats.

Sleep, don’t think. Do as you are told.

                                                                                          ‘Nick’

Please take the time to go over to The Economic Collapse as there are many fine, and informative articles.

On Friday, the entire financial world celebrated when it was announced that the unemployment rate in the United States had fallen to 8.3 percent. That is the lowest it has been since February 2009, and it came as an unexpected surprise for financial markets that are hungry for some good news.  According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, nonfarm payrolls jumped by 243,000 during the month of January.  You can read the full employment report right here.  Based on this news, pundits all over the world were declaring that the U.S. economy is back.  Stocks continued to rise on Friday and the Dow is hovering near a 4 year high.  So does this mean that our economic problems are over?  Of course not.  A closer look at the numbers reveals just how fraudulent these employment statistics really are.  Between December 2011 and January 2012, the number of Americans “not in the labor force” increased by a whopping 1.2 million.  That was the largest increase ever in that category for a single month.  That is how the federal government is getting the unemployment rate to go down.  The government is simply pretending that huge numbers of unemployed Americans don’t want to be part of the labor force anymore.  As you will see below, the employment situation in America is not improving.  Yet everyone in the mainstream media is dancing around as if the economic crisis has been cancelled.  I can’t take it anymore!  It is beyond ridiculous that so many intelligent people continue to buy in to such fraudulent numbers.

The truth is that the labor force participation rate declined dramatically in January.  For those unfamiliar with this statistic, the labor force participation rate is the percentage of working age Americans that are either employed or that are unemployed and considered to be looking for a job.

As you can see from the chart posted below, the labor force participation rate rose steadily between 1970 and 2000.  That happened because large numbers of women were entering the labor force for the first time.

The labor force participation rate peaked at a little more then 67 percent in the late 90s.  Between 2000 and the start of the recent recession, it declined slightly to about 66 percent.

Since then, it has been dropping like a rock.  The chart below does not even include the latest data.  In January, the labor force participation rate was only 63.7 percent.  That is the lowest that is has been since May 1983.  So keep that in mind as you view the chart.

In reality, the percentage of men and women in the United States that would like to have jobs is almost certainly about the same as it was back in 2007 or 2008.  There has been no major social change that would cause large numbers of men or women to want to give up their careers.  So there is something very, very fishy with this chart….

The federal government has been pretending that millions of unemployed Americans have decided that they simply do not want jobs anymore.

This does not make sense at all.

The truth is that unemployment is not really declining at all.  The percentage of Americans that are working is not increasing.  The civilian employment-population ratio dropped like a rock during 2008 and 2009 and it has held very steady since that time.

In January, the civilian employment-population ratio once again held steady at 58.5 percent.  This is about where it has been for most of the last two years….

Does that chart look like an “economic recovery” to you?

Of course not.

If the percentage of people that are employed is about the same as it was two years ago, does that represent an improvement?

Of course not.

If the employment situation in America was getting better, the civilian employment-population ratio would be bouncing back.

We should be thankful that our economy is not free falling like it was during 2008 and 2009, but we also need to understand why things have stabilized.

The federal government is spending money like there is no tomorrow.  During 2011, the Obama administration stole an average of about 150 million dollars an hour from our children and our grandchildren and pumped it into the economy.  Even though the Obama administration spent that money on a lot of frivolous things, it still got into the pockets of average Americans who in turn went out and spent it on food, gas, clothes and other things.

Without all of this reckless government spending, we would not be able to continue to live way above our means and our economic problems would be a lot worse.

But even with the federal government borrowing and spending unprecedented amount of money, and even with interest rates at record lows, our economy is still deeply struggling.  Just consider the following facts….

-New home sales in the United States hit a brand new all-time record low during 2011.

-The average duration of unemployment in America is close to an all-time record high.

-The percentage of Americans living in “extreme poverty” is at an all-time high.

-The number of Americans on food stamps recently hit a new all-time high.

-According to the Census Bureau, an all-time record 49 percent of all Americans live in a home that gets direct monetary benefits from the federal government.  Back in 1983, less than a third of all Americans lived in a home that received direct monetary benefits from the federal government.

So let’s not get too excited about the economy.

Yes, things have somewhat stabilized.  The percentage of Americans that have jobs is about the same as it was two years ago.  Considering how rapidly jobs are being shipped out of the United States, that is a good thing.

Enjoy this false bubble of hope while you can.  Things are about to get a lot worse.

Do you remember how rapidly things fell apart after the financial crisis of 2008?

Well, another major financial crisis is on the way.  This time it is going to be centered in Europe initially, but it is going to spread all around the globe just like the last one did.

As the charts above show, we have never even come close to recovering from the last recession, and another one is on the way.

So how bad are things going to get after the next wave of the financial crisis hits us?

That is something that we should all be thinking about.

I have known about Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski, for quite some time. He has done battle with the authorities before, and emerged from our court system victorious. But now in 2011, once again, the authorties are going after him again.

This is a clear cut case of Big Pharma, going after the little guy, who is a threat to the Billion dollar a year Chemo, and Chemo drug industry.

I find it infuriating that the FDA, is harrasing Dr. Burzynski to no avail. Alternative forms of treatment should be left alone, period. Unless it can be proven beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the alternative being administered is somehow harmful, or represents some type of danger, which in the case of Dr. Burzynski, this has already been determined. Dr. Burzynski has literally helped hundreds of patients, win theyre battle over various forms of cancer, with his gene-targeted cancer medicines he discovered in the 1970′s called Antineoplastons.

Antineoplastons are responsible for curing some of the most incurable forms of terminal cancer. Various cancer survivors are presented in the film who chose these medicines instead of surgery, chemotherapy or radiation – with full disclosure of medical records to support their diagnosis and recovery – as well as systematic (non-anecdotal) FDA-supervised clinical trial data comparing Antineoplastons to other available treatments—which is published within the peer-reviewed medical literature.

This is the full documentary of Dr. Burzynski’s battle with the FDA, US Government, and Texas health officials.

It  takes the audience through the treacherous, yet victorious, 14-year journey both Dr. Burzynski and his patients have had to endure in order to obtain FDA-approved clinical trials of Antineoplastons. 

Please watch, and please pass it around. We can, as people make a difference. Contact officials and let them know what you think.

Contact The Texas Governor:
Rick Perry
Office of the Governor
1100 San Jacinto
Austin, Texas 78701

Or a full list or representatives is here:
https://www.burzynskimovie.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=127

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The following are the top 100 statistics about the collapse of the economy that every American voter should know….

#100 A staggering 48.5% of all Americans live in a household that receives some form of government benefits. Back in 1983, that number was below 30 percent.

#99 During the Obama administration, the U.S. government has accumulated more debt than it did from the time that George Washington took office to the time that Bill Clinton took office.

#98 Since Barack Obama was sworn in, the share of the national debt per household has increased by $35,835.

#97 The U.S. national debt has been increasing by an average of more than 4 billion dollars per day since the beginning of the Obama administration.

#96 It is being projected that the U.S. national debt will hit 344% of GDP by the year 2050 if we continue on our current course.

#95 The Congressional Budget Office is projecting that U.S. government debt held by the public will reach a staggering 716 percent of GDP by the year 2080.

#94 In 2010, the U.S. government paid $413 billion in interest on the national debt. That is projected to at least double over the next decade.

#93 According to one new survey, one out of every three Americans would not be able to make a mortgage or rent payment next month if they suddenly lost their current job.

#92 State and local government debt has reached an all-time high of 22 percent of U.S. GDP.

#91 In 1980, government transfer payments accounted for just 11.7% of all income. Today, government transfer payments account for 18.4% of all income.

#90 U.S. households are now receiving more income from the U.S. government than they are paying to the government in taxes.

#89 According to a new study conducted by the BlackRock Investment Institute, the ratio of household debt to personal income in the United States is now 154 percent.

#88 If you can believe it, one out of every seven Americans has at least 10 credit cards.

#87 According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, health care costs accounted for just 9.5% of all personal consumption back in 1980. Today they account for approximately 16.3%.

#86 The cost of a health insurance policy for the average American family rose by a whopping 9 percent last year, and according to a report put out by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Health Research and Educational Trust, the average family health insurance policy now costs over $15,000 a year.

#85 One study found that approximately 41 percent of working age Americans either have medical bill problems or are currently paying off medical debt.

#84 An all-time record 49.9 million Americans do not have any health insurance at all at this point, and the percentage of Americans covered by employer-based health plans has fallen for 11 years in a row.

#83 According to a report published in The American Journal of Medicine, medical bills are a major factor in more than 60 percent of the personal bankruptcies in the United States. Of those bankruptcies that were caused by medical bills, approximately 75 percent of them involved individuals that actually did have health insurance.

#82 Average yearly tuition at U.S. private universities is now up to $27,293.

#81 The cost of college tuition in the United States has gone up by over 900 percent since 1978.

#80 In America today, approximately two-thirds of all college students graduate with student loans.

#79 In 2010, the average college graduate had accumulated approximately $25,000 in student loan debt by graduation day.

#78 The total amount of student loan debt in the United States now exceeds the total amount of credit card debt in the United States.

#77 One-third of all college graduates end up taking jobs that don’t even require college degrees.

#76 In the United States today, there are more than 100,000 janitors that have college degrees.

#75 In the United States today, 317,000 waiters and waitresses have college degrees.

#74 In the United States today, approximately 365,000 cashiers have college degrees.

#73 It is being projected that for the first time ever, the OPEC nations are going to bring in over a trillion dollars from exporting oil this year. Their biggest customer is the United States.

#72 U.S. oil companies will bring in about $200 billion in pre-tax profits this year. They will also receive about $4.4 billion in specialized tax breaks from the U.S. government.

#71 The United States has had a negative trade balance every single year since 1976, and since that time the United States has run a total trade deficit of more than 7.5 trillion dollars with the rest of the world.

#70 The United States has lost an average of 50,000 manufacturing jobs per month since China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001.

#69 The U.S. trade deficit with China is now 27 times larger than it was back in 1990.

#68 Today, the United States spends more than 4 dollars on goods and services from China for every one dollar that China spends on goods and services from the United States.

#67 China has surpassed the United States and is now the largest PC market in the entire world.

#66 In 2002, the United States had a trade deficit in “advanced technology products” of $16 billion with the rest of the world. In 2010, that number skyrocketed to $82 billion.

#65 In 2010, the number one U.S. export to China was “scrap and trash”.

#64 Do you remember when the United States was the dominant manufacturer of automobiles and trucks on the globe? Well, in 2010 the U.S. ran a trade deficit in automobiles, trucks and parts of $110 billion.

#63 The United States has lost a staggering 32 percent of its manufacturing jobs since the year 2000.

#62 If you can believe it, more than 42,000 manufacturing facilities in the United States have been closed down since 2001.

#61 Between December 2000 and December 2010, 38 percent of the manufacturing jobs in Ohio were lost, 42 percent of the manufacturing jobs in North Carolina were lost and 48 percent of the manufacturing jobs in Michigan were lost.

#60 Back in 1970, 25 percent of all jobs in the United States were manufacturing jobs. Today, only 9 percent of the jobs in the United States are manufacturing jobs.

#59 According to Professor Alan Blinder of Princeton University, 40 million more U.S. jobs could be sent offshore over the next two decades.

#58 If you gathered together all of the workers that are “officially” unemployed in the United States today, they would constitute the 68th largest country in the world.

#57 There are fewer payroll jobs in the United States right now than there were back in 2000 even though we have added 30 million extra people to the population since then.

#56 Back in 1969, 95 percent of all men between the ages of 25 and 54 had a job. In July, only 81.2 percent of men in that age group had a job.

#55 Only 55.3% of all Americans between the ages of 18 and 29 were employed last year. That was the lowest level that we have seen since World War II.

#54 Today, there are 5.9 million Americans between the ages of 25 and 34 that are living with their parents.

#53 The economic downturn has been particularly tough on men. According to Census data, men are twice as likely to live with their parents as women are.

#52 According to one recent survey, only 14 percent of all Americans that are 28 or 29 years old are optimistic about their financial futures.

#51 Incredibly, less than 30 percent of all U.S. teens had a job this summer.

#50 According to one study, between 1969 and 2009 the median wages earned by American men between the ages of 30 and 50 dropped by 27 percent after you account for inflation.

#49 Since the year 2000, we have lost approximately 10% of our middle class jobs. In the year 2000 there were about 72 million middle class jobs in the United States but today there are only about 65 million middle class jobs.

#48 In 1980, 52 percent of all jobs in the United States were middle income jobs. Today, only 42 percent of all jobs are middle income jobs.

#47 Back in 1980, less than 30% of all jobs in the United States were low income jobs. Today, more than 40% of all jobs in the United States are low income jobs.

#46 According to Paul Osterman, a professor of economics at MIT, approximately 20 percent of all employed Americans are making $10.65 an hour or less.

#45 Half of all American workers now earn $505 or less per week.

#44 Since December 2007, median household income in the United States has declined by a total of 6.8% once you account for inflation.

#43 New home sales in the United States are now down 80% from the peak in July 2005.

#42 The all-time record for fewest number of new homes sold in the United States was broken in 2009. Then it was broken again in 2010. It is on pace to be broken once again in 2011.

#41 At one point this year, U.S. home prices had fallen a whopping 33% from where they were at during the peak of the housing bubble.

#40 U.S. home values have fallen approximately 6 trillion dollars since the housing crisis first began.

#39 According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 18 percent of all homes in the state of Florida are sitting vacant. That figure is 63 percent larger than it was just ten years ago.

#38 Historically, the percentage of residential mortgages in foreclosure in the United States has tended to hover between 1 and 1.5 percent. Today, it is up around 4.5 percent.

#37 According to the Mortgage Bankers Association, at least 8 million Americans are currently at least one month behind on their mortgage payments.

#36 According to a Harris Interactive survey taken near the end of last year, 77 percent of all Americans are now living paycheck to paycheck. In 2007, the same survey found that only 43 percent of Americans were living paycheck to paycheck.

#35 Starting on January 1st, 2011 the Baby Boomers began to hit retirement age. From now on, every single day more than 10,000 Baby Boomers will reach the age of 65. That is going to keep happening every single day for the next 19 years.

#34 According to a new poll by Americans for Secure Retirement, 88 percent of all Americans are worried about “maintaining a comfortable standard of living in retirement”. Last year, that figure was at 73 percent.

#33 One out of every six elderly Americans now lives below the federal poverty line.

#32 In 1950, each retiree’s Social Security benefit was paid for by 16 U.S. workers. According to new data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are now only 1.75 full-time private sector workers for each person that is receiving Social Security benefits in the United States.

#31 According to the Congressional Budget Office, the Social Security system paid out more in benefits than it received in payroll taxes in 2010. That was not supposed to happen until at least 2016.

#30 The U.S. government now says that the Medicare trust fund will run out five years faster than they were projecting just last year.

#29 According to one study, the 50 U.S. state governments are collectively 3.2 trillion dollars short of what they need to meet their pension obligations.

#28 A different study has shown that individual Americans are $6.6 trillion short of what they need to retire comfortably.

#27 Between 1991 and 2007 the number of Americans between the ages of 65 and 74 that filed for bankruptcy rose by a staggering 178 percent.

#26 According to a shocking AARP survey of Baby Boomers that are still in the workforce, 40 percent of them plan to work “until they drop”.

#25 Last year, 2.6 million more Americans dropped into poverty. That was the largest increase that we have seen since the U.S. government began keeping statistics on this back in 1959.

#24 Back in the year 2000, 11.3% of all Americans were living in poverty. Today, 15.1% of all Americans are living in poverty.

#23 More than 50 million Americans are now on Medicaid. Back in 1965, only one out of every 50 Americans was on Medicaid. Today, approximately one out of every 6 Americans is on Medicaid.

#22 More than 45 million Americans are now on food stamps.

#21 The number of Americans on food stamps has increased 74% since 2007.

#20 Approximately one-third of the entire population of the state of Alabama is now on food stamps.

#19 Right now, one out of every four American children is on food stamps.

#18 It is being projected that approximately 50 percent of all U.S. children will be on food stamps at some point in their lives before they reach the age of 18.

#17 The poverty rate for children living in the United States increased to 22% in 2010.

#16 There are 314 counties in the United States where at least 30% of the children are facing food insecurity.

#15 In Washington D.C., the “child food insecurity rate” is 32.3%.

#14 More than 20 million U.S. children rely on school meal programs to keep from going hungry.

#13 It is estimated that up to half a million children may currently be homeless in the United States.

#12 The number of Americans that are going to food pantries and soup kitchens has increased by 46% since 2006.

#11 According to a recent report from the AFL-CIO, the average CEO made 343 times more money than the average American did last year.

#10 The wealthiest 1% of all Americans now own more than a third of all the wealth in the United States.

#9 The poorest 50% of all Americans collectively own just 2.5% of all the wealth in the United States.

#8 The percentage of millionaires in Congress is more than 50 times higher than the percentage of millionaires in the general population.

#7 According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 16.6 million Americans were self-employed back in December 2006. Today, that number has shrunk to 14.5 million.

#6 According to one recent poll, 90 percent of the American people believe that economic conditions in the United States are “poor”. To put this in perspective, only 11 percent of Americans rated economic conditions in the U.S. as “poor” back in January of 1999.

#5 According to another recent poll, 80 percent of the American people believe that we are actually in a recession right now.

#4 Our dollar is being systematically destroyed by the Federal Reserve. An item that cost $20.00 in 1970 will cost you $116.78 today. An item that cost $20.00 in 1913 will cost you $457.67 today.

#3 The Federal Reserve made $16.1 trillion in secret loans to their friends during the last financial crisis.

#2 The Federal Reserve is a perpetual debt machine. Today, the U.S. national debt is more than 4700 times larger than it was when the Federal Reserve was created back in 1913.

#1 According to a new CNN/ORC International Poll, 27 percent of all Americans have never even heard of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke.

We need to educate America.

Please share this with as many people as you can. Time is running out for America, and 2012 is going to be an absolutely pivotal year in the history of this nation.

We are in the midst of a long-term economic decline that is rapidly accelerating. If dramatic changes are not made very quickly, we will soon witness a full-blown collapse of the economy.

Wake up as many people as you can.

We are running out of time.

The Economic Collapse

There was the housing bubble that began during the Clinton administration and erupted at the end of the Bush Administration.

There were the 911 attacks, and the WMD ruse under the Bush administration that resulted in a war that has lasted for 10 years despite the promises of Barak Obama that he would put an end to these wars of conquest.

There was the bailout, and the stimulus that resulted in tens of trillions of dollars that have been created, and dispersed throughout the Obama administration in order to keep the global economy from collapsing. They heaped trillions in debt upon the American citizen, and it appears, today, that the only thing keeping this economy afloat is the constant flow of Federal Reserve Notes into a dying economy.

There are the uncounted number of attacks by so-called ‘law enforcement’ that go unpunished, and in many cases have resulted in the courts adding to the insult by declaring new and unconstitutional authorities for the police.

There was the BP disaster in the Gulf of Mexico that has shriveled into non-existence by the silence of the media.

There is the Japanese catastrophe that they have now been forced to admit is far worse than we’ve been led to believe. Another extremely important issue relegated to trivia by a corrupt media.

There is the horrific weather throughout our farm belt that will more than likely result in a very poor crop season. Some well known economic advisers, such as Jim Rogers and Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, are not only advising people to build a storable food supply, but to arm themselves for what appears to be inevitable.

Throughout the growing unrest, the turbulence, the looming economic catastrophe, the wars, and the natural disasters there are certain things that will not change.

First, we will refuse to elect candidates that will adhere to the rule of law, hold them accountable for their unlawful actions, and send them to prison for violations of the oath of office.

Second, we will refuse to demand the impeachment of judges who continue to foster the centralization of power to the federal government, and the dismantling of our system of law.

Third, the mainstream media will not only avoid topics that enlighten the people on the subject of government abuse, but they will subsidize, and condone it for the “good of us all”, or more likely to line their pockets.

Fourth, no matter how abusive the system becomes, how obvious the lawlessness, how utterly ridiculous are the actions of the police, prosecutors, and judges, the jury’s will more than likely convict people who are clearly innocent of wrong doing.

Fifth, and certainly not the end; through all our tribulations, the need to see clearly, and understand the difference between good and evil, there will always be a large contingent of the people who would prefer to throw the rest into the depths of hell rather than to stand up for good.

I have watched for decades as the American dream began to wane, shrivel, turn to war, depravity, and economic disaster while all the time being told that I was wrong, and that this whole nightmare is nothing more than a conspiracy theory.

The majority seems always to be of the condition that to see the obvious, to take action, and to live in an illusion of peace is far more digestible than to partake in the discomfort of the dynamic fight for freedom.

Let us remember that our fantasy of peace, and security has come at a very expensive price tag, both in dollars and human casualties. Most will tune into the TV, and buy up the propaganda about terrorist activities, Taliban, al Quida, and whoever else is out there that we wish to demonize. Others will question the veracity of the subject matter, but few will take any quantifiable actions.

In these few paragraphs are enough reasons to take action, some positive action. I don’t mean standing in front of a politician and screaming that you are aware of how crooked he or she might be. I don’t mean telling everyone that the media is corrupt, and that there are people who control the world agenda; you’re a day late for that. My father was telling people about the criminal acts, and plots long before the alternative media came into existence on the Internet. As a matter of fact most would not have dreamed of the Internet when he started his rants.

Each day, think of your children, your grandchildren, or any child that might be dear to you, and repeat to yourself they will have to pay for my ambivalence and inaction.

Remember that ‘death cares not who deals the cards’. Don’t dwell on who is in the background, but rather what must be done to stop the current trend.

Organize a core group of people; the neighbor, brother, sister, or whoever else might realize that something needs to be done.

Produce a game plan that your core group can adhere to, and stick with the plan.

Although I have placed suggestions about what needs to be done, other than telling your neighbor that there are bad people in the world, I still receive comments that I haven’t defined a course of action. So here are some thoughts by the numbers.

1. Start with the person who can actually make an immediate change. That person is the sheriff.
2. The sheriff is the highest elected official in the county, the only true constitutional law enforcement agent, and the person responsible for keeping the courts open to the people so that they may obtain redress of grievance.
3. Start with a letter that explains to the sheriff his real job, not that which has been promoted by the judicial system.
4. Make it clear that you expect an answer based on the oath of office not on what the illegitimate judiciary has contrived.
5. Enlighten the sheriff to the fact that it has been proven that police frame people that are known to be innocent.
6. Tell the sheriff that your group will be monitoring police and prosecutor activity and if improprieties arise that you will demand an investigation by a grand jury of the people.
7. Explain to the sheriff that if he/she does not want to perform the job properly that your group will do whatever it takes to remove him/her from office.
8. Copy each letter to your state representatives and the states highest court.
9. Inform both the representative and the court that you will no longer tolerate the tyranny.
10. Demand access to a Grand Jury of the People.
11. Inform the legislature those instructions to the jury that deprive them of their primary function, to judge the law and keep the government in check, will not be tolerated.
12. Inform the legislature that you will demand the impeachment of any judge who improperly instructs the jury.
13. Inform the legislature that ‘we the people’ are the final arbiters of the law, not the courts, not the state, not the policeman.
14. Learn about the Committees of Safety.
15. Find out if your state has an active Militia Act.
16. Begin a campaign to your state representatives and the governor to revitalize the Militia.

Remember that you are the sovereign not subject to the whims of the bureaucrat.

Remember that if you believe on any level that government has the authority to prosecute the sovereign for some fictional crime against the state then you have lost the battle.

Remember that the judiciary has done exactly what the Anti-Federalists foretold. They have corrupted the rule of law, and taken the authority of the people and given it to the state.

Remember that if you fail to resist, your children will pay for your ambivalence, fear, or whatever else it is that holds you back from fighting for our freedom.

‘Nick’

RTR is proud to back the man Dr. Ron Paul this coming election. Come on America! Restore The Republic. Vote for Ron Paul 2012.

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Yes, some of them were slave owners. Some succumbed to the foibles that we all do from time to time. Be that as it may, they swore their allegiance to a cause that would create one of the most wonderful, and exhilarating experiments of liberty in the course of history. They did it with full knowledge that they might very well come to their demise at the end of a rope. They did it despite the fact that they were mere mortals who erred from time to time.

Centuries later, men and women of much lesser quality have maligned, accused, defamed, and corrupted the memory of those brave souls. It has been done behind their backs, so to speak, because they are not here to defend their logic, and reasoning. Their record speaks for itself; the United States became a beacon of liberty, progress, and prosperity for the world. While they left us with problems to be resolved, they also left us with the tools to overcome.

The same people who have made careers out of blasting our Founders are the very same people who would use every underhanded tactic available to end the freedom that Americans enjoyed from the blood of those who went before us. Under the guise that the Founders were flawed, people of much lesser quality and courage, these detractors, make the hollow claim that the ideas and actions were imperfect. Yes, they certainly were not perfect, but the genius of what our Founders created was the ability of the people to be free to not only question the flaws, but to rectify the errors, and build on the concept of a free and sovereign citizen.

The failure of the men and women who founded this nation was that they were products of their own time. Although they were forward thinking people with an in-depth ability to understand the character and shortfalls of men, they lived in a time when certain ideas were the norm. However, they recognized the need to create a nation that could thrive, and correct the inconsistencies. They disagreed on a number of issues, but recognized that certain compromise was necessary to form the union.

Two Hundred Thirty Five years ago this land was open, and while there was an oppressive king, there was still the concept for which the Pilgrims migrated; freedom. Freedom is what made this country great. Freedom to build, thrive, defend your family, and defend your rights against government oppression.

The land was as robust as the spirit of men and women who sailed thousands of miles in small ships to obtain the desires of the soul. Tired of the abuses that were struck by tyrants, Pilgrims were willing to risk it all to bask in the sunshine, unencumbered by rules that were petty, and abusive.

What founded this country was a desire to live free without interference from not only the government, but every busy-body who believed that they had a cause that required state intervention. Ben Franklin warned us that “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety”.

Two Hundred Thirty Five years later I venture to say that given all the facts of today’s political climate, the Pilgrims would not have made that journey.

So ladies and gentlemen, the burden of a dying nation rests clearly on our shoulders. It is the product of our willingness to be led astray; our ambivalence, our ignorance, our naivety. Combine these flaws with the illogical act of repeatedly sending the most irresponsible, corrupt, and disrespectful of candidates back to the legislatures, and we have a country on the verge of destruction.

We have allowed the courts to take away the Grand Jury and the Petit Jury. We have allowed the state to infringe on our Right to Keep and Bear Arms, and then allowed that same entity to claim that we cannot fight back when it raises its fist to beat us down.

We have allowed the state to tax, and tax again so that it may keep its boot on the back of our necks. We have allowed it to take our children’s bodies and minds for whatever purpose. We have allowed the state to enforce acts that are repugnant to the rule of law. We have allowed it to arrest when there was no authority to arrest, condoned its actions in the courtroom, and justified our approval with notions just as ludicrous as allowing the judiciary to interpret law against our sovereignty.

We can no longer sit idly by while our bombs drop across the globe. We can no longer sit idly by while our legislature robs our wealth and passes it along to those who should be incarcerated for their deeds rather than rewarded.

We can no longer sit idly by while our prisons are packed, and the state ravishes those who do nothing more than raise a voice against intolerable assaults by the police state.

This Fourth of July, our freedom wanes, our liberty passes, our spirit dies, and our common sense vanishes.

This Fourth of July we should be shouting “with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.”

There can be no other way.

‘Nick’

At one time we the people understood our duty to the law, and to our fellow citizen. Now we simply rubber stamp a criminal system that has gone berserk. As Thomas Jefferson stated, “I consider trial by jury as the only anchor yet devised by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.”

Decades ago the jury would be called upon to not only judge the facts of the case, but to judge the law. The legal system has taken that away by allowing judges to instruct the jury that they must judge the case based on how he/she gives them, the jury, the law.

It is not only the judges, but also the prosecutors and the police. Funds are distributed on every level to insure that the private prison system is fed, much the same as we have done with the banking system.

How do we stop it? Where do we go from here?

It is certain that if parents are helping the state to prosecute their children, or just standing by while the system consumes more and more of our rights and humanity we will come to a tragic conclusion.

That conclusion might look something like ‘1984’, or at least something as diabolical.

When did we loose our sense of dignity? When did we loose the spirit that made politicians heed our will, and bow to our authority? When did we loose the backbone that made America great?

Corruption now rules on every level in our system, and it is because we refuse to stand up and make the system take notice. Some will say that by confronting politicians on the street and yelling at them we are achieving victory. I say non-sense because as long as our voting system is controlled by rules set by the politicians, and yes it appears that it is also rigged, we accomplish nothing except maybe a sore throat.

This is about who we are, what we once were; a nation of farmers, clerks, and tradesmen willing to sacrifice everything by taking on the British army when the King imposed unjust, and intrusive acts upon the citizenry.

Part of our problem is in our education system wherein we are taught that our Founders were nothing more than rich slave owners who didn’t want to pay taxes, or that our rights come from a Constitution. It does no such thing, but rather endeavors to point out where granted government powers end, and our sovereignty takes hold.

But even at that, our Founders warned that it is up to us to rein in the government whenever we the people feel that it has run afoul of the law we have given to it.

Have we had enough? Have we reached the point of no return? Because as sure as my fingers now fly across this keyboard we are dooming ourselves, and our children to a life of servitude, and horribly a life of fear. Fear that one day a knock will come on the door, and they will be taken away for something as simple as noting that something is wrong, just as I note here.

‘Nick’