20 Economic Statistics To Use To Wake Sheeple
Up From Their Entertainment-Induced Comas
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‘The Dow has closed above 13,000 for the first
time since 2008, and the mainstream media is declaring that a strong economic
recovery is underway. Barack Obama is telling anyone who will listen that
his economic policies are a huge success, and
If you went to the doctor tomorrow
and he told you to take some little blue pills without telling you anything
else, would you take them?
Of course not.
You would want to know what the
little blue pills are for.
But if your doctor told you that you
have a deadly incurable disease that is about to kill you, and that the little
blue pills are the only cure, then you would definitely be interested in taking
them.
Well, it is the same way with the
American people. Until they understand just how sick the economy is, they
will not be interested in fighting for a solution.
We need to show all the sheeple out there that the
We need to show them that the future
of our children and our grandchildren is literally being destroyed.
Way too many Americans are sitting
around waiting for the government to save them.
It isn't going to happen.
It is up to those of us that are
awake to wake up those that are asleep.
And there are many out there that
think that they are awake that are only partially awake.
One very famous author once wrote
that "people are destroyed for lack of knowledge", and that is
exactly what is happening in
Please help me wake the sheeple up.
The following are 20 economic
statistics to use to wake sheeple up from their
entertainment-induced comas....
#1 The United States has more government debt
per capita than
#2 The European Commission has formally declared that
#3 There are clear
signs that economic activity is also significantly slowing down in the
#4
#5 The
#6 There are more
unemployed Americans than there are people living in the entire nation of
Greece.
#7 The percentage of
American men that have jobs is near an all-time record low.
#8 Right now, there are 88 million working age Americans that do
not have jobs and that the government says are not looking for jobs.
#9 The average
duration of unemployment in the
#10 In January 2009, there were 2.6 million
"long-term unemployed workers" according to the federal
government. Today, there are 5.6 million.
#11 The average price of a gallon of gasoline
in the United States has risen by 14 cents in just the past week, and the
average price of a gallon of gasoline in the state of California is now an
astounding $4.29. Sadly, the price of gas is expected
to continue rising over the next few months.
#12 The
#13 Large numbers of
Americans are putting off basic health procedures due to the declining
economy. Just consider the following example from a recent Huffington Post article....
Americans
between the ages of 50 to 64 got 500,000 fewer colonoscopies, or screenings
aimed at detecting colon cancer, during the recession, compared to the two
years before, according to a recent study from researchers at the University of
North Carolina's medical school.
#14 The number of
Americans on food stamps has increased by almost 50 percent since
Barack Obama first took office.
#15 Right now, 48 percent of all Americans are
considered to be either "low income" or "living in
poverty".
#16 The
#17 If Bill Gates
gave all of his money to the
#18 Since the Federal Reserve was created, the
U.S. dollar has declined in value by more than 95 percent and the
#19 Approximately 25 million American adults are living
with their parents. Most of them are doing it for economic reasons.
#20 According to a new Politico poll, only 30 percent of all Americans
believe that the next generation will be "better off economically"
than the previous generation.
For many more current statistics
about the
Thankfully, there are others out
there such as trends researcher Gerald Celente that
are tirelessly working to sound the alarm. Celente
is convinced that the
"2012
is when many of the long-simmering socioeconomic and political trends that we
have been forecasting and tracking will climax," Celente
noted in his Top 12 Trends 2012 newsletter. In an interview he added:
"When money stops flowing to the man on the street, blood starts flowing
in the street."
Even some politicians on the state
level are deeply concerned about the possibility of a massive financial
meltdown.
For example, a bill has been
introduced in Wyoming that would set up "a
state-run government continuity task force" which would develop plans
for how Wyoming would deal with potential disasters such as a "complete
meltdown of the federal government", an economic collapse or a major
disruption in food and energy supplies....
State
Rep. David Miller, R-Riverton, has seen the national debt rise above $15
trillion and protest movements grow around the country. Wealthy Americans are
fleeing the country, he says, and confidence in the dollar has taken a hit
around the world.
If
It
would even look at the feasibility of quickly providing an alternative currency
in
But for many Americans, the
"meltdown" has already happened on a personal level.
Many are going to extreme lengths in an attempt to survive in this
economy.
For example, one ex-police officer in
Former
Columbus police officer Edward Pascucci had been
jobless for more than a year and was facing homelessness last summer when he
decided to rob a local bank. Making off with stacks of cash, however, never was
his intention.
Pascucci told a
federal judge on Thursday he’d run out of options, was facing “severe health
problems” and opted to avail himself of the services offered by the federal
penal system rather than live on the street.
Can you imagine that?
Can you imagine getting arrested just
so that you could get free health care and wouldn't have to sleep in the
streets?
Meanwhile, the Obamas
are living the high life and seem to have developed a "let them eat
cake" mentality. The following is from a recent article in The Daily Mail....
The
Obama family just finished a luxury ski vacation in
Over
the past three summers, the Obama's have vacationed in the exclusive Blue Heron
Farm in Chilmark, Martha's Vineyard in
There
is nothing wrong with a President taking a modest vacation, but there is a
problem when the political leader of
Shouldn't the Obamas
be setting an example for the rest of us during these hard economic times?
Unfortunately, Barack Obama seems to
believe that the worst of our economic troubles is now behind us.
If only that were
true.
During this short-lived bubble of
false hope, we should all be working hard to prepare for what is ahead.
A menacing storm is on the horizon
and it will be here way too soon.
Let us wake up as many of the sheeple as we can while there is still time.
