‘The problems that America is experiencing right now
are not just confined to the field of economics. The truth is that there
are signs of deep decay wherever we look, and without question the United States
is rotting from the inside out in thousands of different ways. For a long
time our debt-fueled prosperity has masked much of
the social decay that has been festering underneath the surface, but now it is
becoming increasingly apparent that the thin veneer of civilization that we all
take for granted is beginning to disappear. For many Americans, it is
easy to point a finger at a particular group or political party and blame them
for all of our problems, but the reality of the matter is that our societal decay
cuts across all income levels, all political affiliations and all regions of
the country. We are being destroyed from within, and this decay can be
seen on the streets of the most dilapidated sections of major U.S. cities and it can also be seen in the halls
of power in Washington D.C. and on Wall Street. It is
undeniable that something has fundamentally changed. The American people
do not seem to possess the same level of character that they once had. So
where do we go from here?
The
following are 25 signs the collapse of America is speeding up as society
rots from the inside out....
1. Homicides
in Chicago are 38 percent ahead of where they were last
year at this time. In fact, the Daily says that "homicide
victims in the Windy City outnumber U.S.
troops killed in Afghanistan
this year". Things are taking a turn for the worse in other major U.S. cities as
well. Just check out the carnage that happened in New York City this past Friday night....
Across
barely eight hours, at least seven New Yorkers were murdered and another 21
shot, stabbed or slashed across the city — with only three suspects arrested
before the blood stopped flowing
2. Speaking
of New York City, a teacher there recently posted the following on her Facebook page....
“Crupi and I survived a shootout today…Thank God we are ok…To
all the wanna be gangstas of Staten Island (who say they are from Brooklyn but really aren’t), be grateful you have what
you have and stop trying to live a lifestyle you will never understand.”
About
a week later, her husband discovered her dead in a pool of her own blood
in their apartment. She had been stabbed numerous times.
3. Reporter James
Carlini recently discussed the growing problems
that roaming gangs of youths are causing along the Magnificent Mile in Chicago....
There
is an increase in problems at night with small gangs roaming around looking for
the right prey.
Don't
bother looking for any cops, they are far and few between. Little perfume-size
pepper spray canisters may be in vogue, politically correct and fit in a purse,
but they are not practical. Forget about pepper spray, you'd need a gallon jug
of it to stop five or six assailants.
Do
you now need a .357 Magnum to walk down the Mag Mile?
Maybe a compact .45 or a high-capacity 9MM “just to be on the safe side” is
more what you should have. Even the police are telling each other that they
better “carry large caliber” off-duty and not be caught unarmed.
4. Down in Florida, a lifeguard named Tomas Lopez was recently
fired for attempting to saving a man that was drowning "outside his patrol zone"....
Lopez, 21, was hired by Jeff Ellis Management to monitor
a portion of a public beach in Hallandale Beach, Fla. The company allegedly gave Lopez strict
instructions to stay inside his patrol zone, ABC News reports.
But
when Lopez spotted a man in distress outside his patrol zone Monday afternoon,
he ignored those instructions and leapt into action.
By
the time lifeguard Tomas Lopez got to the man, other bystanders had already
pulled him to shore, the South Florida Sun
Sentinel reports. Lopez stayed with the man until paramedics arrived.
That
valiant act was Lopez's last as a lifeguard, as his employer fired him for
straying 1,500 feet outside his patrol zone.
5.
Authorities say that thieves are stealing identities and filing fraudulent tax
returns on a scale never seen before....
With
nothing more than ledgers of stolen identity information — Social Security
numbers and their corresponding names and birth dates — criminals have
electronically filed thousands of false tax returns with made-up incomes and
withholding information and have received hundreds of millions of dollars in
wrongful refunds, law enforcement officials say.
The
criminals, some of them former drug dealers, outwit the Internal Revenue
Service by filing a return before the legitimate taxpayer files. Then the
criminals receive the refund, sometimes by check but more often though a
convenient but hard-to-trace prepaid debit card.
In
all, the IRS says that there were approximately 940,000 fake tax returns
filed for 2010.
6. U.S. Secret
Service agents are supposed to be "the best of the best" and are
charged with guarding our top public officials. But even they have
exhibited a consistent pattern of moral decay for many years according to one recent report....
Secret
Service agents and officers have been accused of leaking sensitive information,
publishing porn, sexual assaults, illegal wiretaps, embezzlement and
drunkenness on duty, according to a 229-page log released yesterday.
After
a prostitution scandal in April, when agents consorted with hookers while
preparing for President Obama’s arrival in Colombia, Service Director Mark
Sullivan apologized. But he said it was an isolated case, not a “systemic
issue.”
However,
the log, which the Service Service released yesterday
after news organizations requested it under the Freedom of Information Act,
shows a pattern of misdeeds dating back to 2003.
7. These days
thieves will steal just about anything that is not bolted down and that they
can sell for money. For example, three thieves recently broke into a Chicago beauty supply
store and took off with hair extensions that were worth a total of $230,000.
8. Up in Minnesota, thieves are stealing Bronze Stars from hundreds of military graves,
and down in Fresno, California
thieves have actually been stealing metal crosses from
churches.
9. According to one shocking new report
,
one out of every 10 Wall Street
employees is a "clinical psychopath". That is a rate about 10
times higher than the general population.
10. Even
many police are going crazy these days. Over in Seattle, police zapped a pregnant woman with
a taser three times just because she refused to sign a ticket.
11. Down
in California, one man recently sliced off the ear of another man with a knife over an unpaid debt.
12. These
days we are seeing senseless crimes being committed even in small towns in the
heartland of America.
Just check out what happened in Helena,
Montana about a week ago....
Helena Police are
working to identify two young men after what they call a random act of
violence over the weekend. Helena Police found a 40-year-old homeless man
badly beaten in an alley behind the Gold Bar around 2 a.m. Sunday morning.
Helena Police Detective Sergeant Richard Drysdale states,” The video shows two white males
surrounding the victim as he was entering the walkway yelling at him and then
knocking him down to the ground where they beat and kicked him until he was
unconscious.”
You can find a video report about this incident right here.
13. One town in Connecticut was forced to shut down a
beautiful new public fountain because too many people were using it as a toilet.
14. According to one very shocking
study, the percentage of U.S. households
that contain a married couple with children has fallen from 44.3% in 1960 to
20.2% today.
15. A huge brawl between parents erupted during one recent preschool graduation ceremony
down in the Los Angeles
area.
16. We
continue to see "mob robberies" at retail establishments all over the
nation. During one recent mob robbery in Detroit, thugs beat the living daylights out of one very unfortunate stock clerk.
17. Speaking
of Detroit, nobody is immune to the spreading violence in that city. For
example, just check out what happened recently to a 22-year-old pregnant woman....
A 22-year-old pregnant woman survived
after being bound, driven to Detroit,
set on fire and shot early Saturday morning.
The woman, who was nine-months
pregnant, had returned from a movie with her boyfriend and dropped him off at
his house in Warren when she was approached from
behind, Warren
police Sgt. Dave Geffert said.
The woman's hands, feet and eyes were
bound with duct tape. She was then forced into her car and driven to an unknown
place in Detroit
where she was doused with lighter fluid, set on fire and shot once in the upper
back, he said.
18. Many
families returned to their homes following the recent wildfires in Colorado only to
discover that their houses had been robbed and looted.
19. One
33-year-old art teacher in Arizona
was not satisfied with only having sex with one of her students. In fact,
police have charged her with having sex with four of her male students.
20. Down in Florida, one man has actually been charged with biting the lips off of a kitten.
21. Over in Waco, Texas a 22-year-old man recently strangled and ate the family dog while he was high on drugs.
22. Of course most of us have heard of the recent outbreak of
"zombie attacks" around the nation where criminals have actually
been biting their victims and chewing their flesh. The following is
another example of this phenomenon from a recent case in central New York....
A synthetic drug
known as “bath salts” is blamed for some bizarre behavior in central New York.
The Utica Observer-Dispatch reports that police officers were
called to Stanley’s
Bar Saturday night to check out a woman described as emotionally disturbed.
When an officer approached her, she lunged at him and tried to bite his face.
Police say she screamed that she wanted to “kill someone and eat them.”
The woman was
taken to St. Luke’s Memorial
Hospital for a mental
health evaluation.
Another very
disturbing "zombie incident" took place down in Georgia recently....
Karl Laventure,
21, was believed to be high on bath salts when he tried to attack the officers
in Lilburn, Georgia.
And after they had managed to subdue
him he began threatening to eat them.
Laventure appeared out of
some woods and was seen running naked around a golf range near Atlanta,
swinging a club around his head and screaming.
Police said that it took several
officers to subdue the man who had 'super-human strength'.
23. All over
America, people seem to be losing their minds. Just check out what one
man in New Jersey
did recently when police arrived at his home....
Officers got a call that morning when
a witness said Carter was threatening to harm himself with a knife. Two cops
responded, kicked in the door and found Carter in the corner, the station
reported.
Carter allegedly
ignored officers' orders to put down the knife, and instead began stabbing
himself in the abdomen, neck and legs.
An attempt to pepper spray the
bleeding man had no effect, the Associated Press reported.
That's when Carter -- disemboweled
but responsive -- reportedly threw bits of his skin and intestines at the
officers.
24. One
woman in the St. Louis
area was recently caught cooking meth in her purse inside a Wal-Mart store.
25. Anyone
that believes that slavery has been abolished in America does not know what they are
talking about. Every single night sex slaves are being horribly abused
all over the United States.
The following is from a recent Daily Mail article....
The FBI has rescued 79 teens held
against their will and forced into prostitution from hotels, truck stops and
stores during a three-day swoop on sex-trafficking rings across the country.
The sex slaves were aged between 13
and 17, although one said she had been involved in prostitution since she was
just 11, authorities said.
During the sting operations across 57
U.S. cities - including Atlanta, Sacramento and Toledo, Ohio
- 104 alleged pimps were arrested.
It is estimated that "100,000 children are victims of prostitution and
trafficking each year" in the United States.
Are you starting
to get the picture?
Sadly, there are
dozens and dozens more examples like these. If you want to see more
examples of how the collapse of America
is speeding up, check out these articles that I recently published....
"70 Reasons To Mourn For America"
"20 Signs That Society Is Breaking Down And
That America Has Been Overrun By Psychos"
The frightening
thing is that this breakdown of our society is happening at the same time that
our economy is completely falling to pieces.
This economic decline that we are
experiencing is shredding the middle class and it is
plunging millions of Americans into very desperate circumstances. The
following is a brief excerpt from a recent Rolling Stone article....
Every night around nine, Janis Adkins
falls asleep in the back of her Toyota Sienna
van in a church parking lot at the edge of Santa Barbara, California.
On the van’s roof is a black Yakima
SpaceBooster, full of previous-life belongings like a
snorkel and fins and camping gear. Adkins, who is 56 years old, parks the van
at the lot’s remotest corner, aligning its side with a row of dense, shading
avocado trees. The trees provide privacy, but they are also useful because she
can pick their fallen fruit, and she doesn’t always have enough to eat.
Despite a continuous, two-year job search, she remains without dependable work.
She says she doesn’t need to eat much – if she gets a decent hot meal in the
morning, she can get by for the rest of the day on a piece of fruit or
bulk-purchased almonds – but food stamps supply only a fraction of her
nutritional needs, so foraging opportunities are welcome.
Prior to the Great Recession, Adkins
owned and ran a successful plant nursery in Moab,
Utah. At its
peak, it was grossing $300,000 a year. She had never before been unemployed –
she’d worked for 40 years, through three major recessions.
You can read the rest of the article right here.
What would you do if you were in a similar situation?
Sadly, many more Americans will end up just like
her. As I wrote about the other day, the U.S. economy is
not going to be able to produce enough jobs for everyone anymore. In
fact, the overall employment picture is going to keep getting worse for working
Americans.
Things have gotten so bad that even many very highly educated scientists cannot
find jobs in America
right now. Almost everybody is hurting, and we haven't even gotten to the
next wave of the economic collapse yet.
The next time
that there is a major spike in the unemployment rate, millions of Americans
will lose all hope and will become very desperate.
And desperate
people do desperate things.
The rot and
decay that we are witnessing right now is just the beginning.
Things are going
to get a lot worse.
So let us hope
for the best, but let us also prepare for the worst.
