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Post by garfield on Feb 12, 2013 12:21:55 GMT 10
Next there will be a war. Is that before or after the bird flu outbreak?
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Post by garfield on Feb 12, 2013 12:29:29 GMT 10
Apparently we are heading into a period of global cooling leading to starvation as well so its not good.
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Post by chequeredflaggg on Feb 14, 2013 8:48:33 GMT 10
I watched that show last night - it was pretty hard to watch. What a mess. Now the Housing Bubble has blown the US is in a Depression. My heart ached for those people in the show and they are everywhere. Millions and millions of Americans are now all but destitute. Broken Dreams is exactly right. The Asset Bubbles were created and allowed to run by the corrupt power brokers. This is just dreadful. Next there will be a war. someone interrupted on phone , I have recorded the rerun and will re-watch it, but yes, appalling and hard to watch, families living in cars like that..
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2013 12:36:31 GMT 10
I've spoken about this in the past because we will eventually come to the same situation as our population dramatically increases ... bigger is NOT better!! It means poverty, less jobs and lower wages. In the US they passed the 1996 Welfare Reform Act in response to the fact that welfare was an inducement to immigrants to pour into the country looking for an easier life. The result was that the Act destroyed the safety net. This is partly understandable because no country should be considered a charity ... someone has to work very hard and for long hours on meagre wages to contribute to the taxes needed to pay welfare. It is so skewed that those on welfare are actually in a better position than those working when you take the provision of welfare housing into consideration. The facts are that the planet is overrun and overpopulated to the extent that we are now living a totally unsustainable life. We simply cannot take in welfare bludgers expecting an easy ride at the expense of the "working poor." I recall writing in the past about Barbara Ehrenreich a journalist who wrote the books "Nickle and Dimed: On (not) getting by in America and the follow up "Bait and Switch." These books sought to examine the results of the effects the 1996 Welfare Reform Act had on the working poor in the US. It's not a pretty story. Ehrenreich sought work as a waitress, a nursing home aide, a cleaner, a Wal Mart store employee, a factory worker, a hotel maid etc, all paying a minimal $7 per hour and how that would equate to "getting by" after factoring in housing, food and other living costs. Unfortunately she found that these employees simply didn't get by - they merely existed and sickness or loss of job meant falling through the cracks and becoming homeless. If you had a car you were "lucky" because you weren't exactly homeless and had somewhere to "stay" otherwise you had to seek out homeless shelters - a demoralising and degrading way to exist. I can highly recommend these books because they are a forerunner of what we can expect where we are told that to lose your job means you are only two weeks away from becoming homeless and on the streets yourself. Britain is already experiencing a crisis where they just cannot afford the welfare bill for millions of unemployed - what with all the flotsam and jetsam of eastern Europe pouring into the country and onto benefits and demanding housing, medical and so on. Much as we are experiencing here but not to that extent - yet. There will come a time when we say enough is enough. Can we really afford the lifelong disability pensions of half the Middle East - or Africa? But they will keep coming while we keep paying out.
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