God bless America...brother can you spare a dime?

[Black Swan]

15% of Americans have trouble feeding themselves as 500,000 go hungry in 2008. 17 million households can't cope and there's roughly the same number of unemployed and under employed adults. Tens of millions have no access to health care so why not distribute bread in the hospitals? Well that's the proposal in Boston, were 500,000 have no food 'security...'

http://in.sys-con.com/node/1179000

What a deluded utter unmitaged mess that country is in...and yet the markets rose again today underpinned by 'shopping' results...you really couldn't make it up...

Hunger in U.S. at a 14-Year High

The number of Americans who lacked reliable access to sufficient food shot up last year to its highest point since the government began surveying in 1995, the Agriculture Department reported on Monday.

In its annual report on hunger, the department said that 17 million American households, or 14.6 percent of the total, “had difficulty putting enough food on the table at times during the year.” That was an increase from 13 million households, or 11.1 percent, the previous year.

The results provided a more human sense of the costs of a recession that has officially ended but continues to take a daily toll on households; it describes the plight not of a faceless General Motors or A.I.G. but of families with too little food on their children’s plates.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/17/us/17hunger.html

 

[zambuck]

......Pinnacle of Capitalism at work.....!

 

[Black Swan]

......Pinnacle of Capitalism at work.....!

IMHO we had event horizon approx. this time last year. The empire of capitalism is crumbling and the legionaires are just about staying loyal whilst their masters squirrel away their riches in order to protect versus the inevitable inner collapse of western power...

 

[squall321]

let them eat cake

 

[counter_violent]

Ye, we need some of those idea's over here...food stamps...brilliant idea..save them all having money in their pocket and going buying fags n booze n crack instead...oh and they might even have to cook,feed their kids as well ( no takeaways)...bring it on.:clap:

Another one I heard about over the weekend...instead of the DSS paying private landlords the rent...apparently now the money is paid to the single mothers to pay the landlord the rent ( teaches them to be more responsible with money and budgets) yeah right...the hell it does...landlords are now not getting paid and guess what...they can't do zip about it...lol brilliant....the systems we have here are total ****e...and yes I object to paying excessive taxes to support losers and scum.

 

[Trader333]

The empire of capitalism is crumbling and the legionaires are just about staying loyal whilst their masters squirrel away their riches in order to protect versus the inevitable inner collapse of western power...

How will it collapse and what will replace it ?


Paul

 

[Trader333]

landlords are now not getting paid and guess what...they can't do zip about it

Yes they can its called eviction. This has been the case for several years where I live and all that happened was that landlords stopped renting to DSS which put more pressure on the council as there suddenly became a shortage of properties to rent. I agree though that the decision to bypass the landlords was utter lunacy.


Paul

 

[zambuck]

How will it collapse and what will replace it ?


Paul

..Any ism will replace it....in fact no one will even know what has been replaced with what....China replaced ultra Socio/Communism with Capitalism very easily....

....India reoplaced Socio / Democracy with mild Capitalism....

....African countries replaced Chinese inspired Socialism with Capitalism.....

...Fact of he matter is that no ism has ever worked....If that was the case then there will be no ghettos in US....no shanty townships in India....no ardent poverty in China....

 

[Black Swan]

How will it collapse and what will replace it ?


Paul

learn to shine shoes (extremely well) and speak mandarin?

 

[zambuck]

.....By that state of affairs it will be too late to learn the language....

....Get the kids to start learning Mandarin - or even Hindi NOW....forget the perennial French Language Course offered in every school......

 

[Trader333]

So capitalism will be replaced by Oriental Footwear ?


Paul

 

[zambuck]

So capitalism will be replaced by Oriental Footwear ?


Paul

....I thought it had....?

...Sage of Omaha wears Chinese Suits...!

 

[Black Swan]

So capitalism will be replaced by Oriental Footwear ?


Paul

One 'ting that the western globalists don't tell is the fact that in order for 'it' to work our living wage and standard of living has to drop significantly in order to re-balance, hence the Chinese reference in my earlier post. I'd love to have the opportunity to look back in 200 years how the fractional reserve banking system finally vapourised and what replaced it; no doubt some star wars version of global work credits linked to offset carbon reduction benefits...
IMHO what we witnessed last year and have subsequently witnessed this year with: TARP, Q.E., bank rescues, welfare bills in the US etc...is not truly recoverable in monetary terms in our lifetimes...