Outlook For The Year Ahead

1) With government’s financial engineering  of our economy – taxes, subsidies, prohibitions, regulations, and money printing – a depression becomes unavoidable and useful.  It becomes unavoidable because it can only be postponed by ever more ambitious exercises in government tinkering -  raising taxes, borrowing money, printing  more new dollars, imposing regulations that reach even further.  A depression becomes useful because it’s needed to wash out the wasteful patterns of production and consumption that the government policies have encouraged.

2) The theme of 2010 will be a weaker dollar and higher interest rates.  2009 was the worst year for the 30 year Treasury bond in almost 20 years.  A big sign of things to come in 2010 and beyond. The “Armageddon Trade” will remain as a major investment theme.  The root of this coming catastrophe, and of the $50 trillion wealth transfer, is our paper currency system. Fiat, or “false currencies” are now a global norm, and once the first major currency begins to implode, the speed of the domino effect will catch most by surprise (at least those that rely on the MSM (main stream media) for their investment decisions.  There is no guarantee that this will happen in 2010, it will happen sooner than later.

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America, Please Wake Up! ~ Conclusion

During the ABC network special on 22 December, President Obama was asked if he and his family would give up their current health care program and join his new health care reform program that the rest of us would be forced to be on. Obama ignored the question.  A number of senators have been asked the same question and the only response was they’d think about it. Yet on 23 December, it was announced that the “Kennedy Health Care Bill” was written into the new health care reform ensuring that congress would be 100% exempt!

Whatever happened to the 28th amendment of our Constitution which says “Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United States that does not apply equally to the Senators or Representatives, and Congress shall make no law that applies to the Senators or Representatives that does not apply equally to the citizens of the United States.”

So, this great government health care “reform” is good for us lowly citizens while the Washington elitists keep their gold plated health plan that none of us can match! This is the height of all arrogance and hypocrisy as Obama and Congress ram this idiotic health care bill and higher taxes down our throats. I can only accept universal health care if it extends to everyone! Adding insult to injury,  you watch, all federal workers will most likely be exempt from this monstrosity as well thereby further ridiculing and alienating the American “slave”.  We must stop this debacle as soon as possible!

Also, have you noticed the buried sections (1109 & 1604) in the Obama administration’s mammoth Wall Street “reform” bill? In essence, these provisions will let the executive branch enact even bigger, more unregulated bailouts than ever with no oversight or executive compensation constraints, but only to the behemoths of Wall Street (who make the biggest campaign contributions). If this isn’t bad enough, there would be no limit to the Secretary of Treasury’s check-writing authority (TARP limited him to 2 years and $700B). My suspicious mind tells me that this is in preparation for the eventual fallout of over $600T of bad derivatives that will hit Wall Street. Talk about socialism?

If you know your American history, the above should not surprise you. The Federal Reserve System created in 1913 a national cartel dominated by the largest banks (that now include the behemoths of Wall Street). The primary objective of that cartel was to involve the federal government as an agent for shifting the inevitable losses from the owners of those banks to the taxpayers and that is exactly what is happening today and will continue if that “Wall Street Reform” bill passes.  The reason for this is because government regulations are designed and created by the very businesses that are being regulated. That’s why all the big multi-national corporations never suffer and every adverse financial consequence is shifted to the free enterprise system where small business creates at minimum 7 out of every 10 jobs.

Let me tell you where this runaway push to socialism will get us – a “national” Detroit! For 50 years, Detroit has been the leftist socialists’ model of policy. Overrun by leftist mayors for 50 years who cater to the UAW and Teachers Union has produced unemployment of 20%, an average home price of $5700, and high school graduates representing only 25% of their class in spite of Detroit spending supposedly $11000 per student when, in fact, the money stays at the top bureaucratic levels thanks to the Teachers Union. This entire entitlement mentality has produced a better chance of a high schooled kid going to prison than graduating. The city has literally been brought to their knees by socialistic government policies, unions, bailouts and entitlements. Do you want that for the rest of America?

Only one good thing will come out of this mess for those people who are financially well informed, who know how money operates and therefore know where and when to invest. The other Great Depression produced more millionaires than at any time in our history; this one will too! In fact, it will produce the greatest wealth transfer this country has ever seen (this has nothing to do with baby boomers dying off). In spite of the fact that most Americans suffer from a deplorable lack of practical financial education and knowledge because it is not taught in our schools including masters’ degrees in business and finance, I just hope you know how to grab your share.

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HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Wishing Everyone a Very Happy, Safe, Prosperous, and BLESSED 2010!

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America, Please Wake Up! ~ Part One

Have you noticed that the only sector of America that has grown exponentially during 2009 is government and they’re done it on the backs of us taxpayers?  All the way from local government through state and on to Washington, these parasites are enjoying unprecedented prosperity while the rest of America’s free enterprise system is suffering.

In a recent analysis, USA Today analyzed 2M Federal workers tracked by the database of the Office of Personnel Management which excludes the White House, Congress, the Postal Service, Intelligence agencies and uniformed Military personnel.  It found that 19% of Federal workers make more than $100,000 per year before overtime and bonuses compared to 14% when the recession began.  The average Federal workers’ pay is much higher now than the average private sector worker’s pay. The leeches’ average $71,206/year versus the American free enterprise worker’s average of $40,331/year. If the excluded portion, not counting our great military, were added in, these figures would be even more outrageous.

In my own state of Colorado, the Governor added 4000 state government jobs while free enterprise lost jobs. My County government reneged on a senior property tax reduction so that the county could use it for the county government parasites.

I’m sure that if you look at your own state and counties you will find the same “stealing” by government on the backs of the taxpayers.  We must take America back from these non-representative government bodies whose population is getting very close to out-numbering those of us in free enterprise who are working our tails off to satisfy the government’s appetite for our money.  Please do your part to let these government parasites know that you will not take it any longer. It’s absolutely outrageous!

Our own government placates us with phony indexes manipulated to tell us things are better than we think. Food and energy costs are eliminated from the CPI – the consumer price index – so they can tell us prices have not increased due to much money chasing too few goods. How stupid do they think we are? Energy costs affect so many products, it’s not funny! Also, any time particular index items are susceptible to abrupt price movements, these items are eliminated from the computation for CPI so government can report a lower rate of inflation.

Then you have unemployment figures that do not include people who have stopped looking for work or part time workers who can’t find permanent work. By adding these people to the unemployed roles, total unemployment rises to 12%-15%, not the so-called 10% that is reported. Despite the Obama administration’s predictions that unemployment (which leaves out the 2 categories of workers above) would peak at 8% in 2009, unemployment has doubled since 1/1/08 thanks to wasteful boondoggle government bailouts and stimulus packages which will add even more people to the unemployed ranks.

The Federal government reports a debt of $12T. Total hogwash! That figure does not include off budget balance sheet liabilities such as unfunded pensions of $2T, state debt shortfalls $3.5T, current budget deficit $1.7T plus $1T more for the next 10 years, and, last but not least, those infamous entitlement programs of $60T. The real debt of the USA is more like $89T and rising to $100T. America is bankrupt! And yet, governments at all levels won’t stop spending and want to tax us even more, i.e.: health care, cap and trade, etc.. When will the people of the United States revolt?

This concludes Part One of “America, Please Wake Up!” the Conclusion is coming right behind it in a day or two. You don’t want to miss it!

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MERRY CHRISTMAS!

We want to wish everyone a Blessed Christmas.  May you and your loved ones celebrate the Reason for the season and  give thanks.  We wish all of you a happy and prosperous New Year!

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