Posts Tagged Great Depression

Outlook For The Year Ahead ~ Continued

3) Do you think the Obama Administration is too well meaning and intelligent to lead us down a path of destruction? Well, consider this quote from one of  the best researched books on the Great Depression, FDR’s Folly, by Jim Powell.

“Why did the smart, well educated, well intentioned New Dealers back policies that prolonged the Great Depression? How could they have gone so wrong? Most of the New Dealers were lawyers . Few among them, including FDR, had any practical business experience. The New Dealers came to believe that their knowledge, combined with their political power, could cure the problems of the world. They thought that by issuing executive orders, passing laws, raising taxes, and redistributing money, they could make society better.”

4) Look at the chart below on the business experience of the Obama Administration, compared to that of each Administration since 1900. Its frightening to realize how little our current leaders know about how the real world operates, especially with the economic conditions we face today.

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Almost no one in Obama’s administration has ever had a job outside of government, much less owned a company in the private sector where they were forced to make payroll, or even to use Quickbooks to make sure that the company could pay its bills.

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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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Holly Fright! Will The Government Ever Learn?

Late last night, when the news cycle was dead… Fannie Mae announced the need for at least $15 billion more to continue operations.  Taxpayers already own this company and just like the other $60 billion Fannie Mae has been given by us, this $15 billion is already money down the drain.

Fannie Mae needs more money because of the ridiculous $8000 “First Time Home Buyer” program which we will soon find out is going to be extended to everyone.  Now everyone can buy a home before May 1 and collect up to $6,500 from the government.  If you’’re a first-time home buyer, you still get up to $8,000.

The House voted 403-to-12 yesterday to expand the huge money losing program to encourage people to spend money that they don’t have.  The end result will still be the same….this bubble is going to pop, and 90% of the money we’ve spent to keep this from happening will simply disappear.  Our kids and grand-kids will be left with the responsibility of paying for it. Total liabilities including on & off budget are about $100T, yes, “T” as in trillion dollars divided by approximately 350M US population equals a liability of almost $300,000 per person thanks to these arrogant and ill-advised politicians.

Soon we will see planted stories in the NY Times that Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke may have “made some mistakes”… and that will be the beginning of the end for him.  That will also be the point where interest rates begin to rise, along with inflation, and that the stock market begins its move back to the March lows.

Again, for those that doubt my views, I encourage you to read “FDR’s Folly” by Jim Powell that I recommended on my 3 October post.   Read the truth about the 1930’s.  You will think that it was written just yesterday.  Simply put, we are repeating the exact mistakes that led us into that 10 year Great Depression.

Folks, more millionaires were created out of the Great Depression than at any other time in our history.  If you are financially educated and well informed… (SEE THE ELITE WEALTH PLAN TAB ON THIS BLOG, OR CALL ME AT 303.674.8488) you too can participate in the what is now going to be the greatest transfer of wealth this country has ever seen.  Don’t become a victim of this foolish  government, rather learn how to profit from it!

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WHAT A JOKE!

You recently heard that our gross domestic product grew at a 3.5% rate in the 3rd quarter.  Remember that  during the Great Depression, there were periods of growth but like now the growth came from government spending (stimulus $$) that makes things artificially better than they truly are because the  “Cash for Clunkers” and the “First Time Home Buyers Program” is only adding to the risks that we will soon be a bankrupt country. On paper, we already are!

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Financial Confidence Ebbing for the General Population

Financial Confidence Ebbing for the General Population – That AARP survey called “A Closer Look” I’ve mentioned in the last two blog posts really only concerned itself with those ages 45-64.  The truth is that the financial confidence of the general population has really been knocked on their butt.  The fact is the Wall Street, political, and regulatory elites have really destroyed the trust and integrity so vital to the financial service industry.  Yet not one of them has gone to jail and instead have been the major recipients of the TARP money (our money). This corruption never stops.  If the general population is ever going to get their financial confidence back, they better become investment and money smart and get the financial education required to take control of their own finances.  If they can obtain the right financial education, they will be able to take advantage of this financial debacle and recession that is being prolonged (just like the 30’s) by foolish government stimulus programs.  Remember, more millionaires were created in the Great Depression than at any other time in the history of the United States.  And that same opportunity is existing right now again!  Will you be able to take advantage of it?

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