There's two videos, the second one gets in on the illuminati.
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Bob Chapman: The Illuminati Defined
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z
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Delete Facebook
I did this weeks ago, for similar reasons. Here's a great write up on facebook by the silver shield.
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Delete Facebook
http://dont-tread-on.me/delete-facebook/
You maybe surprised to learn that I had four Facebook accounts. The main one was for my wife so that she could have a husband in the Facebook world. The other three were accounts I had set up for the Dont-Tread-On.Me and Sons of Liberty Academy. I never really used them,but they were there. The only high point to the whole experience was my first birthday with Facebook,when I received 40 happy birthdays from people all over the country. The reality of the whole Facebook experience is that it never really seemed real.
Despite how many “friends”you have on Facebook,the fact is,we are only lucky to have a handful of real friends in our lives. Having more superficial electronic contact with others,does not improve our lives. If anything it detracts from it as life becomes less human. LOL pales in comparison to a real laugh out loud of sharing an experience with a friend. The more LOL’s we share,the less it means. Soon or later everything is just an electronic dance of acronyms trying to fulfill some missing part of your soul.
When consumerism was first sold to the world,it was designed to get us to buy stuff we don’t really need in an effort to feel better than others. Soon everyone determined their worth not on the strength of our relationships,but by what we were able to consume. You gave up relationships,to work more,to have a better life. The more we worked,the more we bought,the further in debt we went. The combination of work and debt made our real relationships worse,which compelled us to work more,to buy more. This self fulfilling loop spun out of control in our society for decades as people worked harder and harder to “look or feel good”.
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Delete Facebook
http://dont-tread-on.me/delete-facebook/
You maybe surprised to learn that I had four Facebook accounts. The main one was for my wife so that she could have a husband in the Facebook world. The other three were accounts I had set up for the Dont-Tread-On.Me and Sons of Liberty Academy. I never really used them,but they were there. The only high point to the whole experience was my first birthday with Facebook,when I received 40 happy birthdays from people all over the country. The reality of the whole Facebook experience is that it never really seemed real.
Despite how many “friends”you have on Facebook,the fact is,we are only lucky to have a handful of real friends in our lives. Having more superficial electronic contact with others,does not improve our lives. If anything it detracts from it as life becomes less human. LOL pales in comparison to a real laugh out loud of sharing an experience with a friend. The more LOL’s we share,the less it means. Soon or later everything is just an electronic dance of acronyms trying to fulfill some missing part of your soul.
When consumerism was first sold to the world,it was designed to get us to buy stuff we don’t really need in an effort to feel better than others. Soon everyone determined their worth not on the strength of our relationships,but by what we were able to consume. You gave up relationships,to work more,to have a better life. The more we worked,the more we bought,the further in debt we went. The combination of work and debt made our real relationships worse,which compelled us to work more,to buy more. This self fulfilling loop spun out of control in our society for decades as people worked harder and harder to “look or feel good”.
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Why TSA, Wars, State Defined Diets, Seat-Belt Laws, the War On Drugs, Police Brutality, and Efforts to Control the Internet, Are Essential to the State
The smaller the guberment the better. As long as you don't harm others, the State should have no rights to make regulation. This is called classic liberalism, otherwise known as libertarian.
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Why TSA, Wars, State Defined Diets, Seat-Belt Laws, the War On Drugs, Police Brutality, and Efforts to Control the Internet, Are Essential to the State
http://whiskeyandgunpowder.com/why-tsa-wars-state-defined-diets-seat-belt-laws-the-war-on-drugs-police-brutality-and-efforts-to-control-the-internet-are-essential-to-the-state/
The title of this article encompasses topics that arouse attention and criticism among persons of libertarian persuasion. The discussion of such matters usually treats each issue as though it were sui generis, independent of one another. Most of us respond as though the woman who is groped at the airport has no connection with the man who is tasered by a police officer; that the person serving time in prison for selling marijuana is unrelated to the men being held at Guantanamo. The belief that one person’s maltreatment is isolated from the rest of us, is essential to the maintenance of state power.
What we have in common is the need to protect one another’s inviolability from governmental force. When we understand that the woman being groped by a TSA agent stands in the same shoes as our wife, mother, or grandmother; when the man being beaten by a sadist cop is seen, by us, as our father or grandfather, we become less willing to evade the nature of the wrongdoing by invoking the coward’s plea: “better him than me.”
The state owes its very existence to the success it has had in fostering division among us, a topic I explored in my Calculated Chaos book. Divide-and-conquer has long been the mainstay in political strategy. If blacks and whites; or Christians and Muslims; or employees and employers; or “straights” and “gays”; or men and women; or any of seemingly endless abstractions, learn to identify and separate themselves from one another, the state has established its base of power. From such mutually-exclusive categories do we draw the endless “enemies” (e.g., communists, drug-dealers, terrorists, tobacco companies) we are to fear, and against whom the state promises its protection. By becoming fearful, we become existentially disabled, and readily accept whatever safeguards the institutional fear-mongers impose, . . . all for our “benefit,” of course!
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Why TSA, Wars, State Defined Diets, Seat-Belt Laws, the War On Drugs, Police Brutality, and Efforts to Control the Internet, Are Essential to the State
http://whiskeyandgunpowder.com/why-tsa-wars-state-defined-diets-seat-belt-laws-the-war-on-drugs-police-brutality-and-efforts-to-control-the-internet-are-essential-to-the-state/
The title of this article encompasses topics that arouse attention and criticism among persons of libertarian persuasion. The discussion of such matters usually treats each issue as though it were sui generis, independent of one another. Most of us respond as though the woman who is groped at the airport has no connection with the man who is tasered by a police officer; that the person serving time in prison for selling marijuana is unrelated to the men being held at Guantanamo. The belief that one person’s maltreatment is isolated from the rest of us, is essential to the maintenance of state power.
What we have in common is the need to protect one another’s inviolability from governmental force. When we understand that the woman being groped by a TSA agent stands in the same shoes as our wife, mother, or grandmother; when the man being beaten by a sadist cop is seen, by us, as our father or grandfather, we become less willing to evade the nature of the wrongdoing by invoking the coward’s plea: “better him than me.”
The state owes its very existence to the success it has had in fostering division among us, a topic I explored in my Calculated Chaos book. Divide-and-conquer has long been the mainstay in political strategy. If blacks and whites; or Christians and Muslims; or employees and employers; or “straights” and “gays”; or men and women; or any of seemingly endless abstractions, learn to identify and separate themselves from one another, the state has established its base of power. From such mutually-exclusive categories do we draw the endless “enemies” (e.g., communists, drug-dealers, terrorists, tobacco companies) we are to fear, and against whom the state promises its protection. By becoming fearful, we become existentially disabled, and readily accept whatever safeguards the institutional fear-mongers impose, . . . all for our “benefit,” of course!
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Gerald Celente’s June 13, 2011 Trend Alert
This guy knows his stuff, you should listen.
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http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/gerald-celente-collapse-it%E2%80%99s-coming-are-you-ready_06132011
Via Gerald Celente’s June 13, 2011 Trend Alert
Everything is not all right. And things are going to get worse … much worse. The economy is on the threshold of calamity. Wars are spreading like wildfires. The world is on a razor’s edge.
Not so, say world leaders and mainstream media experts. Yes, there are problems, but the financiers and politicians are aware of them. Policies are already in place and measures are being taken to correct them.
Whether it’s failing economies, intractable old wars or raging new wars, the word from the top always maintains that steady progress is being made and comforts the populace with assurances that the brightest minds and the sharpest generals are in charge and on the case. On all fronts, success is certain and victory is at hand. Only “patience” is required … along with more men, more time and more money.
As far as these “leaders” and their media are concerned, the only opinions that count come from a stable of thoroughbred experts, official sources and political favorites. Only they have the credentials to speak with authority and provide trustworthy forecasts. That they are consistently, if not invariably, wrong apparently does nothing to diminish their credibility.
How can any thinking adult possibly imagine that the same central bankers, financiers and politicians responsible for creating the economic crisis are capable of resolving it?
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Yet even in the face of their proven failures and gross incompetence, anyone daring to challenge the party line or the conventional wisdom is dismissed as an “alarmist,” “fear monger,” or “gloom-and-doomer.”
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…with the Dow on a down trend and the economic data increasingly pointing in the direction of Depression, Washington and Wall Street remain in denial. The only debate among the “experts” is whether or not a “double dip” recession is likely.
However, for the man on the street – pummeled by falling wages, higher prices, intractable unemployment, rising taxes and punitive “austerity measures” – “Depression,” not “recession,” and certainly not “prosperity,” is just around the corner.
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Trend Forecast: The wars will proliferate and civil unrest will intensify. As we forecast, the youth-inspired revolts that first erupted in North Africa and the Middle East are now breaking out in Europe (See “Off With Their Heads,” Trends Journal, Autumn 2010)
Given the trends in play and the people in power, economic collapse at some level is inevitable. Governments and central banks will be unrelenting in their determination to wring every last dollar, pound or euro from the people through taxes while confiscating public assets (a.k.a. privatization) in order to cover bad bets made by banks and financiers.
When the people have been bled dry financially and have nothing left to give, blood will flow on the streets.
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http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/gerald-celente-collapse-it%E2%80%99s-coming-are-you-ready_06132011
Via Gerald Celente’s June 13, 2011 Trend Alert
Everything is not all right. And things are going to get worse … much worse. The economy is on the threshold of calamity. Wars are spreading like wildfires. The world is on a razor’s edge.
Not so, say world leaders and mainstream media experts. Yes, there are problems, but the financiers and politicians are aware of them. Policies are already in place and measures are being taken to correct them.
Whether it’s failing economies, intractable old wars or raging new wars, the word from the top always maintains that steady progress is being made and comforts the populace with assurances that the brightest minds and the sharpest generals are in charge and on the case. On all fronts, success is certain and victory is at hand. Only “patience” is required … along with more men, more time and more money.
As far as these “leaders” and their media are concerned, the only opinions that count come from a stable of thoroughbred experts, official sources and political favorites. Only they have the credentials to speak with authority and provide trustworthy forecasts. That they are consistently, if not invariably, wrong apparently does nothing to diminish their credibility.
How can any thinking adult possibly imagine that the same central bankers, financiers and politicians responsible for creating the economic crisis are capable of resolving it?
…
Yet even in the face of their proven failures and gross incompetence, anyone daring to challenge the party line or the conventional wisdom is dismissed as an “alarmist,” “fear monger,” or “gloom-and-doomer.”
…
…with the Dow on a down trend and the economic data increasingly pointing in the direction of Depression, Washington and Wall Street remain in denial. The only debate among the “experts” is whether or not a “double dip” recession is likely.
However, for the man on the street – pummeled by falling wages, higher prices, intractable unemployment, rising taxes and punitive “austerity measures” – “Depression,” not “recession,” and certainly not “prosperity,” is just around the corner.
…
Trend Forecast: The wars will proliferate and civil unrest will intensify. As we forecast, the youth-inspired revolts that first erupted in North Africa and the Middle East are now breaking out in Europe (See “Off With Their Heads,” Trends Journal, Autumn 2010)
Given the trends in play and the people in power, economic collapse at some level is inevitable. Governments and central banks will be unrelenting in their determination to wring every last dollar, pound or euro from the people through taxes while confiscating public assets (a.k.a. privatization) in order to cover bad bets made by banks and financiers.
When the people have been bled dry financially and have nothing left to give, blood will flow on the streets.
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z
The future of finances
This is an email I had forwarded to me from a guy out in Texas. I more or less agree with everything he says.
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I sure hope everyone is positioning their portfolios for the stock market to crash. I want to make this very clear because I don't want anyone to say I didn't warn you or that no one could see this coming. GET OUT OF THE STOCK MARKET!!! This thing is going down big time. The only thing that has been holding it up is government stimulus, bailouts and QE. When you add up all that money they been pumped into the system in the last two years it is around $3.6 trillion. Well, the stimulus is spent, the bailouts are over and QE2 ends in a couple weeks. Without all this artificial support the US economy comes to a grinding halt. I actually have two scenarios going forward.
First Scenario: Federal Reserve stops buying US Treasuries (QE). The stock market crashes and the US Treasury market crashes. When the stock market first drops the morons on Wall Street will buy US Treasuries and US Dollars because they are still using the old playbook. It will not take long before they realize how stupid it is to own US Treasuries and US Dollars and they will sell. The big Wall Street banks will all go down hard and one or two will go bankrupt. Citigroup, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo are the most likely to go bankrupt because of their huge exposure to the American consumers through credit cards and home mortgages. All the big Wall Street banks will go bankrupt at some point but I do think JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley will survive the next big crash. However, I would never own any of these walking dead companies. After awhile people will realize that the only place to turn is Gold and Silver. Most likely Gold and Silver will be lower than where they are right now because the US Dollar will go up but there is a chance people will figure this out before it drops very much. It is impossible to know every single move for Gold and Silver but it is going much higher. I like to say there is never a bad day to buy Gold and Silver but there are better days. Oil and most other commodities will drop. When the banks stop trusting each other credit will dry up very quickly. Companies will have trouble rolling over debt and they will go bankrupt. Unemployment will hit 12-15%. At some point the Federal Reserve will step in and do the exact wrong thing again (print more money), which is my second scenario.
Second Scenario: This one will happen but I don't know if it will happen before or after the first scenario plays out. The Federal Reserve will do another round of QE and it will be much bigger than the last two combined. The thought process will be the first two were not big enough so we really need to give a shot in the arm to the economy. Keep in mind..the only reason they are doing this is to buy US Treasuries to keep the America Ponzi scheme going. All it is really doing is allowing our irresponsible politicians the ability to keep spending more than they take in and stay in office a little longer. It will not work in the long run because the Federal Reserve can't create any real value. They steal it. In this scenario, all commodities will skyrocket. Oil will blow through the record high of $150 and most likely will hit $200. Gasoline could get as high at $6 a gallon. Gold and Silver will mostly double or triple. The Dow may get has high as 13,000-14,000. Of course, the US Dollar will collapse and the US Treasury market will drop because real interest rates will be extremely negative. Home prices will keep dropping because interest rates on mortgages will keep going higher. Retail sales will drop because the American citizen will spend all their money one food and energy. Home foreclosures will hit a new record. Unemployment will stay flat at best but will most likely get worse.
The Federal Reserve is about to purchase their last $50 billion in Treasuries in QE2. It will end at the end of the month. Most likely the Federal Reserve will do nothing for a couple months and my first scenario will kick in. I would say it has already started to happen with the stock market falling for six straight weeks now and the bond market is getting ready for QE3 because the big players are buying US Treasuries right now to sell them to the Federal Reserve once they announce QE3. That is exactly what happened in August last year and as many of you remember I was pounding the table saying the extremely low mortgage rates were fake and to refinance your house at these artificially low interest rates before it goes away. Since there is no political will to do another round of QE in Washington and the American public really don't want it, the Federal Reserve will let the Dow Jones drop 2,000-3,000 points. This will put Washington and the American public into the position of begging them to do another round of QE. Then the Fed can look like they came in and saved the day when they are really making it worse. The last thing the Fed ever wants to do is look like they caused the problem. They did the exact same thing in the 1920s just before the 1929 stock market crash. They knew they could either stop pumping the cheap money into the economy and crash the stock market or keep it going and the stock market would crash on its own. This is all human behavior and has nothing to do with doing the right thing. I'm short the stock market and will stay short until the next round of QE is announced. I would highly recommend selling every stock you have right now.
Inflation Inflation Inflation..There is no end to which I am willing to go to prove "The Bernak" wrong when he says inflation is low. So when I learned that the price of Brazilian bikini waxes was going through the roof, I had to sit up and take note. Last month, the price of the popular beauty treatment soared by 16.6% to 35 Brazilian Reals (about $22). This is no joke. The Brazilian government includes the removal of body hair in the most strategic of places in a basket of consumer services that it uses in calculating the country's inflation rate, now estimated at 6.5%. The Brazilian government includes this because it is one of the few measures they track, which can't be clouded through the surreptitious altering of its quantity or quality. You either get it, or you don't. Only in my reports will you get this hard hitting economic data.
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I sure hope everyone is positioning their portfolios for the stock market to crash. I want to make this very clear because I don't want anyone to say I didn't warn you or that no one could see this coming. GET OUT OF THE STOCK MARKET!!! This thing is going down big time. The only thing that has been holding it up is government stimulus, bailouts and QE. When you add up all that money they been pumped into the system in the last two years it is around $3.6 trillion. Well, the stimulus is spent, the bailouts are over and QE2 ends in a couple weeks. Without all this artificial support the US economy comes to a grinding halt. I actually have two scenarios going forward.
First Scenario: Federal Reserve stops buying US Treasuries (QE). The stock market crashes and the US Treasury market crashes. When the stock market first drops the morons on Wall Street will buy US Treasuries and US Dollars because they are still using the old playbook. It will not take long before they realize how stupid it is to own US Treasuries and US Dollars and they will sell. The big Wall Street banks will all go down hard and one or two will go bankrupt. Citigroup, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo are the most likely to go bankrupt because of their huge exposure to the American consumers through credit cards and home mortgages. All the big Wall Street banks will go bankrupt at some point but I do think JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley will survive the next big crash. However, I would never own any of these walking dead companies. After awhile people will realize that the only place to turn is Gold and Silver. Most likely Gold and Silver will be lower than where they are right now because the US Dollar will go up but there is a chance people will figure this out before it drops very much. It is impossible to know every single move for Gold and Silver but it is going much higher. I like to say there is never a bad day to buy Gold and Silver but there are better days. Oil and most other commodities will drop. When the banks stop trusting each other credit will dry up very quickly. Companies will have trouble rolling over debt and they will go bankrupt. Unemployment will hit 12-15%. At some point the Federal Reserve will step in and do the exact wrong thing again (print more money), which is my second scenario.
Second Scenario: This one will happen but I don't know if it will happen before or after the first scenario plays out. The Federal Reserve will do another round of QE and it will be much bigger than the last two combined. The thought process will be the first two were not big enough so we really need to give a shot in the arm to the economy. Keep in mind..the only reason they are doing this is to buy US Treasuries to keep the America Ponzi scheme going. All it is really doing is allowing our irresponsible politicians the ability to keep spending more than they take in and stay in office a little longer. It will not work in the long run because the Federal Reserve can't create any real value. They steal it. In this scenario, all commodities will skyrocket. Oil will blow through the record high of $150 and most likely will hit $200. Gasoline could get as high at $6 a gallon. Gold and Silver will mostly double or triple. The Dow may get has high as 13,000-14,000. Of course, the US Dollar will collapse and the US Treasury market will drop because real interest rates will be extremely negative. Home prices will keep dropping because interest rates on mortgages will keep going higher. Retail sales will drop because the American citizen will spend all their money one food and energy. Home foreclosures will hit a new record. Unemployment will stay flat at best but will most likely get worse.
The Federal Reserve is about to purchase their last $50 billion in Treasuries in QE2. It will end at the end of the month. Most likely the Federal Reserve will do nothing for a couple months and my first scenario will kick in. I would say it has already started to happen with the stock market falling for six straight weeks now and the bond market is getting ready for QE3 because the big players are buying US Treasuries right now to sell them to the Federal Reserve once they announce QE3. That is exactly what happened in August last year and as many of you remember I was pounding the table saying the extremely low mortgage rates were fake and to refinance your house at these artificially low interest rates before it goes away. Since there is no political will to do another round of QE in Washington and the American public really don't want it, the Federal Reserve will let the Dow Jones drop 2,000-3,000 points. This will put Washington and the American public into the position of begging them to do another round of QE. Then the Fed can look like they came in and saved the day when they are really making it worse. The last thing the Fed ever wants to do is look like they caused the problem. They did the exact same thing in the 1920s just before the 1929 stock market crash. They knew they could either stop pumping the cheap money into the economy and crash the stock market or keep it going and the stock market would crash on its own. This is all human behavior and has nothing to do with doing the right thing. I'm short the stock market and will stay short until the next round of QE is announced. I would highly recommend selling every stock you have right now.
Inflation Inflation Inflation..There is no end to which I am willing to go to prove "The Bernak" wrong when he says inflation is low. So when I learned that the price of Brazilian bikini waxes was going through the roof, I had to sit up and take note. Last month, the price of the popular beauty treatment soared by 16.6% to 35 Brazilian Reals (about $22). This is no joke. The Brazilian government includes the removal of body hair in the most strategic of places in a basket of consumer services that it uses in calculating the country's inflation rate, now estimated at 6.5%. The Brazilian government includes this because it is one of the few measures they track, which can't be clouded through the surreptitious altering of its quantity or quality. You either get it, or you don't. Only in my reports will you get this hard hitting economic data.
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z
Young Americans: Forget Your Student Loans and Move to Gonzo Town
LOL. It's funny and sad because it's true. With the exception of the hard sciences, engineering, and medical/health professions this is most certainly true.
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Young Americans: Forget Your Student Loans and Move to Gonzo Town
http://gonzotown.wordpress.com/2011/06/14/young-americans-forget-your-student-loans-and-move-to-gonzo-town/
Getting ahead? Going to college? Whether they know it or not, millions of young Americans are joining the ranks of the over-qualified and under paid and unemployed. But heck, you can still give it the “old college try” anyway, but be informed of the pro’s and cons of your decision.
According to the National Bureau of Statistics, there is only one job for every five applicants in America today. And with most jobs in the US being off-shored to the Far East and Latin America, it’s a safe bet that stat is not changing anytime soon, at least for the next 10 years.
Regardless of how bleak the outlook is, America has always been the land of positive thinking and no wonder, as there is no shortage in the queue of 17 year olds dying to (literally) sign their life away to JP Morgan, Citi Bank and Wells Fargo in exchange for $80,000 in student loans.
Before we rush to judgement, let’s be fair and breakdown what the kids are getting for their 80K. First and foremost, they get that golden fleece, the sheep skin also known as The Degree. In addition, millions of young Americans will be given a four year window in which to master the fine art of drinking beer and how to both hold and suck cannabis smoke from a perspex cylinder. If they have spent their 80K wisely, they will also be gifted cheap tickets to Division I football and basketball games and their fantastic after parties. As a keen sportsman myself, perhaps to best value for the money was the free campus gym membership and intramural sports programs which kept me fit enough to withstand non-stop weekends of partying. On top of all this fun stuff, it’s also a bottomless trough of free time to play computer games in your apartment, eat pizza, screw around with your guitar, and of course, ample opportunities for scouting out members of the opposite sex. Apparently, it all looks good on your CV.
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Young Americans: Forget Your Student Loans and Move to Gonzo Town
http://gonzotown.wordpress.com/2011/06/14/young-americans-forget-your-student-loans-and-move-to-gonzo-town/
Getting ahead? Going to college? Whether they know it or not, millions of young Americans are joining the ranks of the over-qualified and under paid and unemployed. But heck, you can still give it the “old college try” anyway, but be informed of the pro’s and cons of your decision.
According to the National Bureau of Statistics, there is only one job for every five applicants in America today. And with most jobs in the US being off-shored to the Far East and Latin America, it’s a safe bet that stat is not changing anytime soon, at least for the next 10 years.
Regardless of how bleak the outlook is, America has always been the land of positive thinking and no wonder, as there is no shortage in the queue of 17 year olds dying to (literally) sign their life away to JP Morgan, Citi Bank and Wells Fargo in exchange for $80,000 in student loans.
Before we rush to judgement, let’s be fair and breakdown what the kids are getting for their 80K. First and foremost, they get that golden fleece, the sheep skin also known as The Degree. In addition, millions of young Americans will be given a four year window in which to master the fine art of drinking beer and how to both hold and suck cannabis smoke from a perspex cylinder. If they have spent their 80K wisely, they will also be gifted cheap tickets to Division I football and basketball games and their fantastic after parties. As a keen sportsman myself, perhaps to best value for the money was the free campus gym membership and intramural sports programs which kept me fit enough to withstand non-stop weekends of partying. On top of all this fun stuff, it’s also a bottomless trough of free time to play computer games in your apartment, eat pizza, screw around with your guitar, and of course, ample opportunities for scouting out members of the opposite sex. Apparently, it all looks good on your CV.
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z
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