The Dismal Economic Outlook For The New Year

'The New Economy was a hoax, like Saddam Hussein’s “weapons of mass destruction” and the “war on terror.” Americans were deceived by “their” corrupt government, by greed-driven corporations, and by corporate shills among economists and the pundit class into believing that they were trading middle class “dirty fingernail” jobs in manufacturing for better middle class “clean fingernail” high-tech service jobs. 

Instead, reasonably paid manufacturing and professional skill jobs, such as software engineering and information technology, were traded for lowly paid jobs as waitresses and bartenders and for jobs in ambulatory health care.' 

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Prediction: Your Standard of Living is Going Down in 2012

'Our goal here at Strategic Living is to look at the data as broadly as possible and make some inferences about the future, and then to help you turn those inferences into concrete, specific actions which will build your net worth and value to society over time.

The data seems to indicate that we’re in a long-term standard of living decline.  Quite simply, it goes with the Depression territory we’re in.

So what can the average person do about it?'


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OWS Still Alive! West Coast Port Shutdown Action Announcement

'Anti-corporatism protesters from across the United States are heading towards Washington D.C. to “Take Back the Capitol,” saying the US Congress does not represent them. "The Capitol is the people's house, and we're here to declare an economic emergency for the 99 percent," said an activist, John Butler, NBC Washington TV network reported Monday on its website.

The United States Capitol is the meeting place of the US Congress, located in Washington D.C, sitting atop Capitol Hill at the eastern end of the National Mall. A political action group in Washington known as “Our DC” has planned to launch several days of protests starting Monday night at the National Mall, which is an open-area of the National Park Service in downtown Washington. Along with other US partners, the group is hosting thousands of people from all over the country. The action is called "Take Back the Capitol."' Read more...

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Financial Psychology

 By Dr. Mark Sircus

'The best way to understand the United States government at this point is to use the example of a man who has almost maxed out his credit cards. Imagine you have 20 credit cards and have run up through the years 100,000 dollars in debt. Add a mortgage of 200,000. You have an income of 5,000 dollars a month but it used to be 7,000. Things have been tough these last ten years. In fact because of this you have continued to run up to the maximum credit limits on all your cards and have even used one card to pay off others. You have known that your own self-created Ponzi scheme has a terminal limit, which you are fast approaching.'

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Ten Reasons to Become Self-Sufficient and Ten Ways to Get There

Michael Edwards and Jeffrey Green
Activist Post

'We are now three to five generations removed from the rural backbone that strengthened America. The world at large has undergone a similar transformation as the promise of easier work has created a migration to big cities. These mega-cities could be seen as an experiment gone awry, as general well-being has declined, with suicide rates increasing across the world. Crowded conditions and economic strife have led to rampant crime, pollution, corporate malfeasance, and a dog-eat-dog type of competition that can be described as a temporary insanity.

The economic crisis we are living through has been the final straw for many people, as promises of a better, easier, and more creative life seem to have been sold to us by carnival-style tricksters who are laughing all the way to (their) bank.

Here are the top reasons for becoming self-sufficient; these are based on fundamental, systemic concerns for why undertaking this life change will not be a fly-by-night fad, but rather a long-lasting means for personal independence.'


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