Garden planting and of course my folks coming in last week has kept me busier than a cat on a hot tin roof. I stay busier now as a housewife than when I had a job....... fetching parts and supplies, tools, etc.... and taking hubby's two older siblings to dr appts because they don't drive.... honestly I can't imagine anyone of age not having a drivers license this day and age.... so going over to the hubby's homeplace is like stepping back in time.... is refreshing and nice to be around good old fashioned country folk............ but I see I've missed a bunch of postings and it may take a while to catch up.......
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I think this country's banks have a "solvency" problem, not a liquidity problem. It would be better to let them go down because of their "greed" however Citigroup, Jp Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Wachovia, etc............ all have a percentage of stocks in the Federal Reserve itself so the Federal reserve will bail them out at taxpayers expense if they have to (privatize the profits, socialize the losses).
Unemployment is rising, setting up unrest in this country but its all part of the "global elite" plan to instill FEAR so that Americans will give up more rights and sovereignty of this country so that they can march on towards a global government.
There's no oil shortage however they want you to think there is so people will cut back (Gull Island, Alaska has more oil than all of the middle east).
the food shortage is man made so that 3rd world countries will accept a "global food authority" (of course I'm sure the UN will want to be the head of that!) AND to force countries into accepting GMO or biotech foods.......... many countries do not allow genetically modified foods and this has changed their acceptance of it. (I can't find the exact link where I read this, but it was on this site, go halfway down on page http://cuttingedge.org/newsletters/043008.html)
This is all planned, the very rich don't care how many people starve (humans are disposable and lower than animal dung), or become unemployed. They don't care how many children are affected by a drastic change in living standards due to losing their home or a parent losing a job............ or if a parent commits suicide because they've lost their pension or life savings........ they don't care......... we've got to save the very rich, for they are the global elite.
We've probably all got family members who have a condo in the Swiss Alps (or somewhere similar) or a cousin that's been a million dollar real estate agent seller not once but twice. But I'm not talking about these people, I'm talking about the top 1% who want to run this world to obtain POWER..... its all about control and power. They've got enough money to last ten lifetimes, but they want control and power over all the people and their resources.
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WHAT should one do?? Take care of your family... perhaps there may be less, but God always provides for his children if we put our faith and trust in him.
PAY attention to family members....... many times you learn more by what is "not" said rather than what is said..... for instance, its a known fact that people have more fights in their marriage & divorce when money is tight.... there are more suicides and mental health problems when money is tight....more abuse of children happens as well, so tune yourself in to your family and friends.
I've always found that if I could supply a need someone had, I freely gave it to them and God blesses me ten times over what I gave away. If you can supply a need when someone is truly down and out just patting them on the back and saying, "I'll pray for you" just don't get it. You will have to determine if they are "truly" in need or are you "enabling" them to maintain a lifestyle that is not good for them.
My father was born in 1929 and he remembers when they didn't have enough food, they only got one pair of shoes in the fall and by spring they didn't fit anymore so they had to go barefoot all summer. He remembers Christmas as a bag of candy with an apple or orange in it and that was all. My mother was born in England in 1936 and she remembers food rations and rations of all sorts. When she was 13 she came down with scarletina and because all antibiotics were kept only for soldiers she couldn't get any.... luckily she survived but I believe that has caused her the heart problems she faces.
So of course, things aren't that bad yet, but is there any need with the wealth of this country that we have for such greed to be allowed?