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April 18, 2012 - 02:01 PM Continued.......... Millions upon millions of Americans have done everything that the system told them to do and the system has still failed them. They got good grades all the way through school, they went to college, they worked really hard, they stayed out of trouble and they gave everything they could to their employers. In spite of all that, millions of hard working families have still lost their jobs and their homes in recent years. Do not trust that the system will take care of you, and you should not trust that the government will take care of you either. We don't need the federal government to hand out more money to everyone. Government handouts are already at record levels and the government is not even coming close to paying for all of this reckless spending. More government spending is not going to solve any of our problems. Instead, what we need is an environment where the size and power of the federal government is limited and the size and the power of the big corporations is limited. We need an environment where individuals and small businesses can thrive and compete fairly. Unfortunately, neither major political party is going to move us in that direction, so there is not much hope for solutions on the national level any time soon. On an individual level, we can all learn how to prepare for the very difficult years that are coming. It is imperative that we all work to become more independent of the system, because the system could fail at any time. If you have blind faith that your job will always be there and that the federal government will rescue you if the economy crashes then you are likely to be bitterly disappointed at some point. The truth is that our economy is slowly dying and the great American middle class is being systematically wiped out. Many of the things that worked in the past are not going to work any longer. You can choose to adapt or you can suffer the consequences. Our world is rapidly changing, and we all need to prepare for ... |