The Economic Collapse
March 9, 2011
The ratio of government handouts to wages and salaries in the United States is now at an all-time high. According to TrimTabs Investment Research,
government handouts have reached a level that is equivalent to 35
percent of all wages and salaries in the United States. Considering the
fact that this figure was only 21 percent back in the year 2000 and
only 10 percent back in 1960 that is very frightening. The sad truth is
that today the American people are more dependent on direct government
payments than they ever have been before. What this does is that it
takes formerly independent Americans and transforms them into “sheeple”
and pets of the government. Today we have tens of millions of
Americans that eagerly await the crumbs that the federal government
tosses them each month. This is one reason why our national debt is
exploding, but our politicians like this system because it enables them
to buy votes. Meanwhile, the federal government and the international
corporations that dominate our economy have rigged the game so that
power and money are becoming increasingly centralized in their hands.
As a result of the system that the “big boys” have developed, millions
of small businesses across the country are being absolutely crushed, the standard of living of the middle class is gradually being destroyed
and more American families slip into poverty every single day. What we
need to do is to dramatically reduce the power of both the federal
government and the big corporations so that small businesses and
individuals can thrive once again, but instead “activists” such as
Michael Moore are out there demanding even more taxes and even more
government handouts.
Not that a “safety net” is a bad thing. We simply are not going to
allow tens of millions of Americans to starve out in our streets.
However, it has gotten to the point where the majority of American
families are now dependent on the U.S. government in one form or another
and that is very, very wrong.
More government handouts are never a long-term solution to anything.
Handouts do not give people dignity. Handouts do not teach people to
be independent. do not enable people to live the “American
Dream”. Handouts are not the path to prosperity.
What the American people need are jobs and an environment where small
businesses can thrive. But instead, the federal government has
allowed the big global corporations to ship millions of our jobs out of
the country and the federal government continues to burden our small
businesses with an endless array of new taxes and regulations.
Who is successful in America today?
It is the big boys. Everyone else is being crushed.
This is what the founding fathers tried to warn us about. They did
not want the federal government to have much power at all, and they were
deeply suspicious of large corporations.
But we have turned our backs on the principles of the founding fathers.
We should be figuring out how to get back to the America that our
founding fathers originally tried to create, but instead all of the
attention is being given to “activists” such as Michael Moore who are
calling for even more taxes and even more government handouts. The
following video is of Michael Moore giving a speech to protesters in
Madison, Wisconsin on March 5th, 2011. His speech was entitled “America
Is Not Broke”….
Yes, the “little guy” is being absolutely crushed in America today.
But for people like Michael Moore the solution is always to tax the
middle class more and to pass out even more government handouts.
That isn’t going to solve anything. Most of the ultra-wealthy have
turned avoiding taxes into an art form. A third of all the wealth in
the world is now held in “offshore banks“.
Many of our largest corporations don’t pay a dime in federal taxes
even as they pass out multi-million dollar bonuses to their executives. (CONTINUE READING)
