a REAL possibility...
Posted on 12/08/2013 8:59:20 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Could an "Arab Spring" type of upheaval be brewing in the United States? Is the frustration and anger toward our dysfunctional politics and economics beginning to reach a tipping point where young folks begin to push for profound change? Has our democracy become so broken that citizens are going to find creative avenues to express their feelings? Will we pass through the holidays and winter of our dysfunction to arrive at a spring of change? I sense a movement of social unrest growing strongly and quietly towards our own version of the Arab Spring.
Let's take a look at some of the factors that might be pointing in this direction. This past week the GDP showed very positive growth (up 3.6 percent in the third quarter), corporations are booking huge profits, the stock market is at an all time high, and we have more multimillionaires and billionaires than ever before. So why does 70 percent of the country believe the United States is off on the wrong track? Why is trust of our economic, governmental and political institutions at a historic low? Why is the poverty rate back to a historical high?
For more than a generation, the middle class of this country has not seen any significant improvement in their financial situation. In fact, when you factor in inflation, the majority of the country has actually seen a decline in their economic status over the past 25 years...
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Gene Sharp
The Methods of Nonviolent Action
http://peacemagazine.org/198.htm
Hey, if these communists and community organizing Nazi’s can’t gode the patriot, conservative or any other sane american into physical action against the regime. Their attempts at false flags, election thefts, illegal executive orders, and other crimes against Americans can’t seem to ignite the blowback they so desperately want and need to bring about gun confiscation and the rounding up of the folks the communists truly fear.
So on to plan B. Occupy didnt work so well, so let’s see the ramping up of the useful idiots. Let’s have them smash, break, and destroy and then go after everyone, with particular emphasis on the gun owners.
This is nothing more than ABC News shilling for Hillary Clinton’s “Third Way” campaign for president.
The economic policies of both dems and republicans have failed so we need a news economic policy, a Third Way.
More than likely we’ll soon be hearing about the “new” economic theory created by Robert Reich when he was in college with the Clinton’s.
“New” as in government and business working together.
Hello 1930’s Germany.
“No chains, no whips, no barbed wire. Just 50 million people munching sugary carbs and living vicariously through celebrity gossip”
An economic melt down will put a end to that overnight.
Ooh, they moved barricades. Daring. Rebellious. Put back up the next day.
Anyone check on whether anyone in the photos were subsequently arrested?
From what I’ve read the Fed is going to keep pumping out money until January 2015 so that is probably when the crash will start.
Go back to 2006 and you will notice the economy started on the downturn right after the dems won the election.
I believe the dems will use that to their advantage and claim the repubs getting elected is why the economy went into the tank.
The repubs will blame Obamas policies.
Hillary will say both side economic policies are a failure and we need a Third Way.
Does the media realize that they will pay dearly for being accomplices in this whole mess?
a REAL possibility...
“Why is the poverty rate back to a historical high?”
Because “poverty” has been defined upwards to absurdity.
The “poverty line” has been set to include some 87% of world incomes (PPP adjusted). When just 13% of people living are defined as “not poor”, it’s the definition that’s wrong.
“the Fed is going to keep pumping out money until January 2015 so that is probably when the crash will start.”
Pumping out money doesn’t create more value, it just confiscates value from others, causing inflation (i.e.: currency devaluation) in the process. When the imputed value significantly exceeds the confiscated value, paying contracted debts with money valued at far less than the contract intended, currency demand plummets.
It’s crash doesn’t happen when the QE pumping stops, it’s when enough people decide the currency is too unstable to use.
FWIW, the next gummint shutdown is scheduled for January 15. Maybe this time “they” decide not to tidy it up just before the credits roll.
prolly played to either Time or This is the End, which
The money pumping has created a stock market bubble.
Every time it’s hinted the pumping will stop the market drops.
If they don’t stop money becomes worthless, if they do stop the market crashes.
Is the frustration and anger toward our dysfunctional politics and economics beginning to reach a tipping point where young folks
***This kind of activism isn’t going to coalesce around young folks. They don’t know sheeitte. They don’t even vote. When you see grampa dying in the streets, that’s when you know it’s a US ‘spring’.
True. And then comes chaos.
Because Obama?
But not the masters of the game,
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