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Thursday, December 27, 2007

The Coming Economic 9/11

I found this interesting ...and frightening.

“In 2008, we’re going to see some major, giant
financial firms fall as they get hit by an economic 9/11.”
- Gerald Celente, The Trends Journal


He goes on to say:

"And what do we have to save the Ship of State from sinking? Well, look ahead – that’s what we do as trend forecasters. We have a know-nothing President and a do-nothing Congress and want-to-be people in waiting that lack the intelligence, integrity, the competence, credentials, character and courage to do what a wise leader would do in times when the ship is sinking. So, we’re saying, it is going down! There is nothing to save it."

The truth is:

we, as individuals, are most responsible for the pending crisis. We have allowed big business to convince us we need to be more available, more productive, more upwardly mobile. We need to buy more things so that big business can make bigger profits. We no longer do business with the local meat cutter, grocery store, department store, service station or banker. We, instead, allow people we don't know and probably shouldn't trust convince us that bigger is better. We no longer measure success by how we performed, rather, by how much our performance made for the company. In a heartbeat, we went from a caring community to one that moves you in and out of the door as quickly as possible after spending as much as possible.

We don't even understand what we've lost. Most of us grew up never knowing the level of service and connection that come from small "mom and pop" drug stores or butcher shops. We have sold our future, and with it that of our children's, down the drain for a quick stop at the big box store with products made by "American" companies and Chinese or Mexican workers. It appears the most American made vehicle today is the Honda. These "American" companies threw you out with the bath water not only in terms of economic viability. Your safety and that of your children's were traded away for as little as a penny to companies in countries where things like lead poisoning and chemical additives are just matter of reducing population. They have no regard for you or your heath. They simply want to sell you as much as they can for as much as you'll pay and not have to deal with the real " inconvenient truth". That being....their pockets are more important than your health and welfare. They don't exist to produce anything that adds value to the American way of life. They want only to find ways to convince you that they are necessary and you can't live without them. They have taken our jobs and sent them overseas so they bring back what once was produced here and take your money. They even use our system of providing health care to those who are unable (and in some cases unwilling) to work as a primary piece of their medical package.

Do yourself a favor. Take three months. Find a local barber, butcher, farmer, grocer, service station and banker. All "mom and pops". Give them your business and see what happens. Then think back to the last time you went to a Walmart, Target, Kmart, Sears or any of the big nationals and ask yourself; Whens the last time they greeted you by name and welcomed you and cared enough to know what you usually purchase, asked how the family was and offered some assistance during hard times. That's the American dream. We didn't lose it. We sold it to corporate America for a few pennies and and a little convenience.

These are, after all, the musings of a mind that wanders.

1 comment:

Nate said...

Any financial vaccums that happen in this opportunixtic society, will soon be filled by someone. It is not a worry. It is our society to pick the bones of others.