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I Cry When I Think Back How Things Used To Be
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 75219614:MV80MDExMzIwXzcyNjE2MjIwXzYzQjgxODc0] [quote:litv:MV80MDExMzIwXzcyNjE1MDg4Xzg2QkQwMzRD] [quote:Lester 77318898:MV80MDExMzIwXzcyNjE1MDIzX0VCODAzMjRF] What happened? Military Industrial Complex became a siphon for every government dollar that wasn't tied-down. This was how The Great Depression was put behind us: deficit spending. Inflation robbing US of the value of our money. Really got serious with elimination of silver-backing in 1964. Kennedy was assassinated because he wasn't on board with 'all' the criminality... There was no stopping them... So much criminality became institutionalized... Huge inflation of the mid-70s. Wholesale prices that changed daily. Then came the tax laws that emboldened the market pirates... Corporate-Raiders financing takeovers to steal the pension funding which their hired-actuaries certified to be "excess". Junk Bonds issued by firms that couldn't otherwise float a $5 loan from a friend... Federal Reserve loaning money direct at below interbank rates to even the smallest member banks. This enabled them to no longer pay interest for CDs to acquire funds to loan... This also forced retirees, elderly into the stock market where market manipulation caused huge losses. Most corps by the late 90s were no longer paying much in dividends, as 'raising stock values' was deemed more beneficial to stockholders Govt regulation and 3-letter agencies basically eliminated start-ups and mom/pop businesses. Costs tons of $$ just to open a business, and continual regulator compliance. What happened? The USA was Betrayed and Looted. About the only professional class not involved were engineers; except The Big Engineering Firms went along with all the govt regulations. Think Bechtel... longtime right-hand of the MIC and govt expansion... CIA running guns for coke in the 80s. This caper evolving after Reagan was shot. Reagan never the same after being shot... GWB running the show from then on. All the presidents and their men from Bush 1 to Obama were part of the same enterprise... Before Reagan, Jimmy Carter gave away The Panama Canal... Now the Chinese Communists hold it! What's happened? The social and economic chaos was engineered to distract-confuse YOU and enable their eventual Get-Away... Trump might be the wildcard they couldn't plan for... Don't expect this to end smoothly, or for the USA to survive. Too many, (millions in fact) in all walks of life stand to lose their ill-gotten gains if their scheme is brought to an end. It's all been funded by looting The American Treasury. None of the $22 Trillion claimed to be 'National Debt' went for infrastructure or other valid Constitutional Purposes... When you add the 'lost money' from Fed Dept Budgets, and Govt Unfunded Liabilities, plus the 'risk' of derivatives which Govt has chosen to 'backstop'; the USA is in the hole for closer to $1.5 Quadrillion Dollars. There's no Coming Back from this... All the money has been stolen along with our children's future. That's What Happened.... [/quote] It did happen. But it is Part Two. Part One is where we agreed to convert dreams into money and sell our lives for money. [/quote] That's what it feels like. Sold the farm....for what? [/quote]
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I can never go back to my early days growing up on the farm. Had time to enjoy each day, the warm sun the hay in the barn. Even with all the work there was to be done. Eating an apple off the tree, taking a long drink from the cool spring. Working the garden.....What the hell happened.
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