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Economic pressure on average Americans



A higher percentage of the American population is receiving government benefits than ever before, according to The Economic Collapse website.

The website has listed 16 statistics which show that the number of Americans dependent on the government is at an all-time high. 

The Federal Reserve sees the unemployment rate going no lower than the 8.5%-to-8.7% range by the end of 2012, according to the Investment News. 

In essence, the Fed is saying that both the GDP growth and unemployment will remain at unacceptable levels. By extension, the central bank is also saying there is not much that monetary policy can do about it. 

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The Number Of American Adults That Can't Take Care Of Themselves Continues To Set New Records?


Today, the number of American adults that can't take care of themselves is at an all-time record high.  So what are we going to do if the number of people dependent on the government keeps going up?  Some folks like to point out that most Americans that have recently become dependent on the government would rather be working, but because of a lack of jobs they have gotten into a position where they cannot take care of themselves anymore.  Some other folks like to point out that the number of Americans that abuse the system and that enjoy being dependent on the government is steadily increasing.  Sadly, both of those positions are true.  It is a fact that the percentage of working age Americans that actually have jobs has declined dramatically over the past several years because of a lack of jobs.  It is also a fact that a growing percentage of Americans believe that it is the job of the government to take care of them from the cradle to the grave.  What people need to understand is that the government is the problem and not the solution.  We desperately need more jobs in this country, but the federal government has been absolutely killing job growth, it has been creating a culture of government dependency, and it has been going into gigantic amounts of debt trying to take care of so many people.  So what are we going to do if the number of American adults that can't take care of themselves continues to set new records year after year?
Of course most Americans that are dependent on the government are not actually trying to abuse the system.  Most are in that situation because they cannot find a decent job.
As you can see from the chart below, in the post-World War II era whenever a recession has ended the percentage of working age Americans that have jobs has rebounded substantially.  But this has not happened this time....
The employment-population ratio fell to levels not seen since the early 1980s and has stayed there.
During the 70s, 80s and 90s the employment-population ratio kept increasing because a lot of women were entering the workforce.
But now our economy is not producing nearly enough jobs for everyone.  Our economy is dying and the labor market has come to resemble a really bizarre game of musical chairs.
If you lose your job in this economy, you might be out of the game for good.
If you can believe it, today there are 100 million working age Americans that do not have jobs.
In all, there are 242 million working age Americans.
Only 142 million of them actually have jobs.
The rest are either taken care of by someone else in their family or by the government.
Since the year 2000, the U.S. population has increased by over 30 million.
But the number of Americans that have jobs has only risen by 4.7 million.
Something doesn't add up.
The federal government keeps telling us that the employment situation is getting better, but the only way they can do that is by pretending that millions of Americans are "leaving the labor force".
Between 2000 and 2011, the federal government says that the number of Americans "not in the labor force" rose by 17.9 million.
But during the entire decade of the 1980s the number of Americans "not in the labor force" rose by only 1.7 million.
Yes, there is something really fishy going on with the employment numbers.
And the percentage of the "working poor" in America has been steadily rising as well.
Back in 1980, less than 30% of all jobs in the United States were low income jobs.  Today, more than 40% of all jobs in the United States are low income jobs.
Millions upon millions of Americans that actually do have jobs are still not able to take care of themselves and are dependent on the government.
If something is not done to reverse these labor trends, the number of American adults that can't take care of themselves is going to continue to set new records.
Today, over 70 percent of all spending by the federal government goes into dependence programs, and the amount of money that the federal government sends directly to American citizens has increased by 32 percent since Barack Obama took office.
Just about every measure of government dependence that is out there is going up rapidly.  Just consider the following stats....
*Federal housing assistance increased by a whopping 42 percent between 2006 and 2010.
*Medicare spending increased by 138 percent between 1999 and 2010.
*Back in 1965, only one out of every 50 Americans was on Medicaid.  Today, one out of every 6 Americans is on Medicaid, and things are about to get a whole lot worse.  It is being projected that Obamacare will add 16 million more Americans to the Medicaid rolls.
*Back in 1990, the federal government accounted for 32 percent of all health care spending in America.  Today, that figure is up to 45 percent and it is projected to surpass 50 percent very shortly.
*By the end of 2011, approximately 55 million Americans received a total of approximately 727 billion dollars in Social Security benefits.  As the retirement crisis becomes much worse, that dollar figure is projected to absolutely skyrocket.
*The number of Americans on food stamps recently set a new all-time record.  Right now, more than one out of every seven American citizens is on food stamps and one out of every four U.S. children is on food stamps.   The number of Americans on food stamps has risen by more than 14 million since Barack Obama first entered the White House.
*According to the Heritage Foundation, more than 91 million Americans are financially dependent on the federal government at this point.
*According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 49 percent of all Americans live in a home that receives direct monetary benefits from the federal government.  Back in 1983, less than a third of all Americans lived in a home that received direct monetary benefits from the federal government.
*When you total it all up, American households are now receiving more money directly from the federal government than they are paying to the government in taxes.
As you can see, the number of Americans that are receiving goodies from the federal government is rapidly increasing.
Meanwhile, the number of Americans that are working good jobs and paying taxes to support these programs has been going down.
If this continues, at some point the safety net will break.
And we need a safety net.  There are always going to be some people who do not have the capacity to take care of themselves.  We certainly don't want to see anyone sleeping in the streets or starving to death.
But the tens of millions of additional Americans that have jumped on to the safety net in recent years are endangering the entire system.  Our country is rapidly going broke and if the entire safety net collapses those that really need the help are not going to be able to get it.
In the end, what we really need in this country are tens of millions of additional good jobs.  But our politicians continue to pass mountains of job killing new laws, and our big corporations continue to ship millions of our jobs out of the country.
If we stay on this road, the number of Americans that can't take care of themselves is going to keep setting new records every single year.
And for the rest of us, let us never look down on those that are dependent on the government.  The truth is that the vast majority of us are just a few really bad breaks away from losing everything.

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Shocking Home Invasion Horror Stories


Is your home secure?  Are you absolutely sure?  There are very few things that are more terrifying than having your home invaded.  In fact, many people are never able to feel completely safe in a home again after it has been invaded.  Our homes are supposed to be our fortresses.  They are where we keep our families and our most cherished possessions safe.  Unfortunately, due to the declining economy the number of truly desperate people out there continues to rise.  When people become truly desperate, they will often find themselves doing things that they never dreamed that it would be possible for them to do.  Hopefully the shocking home invasion stories in this article will motivate you to take action.  We all need to learn how to protect ourselves and our families.  For a long time the incredible prosperity that we enjoyed in this nation helped to mask the nightmarish moral decline that was taking place.  But now that hard times have hit, we are starting to see the fabric of society come apart.  All over the United States homes are being invaded, and some of these home invasions are almost too creepy to believe.
Once again, the goal is not just to scare you with these horror stories.  Rather, the goal is to get you thinking about what you need to do in order to protect your homes and your families during the hard economic times that are coming.
America was once such a peaceful place.  People would leave their homes and their cars totally unlocked and there was a feeling that you could trust almost everyone around you.
Well, all of that has now changed.  America is becoming a much different place.
The following are 10 shocking home invasion horror stories that are almost too creepy to believe....
#1 In New York recently, one home invader actually set up an XBox and played video games in the apartment of an 82-year-old woman while she was away for the holidays....
An elderly woman from Brooklyn who has lived alone for years suddenly found herself with a roommate. A stranger slipped into her apartment while she was away for the holidays, and made himself right at home.
The freeloader not only broke into 82-year-old Joyce King’s East Flatbush apartment, he moved in, eating in one of her chairs, watching TV, setting up an XBox, all while King was visiting family between Christmas and New Year’s.
#2 If you were a home invader, would you leave a dirty pair of boxer shorts behind?  The following home invasion story from Sacramento, California was recently sent to me by one of my readers....
Somebody got into my sister's house last night while she was out. My mom was upstairs, but didn't hear anything. Whoever it was, they ate some chips and sorted through a stack of maternity clothes my sister had ready for selling on ebay. He left a dirty pair of boxer shorts and a bottom dentures on the dining room table. Fortunately, he was gone when she got home. I'm amazed, but the police actually came out and collected fingerprints and his boxers and false teeth. Probably a homeless guy. He may have switched his dirty boxers for a clean pair of maternity jeans, so the police just have to look for a guy wearing women's maternity pants with no lower teeth. The crazy thing is that the dog never barked. I can't go in the backyard without her barking like crazy, but she evidently liked the burglar.
#3 A large number of home invaders will do it over and over again until they get caught.  The following is a recent report about one serial home invader from the Washington Post....
A housekeeper was tied up and sexually assaulted and a mother and teenage son were tied up during a home invasion in Bethesda early Wednesday morning that Montgomery County police say involves the same suspect as in a home invasion Tuesday in Wheaton.
#4 When one burglar was recently arrested in New York City they discovered 100 different keys in his apartment.  They are still trying to figure out how he got so many keys to so many different homes.
But this is what many home invaders will do.  If they get your keys they will keep them in case they want to hit your place again at some point in the future.
#5 One serial home invader down in Maryland was recently sentenced to 100 years in prison.  So did he deserve such a harsh sentence?  You be the judge....
In one case, authorities said, he sexually assaulted a 17-year-old girl after breaking into her family's Fort Washington home with a cinder block and forced her to pose nude on a bed as he took photographs and videos of her. Authorites said in another case, Scott and an accomplice, Marcus Dermanellian Hunter – who has already pleaded guilty to federal firearms charges – held up a Bowie family at gunpoint in April 2009, used their debit cards to steal money from ATM machines and then stole a luxury car.
#6 In the Seattle area, an elderly couple in their eighties was recently brutally attacked by a 31-year-old man armed with a crossbow and a hatchet.  The following description of this brutal crime comes from King 5 News....
Prosecutors say 31-year-old John Chase was walking down the highway when he saw Ralph Aldrich, 88, in his back yard. Detectives say Chase shot and killed Aldrich with a crossbow and then went inside the home and repeatedly hit 83-year-old June Aldrich with a hatchet.
#7 In Wilmington, Delaware recently, a man offered to help someone carry a television down the street, but quickly realized that it was his own television which had just been stolen out of his own house....
A Wilmington resident who stopped home for lunch about noon today saw a man carrying a flat screen TV down the street and asked the man if he needed help.
He then recognized the television as his own, looked up and saw the door to his home ajar, said Master Sgt. Adam Ringle.
#8 When thieves get desperate, they also tend to become very bold.  A reader named Mark left the following disturbing comment on one of my previous articles....
Some tweekers drove up last week looking for scrap metal and one was out of their truck and heading to the shop when I came out of the house. It used to be that strangers would not even cross our bridge or get out of their car wondering about what the dogs would do. Times are changing and not for the better.
#9 Down in Tucson, Arizona a while back four armed home invaders were repelled by an armed homeowner that had a gun and knew how to use it.  There is no telling what the home invaders would have done to the homeowner if he had not had a gun with which to defend himself.
#10 When home invasions happen, sometimes people end up dead.  The following comes from a recent article in the Houston Chronicle....
San Antonio police Sgt. J.R. Fiste said two men broke into the house in the 8200 block of Quail Creek about 5 a.m.. The homeowner shot one of the men dead inside the residence, police said.The other suspect was shot in the chest and flown to San Antonio Military Medical Center, where he remained in critical condition about 7 a.m.
The homeowner was shot in the chin, Fiste said. He also was taken to SAMMC, where he was listed in stable condition.
#11 An 18-year-old mother named Sarah McKinley was faced with a very hard choice this past New Year's Eve.  She was home alone with her three-month old son, and she called 9-1-1 when she discovered that two men were trying to break into her home just outside of Oklahoma City.  What happened next should give all home invaders something to think about....
An Oklahoma woman was recently home with her 3 month old son when two men tried to break in.  Armed with a shot gun and a pistol she called 9-1-1.
Operator: "Are your doors locked?"
Caller: "Yes, I've got two guns in my hand.   Is it ok to shoot him if he comes in this door?"
Operator: "I can't tell you what you can do but you do what you have to do to protect your baby."
The mother did shoot killing one of the intruders.  Oklahoma police called the shooting justified.
Unfortunately, at the same time that we are seeing society become more unstable, we are also seeing many local police departments around the nation make huge cutbacks.
For example, it has been announced that police stations in Detroit will now be closed to the public for 16 hours each day in an attempt to save money.
In the future, you are not always going to be able to depend on the police to protect you.  They might come out and take down a report once it is all over, but that won't erase what just happened.
A while back I wrote about how many of our formerly great cities are being transformed into post-apocalyptic hellholes.  Sadly, wherever you have dramatic economic decline you almost always also have rampant crime.
As the economic crisis in America gets even worse, the number of home invasions will surely go up as well.
Now is the time to get prepared for that.
So do any of you have any creepy home invasion horror stories to share?
Have you noticed crime getting worse where you live?
Feel free to share your thoughts by leaving a comment below....

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Florida's Pro Gun Laws : Trayvon Martin


In addition to Stand Your Ground, dozens of gun rights laws have sailed through Florida’s Legislature in the last decade, making the state a Second Amendment trailblazer for the rest of the nation.

FLORIDA’S GUN LAWS
SB 436: (2005) Stand Your Ground law allows people who feel they are in grave danger to use deadly force to protect themselves
HB 687: (2006) Gives public records exemption to concealed carry weapon license holders, allowing people to own guns anonymously
HB 503: (2008) Allows gun owners to bring a firearm to work, as long as it is locked inside a car
SB 948: (2008) Increases time-length of concealed gun license from five to seven years
HB 315: (2010) Prohibits adoption agencies from requiring prospective adoptive parents to disclose information about gun ownership
HB 155: (2011) Prohibits medical practitioners from asking patients about whether or not they own a gun
HB 5601: (2012) Reduces the maximum fees for concealed weapons license from $85 to $70
CS/HB 463: (2012) Allows people under the age of 21 to obtain a gun license if they have military experience.

BY TOLUSE OLORUNNIPA


TALLAHASSEE -- Last month’s shooting of Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Fla., brought an avalanche of criticism directed at Florida’s Stand Your Ground law.
Yet the controversial 2005 law was just one of dozens of pro-gun laws that have gotten their start in Florida — forging the state’s “Gunshine” reputation — before spreading to other parts of the country.
Lobbying for passage of such laws has been the powerful National Rifle Association.
“The NRA has been a victim of their own success,” said Dan Gelber, a Miami Beach attorney who fought many of the gun expansion laws as a legislator in the 2000s. “They’ve won every big issue, so they’re left trying to fight over fringe issues. Lots of elected officials are afraid to cross them.”
The Stand Your Ground law — at the center of police’s decision not to arrest shooter George Zimmerman in the Trayvon case — has become one of state’s most severely criticized statutes, in the wake of national protests over Trayvon’s death. Newspaper editorial boards, cable news anchors, police detectives and politicians across the country have lambasted Florida for its law, which has since spread to 24 other states.
Gov. Rick Scott is creating a task force to take a second look at the law, which allows people who feel threatened to use deadly force. “Anytime there’s a tragedy like this, we’re going to look at things,” he said, in an interview with the Herald/Times.
From bring-your-guns-to-work laws to all-out bans on local gun restrictions, Florida has become a haven for Second Amendment enthusiasts. Statistics show the pro-gun agenda has triggered more gun sales, more permits and a sharp rise in justifiable homicides.
•  Florida has about 900,000 licensed concealed weapons carriers, far more than any other state and nearly twice as many as Texas.
•  The number of annual applications for concealed gun licenses has grown from 26,800 to 123,000 since 1998 (February was a record month for application requests, with 53,835).
•  The number of “justifiable homicides” — typically shooting deaths deemed legal under Stand Your Ground — has tripled in the last seven years.
A representative for the NRA, which has given millions of dollars in political donations, did not respond to requests for comment. Florida’s top NRA lobbyist Marion Hammer declined to comment, citing “media bias and slant” against gun rights.
To be sure, even as gun rights and ownership have expanded, most of the tragic scenarios predicted by opponents of gun rights have not played out. However, murders by firearm have increased 45 percent since 1999, despite an overall drop-off in violent crime, according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
Police reports show that Zimmerman used a Kel Tec 9 millimeter gun in the Feb. 26 Trayvon shooting. Manufactured by Florida-based manufacturer Kel Tec CNC, the semiautomatic weapon is a popular choice for gun owners, selling for about $350.
Zimmerman was licensed to have the gun despite a prior arrest for assault on a law enforcement officer and domestic battery complaints. Unlike states that allow police to deny license applications based on personal character and arrest history, Florida is a place where almost anyone who hasn’t been convicted of a violent crime can qualify for a concealed weapons license.


In 1987, Florida became the nation’s first so-called “shall issue” state, creating a model for 36 states that now require police to license all eligible applicants for concealed carry permits.
The “shall issue” law — and the controversial Stand Your Ground law — are among several gun rights provisions first passed in Florida and then approved in other states. These laws have made it easier to obtain firearms and carry them into more and more place.
The NRA was behind a 2008 law that allows employees to bring guns to work, so long as they’re locked in the car. Several businesses, like the politically well-connected Disney, have long held a “no-guns-at-work” policy for employees. Business groups predicted the law would lead to an increase in workplace massacres and sued to block it. The bill passed the House 74-42, beat the lawsuit, and has not yet bred an “I-told-you-so” tragedy.
In 2009 and 2010, lawmakers passed “gag order” laws, forbidding doctors and adoption agencies from questioning patients or prospective parents about their gun ownership. Doctors are fighting the NRA-backed law in court.
Even those who don’t live in the state are benefitting from Florida’s gun rights expansions. Florida is one of only two states that allow non-residents to obtain mail-order gun licenses.
In general, attempts to crack down on gun ownership have floundered in the Republican-controlled Legislature, although lawmakers have increased penalties for gun-toting criminals.
Penalties have also increased for anyone who offends the rights of gun owners. Several gun rights bills are laced with punitive language and strict penalties. Under the so-called “docs-vs.-glocks” gag order law, doctors who ask their patients if they own a gun could lose their license to practice medicine.
County commissioners that try to regulate gun use could be personally fined $5,000 or removed from office by the governor.
Municipalities that keep records of gun owners can be fined up to $5 million. Florida statutes require state attorneys to take up the case of offended gun owners, and to “vigorously prosecute violators,” invoking language normally reserved for child sex offenders and violent criminals.
Potential penalties for crossing gun owners also came into play in the Trayvon Martin case, where police opted not to arrest Zimmerman. A police department can be sued if it arrests someone who is later found to be innocent under the Stand Your Ground law.
Sanford city manager Norton Bonaparte said in a statement that Florida statutes prohibited police from making a lawful arrest on the night Trayvon was killed. Bonaparte pointed to the Stand Your Ground law, mentioning that the city could have been “held liable” if Zimmerman was later found innocent.
In a 2005 floor debate in the Florida House, Gelber predicted the Stand Your Ground law would tie the hands of police officers and prevent them from making arrests. The bill passed on a bipartisan 94-20 vote.
“This was a policy whose unintended consequence were very predictable,” said Gelber, the former state lawmaker. “Now, we’re stuck with the eyes of the world on us for a bad reason.”

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The FBI, The CIA, Homeland Security, The Federal Reserve And Potential Employers Are All Monitoring You On Facebook And Twitter


Why is there such a sudden obsession with monitoring what average Americans are saying on Facebook and Twitter?  To be honest, the vast majority of what is being said on Facebook and Twitter is simply not worth reading even if you could understand it.  But for the FBI, the CIA, the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Reserve, Facebook and Twitter represent a treasure trove of intelligence information.  Tens of millions of us have compiled incredibly detailed dossiers on ourselves and have put them out there for the entire world to see.  Since the information is public, the various alphabet agencies of the federal government see no problem with scooping up all of that information and using it for their own purposes.  Many potential employers have also discovered that Facebook and Twitter can tell them an awful lot about potential employees.  Social media creates a permanent record that reflects who you are and what you believe, and many Americans are finding out that all of this information can come back and haunt them in a big way.  In the world in which we now live, privacy is becoming a thing of the past, and we all need to be mindful of the things that we are exposing to the public.
Sadly, most Americans have absolutely no idea who is monitoring them on Facebook, Twitter and other social media websites these days.  The following are just a few examples....
Potential Employers
If you apply for a job at a big company, there is a very high probability that the company will want to check out what you have been doing on Facebook and Twitter.
According to one recent survey, approximately 90 percent of all human resources professionals check out the social media accounts of potential employees.
If you are applying for a job at a small business, there is probably much less of a chance that your social media accounts will be checked, but the reality is that all of us need to understand how the world is changing.
Some employers, colleges and government agencies are even taking things a step further.  Now some of them are actually demanding to be allowed in to the Facebook accounts of applicants.  The following is from a recent Daily Mail article....
Rather than trying to get around the pesky password protections of Facebook and email accounts, certain government agencies and colleges are cutting straight to the source.
Some extremely inquisitive employers are asking candidates to hand over them their email and Facebook login information when they apply for a job.
Others strongly request that the candidate opens their pages in front of them and allow their would-be bosses to scroll through their private information during the interview.
How would you feel if someone forced you to hand over the passwords to your social media accounts?  At some U.S. colleges, this is actually happening.  As MSNBC recently described, some college sports teams are actually requiring coaches to continually monitor, and have access to, all social media accounts of team members....
A recent revision in the handbook at the University of North Carolina is typical:
"Each team must identify at least one coach or administrator who is responsible for having access to and regularly monitoring the content of team members’ social networking sites and postings,” it reads. "The athletics department also reserves the right to have other staff members monitor athletes’ posts."
This is beyond creepy, but this is the world in which we live.
The FBI
The FBI has also decided that it needs to continuously monitor Facebook, Twitter and other social media websites.  The following is from an article posted on zdnet.com....
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is looking to develop a Web app that can continuously monitor social networks, including Facebook, Twitter, and Myspace, as well as various news feeds. The organization’s goal is to improve its real-time intelligence when it comes to current and emerging security threats.
The CIA
The CIA is a long way ahead of the FBI in monitoring social media.  If you are an "activist" on the Internet, the CIA probably knows you very well.  The following is from a recent USA Today article....
In an anonymous industrial park in Virginia, in an unassuming brick building, the CIA is following tweets — up to 5 million a day.
At the agency's Open Source Center, a team known affectionately as the "vengeful librarians" also pores over Facebook, newspapers, TV news channels, local radio stations, Internet chat rooms — anything overseas that anyone can access and contribute to openly.
The Department Of Homeland Security
Department of Homeland Security Undersecretary Caryn Wagner made headlines all over the world a while back when she announcedthat the Department of Homeland Security would be “gleaning information from sites such as Twitter and Facebook for law enforcement purposes.”
So exactly what does that mean?
Well, apparently the Department of Homeland Security is actually setting up fake accounts and using them to monitor social media networks for information.  The following is from a recent Daily Mail article....
The Department of Homeland Security makes fake Twitter and Facebook profiles for the specific purpose of scanning the networks for 'sensitive' words - and tracking people who use them.
That same article detailed what some of those "sensitive words" are a few paragraphs later....
The DHS outlined plans to scans blogs, Twitter and Facebook for words such as 'illegal immigrant', 'outbreak', 'drill', 'strain', 'virus', 'recovery', 'deaths', 'collapse', 'human to animal' and 'trojan', according to an 'impact asssessment' document filed by the agency.
It is interesting that the Department of Homeland Security considers "collapse" to be such an important keyword.
Does that mean that every time "The Economic Collapse Blog" is mentioned on Facebook or Twitter the Department of Homeland Security is alerted?
That is a sobering thought.
The U.S. Air Force
It turns out that the U.S. Air Force also wants to do more to monitor social media.  The following is from a recent article by Madison Ruppert....
Dr. Mark Maybury, the United States Air Force Chief Scientist, is stepping outside of the typical areas in which an Air Force Chief Scientist operates and into the digital realm.
Maybury seeks to develop something he has dubbed “Social Radar” which would monitor information coming from just about every source imaginable: television, all Internet communications, radio, official reports, and more, in order to look into the hearts and minds of target populations and perhaps even predict future events.
The Federal Reserve
According to CNBC, the Federal Reserve "is planning on monitoring what you say about it on social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook".
Aren't they supposed to be "above politics"?
So why is the Fed so concerned about what we are all saying about it?
Why is there a need to perform "sentiment analysis" on what is being said about the Federal Reserve on "Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, Forums and YouTube"?
Are they going to change their policies based on public opinion.
That seems highly unlikely.
Considering the fact that the Fed is setting up a system that would identify "key bloggers" and monitor "billions of conversations" on the Internet, it seems more likely that they are primarily interested in identifying critics of the Federal Reserve.
So once they have that information, what do they plan to do with it?
In the end, a lot of people are going to be scared away from Facebook and Twitter by all of this.
But the truth is that Facebook and Twitter can also be incredibly powerful tools for spreading the truth.
In the old days, it was nearly impossible for an average American to communicate to a mass audience.
Today, someone sitting alone in their own home can put something on the Internet that could potentially be seen by tens of millions of people.
The Internet has empowered average Americans unlike almost anything else that we have seen.
That is why the establishment feels so threatened by it.
We now have the power to directly talk with one another instead of going through establishment-controlled channels.
So let them see what we are talking about if they want to.
Perhaps some of them will wake up too.
If they want to find my Twitter account, they can find it right here.
When you have the truth on your side, you don't need to be ashamed.  I am going to keep waking people up no matter how many people want to watch me.
America has become a crazy control freak nation where the control freaks that run things are obsessed with monitoring almost everything that the rest of us are doing.
But hopefully if enough of us stand up and speak loudly enough, a cultural shift back toward liberty and freedom will happen.
America is supposed to be the land of the free and the home of the brave.
So keep preaching the message of liberty and freedom.
Perhaps those stalking us on Facebook and Twitter will get the message if we keep repeating it often enough.

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