Survival

Please be warned - the statistics about the economy that you are about to read are likely to completely blow your mind.  The U.S. economy is in far, far more trouble than the mainstream news would have you believe.  Most Americans are still convinced that the economic downturn that we have been experiencing will soon be over and that things will shortly get back to "normal".  But that is not what is happening.  What we are actually witnessing is the disintegration of the foundations of the U.S. economic system.  The survival of the American middle class is now in serious jeopardy.  In fact, the survival of the American way of life is now in serious jeopardy.  Today, more Americans are living in poverty than at any other time in history.  Millions upon millions of Americans are out of work and it now takes the average unemployed worker an average of over 35 weeks to find a job.  Home sales are at near record lows.  Home foreclosures are at record highs.  Factories and jobs continue to leave the United States at a dizzying pace and the U.S. government has piled up the biggest mountain of debt in the history of the world with no end in sight.  So yes, the U.S. economy is in a deep, deep state of crisis, and there is not much hope that things are going to get much better any time soon. (Read more....)