44 Statistics About The Economy That Will Send A Deep Chill Down Your Spine Because They Prove That The Survival Of The American Middle Class Is Now In Serious Jeopardy

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 (Read more....)

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60 Doctor-Owned Hospitals Will Now Be Canceled Due To The New Health Care Law

According to the executive director of Physician Hospitals of America, more than 60 doctor-owned hospitals across the country that were in the development stage will now be canceled.  Why?  Well, it is because of the new health care law that Barack Obama and the Democrats wanted so badly.  Apparently the new law singles out physician-owned hospitals, making new physician-owned projects ineligible to receive payments for Medicare and Medicaid patients.  Without those payments, new doctor-owned hospitals just simply would not be feasible.  Doctor-owned hospitals that currently exist will be “grandfathered” in under the new law, but must seek permission from the Department of Health and Human Services to expand.

As a result, according to Molly Sandvig, the executive director of Physician Hospitals of America, more than 60 doctor-owned hospitals across the country that were in the development stage will now be canceled.

Isn’t that wonderful?

That’s a lot of access to communities that will be denied,” Sandvig told CNSNews.com, the news source the originally broke the story. “The existing hospitals are greatly affected. They can’t grow. They can’t add beds. They can’t (Read more....)

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Will Gold Be Of Any Value When Society Falls Apart And Descends Into Anarchy?

Collapse Of SocietyOne of the great debates among survivalists is regarding the value of gold. One the one hand, gold is one of the few things that will hold its value when the U.S. dollar collapses. On the other hand, you can’t eat or drink gold. That is the position that the maker of the film posted below takes. He advocates focusing on the things that you will actually need: food, water, shelter and protection. But is he being overly dramatic? If so, what kind of future should we all be preparing for? One where there is some level of law and order and where gold and silver will be of value, or one where law and order have completely vanished and the land is ruled by roaming gangs?

Watch the video below and post a comment with your thoughts on this debate. Do you think that gold will be of value in the future that is ahead for us?  We certainly do not agree with a lot of things in this video, but it is thought provoking so we thought that we would post it….

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Millions of Unemployed Americans Scramble For Survival

21Once upon a time in the United States of America, workers could rely on a steadily growing economy that always provided lots of good paying jobs. If you were honest, hard-working and reliable you could almost always find employment that could provide a living for you and your family. Those times were wonderful times in America. But now those times are gone.

Each month hundreds of thousands more Americans are losing their jobs. Without work, they are scrambling for survival. Millions of others have had to take jobs that are lower paying than what they had previously. Jobs that one used to be able to support a family with are being shipped overseas or are being taken by illegal aliens.

There are those among our own family and friends who are unemployed or underemployed. These include professional people with college degrees. As hard as they try, some of them cannot get anything.

Why can’t they find a job? Are they just lazy?

No.

The reality is that the government figures VASTLY understate the real level of unemployment. Just check out the following YouTube video which does a great job of explaining why the REAL unemployment number if more like twice what the government is telling (Read more....)

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Financial Survival

12The financial system of the United States is in the early stages of a complete meltdown and the vast majority of Americans are completely unprepared for it.  Have you come up with a plan for financial survival when TEOTWAWKI (“the end of the world as we know it”) arrives?

Perhaps you think such talk is alarmist.  Well, before we discuss what you should do to prepare, let’s take a look at the state of our financial system.

First of all, the total of U.S. bank failures in 2009 is now 25, which matches the number that failed throughout all of 2008.

Only three banks failed in all of 2007.

So, I hope you can see that this is NOT a good trend.

But perhaps you may think this is just a temporary trend.

After all, the U.S. economy has certainly hit bumps in the road before and recovered well enough.

Well, unfortunately this is not just the downside of a business cycle.  What we are facing is the complete unraveling of a financial system built on a mountain of debt.

The reality is that any major currency not backed by gold in the history of the (Read more....)

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