Chidyke, over at CorrenteWire brings us this little bit of good news about the booming Bu$hCo economy:
By THERESA AGOVINO, AP Business Writer Wed Apr 26, 1:48 AM ET NEW YORK - The percentage of working-age Americans with moderate to middle incomes who lacked health insurance for at least part of the year rose to 41 percent in 2005, a dramatic increase from the 28 percent in 2001 without coverage, a study released on Wednesday found.Moreover, more than half of the uninsured adults said they were having problems paying their medical bills or had incurred debt to cover their expenses, according to a report by the Commonwealth Fund, a New York-based private, health care policy foundation. The study of 4,350 adults also found that people without insurance were more likely to forgo recommended health screenings such as mammograms than those with coverage, and were less likely to have a regular doctor than their insured counterparts.
The report paints a bleak health care picture for the uninsured. “It represents an explosion of the insurance crisis into those with moderate incomes,” said Sara Collins, a senior program officer at the Commonwealth Fund.
Chidyke goes on to make the possibly sardonic comment that when Ms Collins says “moderate” income she’s talking about those of us peons without the biological foresight to have been born into white families with trust funds. Oh yes, there’s a vast mass of us plebes out here in the land – the great unwashed, who are the subjects of much planning in Bu$hCo when they talk about the “ownership society.”
That evil piece of crap that the banks bought from the Republican Party to make every poor American into a pauper through the drastic tightening of bankruptcy laws will see its logical fruition in a few years. The free and easy credit cards they mail-spammed us with for years will lead to massive dispossession, although I can’t even begin to think what the banks will do with all those empty houses. Maybe the plan five years out is to offer “enterprise zones” in agricultural areas, where the 30 or so million new homeless will be able to live in barracks housing built by HalliCheneyBurton at 500% profit, while working for pennies on farms owned by Archer Daniels Midland while the genetically modified corn ADM is forcing on farmers is made into ethanol.
I’m sure the plan is for companies like Blackwater and Custer Battles to provide the necessary internal security to keep the farmhands under control. They’re already supplying that service in the Gulf area, after all. Overseeing field hands is a task that comes easily to men corrupted by money.
I think it’s ironic that the nation that once held patent on the best democracy since ancient Athens has been transformed into the most feared rogue nation in the world in only five years. The step into forced indentured servitude will be much easier.
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"I'm shakin' it boss! I'm shakin' it!"
I recommend, to those who haven't got them already, invest in firearms and learn how to use them properly, while you still can. Buy some land and learn how to live off it. These skills may come in handy sooner rather than later.
Forget the Christian exodus to S. Carolina, I expect we'll see some more survivalist anti-governement groups in the next few years.
I think, as the looming collapse draws nearer, those of us with survivalist instincts will have to be prepared to defend ourselves and our loved ones against the revanchist instincts of the weak-brained mouth-breathers on the right.
Rearranging the deckchairs does nothing to plug the leak, neither does it solve the problem of food supply to cities.
I've felt for about three years that gold is always a wise investment - not shares, but the real thing. For the first few weeks things will be all right, but a time will come when you'll need to be triple-armed: a weapon, the willingness to use it, and the bright shiny things to buy your way out of a corner.
Being an old fart, and having grown up using weapons all my life, I think it is time to cache a few for the future. There may be a time in the future when the vets may need to fight for what is rightfully ours, and speaking for myself I am more than ready and willing to heed that calling!
I think that the time is coming when the lamp of liberty will need to be fueled using the blood of tyrants. I agree on the gold part, but believe that silver is way undervalued also and the time will come when silver returns to be the spendable coin of the realm, while gold will be the one to stock up on when you have enough silver to make the purchase
I'm sure you're right about the silver, Chief, although, for a rea; treat, you should see what happens to a person's face when he sees a half or quarter Krugerrand for the first time....
I am sick inside at the thought of an actual shooting civil war.
I am also Lurch... But if the stealing of votes, and all the rest of the shit comes down as the Reich Wingers and the Religious Fundies want it to, I don't see any way to use diplomacy with these lying, treacherous sons of bitches. They use us and knife us at the same time, and it is beyond me why anyone would trust a person that has an R behind their name...
I also hope that it will not come to pass as the first civil war fucked the country for over a hundred years and is still fucking up the south.... Perhaps taxes on churches and the rich might bring the dummies to their senses... I am willing to try anything that might get rid of the ape shit part of government and return it to the people, at least to the majority..... The few fucking over the many is not what I have ever believed in!
If the hand is forced, I must agree Chief! " We the People" (especially us Veterans) can no longer sit idle and let the raping of the middle class continue.
I love gold by the way, brass nuckles don't look nearly as good!
I don't get the attraction of gold. You can't eat gold. Practical things, not gold, are the currency of post-collapse America. It's like during my grandmother's years surviving the Great Depression, where people got paid in eggs and butter as often as they got paid in cash, and where the guy who managed to get his hands on a cane press and grow some sugar cane didn't have to worry about food at all because everybody was starved for real mollasses and real sugar and happily traded him all the eggs, milk, butter, and cornmeal he'd ever want just for some cubes of gloppy brown sugar.
Get some tools. And firearms. And seeds. And practical things. Gold? Feh. You can't eat gold.
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In one sense, you're right. Gold can't be eaten, but it can be traded for food, or fuel to get to food. Or traded for safety for yourself and family. Believe it or not, there are stupid people who will be swayed by the gold. And farming may not be such a realistic expectation for urban dwellers and suburbanites in heavily developed areas.
For a good representation of this, read up on what happened in post-WWI Germany, and during the early years of the Weimar Republic. Here's one quick and dirty view of it: http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/weimar_depression_1929.htm
The Mackimac Center points out that Allied revanchism had a lot to do with the shattering of post-war Weimar.
http://www.mackinac.org/article.aspx?ID=3679
Economics is not a strong point with me, but this paper by Mark Weder explains a lot.
http://ideas.repec.org/p/cpr/ceprdp/3716.html
Interestingly, another paper by Weder attributes some of the chaos to sunspots. (heh) Oxford Press is pretty conservative and sensible though.
http://oep.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/58/2/288
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