The U.S. national debt grows at a rate of 45.486 dollar per second!
 | 20,517,497,500,000 |
10/05/15 6:28pm CDT |
$ 65.903
Debt per citizen$ 113.353
Debt per taxpayer| Year | x billion U.S dollar |
| 2004 | 7.379 |
| 2005 | 7.933 |
| 2006 | 8.507 |
| 2007 | 9.008 |
| 2008 | 10.025 |
| 2009 | 11.910 |
| 2010 | 13.562 |
| 2011 | 14.781 |
| 2012 | 16.059 |
| 2013 | 16.732 |
| 2014 | 17.810 |
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Since our worlds collided on that fated day in 2008 when the American dream became even more elusive for the majority of us there has been some time to reflect on our mistakes. Some of us have learned from what we have lived and experienced. Others, however, are still stuck in the partisan la la land of Rabid Conservatism or Rabid Liberalism. Each side pulling for its own without taking pause to understand the long-range consequences of their actions.
Politicians will do what politicians do best, protect their pockets and those who keep them full. What excuse do the common folk (non-corporate or lobbyist) have? You vote Republican or Democrat because they hold the best future for our country? Or do you vote because it is all you know and you cannot fathom the fact that both sides of the aisle serve the same master? It has gone way beyond the scope of political party or leanings. It is time to put those patriotic gestures, slogans and mindsets to actual use by truly putting your country first. We must put a stop to the criminal Washington/Corporate agenda that is killing us.
Until we truly and seriously address the criminals who are selling our Nation and our children's future to the highest bidder we are doomed. Are you ready to face the truth or will you just sit back and blame another while you do nothing to change the problem?
The only answer to the putrefaction that is taking place all across this nation is in the hands of the people. Many laughed at the Occupy movement. Some vilified those who wanted to make a difference and voice their displeasure with the status quo. How many of you have done anything to make a change? How many of you have cared enough to even consider what role you may have to play?
Truly, I do not see a way out of this unless people stop seeing right or left and start seeing stars and stripes. This nation depends on it's People, not its politicians. Why have we become so complacent that we are no longer willing to fight the good fight for our freedom and our way of life? When did this nation become the home of the lazy and the weak? It is time the strong and the brave stood up, if there are any left.
What will it take to make you see that politics is a trap? An illusion to make us believe we have a choice when in reality we have none. They have both evolved to serve the same masters and fulfill the same agenda. An agenda that serves neither you nor me. When will you wake up from your blue and red slumber to see that we have all been lied to ?
When do we take America back as a People not a political party?
The time is growing short people! Unless you open your eyes and understand what is truly at stake. You will never live in America the Land of the Free and the Brave again. We will simply exist in a land run by petty politics and corrupt corporations willing to do whatever it takes to maximize their bottom line. Even if it means exploiting our children's lives and futures.
Is that an outcome you are willing to live with ?
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Just in case you still don't have a clue what I am talking about. Here is a very short list of examples of the Corporate Assault on Our Lives And Our Health that our politicians have allowed to take place for a price.
GMO's in our food supply
Digestive disorders, Obesity,Endocrine disorders on the rise
Glyphosate in our foods, our water and our breast milk
Kidney and Liver damage on the rise
Fracking chemicals in the water supply
Cancers on the rise
Fluoride in the water supply
Vaccines causing deadly reactions in children and adults
Autism on the rise
Heavy metals in our food supply
Alzheimer's on the rise
Deadly chemicals being pawned off as sugar substitutes from saccharine to splenda all have been found to cause cancer in animal studies. The biggest culprit and most dangerous thus far being Aspartame.
Life saving drugs monopolized by Big Pharma to bloat prices beyond most people's reach. Daraprim being the latest going from $13.50 per pill to $750.00. Basically condemning those who cannot afford them to die.
There are so many more examples you just need to open your eyes and want to see the truth
~Desert Rose~
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David Korten: From Serving Money to Serving Life: A Sacred Story for Our Time
Published on May 5, 2015
When
we get our story wrong, we get our future wrong. Much like the
Trans-Pacific Partnership "trade deal", everything we are told about
capitalism and our economy is a pack of lies. Time for a new story,
says preeminent scholar and critic of corporate globalization, David
Korten, the best-selling author of When Corporations Rule the World and
The Great Turning. David has a brand new book, Change the Story, Change
the Future - a Living Economy for a Living Earth. He is the co-founder
and board chair of YES! Magazine, co-chair of the New Economy Working
Group, founder and president of the Living Economies Forum (formerly the
People-Centered Development Forum), a member of the Club of Rome, and a
former board member of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies
(BALLE) and associate of the International Forum on Globalization.
This Earth Day address was recorded April 22, 2015 at Seattle University Pigott Auditorium.
This Earth Day address was recorded April 22, 2015 at Seattle University Pigott Auditorium.
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Local Communities Dismantling Corporate Rule, part 1
Published on Feb 12, 2014
Community
Rights educator Paul Cienfuegos explains how "We The People" are
exercising the authority to govern ourselves and dismantle corporate
rule. When small farmers in rural Pennsylvania wanted to say "no" to a
corporate factory farm coming into their community, they learned they
couldn't, because it would violate the corporation's "rights" and state
pre-emption laws. So they did something technically illegal - their town
passed an innovative ordinance banning corporate factory farming. It
worked! The corporation left town. Pittsburgh upshifted the approach:
Rather than define what we don't want, define what we DO want. Their
"Right to Water" stopped natural gas fracking in the city. Ordinances
like this have been passed in over 150 communities in 9 states. Tune in
to learn how this works. Episode 258. [paulcienfuegos.com, celdf.org,
YouTube channel "Community Rights TV" and communityrightspdx.org]Peak Moment TV exists because of viewers like you. Subscribe to news and donate at http://www.peakmoment.tv, right side. Thanks for being in the Peak Moment community.
Local Communities Dismantling Corporate Rule, part 3
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Why Is Congress Ignoring Our $18.4 Trillion National Debt?
Have
we forgotten about the national debt? Congressional Republican leaders
and the Obama administration have begun private talks about a new
two-year spending plan that would keep the government operating beyond
the 2016 election but would do little to address more fundamental
structural problems, including entitlement and health care spending for
an aging population.
Even before Congress completed work on a short-term spending measure to avert a government shutdown at least until early December, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), outgoing House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and President Obama held preliminary talks on a possible multi-year budget agreement to increase spending for both defense and domestic programs by lifting fiscal 2016 discretionary spending caps imposed by the 2011 Budget Control Act.
Related: New CBO Director Renews Warning on Long-Term Debt
The agreement would be similar in scope to a two-year mini-budget agreement that was struck by Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) following a 16-day government shutdown in late 2013 that temporarily put an end to inter-party budget warfare. That agreement allowed for $45 billion more in spending above the caps in 2014 and $20 billion more in 2015, as well as $20 billion of deficit reduction.
Even before Congress completed work on a short-term spending measure to avert a government shutdown at least until early December, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), outgoing House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and President Obama held preliminary talks on a possible multi-year budget agreement to increase spending for both defense and domestic programs by lifting fiscal 2016 discretionary spending caps imposed by the 2011 Budget Control Act.
Related: New CBO Director Renews Warning on Long-Term Debt
The agreement would be similar in scope to a two-year mini-budget agreement that was struck by Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) following a 16-day government shutdown in late 2013 that temporarily put an end to inter-party budget warfare. That agreement allowed for $45 billion more in spending above the caps in 2014 and $20 billion more in 2015, as well as $20 billion of deficit reduction.
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The Daily Signal
Obama Is Willing to Put Our National Security at Risk With a Veto
USS
Ronald Reagan and its embarked air wing, Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 5,
provide a combat-ready force that protects and defends the collective
maritime interests of the U.S. and its allies and partners in the
Indo-Asia-Pacific region. (Photo: U.S. Navy Specialist 2nd Class Paolo
Bayas)
The
Russians are bombing CIA-backed rebels in Syria and continuing to hold
parts of Ukraine. ISIS continues to spread in the Middle East and
inspire attacks around the world. Iran is receiving hundreds of billions
in sanctions relief, some of which will likely go to destabilizing the
Middle East. China is building illegal islands in the South China Sea.
Hundreds of thousands of refugees are streaming across Europe. The
Taliban is on the rise in Afghanistan. And our national secrets are
being vacuumed up by Chinese hackers.
At the same time, our national defense budget is being slashed.
Since 2011, the defense budget has been cut by 15 percent in real terms. If you include the war budget, which has been going down as we reduce troops in Afghanistan, the national defense has been cut 25 percent in four years.
As a result of these budget cuts, the U.S. military is smaller than it was on 9/11 and in many cases the smallest it has been in recent history.
At the same time, our national defense budget is being slashed.
Since 2011, the defense budget has been cut by 15 percent in real terms. If you include the war budget, which has been going down as we reduce troops in Afghanistan, the national defense has been cut 25 percent in four years.
As a result of these budget cuts, the U.S. military is smaller than it was on 9/11 and in many cases the smallest it has been in recent history.
The House of Representatives just passed the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 (NDAA), and it is headed to the Senate. This is a bipartisan bill that has been signed into law every year for 53 straight years, but Obama plans to veto it for one simple reason: it doesn’t increase non-defense spending. The president believes that defense and non-defense spending should be increased, and, according to the White House, “he will not fix defense without fixing non-defense spending.”
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John Boehner Admits Republicans are Willing to Put U.S. at Risk to Play Partisan Politics
February 16, 2015 By Allen Clifton
Republicans
are anything if not predictable. The moment they gained power back in
the Senate it was obvious that they were going to use that power to play
petty partisan politics. The truth is, controlling Congress means very
little as long as the person in the White House has veto power.
So
no matter what sort of propaganda Republicans spew about the nonsense
they’re going to undoubtedly shove through Congress, it’s still on them
to send the president legislation that they know he will sign, otherwise
they’re essentially just wasting time.
The
president is the one person who’s voted into office on a national scale,
meaning that they’re the one individual who truly “represents the
majority of the people.” So no matter what anyone in Congress says, it’s
beholden upon them to make sure whatever bills they’re sending to the
president’s desk actually have a chance at being signed. It’s extremely
rare for both the House and Senate to have the two-thirds majority
needed to override a presidential veto.
All
that being said, as many already know the Department of Homeland
Security is set to run out of funding fairly soon. Normally this
wouldn’t be a huge deal; all it would take is for Congress to pass a
bill funding the department, which would almost certainly be signed by
President Obama.
Simple, right?
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