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Originally posted by Electro38
Just a thought. But what if job losses begin to stop. Unemployment percentage lowers to say 5%. Housing starts to improve. People are working and the value of their houses improve.
Now, would people still be angry? If so then what about?
I know that might not happen, but regardless, if jobs, housing begin to improve, people have more money. Would anyone worry about this other stuff?
Originally posted by Badgered1
Let's not rely on another 911 commission for the answers.
Originally posted by Electro38
I think something that could be effective would be to have a massive strike. No one go to work, shut everything down for a day or two. The gov. would not like that at all.
But then, we just might make things worse, and how many people do you think would participate?
Originally posted by XKrossX
Uhg...I think I need a drink....is 10:30 am too early?
Originally posted by lpowell0627
Originally posted by Electro38
I think something that could be effective would be to have a massive strike. No one go to work, shut everything down for a day or two. The gov. would not like that at all.
But then, we just might make things worse, and how many people do you think would participate?
Although impractical on a large scale, it is one thing that would get the gov't to take notice. However, everyone would have to refuse to go to work AND refuse to get paid. That's the only way to put a dent in the income taxes that the gov't gets.
And sadly, one day wouldn't really cut it.
Further, it would be difficult to get people to participate since there are way too many people in need of a job (these people rioting wouldn't help because they aren't currently paying income taxes) and those that refused to go to work would most likely fear losing their job to one of the many unemployed.
Screaming constituents, protesters dragged out by the cops, congressmen fearful for their safety — welcome to the new town-hall-style meeting, the once-staid forum that is rapidly turning into a house of horrors for members of Congress.
On the eve of the August recess, members are reporting meetings that have gone terribly awry, marked by angry, sign-carrying mobs and disruptive behavior. In at least one case, a congressman has stopped holding town hall events because the situation has spiraled so far out of control. Source
I do question Paul's intentions myself. First, given the seeming requirement that one be under blackmail to TPTB to see any political progress, lightly at the county level, and then more so the higher you get, I wonder what he is being blackmailed to do.
What can anyone do with a raped and spent USA? Wouldn't it be in everyone's best interests to not screw over the middle class/poor, the people who buy things here and pay taxes?
"Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring that about?" Maurice Strong
In Sept. 14, 1994 David Rockefeller, speaking at the UN Business Council,. "This present window of opportunity, during which a truly peaceful and interdependent world order might be built, will not be open for too long - We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order."
the 2002 Rockefeller autobiography “Memoirs” where on page 405," Mr. Rockefeller writes: “For more than a century ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents... to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as “internationalists and of conspiring with others around the world ... If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.”
David Rockefeller praised the major media for their complicity in helping to facilitate the globalist agenda by saying, "We are grateful to the Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. . . . It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries."
Indeed, it has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing Constitution if the population crisis became sufficiently severe to endanger the society.
....Adding a sterilant to drinking water or staple foods is a suggestion that seems to horrify people more than most proposals for involuntary fertility control. Indeed, this would pose some very difficult political, legal, and social questions, to say nothing of the technical problems. No such sterilant exists today, nor does one appear to be under development. To be acceptable, such a substance would have to meet some rather stiff requirements: it must be uniformly effective, despite widely varying doses received by individuals, and despite varying degrees of fertility and sensitivity among individuals; it must be free of dangerous or unpleasant side effects; and it must have no effect on members of the opposite sex, children, old people, pets, or livestock.
If there were no stores, no banks, etc., and we went back to the age of bartering, what would your money get you then?