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Originally posted by thehoneycomb
reply to post by mastahunta
Yeah how many Americans use credit to buy flat screen TVs and then complain when they can't afford the payments.
I don't use credit cards or purchase anything with credit. I use cash. If you don't have the cash to pay for something and betting on being able to pay it down the road you are betting on future which is totally uncertain. If you can't afford something, don't buy it and especially don't finance it.
Originally posted by thehoneycomb
All I know is that I fully support OWS and what they are doing, because they are standing up for us ALL. Even if you hate them, they are trying to make your life and your kids lives better.
I wish OWS would stop claiming to be standing up for me and my kids. My message to OWS is to stay the hell away from me and especially my kids. They do not know whats best for me or my family and their actions are proof.
Stay the hell away.
Perkins defines economic hit men as "highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. They funnel money from the World Bank, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and other foreign ‘aid' organizations into the coffers of huge corporations and the pockets of a few wealthy families who control the planet's natural resources. Their tools include fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, and murder. They play a game as old as empire, but one that has taken on new and terrifying dimensions during this time of globalization."
In Perkins' case, he was hired as an economist for the international consulting firm of Chas. T. Main, Inc. (MAIN). He was told in confidential meetings with "special consultant" to the company Claudine Martin that he had two primary objectives:
1. He was supposed to justify huge loans for countries. These loans would be for major engineering and construction projects, which were to be carried out by MAIN and other U.S. companies such as Bechtel, Halliburton, Stone & Webster and Brown & Root.
2. He was supposed to help bankrupt the countries that received these loans after the U.S. companies involved had been paid. This would make sure that these countries would remain in debt to their creditors and would then be easy targets when the U.S. needed favors such as military bases, UN votes and access to natural resources like oil.
Originally posted by Ashes of the wake
reply to post by AzureSky
You posted as i was writing mine and i just had to post again and say great post. I credit carlin for starting to wake me up, and after many years of research i realize just how right he was.
Its like this matrix of a world we live in is some kind of twisted, sick dream where you cant wake up. I dont think the average person can even comprehend the horrific things going on with our government and the corporations that run it.
Originally posted by Ashes of the wake
reply to post by AzureSky
Collapse is inevitable under our current system. Ive been trying to prepare but it isnt easy. Im afraid its going to get really rough very soon. It boggles my mind thinking of the consequences we face.
Best of luck to you and your family in the coming years.
I was also surprised at how many people on this website were against occupy wall street, let alone average people who don't go to this site.