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Post by Entendance on Oct 25, 2016 2:33:17 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on Dec 15, 2016 17:54:10 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on Dec 30, 2016 18:18:41 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on Jan 17, 2017 5:20:04 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on Jan 20, 2017 12:53:18 GMT -5
Trump's Inaugural Address "Chief Justice Roberts, President Carter, President Clinton, President Bush, President Obama, fellow Americans and people of the world, thank you.
We, the citizens of America, are now joined in a great national effort to rebuild our country and restore its promise for all of our people.
Together, we will determine the course of America and the world for many, many years to come. We will face challenges. We will confront hardships. But we will get the job done.
Every four years we gather on these steps to carry out the orderly and peaceful transfer of power.
And we are grateful to President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama for their gracious aid throughout this transition.
They have been magnificent.
Thank you.
Today's ceremony, however, has a very special meaning because today we are not merely transferring power from one administration to another or from one party to another, but we are transferring power from Washington, D.C., and giving it back to you, the people.
For too long, a small group in our nation's capital has reaped the rewards of government while the people have bore the cost. Washington flourished, but the people did not share in its wealth. Politicians prospered but the jobs left and the factories closed.
The establishment protected itself, but not the citizens of our country. Their victories have not been your victories. Their triumphs have not been your triumphs. And while they celebrated in our nation's capital, there was little to celebrate for struggling families all across our land.
That all changes starting right here and right now, because this moment is your moment. It belongs to you.
It belongs to everyone gathered here today and everyone watching all across America. This is your day. This is your celebration. And this, the United States of America, is your country.
What truly matters is not which party controls our government, but whether our government is controlled by the people.
January 20th, 2017, will be remembered as the day the people became the rulers of this nation again.
The forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer. Everyone is listening to you now. You came by the tens of millions to become part of a historic movement, the likes of which the world has never seen before.
At the center of this movement is a crucial conviction that a nation exists to serve its citizens. Americans want great schools for their children, safe neighborhoods for their families and good jobs for themselves.
These are just and reasonable demands of righteous people and a righteous public.
But for too many of our citizens, a different reality exists.
Mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities, rusted out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation.
An education system flush with cash but which leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of all knowledge.
And the crime and the gangs and the drugs that have stolen too many lives and robbed our country of so much unrealized potential. This American carnage stops right here and stops right now.
We are one nation, and their pain is our pain.
Their dreams are our dreams, and their success will be our success. We share one heart, one home and one glorious destiny.
The oath of office I take today is an oath of allegiance to all Americans.
For many decades we've enriched foreign industry at the expense of American industry, subsidized the armies of other countries while allowing for the very sad depletion of our military.
We've defended other nations' borders while refusing to defend our own. And we've spent trillions and trillions of dollars overseas while America's infrastructure has fallen into disrepair and decay.
We've made other countries rich while the wealth, strength and confidence of our country has dissipated over the horizon.
One by one, the factories shuttered and left our shores with not even a thought about the millions and millions of American workers that were left behind.
The wealth of our middle class has been ripped from their homes and then redistributed all across the world. But that is the past, and now we are looking only to the future.
But that is the past and now we are looking only to the future.
We assembled here today are issuing a new decree to be heard in every city, in every foreign capital and in every hall of power. From this day forward, a new vision will govern our land. From this day forward, it's going to be only America first -- America first.
Every decision on trade, on taxes, on immigration, on foreign affairs will be made to benefit American workers and American families. We must protect our borders from the ravages of other countries making our products, stealing our companies and destroying our jobs.
Protection will lead to great prosperity and strength. I will fight for you with every breath in my body. And I will never, ever let you down.
America will start winning again, winning like never before.
We will bring back our jobs. We will bring back our borders. We will bring back our wealth, and we will bring back our dreams. We will build new roads and highways and bridges and airports and tunnels and railways all across our wonderful nation. We will get our people off of welfare and back to work rebuilding our country with American hands and American labor. We will follow two simple rules -- buy American and hire American.
We will seek friendship and goodwill with the nations of the world.
But we do so with the understanding that it is the right of all nations to put their own interests first. We do not seek to impose our way of life on anyone but rather to let it shine as an example. We will shine for everyone to follow.
We will reinforce old alliances and form new ones. And unite the civilized world against radical Islamic terrorism, which we will eradicate completely from the face of the earth.
At the bedrock of our politics will be a total allegiance to the United States of America and through our loyalty to our country, we will rediscover our loyalty to each other. When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.
The Bible tells us how good and pleasant it is when God's people live together in unity. We must speak our minds openly, debate our disagreement honestly but always pursue solidarity. When America is united, America is totally unstoppable.
There should be no fear. We are protected, and we will always be protected. We will be protected by the great men and women of our military and law enforcement. And most importantly, we will be protected by God.
Finally, we must think big and dream even bigger. In America, we understand that a nation is only living as long as it is striving. We will no longer accept politicians who are all talk and no action, constantly complaining but never doing anything about it.
 The time for empty talk is over. Now arrives the hour of action.
Do not allow anyone to tell you that it cannot be done. No challenge can match the heart and fight and spirit of America. We will not fail. Our country will thrive and prosper again. We stand at the birth of a new millennium, ready to unlock the mysteries of space, to free the earth from the miseries of disease and to harness the energies, industries and technologies of tomorrow. A new national pride will stir ourselves, lift our sights and heal our divisions. It’s time to remember that old wisdom our soldiers will never forget -- that whether we are black or brown or white, we all bleed the same red blood of patriots.
We all enjoy the same glorious freedoms, and we all salute the same great American flag.
And whether a child is born in the urban sprawl of Detroit or the windswept plains of Nebraska, they look up at the same night sky, they fill their heart with the same dreams and they are infused with the breath of life by the same Almighty Creator.
So to all Americans in every city near and far, small and large, from mountain to mountain, from ocean to ocean, hear these words -- you will never be ignored again.
Your voice, your hopes and your dreams will define our American destiny. And your courage and goodness and love will forever guide us along the way. Together, we will make America strong again. We will make America wealthy again. We will make America proud again. We will make America safe again. And yes, together, we will make America great again.
Thank you, God bless you, and God bless America.
Thank you.
God bless you.
And God bless America.
The challenges ahead of us are truly great, but at least the election of Donald Trump has given us a glimmer of hope, and there are many that believe that a new day for America may finally be dawning after all these years. -Michael Snyder
 ...today's best comments: Draining the septic tank that is Washington will be a smelly job and will often require using stinky words. Go Donald.
Just follow through President Trump. Take names and kick fucking ass Donald!!! Hang them. We want our pound of flesh. We want some blood. Took some major cajones to stand up there and speak the truth to all of those self important pricks seated behind him. It gave me renewed hope for what's left of this Country. Americans did not vote for the status quo.
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Post by Entendance on Jan 24, 2017 12:40:17 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on Jan 29, 2017 8:05:16 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on Feb 1, 2017 8:03:29 GMT -5
"One of the reasons why President Trump is facing such enormous, vicious resistance to his restrictions on immigration is that shuttling “refugees” into this country is a multi-billion dollar business. Large organizations, especially the Catholic Church and major Protestant denominations, are running a very lucrative “resettlement” scam with the migrants they place in communities — paid for with federal tax dollars...The Church profits enormously from their resettlement programs, which of course isn’t really mentioned, and I wonder how many members of the Church realize that. The church leaders quoted make it seem like it’s all about love and caring for the refugees that they’re helping to resettle, but they leave out the profit motive. They don’t even seem to be unsettled about the very low numbers of Christians who are allowed, even though they are very clearly the most persecuted in most of these countries. Traitors to their country and traitors to Christ." HERE
Blame Obama, not Trump: Twitter trolls Pelosi for Yemen policy memory loss
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Post by Entendance on Feb 6, 2017 5:30:55 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on Feb 15, 2017 5:15:17 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on Feb 24, 2017 11:31:02 GMT -5
"...When did we last hear a Western Central Bank head tell the citizens that the best way of protecting themselves against the Central Bank’s destruction of the currency is to own gold.
Imagine if Janet Yellen told the Americans that the US will soon print unlimited amounts of money to save the country and therefore the Fed suggests that everyone buys 100 grams or 3 ounces of gold before they start printing. If 325 million Americans bought 3 oz of gold each the US people would own 32,500 tons which is 4X what the US government allegedly holds and 10 years’ global mine production. But even if the US population bought 1/10th of that they would own 3,250 tons which would be worth $130 billion. So instead of owning 100 grams like the people in Kyrgyzstan, every American would on average own 10 grams or 0.3oz of gold which today would cost $400 to acquire. Not an unattainable amount if saved over a couple of years.
But we are of course dreaming. Yellen would never tell the American people that the Fed and the US government will destroy the dollar. Nor will she tell them that since Nixon abolished the gold backing of the dollar in 1971, their money has lost 97% in real terms, when measured in gold.
Instead, in the next few years the American people will sadly find that their US dollar will be completely worthless. For a well-informed small minority, it is still possible to protect themselves by buying physical gold and silver today before the dollar reaches its intrinsic value of ZERO."
***WILL THE FED TELL EVERY AMERICAN TO BUY GOLD BEFORE IT DESTROYS THE DOLLAR?
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Post by Entendance on Mar 6, 2017 17:33:47 GMT -5
Ron Paul: History shows that, if individuals have the freedom to choose what to use as money, they will likely opt for gold or silver.
Of course, modern politicians and their Keynesian enablers despise the gold or silver standard. This is because linking a currency to a precious metal limits the ability of central banks to finance the growth of the welfare-warfare state via the inflation tax. This forces politicians to finance big government much more with direct means of taxation.
Despite the hostility toward gold from modern politicians, gold played a role in US monetary policy for sixty years after the creation of the Federal Reserve. Then, in 1971, as concerns over the US government’s increasing deficits led many foreign governments to convert their holdings of US dollars to gold, President Nixon closed the gold window, creating America’s first purely fiat currency.
America’s 46-year experiment in fiat currency has gone exactly as followers of the Austrian school predicted: a continuing decline in the dollar’s purchasing power accompanied by a decline in the standard of living of middle- and working-class Americans, a series of Federal Reserve-created booms followed by increasingly severe busts, and an explosive growth in government spending. Federal Reserve policies are also behind much of the increase in income inequality.
Since the 2008 Fed-created economic meltdown, more Americans have become aware of the Federal Reserve's responsibility for America's economic problems. This growing anti-Fed sentiment is one of the key factors behind the liberty movement’s growth and represents the most serious challenge to the Fed's legitimacy in its history. This movement has made “Audit the Fed” into a major national issue that is now closer than ever to being signed into law.
Audit the Fed is not the only focus of the growing anti-Fed movement. For example, this Wednesday the Arizona Senate Finance and Rules Committees will consider legislation (HB 2014) officially defining gold, silver, and other precious metals as legal tender. The bill also exempts transactions in precious metals from state capital gains taxes, thus ensuring that people are not punished by the taxman for rejecting Federal Reserve notes in favor of gold or silver. Since inflation increases the value of precious metals, these taxes give the government one more way to profit from the Federal Reserve’s currency debasement.
HB 2014 is a very important and timely piece of legislation. The Federal Reserve’s failure to reignite the economy with record-low interest rates since the last crash is a sign that we may soon see the dollar’s collapse. It is therefore imperative that the law protect people’s right to use alternatives to what may soon be virtually worthless Federal Reserve notes.
Passage of HB 2014 would also send a message to Congress and the Trump administration that the anti-Fed movement is growing in influence. Thus, passage of this bill will not just strengthen movements in other states to pass similar legislation; it will also help build support for the Audit the Fed bill and legislation repealing federal legal tender laws.
This Wednesday I will be in Arizona to help rally support for HB 2014, speaking on behalf of the bill before the Arizona Senate Finance Committee at 9:00 a.m. I will also be speaking at a rally at noon at the Arizona state capitol. I hope every supporter of sound money in the Phoenix area joins me to show their support for ending the Fed’s money monopoly."
*** Sound and Honest Money: Fred & Entendance Gold & Silver Private Beach
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Post by Entendance on Mar 8, 2017 10:15:56 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on Mar 21, 2017 6:13:51 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on Apr 5, 2017 4:44:31 GMT -5
"... you may believe Trump is being threatened on all sides by the so-called “deep state,” or you may believe that he has willingly surrounded himself with global elitists because he is a Trojan horse. Either way, the diagnosis for the future is not rosy. It would be naive to think that the globalists would not do everything in their power to foment calamity in the near term. It would be equally naive to believe that such an agenda could be repelled through political means. 
The answer, as always, is a prepared citizenry. This can act as a deterrent as much as a measure of comfort. The more prepared the public is for any eventuality, the less affected we will be by disaster. The less affected we are by disaster, the less fearful we will be when it strikes and the less likely we will be to make stupid decisions such as throwing our support behind martial law and the wholesale erasure of the constitution. The more prepared we are, the fewer options available to the establishment when attempting to lure us into poor collective decisions.
Prepping means freedom in the face of uncertainty, and times have never been more uncertain. To summarize: A Trump White House calls for more caution, not less." ***With Trump As President Prepping Is More Important Than Ever
***This Economy Is Ruined For Many Americans
***Trump Lessons in Europe ***many traders will be in for a surprise... ***ἢ τὰν ἢ ἐπὶ τᾶς
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Post by Entendance on Apr 6, 2017 2:15:03 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on May 16, 2017 7:14:21 GMT -5
Quotation of the Day
“They’ve set up a perfect scheme here. It was rigged so there was no way they could lose.” — Benjamin Poehling, a whistle-blower at UnitedHealth Group, who asserts that the big insurance companies have been systematically bilking Medicare Advantage for years, reaping billions of taxpayer dollars from the program by gaming the payment system. Welcome to Americon? H/T Tom from Florida 
"It's frightening to think that you might not know something, but more frightening to think that, by and large, the world is run by people who have faith that they know exactly what's going on." -Amos Tversky
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Post by Entendance on May 18, 2017 4:18:10 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on Jun 14, 2017 15:17:38 GMT -5
Nam tua res agitur, paries cum proximus ardet... (It is your concern when your neighbors’s wall is on fire... You too are in danger when your neighbor’s house is on fire)
***Oliver Stone speaks of “The Putin Interviews.” H/T Tom from Florida |
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Post by Entendance on Jun 16, 2017 3:27:16 GMT -5
***Ron Paul's Statement on The Fed's Rate Hike
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"...the disequilibrium in the world is not just financial, it is also moral, ethical and political. In the final stages of an era, all values disappear and the ugliest side of mankind appears. We see this currently all around us. US politics has become a total farce better than any television drama. It is hard to believe what is happening is actually real. The problem is that what we are seeing is a stark reality that has serious consequences for the US as well as for the rest of the world. It will not only lead to financial disaster but also serious political and geopolitical disasters. Only afterwards will the historians know if the cyclical peak in the world economy that we are experiencing now is just the end of a 100-year era from the creation of the Fed in 1913 or a 700 year period from the beginning of the Renaissance or from the Roman Empire 2000 years ago.
Whatever cycle we are in, it will lead to a very extended period of misery and economic hardship for the world. Since the $2.5 quadrillion liabilities can never be repaid or run down in an orderly fashion, we will in the next few years experience a debt implosion which will be totally devastating. Not only will debt implode but also all the assets that have been fuelled by the debt bubble. Hopefully it will not take 500 years like the Dark Ages after the fall of the Roman Empire. But the world is likely to see an extended decline that will affect all of us..." More here
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Post by Entendance on Jul 4, 2017 5:22:24 GMT -5
***3 Things to Remember on Independence Day
***Can you declare your independence from single-use plastic today?
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"...The burial of the present monetary system may begin in slow stages, as Russia and China together begin to sell their products to the world, in exchange for gold.
At this time, we don't know how the transition to gold as the world's money is going to take place. Perhaps it will begin when the Euroasian Bloc attributes a much higher price to gold, as compared with its present price; or perhaps it will begin with gold denominated in terms of its present price. But whatever technique is used, the price of gold will have to register a dramatic rise, towards a figure at least ten times its present price, and possibly much higher..." -Hugo Salinas Price
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Post by Entendance on Aug 12, 2017 3:20:16 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on Aug 15, 2017 3:31:40 GMT -5
"The economy continues to grow weaker despite all of the Fed, Wall St. and media propaganda to the contrary. The economy is growing weaker due to the deteriorating financial condition of the consumer, which is by far the biggest driver of GDP in the United States. The only way the policy-makers can avoid a systemic collapse is “helicopter” money printing, in which printed cash or digital currency credits is, in some manner, distributed to the populace.
The Fed reported that non-revolving consumer debt (not including mortgage debt) hit $2.6 trillion at the end of the first quarter. Student loans outstanding hit a record $1.44 trillion. Recall that at least 40% of this debt is in some form of delinquency, default or “approved” non-pay status. Auto loans hit a record $1.2 trillion. Of this, at the very least 30% is subprime. A meaningful portion of the auto debt is of such poor credit quality when it’s issued that it is not even rated. Credit card debt is now over $1 trillion dollars and at a record level. The average outstanding balance per capita is $9600 per card for those who don’t pay in full at the end of the month. Just counting the households with credit card debt balances, the average balance per household is $16,000. The average household auto loan balance for all households with a car loan is over $29,000.
The data shows a consumer that is buried in debt and will likely begin to default at an accelerating rate this year. In fact, I’d call these statistics an impending economic and financial disaster. Credit card companies are already warning about credit charge-offs. Synchrony (which issues credit cards for Amazon and Walmart) reported that its credit card charge-offs would rise at least 5% in 2017..." ***Household Debt At Record Level – Bigger Than China’s GDP
***Will The August 21st Solar Eclipse Begin A Period Of “40 Days And 40 Nights” For America?
***We Can Stop North Korea From Attacking Us. All We Have to Do Is Not Attack Them.
***Total Government And Personal Debt In The U.S. Has Hit 41 Trillion Dollars ($329,961.34 Per Household)
...and now the latest banksters move:  ***Goldman launches new online lending strategy for mass affluent
Ring-a-round the rosie,
A pocket full of posies,
Ashes! Ashes!
We all fall down Wealth lending. Orwellian product name. ***Wall Street Needs You to Borrow Against Your Stock
Who owns U.S. debt internationally? ...and what foreign debt does U.S. own?
Visualizing Who Holds U.S. Debt Internationally
(If you think education is expensive...then try ignorance: ***Cognitive Dissonance, Economics & Politics)
This is why in Gold We Trust
Gold bullion refers to specific pieces of physical metal held in your name and title. It is not a paper proxy for gold, but the real thing—and you own it outright.
When you own gold bullion, you can never suffer a default. There’s no counterparty to make good on a paper contract. Once you buy gold bullion, it’s yours, and it doesn’t require the backing of any bank, government, or brokerage firm.
Gold is...
•Liquid – easily convertible to cash
•Portable – you can hold $50,000 in a small coin tube
•Divisible – splitting up diamonds changes their value
•Durable – how long would wheat last as money?
•Consistent – one piece of real estate is always different than another
•Convenient – copper coins of sufficient value would be too bulky and heavy
•Value dense – high value held in a small quantity
•Private and confidential – you control who knows you own it
Gold has been considered valuable for thousands of years, and it will always have value. No matter what the social, political, or financial climate has been in the world, gold has never gone to zero or defrauded an investor. It is the ultimate form of money.
Only own physical precious metals in safe vaults in safe jurisdictions!
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Post by Entendance on Aug 24, 2017 7:18:31 GMT -5
"...Ordinary people are very fortunate that they are never exposed to the real problems in the world. Between Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and some game shows on television, they are blissfully ignorant of the very precarious position the world is in. Luckily for most people, television news and newspapers report very little that touches on anything but local news or the latest divorce or affair by their favourite artist. Virtually no journalist today is capable of doing any analysis or objective reporting. They just report what they are being fed by government or a handful of media organisations that dominate the world.
Nine steps to the abyss
The average person is totally ignorant of the insoluble risks facing the world currently, namely..."
More here
"...The United States is a fundamentally different country than its Founders had intended. George Washington’s famous Farewell Address asserted that, ”It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliance with any portion of the foreign world”; and the third President, Thomas Jefferson, said in his equally famous Inaugural Address, that there should be “Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations –- entangling alliances with none.” Jefferson’s comment there was also a succinct tip-of-the-hat to yet another major concern that the Founders had regarding treaties (“entangling alliances”) –- that by discriminating in favor of the treaty-partners, they also discriminate against non-partner nations, and so endanger “peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations,” which was the Founders’ chief goal in their foreign policies. Today’s America instead seeks wars, and craves friendship with only ‘allies’, but demands “regime change” to ‘enemies’, who thus are especially necessary to the military-industrial complex (the firms that profit from wars), who now rule in the empire’s center.
It’s not personal; it is systemic. As Glennon said, “it was necessary to maintain the illusion that national security was controlled by our constitutionally established democratic institutions.” The only people who stand above the system are the ones whose interests set the system up as it is, and keep it running, “on ‘automatic pilot.’”
Alliances are a crucial part of that system, just as has been the case for every empire in the past. And, it’s something that America’s Founders had tried their best to prevent. Long after the American Revolution, the foxes have retaken the American chicken coop. Only this time, it’s America’s aristocracy (domestic “foxes”), not Britain’s (foreign ones), who are in control. It’s no longer “our constitutionally established democratic institutions,” but our own aristocracy. They determine which other nations’ governments are ‘our’ allies, and which are ‘our’ enemies. They rule the world — or at least they try to, like a slave-master with his whip..." ***The Destructiveness of America’s Alliances
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Post by Entendance on Aug 31, 2017 10:26:09 GMT -5
"For much of this country’s working class, the American Dream is dead. In case you didn’t already know that, cost-estimating website HowMuch.net created a grim map that tells the sad tale.
In the chart below, each bubble represents a city. The color corresponds to the amount of money the average American family has left over at the end of the year after paying for their living costs, like housing, food and transportation. The darker the shade of red, the worse off you are. The greener, the better. The bubble size also fits a sliding scale..."***The Working Class Can’t Afford the American DreamH/T Tom from Florida
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Post by Entendance on Sept 1, 2017 5:24:14 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on Sept 12, 2017 4:12:15 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on Oct 5, 2017 4:28:36 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on Oct 14, 2017 5:24:33 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on Oct 17, 2017 4:39:22 GMT -5
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The time for empty talk is over. Now arrives the hour of action.
...today's best comments: Draining the septic tank that is Washington will be a smelly job and will often require using stinky words. Go Donald. 
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"What the Federal Reserve is actually whining about is not low inflation--it's that high inflation isn't pushing wages higher like it's supposed to. 
