Tuesday, September 12, 2017
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Debt Nightmare: Does Anyone Actually Care That Our Exploding National Debt Is Destroying Our Future? - Michael Snyder THE ECONOMIC COLLAPSE BLOG
Debt Nightmare: Does Anyone Actually Care That Our Exploding National Debt Is Destroying Our Future?
Michael Snyder THE ECONOMIC COLLAPSE BLOG Sept. 12, 2017 When will America finally wake up? The borrower is the servant of the lender, and we now have a colossal 20 trillion dollar chain around our collective ankles. We have willingly enslaved ourselves, our children and our grandchildren, and yet our addiction is so insatiable that we continue to add more than 100 million dollars to our debt load every single hour of every single day. The national debt is sitting at a grand total of $20,162,176,797,904.13 at this moment, but now that the debt ceiling has been lifted that number is expected to shoot up very rapidly toward 21 trillion dollars by the end of the year. The national debt had been held down by accounting tricks to keep it under the debt limit for many months, but every time this has happened before we have seen the national debt absolutely explode back to projected levels once the debt ceiling was raised. But very few of our “leaders” in Washington seem to care that we are in the process of committing national suicide. There is no possible way that we will be able to continue to be the most powerful economy on the planet if we continue down this road. During Obama’s eight years in the White House, we added more than 9 trillion dollars to the national debt. That certainly improved things in the short-term, because if we could go back and take 9 trillion dollars out of the economy over the past 8 years we would be in an absolutely nightmarish economic depression right now. But even with all of this borrowing and spending, our economy has still only grown at an average rate of just 1.33 percent a year over the last 10 years. And by going into so much debt, we are literally destroying the future for our children and our grandchildren. What we are doing to them is beyond criminal, and people should be going to prison over this. But instead we just keep rewarding these Congress critters by sending the same cast of characters back to Washington over and over again. Are we insane? The feds are now projecting that the official yearly budget deficit will reach 1.4 trillion dollars by 2027. Of course federal projections always end up being far more optimistic than reality. And we are already spending about 500 billion dollars a year just on interest on the national debt, and by 2027 that number is projected to jump to 760 billion dollars a year. This is complete and utter insanity, and yet we just can’t control ourselves. The government continues to throw around money as if there is no tomorrow, and our tax dollars are being wasted on some of the most ridiculous things imaginable. For instance, the U.S. military is spending 42 million dollars each year on Viagra. We must stop this madness, and we must stop it now. I really like how an editorial in the Houston Chronicle made this point… Tax-and-spend politics are bad, but borrow-and-spend is worse. While we have some control over whether our lawmakers raise taxes, our children and grandchildren don’t get a vote on whether we burden them with debt.Will we ever learn? Since the beginning of our nation, many of our most prominent statesmen have been warning about the dangers of accumulating government debt. For example, during his farewell address President George Washington instructed the country to “avoid … the accumulation of debt not only by shunning occasions of expense but by vigorous exertions to discharge the debts, no throwing upon posterity the burden which we ourselves ought to bear.” And Thomas Jefferson famously said that he wished that he could have added one more amendment to the U.S. Constitution which would have banned government borrowing… “I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our constitution. I would be willing to depend on that alone for the reduction of the administration of our government to the genuine principles of it’s constitution; I mean an additional article, taking from the federal government the power of borrowing.”This is one of the primary reasons why we must abolish the Federal Reserve system. The Federal Reserve was actually designed to create a government debt spiral from which we could never possibly escape. That is why the size of our national debt has gotten more than 5000 times larger since 1913, and we are never going to permanently solve our national debt problem until we get rid of the Fed. Most Americans don’t realize this, but the path that we are currently on is not sustainable by any definition. Debt levels are growing much, much faster than GDP, and that is a recipe for disaster. The following is an excerpt from one of my previous articles… We are living in the greatest debt bubble in the history of the world. In 1980, total government and personal debt in the United States was just over the 3 trillion dollar mark, but today it has surpassed 41 trillion dollars. That means that it has increased by almost 14 times since Ronald Reagan was first elected president. I am searching for words to describe how completely and utterly insane this is, but I am coming up empty. We are slowly but surely committing national suicide, and yet most Americans don’t even understand what is happening.Sadly, most people are entirely clueless about what we are doing to ourselves. Investors are the most optimistic that they have been in years, and most of the talking heads on television seem to believe that the party can go on indefinitely. But that is simply not possible. And the same thing is true from a global perspective as well. The following comes from Chris Martenson… First: our entire economic model, which dependent on borrowing at a faster rate than income (GDP) grows, is something that simply cannot be maintained at its current rate or level. Check.The clock is ticking, and disaster awaits at the end of this road. Will somebody please do something? Michael Snyder is a Republican candidate for Congress in Idaho’s First Congressional District, and you can learn how you can get involved in the campaign on his official website. His new book entitled “Living A Life That Really Matters” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com. |
'ISRAEL MAY HAVE STRUCK THE SYRIAN WEAPONS FACILITY BEFORE HEZBOLLAH COULD TAKE OVER' - ANNA AHRONHEIM Jerusalem Post
'ISRAEL MAY HAVE STRUCK THE SYRIAN WEAPONS FACILITY BEFORE HEZBOLLAH COULD TAKE OVER'
BY ANNA AHRONHEIM Jerusalem Post
SEPTEMBER 7, 2017 12:58
A top Israeli security expert says that there's a strong chance Hezbollah leader Hassan Nassrallah was planning on taking over the chemical weapons facility Israel targeted.
The Syrian military research center allegedly struck by Israeli warplanes on Thursday morning could have been targeted because of fears Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah asked Damascus to hand over the facility to his Lebanese Shi’ite terrorist group, a former national security adviser said on Thursday.
According to Maj.-Gen (res.) Yaakov Amidror, an analyst at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies in Ramat Gan, the strike on the Al-Tala’i Scientific Studies and Research Center may have been a consequence of Nasrallah’s visit to Damascus last week.
Nasrallah boasted of his visit to the Syrian capital in a live speech, but according to Amidror – who was speaking on a conference call organized by the Israel Project – it may be more than a case of the facility producing weapon systems for Hezbollah; Nasrallah may have asked the Assad regime to give it to his group.
The facility has been known for many years as a center for research and development for weapons systems, including chemical weapons.
Noting that Thursday’s strike came almost 10 years to the day after the Israeli strike on the Syrian nuclear reactor in Deir Ezzor, Amidror said that it should be clear to Damascus that Israel will not allow Iran or Hezbollah to build up their capabilities because of the “chaotic mess in Syria.”
While the IDF did not comment on the strike, as it does not comment on foreign reports, it would not be the first time Israeli jets have hit Assad regime and Hezbollah targets in Syria.
Jerusalem has repeatedly said while it has no interest in getting involved in Syria’s seven-year- old civil war, it has red lines, including the smuggling of sophisticated weaponry to Hezbollah and an Iranian presence on its borders.
In a recent interview with Haaretz, former Israel Air Force head Maj.-Gen. (res.) Amir Eshel said that Israel carried out at least 100 strikes over the past five years against the transfer of advanced arms, including chemical weapons, from the Assad regime to Hezbollah.
According to Amidror, while the latest strike would fit that policy, destroying advanced weapon systems destined for Hezbollah, Israel actually prevented them from being produced in the first place.
Israel is closer than ever to its demise: Hezbollah official (credit: MEMRI)
Play VideoHezbollah official says Israel is closer than ever to its demise (credit: MEMRI)
“It’s another level of intervening,” Amidror said, adding that it was the first time that the Syrian target which was attacked is a full-fledged facility, not just a warehouse but one responsible for producing chemical weapons and rockets and missiles.
Michael Horowitz, director of intelligence at Prime Source, a Middle East-based geopolitical consultancy firm, told The Jerusalem Post that this Israeli strike is significant due to its location, which is close to both a Russian air defense base as well a suspected Iranian missile production facility.
While Israel has a “de-conflict” mechanism with Moscow and has implemented a system in order to avoid accidental clashes over Syria, according to Horowitz, the reports that Israel carried out the strike from Lebanese airspace “was likely meant to decrease the risk of a Russian response – whether or not Moscow would indeed approve of such a response.”
In March, the IAF struck several targets in Syria, one of which nearly hit Russian troops in the area, and led to Moscow summoning the Israeli ambassador in protest. Thursday’s strike came shortly after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with President Vladimir Putin in Sochi, where he reiterated Israel’s red lines.
According to Horowitz, “One of the goals of the strike was to push Russia to take into consideration Israeli concerns and show that otherwise Israel would act unilaterally, without Putin’s approval.”
Amos Yadlin, a former head of IDF Military Intelligence and executive director of the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv, took to Twitter, saying that the strike sent an important message, namely that Israel intends to enforce its red lines, “despite the fact that the great powers are ignoring them.”
Yadlin said that it was now important to prevent things from escalating and to prepare for a Syrian-Iranian-Hezbollah response.
Following the strike, the Syrian Army warned against the “dangerous repercussions of this aggressive action for the security and stability of the region.”
But according to Horowitz, it is likely that any response by the Assad regime or Hezbollah will be limited. “Thus far, both the Syrian regime and Hezbollah have failed to respond to the Israeli effort to stop the smuggling of weapons from Syria and the building of new missile production facilities in the country,” he told the Post.
“Beyond symbolic attacks coming from Syria, which remain quite risky in the current context with both [President Bashar] Assad and Nasrallah busy in eastern Syria, I think the main response will be an acceleration of Iranian efforts to entrench themselves in Syria.
As long as none of the ‘great powers’ commits to countering Iranian influence in the country, Israeli can only delay what seems inevitable – namely an Iranian militarization of Syria,” Horowitz said.
Lance Wallnau - "Standing in the Gap for America — It is Time for an Awakening!"
"Standing in the Gap for America
— It is Time for an Awakening!"
That which is going to happen, it's going to happen exactly as the Spirit of God ordains it...
This is not the time for destruction, this is not the time for that, this is the time of grace, this is the time of peace, this is the time of the open door for restoration and recovery for America... this is the time for the awakening.
This is not the time for destruction, this is not the time for that, this is the time of grace, this is the time of peace, this is the time of the open door for restoration and recovery for America... this is the time for the awakening.
Sept. 11, 2017
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Lance Wallnau
Lance Learning Group
Lance Learning Group
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