UK – 5,000,000 Families are Out of money and Out of food!

It is shocking to find over 40% of the UK families are being forced to borrow money just to put food on the family table. In the long term this can not be good for the UK economy, the EU or the worlds long term recovery from a long running recession / depression.

In the UK – the equivalent of five million households used credit cards, overdrafts or savings to buy food during the month of April 2013.

A recent survey, 43% were headed by people between 30 and 50, while just under half had incomes under £21,000 ($34,000.00).
This research found that 55% of those using credit to do weekly shopping planned to cut back on food in the coming months, with almost a third saying they had to borrow from friends or family in order to make ends meet. This study also found that one quarter of people said 36% said they felt their finances were under pressure.

Almost one third, 31% of those surveyed cut back spending on essentials last month, and they were most likely to be women aged between 30 and 49. Our tracker shows that many households are stretched to their financial breaking point, with rising food prices one of the top worries for squeezed consumers.

It’s simply shocking that so many people need to use savings or credit to pay for essentials like food. A spokesman for Oxfam said that millions of people were under pressure from a combination of rising prices and stagnant incomes with their problems added to by cuts to services and safety nets.

Cyprus Surrenders Government To Germany And European Central Bank

Cyprus government and Cyprus banks can no longer be trusted to protect investors and citizens deposits in Cyprus banks. Government seized 40 percent of depositors money to fund Cyprus government and bank bailouts. Simos Angelides, a lawyer said “get your money out of Cyprus or loose it.” Simos Angelides said “We had the Turkish invasion in 1974. This now the German invasion of 2013.”

John Leonidou, a reporter with the Cyprus Weekly said “The talk among a lot of locals is that Germany has engineered this deliberately to scare off the Russians and so that they can get their hands on the LNG deposits. That way we will be forced to turn to Germany as our next sugar daddy. We have been forced to slap the Russians in the face, even though we didn’t want to.”

Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, Spain and now Cyprus is now under the financial control of Germany, European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
Germany has ceased control Southern Europe without firing a shot.
Who’s next, France? The UK, Scotland?

Will Germany declare these countries to be German states?

The true fact is, when a country no longer control’s it’s own money supply, that country is no longer a independent sovereign nation.

British Singer Morrissey Said “Heterosexuals Cause Wars”

Source Morrissey said “Straight Men to Blame for War”

British singer Morrissey is confirmed as Feburary 2013, Idiot Of The Month.

Morrissey said “Wars and armies and nuclear weapons are essentially heterosexual hobbies.”
Morrissey also indicated that those that eat meat are “in effect serial animal killers.”

What an Idiot!

Why is common sense so uncommon?

This Weeks Odd and Weird Head Line News Stories

Gas power station activists being sued by owners of plant for $8 million USD
It is well past time to force protestors to man-up and pay for damaged property and loss profits caused by protestors.

Activists who occupied a power station for a week to highlight their opposition to producing electricity from natural gas are being sued for $8 million dollars by the owners of the power plant.

Source Most of the world’s population are out of touch with the natural world At age 86, has David Attenborough gone senile? Placing the saving a Amazon frog or some insect over the health and safety of Humans?

Source Calorie levels on food packaging ‘wildly misleading’ Calorie levels printed on food packaging are wildly misleading and should not be relied upon by dieters, nutritionists claim. Manufacturers’ measurements of energy levels in their food do not include fibre, which accounts for about five per cent of our calorie intake.

Cooking and processing food can alter calorie levels by up to 30 per cent because we burn more energy digesting things which are hard and uncooked, experts explained. Nutritionists recommend that an adult should consume 18g of fibre per day, the equivalent of an additional 250 calories per week.

There are two basic reasons why raw food provide less calories than cooked foods, they are less digestible and also the bits that can be digested cost more to break down. We are talking at least a difference of between 10 to 30 percent. There is a lot of misinformation around calories, and it is crucial for the consumer, whether they are on a diet or not, to have the correct information about what they eat.

Source Only one in three men are at ‘a healthy weight’ 2/3′s of men have a fat ass unhealthy weight. Only one in three men are now considered a normal weight, as the obesity epidemic means the majority are too heavy.

One in four (25 percent)of men and women are now considered obese, with a BMI of more than 30, with the rest classed as overweight. The obesity crisis in children may be levelling off as the figures showed that 31 percent of boys aged two to 15 were considered obese or overweight in 2011, the same as the previous year. In girls, 28 percent were classed as obese or overweight in 2011, compared with 29 percent in 2010.

One in ten (10 percent) of children starting primary school in 2011/12 were classed as obese. The report also revealed that there were 11,740 inpatient admissions with a primary diagnosis of obesity in 2011/12, triple the number recorded in 2006/07.

This report also showed that purchases of fresh and processed fruit and vegetables have been on a downward trend since 2008. To fat and Lazy to Cook! Purchases for fruit were 4.1 percent lower in 2011 compared to 2008, and the amount of vegetables purchased reduced by 2.4 percent, with a 6.6 percent reduction in purchases of fresh green vegetables.

Source Sitting down at work ‘increases risks of cancer’ Sit down and get cancer, diabetes, heart disease and high blood pressure. Prof Rosenkranz, of Kansas State University in Kansas, US, said “We saw a steady increase in risk of chronic diseases with the men who sat more. The group of people who said they sit more than eight hours clearly had the highest risk.”

We know people who are more physically active do better with regard to chronic disease compared with less physically active people. It’s not just that people aren’t getting enough physical activity, but it’s that they’re also sitting too much, and on top of that, the more you sit, the less time you have for physical activity.

The study’s findings are particularly relevant for office workers who spend long amounts of time at their desk, as well as truck drivers. This study was published in the International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity.

Things Are Getting Better In America – Right?

Source Show This To Anyone That Believes That “Things Are Getting Better” In America Guest Post: Show This To Anyone That Believes That “Things Are Getting Better” In America By: Zero Hedge Submitted by Michael of The Economic Collapse blog,

How can anyone not see that the U.S. economy is collapsing all around us? It just astounds me when people try to tell me that “everything is just fine” and that “things are getting better” in America. Are there people out there that are really that blind? If you want to see the economic collapse, just open up your eyes and look around you. By almost every economic and financial measure, the U.S. economy has been steadily declining for many years. But most Americans are so tied into “the matrix” that they can only understand the cheerful propaganda that is endlessly being spoon-fed to them by the mainstream media.

As I have said so many times, the economic collapse is not a single event. The economic collapse has been happening, it is is happening right now, and it will continue to happen. Yes, there will be times when our decline will be punctuated by moments of great crisis, but that will be the exception rather than the rule. A lot of people that write about “the economic collapse” hype it up as if it will be some huge “event” that will happen very rapidly and then once it is all over we will rebuild. Unfortunately, that is not how the real world works.

We are living in the greatest debt bubble in the history of the world, and once it completely bursts there will be no going back to how things were before. Right now, we are living in a “credit card economy”. As long as we can keep borrowing more money, most people think that things are just fine. But anyone that has lived on credit cards knows that eventually there comes a point when the game is over, and we are rapidly approaching that point as a nation.

Have you ever been there? Have you ever desperately hoped that you could just get one more credit card or one more loan so that you could keep things going?

At first, living on credit can be a lot of fun. You can live a much higher standard of living than you otherwise would be able to.

But inevitably a day of reckoning comes.

If the federal government and the American people were forced at this moment to live within their means, the U.S. economy would immediately plunge into a depression.

That is a 100% rock solid guarantee.

But our politicians and the mainstream media continue to perpetuate the fiction that we can live in this credit card economic fantasy land indefinitely.

And most Americans could not care less about the future. As long as “things are good” today, they don’t really think much about what the future will hold.

As a result of our very foolish short-term thinking, we have now run up a national debt of 16.4 trillion dollars. It is the largest debt in the history of the world, and it has gotten more than 23 times larger since Jimmy Carter first entered the White House.

The chart that you see below is a recipe for national financial suicide…

U.S. National Debt

Of course things have accelerated over the past four years. Since Barack Obama entered the White House, the U.S. government has run a budget deficit of well over a trillion dollars every single year, and we have stolen more than 100 million dollars from our children and our grandchildren every single hour of every single day.

It is the biggest theft of all time. What we are doing to our children and our grandchildren is beyond criminal.

And now our debt is at a level that most economists would consider terminal. When Barack Obama first entered the White House, the U.S. debt to GDP ratio was under 70 percent. Today, it is up to 103 percent.

We are officially in “the danger zone”.

If things really were “getting better” in America, we would not need to borrow so much money.

Our politicians are stealing from the future in order to make the present look better. During Obama’s first term, the federal government accumulated more debt than it did under the first 42 U.S presidents combined.

That is utter insanity!

If you started paying off just the new debt that the U.S. has accumulated during the Obama administration at the rate of one dollar per second, it would take more than 184,000 years to pay it off.

So what is the solution?

Get ready to laugh.

The most prominent economic journalist in the entire country, Paul Krugman of the New York Times, recently suggested the following in an article that he wrote entitled “Kick That Can”…

Realistically, we’re not going to resolve our long-run fiscal issues any time soon, which is O.K. — not ideal, but nothing terrible will happen if we don’t fix everything this year. Meanwhile, we face the imminent threat of severe economic damage from short-term spending cuts.

So we should avoid that damage by kicking the can down the road. It’s the responsible thing to do.

You mean that we might actually do damage to the debt-fueled economic fantasy world that we are living in if we stopped stealing so much money from future generations?

Oh the humanity!

It is horrifying to think that all that one of the “top economic minds” in America can come up with is to “kick the can” down the road some more.

Unfortunately, neither Paul Krugman nor most of the American people understand that our financial system is actually designed to create government debt.

The bankers that helped create the Federal Reserve intended to permanently enslave the U.S. government to a perpetually expanding spiral of debt, and their plans worked.

At this point, the U.S. national debt is more than 5000 times larger than it was when the Federal Reserve was first created.

So why don’t the American people understand what the Federal Reserve system is doing to us?

It is because most of them are still plugged into the matrix. A Zero Hedge article that I came across today put it beautifully…

US society in a nutshell: Chris Dorner has been around for a week and has 222 million results on Google; the Federal Reserve has been around for one hundred years and has 187 million results.

If nothing is done about our exploding debt, it is only a matter of time before we reach financial oblivion.

According to Boston University economist Laurence Kotlikoff, the U.S. government is facing a “present value difference between projected future spending and revenue” of 222 trillion dollars in the years ahead.

So how in the world are we going to come up with an extra 222 trillion dollars?

But it is not just the U.S. government that is drowning in debt.

Just check out this chart which shows the astounding growth of state and local government debt in recent years…

State And Local Government Debt

All over the United States there are state and local governments that are on the verge of bankruptcy. Just check out what is going on in Detroit. The only way that most of our state and local governments can keep going at this point is to also “kick the can” down the road some more.

And of course most of the rest of us are drowning in debt as well.

40 years ago, the total amount of debt in the U.S. economic system (government + business + consumer) was less than 2 trillion dollars.

Today, the total amount of debt in the U.S. economic system has grown to more than 55 trillion dollars.

Can anyone say bubble?

The good news is that U.S. GDP is now more than 12 times larger than it was 40 years ago.

The bad news is that the total amount of debt in our financial system is now more than 30 times larger than it was 40 years ago…

Total Credit Market Debt Owed

At the same time that we are going into so much debt, our ability to produce wealth continues to decline.

According to the World Bank, U.S. GDP accounted for 31.8 percent of all global economic activity in 2001. That number dropped to 21.6 percent in 2011. That is not just a decline – that is a nightmarish freefall. Just check out the chart in this article.

We are becoming less competitive as a nation with each passing year. In fact, the U.S. has fallen in the global economic competitiveness rankings compiled by the World Economic Forum for four years in a row.

Most Americans don’t understand this, but the United States buys far more from the rest of the world than they buy from us each year. In 2012, we had a trade deficit of more than 500 billion dollars with the rest of the world.

That means that more than 500 billion dollars that could have gone to U.S. workers and U.S. businesses went out of the country instead.

So how does our country survive if hundreds of billions of dollars more is flowing out of the country than is flowing into it?

Well, to make up the shortfall we go to the countries that we sent our money to and we beg them to lend it back to us. If that doesn’t work, we just print and borrow even more money.

Overall, the United States has run a trade deficit of more than 8 trillion dollars with the rest of the world since 1975.

That is 8 trillion dollars that could have saved U.S. businesses, paid the salaries of U.S. workers and that would have helped fund government.

But instead, our foolish policies have greatly enriched China and the oil barons of the Middle East.

Sadly, politicians from both political parties continue to boldly support the one world economic agenda of the global elite.

Just consider how destructive many of these “free trade” deals have been to our economy…

When NAFTA was pushed through Congress in 1993, the United States had a trade surplus with Mexico of 1.6 billion dollars.

By 2010, we had a trade deficit with Mexico of 61.6 billion dollars.

Back in 1985, our trade deficit with China was approximately 6 million dollars (million with a little “m”) for the entire year.

In 2012, our trade deficit with China was 315 billion dollars. That was the largest trade deficit that one nation has had with another nation in the history of the world.

In particular, our trade with China is extremely unbalanced. Today, U.S. consumers spend approximately 4 dollars on goods and services from China for every one dollar that Chinese consumers spend on goods and services from the United States.

But isn’t getting cheap stuff from China good?

No, because it costs us good paying jobs.

According to the Economic Policy Institute, the United States is losing half a million jobs to China every single year.

Overall, more than 56,000 manufacturing facilities in the United States have been shut down since 2001. During 2010, manufacturing facilities in the United States were shutting down at a rate of 23 per day. How can anyone say that “things are getting better” when our economic infrastructure is being absolutely gutted?

The truth is that there are never going to be enough jobs in America ever again, because millions of our jobs are being sent overseas and millions of our jobs are being lost to technology.

You won’t hear this on the news, but the percentage of the civilian labor force in the United States that is employed has been steadily declining every single year since 2006.

Younger workers have been hit particularly hard. In 2007, the unemployment rate for the 20 to 29 age bracket was about 6.5 percent. Today, the unemployment rate for that same age group is about 13 percent.

If you are under the age of 30 and you aren’t living with your parents, there is a really good chance that you are living in poverty. If you can believe it, U.S. families that have a head of household that is under the age of 30 have a poverty rate of 37 percent.

Our economy has been steadily bleeding huge numbers of middle class jobs, and many of those jobs have been replaced by low paying jobs in recent years.

According to one study, 60 percent of the jobs lost during the last recession were mid-wage jobs, but 58 percent of the jobs created since then have been low wage jobs.

And at this point, an astounding 53 percent of all American workers make less than $30,000 a year.

Oh, but “things are getting better”, right?

Maybe if you live on Wall Street or if you are an employee of the federal government.

But for most families this economic decline has been a total nightmare. Median household income in America has fallen for four consecutive years. Overall, it has declined by over $4000 during that time span.

Sometimes people forget how good things were about a decade ago. About three times as many new homes were sold in the United States in 2005 as were sold in 2012.

But we like to live in denial.

In fact, a lot of families are trying to keep up their standards of living by going into tremendous amounts of debt.

Back in 1983, the bottom 95 percent of all income earners in the United States had 62 cents of debt for every dollar that they earned. By 2007, that figure had soared to $1.48.

Fake it until you make it, right?

But how much debt can our system possibly handle?

Total home mortgage debt in the United States is now about 5 times larger than it was just 20 years ago.

Total credit card debt in the United States is now more than 8 times larger than it was just 30 years ago.

We are a nation that is completely addicted to debt, but as the financial crisis of 2008 demonstrated, all of that debt can have horrific consequences.

As the economy has slowed in recent years, the Federal Reserve has decided that “the solution” is to recklessly print money in an attempt to get the debt spiral cranked up again.

Have they gone overboard? You be the judge…

Monetary Base 2013

And of course this won’t have any affect on the value of the money that you have been saving up all these years right?

Wrong.

Every single dollar that you own is continually losing value…

Purchasing Power Of The Dollar

Overall, the value of the U.S. dollar has declined by more than 96 percent since the Federal Reserve was first created.

As the cost of living continues to go up and wages continue to go down, millions of American families have fallen out of the middle class and into poverty.

If you can believe it, the number of Americans on food stamps has grown from about 17 million in the year 2000 to more than 47 million today.

But “things are getting better”, right?

Incredibly, more than a million public school students in the United States are homeless. This is the first time that has ever happened in our history.

But “things are getting better”, right?

There are now 20.2 million Americans that spend more than half of their incomes on housing. That represents a 46 percent increase from 2001.

But “things are getting better”, right?

In 1999, 64.1 percent of all Americans were covered by employment-based health insurance. Today, only 55.1 percent are covered by employment-based health insurance.

But “things are getting better”, right?

Today, more Americans than ever have found themselves forced to turn to the federal government for help.

Overall, the federal government runs nearly 80 different “means-tested welfare programs”, and at this point more than 100 million Americans are enrolled in at least one of them.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 49 percent of all Americans live in a home that receives direct monetary benefits from the federal government. Back in 1983, less than a third of all Americans lived in a home that received direct monetary benefits from the federal government.

So is it a good sign or a bad sign that the percentage of Americans that are financially dependent on the federal government is at an all-time high?

And in future years the number of Americans that are receiving benefits from the federal government is projected to absolutely skyrocket.

Back in 1965, only one out of every 50 Americans was on Medicaid. Today, one out of every 6 Americans is on Medicaid, and things are about to get a whole lot worse. It is being projected that Obamacare will add 16 million more Americans to the Medicaid rolls.

If you take a look at Medicare, things are very more sobering.

As I wrote recently, it is being projected that the number of Americans on Medicare will grow from 50.7 million in 2012 to 73.2 million in 2025.

At this point, Medicare is facing unfunded liabilities of more than 38 trillion dollars over the next 75 years. That comes to approximately $328,404 for every single household in the United States.

Are you ready to contribute your share?

Social Security is a complete and total nightmare as well.

Right now, there are approximately 56 million Americans collecting Social Security benefits.

By 2035, that number is projected to soar to an astounding 91 million.

Overall, the Social Security system is facing a 134 trillion dollar shortfall over the next 75 years.

Oh, but don’t worry because “things are getting better”, right?

I honestly do not know how anyone can look at the numbers above and come to the conclusion that the economy is in good shape.

We have accumulated the largest mountain of debt in the history of the world, our economic infrastructure is being gutted, we are bleeding good jobs, government dependence is at an all-time high and we are getting poorer as a nation with each passing day.

But other than that, everything is rainbows and lollipops, right?

If you want to see the economic collapse, just open up your eyes.

And if dramatic changes are not made quickly, things are going to get much, much worse from here.

Please share this article with as many people as possible. Time is quickly running out and there are a whole lot of people out there that we need to wake up while we still can.

The Economic Collapse Is Happening

Why is common sense so uncommon?

Hungry Homeless People Are A Dangerous People

LONDON, European stock markets saw steep losses 02/14/2013, after weaker than expected euro zone GDP data confirmed the region slipped deeper into recession in the final quarter of 2012 and reminded investors of the persistent growth woes across the continent.

Bankia SA sank 12%, as Spain’s bank bailout fund reportedly said the bank’s shareholders face significant losses, as restructuring efforts could end in a “significant reduction” in nominal value of the shares.

Source Eurozone recession deepens as Germany falters
Only a matter of time. With many of its debt ridden euro partners in recession, Germany could only swim against the tide for so long. Figures February 2013 showed that output in Germany, Europe’s largest economy, contracted by more than anticipated in the last three months of 2012. And it was the German drop that lay behind a deepening of the recession across the economy of the 17 European Union countries that use the euro.

Eurostat, the EU’s statistics office, said the eurozone’s annual economic output shrank by 0.6 percent in the final quarter of 2012 from the previous three month period. The decline was bigger than the 0.4 percent drop expected in markets and the steepest fall (in 4 years) since 2009, when the global economy was in its deepest recession since World War II.

Eurostat figures show that seven eurozone countries are in recession – Greece, Spain, Italy, Cyprus, Portugal, The Netherlands and Finland. France, however, appears to be a greater cause for concern as its economy faces a number of problems that don’t trouble Germany as much. The French government has to keep a tight leash on its finances, unemployment is around 10 percent and its exporters are struggling, not least in the auto sector, with both Peugeot-Citroen and Renault struggling.

Source Greek unemployment hits record as poverty spreads
ATHENS, Greece, Unemployment in Greece rose to a record 27 percent in November as separate surveys on Thursday showed the country remains stuck in recession and predicted nearly a third of the population would be in poverty by the end of the year.

Statistics Agency said unemployment increased from a rate of 26.6 percent in October. More than 30,000 people lost their job in November with the jobless rate accelerating from earlier in the year. Worst affected are the young, with 61.7 percent of those in the 15-24 age group without a job.

Spanish unemployment at record high Unemployment in austerity gripped Spain has edged higher to 26.2pc, continuing a rise towards levels not seen since the end of the Franco dictatorship in the mid 1970s. Spain’s youth unemployment aged 16 to 24 without a job hit a new high of 55 percent.

The U.S. Unemployement rate creeps up to 7.9 percent. The number of people still receiving benefits under regular state programs after an initial week of aid dropped 130,000 to 3.11 million in the week ended Feb. 2. That was the lowest level since July 2008 and could reflect people exhausting their benefits. So called continuing claims had hovered around 3.2 million since late November and economists had viewed that as an indication of little change in the unemployment rate. The jobless rate rose 0.1 percentage point to 7.9 percent in January.

While companies are no longer aggressively laying off workers, they appear to be in no hurry to step-up hiring against the backdrop of still lackluster demand.

Why is common sense so uncommon?

Will Super Bowl XLVII Be Canceled?

Chicken Wing Crisis
Will the nation’s chicken wing shortage cause Super Bowl XLVII to be Canceled?

What about hot sauce? After 2012′s droughts and floods will there be a hot pepper sauce shortage as well?

Why hasn’t Obama, FEMA and USDA done more to avoid these national food shortages?

What about fried pig skins! No one can eat them without gallons of hot sauce!

CBS News – Wheat is a “perfect, chronic poison,” according to Dr. William Davis

Source: (CBS News) Modern wheat is a “perfect, chronic poison,” according to Dr. William Davis, a cardiologist who has published a book all about the world’s most popular grain.

Source 1 Modern wheat a “perfect, chronic poison
Source 2 Genetically modified wheat
Source 3 Gliadin
Dr. William Davis on CBSnews is doing nothing more than hyping propaganda for his new book.

Davis can not or at least does not site a single scientific fact proven research paper to support his fear mongering book claiming wheat is bad for your health. Davis is totally incorrect in making claims wheat to be an 18-inch tall plant created by genetic research in the ’60s and ’70s. The truth is the first GM wheat was field tested in 1992. And as of this date GM/GMO wheat is not commercially grown in any country on earth.

At least for the present time, Monsanto decided to no longer offer Roundup-Ready Wheat commercially until transgenic wheat is more widely accepted. Currently no transgenic wheat is used commercially in the United States. Don’t relax to much or count Monsanto down and out. Monsanto to appeal to consumers, transgenic techniques have attempted to increase the gluten content for use in baked goods and to reduce wheat’s allergenic effect among those suffering from celiac disease or gluten sensitivity. Transgenic methods have also been used to promote wheat’s purported health benefits by enhancing wheat’s lignans which may have anti-cancer properties.

To appeal to environmentalists, Monsanto’s transgenic techniques have been touted as having more precision in the way genes are selected, as opposed to mutagenic techniques using radiation or chemicals which may pass uncontrolled and unwanted genetic changes to it’s progeny.

Wait! Stop for a moment. Before you tar and feather me, run me out of town.
Let me say this. I am not a Monsanto fan, nor am I a fan of GM/GMO foods of any kind. GM/GMO foods will at some point become common on supermarket display shelf’s. Already, most corn, rice and soy products consumed are GM grains that have been developed by Monsanto to be so called Roundup Ready crops to be tolerant to Monsanto’s glyphosate based herbicide (Roundup) in it’s many forms.

The only way consumers can stop or slow GM products arriving and being sold by your supermarket is when ‘All’ consumers refuse to buy or consume GM/GMO foods. This is much easier said than done. GM/GMO corn is already in almost every produce you buy from your supermarket. Meat products, livestock feeds are corn based, fresh corn, canned corn, corn meal, corn based cooking oils, corn based sweeteners, corn syrup and so on. It’s even in your gas tank.

Not from the USA. Please leave me comment about your home town and country.

Why is Common Sense so Uncommon?
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Americas Working Poor & Middle Class – You May Soon Owe More Taxes Than You Get Paid!

Obama’s promised change. Obama if he gets his wishes beginning 2013, Obama’s White House gang, will increase poor and middle class taxes by on average about $1,500.00 for the poorest Americans and about $3,500.00 a year for the so called middle class Americans. Hows that for Change?

After paying Federal and State income tax, healthcare tax, social security tax, medicaid tax, fuel tax, VAT tax on tires, batteries, oil. City, county and state sales tax, telephone tax. Taxes on food, water, utility taxes, toll road taxes, property tax, school tax, automobile registration tax.

A minimum wage worker is working for less than $3.00 an hour disposable income, leaving less than $110.00 a week ‘real disposable income’ to meet all other living expenses. You know those unimportant things like food, rent, electric/gas utility payments. Automobile insurance and gasoline to get to and from your work place.

Is it any surprise that with 20 million Americans unemployed, more than 46 million households are now on government programs, using food stamps (SNAP) to make ends meet?

Why is Common sense in government so Uncommon?

Union Kills American Icons, Twinkies, Ding Dongs, Ho Ho’s and Sno Balls

Unemployed? Ask your union why, they know it is mostly Union Leadership or more to the point Failure In Union Leadership that caused You to be unemployed!

Source Hostess to close, lay off 18,500 after ‘crippling’ union fight
After 82 years a strike by members of the Bakery, Confectionary, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union (BCTGM) Has Killed an American Company and it’s product lines, Twinkies, Ding Dongs, Ho Ho’s and Sno Balls.

Union inflexibility and unrealistic demands has forced Hostess company to lay off 18,500 employees and to liquidate (sell) to the highest bidder. Hostess Brands spokesman said “Hostess Brands has no other alternative than to begin the process of winding down and preparing for the sale of our iconic brands.”

Why is common sense so Uncommon?

L.A. City Council To Share 2012 Idiot Of The Year Award

Source L.A. City Council approves Meatless Monday
L.A. City Council Members To Share 2012 Idiot Of The Year Award.
Los Angeles City Council has approved a resolution endorsing Meatless Monday. L.A. council approved the resolution in a unanimous 12-0 vote, asking Angelenos to go vegetarian for one day a week.

Councilwoman Jan Perry and Councilman Ed Reyes brought the resolution to the table, citing statistics that show more than half of L.A. County residents are Fat (overweight) and that point to health disparities among those who have less access to healthful foods in L.A.

State troopers deployed as tensions boil at gas stations

Source State troopers deployed as tensions boil at gas stations in Sandy’s wake

This has to be a case of sheer stupidly and social welfare mentality. These dumb ass’s can’t blame anyone but them self’s for not being prepared to be without fuel, natural gas or electricity for day’s or even weeks after the storm.

They were advised for at least a weeks time by national weather service, local weather reporting, state and local emergency management experts what they must do to survive this storm and it’s aftermath. These stupid people made No Preparations to survive during this storm or after the storm passed!

Now these ignorant people turn on their neighbors, friends, businesses, store clerks, utility repair workers and other drivers like rabid dogs.

Why is common sense so uncommon?

Restaurant’s grapple with annoying cell phone users

Take the hint!

Source Restaurant’s grapple with annoying cell phone users
Here’s some shocking news. Contrary to what most if not all cell phone users think. If you miss a phone call, text message, a tweet or email, the world as we know it Will Not End.

The real truth is simply, You Are Not That Important!

Great Ideas to deal with those ‘Rude’ people that receive, place, talk, text, tweet or use email on cell phones in cafe’s and restaurants.

(1) Add a phone usage charge of $5.00 per-person to bills.

(2) Require diners to do their part too with games like “phone stack,” in which everyone at the table places their , turned off, phones in a stack in the middle of the table. The first person who reaches for their phone pays the bill for all.

(3) Maybe we can give diners a discount if they leave their turned off cell’s phones at the front door.

A survey found 81% of adult Americans believe mobile manners are getting worse, up 6 percentage points from last year. A Zagat survey this month found most respondents disapproving of talking, texting, tweeting and emailing when eating out, but a majority picture taking accepted if done without the use of a flash.

I for one really don’t want to be forced to listen to your endless babble about unimportant things or how your crazy aunt escaped from your basement, or anything about some stupid kid saying or stupid kid trick.

All I really want is to eat my meal in a sort-a quite eatery, it would also be nice if I or my friend does not have to talk over those of your babbling endlessly on a cell phone, nor do I care to hear any of those ring tones you find so catchy or cute.

I am not down on modern communications technology, but there is a time and place for to use that technology and cafe’s and restaurants are not that place.

Why is common sense so uncommon?

1940′s WWII – Women At War – 2012 – Is America To Fat To Fight?

American Women At War

Source Department of Defense, Women at War

There are 80+ WWII Department of Defense photographs of women building and repairing U.S. Aircraft during WWII. I’ll bet you can’t find a single Fat woman in the bunch.

2012, U.S. Center for Disease Control estimates over 1/3 of Americans including men and women are Overweight (Fat).

America is Fattest nation on earth and getting Fatter by the year!

Why is common sense so uncommon?

Americans Waste 40 Percent Of Our Food!

Americans throw away 40 percent of their food
Americans are tossing away 40 percent of their food essentially every other piece of food that crosses our plate or the equivalent of $2,275 a year for a family of four, according to a new report.

Food waste has swelled by 50 percent since the 1970s in this country. A total $165 billion annually in leftovers gets trashed by homeowners and in unsold or unused perishables or scraps dumped by grocers or restaurants, according to research compiled by the Natural Resources Defense Council.

Given the drought, rising food prices, and increased food demands we’re looking at as the population grows, having a more efficient food system is going to be a critical for Americans survival.

Trimming waste in the U.S. food supply by only 15 percent would save enough edible goods to feed 25 million Americans annually.

Dated foods: In the U.K. the government has worked to standardize expiration dates on food and beverage products. Many British grocers have stopped including those dates often merely a tool to help store clerks stock their shelves with the older products out front. Instead, they use codes to help organize their goods. And if dates are included, they are truly meant to reflect when the food item is no longer healthy to eat or drink.

In the United States, we see them as safety dates but they’re actually not safety dates. And these dates are not regulated federally for the most part. They are meant to indicate the manufacturers’ suggestion for peak quality rather than anything that would indicate the food is actually going bad. So a lot of people just throw it out after that date, not understanding that.”

Christine Quinn – Selected For My – Idiot Of The Week Award

Source: NYC Council Speaker Christine Quinn asks NYU to evict Chick-fil-A
August 01, 2012 NYC Council Speaker Christine Quinn asks NYU to evict Chick-fil-A. {What an Idiot!}

New York politician claims she was just speaking as a private citizen when she tried to run Chick-fil-A out of town, but she used her official letterhead and even invoked her position as City Council speaker to apply pressure on the embattled chicken chain.

Christine Quinn a New York City Council Speaker who has mayoral aspirations, sent a letter to New York University president John Sexton asking the school to immediately end their contract with the fast food restaurant (Chick-fil-A). The Atlanta based company’s sole New York City outlet is in the school’s food court.

Quinn said “Let me be clear I do not want establishments in my city that hold such discriminatory views,” Quinn, an open lesbian who recently married her longtime partner, also wrote in the letter. “We are a city that believes our diversity is our greatest strength and we will fight anything and anyone that runs counter to that.

46 Million Americans To Fat And Lazy To Work?

Peach Growers Can’t Find Workers To Harvest Crops
Peach Growers are beating the bushes for workers that can pick their peaches before they rot.

Dalvir Gill, who grows 200 acres of peaches said “I need at least 30 to 40 pickers everyday, but sometimes I get here only 10 guys or five guys show up for work.” Gill says he’s losing five percent of his crop every day because his peaches can’t be picked before they soften and bruise.

Gill said “many people, (mostly on welfare) don’t want to work.” Gurpreet notes that there is a 17 to 18 percent unemployment rate in the area. “People they’re just sitting at home doing nothing. Gurpreet said “Maybe they should get a job. You could easily make $20 an hour over here.”

Gills say teenagers would rather earn half the money at a fast food restaurant and many are unable or unwilling to work a hot, dirty job, no matter what it pays.

Obama Administration Driving Americas Tax Payers To The Poorhouse

Source:
US poverty on track to rise to highest since 1960s

Poverty in America

America’s poor are on track to climb to levels unseen in more than half a century, erasing gains from the war on poverty in the 1960s amid a weak economy and fraying government safety net.

Poverty is spreading at record levels across many groups, from underemployed workers and suburban families to the poorest poor. More discouraged workers are giving up on the job market, leaving them vulnerable as unemployment aid begins to run out. Suburbs are seeing increases in poverty. Voters are coping with a new norm of living hand to mouth.

Peter Edelman, director of the Georgetown Center on Poverty, Inequality and Public Policy said “the issues aren’t just with public benefits. We have some deep problems in the economy. The problem is that the tidal wave of low wage jobs is dragging us down and the wage problem is not going to go away anytime soon.”

Poverty is closely tied to joblessness. While the unemployment rate improved from 9.6 percent in 2010 to 8.9 percent in 2011, the employment population ratio remained largely unchanged, meaning many discouraged workers simply stopped looking for work. Food stamp rolls, another indicator of poverty, also grew.

Suburban poverty, already at a record level of 11.8 percent, will increase again. Part time or underemployed workers, who saw a record 15 percent poverty in 2010, will rise to a new high. Child poverty will increase from its 22 percent level in 2010.

Boston Mayor Imposes His Political and Religious Views On Business Owner

Boston mayor vows to keep Chick-fil-A out of city
Mayor of Boston, Thomas Menino is vowing to block Chick-fil-A from opening a restaurant in the city after the company’s president spoke out publicly against gay marriage.

Chick-fil-A President Dan Cathy told the Baptist Press this week that his privately owned company supports what he called the biblical definition of the family. Chick-fil-A President Dan Cathy said “that it strives to treat every person with honor, dignity and respect regardless of their belief, race, creed, sexual orientation or gender.”

USDA Invites Everyone To It’s (Free) Food Stamp ‘Party’ Paid For On The Backs Of The American Tax Payer!

The United States Department of Agricultural in an effort to justify it’s enormous budget’s and huge number of bureaucrats being paid for by U.S. Tax payers is in an all out campaign to enroll as many people as possible to receive A FREE Government Hand Out via the Food Stamp (SNAP) Program.

USDA’s new tactic to promote food stamps: Party!
The USDA is encouraging the nation’s food stamp program to promote to the elderly using parties and games. A series of guides currently posted on the USDA website promotes local offices of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP, but commonly referred to as food stamps to entice eligible seniors to enroll in the welfare program. The promotional campaign has cost between $2.5 million and $3 million.

“Throw a Great Party. Host social events where people mix and mingle,” the pamphlet encourages in one of the guides. “Make it fun by having activities, games, food, and entertainment, and provide information about SNAP. Putting SNAP information in a game format like BINGO, crossword puzzles, or even a ‘true/false’ quiz is fun and helps get your message across in a memorable way.”

The program funded paid radio ads in California, Texas, North Carolina, South Carolina, Ohio and the New York metro area. The ads work: The USDA began promoting food stamps with paid radio ads in 2004, under President George W. Bush, and food stamp participation increased 63 percent.

Spending on the food stamps program has increased 100 percent since President Obama took office, and now one in seven Americans uses food stamps. In the 1970s, one out of every 50 Americans was on food stamps, notes the Daily Caller. After the recession, the ratio is expected to hover around one out of every nine, according to the Congressional Budget Office.