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To: arun gera who wrote (19668)	5/10/2011 5:11:27 AM
From: Skeeter Bug	6 Recommendations Respond to of 119361

>>So please explicate how this system made american lives worse every decade from 1910s to now.<< in 1910, America was a creditor nation. we are now a debtor nation. we are worse off now. for every $1 of improvement, there has been > $1 of additional debt. the wealth you see around you is a temporary illusion. the time is coming when that illusion will be taken down. remember when a single worker had a better average lifestyle than two worker families do now? >>- Did quality of products go down?<< some yes, some no. there have been many advances for the better, unfortunately, they were mostly debt financed. when the debt collector comes... look out. >>- Did the number of products people could afford go down?<< yes, assuming you mean, "can afford without INCREASING debt." >>- Did life expectancy go down?<< it is currently dropping, give it time. sperm counts are way down and IQs are dropping. there is an epidemic of autism and small children are now getting diabetes. >>- Did the chance of suffering a horrible illness go up?<< actually, it is rising. children are now getting diseases like diabetes. autism rates have skyrocketed. cancer rates have skyrocketed. fukushima will surely make its mark on an ignorant populace. other diseases have pretty much gone away. >>- Did the justice system improve or was it better in the 1910s?<< that depends in individual cases. i'm not convinced millions of felony frauds or the equivalent of $370 billion in drug money laundering would've gone over nearly as well in 1910 as it does today. or that the banker bribers would walk while the public official bribees were imprisoned. are you? the robber barons are effectively criminal anarchists. just b/c their wholely owned and controlled media doesn't tell you about their millions of crimes doesn't mean they aren't occurring. >>- Did women's status and opportunities go down?<< that depends on your point of view. a wife 50 years ago had a good standard of living without working. now she has to work to achieve a similar standard of living in many cases - and those cases are growing exponentially and will continue to do so. >>- Did the status and opportunities for minorities go down?<< minority unemployment for today's youth is nearly 40%. the gap between the rich and the poor is the largest it has been since at least 1929. and getting worse every single day. >>- Did the number of educational institutions go down?<< you'll have to define "educational systems." we have a nobel prize student who was trained in sociopapthy - is that an "education?" >>- Did access to information go down?<< no, but ignorance has gone up in many key areas. >>- Did access to communicate with others decrease?<< yes, sports scores are discussed all the time. real issues, not so much. >>- Did the size of homes and offices decrease?<< will it matter as the repo man takes the keys from those who thought they owned the place under the debt bubble illusion? >>One may argue that the new world is worse than old world for some section of the society but overall trend has been good.<< that's an illusion. i think the 50s and 60s were probably the apex of America for the little guy and gal. the problem is that you don't clearly see that the light at the end of the tunnel is a bust train that is about to squish what you now envisions as "america." >>So what kind of criminal minds are these that they improve the lot of so many while indulging in their criminal acts?<< a criminal mind that gave people the opportunity to create immense wealth under the illusion that they'd get to keep it when, in point of fact, the criminals planned all along to asset strip this immense wealth from society and keep almost all of it for themselves. hang around, you'll see how brutal the asset stripping bust will be when depositors are wiped out, the stock market collapses, housing collapses, credit dries up, SS and MC disappear, unemployment and welfare disappear, people are starving in the streets and those with energy are rioting and robbing anyone with any wealth. that time isn't now, but it is approaching.