Is the American Middle Class worried yet?

Sarah Anne Edwards’ Middle Class Lifeboat Blog pokes at the fat cats who are stubbornly clinging to sustaining the lifestyle of the status quo we have been enjoying all of our known lives, and projecting it onto our children. Can an entire middle-class of people be wrong??

Once in a while you find an awakened soul; as this survey respondent had to say about his unconventional thinking:

“Not that I don’t worry about the future, just that I worry about concerns not on your list, such as an imminent economic collapse or, even worse, that such a collapse (combined with peak oil and other resource depletion issues) might be severe enough to knock our society into widespread violence and looting for a time. How I might plan to survive such a scenario is currently occupying my worry space. A drop in my material standard of living? Ha, I regard that as inevitable, and I stopped worrying about it a few years ago.” read entire article

Collapse of American Healthcare : It’s Happening Now

This CBS news video , emailed to subscribers recently by Truth To Power confirms the imminent, total collapse of America’s healthcare system and reveals the extent to which anyone with the slightest bit of training in the field is likely to find her/himself inundated with
throngs of sick people desperately seeking care.

This is very shocking. The report documents how an organization, ‘ Remote Area Medical ‘ was inundated with patients, some of whom drove 200 miles and spent a cold overnight in their vehicles to receive free dental, x-ray, and eye examinations, as well as cancer, diabetes, and heart  disease screenings because they could not afford medical care.

from www.cbsnews.com posted with vodpod

At the expedition on Jan. 5-6 in Knoxville TN, RAM brought 1343 free services to people. There were 504 eyeglasses provided, 1066 teeth extracted and 567 fillings done. There were 276 volunteers.

U.S. government plans for surviving the coming collapse of American society

Don’t worry, the government is taking care of us (US). They have a plan. Excerpts from these two articles, presented for your analysis – details a set of guidelines to carefully and tactfully steer the public (sheeple) through the first stage of the coming societal and economic collapse.

Some see it as evidence of totalitarian control, while others see a high degree of integrity as being a very practical approach to avoiding mass paranoia resulting in sabotage of purpose.

Read it whichever way you like, but it’s there, and it is rapidly becoming common knowledge:

Changing Images of Man – Stanford Research Institute (now SRI International) released a report in 1974 that has become a classic in the “alternative futures” literature. It has been adopted as a text in non-traditional courses at more than a dozen universities and reprinted repeatedly by SRI.

Changing Images of Man explores the reasons why changes may have to take place in the fundamental conceptual premises, laws, attitudes and ethics once suitable for guiding the development of the United States and other highly industrialized nations if a humane (and “workable”) future is to be achievable.

It discusses the evidence that such changes may be occurring and the possibility that an evolutionary transformation may be underway that is at least as profound as the transition in Europe when the Medieval Age gave way to the rise of science and the Industrial Revolution. source

Here are the “Elements of a Strategy for a Non-catastrophic Transition”:

 

1. Promote awareness of the unavoidability of the transformation.

 

2. Foster construction of a guiding vision of a workable society built around the new image of man and new social paradigm.

 

3. Foster a period of experimentation and tolerance for diverse alternatives.

 

4. Encourage a politics of righteousness and a heightened sense of public responsibilities of the private sector . . . A politics of righteousness might have been laudable in any generation; it may be indispensable for safe passage through the times just ahead.

 

5. Promote systematic exploration of and foster education regarding man’s inner life, his subjective experience.

 

6. Plan adequate social controls for the transition period while safeguarding against longer-term losses of freedom . . . Regulation and restraint of behavior will be necessary in order to hold the society together while it goes around a difficult corner.

 

There must be a new economics to deal with the “new scarcities.” Arguing for corporate America to adopt a humanitarian aspect, the argument is made for an alternative “new socialism,” where important sectors like energy might be nationalized for the good of the country, and greater pressure put upon corporations to mandate a sort of social awareness of employee needs, as much as shareholder profits.

 

“The appropriate question may be not so much how to bring about a transformation . . . but rather how to facilitate a non-catastrophic transformation.” [page 195]

 

“Construct a guiding version of a workable society, built around a new positive image of humankind and corresponding vision of a suitable social paradigm. As the old order shows increasing signs of falling apart, some adequate vision of what may be simultaneously building is urgently needed for mobilization of constructive effort. The guiding vision has to include some way of providing for full and valued participation in the economic and social affairs of the community and society, especially for those who are physically and mentally able to contribute but find themselves in a state of unwilling idleness and deterioration of spirit.”

 

Despite all the report’s shortcomings and its hypocrisy, it does make some sound observations about what is needed for our immediate survival. We should take it as a guide to what our government knows about the coming mega-crisis and a template to help us see what changes we could make if there were truly a new economy, a new social contract, a new American state.

For it is obvious to all those who take the time to look, that we are headed into period of national freefall, when American society plunges head first, into a dark abyss of uncertainty, as the old order passes away, and the New World Order rushes in to fill the void.

 

We are seeing the planned collapse of America, coming down the road we are on. source