I see an economic diasater coming...

[the_big_m_in_ok]

Think inflation is bad here in the USA.Check out whats happening in Venezuela in South America.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/land-200-inflation-mastercards-business-230001261.html
        "The thing I see going on in S.F. is that they're buying edged weapons AND I mean by that: machetes and Samurai swords.     You just have to be 18 yrs. old to but either one.   I go to a shop in the Japantown, SF, shopping mall and see that the 'functional' (read: razor sharp) swords are selling more than simply 'well')."

Credit card companies doing ok however.
        "Not unusual to me.   The I think even in the Great Depression, some businessmen still had it better than for most Americans.  They at least had warning the Depression was coming.


People are racing to spend their money as fast as they can, trying to keep ahead of consumer price increases that Bank of America Corp. estimates could almost reach 200 percent this year.
        Yet because that inflation surge has decimated the value of Venezuela's money, shopping with cash would require carrying around a brick-sized wad of 100-bolivar bills -- not a great idea in a country with the world's second-highest murder rate.

         "I expect it'll get worse than that when the economy goes into DEEP hibernation, followed by death in a total collapse.   People will probably do anything to survive.   Par for the 'course' for humanity."

--Lee

[triffid]

Ron Paul is on the airways talking about a possible economic collapse coming.
www.ronpaulmessage10.com


Be aware this is a sales letter.Where you buy instructions on how to stay "SAFE".
I am however a big Ron Paul fan so I would at least listen to what he has to say.

[triffid]

I knew things were bad here in the USA.I was shocked to hear this on tv the other day!!Child labor still exists here in the usa . http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/14/us/hrw-children-tobacco-workers-report/index.html
Child labor on tobacco farms in the USA.triffid

The study focused on four tobacco-growing states: North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia.

Children can legally work in the tobacco fields, and some as young as 11 and 12 years old do. These children primarily work during the summer to help support their families. The majority of them were Hispanic children of immigrants who lived in nearby towns, the report said."As the school year ends, children are heading into the tobacco fields, where they can't avoid being exposed to dangerous nicotine, without smoking a single cigarette," Margaret Wurth, a co-author of the report, said in a news release. "It's no surprise the children exposed to poisons in the tobacco fields are getting sick."Many of the children the group spoke with reported working long hours without overtime pay or enough breaks, HRW said.One of the recommendations of the report is that no one under 18 be allowed to work in tobacco fields, due to the risks that such exposure can bring.

[triffid]

more on the same topic.http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/17/health/hrw-children-tobacco-workers-report/index.html

kids young as seven work on these farms.

"We found that kids are working 10 or 12, sometimes 14-hour days in extreme heat," Wurth said. "They often have no place to go to the bathroom, no place to wash their hands at work and many of them are given no safety training, no health education and no protective equipment."The researchers found kids using sharp tools, such as axes or machetes, to dig up weeds and/or harvest tobacco. Some kids worked near dangerous machinery. Others climbed up into the rafters of barns, more than one story off the ground, to hang tobacco to dry without any kind of safety gear.The Human Rights Watch estimates several hundred thousand kids work in agriculture in the United States each year, but there are no hard numbers on just how many are working on tobacco farms, and no number to adequately portray the scope of the problem. Most, Wurth says, are the children of Hispanic immigrants.U.S. labor laws, she says, do not protect these kids.

[SeaMonkey]

I knew things were bad here in the USA.I was shocked to hear this on tv the other day!!  Child labor still exists here in the usa.

This sort of "under the radar" exploitation will
exist in America, and elsewhere in the World,
so long as Corporations control politicians and
governments.

Worse than this will be the outcome of the "Secret
Trade Agreements" such as the Trans-Pacific
Partnership or the Trans-Atlantic Partnership.

Those who wield power are so severely infected
with their Love Of Money and Lust For Power
that they've lost their minds.