This week I have been thinking about all the money issues we face as individuals, as a nation, and as a global economy now.
Today I decided to go shopping to get out of the house and then watched my budget get destroyed for this month. It was a reminder for me about government budgets. I have to do without for the rest of the month when I make a mistake with my money, the government seems to print more money when they overspend - which is like using a credit card and causes inflation.
This is the crisis we face. It seems to be the same cycle major civilizations in history have faced and lost over and over again. We don't seem to learn not to do this path.
I have been watching a lot of videos at YouTube on government budgets, spending, and survival.
- One highlighted how the government manipulates the statistics they use to make us think everything is just fine. I have known this was happening but had no way to prove it. Unemployment and jobs is just one example. (Noted below.)
- One video was on how the government manipulated new job creation and unemployment. It seems that when an unemployed person gets a part-time job of any kind they are removed from the public statistic on unemployment and may be moved to the list of underemployed people who never get counted for the public statistic. People who have been unemployed for five years are also dropped from the counting process. These people are considered not looking for work. -- This means many people are not counted so we don't really know how bad the situation is.
- One video was on how over fifty major US cities spend more than they take in through taxes. This puts them in danger of bankruptcy, but on the way to bankruptcy are all the social problems not having money creates. (Like trash pick-up and police/courts/jails and transportation and libraries and public healthcare and any other services provided by the government.) The list of cities included the city where I live, Los Angeles and San Franciso areas, Chicago, New York, and Houston.
- One video was about the gold standard. I did discover one interesting perspective from this one. I always thought people were promoting gold and silver purchases as a simple way of prepping. This video said governments all over the world are buying up gold to prepare for a new financial system after the collapse of what exists now... to have funds when they start over, when gold returns as the foundation of money.
There were more videos than this, but it would take too long to share every important detail. The main idea was our nation, and other nations, are in trouble.
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Who we elect as President this year will be the man behind saving our country from financial collapse, or leading us through it. We have to choose, either Trump or Biden, unless something changes our options between now and then.
Every election will matter.
I keep wondering what GOD is trying to tell us.
If you know, please share it with me in the comments.
In Christ,
Deborah Martin
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