America - Election 2024

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

https://work2gather.us

What the government does.

We seem to believe the government is really interested in our lives, but are they?  Everything changes when the government is the one trying to survive.

I watched a video titled TOXIC FARMING tonight.  It was from last year, I think YouTube said it was a year old, but the person I am thinking of from the video (Jason Grostic) said his farm/ranch destruction by the government started the previous November.  I assume that meant 2022.  

By the end of the Vice News report, Mr. Grostic's five-year effort to create a successful healthy meat business was gone and his cattle were going to be destroyed by the government.

The Grostic property was the only one the government decided to test - both land and animals - for PFAS contamination even though the government knew many other agricultural properties had the same problem.  They all used EPA approved, free, wastewater treatment discards as fertilizer.  Some properties are still using the treatment plant waste as fertilizer.  All the other farms/ranches are still able to sell their food products because they were not tested for the same contamination.  

I am assuming the government is protecting itself.  This is what the government does.

We will not know why this was done to one family.  

If the government tested all of the affected properties, it would have deeply affected the entire State's income at many levels.  There are a lot of associated costs to any government action of this kind.  

It could have been a personal attack by a government employee, or someone associated with any government representative.  Mr. Grostic was a rising business and had worked very hard to reach that level.

There is just no way to know.

I tried to find out what happened after the video first aired but the website for Gostic Cattle Company was gone, it had a Hotmail address (which I will try to see if it is still valid), and the last post at the Facebook link was when the video aired.  I imagine their lives were devastated by the loss of their property and everything they had built.  I was hoping to find they moved to a better property and started again.  That would require a lot of money.  I don't think the government pays for the things it destroys.

I wanted to share this because our lives are not the same as they were in the past.  We cannot depend on the government.  And we have to realize that everything in our lives depends on the morality of the people in it. 

This is just one story.  I have seen and read about many others.  I have experienced devastation in my own life.  We have to find a way through things like this.  Together.  As Christians. 

I don't know if the Grostics are Christians, but they seemed like a good family.  I hope they found a way to a new future.

In Christ,

Deborah Martin

work2gather.us

Pondering what has to be done first to save America...

 

New design for this election season.

I have been thinking about our nation and all the problems we face.  This happens at the end of every month when I wrap up the current month and start planning for the next one.  All of my income is controlled by the government.  I never really know if I will have my retirement funds or my food benefits.  I live at such a low level I can't get ahead of living needs to protect myself.

For me, the most urgent problem is the DEBT of our country.  It pays for those who have no other options.  It isn't only me. 

I imagine this creates ongoing stress in my body.  I don't know how to evaluate it.  

This repeated danger is why I prep as much as I can.  I don't have enough food to last one month, but I try to figure out how I would survive if there was a real crisis.  I don't have extra funds to cover my cash expenses.  I fear being on the streets again.

This is another reason I am trying to use up my collected supplies from earlier efforts.  Sorting through my belongings to reach the least amount.

There is no warning if banks close, if benefits stop, if the power goes off for a long time, or any other unexpected disaster happens.

As long as the government keeps printing more money, our nation is in greater and greater trouble.  Printing more money makes what we have less valuable and creates the inflation that hurts us all.

Lowering the DEBT is the best thing we can do to help all of us.  What does that mean?

When everyday families have to fix their budgets, it means spending less, doing without, saving more, finding alternatives for the things they need, and more.  Reducing, not increasing the things they spend money on.  No credit.  Prioritizing.  

I think reducing some of the wages in government, not increasing them, would be a good start.  Reducing benefits to what is most essential.  If poor people can survive on the little amounts they do, then others can too. 

Minimum wage for our government legislators and employees might get it raised to a decent level.  

The same medical benefits as the poor might be fair for government legislators and employees.  

It all depends on what you call fair.

This all leads into the idea of socialism, but the cause is different.  We are trying to save our nation for a better future. 

I tried to suggest selling a collectible coin to raise funds ONLY for eliminating the DEBT, shoring up Social Security Retirement Benefits, and saving money for the next disaster, but no one seems to think it will work.  One trillion coins, packaged and numbered, for a minimum price of $50.00 USD, with the better numbers selling at a higher price for the wealthy to purchase.  Selling them before the economy falls is essential.  It doesn't matter after we see bankruptcies.   

It would be an historic event.  

If it works, it will be even more historic.

What do you think is a fair amount for people on government benefits to receive?  It is a small amount for me, but when it is multiplied by millions in need, it becomes a large amount.

The government has decided what is necessary.  We have no say in the process.

Food.

Shelter.  With Kitchen and Bathroom.

Utilities.  Water.  Heat.  Cooling.

Clothes.  Shoes.  Warm coats.

Transportation.  By public transit or personal vehicle.

Furniture.

Household items.

Cooking and Refrigeration.

Education.

Basic medical benefits.  Like eyeglasses.  Hearing aids.  Dental care.  

I think that is about what poor people are allowed to have, or receive from the government if they qualify for it (medical, food).  The government doesn't just give people what they want, or think they need.  You get what the government has decided it will provide.  This is important to remember.  

What happens in countries where socialism is the rule?  I have no idea.  What is it that some in our nation want us to become?  How do they measure BASIC human needs in the countries that already operate by government control?

If our government succeeds in making our nation a socialistic way of life, what will it look like?  The government will control everything and provide what it says we need.  

It's a scary thought.  Freedom is very different than Socialism.  Or Communism.  Or any other form of government.

We are getting less and less free as every year goes by.  It's a very slow change I see... like the frog in the kettle that doesn't know it is being cooked.  The water just gets hotter and hotter and hotter, until the frog dies and becomes a meal.  

It has always been a battle.  I think the idea of socialism is what makes it so desirable for some... it sounds good.  The problems come in the real application of it.  It becomes something different -- people in government get a lot and the regular people are kept poor, under control by what they don't have.  

How can we save our nation?

Who will lead us in the direction of freedom?

How do we get rid of our current DEBT and become financially healthy, strong enough to overcome whatever lies ahead?

We better find an answer soon.  

In Christ, 

Deborah Martin

work2gather.us