COLLAPSE FOR KIDS

The Coming Depression

FOX'S SMITH SHUTS DOWN H1N1 INTERVIEW

It's kinda weird that Shepard Smith doesn't seem to accept the fact that someone in the health care industry just might have a valid point concerning the swine flu injections. He keeps saying that she hasn't done any research. She says she has. I would expect that someone in the field would be able to speak to the effects of vaccines and the dangers associated with them. There is something strange going on related to the H1N1 vaccines. I'm just putting up all of this stuff so that we can all be informed about the questions. I'm not going to take the shot, just like I've never taken any other type of flu shot. I always thought that I had an option here. It'll be interesting to see if I still do.



Information Liberation

JUST GET YOUR DAMN VACCINE

Blacklisted News

QUICK! WE NEED SOMEONE THAT CAN SPEAK "LEGISLATIVE"

These guys amaze me. They think that it is perfectly acceptable to vote on and impose legislation on us that they don't understand. Sure they work on it in plain language. Great. Then it gets converted into some obviously foreign language called "legislative". Since they can't understand it they have to take on faith that it has been interpreted correctly, that nothing has been added or subtracted from their plain English version. Sheesh!! I want this job. No accountability, no responsibility, just free stuff everywhere you turn.

"Sen. Thomas Carper (D.-Del.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, told CNSNews.com that he does not “expect” to read the actual legislative language of the committee’s health care bill because it is “confusing” and that anyone who claims they are going to read it and understand it is fooling people.

“I don’t expect to actually read the legislative language because reading the legislative language is among the more confusing things I’ve ever read in my life,” Carper told CNSNews.com."



CNS News

MORE PEOPLE ON THE STREETS AS THE ECONOMY "RECOVERS"

There are a whole bunch of people that are just starting to feel the effect of this massive economic downturn. This one is a double whammy because not only does it effect the Ink Stop Company but it leaves 163 retail units empty, causing additional strain on the property owners and the banks that finance them. Commercial real estate is supposed to be the next major collapse point in the economy.

"No paycheck, no health insurance and no job! That's exactly what all InkStop employees are suddenly dealing with. The company has closed all InkStop stores nationwide, which includes 23 stores in Michigan.

InkStop managers called their employees last night at 10 p.m. to notify them that the company was "temporarily closing" while they restructure the company.

All employees have been laid off. To make matters worse, workers did not get their paychecks Friday. On top of that, they also found out that InkStop didn't pay their health insurance premiums for the month of September. Employees just learned that their coverage actually ended August 31.

The Cleveland-based company has 163 stores nationwide.

Action News obtained a memo from InkStop. You can read the entire memo below:

To All Store Associates,

The company has elected to temporarily close all stores at the close of business today October 1, to focus on a restructuring plan in an effort to improve the overall operations of the organization. All employees are laid off until further notice.

Paychecks will not be issued on Friday due to our cash constraints. We are working on a plan to improve our cash flow situation and re-open under better circumstances.

Below is key information that each of you should have at your disposal.

401k – Anyone who is laid off and currently has funds in the 401k plan, can contact Noble Davis for further information. Their contact number is 888-657-0702.

Medical Coverage – This is the initial notification that the September premium has not been paid. Therefore, your last day of coverage for the qualifying event is August 31, 2009. If you have other options for coverage (i.e. spouse), please contact them immediately for further information. You have 30 days from a qualifying event for this election. Individuals who do not have this option can seek insurance resources online for coverage needed. For individuals/children with severe medical conditions, individuals should contact your local Health & Human Services for a Medicaid application.

According HIPAA, in order to have guaranteed issue minimizing pre-existing conditions, you cannot have a break in coverage for longer than 62 days.

COBRA will not be available as there is no group sponsored plan.

Other Insurances have been paid through August 31, 2009.

Your patience during this difficult time is appreciated it.

Sincerely,

The InkStop Board of Directors"

WXYZ

(H/T to The Coming Depression)

THE TRUTH IS STARTING TO SLIP OUT

"If laid-off workers who have settled for part-time work or have given up looking for new jobs are included, the unemployment rate rose to 17 percent, the highest on records dating from 1994."

Yahoo

I was talking to a plumber on a job the other day and he told me that 650 guys are sitting at the hall looking for work in St. Louis. I asked him how many plumbers were in the union here and he told me around 1300. My simple high school math skills tell me that is an unemployment rate of 50% in the plumbing trade. I know that the other trades aren't much different and that the non-union guys (me included) are working at a fraction of their normal rate of pay to stay busy. Construction has traditionally been very stable in St. Louis and accounts for a large part of the economy nationwide, along with the auto industry. With these in collapse, how can we possibly be looking at any sort of recovery?

An even larger problem facing construction is the glut of workers. The availability of cheap money that has fueled the housing boom of the last 15 years or so has created a demand for workers that far exceeds the natural need. When I got into the trades in the early seventies most people, myself included, went into construction because a family member brought you in. This was a father to son kind of business. It was seasonal, too. We knew that come winter the jobs would shut down until spring for the most part and that we'd better save some money to get through. There were still carpenters working well into their sixties because their knowledge was valued as highly as the speed and strength of the younger guys.

Over the last decade or two people have entered the trades to satisfy an artificial demand created by government interference in the market place. Construction has become an assembly line work environment, where speed and strength are the most important qualification, experience coming up a distant second. This has allowed for way too many people to become construction workers. Now that housing has begun to return to a more natural level of demand, what will all of these people do. Most have very limited skills, beyond moving as quickly as possible to fulfill their function in the assembly line. They are not much different than any other factory worker in this regard.

We have created, through government interference in the marketplace, another group of workers with no real skills and expectations of high pay that have lost their jobs, forever. With an economy built upon consumer activity, how can we ever hope to see a return to the lifestyle of the past with so many unable to ever return to the income levels that supported it? The answer is, we can't. Not in the foreseeable future, anyway.

As a country we need to lower our expectations in regard to lifestyle and wages. We need to start building things again, creating real wealth in factories and on jobsites across the country. We are going to have to compete with those we have given all of this work to and take it back. We won't be able to do it with high wages and low productivity. For the good of future generations we are going to have to suck it up, take the hit and get back to work, doing whatever we need to do to return the jobs to this country.

Unions, get over it. Your guys can either have jobs, at a competitive cost of employment, or they can sit home and bitch about how unfair life is. This doesn't mean working at slave rates. There is a lot that goes into the cost of goods beyond wages.

Managers, your college degrees don't have the value that you were told they would. You need to work for the good of the company and the country. This may mean getting dirty every once in awhile. You need to realize that the paradigm has shifted. I hear that cliche in offices all of the time, usually meaning nothing more than someone trying to sound like they know what they're talking about. Well, it's really happened now so you better figure out what it means. You need to manage your businesses effectively, lowering the cost of goods, making them competitive at a worldwide level.

The World War Two generation was called upon to face down Fascism and save the free world. They did it and we now call them the greatest generation. Now it's our turn. What will future generations call us? Make no mistake, we are at war. This war will determine our future. We are all part of it, whether we want to be or not. No one gets a deferment.


To get a feel for what we are facing read this article at Business Insider. The rate of job loss is at Great Depression levels and it continues to increase. Look closely at the charts this article provides. We are heading over a cliff. Prepare yourselves and your families for what is ahead of us this winter. If you are old enough to remember knowing people that went through the Depression you will remember that they usually kept plenty of food and other supplies stashed in the basement. This was a habit learned through hard experience and something we should try to learn from today.

IMMUNIZATION MUTINY ON THE HORIZON

Celente is right about this. Americans have reached a turning point and the TEA Parties are just the outward manifestation. Something, hell everything has changed. This is not the same country it was a year ago.

"If Trends Research Institute Director Gerald Celente is right another volley may have been fired in what he is calling the "Second American Revolution."

In August while most everyone's attention was still focused on the Tea Parties, Celente was already in fast-forward trend identification mode.

Here's part of an e-mail trend alert he sent to clients, "While there are many wild cards that could light the fuse, The Trends Research Institute forecasts that if the threat of government-forced Swine Flu vaccinations is realized, it will be the fourth shot (of the second American Revolution). Tens of millions will fight for their right to remain free and unvaccinated."

News reports about this issue have slowly registering it. The Wall Street Journal cited it Saturday. Headlines in Wednesday's papers stepped up the tempo as they heralded the protests of New York state health care workers who have been told to take the swine flu shot or lose their jobs."
Times News

BAD NEWS IS GOOD

Won't it be great when the economy collapses and there are no jobs left to lose? That way the government and their propaganda ministers in the media can report that NO jobs were lost in a given quarter which will be seen as a sure sign that we have "turned the corner".

I'm getting damned tired of the lies!

"Bear in mind this is an article with "growth" in its title. The headline leads one to expect a story about growth slowing. But if one reads our reproduced excerpts (or even the entire article), the best one can come up with is "The world's largest economy shrank at a 0.7 percent annual rate from April through June, the best performance in more than a year."

This is "growth?" A slowage of shrinking? Maybe Greenspan means stock market growth. But even the stock market is off thousands from its previous highs, not counting the price inflation which has already taken place - though now Greenspan doesn't anticipate any further price inflation for several years yet. In this, we note, the former former Fed chair is miles away from his current colleagues who are talking endlessly about hiking rates and other measures sooner rather than later."

Daily Bell

"The pace of U.S. job losses continued to slow in September as the private sector shed fewer jobs than in the previous month, according to a report offering a preview of government data due Friday.

Meanwhile, gross domestic product decreased at a 0.7% annual rate in the second quarter, better than the 1% decline previously estimated, the Commerce Department said Wednesday. It was a big improvement over GDP's 6.4% decline in the first quarter.

Private nonfarm payrolls fell by 254,000 in September, down from the 277,000 drop in August, according to a report by Automatic Data Processing Inc. and forecasting firm Macroeconomic Advisers released Wednesday."

Wall Street Journal

"Amid indications of a recovery, companies in the US continued their layoff spree, with 254,000 people losing jobs in September, a private sector employment report said.

According to payroll-processing firm, Automatic Data Processing's National Employment Report, private sector employment decreased by 254,000 in September in the country.

"September's employment decline was smallest since July of 2008 and employment losses have diminished significantly over the last two quarters. Nevertheless, employment, which usually trails overall economic activity, is likely to decline for at least several more months, with losses continuing to diminish," Macroeconomic Advisers LLC Chairman Joel Prakken said."

NDTV