America Is Rotting

China Is Rising

The American people better wake up while there is still time. America is literally rotting right in front of our eyes. Once upon a time, the greatest manufacturing cities in the world were in the United States. One of the big reasons why the Allies won World War II was because U.S. factories simply pumped out far more stuff than anyone else did. Our forefathers built this nation into an industrial powerhouse, but now our formerly great manufacturing cities are rusting, rotting and falling to pieces as nations such as China wipe the floor with us on the global economic stage.



It is absolutely depressing to see what is happening to many of our most famous cities. For example, would you like to buy a house for less than $10,000? Just move to Baltimore. Of all the homes that have been sold in the city of Baltimore so far this year, one out of every ten has sold for less than $10,000. In fact, one home sold for just $10.

Like many formerly great U.S. cities, there are many parts of Baltimore that closely resemble war zones. Drugs and crime are everywhere, and there is a very real feeling of hopelessness in the air. Like many blue collar American cities, Baltimore is down on its luck and is in an obvious state of decline.

It has gotten to the point where even most of the "quiet" areas of Baltimore are not really safe. Just consider the following comment that a reader named James left on a recent article....

My wife and I used to live in a quiet part of Baltimore City (yes there still are a few of those) a few years back. Six weeks after we moved there, she was mugged at 6:30 am, week day, on a semi-busy street while walking to her car. That was a wake up for both of us. The days of leaving your car unlocked or being in an urban area by yourself at night (or even daytime now) are over. We moved out of the city but we both still carry weapons with us and know how to use them. Do I want to use them? No. Not ever. But if “15 or 20 young men are approaching” me, I can’t go out like a punk and in no way can I ever let my wife be put in a harmful situation again.



But Baltimore is far from alone. In Detroit, you can literally buy a house for one dollar.

Yes, you read the correctly.

The city is a complete and total basket case at this point. Just check out what an ABC News report had to say about the real estate situation in Detroit....

There are more than 40,000 vacant properties in Detroit, which has been hit hard by the foreclosure crisis, and the median home price is a stunningly low $7,000. In many neighborhoods, homes that were fetching $75,000 just three years ago are now selling for ten cents on the dollar or less. We used to have the greatest economy on earth, but now we have entered a seemingly permanent decline.

There are hordes of people that can't find work and there are tens of millions that have become completely dependent on the government for survival.

Our economy does not create enough jobs to support our entire population any longer. The number of people forced to take government money continues to explode. The following is from a recent article posted on Yahoo News....

Altogether, there are now almost 46 million people in the United States on food stamps, roughly 15 percent of the population. That's an increase of 74 percent since 2007, just before the financial crisis and a deep recession led to mass job losses.

If the recession is over, then why does the number of Americans on food stamps continue to increase and set new records?

In some areas of the country food stamps have become a way of life. Amazingly, approximately one-third of the entire population of Alabama is now on food stamps.

The U.S. economy is coming apart at the seams and large numbers of Americans are starting to become very frustrated.

We are starting to see a lot more "random" acts of violence. For example, two people were shot in the parking lot immediately after a recent preseason game between the Oakland Raiders and the San Francisco 49ers.

The following is video of fans brawling in the stands during that same game....



Yes, football fans have always been rowdy, but people seem to be losing their tempers much more easily these days. Sadly, when you have got millions of people losing their jobs and their homes that is going to tend to happen.

Of course it doesn't help that our politicians are so easily losing their tempers these days. For example, U.S. Representative Maxine Waters recently went on a massive tirade during which she proclaimed that "the Tea Party can go straight to hell". The following is video of that incident....



America is rotting and hatred and anger are growing at a very frightening pace.

This country has become deeply, deeply divided and our economy is collapsing.

Meanwhile, China is rapidly rising.

Not that China exactly plays fair. China massively subsidizes their biggest corporations, they brazenly steal technology from anyone that they can, they openly manipulate exchange rates and they allow their workers to be paid slave labor wages.

The U.S. trading relationship with China is massively unfair, but very few of our politicians seem to care.

So thousands of factories and millions of of jobs will continue to leave the United States and go over to China.

Incredibly, the United States has lost an average of 50,000 manufacturing jobs a month since China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001.

Even the new Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial on the National Mall was made in China.

Ouch.



As America rots, U.S. companies continue to invest huge amounts of money in China....

*Coca-Cola is opening up three new factories in China this year.

*Disney recently broke ground on a $4.4 billion project that will be known as Shanghai Disneyland.

*Procter & Gamble has invested over a billion dollars in operations in China.

*Caterpillar has built 16 factories in China and now employs more than 8,000 workers there.

*Ford is currently "building three factories in Chongqing as part of $1.6 billion investment that also includes another plant in Nanchang".

It isn't just "the jobs of the past" that we are losing either.

Andy Grove, the former CEO of Intel, says that our advanced technology companies are creating far more jobs overseas than they are in the United States....

Some 250,000 Foxconn employees in southern China produce Apple's products. Apple, meanwhile, has about 25,000 employees in the U.S. That means for every Apple worker in the U.S. there are 10 people in China working on iMacs, iPods, and iPhones. The same roughly 10-to-1 relationship holds for Dell, disk-drive maker Seagate Technology (STX), and other U.S. tech companies.

Americans need to be educated about what is going on. The United States has lost a staggering 32 percent of its manufacturing jobs since the year 2000, and over 42,000 manufacturing facilities in the United States have been closed down since 2001.

In case you were wondering, that is not good news.

Our politicians have lied to us. Globalism is destroying our economy. We should have never merged our economy with the economies of nations such as China.

Beautiful new infrastructure is going up all over China even as U.S. infrastructure rots and decays right in front of our eyes.

America is being deindustrialized at warp speed and most Americans don't even understand what is happening.

Pretty soon, even more cities are going to end up looking like Baltimore and Detroit. The mortgage delinquency rate is starting to rise once again. As our jobs continue to be shipped out of the country, millions more Americans will lose their incomes and their homes.

If you want to see what the future of your city is going to look like, you might want to check out the really disturbing images of the decline of Detroit that you can find right here.

What has happened in Detroit and Baltimore will soon be happening to all the rest of us.

The world is changing at a very, very rapid pace. Just because America was an economic powerhouse in past decades does not mean that it will always be that way.

The truth is that America is rotting. If our leaders don't start making some very fundamental changes to the way we do things, we will continue to rot.

Very dark days are ahead for America. Enjoy all of this prosperity while you still can, because soon enough it will all be gone.

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There are a whole lot of things about the U.S. economy that don't make any sense whatsoever. Sadly, most adults have been so programmed to accept the way that things are by years and years of relentless propaganda that they don't even bother to question the status quo any longer. But little kids are different. Many little kids are not afraid to say the darnedest things or ask really embarrassing questions. Have you ever been in a situation where a child asks an obvious question that did not even occur to any of the adults? That happens so often because the minds of little kids have not been completely warped by the world we live in yet. They are able to see things with honesty and innocence and with fresh eyes. Well, perhaps all of us should start looking at our economy and our financial system through the eyes of little children. There are a lot of things that we have been programmed to accept that we really should be asking some hard questions about.

Do you remember the fairy tale entitled "The Emperor's New Clothes"? All of the adults were telling the emperor how wonderful his clothes looked as he strutted about. It took a little child to proclaim that the emperor was really running around naked.

Well, things are very similar today. Our politicians, our media, the big corporations, the big Wall Street banks and our entire education system all tell us that everything is just fine. They promise that any downturns are just temporary and that things will soon be better than ever.

But are they telling us the truth?

Perhaps it is time for someone to step forward and point out that the emperor does not have any clothes on.

The following are 30 questions that children should be asking their parents about the U.S. economy....

#1 Why has this generation spent 14 trillion dollars that belong to future generations?

#2 Why was the Federal Reserve allowed to make 16 trillion dollars in secret loans to their friends during the financial crisis and nobody is holding them accountable?

#3 Why is the Federal Reserve paying banks not to make loans?

#4 If the Federal Reserve is constantly devaluing our money, then why should anyone save money? Won't it be worth a lot less in future years?

#5 If the United States has the greatest economy on earth, then why were only 58.1% of Americans over the age of 16 employed last month?

#6 Should we be alarmed that the largest bank in the United States, Bank of America, is laying off 3,500 more workers and that we are seeing substantial layoffs all over Wall Street?

#7 Why does the federal government buy food for almost 46 million Americans every single month? Isn't this a sign of an economic system that is deeply broken?

#8 Why do some Americans have to give more than half of all the money that they make to the government?

#9 If our founding fathers intended to set up a limited central government, then why does the federal government just continue to get bigger and bigger?

#10 Why are middle class families taxed into oblivion while the big oil companies receive about $4.4 billion in specialized tax breaks a year from the federal government?

#11 Will Americans ever learn to stay away from credit card debt? In May, the number of credit cards issued by banks was 27% higher than one year earlier.

#12 Why are large groups of young people invading retail stores and stealing whatever they want?

#13 If the producer price index has increased at an annual rate of at least 7.0% for the last three months in a row, then how can Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke claim that inflation is still very low?

#14 Why does hardly anyone seem concerned that global food prices are 33 percent higher than they were a year ago?

#15 If low income jobs now account for 41 percent of all jobs in the United States, then how are we going to continue to have a vibrant middle class?

#16 If only 66.8% of American men had a job last year, then how are the rest of them supposed to support their families?

#17 If it costs tens of billions of dollars to take care of all of the illegal immigrants that are already in this country, why did the Obama administration go around Congress and grant "backdoor amnesty" to the vast majority of them? Won't that just encourage millions more to come in illegally?

#18 Shouldn't we be alarmed that 59 percent of all Americans now receive money from the federal government in one form or another, and that U.S. households are now receiving more income from the U.S. government than they are paying to the government in taxes? Didn't our founding fathers try to warn us about this sort of thing?

#19 If homes sales continue to drop even with mortgage rates near record lows, then what in the world is going to happen to the real estate industry once interest rates start going up?

#20 Why has the cost of college tuition in the United States gone up by over 900 percent since 1978? Has the quality of a college education gone up by 900 percent?

#21 If the new health care law is so great, then why has the Obama administration granted 1,472 waivers to companies and organizations so far?

#22 Why is the percentage of millionaires in Congress more than 50 times higher than the percentage of millionaires in the general population?

#23 If the debt ceiling deal was such a big deal to the Republicans, then why did they agree to a deal that only included a measly 25 billion dollars in savings prior to the next presidential election?

#24 The poorest 50% of all Americans collectively own just 2.5% of all the wealth in the United States. If allowing the federal government and the big corporations to run everything results in a massive concentration of wealth at the very top and leaves so many others barely able to survive, then why do we continue to run things this way? Isn't capitalism supposed to be about empowering individuals and small businesses?

#25 If we are in an "economic recovery", then why are thousands upon thousands of people lining up just to get into a job fair?

#26 If millions of our jobs have already been shipped out of the country, then why is Barack Obama trying to get Congress to agree to even more free trade agreements with countries where it is legal to pay slave labor wages?

#27 Why has the United States had a negative trade balance every single year since 1976?

#28 If the United States has lost an average of 50,000 manufacturing jobs a month since China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001, then why don't our politicians do something about it?

#29 Why was the new Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial on the National Mall made in China? Wasn't there anyone in America that could make it?

#30 If 78 percent of the American people are dissatisfied "with the way this country’s political system is working", then why won't the politicians change the way that they are doing things?

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