Friday, September 2, 2022

Nancy Pelosi: ‘The GOP Is…Fanning the Flames of Violence and Division’ - BUT IT'S THE DEMOCRAT PARTY WHICH HAS TURNED AMERICA'S CITIES INTO WASTELANDS - JUST LOOK AT INSIDER TRADER NANCY PELOSI'S SAN FRANCISCO - WE HAVE!

 

Nancy Pelosi: ‘The GOP Is…Fanning the Flames of Violence and Division’

By CNSNews.com Staff | September 2, 2022 | 4:44pm EDT

  

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(CNSNews.com) - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) released a statement on Thursday in which she praised the speech that President Joe Biden delivered in front of Independence Hall in Philadelphia and accused “the GOP” of “fanning the flames of violence and division.”

“President Biden, in his inspiring and optimistic remarks tonight, made crystal clear that our rights, our freedom and our Democracy are on the line,” said Pelosi.

“In the Congress and across the country, extreme MAGA Republicans are orchestrating a sinister campaign,” she said.

“From criminalizing women's health care to ending Social Security and Medicare to undermining our elections, the GOP is working to turn back the clock on many of our most fundamental liberties while fanning the flames of violence and division,” said Pelosi.

(Screen capture of part of Pelosi's statement accusing the GOP of "fanning the flames of violence and division.")
(Screen capture of part of Pelosi's statement accusing the GOP of "fanning the flames of violence and division.")

In his speech, President Biden had declared that “Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans” now dominate the Republican Party and are “a threat to this country.”

“But there is no question that the Republican Party today is dominated, driven, and intimidated by Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans, and that is a threat to this country,” said Biden.

“And here, in my view, is what is true: MAGA Republicans do not respect the Constitution.  They do not believe in the rule of law.  They do not recognize the will of the people,” Biden said.

“MAGA forces are determined to take this country backwards—backwards to an America where there is no right to choose, no right to privacy, no right to contraception, no right to marry who you love,” said Biden.

Here is the complete text of the statement Pelosi released praising Biden’s speech:

Nancy Pelosi: “President Biden, in his inspiring and optimistic remarks tonight, made crystal clear that our rights, our freedom and our Democracy are on the line.  Every American who cares about the integrity of our Democracy, the fairness of our economy, the safety of our communities and the health of our planet is grateful to the President for his values-based vision and patriotic leadership. 

“In the Congress and across the country, extreme MAGA Republicans are orchestrating a sinister campaign.  From criminalizing women's health care to ending Social Security and Medicare to undermining our elections, the GOP is working to turn back the clock on many of our most fundamental liberties while fanning the flames of violence and division.

"In stark contrast, under the strong leadership of President Biden, Democrats have powered progress for America’s families.  With our landmark laws to bring down costs, create better paying jobs and build safer communities, Democrats are demonstrating that Democracy can continue to deliver.

“The American people are rejecting Republicans’ extreme MAGA agenda – instead, choosing Democrats’ unifying vision of People Over Politics.”



VIDEO

Our Major Cities Are Being Transformed Into Stomach-Churning Cesspools Of Squalor





In San Francisco, It's Anarcho-Tyranny, and It's Set to Spread

A man wakes up in San Francisco, has breakfast, showers, and gets ready for work. As he opens his front door, he discovers a fresh deuce on the stoop of his seven-million-dollar row home. In a previous time, he would have noticed it earlier in the morning when he went to fetch the San Francisco Chronicle and the New York Times or Wall Street Journal newspapers.

Today he stumbles past the foul-smelling excrement on his way to see if his Range Rover is still where he left it the previous night. He notices the depositor of the morning gift two stoops down curled up in an unwashed mess, his pants around his ankles and his butt cheeks smeared with evidence of his offering. Completely out in heroin dreamland, the perp’s right hand limply grasps a clear and orange syringe with black etched lettering along the side that reads: Courtesy of the law-abiding tax-paying citizens of San Francisco.

Last year, this man paid $59,000 to the state of California for the privilege of this morning’s experience, and another $122,000 to the federal government, which is in the process of funding tens of thousands more armed IRS enforcers to make sure this man or any other working citizen doesn’t get any funny ideas about keeping one dollar more than they’re allowed from the fruits of their own labor, by a government that offers them nothing in return and openly detests them.

When this man arrives at his Range Rover Evoque, which he upgraded to heavily tinted windows, thinking it would deter thieves, he finds his action did the exact opposite: the passenger front window was broken again. It’s the third time in as many weeks. As he approaches the windshield, he notices an envelope beneath the windshield wipers. This man, on this morning, has been cited for parking slightly in a fire hydrant zone. His tires and front bumper were just across the line of legal allowance, so he must pay the city $350 for his urban infraction. A penny less or refusal to pay will eventually result in a bench warrant for his arrest.

This man will again soon vote for the very people responsible for this soft Anarcho-Tyranny that blesses his days and exploits his labor earnings while refusing to provide a modicum of protection of property or liberty.

Anarcho-Tyranny.

The term gets little attention or press because it originates from conservative academic social science and exposes the destructive policies of liberal politicians with whom the media work directly in tandem to shield from any criticism.

There are various definitions of Anarcho-Tyranny floating around, but most involve the absence of basic protections assumed under state authority on the backs of tax-paying citizens, who are instead made targets of persecution by the state.

Lew Rockwell concisely described the hard version of Anarcho-Tyranny in a piece about lawlessness in Iraq twenty years ago, “It is a situation in which government does everything but what it is supposed to do, namely protect life and property.”

In the past decade, it has become more ambiguous as a deliberate subversion of basic institutions like local and national judicial systems are corrupted and no longer serve to keep society orderly and safe, but instead make life disorderly, chaotic, and dangerous. Justice is no longer blind, and with the blindfold removed, she ends up favoring certain political, racial, and cultural groups over others.

In the past it was assumed this occurred as a result of incompetence and bureaucratic negligence. Today, it can be surmised with little proof to the contrary, and a trail of financial evidence from George Soros-funded groups pointing to the same culprits of organized global chaos that Anarcho-Tyranny is now intentional and deliberate domestic policy. However, the organizers of global chaos dress this policy up as something righteous so those who blindly accept anything ordained as "progress" embrace and help sell it to the masses.

Today, it is sold as curing social ills such as “racism,” and “mass incarceration” for the “social justice” movement, people who do not see they’ve been co-opted by all institutions of power, including banking and finance, and corporate America, to intentionally create socio-cultural and racial strife. That's so that the people do not notice their true common enemies responsible for the actual damage, including, but not limited to, the destruction of the once-thriving great American middle class.

The social justice movement, often referred to by its diminutive cousin “woke,” is the perfect dummy movement to create policy solutions that end up harming those they claim to represent, making life even more miserable for so-called “oppressed groups.” The attack on law enforcement through “defund the police” movements and Black Lives Matter has made things exponentially more ominous in recent years, but that’s exactly what those funding these groups want -- social division, chaos, cultural strife, high crime, lawlessness, and the absence of basic state functions of serving and protecting the people and private property.

Vilifying law enforcement increases community tensions so that any events where excessive force is utilized against a member of an oppressed group can be politicized and weaponized as fuel for incitement. The results are catastrophic for the “oppressed groups” in these communities, who end up rendering them ash heaps after weeks, or even months, of rioting, looting, and terror.

In an election year, these events can be downright beneficial. When a felonious thug who once robbed a pregnant woman at gunpoint ingested ten times the lethal limit of fentanyl and began suffocating (respiratory arrest is a side effect of fentanyl overdose), his very public death beneath the knee of an imbecilic white cop set the stage for the 2020 summer of love that enflamed racial tensions on a transnational scale. The hysteria was amplified by the media and social media monopolies and every corporation did its part by bailing out rioters and looters. Politicians of the Anarcho-Tyranny party even promoted crowdfunding for the liberation of incarcerated criminals.

For the entire month of June 2020, the pandemic was no longer a threat to the population and nationwide protests were allowed, with millions marching in cities where the virus was told to stand down for political circumstances. To this day, parts of Minneapolis are still failed communities that look like dystopian ghettos, and the elites who helped fan the flames of racial and social hostilities will never have to live with these consequences.

Anarcho-Tyranny will continue in Democrat-controlled urban areas, where Soros-funded prosecutors and state Attorneys General have been installed to make sure it is weaponized against the law-abiding citizens who foolishly choose to remain and suffer the consequences. Not a day goes by where thugs aren’t beating elderly or handicapped people or robbing the blind, where carjackings and brazen daylight robberies at gunpoint don’t result in the arrested perps being released within a few hours and not held on bond. And when a shopkeeper is a victim of assault and dares fight back, as one bodega worker in the Bronx did last month, he is charged with murder and held on a quarter-million dollars bond. Bodega robberies are up 160% over the past year in New York City.

This lawlessness, where criminals roam free, is a form of intentional domestic terror that makes local headlines every night in Chicago and New York City, Philadelphia, or Los Angeles. They leave the public revolting in horror, only to find themselves getting up the next morning to go to work to keep paying for the prosecutor’s salary.

Politically and demographically, this portends future alterations in the national blue-state red-state standoff. Those no longer interested in subsidizing localized crime and terror are fleeing in droves to states where law and order are still valued. Florida, Texas, Tennessee, Idaho, Montana, and other states have seen a massive net influx of people desperate and financially secure enough to flee the oppressive urban degeneracy of blue state chaos.

The natives aren’t too thrilled about this demographic shift, and are skeptical of the judgment of their new arrivals, fearing they might not exercise wisdom at the ballot box in their newly adopted states. They fear the new arrivals will bring with them the chaos they helped fund and create where they fled.

And really, who can blame them?

T. Goode Charley's Substack, The Good Citizen, can be read here.


Nearly 5 Million Illegal Immigrants Crossed Border During Biden Administration

https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2022/08/20/nearly-5-million-illegal-immigrants-crossed-border-during-biden-administration/

Newt Gingrich: 'The level of dishonesty is astonishing'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2yn8p7UtvE


Analysis: Industries Importing Foreign H-2B Visa Workers Steal $1.8 Billion in Wages Since 2000

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden meets workers and discusses gun rights as he tours the Fiat Chrysler plant in Detroit, Michigan on March 10, 2020. - Biden opened primary day meeting workers at an under-construction automobile plant in Detroit, where he received cheers but also was confronted by one worker. …
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Employers in industries that hired most foreign H-2B visa workers for nonagricultural jobs over the last two decades have stolen about $1.8 billion in wages, a new analysis reveals.

Every year, businesses in the landscaping, conservation, meatpacking, construction, and fishing industries are allowed to import tens of thousands of foreign H-2B visa workers to take blue-collar American jobs. In recent years, the federal government has routinely increased the number of foreign H-2B visa workers allowed to enter the United States labor market.

As a result, these blue-collar industries have seen stagnant and depressed wages.

Now, a new analysis by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) reveals that the top H-2B visa industries have stolen about $1.8 billion in wages from employees from 2000 to 2021:

Data from United States Citizenship and Immigration Services shows that there were nearly 117,000 H-2B workers in 2021, and the program is projected to grow to more than 150,000 workers in 2022, a new high. [Emphasis added]

Why does that matter? Because as this growth occurs, migrant workers with H-2B visas are being employed in industries in which there is extensive wage theft and lawbreaking by employers. [Emphasis added]

Data from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) show that, in the seven major industries in which nearly all H-2B workers are employed, nearly $1.8 billion in wages was stolen from workers (which includes both U.S. and migrant workers) between 2000 and 2021. [Emphasis added]

In landscaping services, H-2B visa employers stole more than $60 million in wages from employees over the last two decades. In the construction industry, where Americans have been replaced by imported H-2B foreign visa workers, nearly $850 million in wages have been stolen by employers since 2000.

Chart via Economic Policy Institute

In meatpacking, which has become an increasingly volatile industry preferring to hire lower-wage foreign visa workers over Americans, employees have stolen more than $654 million in wages from 2000 to 2021.

Despite overwhelming evidence of fraud and abuse, President Joe Biden’s administration has repeatedly increased the number of foreign H-2B visa workers that can be imported by U.S. employers.

In July, Biden bragged about importing a “record” number of foreign visa workers to compete against working and middle class Americans for jobs.

“Last year, my administration set a record — we issued more than 300,000 H-2 visas for Mexican workers,” Biden said. “We also reached a five-year high in the visas we issued to Central Americans, and we’re on pace to double this.”

Republicans, beholden to business interests in Washington, D.C., have advocated and voted to increase the number of foreign H-2B visa workers brought to the U.S.

Last month, Senate Minority Whip John Thune (R-SD) urged Biden to import more foreign H-2B visa workers to take American jobs, saying, “We need lots of them in South Dakota and we can never get enough from the administration.”

Annually, the U.S. rewards 1.2 million legal immigrants with green cards while 1.5 million foreign nationals are given temporary work visas. Millions more, every few years, arrive in the U.S. as illegal aliens in the hopes to avoid deportation and take jobs.

John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.


Boots on the Ground...Sept. 1st...Prepare for the long haul do not waste time or money.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8-OVOLnILc


20 Things The Middle Class Can't Afford Anymore



The U.S. middle class is losing ground financially, and in today's video, we're going to expose a list of things middle-income workers can no longer afford. We're living through the most severe cost of living crisis in history, and Americans are seeing their purchasing power evaporate at a breathtaking speed. Even those who used to have some sense of financial security are now having to make some difficult choices and opt between putting food on their tables, paying utility bills, or seeking medical care. Today, middle-earners do not have the same economic stability their parents had back in the day. They continue to struggle with rising costs of education, entertainment, energy, groceries, and everyday necessities while real wage growth stagnates. With each passing month, living conditions continue to worsen for this group. Right now, millions of Americans are still struggling to afford a basic middle-class life. Nearly 51 million households don't earn enough to afford a monthly budget that includes housing, food, child care, health care, transportation, and a cell phone, according to a study released Thursday by the United Way ALICE Project. The share of middle-income Americans who say their incomes aren't keeping up with their cost of living has jumped 16 percentage points since December 2020, rising to 75% in June 2022, Primerica found. With tight budgets, middle-class families are having to cut back on their spending on name-brand items. In July alone, retail sales data shows a 28% decline in the purchase of brand name items as middle-income shoppers scramble to afford simple luxuries of life. The middle-class debt load is growing much faster than their incomes, leaving workers struggling to make ends meet each month. According to a Money-Zine analysis, "back in 1980, the consumer debt per person was $1,540, which was 7.3% of the average household income of $21,100. In 2022, consumer debt climbed to $58,604 per person, which was almost 60% of the average household income of $97,026. This means debt increased nearly 500% faster than income from 1980 through 2022." Having a financial cushion to fall back on is essential to ensure economic security, but as the cost of living soars, fewer middle-class workers can afford to put some money aside for emergencies. A Bankrate poll found that only one in seven middle-class households have at least six months of emergency savings. Over 25% of them have no emergency savings at all, and the remaining households have a small to moderate amount of savings, but not enough to cover six months of expenses. In theory, middle-class earners differ from low-income earners because they don’t live paycheck to paycheck. But in reality, over 60% of the U.S. population, or approximately, 157 million adults, are currently living in a hand-to-mouth situation. In other words, middle-class Americans are just as financially burdened as low-income Americans, with around two-thirds, or 67%, unable to cover an unexpected $400 expense. New estimates suggest that around one-quarter of the U.S. population is already spending more than ten percent of their net income on energy. People from households that exceed this ten-per cent threshold are considered to be in the "energy poor" group, experts note. Last year, less than 10% of the population faced energy poverty. But over the past 12 months, the proportion of energy poor has risen by more than fifteen percentage points. Economists observe that high energy prices no longer only burden households with low incomes. This is going to be a very bitter winter for many middle-class families out there. Large swathes of our society are already facing massive amounts of financial pain. But as global events accelerate, it's safe to say that the worst is yet to come. For more info, find us on: https://www.epiceconomist.com/ And visit: http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/


NO DEGREE OF BIDEN'S SABOTAGE OF HOMELAND SECURITY WILL INDUCE THE GOP TO BRING IMPEACHMENT. AFTER ALL, JOE BIDEN IS A CLOSET REPBULICAN.

The president of FAIR Dan Stein discussed the report, stating that ​​“Roughly the equivalent of the entire population of Ireland has illegally entered the United States in the 18 months President Biden has been in office, with many being released into American communities.”

He continued, saying “In that time, the Biden administration has blamed an unprecedented surge of illegal immigration on all sorts of external factors, except their own sabotage of our nation’s immigration laws.”


VIDEO

20 Signs Of The Staggering Decline Of The American Middle Class Family

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHc3TS2JFzU

We just got more evidence that the middle class is being systematically destroyed in America. At this point, millions of people out there have already grown accustomed to barely scraping by from month to month. But that is not what being “middle class” is supposed to be about. Middle-class families should be able to make more money than they have to spend on everyday necessities because is only by doing so that they can build long-term wealth. Unfortunately, income growth has not kept up with the pace of the rising cost of living, and millions of households have taken massive amounts of debt. At the same time, the labor market doesn't offer good-paying jobs that support middle-class life, and the lack of these positions has been contributing to the decline of this income group all across the country. In the early 1970s, the middle class accounted for around 60 percent of the population, but now middle-income households are rapidly becoming a minority in the United States. And as economic conditions continue to deteriorate, millions of hard-working families all over America are being stretched financially like never before. “In America, the middle class can no longer afford retirement. Middle-class Americans face sharp economic inequality, with ownership of financial assets highly concentrated among the wealthy,” explained Tyler Bond, NIRS research manager. “Now that we have a retirement system largely built around the individual ownership of financial assets in 401(k) accounts, middle-class Americans are struggling to accumulate sufficient financial assets during their working years. This means the retirement outlook for many in the middle class is bleak at best.” Since the onset of the health crisis, the U.S. economy has been decaying at an alarming pace. Over the past two years, the middle class has gotten smaller and smaller in this country, and now it seems that another economic downturn is upon us once again. So many families are already living on the edge right now. Recent surveys have exposed that well over 50% of the population is living paycheck to paycheck and that most Americans don't have emergency savings or a financial cushion to fall back on. When you are living on the edge, there is always a danger that you could fall over. Since 2020, we have never seen so many middle-class Americans falling straight into poverty. In other words, unless dramatic changes happen in America, the middle class is going to be absolutely eviscerated in the next decade. We must wake up now. The middle class is dying right before our eyes, and if we want to save it, we must take action now. Today, we compiled a series of new numbers that expose the rapid downfall of the U.S. middle-class.

 

 

 

VIDEOS:

It's Too Late To Stop This Now, Get Your House In Order

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3u7173SPBF8

 

 

 

15 Signs That The Social Decay In America Is Worse Than It Has Ever Been Before

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDTdgIJcoD8

The social fabric of the United States is rapidly deteriorating. Right now, virtually any measure of social welfare is showing us that social decay in America is accelerating at a very shocking pace. Our main institutions are either being dismantled or falling apart. At the same time, civil disorder continues to trigger unprecedented chaos in several parts of our country. Millions of Americans don't have access to proper housing, food, and education, and the gap between the 'haves' and the 'have-nots' has never been wider. The lack of proper education to help Americans thrive and accomplish financial stability is another sign of societal breakdown. Most colleges and universities are failing in one of their most basic missions: to equip students with the tools they need for a career. Millions of students graduate each year totally ill-prepared to earn a living and pay off the debt they’ve accumulated getting their degrees — at least 40% of those who start college don’t finish within six years. Despite these problems, colleges continue to raise tuition and to pay for these ever-increasing costs, students are borrowing more money and taking on more and more debt. And with federal loans accounting for much of the $1.5 trillion in outstanding student loan debt, and more than a million people defaulting on their loans, taxpayers are picking up much of the tab for this broken system while our younger generations remain utterly unprepared for the challenges of adult life. In the world’s wealthiest country, more and more people are living on the streets. Homelessness is a significant indicator of social decay. There are 750,000 Americans who are homeless on any given night, with one in five of them considered chronically homeless. Around 70% of the homeless are individuals, and families with children make up for the remaining 30%. Living without proper access to housing puts many people in very a vulnerable position, oftentimes, their lives are at risk. An examination of 20 US urban areas found that around 13,000 homeless people are victimized by disease, extreme weather, and substance abuse every year. The number of victims shot up by 77% in the five years ending in 2020. Today, the average life expectancy of a homeless person in America is just 50 years. There will be no future for us if we stay on this highly self-destructive path. The choices that we make individually and collectively as a nation are critical for the health of our society. Throughout all human history, great empires have fallen because societies have consistently made the wrong choices. So if we want to prevent the downfall of America, we must start making better choices. But if we are going to change direction, we better start doing it now because time is running out, and it won’t be too long before it is gone completely. Today, we decided to expose some worrying facts about the social breakdown happening all around us.

 

VIDEOS:

Why New York’s Billionaires’ Row Is Half Empty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wehsz38P74g&t=1439s

 

15 Signs That America Is In Much Worse Trouble Than We All Thought

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bafVveN1qlc

Today, we brought you some numbers that may be hard to digest. Even though most of us know by now that America is in trouble, many people out there don't have any idea of how deep in trouble we really are. Offense rates are shooting up tremendously right now. As the cost of basic necessities escalates, more people are stealing to feed themselves today than in any other period in the past decade. Gas theft rates are skyrocketing, as prices rise above the $5-dollar-mark. Since January, the number of carjackings has gone up by over 300% in some cities. Officers say that it's not just a few gallons being siphoned from vehicles. Now, thieves are pumping thousands of dollars' worth of fuel from gas stations and selling it for a profit. CNN reported that, in Orlando, Florida, authorities are looking for two people who they say stole more than 1,000 gallons of fuel from a gas station. In Las Vegas, Nevada, highly modified vehicles are being used to steal tens of thousands of gallons from local gas stations. And in Greenville, South Carolina, several arrests for gas thefts have been made since January. Last week, in North Carolina last week, almost 400 gallons of gas were stolen by thieves who were able to bypass the payment system. The list goes on and on, and given that gas prices are expected to continue to rise, we’re going to see many more similar cases happening until the end of the year.

Meanwhile, on dividedness, the U.S. ranks No. 1. A Pew Research Center Survey of 20 developed nations found that Americans were the most likely to say their society was split along partisan, racial, and ethnic lines. The U.S. also reported more religious division than almost any other country surveyed. The truth is that our country is rapidly falling apart. Since the 1970s, economic inequality in the U.S. has skyrocketed, leaving many Americans living paycheck to paycheck while the nation’s top earners hoard all the gains from economic growth. It's actually been 11 years since the last federal minimum wage hike, the longest span the baseline wage has gone without an increase since it began in 1938. Since the last federal minimum wage hike — to $7.25 an hour, starting July 24, 2009 — the cost of living has shot up by 20%, while the price of essentials such as housing and health care have increased even faster. The average rent back in 2009 was about $1,132, adjusted for inflation. On top of all that, the U.S. manufacturing sector is facing a historic slowdown right now, which is quite alarming given that about 12% of the nation’s total output comes from manufacturing. And the supply chain disruptions we’ve seen so far are just a hint of the chaos we are going to witness this year. As we enter peak shipping season, shipping information company Frieghtos estimates that by August the price to ship one 40-ft container from China to the US East Coast will shoot up to more than $20,000, almost twice as high as shipping rates were in January, and a 500% increase from 2019 levels. Our living standards are decaying and, at this point, we all can see our quality of life evaporating right before our eyes. That's why we compiled some sobering statistics that reveal that the crises we're facing are far more severe than most of us imagine. For more info, find us on: https://www.epiceconomist.com/ And visit: http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/

 

 

 VIDEO

Prepare for the EVICTION WAVE about to hit US Housing Market (13 MILLION NOW IN DEFAULT)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-XhzvHUgB0

 

VIDEOS:

Why New York’s Billionaires’ Row Is Half Empty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wehsz38P74g&t=1439s

 

15 Signs That America Is In Much Worse Trouble Than We All Thought

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bafVveN1qlc

Today, we brought you some numbers that may be hard to digest. Even though most of us know by now that America is in trouble, many people out there don't have any idea of how deep in trouble we really are. Offense rates are shooting up tremendously right now. As the cost of basic necessities escalates, more people are stealing to feed themselves today than in any other period in the past decade. Gas theft rates are skyrocketing, as prices rise above the $5-dollar-mark. Since January, the number of carjackings has gone up by over 300% in some cities. Officers say that it's not just a few gallons being siphoned from vehicles. Now, thieves are pumping thousands of dollars' worth of fuel from gas stations and selling it for a profit. CNN reported that, in Orlando, Florida, authorities are looking for two people who they say stole more than 1,000 gallons of fuel from a gas station. In Las Vegas, Nevada, highly modified vehicles are being used to steal tens of thousands of gallons from local gas stations. And in Greenville, South Carolina, several arrests for gas thefts have been made since January. Last week, in North Carolina last week, almost 400 gallons of gas were stolen by thieves who were able to bypass the payment system. The list goes on and on, and given that gas prices are expected to continue to rise, we’re going to see many more similar cases happening until the end of the year.

Meanwhile, on dividedness, the U.S. ranks No. 1. A Pew Research Center Survey of 20 developed nations found that Americans were the most likely to say their society was split along partisan, racial, and ethnic lines. The U.S. also reported more religious division than almost any other country surveyed. The truth is that our country is rapidly falling apart. Since the 1970s, economic inequality in the U.S. has skyrocketed, leaving many Americans living paycheck to paycheck while the nation’s top earners hoard all the gains from economic growth. It's actually been 11 years since the last federal minimum wage hike, the longest span the baseline wage has gone without an increase since it began in 1938. Since the last federal minimum wage hike — to $7.25 an hour, starting July 24, 2009 — the cost of living has shot up by 20%, while the price of essentials such as housing and health care have increased even faster. The average rent back in 2009 was about $1,132, adjusted for inflation. On top of all that, the U.S. manufacturing sector is facing a historic slowdown right now, which is quite alarming given that about 12% of the nation’s total output comes from manufacturing. And the supply chain disruptions we’ve seen so far are just a hint of the chaos we are going to witness this year. As we enter peak shipping season, shipping information company Frieghtos estimates that by August the price to ship one 40-ft container from China to the US East Coast will shoot up to more than $20,000, almost twice as high as shipping rates were in January, and a 500% increase from 2019 levels. Our living standards are decaying and, at this point, we all can see our quality of life evaporating right before our eyes. That's why we compiled some sobering statistics that reveal that the crises we're facing are far more severe than most of us imagine. For more info, find us on: https://www.epiceconomist.com/ And visit: http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/ 

 

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