Crime and Chaos

[Tracy]

Here is a quote from Mike Morgan's blog. Link to the whole article follows quote. I thought this was interesting...


6 – Crime – With what I see and hear, I believe we will see unbelievable spikes in crime throughout the world. For the US and beyond, as the weather warms into Spring and Summer, the masses will not sit back and do nothing. To the contrary, as we are seeing in warmer climates like Madagascar, Guadalupe and Martinique, the masses are already rioting. If you think the 1969 riots were horrible, I believe this year will make that look like a kiddie parade. We now have organized gangs on top of millions of angry people. We now have millions of unemployed that have no jobs and their 401k plans have been destroyed. We now have millions of people that don’t know if they can put food on the table much longer. If Obama wants to talk about Lincoln, let him go back and consider what happened during the Civil War. And if you think we cannot fall into anarchy like that again, you are only fooling yourself.

7 – Chaos: a state of utter confusion. I think that sums up where we are at today.

Unless we go after the economic terrorist and claw the money back, we will see violence on an unprecedented scale this year. We didn’t have huge shopping malls in 1969, but the downtown shops were all looted and burned. I saw it first hand in Asbury Park, New Jersey. That was 40 years ago . . . one Biblical generation. The malls will be looted and destroyed. Grocery stores the same. I do not see anyway to avoid this . . . IF we stay on the same course we are on.

Dillon Radigan on Fast Money this evening was bold enough to say we need to go after the crooks like Paulson, Mozilla, etc. He didn’t mention them by name, but he analogized them to terrorists.

I leave you with the only “C” word we should be concentrating on . . . Consequences. If we fail to force the thieves to pay the consequences for creating a world of financial crisis, we must pay the horrible consequences of financial ruin and chaos.

And if we don’t take control of our destiny, in the end, guys like Paulson, Mozilla, Dodd and Frank still have to report to the Boss.

Romans 14:11-12 It is written: " 'As surely as I live,' says the Lord, 'every knee will bow before me; every tongue will confess to God.' So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God.

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[Tim Elston]

Tracy,

It's telling that your focus is on what threatens your family and my focus is on who's to blame. Your motherly instincts guide you, while my critical predelictions guide me.

This is what struck me:

3 – Consequences – This is the key word to solving the global financial crisis. Go after the crooks like Hank Paulson that stole billions. Make them pay the consequences. I suggest we line up Paulson, Thain, Mozilla, Lewis, Sandler, Dodd, Frank and a few others. We ask them to return the money and to create laws that will be enforced. If they so no, we shoot one. . . I know this sounds off the wall and harsh, but what thousands of men like this did is to destroy the lives of millions of people.

The problem is that the lawmakers are the perpetrators, and they define the laws such that their actions are not criminal. Legally, there is no crime for which to execute them. Morally, however, there is reason to stage the kind of political or military coup that could warrant their being charged with treason.

5 – Collusion: secret agreement or cooperation especially for an illegal or deceitful purpose. That, my friends, sums up what we have just witnessed over the past 10 years between guys like Chris Dodd, Barney Frank, Chris Cox, Angelo Mozilla, Dick Cheney, Robert Rubin, Hank Paulson and hundreds of others. I did not include George Bush, because he was simply so out of touch with reality, that he had no clue what was going on, and he left it all to Cheney and his Buddies.

This is what I like about Morgan. He sees the problem for what it is, a non-partisan mugging of America by our nation's richest and most powerful.

[Tracy]

Tracy,

It's telling that your focus is on what threatens your family and my focus is on who's to blame. Your motherly instincts guide you, while my critical predelictions guide me.

I think you are right! You are very observant. I think the whole economic situation plays to my mothering instincts: it makes me get out and work the land so that I can feed my children; it make me live frugally to the nth degree, it causes me to want my children to have life-skills as well as academic skills, etc. It really impacts what we are doing.

I can't comprehend a lot of what is going on; it is way over my head. But I do know where God has placed me--as a wife and mother, and He expects me to be a good steward of all He has given me and to know the times and to work hard. I struggle with finding a balance between doing all I can AND resting in Him without being anxious. I am prone to anxiety and worry, so it is a constant battle.

I appreciate your perspective. I think you are very wise.

Tracy