[Ccpg] Signposts: The Staggering Collapse of Living Standards in the US

[Sierra Permaculture Guild]

It what ways can Permaculture come to the rescue in this unfolding
catastrophe? Now is the time to be developing cheap, sustainable strategies
that can be deployed quickly at the local level on a wide scale: food,
water, energy, shelter, health. Grow. Teach. Share. Permaculture-up, folks!

Paul

*The Staggering Collapse of Living Standards in the US -- 92% of Americans
Unhappy with the
Economy<http://lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/LeeStaggeringCollapse.html>
*

*By Hiram Lee, Center for Research on
Globalization<http://lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/LeeStaggeringCollapse.html>
*


"A series of recent studies conducted by the Pew Research Center shed new
light on the scope of the economic crisis in the US and the level of
hostility the majority of the American population holds for the US
government.

Wide layers of the population, who have seen trillions of dollars funneled
from the public treasury into the coffers of Wall Street executives while
their own living standards have been assaulted, their jobs slashed, their
children’s schools closed, and vital social programs such as Medicare cut by
billions of dollars, have no faith in the US government to secure their most
basic social needs.

The corporate-controlled news media, along with the major institutions
overseeing the nation’s educational needs and basic food and medical
resources, are considered corrupt and untrustworthy, contributing to the
suffering of millions.

President Barack Obama, continuing to pose as a populist man of the people
when he finds it necessary or beneficial, stands exposed as the chief
representative of the interests of the American ruling elite and the
standard bearer in the assault on the working class.

The restructuring of society taking place, in the direct interests of the
corporate-financial elite and at the expense of the working population, is
not occurring unnoticed. The American and international working class will
inevitably find itself drawn into struggle against the present, untenable
form of social organization."

Full Story: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=18829
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