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[Daniel]

Housing Market Woes Bring Familial Strife

How many steps from homelessness? Ground Zero has arrived for the American middle class. The poor will remain poor. The rich will remain rich. The middle class is becoming a shadow of its former self. When weakness occurs and sickness sinks in, opportunistic infections take over. Once you're down, especially chronically unemployed, its very difficult to be lifted back up. It can happen, but you must be very strong to weather that. Not to mention the ever looming deterioration in the state of ones physical health. No entitlements, no guarantees.

As Alan Watts puts it "Is the game worth the candle"?



http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129448115

from Comments:

"We have to move on and live our lives. The market is not going to improve any time soon with all the houses 'under water'. Banks knew this was coming and broke their commitment to a social contract. We are not ethically obliged to hold onto junk produced by the mortgage industry. When they need customers, they will lend to us again and we should start over now to be ready then. Read Jeffrey Sachs advise to 4th world nations exploited by World Bank. We have not experienced this before...forget the overworked, underpaid corporate ladder into the ground."

[Daniel]

The other Ground Zero.

Today is 9-11

Not much difference between this and the state the middle class is in these days.

[Jana]

Yes and the caustic thermite agent that brought the middle class down is immoral corporate greed...the same thing that bought the towers down. Tell me, why is it not illegal?

[Daniel]

Because it's the same 'country club' that makes and enforces the laws they are exempt from.
They know how to bend the rules into a pretzel. And well, if the "little guy" suffers, too damn bad.

They themselves don't want to put themselves in jail, it would unmask the mask behind the mask.

[Jana]

Yes and power-corruption can only escalate, and the mask become many layers deeper, while the plebs get sleeper.
Increasing the sovereignty of the individual seems like a slow way to go about change, but really its the only lasting way...if each of us grows up and wakes up for our own salvation, then a healthy and mature culture can be built.

[Daniel]

2010 - Record gains for US poverty

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100912/ap_on_re_us/us_poverty_in_america

[Daniel]

Third World America

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/third-world-america

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/third-world-america-why-i_b_706673.html

[Jana]

God, I love that stuff about the missing rubble on Truth Frequency radio...freaking awesome.

OK
"Us vs. Them" is the main power and security driver at the mythic, Borg level and this dynamic is how delinquent authorities of church, state and corporation can easily manipulate their members into collective immoral acts and pathological directions. If we are hard wired for exclusion, isolation and competition...how can we increase the "inclusivity vibe" in the global community without generating more hivemind mentality. We do this through strengthening the sovereign-source-power of each individual so that they feel strong in themselves and will not bow down to the Nazi-like conditioning of fear propaganda. Apparently fear has a longer wavelength and allows less of the DNA to be expressed...essentially making us more animal and less human. Thus for our survival as a species, we must each of us plug back into the cosmos in order to "belong" and then find our belonging in our joint humanity in order to avoid being manipulated subtley and overtly by the forces of control and suppression within the extractive-exploitive civilization paradigm. Siding with the enemy of humanity can only ever generate more fear for us, even as we inflate ourselves on the false power of cooperation with evil.

[Daniel]

US homes lost to foreclosure up 25 pct on year

Lenders took back more homes in August than in any month since the start of the U.S. mortgage crisis.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100916/ap_on_bi_ge/us_foreclosure_rates