ROLLING STONE TO CAUSE ROLLING HEADS?

By Marilyn M. Barnewall
April 17, 2011
NewsWithViews.com

There was good news Wednesday about a state reclaiming a bit of its independence and doing its part to keep unqualified political candidates off of ballots. Arizona’s Senate passed a Bill requiring political candidates to prove they meet lawful requirements to run for the office sought. The Bill has been sent on to the House for a vote. It’s out of Committee and is a work in progress. There is no doubt that The Donald raising this issue brought it to the attention of state legislators – hopefully in more places than Arizona.

It has also been a week of disconcerting news. In fact, if you’re depressed, you might not want to continue reading. There’s no way to sugar coat depressing news – but it contains information people need to know.

There is word on the street that Secretary of the Treasury, Timothy Geithner, has approved plans for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to absorb the Federal Reserve System with an eye to the IMF becoming a global central bank. A “basket of currencies” (which includes the Chinese renmenbi/yuan) is to be created to replace the dollar as the international currency of trade. Plans are for “the basket” to become America’s new currency.

Is it true? There’s no way to confirm the rumor. The same spark that lit the fire under the rumor also suggests it will not be long in coming. If true, I believe it is an act that borderlines Treason. I’m no lawyer, but it seems to this citizen of the United States that my Constitution (which defines government’s limitations) says the only authority for currency and coinage in this country is the United States Congress. I have a sovereign right to an American currency as determined by the United States Congress, and some jerk-o Treasury Secretary who can’t remember to pay his taxes doesn’t have the standing to rewrite the Constitution at will.

The Congress broke the constitutional bond regarding its responsibility for our currency and monetary policy when it created the Federal Reserve System and handed over to a private corporation what the Constitution says only the Congress has the right to do. I wonder if Congress set a precedent in 1913 when it approved the Federal Reserve Act. By rejecting its responsibility to manage currency, coinage and monetary policy, did Congress pave the road for individual states to reject their constitutional obligation to rely on the federal government for currency, coinage and monetary policy? Can states create their own currency? One could certainly make a good argument for – or, against – it. If one person to a contract violates the agreement, can the other party be bound by it? It’s a good question.

Too, news of the Fed’s extreme abuse of Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility (TALF) funds also came out this week. TALF was passed by the Democrat Congress and it became effective in April 2009. This misfit of taxpayer abuse totally belongs to the Democrat-controlled Congress and the Obama Administration.

According to Matt Taibbi in a three-article series in Rolling Stone, scheduled to appear in the April 28, 2011 issue, staffers in the U.S. Senate and House are “pouring over 21,000 transactions and discovering a host of outrages and lunacies…”

Fed Chairman Bernanke, et al, sent billions in TALF funds to banks from Mexico to Bahrain to Bavaria (and Libyan banks borrowed 70 times) while our own banks were suffering liquidity shortages. Billions more were sent to Japanese car companies that compete with Made in American auto manufacturers. Citigroup and Morgan Stanley got more than $2 trillion each. The most shocking thing is that billions more were made available to millionaires and billionaires with offshore addresses – the Cayman Islands, the Isle of Man, etc. – places where wealthy Americans seek to shelter financial secrets.

A company named Waterfall TALF Opportunity got $220 million – a small amount by comparison to the billions and trillions made available to foreign car companies and banks in nations where our military fights battles with foreign governments. As for Wall Street brokerage houses… the tales Taibbi tells made me ill.

In the case of Waterfalls TALF Opportunity, its primary investors are Christy Mack (wife of John J. Mack, Chairman, Morgan Stanley) and Susan Karches (widow of Peter Karches, former President, Morgan Stanley’s investment banking division). As I said, Waterfalls got $220 million from Dr. Ben and his Mad, Mad, Money Machine called the Federal Reserve System – the pretender of a “central bank” that is supposed to be run on behalf of America’s monetary interests.

According to Taibbi, “Neither woman appears to have any serious history in business, apart from a few philanthropic experiences. Yet the Federal Reserve handed them both low-interest loans of nearly a quarter of a billion dollars via a complicated bailout program that virtually guaranteed them millions in risk free income.”

Taibbi points to Susan Karches’ economic experience in finance as dabbling in thoroughbred racehorses. Yet, she and her friend, Christy Mack, started their company with an investment of $15 million – which, it appears, immediately qualified them to receive $220 million from the Federal Reserve. They used the Fed’s money – your money and my money – to buy student loans and commercial mortgages. Taibbi says “The loans were set up so that Christy and Susan would keep 100 percent of any gains on the deals, while the Fed and the Treasury (read: the taxpayer) would eat 90 percent of the losses.” Does that sound like a simple transaction someone who “dabbled in thoroughbred racehorses” could put together without very informed help from an insider?

To really understand the total lack of respect for the American people by the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Dr. Ben Bernanke, and Secretary of the Treasury, Timothy Geithner, you need to read Taibbi’s article. It exemplifies disrespect for how hard most Americans work for their money and the burden irresponsible taxation places upon them. It also exemplifies literal contempt. This behavior is a mere echo of their laughter at Americans who are dumb enough to trust them. They see the people’s lack of understanding of the system of banking and finance as an opportunity to commit fraud.

I wrote an article two weeks ago about the need to ask the right questions to ensure against being “disinformationalized.” Several questions come to mind. First, isn’t it interesting that the second story so perfectly sets the stage for the first? It almost makes you want to say “Yes! Let the IMF take over the Fed! They deserve their fate and the fires of Hell are waiting! Throw the Fed into the fire!”

It’s hard to argue against that statement – but we must consider the results of having the IMF absorb the Federal Reserve System as part of a Global Central Bank and loss of the United States Dollar as the international currency of trade (which would put this economy over the edge and America, as a nation, into third world status from which it may never re-emerge). Having the IMF absorb the Federal Reserve System isn’t the only solution – and it is a far cry from being the best one!

For years I have told readers that George Herbert Walker Bush’s New World Order would be achieved by establishing a world economic system that can be easily morphed into world government. The IMF absorbing the Federal Reserve System is just one step along that path. Long ago, in News With Views, I wrote about the games the big boys play – and this is one of those games… only it isn’t a game. It’s deadly serious!

I believe there was a long-term socialist plan to Obama’s ascension to the Presidency; a plan to kidnap the government of the United States of America. I believe it began when Barack Hussein Obama/Soetoro went on a trip with his Pakistani college roommate using what was probably not an American Passport. He visited his mother in Indonesia, and met her boss, Peter F. Geithner… the father of Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner. Geithner senior was President of the Ford Foundation Asia and oversaw the work of Obama's mother, Ann Dunham, who developed what are called microfinance programs in Indonesia. I have copies of speeches given by Ann Dunham for the Ford Foundation during the year Obama visited her. Until his return from this trip, Obama was a not-too-good-student in a small California college. After this trip, the record says he moved to Columbia University (no students there at the time remember him) and then went to Harvard (where he headed The Law Review – but never really wrote anything). What happened during that trip to make such a huge change in the life of a man named Barack Hussein Obama/Soetoro?

The first story – the rumor that the Fed will be absorbed by the IMF and we Americans will have a new, international currency thrust upon us without constitutional authority – is somewhat ameliorated and softened by the second story – finding out just how corrupt the Federal Reserve System and our Treasury Department have become – and how apparent it is that neither Bernanke or Geithner give a tinker’s damn about the people of this country. We need to pay attention and ensure the IMF stays international and away from America’s financial roots. This TALF audit of the Federal Reserve that enlightens how America as a nation got $14 trillion in debt justifies a full and comprehensive investigation with “full disclosure” of the results – with handcuffs to follow.

There is ample evidence of the abuses… that’s been a matter of record since Professor William Black, Associate Professor of Law at the University of Missouri – Kansas City, testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services, April 10, 2010. If you want to read the expert witness testimony of Professor Black (who headed the investigative efforts of the savings and loan scandal and knows how to recognize a crime when he sees one), here’s a link to what he told Barney Frank’s Committee in 2010. Black has long questioned the lack of arrests in the list of fraudulent Wall Street events of 2007 that caused the near failure of the strongest economy in the world.

If President Obama had the slightest desire to save the American populace from the trials and tribulations that are coming, he would pay Ambassador Lee/Leo Emil Wanta the $4.5 trillion that was lawfully wire transferred to his accounts at Bank of America by the People’s Bank of China in May of 2006. The money disappeared down a Federal Reserve dark hole and the Ambassador has been fighting to gain access to it ever since. According to Judge Gerald Bruce Lee in a Richmond Federal District Court Decision, the money is Wanta’s. The Ambassador wants to use $1 trillion of his personal funds to build a national high-speed rail system. It would create two million new jobs with full benefits, put a floor under the ever-increasing rate of unemployment that, in turn, would put a floor under the fallen and still falling real estate market – and that, dear reader, would put the economy on the road to recovery.

© 2011 Marilyn M. Barnewall - All Rights Reserved

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Marilyn MacGruder Barnewall began her career in 1956 as a journalist with the Wyoming Eagle in Cheyenne. During her 20 years (plus) as a banker and bank consultant, she wrote extensively for The American Banker, Bank Marketing Magazine, Trust Marketing Magazine, was U.S. Consulting Editor for Private Banker International (London/Dublin), and other major banking industry publications. She has written seven non-fiction books about banking and taught private banking at Colorado University for the American Bankers Association. She has authored seven banking books, one dog book, and two works of fiction (about banking, of course). She has served on numerous Boards in her community.

Barnewall is the former editor of The National Peace Officers Magazine and as a journalist has written guest editorials for the Denver Post, Rocky Mountain News and Newsweek, among others. On the Internet, she has written for News With Views, World Net Daily, Canada Free Press, Christian Business Daily, Business Reform, and others. She has been quoted in Time, Forbes, Wall Street Journal and other national and international publications. She can be found in Who's Who in America, Who's Who of American Women, Who's Who in Finance and Business, and Who's Who in the World. Web site: http://marilynwrites.blogspot.com E-Mail: marilynmacg@juno.com

BALLOT BLUES: SAY “BYE-BYE” OBAMA

By Marilyn M. Barnewall
April 10, 2011
NewsWithViews.com

Can you imagine what will happen to this nation if Barack Hussein Obama is re-elected President in 2012? Don’t think because he’s not at the top of the conservative Hit Parade that it’s impossible for him to win in 2012, because he could.

Republican legislators around the country can prevent it – but are sitting on their hands. Why?

According to Wikipedia, after the 2010 elections, 30 States have Republican-dominated legislatures. After Obama’s nomination at the 2008 Democrat National Convention in Denver, there was evidence of manipulation of the statements signed – notarized statements claiming he was qualified – but no proof of qualification was provided to validate those claims. The Denver Post ran a series of articles on the irregularities. Nothing was done to correct what appear to be intended errors.

One problem conservatives have is assuming because they wouldn’t doctor a document to make an untrue statement to promote an illegal act, others won’t either. It should be obvious by now that liberal progressives will say and do whatever it takes to achieve their ends. They are believers in the philosophy that the end justifies the means.

My recent articles have been about the ways in which American Patriots can do something other than inform themselves about problems we, as a nation, face. Being informed is step one. Doing something is step two. I’ve said that any steps taken must unify us as a nation and must be lawful. We don’t want to resort to the “bring the system down to change the system” socialist strategy. That’s a great way, through weaknesses inherent in any system, of opening the door to a government takeover by power brokers… the Soros kind.

The best way to ensure Barak Hussein Obama/Soetoro doesn’t get re-elected is to keep him off the 2012 ballot. If it’s against the law for him to be on the ballot in several states, Democrats will be hesitant to nominate him. That’s the simplest, easiest and least risky way to prevent another four years of Obama. Frankly, as I look at the economy, I’m worried about getting through the summer without a total financial fall off the cliff. I pray our financial system lasts until 2012.

How do we keep Obama off the ballot?

In states where Republicans dominate the legislature, pass a law requiring that all candidates who run for state or national office provide proof of their eligibility to hold that office. If it is unlawful for Obama’s name to appear on the ballot in several states because proof of qualification to be President is not provided, it would be very difficult to win a national election. Force him to provide that damnable Birth Certificate to get on the ballot in your state.

As I recall, a few States put some form of this legislation in Committee to “study it.” That’s a little like volunteer work (worthy though it is): It takes time and is often forgotten. It’s time for step two: Action. Get those proposed Bills out of Committee and put them before the legislature! What are you waiting for? Another four years of Obama disaster?

Could it possibly be that easy?

I’ve asked myself how such a law might be challenged and how the courts would decide. One question makes me think it would be difficult legislation to reverse. How could a State Supreme Court or the Supreme Court of the United States deny citizens the right to uphold both State and Federal laws that define requirements to run for political office? If such a law was overturned, it would set a precedent that suggests no law is valid… that no laws on the books are enforceable. Though that appears to be more truth than fiction as fewer and fewer people follow a moral code of ethics or think they can choose at will the laws they will obey, it’s a different matter for judges to write into law that which violates law.

What are the qualifications to become President of the United States?

Age and Citizenship requirements - US Constitution, Article II, Section 1

“No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States.”

And thus the “Birth Certificate” issue becomes important.

A great many Americans have questioned the validity of Obama’s citizenship. Most readers know the numerous points on this issue: “My grandson was born in a Kenyan hospital” and “There is a difference in ‘Certificate of Live Birth’ and ‘Birth Certificate’.” Etcetera and many more etceteras follow. In Hawaii, a Certificate of Live Birth can’t even be used as proof of age to get a driving license. The issue didn’t really become hot until Donald Trump decided he might run for President and began talking about the questions surrounding Obama’s qualifications. He has talked about the Birth Certificate, about the two million dollars spent to avoid providing one ¬ and suddenly the mainstream media couldn’t ignore it any longer.

If Donald Trump never becomes President of the United States, by bringing this issue to the forefront (where it should have been years ago) he has served his nation well. We owe him thanks.

Even the most listened to radio talk show host in the country was in trouble with his listeners this week for having rejected the Birth Certificate issue for more than three years. One of Rush Limbaugh’s callers pointed out that had he or Glenn Beck taken this issue up before the election, the American people might not have had to suffer through these years of an incompetent and socialist governing style.

Angela, a caller from Missouri: "The fact of the matter is that his citizenship has been a suspicious issue from the very beginning and not one high Republican or you has ever really tried to nail him on this issue, and if it does turn out that he is not a true citizen, then I think all of you should hang your heads in shame because of all the destruction our country has had to suffer ever since he was elected, in spite of being the fraud that we know he probably really is."

Rush countered by pointing out that half of the country voted for “the guy.” He talked about the media hype and the tricks played to garner votes for Obama. Rush suggested that today it’s 2011 and said ”we are living in the midst of this guy destroying the economy and going back and talking about a birth certificate right now is not the most effective way of stopping this guy.” Rush went on to tell Angela that he doesn’t deal with what-ifs. “If,” he said, “is for children. And we’ve got certain things that are the reality of the day that have to be dealt with, pure and simple, and that’s where I am on this. No more and no less. There’s no magic wand that can get Obama unelected.”

Though I agree with Angela that had anyone taken this issue public before the election, Obama would likely have not been elected, Rush is right, too. He’s right when he points out that if Obama was disqualified from holding office after more than two years of serving in office, it would cause chaos to “wipe clean” every law, every bill paid, everything that has been done by this administration… decisions involving our military would be put at question, for example. Afghanistan and Libya would try to hire John Edwards to sue the U.S. because the American people didn’t vet a Presidential candidate well enough and he became an illegal President who gave military commands that killed a lot of people and did billions of dollars worth of damage to their countries. Rush is right. It would be a mess. Think it through.

But it won’t create a mess to keep Obama off of the 2012 ballot by making him prove that he either is or is not qualified to hold the office of President of the United States. Our State legislators can do that with the simple law mentioned above. In fact, Rush made my point for me when he said: “The focus needs to be on making sure he's not reelected.”

The Constitution very clearly says that to be President of the United States a person must be at least 35 years of age. There is only one document that proves someone’s real age: A Birth Certificate. Not a Certificate of Live Birth; a Birth Certificate. A state law requiring all candidates to prove their qualifications to run for office and requiring a Birth Certificate as proof of age would solve that problem nicely.

Many Tea Party members are tired of just being educated about the problems. Many are tired of being asked to contribute to groups that do little or nothing. This is a perfect project for people who truly want to help their nation. It costs little or nothing to write a letter to your State Representative or Senator and demand legislation that prevents questions about candidate qualification from ever occurring. It takes little time to drive to your elected officials’ local offices and do a little lobbying. This is an easy issue to explain. There are no complex legal insights required.

All you have to say is: “I want you to introduce legislation (or support existing legislation) that requires all candidates for all political offices to prove they are qualified to hold the office they seek. All political offices have certain requirements. Make sure everyone who runs for office in this State proves he or she is qualified to hold that office!”

If you’re really creative, you will call your local Secretary of State and find out what the qualifications are to hold various elected positions within your State. You will arm yourself with knowledge and you will use it to win a major victory.

It’s peaceful, lawful – and very American to beat them at their own game.

© 2011 Marilyn M. Barnewall - All Rights Reserved

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Marilyn MacGruder Barnewall began her career in 1956 as a journalist with the Wyoming Eagle in Cheyenne. During her 20 years (plus) as a banker and bank consultant, she wrote extensively for The American Banker, Bank Marketing Magazine, Trust Marketing Magazine, was U.S. Consulting Editor for Private Banker International (London/Dublin), and other major banking industry publications. She has written seven non-fiction books about banking and taught private banking at Colorado University for the American Bankers Association. She has authored seven banking books, one dog book, and two works of fiction (about banking, of course). She has served on numerous Boards in her community.

Barnewall is the former editor of The National Peace Officers Magazine and as a journalist has written guest editorials for the Denver Post, Rocky Mountain News and Newsweek, among others. On the Internet, she has written for News With Views, World Net Daily, Canada Free Press, Christian Business Daily, Business Reform, and others. She has been quoted in Time, Forbes, Wall Street Journal and other national and international publications. She can be found in Who's Who in America, Who's Who of American Women, Who's Who in Finance and Business, and Who's Who in the World.

Web site: http://marilynwrites.blogspot.com
E-Mail: marilynmacg@juno.com

COMMIES, CRIMES, AND CHASE

By Marilyn M. Barnewall
April 3, 2011
NewsWithViews.com

A man who had access to the White House on at least four occasions and a former official of one of the country’s most-powerful unions, Service Employees International Union (SEIU), detailed a secret plan to “destabilize” the country.

Steven Lerner, the “man with access,” thinks it’s a cool way to redistribute wealth and make changes in government. He spoke at a closed session at a Pace University Forum last weekend.

As many readers know, Glenn Beck got a transcript of that meeting and disclosed that Lerner, using community organization groups, planned a stealth attack to destroy J.P. Morgan Chase, put the stock market in ruins, and weaken the grip elitists have on America’s economy. That’s what Lerner said was the objective.

Lerner admits that unions and community organizations are all but dead. He says $17 trillion has been stolen from the middle class and the only way to get it back is through the redistribution of wealth. That is his stated goal. He plans to organize a mass attack on mortgage loans, among other things. He says this can destabilize the stock market – perhaps bring on a crash – and when people stop making mortgage payments, they get to live in their homes for a year, rent free – well, sometimes they do. Lerner says if he can get enough people to do this, it will overwhelm the system which will fall down. He’s right. That has a grain of truth. He doesn’t mention the horrible credit rating those who stop paying their mortgage will have for life, but… hey, it’s for the “greater good.”

He says social chaos and the destruction of the financial system will isolate what is rapidly becoming an American oligarchy (a government in which power is vested in few people) of elitists and, if the banks and the stock market fail, it will cause them to lose access to the only thing that gives them power: Money. This also holds a partial grain of truth.

Maybe you’ve heard of the Clowen - Piven Report. It’s a “Strategy to End Poverty” which also supports the Democrat Party by supporting liberal progressive programs. Attending Lerner’s meeting was Frances Fox Piven. It’s her strategy to create chaos that results in insurrection and an ungovernable system: financial, legal, and social. The underpinning of Clowen - Piven is to destabilize our banking system. Gee! What a coincidence! Lerner wants that, too!

Lerner’s plan calls for a demonstration on Wall Street in May and particularly targets J.P. Morgan Chase. He wants protests at the bank’s Annual Shareholder meeting. After that, he wants people to stop paying their mortgages. He says if he can bring Chase down, the entire banking system will collapse.

He specifically says such an attack will benefit the labor unions but the unions can’t be seen taking part in and organizing it. Instead, it must be run by community organizations.

He promises if we get rid of elitists, the poor and the middle classes will be in clover. Everything will be as it should (in a good, communist government – he leaves that part off). He says that we have an entire economy built on debt – and he’s right. What we have in America today is not capitalism. It is debt capitalism and it was carefully planned as part of America’s demise.

This article may sound like it’s about Steven Lerner, but this article is about you. It’s about the need for your common sense to prevail as unions come closer and closer to failure and as community organizers get weaker and more desperate. As Tea Party Groups become stronger, the others fight for their existence. We saw that in “a little piece of Madison, WI.”

How can you learn to identify misinformation and disinformation when it’s being fed to you?

Lerner says: “We are not broke; there is plenty of money.” He says: “They have money – we need to get it back.” Lerner is accurate when he says the thing elitists fear most is disruption and uncertainty. What he doesn’t tell you is what the middle class and those living in poverty most fear. Give it a moment’s thought. What happens when chaos rules?

The streets are unsafe – and most people fear placing their children in danger. Not having enough food is another fear – a logical one. How do you get safely to and from the supermarket? Better yet, how do you get safely from the supermarket’s front door to your car carrying groceries? When people don’t have enough to eat, violence accompanies chaos. Not being able to get warm or cool or have access to clean water are other fears. Public utilities and services may become part of the attack against society.

Steven Lerner is formerly of SEIU – he was accused of stealing large sums of money from SEIU and is no longer employed by them. His message: “We must destroy the financial system that supports the elitists… and if we get rid of J.P. Morgan Chase, the rest will follow…” His meaning: “We must get rid of the middle class so the two class system needed by an oligarchy can thrive.” That’s what your questions and answers of this kind of rhetoric should tell you.

This case study is a perfect example of how the Marxist theory of using a grain of truth and building lies around it fools a naive public into believing what is said. Not only does the plan not achieve the promise, it achieves victory for the group the public thought it was fighting: the elitists.

Offer the public something it wants, tell them what you are doing will achieve that objective, and implement a plan that will achieve precisely the opposite of what the public wants. Liberals have for years put forth class warfare in every way they could. “Let’s find a way to get rid of ‘them’ because ‘they’ aren’t part of ‘us’.” And the moment any citizen of this nation allows their definition of another citizen to be anything but “American,” a “they” and an “us” is created.

The public has a responsibility to ask common sense questions before biting off more than it can chew – like electing an inexperienced man to the Presidency of the Greatest Nation on Earth because he says he wants “change” and then being angry at him because he’s an empty suit – which was apparent to anyone who bothered to look.

As citizens, we must all employ common sense.

Common Sense Rule #1: You cannot achieve one thing by doing something that promotes its opposite.

Common Sense Rule #2: Ask questions. Ask tough questions. Ask the right questions. For example (in the Lerner case, above):

Who is more likely to have their wealth spread in bank accounts around the world? The poor, the middle class, or the very wealthy? The obvious answer: The very wealthy.

Another example:

Who is better able to afford to live through a total breakdown of America’s economic system? The poor, the middle class, or the very wealthy? Answer: The very wealthy.

Yet another:

Who has the money to leave one country that is thrown into the chaos of economic breakdown – the violence, the hunger, the lack of medical care – and temporarily move to another country? The poor, the middle class, or the very wealthy? Answer: The very wealthy.

And another:

What makes an oligarchic state (the rule of a few over the many) possible? Answer: A two-class system – the poor and the wealthy. It needs to get rid of the middle class.

And, finally:

What will the result be if what Steven Lerner recommends is implemented? Answer: A two-class system consisting of the poor and the wealthy.

So who won this ballgame? This middle class that would no longer exist certainly didn’t win. The losers let their class envy make them patsies in the games big boys and girls play. They let themselves be led to the slaughter by a Judas Goat. Society will be structured to accommodate an oligarchy if Steve Lerner’s plan succeeds.

Another example of misinformation:

A report was released on March 28th showing consumer spending increased in February by more than 7 percent.

If you’ve been watching the unemployment rate (which is higher than “they” say) or the mortgage foreclosure mess, or the rate of inflation (which is higher than they say), it’s doubtful you’ll believe consumer confidence motivated the spending increases. You’ll ask some intelligent citizen questions about why consumers spent more money last month.

For example: Did the cost of a product we require every day increase last month? Could that increased cost have jacked-up consumer spending? If you ask that question and remember how much more you’re paying for a gallon of gas, go to the head of the class! Food costs also inflated. More than half of increased spending was caused by higher prices on needed daily products: gasoline and food. We consumers are going further into debt, just as the government wants, but not because we are confident about our economy – so you can put that piece of misinformation – that the economy is moving forward – to bed. Statistics also say pending home sales increased a bit over 2% from January – but if you seek the truth it can be found in the statistics. Pending home sales are still down 9.3% from a year ago. So, is the economy improving as they say it is? Or, is this a sales job?

There is no doubt a war of misinformation/disinformation is promoting class warfare designed to divide and conquer – get Americans to stand against other Americans. That ought to tell you for what reason or objective the war is being fought: For your mind and the support it gives them if they can make you part of their coalition. You’re just a number to them. Steven Lerner wouldn’t be making plans to destroy the economy if he could do it without enlisting the help of an uninformed citizenry. So prepare yourself. Ask questions!

What you’re seeing and hearing is hype… smoke and mirrors provided by snake oil salesmen. People are desperate and want to believe anything that sounds like a way out.

There’s only one way out: Truth. Find it.

© 2011 Marilyn M. Barnewall - All Rights Reserved

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Marilyn MacGruder Barnewall began her career in 1956 as a journalist with the Wyoming Eagle in Cheyenne. During her 20 years (plus) as a banker and bank consultant, she wrote extensively for The American Banker, Bank Marketing Magazine, Trust Marketing Magazine, was U.S. Consulting Editor for Private Banker International (London/Dublin), and other major banking industry publications. She has written seven non-fiction books about banking and taught private banking at Colorado University for the American Bankers Association. She has authored seven banking books, one dog book, and two works of fiction (about banking, of course). She has served on numerous Boards in her community.

Barnewall is the former editor of The National Peace Officer Magazine and as a journalist has written guest editorials for the Denver Post, Rocky Mountain News and Newsweek, among others. On the Internet, she has written for News With Views, World Net Daily, Canada Free Press, Christian Business Daily, Business Reform, and others. She has been quoted in Time, Forbes, Wall Street Journal and other national and international publications. She can be found in Who's Who in America, Who's Who of American Women, Who's Who in Finance and Business, and Who's Who in the World.

Web site: http://marilynwrites@blogspot.com

E-Mail: marilynmacg@juno.com