by Michael Snyder
Economic Collapse
Jan 17, 2013
Share this list of shocking questions with everyone you know that needs to wake up. Sometimes asking good questions is the best way to get someone that you care about to understand something.
When I attended law school, I became very familiar with something called "the Socratic method". It is a method that has been traditionally used in law schools all over the United States. Law professors will bombard their students with questions, and the goal is to stimulate critical thinking and allow students to discover the answers for themselves.3 million, and the movement continues to explode.
So
exactly what is a "prepper"? Well, the truth is that
there is a tremendous amount of diversity among the people that fall
under that label.
To
me, you don't have to move to Montana and store 500 cases of MREs in
a nuclear fallout shelter to be considered a prepper. I believe
that anyone that can see a very serious crisis coming and that is
taking steps to prepare for that crisis would be considered a
prepper. You might be living next to one and never even know
it. Many families have converted spare rooms into food pantries
or are taking survival training on the weekends. Others have
renewed their interest in gardening or have started to invest in
precious metals. As far as I am concerned, anything that you
can do to become more self-sufficient and more independent of the
system is a good thing, because the system is rapidly failing.
Perhaps
you are reading this and you are thinking that people who are
"preparing for disaster" are being rather foolish.
Well, I encourage you to read the list of questions that I have
compiled below and come to your own conclusions.
The
following are 50 shocking questions that you should ask to anyone
that is not a prepper yet...
#1 Why
are sales of physical silver coins breaking all sorts of all-time
records? The U.S. Mint is on pace to sell more silver eagles
during the
first month of 2013 than
it did during the
entire year of
2007.
#2 Why
has Germany announced that it will be moving
gold from
New York and Paris to its own vaults back home? Is this a sign
of a breakdown in trust among global central banks?
#3 Why
is China systematically hoarding
gold?
#4 Why
have billionaires such as George Soros and John Paulson been
hoarding massiveamounts of gold?
#5 Why
are billionaires buying up so much ranch land up
in Montana?
#6 Why
is Russia
warning that
we are rapidly approaching a global "currency war"?
#7 Why
has Barack Obama chosen this moment to launch an
all-out attack on
the Second Amendment?
#8 Why
does Barack Obama want doctors to ask
their patients questions about
firearms?
#9 Why
is there an incredibly severe nationwide
ammunition shortage all
of a sudden?
#10 Why
has a bill been introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives that
"would
ban Internet or mail order ammunition purchases"?
#11 Why
are gun control advocates such as Piers Morgan pushing for us to
become more like the UK when the UK actually has a much
higher violent crime rate than
we do?
#12 Why
was a
Forbes article that
made a connection between the use of psychiatric drugs and the mass
shootings that we have seen in recent years almost
immediately taken down from the Internet?
#13 Why
does the federal government want to start putting "black
boxes"
in all new motor vehicles?
#14 Why
are some U.S. states now using computers to predict "future
crimes"?
#15 Why
are "black-clad
federal SWAT teams"
raiding farms and ranches all over the United States?
#16 Why
are we all being trained to
spy on one another?
#17 Why
are highly advanced facial recognition cameras being put up all
over the United States?
#18 Why
have police departments all over America begun to deploy unmanned
surveillance drones in
the skies over our cities?
#19 Why
are schools all over America beginning to require students to carry
IDs with RFID
microchips in
them wherever they go?
#20 Why
are more Americans not outraged that nearly
400 TSA employees have
been fired for stealing from travelers since 2003?
#21 Why
are Americans not more outraged that TSA goons are manhandling the
private areas of our
women and our children in
the name of "national security"?
#22 Why
is an elderly survivor of the Nazi occupation of Austria, Kitty
Werthmann, warning that America is heading down the
exact same path that
she experienced?
#23 If
the economy is in good shape, then why are more
than one out of every four U.S. workers with
a 401(k) raiding those funds in order to pay current expenses?
#24 Why
does the Federal Reserve continue to insist that the economy is
"improving"
when it obviously isnot?
#25 Why
can so few Americans explain howmoney is created in
the United States?
#26 Why
has the U.S. dollar declined in value bywell over 95 percent since
the Federal Reserve was created?
#27 Why
is the U.S. national debt more
than 5000 times larger than
it was when the Federal Reserve was created?
#28 Why
isn't the mainstream media in the U.S. discussing the fact that the
U.S. dollar is in danger of losingits status as
the primary reserve currency of the world?
#29 Why
don't more Americans know about thequadrillion dollar derivatives bubble?
#30 Why
did the U.S. national debt grow during the first four years of the
Obama administration by about as much as it did from the time that
George Washington took office to
the time that George W. Bush took office?
#31 Why
is the
middle class in America bringing
home a smaller share of the overall income pie than has ever been
recorded before?
#32 If
the U.S. economy is producing a healthy number of good jobs, then why
are we spending nearly a
trillion dollars a year on
welfare?
#33 If
the U.S. economy is not collapsing, then why has the number of
Americans on food stamps grown from 17
million in
the year 2000 to more than 47
million today?
#34 If
America is still an economic powerhouse, then why have we lost more
than 56,000 manufacturing
facilities since 2001?
#35 Why
are we losing half
a million jobs to
China every single year?
#36 Why
were one
out of every ten homes sold
in the state of California last year purchased by Chinese citizens?
#37 Why
has the percentage of men with jobs in the United States fallen so
dramatically? Back in 1950, more
than 80 percent of
all men in the United States had jobs. Today, less
than 65 percent of
all men in the United States have jobs.
#38 Why
are so many Americans poor today? According to the U.S. Census
Bureau, more
than 146 million Americans are
either "poor" or "low income". Why is this
happening?
#39 Why
does the U.S. government have a website that teaches immigrants how
to sign up for welfare programs once
they arrive in the United States?
#40 Why
has the number of gang members living in the United States risen byan astounding 40 percent just
since 2009?
#41 Why
does approximately one
out of every three children in
the United States live in a home without a father? Can such a
society prosper in the long run?
#42 Why
are our supermarkets being flooded with genetically-modified
foods when
a whole host of studies have shown that they are potentially
dangerous to human health?
#43 If
the economy has "improved" during the Obama years, then why
are hunger and poverty still absolutely
skyrocketing in
the United States?
#44 Why
are more
than a million public
school students in the United States homeless?
#45 Why
are more
than 50 percent of
all children in Detroit living in poverty? Detroit used to be
one of the greatest
cities in
the entire world. How did such prosperity turn into such
desolation?
#46 Why
did a violent
riot break
out at an event where government-subsidized section 8 housing
vouchers were being handed out in a suburb of Detroit earlier this
month? Is this the kind of unrest that we can expect to see all
over the country when things get really bad?
#47 Why
are cities all over the United States making it illegal to feed the homeless?
#48 Why
is the UN trying to take control
of the Internet?
#49 Why
have global food supplies sunk to their lowest level in
nearly 40 years?
#50 Why
is global power concentrated in so few hands? According to the
Swiss Federal Institute, a network of 147
mega-corporations control
40 percent of all the wealth in the world, and in a previous article I
described how just six obscenely powerful corporations completely
dominate the media industry in the United States. Is it good
for such incredible power to be concentrated in the hands of so few
people?