Thank you Dr. Mercola, with all the stresses foisted on us since 2001 an article on the current US situation is totally relevant. Stress effects health and boy are we under stress. Besides, this is your website, you can write about whatever you want.

We in the USA are now governed by a sociopathic structure just like the dog eat dog structure of most corporations and Wall Street. Those in power want more power and will do anything to get it and keep it. We the people are simply pawns and tools for them. They are now positioning to totally take over our government. This is called Fascism.

We are victims of a long ad campaign shaping and herding us into the position we now find ourselves in. Polluting our air and water, dumbing us down, overmedicating us, lying to us, selling us out, inciting fear. The ad campaign has been so successful that even when the truth is put in front of us many still can’t see it. And now the designers of this structure are poised to slaughter us with this 700 billion payoff. It is very significant that this comes about just before the election.

Fact checking is a good idea whenever you read or hear news, how many of us have done this? George Bush routinely lies to the populace and the facts are easy to check, most of the time the information can be found right on the White House webpage. Yet the majority of people believe his false rhetoric and in fact you will find those chuckleheads on CNN and other so called news channels arguing over it and reinforcing the idea that if you don’t believe good old Georgie then you are not a patriot. “ We are in this current mess because we are a lazy non fact finding populace and we believed our elected officials when they lied. The power mongers knew they had us under their thumbs when George Bush was appointed president rather than elected.

Want to know more about the sociopathic structures read this;

www.cassiopaea.org/.../political_ponerology_lobaczewski.htm  

I agree! Let it fall...let it all fall! No one wants this crisis to go on forever. Let the markets learn from their mistakes and rebuild afterwards. Unfortunatley we all have to go through it but we will be better off if we all just let it happen and accept our losses.

Thinker-

Good point. We need to check the facts and not rely on the media to spoon feed us their propaganda.

If you check the facts, you will see that Palin, who is scrutinized for not having the experience necessary to be vice-president, actually has FAR more experience than Obama, running for president. All one has to do is look at Obama's (very short) voting record to see that the 'change' he would promote would not be beneficial to the American people.

Fidel Castro could implement 'change' just as well.

Ron Paul was the front runner, but the creepy media supressed him out of the race.

Just finished writing more letters to our Congessman and Senators to oppose any bill coming across as a bailout for the banks and thrifts.  I don't care how much they give them, it is NOT going to help anyone but the banks and the CEOs. We will still have NO jobs, NO money to get necessities, high gas prices, and more people losing thier homes.  The bailout cures none of the problems that are effecting the average joe!  If they want to solve the problem, maybe they should go directly to the people that are in trouble.  Buy up their mortgages, that pays the banks (with no inflated prices), and everyone should be happy. It would probably end up costing less then what Wall Street will end up with if a bailout goes through!

If you had 700 billion dollars, would you spend it on investments you know are bad?  If the banks aren't able to get any money out of it, what makes the Feds think that they can?  And, what's going to happen when the banks (or Paulsen) say they need more? One trillion, 2 trillion, 5 trillion?  When is enough going to be enough?  For the past 6 years, the banks have been shoving all this creative financing down our throats.  They knew what they were doing and were getting fat off of it.

Frankly, I'm sick of bailouts.  Airlines, automakers, super-farms, dairymen, cattlmen, etc.... None of them are doing any better then before, most are doing worse!  Enough is enough.  Let the chips fall.  Just another scare tactic by Big Brother and his lobbyists.

Glenn Beck, who happens to have Ron Paul on regularly, has been forecasting this disaster for years!

Thank you for such a scholarly and factual statement.  We all need to react with such dignity - instead of flames and panic.

I am a rather young reader and am not quite clear on why we went off the gold standard in the first place. Can someone tell me? It doesn't make any sense. Without something of a solid value backing our money, what can a bunch of green papers actually buy?

Ron Paul cured my apathy! This stuff wasn't taught in schools!

I have a degree in economics.  The basic theories of how the world of money and goods functions is VERY RELEVANT to EVERY CITIZEN.  That's why I found it so interesting!  It's all around us, all the time! After some logic-defying classes (the stuff that most politicians and voters blindly follow!!) I got into classes with a WONDERFUL professor who taught the truth.  My favorite was his summer term special class, The Moral Foundations of the American Economy.  We were always hoping he'd turn the curriculum into a book!  

Here's a great book to read and share with all your voting friends!  Economics In One Lesson (by Henry Hazlitt).  It's on Amazon.com.  Buy as many as you can to share!!

I hope you're not being sarcastic to try and diminish what Dr. Paul is saying because he gives credit to the Austrian school of economics every chance he can. In the past several weeks he has been interviewed dozens of times (all of which are on youtube) and he references the Austrian school in many of them. Especially the interviews on the finance channels. He also mentions it in his book "Revolution". So he is by no means trying to take credit for being a fortune teller.

This is the same man who worked hand in glove to help J.P. Morgan bring in a Central Bank (Federal Reserve)and might have been sad later in life but enjoyed the benefits of wealth while playing into the hands of old world money. Wilson should have been tried.

"The Creature from Jekyll Island" a book to read on the founding of the feds ( Federal Reserve, Central Bank)that incidentally arrived on our shore with a printing press, NO CAPITAL, and has loaned us paper (money), on which we owe interest that we cannot repay if we incur no more future debt for 300 years. We must end this wicked chokehold on our children and take back our Constitutional right to print our own money. Send this offshore private corporation and its secret members back to Europe!

The feds loaned us paper for world war I on our signature, then asked for some collateral for a loan on WWWII... along comes FDR with another bailout plan... bring me all the treasure of the land, the Gold Reserve Act surrendered all of our gold to the FEDERAL RESERVE, placed it in a vault, Fort Knox, where even a Presidental Executive Order has failed to produce an audit to account for what is there... (maybe it’s a facade and the gold left many years ago for secret Europeans? FDR was another remorseful player in the rape of American wealth. We have been led to believe the great man left the scene with a medical stroke of the pen. Could it be that the only reason a Mason doesn't receive his last rites is because of suicide? No open casket... and a shotgun does create the medical condition known as cerebral hemorrhage.

Thank you Ron Paul for having the backbone to stand fearless in the face of hypocrisy called Congress and call for a return of government that is of the people for the people and by the people. This small group of creatures that know better for us than 250 million could possibly know for themselves are out for themselves only; this has been evident since the creation of the feds in 1913

don't dispair graywolf...we the people did stand up and kill this bail out...let the pieces fall where they might...you must get involved...if you don't like it call or mail your congressmen or senator and tell them what you think...thats what my family did.