A Nervous Breakdown Countdown

Are You Prepared?

Ever since the tran­si­tion period started, I’ve been read­ing the head­lines ner­vously. Here’s a sam­ple of today’s headlines:

U.S. Shifts Focus in Credit Bailout to the Consumer

New York Times By Edmund L. Andrews, Novem­ber 12, 2008

WASHINGTON — The Trea­sury Depart­ment on Wednes­day offi­cially aban­doned the    orig­i­nal strat­egy behind its $700 bil­lion effort to res­cue the finan­cial sys­tem, as admin­is­tra­tion offi­cials acknowl­edged that banks and finan­cial insti­tu­tions were as unwill­ing as ever to lend to consumers.

Pater­son Calls for $5.2 Bil­lion in Bud­get Cuts

New York Times By Danny Hakim, Novem­ber 12, 2008

ALBANY — State aid to schools and hos­pi­tals across the state would be cut sharply in the com­ing four months and thou­sands of state work­ers would be asked to defer five days of pay under an emer­gency deficit reduc­tion plan unveiled by Gov. David A. Pater­son on Wednesday.

Stocks tum­ble near 2008 lows on more grim eco­nomic news

USA Today By Adam Shell, Novem­ber 12, 2008

NEW YORK — Hurt by a fresh bar­rage of bad news on the econ­omy, jobs and cor­po­rate prof­its, the broad U.S. stock mar­ket con­tin­ued its free fall Wednes­day, edg­ing ever closer to last month’s bear mar­ket lows.

How do these make you feel?

Well, here’s how I feel. Here’s $700 bil­lion of our tax­pay­ers money on the line, and the orig­i­nal strat­egy is aban­doned? This begs me to ask if they really know what they’re doing, or are they run­ning from back-up plan to back-up plan? And what are the results so far? More bud­get cuts to our schools and hos­pi­tals while stocks con­tinue to tum­ble down.

Tell me, does this really make you feel secure?

I don’t know about you, but I get that awful feel­ing that Bush is try­ing his best to make up for the last 8 years in his last few months, and it seems to be a des­per­ate effort. I don’t know how many back-up plans he has up his sleeve, but I’m cer­tainly not hold­ing my breath count­ing down for change. This may not be an offi­cial State of Emer­gency, but it sure rings the alarm bells in my head.

The only thing I know for sure is if you want to be unaf­fected by the tran­si­tion period, you have to step up and take things into your own hands. This is what I’m work­ing on. And this is what I’ll be shar­ing with you soon.

Stay tuned for more updates.

Cheers,
Michael

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26 Responses to A Nervous Breakdown Countdown
  1. David
    November 13, 2008 | 2:30 am

    A gov­ern­ment of the Peo­ple, for the Peo­ple, by the Peo­ple. I have learned those words, where is the exam­ple. (Michael you opened this dis­cus­sion on pol­i­tics.) In the begin­ning of his term before 9–11 Pres­i­dent Bush put forth a agenda of reduc­ing gov­ern­ment waste and later of reduc­ing taxes. It all was pushed aside by con­gress. Pres did not fight against over­whelm­ing odds on any one issue cause there were many many issues so he would then just move on to another issue and get as much done as he could before he was trumped by the con­gress estib­lish­ment on that issue as well then move on again. I think that in the nearly 8 years that he has been Com­man­der in Chief he has done a much bet­ter job than I may have done but now we have a change com­ming. As per a com­ment left by a woman from eng­land, I think that we will find out what it will be like to have a Pres­i­dent that sings the song of social­ism. Car­bon taxes on our gaso­line and on our elec­tric­ity, restric­tions on firearms and mas­sive taxes on anm­mu­ni­tion and one by one take the guns away. Sen­sor the radion talk pro­grams. Tax us for global warm­ing while the earth is enter­ing a cool­ing cycle so that we can­not buy fuel to be warm. Tax gaso­line so that we pay more and more for our food. Soon we will become more equal in this coun­try, take away from those who have some com­forts so that there is no jelousy by those who do not. Make the “Amer­i­can Dream” indo a mem­ory of bet­ter times. A dream like those had by a man in jail for the rest of his life as he sits in his cell and dreams of the past. It is not what I think of as the amer­i­can dream. The radio, soon trhere will not be unpleas­ant­ness on the radio unless it is news of a flood or traf­fic acci­dent because the dis­satisi­fied con­ser­tavie talk radio will be gone so that we cit­i­zens will not become irri­tated with our asigned tasks. Like a horse pulling a wagon for hay. No rea­son to give grain to a wagon horse it is liv­ing just fine eat­ing grass hay cause it does not know about grain. Then after the radio is silenced I won­der what will be next? Maybe the inter­net? I orig­i­nally pur­chased my first inter­net con­nec­tion so that I could talk around the world to other peo­ple in other coun­tries and learn what it is like from thier per­spec­tive and was I suprised to learn that most older coun­tries have thier own Henry Ford, and thier own Tomas Edi­son and thier own Write Broth­ers. I wish I could write some answers here instead of only point­ing out prob­lems but the only answers I can think of are to look out for my own inter­ests as well as I can and not vote for any mroe social­ists. Farmer Dave

  2. Tony Kruger
    November 13, 2008 | 2:52 am

    Just look at David icke’s material…all the answers are there.…

    http://www.davidicke.com

    Cheers and happy future to you.

    Tony

  3. Bev Petel
    November 13, 2008 | 2:59 am

    I am watch­ing the begin­ning eco­nomic col­lapse from the per­spec­tive that I am as safe as I can be. I am not a per­son who has lived from the means of illu­sion­ary wealth. Quite a long time ago, I real­ized the dif­fer­ence between what I really need and what I do not need. It was at that point I began to under­stand what is meant by liv­ing within your means.
    There is a great con­trast between what gov­ern­ment is say­ing and what eco­nomic experts are say­ing. I will opt for the expert in his field any day, for they are not sugar coat­ing our sit­u­a­tion. For me, knowl­edge will save the day for it is bet­ter to flow in our directed way with­out a blind­fold and blind faith.
    I too under­stand the power of prayer!

  4. oOoGloriaOoO
    November 13, 2008 | 3:11 am

    I’m sur­prised to find such neg­a­tive and igno­rant com­ment above from this guy called David…good you got the inter­net now to get prop­erly informed! the link to this page and a quest to learn a whole dif­fer­ent view on all those “polit­i­cal” issues you have would make the world a bet­ter place.
    As for the page itself…thank you very much for your effort to share some­thing amaz­ing and indeed it is but..c’mon…stop high­light­ing the eco­nom­i­cal crises which it’s actu­ally like work­ing against your pur­pose. We all know about it and can well research on Web­sites spe­cialised on that kind of info. What I look for here is for insights and lessons that will guide my mind into a bet­ter per­spec­tive to then embrace a good vibra­tion to acti­vate the power to get to the other side as if a pos­i­tive field that we must cross to over­come all that just like walk­ing on a cord between an abism and refuse to look down and around least we fall! hope you agree…otherwise what is the point?

  5. Audrey
    November 13, 2008 | 3:39 am

    Thomas Jef­fer­son (1802) said : ‘I believe that bank­ing insti­tu­tions are more dan­ger­ous to our lib­er­ties than stand­ing armies. If the Amer­i­can peo­ple ever allow pri­vate banks to con­trol the issue of their cur­rency, first by infla­tion, then by defla­tion, the banks and cor­po­ra­tions that will grow up around the banks will deprive the peo­ple of all prop­erty until their chil­dren wake-up home­less on the con­ti­nent their fathers con­quered.‘
    Didn’t he also say “Every gen­er­a­tion deserves its own revolution”

  6. Anne
    November 13, 2008 | 4:19 am

    Under­stand­ing “why” we’re actu­ally on earth would be a good and pos­i­tive place to start. Hav­ing this under­stand­ing helps us to rise above the mud and the drama. I highly rec­om­mend victorzammit.com for inter­est­ing and infor­ma­tive reading.

    We can be tossed around by fear and drama or sim­ply rise above it. Not so easy some­times but some­thing to strive for surely.

    Often dras­tic change takes dras­tic mea­sures and we surely need change. Maybe this is the price of change. Hope­fully we’ll come through this stronger and wiser.

  7. Mike
    November 13, 2008 | 4:28 am

    Hi Michael,

    If this eco­nomic cri­sis is man made (which i think it is) by the peo­ple behind the veil who pull the strings of the mup­pets ie pres­i­dent bush,media etc then it’s going to hap­pen any­way. The agenda ‘Glob­al­i­sa­tion’ is their goal.The big ques­tion is, is it for the greater good of mankind? or the super rich manip­u­lat­ing soci­ety to their great plan, slav­ery or dare i say it world peace.

    They did it back in the thir­ties with the great depres­sion , one big money mak­ing scam at the expense of human suf­fer­ing (col­Lapse the econ­omy then buy it out for peanuts) Are these peo­ple human?? or just a thought is this one big dis­trac­tion for somthing really big about to hap­pen to our planet ie 2012 Ed Dames talks about kill­shots, niribu fly buy, crop cir­cles etc idont doubt Ed i have his rv course at home, but its the actual time of these so called events are really yet to be mas­ter­erd as time is only per­ceived by us through the con­cious mind where rv deals with the higher self,God,universe where only the now exists. Any thing man­i­fested has to run the gaunt­let of con­sious time based on your beleif of hav­ing your desire come true .

    Michael Don­ald walsch men­tioned in your inter­view with him about indi­vid­ual uni­verses and real­i­ties– wow! that idea actu­ally came to me about a month before lis­ten­ing to that inter­veiw after a ses­sion using the mind expand­ing cd by the amaz­ing Ger­ald O’Donnell and his rv and ri course. (Try explan­ing that to the wife) tip– dont go there!
    Any­body expe­ri­enc­ing any fear about future events i found read­ing Michael Sharp helped alot he has a web­site and you can read his free e-books online, there is an alter­na­tive view of whats going on right now and it is an excit­ing one!its all about the great awak­en­ing you’ll see.!give it a go. No mat­ter what hap­pens in life we can flour­ish and thrive its your real­ity, we are all cre­ators in this illu­sion we have free will and choice decide what we want believe and let your higher self guide you.

    Any­body would like to share there ideas please get in touch id love to chat with you. Lets all stick together on this one.

    Many thank’s

    Mike

  8. zori
    November 13, 2008 | 4:38 am

    …‘well said Mike (-:
    would be good to chat, cheers.
    Thanks — Michael.

    Zori

  9. Mary from Texas
    November 13, 2008 | 4:59 am

    Well… if the big banks want to use that money, not to help the con­sumer keep their homes and instead buy up the smaller banks… then where is our coun­try head­ing? Will they try to revive the North Amer­i­can Union and the Amero so they can buy up more banks in Canada and Mexico?

  10. Jennie
    November 13, 2008 | 5:46 am

    I sug­gest every­one watch the video Zeit­geist. It explains how money came into being and how it has been abused by those in power and how we can live with­out it!

  11. Cynetha
    November 13, 2008 | 6:14 am

    Great con­ver­sa­tion. Thanks for the inspi­ra­tion to respond. …Where we are today is based upon past choices that we have all par­tic­i­pated in. Where we will be tomor­row is based upon our choices of today. Old sys­tems are falling away because they no longer sup­port life and the poten­tial of what we can be. (what we already are, but have not rec­og­nized.) We have been put to sleep and have/had become com­fort­able. We are going through a tran­si­tion and change. Noth­ing wrong with that, we do it all the time every­day. (that’s why we have yard sales, or change our wardrobe or fur­ni­ture. It no longer rep­re­sents who we are.)
    Change is always uncom­fort­able to those who resist, but it is hap­pen­ing to shake out the great­ness in yourselves/ourselves.

    We have within us some­thing so much greater than what this old sys­tem has/had to offer that it is crum­bling away to give us an oppor­tu­nity to cre­ate some­thing greater using higher visions of our­selves. We give waaay too much power, time and energy to him and them that we miss see­ing and rec­og­niz­ing the power and great­ness we have within our­selves. We have a THE POWER inside of us. Like John F. Kennedy said, “Imag­i­na­tion is the pre­view os life’s com­ing attrac­tions.” We must begin to think out­side the box and rise above the cur­rent illu­sory real­ity of this old sys­tem and take joy in cre­at­ing higher visions of what we want to see.

    What will you imag­ine? (What will we imag­ine?) You were born here at this moment, at this place and time for a rea­son and pur­pose that is rel­e­vant to this era. I can almost guar­an­tee you that it is not to stay focused all day on punch­ing clocks, pay­ing bills and wor­ry­ing about bailouts. (We cre­ated the mon­e­tary sys­tem, we chose to par­tic­i­pate in it and depend on it. We can always change that idea and cre­ate a sys­tem that does not use money or revamp the cur­rent sys­tem. It may take some time, but we have done it before, we can do it again. It’s in our hands.)

    Back to your pur­pose:
    What is the gift you were born to give the world? We must all seek to find it, be guided by it and give it to the world. If not you, who? If not now, when? The choice is yours, which comes from you and is yours and ours.
    Peace and bless­ings,
    Cynetha (peacemaker)

  12. Renee
    November 13, 2008 | 6:30 am

    It seems to me that the whole bailout plan was a knee-jerk reac­tion to a very pre­dictable finan­cial prob­lem. A knee-jerk reac­tion is the fight or flight reac­tion and only appro­pri­ate when some­thing big­ger than you is about to make you lunch.
    The bailout doesn’t, how­ever scare me. The gov­ern­ment is not my source. This reminds of the old adage about giv­ing some­one enough rope.…..
    Do not focus or con­cen­trate on the fear. Con­cen­trate, instead, on your own abun­dance. Remem­ber the strangest secret? You become what you think about all day long.
    Fear is a ter­ri­ble way to live. Use that fear to trig­ger another, health­ier response, per­haps some­thing like a pos­i­tive affir­ma­tion about being healthy, wealthy or happy.
    Finally, is there any­thing you can do about it? If not, refuse to be caught up in the fear. It is just another knee-jerk response. If there is some­thing you can do about it, just do it to the best of your abil­ity and get on with liv­ing a happy and abun­dant life.

  13. Electra Smith
    November 13, 2008 | 6:46 am

    I am so pleased the whole phoney she­bang is collapsing.

    This has been one GIANT Chimera and I’m amazed so many peo­ple thought it was ok, mainly because it was so comfortable.

    Speak­ing of Remote View­ing: about 20 years ago, I sat speak­ing with a friend; we nor­mally dis­cussed the state of the world for hours on end. I sug­gested to him at that time that some­where down the road they would start giv­ing peo­ple ‘free’ money, just to get them to buy things. I couldn’t have been closer to the truth with the preda­tory lend­ing of money through credit cards and easy loans/ mort­gages et al. How clearly I saw it, so far in the past. It’s all inter­est­ing, and the fall is not over yet.. it’s a long way down my friends. I find this par­tic­u­lar phase of his­tory ‘inter­est­ing’.. as in the Chi­nese curse, ‘may you live in inter­est­ing times.’

  14. Robert
    November 13, 2008 | 6:58 am

    As you think, with faith, so shall it be…”

    The only TRUTH is in the PRESENT

    Peace

  15. Katharine
    November 13, 2008 | 7:02 am

    David and Cynetha, I love both your com­ments, and both ring true for me. With this new social­is­tic admin­is­tra­tion we will be los­ing our free­doms, I agree we need change but change that pro­tects our free­dom to choose.

    My hus­band and I saw this com­ing a while ago and pre­pared. The kids are out of the house and out of col­lege. We paid our off our house, all our cars, paid off all credit cards, invested some and put some cash away in a safe place so we have access to it. We grow our own organic veg­eta­bles and are plan­ning to be much more energy inde­pen­dent and are work­ing toward a more sus­tain­able way of life.

    A gov­ern­ment for the peo­ple by the peo­ple is fad­ing fast and we are let­ting it hap­pen. We are giv­ing our free­dom away, the free­dom so many Amer­i­cans have died for. I want to be able to “choose” to own a gun or lis­ten to con­ser­v­a­tive radio if I choose — if I don’t I can turn the radio to another station.

    Social­ism, in the­ory sounds good, take from the rich to give to the poor, pro­vide for those not will­ing or unable to work, but look at his­tory and see how it played out. We need to encour­age our young peo­ple to go for it, the uni­verse is the limit and if you make money you can keep it for your retire­ment and your children.

    We also need to remem­ber the spir­i­tual side of this whole sit­u­a­tion. This was all fore­told but we can “change” the future to one of pros­per­ity, abun­dance, and spir­i­tual renewal. To a soci­ety that allows one to suc­ceed and pros­per, and a soci­ety that helps out the neigh­bors in time of need.

    We don’t need the gov­ern­ment in every aspect of our exis­tence. Your place of wor­ship, your fam­ily and your com­mu­nity should be there to help in times of need.

    I won­der what all the remote view­ers are see­ing at this time?

  16. Bernie
    November 13, 2008 | 7:08 am

    Michael,

    You’re wast­ing my time.

  17. Paul
    November 13, 2008 | 7:09 am

    First,to quote “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”, don’t panic. Cetainly, there is a need to reex­am­ine the con­cept of wealth and how it is cre­ated. Once that is done apply that knowl­edge to the sit­u­a­tion at hand. What oth­ers see as a cat­a­stro­phe in the mak­ing is an oppor­tu­nity to the one with knowl­edge. Remem­ber that dur­ing the depres­sion there were peo­ple who made for­tunes. This is the nature of the “invis­i­ble hand” (Adam Smith) of the free mar­ket econ­omy. It’s sim­il­iar to the prin­ci­ple of evo­lu­tion. Some things (species) die off to make room for new things (species)that are more fit.

  18. Steve
    November 13, 2008 | 9:43 am

    I guess every one needs remind­ing that The con­gress was fully con­trolled by the repub­li­can major­ity for the first 6 years of the Bush admin­is­tra­tion. If in fact con­gress trumped Bush’s plan as is sug­gested. There must have been a reason.

  19. David
    November 13, 2008 | 10:05 am

    david again, I heard a news reporter stat­ing the it was bad because a com­pany in some state could not bor­row money to pay his employ­ees. I am think­ing to myself “do I want to be employed by a com­pany that must bor­row money to pay my wages?” We all do what we must do to sur­vive finan­cially and it is nes­sacary for some of us to work where we can find a job period, no mat­ter if it is a strong solid com­pany or not. But it seems to me that for nearly a gen­er­a­tion our econ­omy is based on bor­row­ing money and mak­ing pay­ments all of our lives to oth­ers whos lively hood depends on that inter­est being paid by the bor­row­ers. now for what ever rea­son be it con­trived by manip­u­lat­ing the finan­cial world or by OPEC and sim­i­lar forces cre­at­ing great cost for energy we are in the posi­tion that we are in and it is what we must deal with. In WWII, before my time this coun­try and all per­sons in this coun­try pulled togeather and we built the most pow­er­full mil­i­tary force that this planet had ever seen in a mat­ter of a year or two. When John F. Kenedy said we are going to the moon in 10 years we did it and sur­passed the wildest dreams of those who had thought of it. In this time and place where we are liv­ing it seems to me that each per­son only looks for how they can take what thier neigh­bor has to ben­e­fit them selves. The USA has become a nation of those prey­ing on oth­ers and those preyed upon. We all wish to point the fin­ger at some­one other than our­selves like in the last few years it has been Pres­i­dent Bush and in the next few years we can Blame Pres­i­dent Obama. But in the end it is all of us in this pow­er­full nation who must blame out­selves. We want it we buy it and give no thought to how we will pay for it. Our whole lives are focused around pos­s­e­sions and money. My wife is from a coun­try where they are poor in pos­si­sions and they are rich in human deeds. They stop thier lives to honor those of thier famailies who live in ceme­ter­ies and they stop the whole coun­try and redi­rect the roads on days when the peo­ple go to visit thier past ances­tors. They have a much firmer grasp of what is impor­tant in this short life that we have here on this world. I sug­gest as an addi­tion to my first let­ter that we all look into our­selves and do what is good and fair and there will be no seri­ous prob­lems to worry about. We mostly have food and cloth­ing and places to live what is it it that is mak­ing so many peo­ple upset? Life is not all roses. What makes us who we are is how we deal with lifes prob­lems, so lets get to going and deal with it today and tomor­row we will deal with what comes tomor­row. We have good food in this coun­try we have good hos­pi­tals and doc­tors, we have longer lifes­pans, we have machines that do most of the vary hard work nes­sacary for us to live. So lets quit whining.

  20. michael
    November 13, 2008 | 10:30 am

    That is right the democract’s screwed us over the last two years and it is com­ing into play now. Peo­ple voted for change, I say becare­ful what you wish for. The change we get may not be what we want ‚not all change is good change. I’m not rich but i don’t thick i deserve what some­one has worked hard for. My grandparent’s left rus­sia before it went comu­nist for a rea­son. It look like our free­dom is in Jepordy with Obama could he be the final World leader for­told about. Look at how peo­ple are fol­low­ing all over the world like lost sheep. Just some­thing to think about. I for one will not take any mark to recieve food when it comes to that point. God Bless us all

  21. Cynetha
    November 13, 2008 | 2:27 pm

    Now you’re talk­ing David. Thanks for your gift. The more long term pos­i­tive pat­terns we cre­ate, the bet­ter our future will be. Let’s keep it going on daily basis, from moment to moment.

    Peace, love and light,

    Cynetha

  22. Chris UK
    November 13, 2008 | 4:18 pm

    My lit­tle night­mare!!! Whilst sit­ting Remotely view­ing in a deep dark for­est in the uk.…..

    The next! 4 years ahead have turned to shadow, So much so in fact that many did not sur­vive the sec­ond year as shock of poverty and star­va­tion, Dis­pair and weak­ness had already taken many lives. whilst bit­ter­ness and hate have taken many oth­ers. This was just the light being extin­guished as the farmer tight­ened his belt. much evil in man came seek­ing to steal the seeds of life, Only a few had realised the route ahead was to seek refuge away from the masses because safety in num­bers was not an option. these minor­ity rid­ing the storm Show­ing patience and humil­ity, whilst they watched from afar, (as man grasped and clam­bered hope­lessly try­ing to recover there old false lives of cream cakes and shiny toys) nature and dis­ease came together with the watch­ers imune sys­tems and evolved these sur­vivors overnight in to com­pletly Diff’rent crea­tures whom inher­ited a new world to start all over again.….….… END of Nightmare/Dream

    And they all lived hap­pily ever after lol.….…..
    Weird dream. must stop watch­ing the news. Or is it the news.?

  23. Tita Martell
    November 14, 2008 | 2:38 am

    Hi, my name is Tita Martell, I already did remote view­ing and remote influ­enc­ing with Ger­ald O’ Doneell, this year and still prac­tiz­ing. I am work­ing on it. seems veryi good. regards Tita

  24. Bernadette DiSalvo
    November 14, 2008 | 12:05 pm

    INSTEAD OF BAILING OUT THE BANKS THE CAR INDUSTRY WHY COULD THEY HAVE NOT GIVING EVERY AMERICAN A CHECK FOR ABOUT 250,000.00 WHICH IN TURN THEY WOULD HAVE TO PAY ON THEIR MORTGAGES AND CREDIT CARDS MANDATORY MONEY WOULD HAVE BEEN IN CIRCULATION AND MAYBE HALF OF THIS MESS WOULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED INSTEAD AIG THROWS BIG LAVISH PARTIES ON OUR MONEY IS THAT FAIR OR IS THAT JUSTICE PEOPLE COULD HAVE CAUGHT UP ON BILLS MOTHERS MAYBE COULD ACTUALLY AFFORD TO BUY MILK FOR THEIR KIDS

  25. David (FarmerDave)
    November 14, 2008 | 3:52 pm

    I did look at David Icke’s web­site and I watched his pre­sen­ta­tion. (http://www.davidicke.com) I have fore­warded this link to many per­sons who I think might have inter­est in it. For my two bits, I find much truth in his words.

  26. witch
    November 15, 2008 | 3:52 pm

    I can not believe that you have been edit­ing out the com­ments that you dont like. same old same old!!!!!
    ?

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