OBAMA
ECONOMY MAY TURN “BLACK FRIDAY” RED, SAY EXPERTS
Reason: “Uncle Sam Is Playing Santa Claus”
WHAT YOU BUY
ON FRIDAY COULD MAKE
YOUR FUTURE BLACK OR
RED, WARN ECONOMISTS
“TURN THIS
THANKSGIVING INTO A 'THINKSGIVING' BEFORE YOU SHOP”
By
Lowell Ponte and Craig R. Smith
The
day after Thanksgiving is called “Black Friday,” because this is supposed to be
the day that most merchants go from losing money – shown on their ledger books
in red ink – to making a profit, which they record in black ink.
“Many
businesses may stay in the red all of 2013 and deep into 2014 because consumer
confidence is at its lowest level since 2009,” says Craig R. Smith, a monetary
expert frequently interviewed by Fox's Neil Cavuto and other major business
journalists.
“The
reason is that Uncle Sam is Playing Santa Claus. Our politicians are spending
more than $1 Trillion every year more than government takes in as taxes,” says
Smith, whose latest book is “The Great Withdrawal: How the Progressives'100-Year Debasement of America and the Dollar Ends.”
“Our
government now operates in the red all the time, funded by the Federal Reserve
printing more than $1 Trillion every year out of thin air, which debases the
value of our savings, and frightens tax-fearing, inflation-fearing investors
and companies out of hiring more workers,” says Smith.
“That
is why our economy is stagnant, unemployment stays high, and our stock market
is addicted to and high on the Fed's conjured hallucinatory money with its
seeds of coming soaring inflation.”
“America
now has only 101 million full-time workers – and the lowest job participation
rate since Jimmy Carter – but we have 108 million people on means-tested
welfare programs,” says Smith.
“We
cannot go on much longer in an economy with more takers than makers, and with
more in the cart than are pulling the cart. The invisible Continuing Recession
soup line of those now on Food Stamps would stretch more than 17,500 miles –
more than 70 percent of the way around our planet.”
“Today
49.2 percent of U.S. households have somebody living there who gets a
government check, yet average household income has fallen by at least $3,382
since the Great Recession began – and household income has fallen twice as much
since President Barack Obama took office,” says Smith.
“Americans
should be grateful this Thanksgiving, and on this Red Friday you ought to be
buying – not trinkets and toys, but buying things that will protect you and
your family in the economic storm we shall face,” says Smith's co-author Lowell
Ponte, a former think tank futurist.
“More
than 5 million Americans have already lost their health insurance because of
Obamacare, another of Uncle Sam's 'gifts,' and the Kaiser Family Foundation
warns that as many as 93 million or more of us could see our own health
insurance policies cancelled by the end of 2014,” says Ponte.
“For
American families, Obamacare will increase health insurance costs by an average
of 41 percent, according to analysts at the Manhattan Institute,” says Ponte.
“And this huge government-imposed expense is happening in an Obama-chilled
economy where millions were struggling to keep their heads above water
financially.”
“Politicians
love to play Santa Claus, but the rest of us pay the price for this....and a
much bigger price tag will soon come when people around the world stop
accepting Uncle Sam's credit card....and our economy collapses into another
government-caused Great Depression,” says Ponte.
“This
Friday, I plan to use some of my gift dollars not to buy toys or trinkets, but
to diversify with tangible things they can't run off a printing press as they
do our rapidly-devaluing paper dollars in Washington,” says Ponte.
“To
protect my family, I plan to follow the example of three Wise Men who followed
a star – and who brought tangible, reliable gifts: the spices frankincense and
myrrh, and the once-and-future universally accepted global reserve currency,
gold, which will gain value as fiat currencies such as today's U.S. Dollar
collapse,” says Ponte.
“As
we explained in our new book The Great Withdrawal, if you want to see the
coming disaster that Big Government Santa Claus politics cause, look at
bankrupt Detroit. This could be a crystal ball glimpse of America's fast-approaching
future.”
“If
you love getting bargains on what used to be Black Friday, then remember that
when the next Great Depression hits, those who still have solid money such as
gold will almost certainly be able to buy the world for five cents on the
dollar,” says Ponte.
“What
you choose to buy this holiday season with your dollars – trinkets or solid
enduring value such as gold – could determine whether you and your family are
bargain buyers, or are forced to sell your possessions for pennies on the
dollar, the next time the economy collapses.”
“Make
this Thanksgiving a Thinksgiving, and shop Friday as if your future depends on
how wisely you buy and invest your money,” says Ponte, who was a longtime
Roving Editor and investigative reporter at Reader's Digest magazine.
SOURCES:
Cotten
Timberlake, “Wal-Mart Touts $98 TV in Weakest Holiday Season Since '09,” Bloomberg,
November 19, 2013. URL: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-19/wal-mart-touts-98-tv-as-holiday-seen-weakest-since-2009-retail.html
Elizabeth
A. Harris, “Retailers Less Than Cheerful Over Christmas Sales,” New York Times,
November 14, 2013. URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/15/business/retailers-less-than-cheerful-over-christmas-sales.html
“Poverty,
Taxes Reach New Highs Under Obama,” Newsmax, September 28, 2013. URL: http://www.newsmax.com/InsiderReport/Poverty-Taxes-Reach-New-Highs/2013/09/29/id/528195
Jeffrey
H. Anderson, “Incomes Have Dropped Twice as Much During the 'Recovery' as
During the Recession,” Weekly Standard, August 23, 2013. URL:
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