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Whenever the economy starts to go south policies such as welfare, extended unemployment assistance and food stamps come under attack.  The problem isn’t because we don’t want to feed or house our neighbors but rather there is a perceived unfairness in it all.  It takes relatively few abuses for people to think that all welfare recipients cheating the system.  Like wise the number of people out there who believe people are getting fat while eating filet mignon they bought with the food stamps is also way too high.  Issues such as this are compounded by the perceived unfairness of how these programs are implements.  We see someone getting food for free and we want the same benefit.  We don’t see it as a system giving help to people who need it.
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Imagine if a terrorist group or rogue nation ever got together enough money and had the planning ability to manipulate our oil prices using the futures market.  The results could be horrible.  With such a threat you would think that Congress or Law Enforcement would do something but that doesn’t seem to be in the cards.

Terrorists know that they cannot defeat the United States using conventional weapons.  Explosions and bombs visually impact us when we see the carnage on the news but as is the case many times, it’s the things we don’t see that we should be most worried about.  People like Osama Bin Laden know that they can’t beat us militarily.  The real goal of the bombings they have carried out here in the US is to try to bankrupt the economy.

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