http://walkawayday.com/stealing-from-social-security-to-pay-fo...

According to the official 2010 Social Security reports, between 1984 and 2009 the American people contributed $2 trillion more to Social Security and Medicare in payroll taxes than was paid out in benefits.

What happened to the surplus $2,000,000,000,000 ?

The government spent it!

The ruling elite know exactly what they are doing. They are destroying everything that made America great to bring about their New World Order. If we don't wake up and fight back soon, we will lose more than tax money.

Amplify’d from www.activistpost.com

We need to spend our resources to better this country, not Afghanistan.  Our money needs to fund our education system, not Iraq’s.  Our income and hard work needs to fuel our economic engine, not China's.  The time is now to wake up to the reality that this country is being sold piece by piece to the factions of fascism.  We need to take our country back.

Defunding Education to Send America’s Future Abroad

As American politicians search for cuts in State and Federal spending to balance the economic scales, they are aiming to cut into social programs instead of concentrating their fire on the issues that have actually led to our current, monstrous debt situation: Military Expenditures, Corporate Welfare, and Foreign Aid.  As the Wars in the Middle East rage on, America is spending an astronomical amount of money in other nations while our own falls apart.

We need to return to a time where American invention, intellect and innovation leads the world.  If we continue upon the path we are on currently, we will be a nation of debtors and mindless workers akin to the same system of our greatest competitor and now part owner, China, possesses.  This drive toward the fascist states of America needs to stop, and those responsible for its initiation should be brought to justice.

Yes; this is a Liberal approach to politics and national spending.  Yes; it is the same approach so vehemently attacked by some in the political realm of mass media, but it is a view that is enveloped in the Dream that once was so vibrant in America when it cared and supported the future of its people.  It is the embodiment of the words etched upon the base of the Statue of Liberty; the dream that seems to be dying so very quickly along with the voice of America being drowned out by corporate interests supported by politicians whose bank accounts grow larger each time they propagate the policies of deception and degradation rotting the very heart of our once great Nation. The time has come to reclaim our Liberty; if not for ourselves, then for our children. Read more at www.activistpost.com

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2011/03/us-government-feb...

the February deficit is nearly four times as large as the spending cuts House Republicans passed in their spending bill. What a joke!

URL:  http://www.potpiegirl.com/2011/03/my-theory-on-the-goog...

An interesting article on why some sites were hit harder in the recent "Farmer Update" to the Google search algorithm. The author shares some surprising findings.

http://www.aggregage.com/blog/curation/marketing-aggregation-f...

This is a great article to find tools for all aspects of gathering content, and sharing through aggregation and curation.

URL:  http://socialmediatoday.com/iansmith/273427/9-content-c...

Some useful tips for locating content, especially real time news, for your blog.

Tomorrow is March 1st. Will be interesting to see if this pattern holds.

Amplify’d from www.zerohedge.com

The Calm Before the Storm

Courtesy of Phil of Phil's Stock World

Tomorrow, of course, is March first and, as we all know, the first day of the month is THE BEST day to go long.  12 of the last 14 first day's of the month have been up days with the S&P gaining 17% on the first day of the month (Feb 1 not on this chart) and just 1.4% on all the rest of the day's combined!

So, miss the first day and miss out on the rally is a bit of an understatement, isn't it?  In 2010 alone, the first trading day accounted for 123 of the 134 points the S&P gained. Essentially, the market traded flat the other 200-plus trading days. Read more at www.zerohedge.com

http://www.thedaily.com/page/2011/02/26/news-tsa-scanner-1-2/

First they came for our papers, then they came for our junk, now they are coming for our DNA.

Even if we don't wage a war on the people of north Africa, our military industrial complex will surely benefit from the instability in the region.

Amplify’d from www.lewrockwell.com

War Über Alles

by Paul Craig Roberts

The United States government cannot get enough of war. With Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi’s regime falling to a rebelling population, CNN reports that a Pentagon spokesman said that the U.S. is looking at all options from the military side.

Allegedly, the Pentagon, which is responsible for one million dead Iraqis and an unknown number of dead Afghans and Pakistanis, is concerned about the deaths of 1,000 Libyan protesters.

War makes money for the politically connected. While the flag-waving population remains proud of the service of their sons, brothers, husbands, fathers, cousins, wives, mothers and daughters, the smart boys who got the fireworks started are rolling in the mega-millions.

As General Smedley Butler told the jingoistic American population, to no avail, "war is a racket." As long as the American population remains proud that their relatives serve as cannon fodder for the military/security complex, war will remain a racket. Read more at www.lewrockwell.com

http://www.lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo203.html

"The Wall Street Journal reports that state and local governments in the United States currently have $3.5 trillion in unfunded pension liabilities." That is like 3.5 million duffel bags stuffed with $100 bills (assuming $1,000,000 per bag).