Open robbery Sheriff of Nottingham style under the guise of the war “on drugs”.
Now the first test balloon for total suspension of civil right aka. blatant serfdom under the guise of the “war on ebola”.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-10-10/public-health-emergency-declared-connecticut-over-ebola-civil-rights-suspended-indef

The breaking point is rapidly approaching.
The question of will you meekly board the trains to the camps or NOT is demanding an answer soonish.

But I think the low hanging fruit have already been decimated and we are feasting on the seed corn. Even the most selfless members of society have been screwed over so hard, or seen their loved ones screwed, that everyone is cynical. The only carrot that will work now is self interest, and that is a bleak foreboding for the future.

A coworker of mine was relating to me how his sister was asking for money to fix her water heater. His sister went to college, married right away, got preggo, and bought the biggest house she could afford the payment on. She doesn’t do any budgeting and lives paycheck to paycheck without saving anything for even a small hiccup in reality. He agreed to help her, but only after she cancelled her TV cable subscription, her cell phone plan, and traded in her new SUV for a compact car. She balked obviously, so he didn’t give her the money, and now he is the asshole since hes an engineer who has money but doesn’t “help out” his only sister. At least I can give her credit for not lieing and saying “I’ve already done all that” regarding cancelling her luxury payments.

A woman I’ve spoken with who runs a salon with her sister was stressed out because their salon doesn’t have enough customers and is losing money. I told her she needs to analyze the cash flow of the business to figure out where all the expenses are going, where they can cut costs, and what is bringing in the most profit. She said she doesn’t like math so she’s not going to do that.

I was considering investing for a while, so instead of throwing my money at the stock market as is recommended, I decided to read a few books on investing by Benjamin Graham. I wanted to understand what gives stock inherent value and what makes certain stocks more valuable than others. After learning how to evaluate value, I looked at a number of stocks and decided that it’s probably a bad time to invest. With all the excess liquidity, gaming of P/E ratios with buybacks on margin, and a low yield environment, stock prices just don’t seem to make any sense right now. Maybe I’ll be proven an idiot and stocks will continue to rally uninterrupted for the next decade, but it’s not something I’ll bet on.