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13 July 2011

"If you're into something, get in it. 

If you're not into it, get out."--Zig Ziglar's Mom, Viola

There is a lot of change happening.  Most of us don’t like it.  The Status Quo has shifted and we are left holding the crumbling dust of past success.

But we had been warned. 

Donald Trump and Robert Kiyosaki co-wrote a book called “Why We Want You to be Rich” in 2006, more than 5 years ago, well before the economic collapse, real estate bubble burst and the Great Recession.  The main point of the book was there would be a shift of power and wealth in America and the world; that the Middle-class was about to become extinct.

Steven R. Covey revisited his “7 Habits of Effective People” and wrote “The 8^th Habit” to address the shift of wealth everytime there is an economic revolution. He said that while the “7 Habits” were still applicable, they were more designed for the Industrial age.  Dr. Covey also said in essence, without the “8^th Habit,” finding your voice, we would fail.

An Article “22 Statistics That Prove The Middle Class Is Being Systematically Wiped Out Of Existence In America” by Michael Snyder in his blog | Jul. 15, 2010, the author examines many reasons why the Middle Class are becoming extinct and that it wasn’t accidental. But these two responses to his blog were just as interesting:

Trex: Power is now being consolidated not by country, but by CORPORATIONS!!! Remember the warning the US got when Eisenhower left office. He didn't warn of Communism, or Marxism, or any country. He warned us about the "Military/ Industrial Complex". He has now been proven right. While we bicker over taxes, health care, and Palin, the true powers are taking away any hope for us to be truly free. The multi national corporations simply don't care if the US exists. They only want a place to sell products and services somewhere at a higher price than it took the corporation to make the product or deliver the services. If it's the US great, if it's China, thats ok too. They have no allegiance to the USA, and we should tax the hell out of them.

(There is a 2005 documentary called “Why We Fight” by Eugene Jarecki that addresses the Military/Industrial Complex)

hannas mott: 'We should more rightly call Fascism corporatism because it is a merger of the state and the corporation'---Benito Mussolini 1935.

The reason the middle class is fading is because of the political fascists who like to call themselves CONSERVATIVES despite the fact that they conserve nothing and are simply another group of murderous racists seeking to form their own authoritarian regime here in the United States.

Interesting food for thought.

Okay, so we were warned. None of us listened. Or none of us had time to hear, because we were busy working to pay our bills.  Or none of us turned the tv and radio and other distractors off long enough to hear. Okay. So now what?

That is a good question. 

The past is the past. And no matter how hard we try, we can't change it. But, can the wisdom of past generations help us in this day and age?  Is the beginning of our journey to reclaim what we lost found in the first quote of this blog? What about this last one?

“You can get everything in this world that you want, if you will only help enough other people get what they want.”    --Zig Ziglar

Thanks Mr. Ziglar. I think we needed that...