Our Economic Misery Isn’t an Accident, It’s the Plan

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Our Economic Misery Isn’t an Accident, It’s the Plan
The Left doesn’t want you to be able to drive, buy a home, or enjoy a burger.
By Daniel Greenfield

Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.

Americans can’t afford to buy a used car or even gas because the Left doesn’t want them to drive. They can’t buy homes because the Left wants to destroy the suburbs and force everyone to live in megacities. They have trouble buying meat because the Left wants them to eat soy.

The same is true for the whole exercise in planned economic misery that we’re experiencing.

Take Hoover’s “A chicken in every pot and a car in every garage” and reverse it. That’s the goal. What we’re living through is not an unintentional accident: it’s the American Holodomor.

The Left doesn’t want you to be able to drive, buy a home, or enjoy a burger.

Naive Republicans will say that, “Biden is not paying enough attention to the border” or “Biden is not paying enough attention to inflation”.

That’s like saying Jack the Ripper wasn’t paying enough attention to cutting up prostitutes.

2 million illegal aliens are expected to invade America because the Biden administration is paying a whole lot of attention to keeping the border open. That’s why it’s busy fighting in court to dump Title 42 so that every illegal alien who crosses the border will be sure to come here.

When an administration makes increasing the flow of illegal aliens a core legal priority for the DOJ, that means it’s paying a whole lot of attention to it. Much like Jack paid a lot of attention to ladies of the evening. The Biden administration doesn’t believe that there should be a border.

That’s why the border is open wider than Biden’s brain on a Tuesday night.

There are predictions that gas will hit $6 a gallon nationwide by the summer because the Biden administration has worked hard to raise energy prices and create artificial shortages. Biden’s people just got through once again sabotaging oil and gas leases because they want higher energy prices. $6 a gallon is not the result of political inattentiveness, that is the plan.

Inflation isn’t an unintentional accident either. The Left spends like drunken sailors to feed its agenda, but also because spending is an innate good in the Cloward-Piven sense. Devalue money and you wipe out the middle class. Then you can reboot the economy on new terms.

Biden wasted trillions of dollars and is busy blaming “corporate greed” for high prices.

Meanwhile, inflation is doing what it’s meant to do, wiping out savings, and triggering retaliatory interest rate hikes to “cool down” the economy. The middle class ends up poorer and more vulnerable, government dependency rises and social mobility falls. Socialism starts looking better every day. That’s how it worked in the twentieth century and still works today.

All of this is terrible for Biden’s poll numbers, but that’s only a problem for Hunter Biden and whatever Chinese, Ukrainian or American oligarchs are paying his crack bills this week.

Picking a dementia patient for the presidency was always a suicide mission. Republicans are somewhat right in that Biden really isn’t paying attention to the economy or much of anything else. On a good day he can mumble his way through a teleprompter and then go back down to the basement for some ice cream. It’s the radical leftists around him who call the shots.

Putting Senator Elizabeth Warren in the White House would have led to the same programs, but the blame would have been directed at the Left. This way, the Left gets its agendas through while the blame falls on the most out-of-it leader of a major world power since King George III.

The Left is wearing Biden like a skin suit and will casually discard him when it’s done. That’s why the media is suddenly interested in that “Russian disinformation” about Hunter’s laptop.

Biden was dumb enough to think he had finally made it, when he was just the Left’s fall guy.

And while he may be incapable of paying attention to anything, his administration is cheering every price increase. The worse life gets for us, the closer the Left gets to its core agendas.

High gas prices aren’t “Putin’s price hike”, but they’re not even “Biden’s price hike”, they’re the “Left’s price hike”. Car and gas prices are meant to squeeze Americans out of car ownership. It’s such an unsubtle ploy that administration members will actually boast about it. And then they’ll urge Americans to buy $60,000 electric cars that they know people can’t afford.

The utterly blatant goal is to eliminate millions of cars by making it too expensive to drive.

And Democrats are working on this on multiple ends, from environmental and safety regulations, to raising gas prices, to artificial car shortages. Even those who can afford an electric car or get a government subsidized one will be kept off the road by high power rates.

Home prices? The Left has spent generations trying to kill the suburbs and the housing market. Much as it’s worked very hard to wipe out private sector medicine by using the stresses of the system against it. Making the private market for a good or service completely inaccessible for the vast majority of people paves the way for nationalizing it. The Left does not want people living in smaller communities. It has plainly said that everyone should have to live in cities.

Taking out the home and car markets are both means of limiting mobility and forcibly concentrating populations in dense urban clusters under their panopticons. These are the same strategies used by the Soviet Union and Communist China. And have the same intended end.

Food prices? The Left has been equally adamant that ordinary people must stop eating meat. Replacing traditional staples like bread and meat, milk and eggs, is another agenda item and was once again pursued through a combination of regulations, environmental, safety and animal rights measures, and more artificial shortages that are meant to transform the American diet.

You won’t be able to eat, drive or have a home to live in… and you will be told to be happy.

Or else.

This is not a conspiracy theory. The only assumption being made here is that the Left is achieving its stated goals as the result of a plan rather than a series of accidental coincidences.

Too many Republicans are failing to hold the Left accountable by refusing to state what is going on. Hanlon’s Razor, “never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity” is fine when it’s not being applied to an ideology that is achieving its objectives through its actions.

That’s not a conspiracy theory, it’s policy.

Pasting Biden’s “I Did It” stickers on gas pumps is fine, but he’s completely expendable.

If Americans don’t understand that our misery isn’t an accident or incompetence, but part of a plan then the downward cycle will continue to play out with increasingly worse outcomes.

Until the Left finally gets what it wants. And then the rest of us won’t have anything left.

https://www.raptureforums.com/polit...conomic-misery-isnt-an-accident-its-the-plan/
 

crystal spyder

New Member
When the plandemic first kicked off a car manufacturer advertised new cars at zero percent interest for 5 years. During a lockdown when you weren't allowed to leave your home unless you were designated an essential worker.

New cars can be controlled through the on-board computer system. Tracked, of course.

States with an vehicle inspection policy for tag renewals strive to fail the older vehicles pre-trial tracking module.

How quickly an authoritarian dictatorship popped up in America during the plandemic .

I think it was a test to see how long Christians would tolerate churches under threat, liberties under threat.

There's a guy, founder and CEO of World Economic Forum or some such. Who said we'll, the 99% of the population, the non-rich, will own nothing and like it.

Global reset?

Whatever .

God's in control.☺️
 

UntilTheWholeWorldHears

Well-Known Member
Our Economic Misery Isn’t an Accident, It’s the Plan

Naive Republicans will say that, “Biden is not paying enough attention to the border” or “Biden is not paying enough attention to inflation”.

prihttps://www.raptureforums.com/polit...conomic-misery-isnt-an-accident-its-the-plan/
Naive Republicans? They're in it as well. Maybe not all of them, but the majority are bought and paid for by the special interest groups.
Publicly they say one thing, behind closed doors they're shaking hands and cutting deals.
Very sad to see what's happening in our country. I have to keep reminding myself that it's all part of God’s plan.
 

Everlasting Life

Through Faith in Jesus
It's quite stunning to see the human nature heart, devoid of God's Holy Spirit, increasingly and openly seen in this manner.

But, there's the plandemic and then praise God, there's the Lord's plans that sovereignly prevail:


The wicked frustrate the plans of the oppressed,
but the Lord will protect his people.


Psalm 14:6

The Lord frustrates the plans of the nations
and thwarts all their schemes.
But the Lord’s plans stand firm forever;
his intentions can never be shaken.


Psalm 33:10-11

The righteous person faces many troubles,
but the Lord comes to the rescue each time.


Psalm 34:9

Listen to the filth that comes from their mouths;
their words cut like swords.
“After all, who can hear us?” they sneer.
But Lord, you laugh at them.
You scoff at all the hostile nations.
You are my strength; I wait for you to rescue me,
for you, O God, are my fortress.


Psalm 59:7-9

The eyes of the Lord preserve knowledge,
But He overthrows the words of the faithless.


Prov 22:12

The fear of man brings a snare,
But whoever trusts in the Lord shall be safe.

Prov 29:25. :)


Not trying to be dismissive of reality here but just comforted that the Lord is here with us. I believe He'll faithfully help us and that our prayers for that help, for others and us is attentively heard and responded to....in His time.

In His permissive will, God is allowing this and I have to wonder if in His grace He's done so to stir hearts in Jesus Christ's direction for salvation.

I have to trust that God has a plan, He's working in the midst of this and it will be interesting to see how He utilizes the church to further His good plans.
 

rks7777

Well-Known Member
It's quite stunning to see the human nature heart, devoid of God's Holy Spirit, increasingly and openly seen in this manner.

But, there's the plandemic and then praise God, there's the Lord's plans that sovereignly prevail:


The wicked frustrate the plans of the oppressed,
but the Lord will protect his people.


Psalm 14:6

The Lord frustrates the plans of the nations
and thwarts all their schemes.
But the Lord’s plans stand firm forever;
his intentions can never be shaken.


Psalm 33:10-11

The righteous person faces many troubles,
but the Lord comes to the rescue each time.


Psalm 34:9

Listen to the filth that comes from their mouths;
their words cut like swords.
“After all, who can hear us?” they sneer.
But Lord, you laugh at them.
You scoff at all the hostile nations.
You are my strength; I wait for you to rescue me,
for you, O God, are my fortress.


Psalm 59:7-9

The eyes of the Lord preserve knowledge,
But He overthrows the words of the faithless.


Prov 22:12

The fear of man brings a snare,
But whoever trusts in the Lord shall be safe.

Prov 29:25. :)


Not trying to be dismissive of reality here but just comforted that the Lord is here with us. I believe He'll faithfully help us and that our prayers for that help, for others and us is attentively heard and responded to....in His time.

In His permissive will, God is allowing this and I have to wonder if in His grace He's done so to stir hearts in Jesus Christ's direction for salvation.

I have to trust that God has a plan, He's working in the midst of this and it will be interesting to see how He utilizes the church to further His good plans.
Thank you for your response. I read the article. I have no doubt in its accuracy. But what am I supposed to do about it? What can I do about gas prices, car prices, food prices, etc.? I was forced into early retirement 3 years ago. I’m too young to touch my 401k without penalties. My wife has been a realtor for 25 years. She is basically our only source of income for the next 5 years. I got my real estate license after my retirement but I just do what she tells me. She is the driving force. So his comments regarding home buying especially hit home. God has been faithful to us these past 3 years and he will continue to provide our needs. While all that is written in the above article continues to take place and the inevitable seems certain, there’s nothing I can due to change what’s coming. All I can do is cast my one measly vote and move on. And even that doesn’t matter as who can really trust the election process. I say all this to make the point that no matter how accurate the article is, what’s the point other than to fear monger. I struggle enough with depression and anxiety. I know we cannot stick our heads in the sand. But what can I do? Thanks Everlasting Life for reminding me to Trust in the Lord with my whole heart!
 

Everlasting Life

Through Faith in Jesus
I was forced into early retirement 3 years ago.

That's tough rks7777 and I suspect was a real hit to the gut. You know when we've had some circumstances like what you are describing, looking back we realized that there were some blessings in disguise we didn't realize were attached to these challenges. But it can be hard to see in the moment. What I can say is that God has been faithful, when the world has been craaaazy, God was steady. Steadily there helping us navigate....so this is why I can post confidently, knowing from experience that God is incredible in how He helps.

During the housing tsunami that hit awhile back, God helped us to sell our house (when no one was buying and the nation was struggling in this area) and then we were able to buy a house. There were some amazing things that happened in that major blocks were systematically removed in such a way that made us know for sure that God was there. We really could have just tucked our tails and ran with the blocks that were there, we could have given in to fear but we chose to instead pray and choose to trust God. Sure, we had some times where we were worried, but, kept trusting and praying. So, know this, with God, nothing is impossible. Nothing. :)

God has been faithful to us these past 3 years and he will continue to provide our needs.

Praise God! Hang on to this. Remember this and let it continue to strengthen your faith in Him. When in difficult situations we have done that as well, and thanked God for what He was in process of doing and about to do.

.....there’s nothing I can due to change what’s coming.

Right, exactly right. And that's where hopefully our nation and those in the world will realize this and turn to the One who can do something.

Thanks Everlasting Life for reminding me to Trust in the Lord with my whole heart!

Praise God you were encouraged! Yes, this really is the whole point that God is trying to bring us all to. To trust Him with our whole hearts, no matter what we are seeing in our human realm.


And, while I do keep myself somewhat abreast of the news, I really try to make sure to have just as much of the Word of God in my daily nourishment, if not more to keep things balanced and positive.

God Bless. :pray
 
On Biden's first day in office and since then, he and his so-called administration have acted as if they report to someone else-not to "we the people". Everything that has been done and is currently being done is unconstitutional-everything. I tell my husband often that while the right talks against the left, at the end of the day, they are having a beer together. They are all one party. It truly has been astonishing to see. One of many, many reasons why I am so very grateful for Jesus and His Word. He told us it would be so.
 

Mama Bug

Active Member
In the meantime what do we do? I may be forced to go back to work before I’m ready. I’m struggling with anxiety and some depression here. Up until a few months ago, we were doing ok. Paid our bills, bought groceries, etc with no problem. Our bank account had a nice cushion. That cushion is getting smaller. It could be partly unwise spending on our part, but not all. Things have gone up way too high and some people are still out spending money like they’ve got unlimited funds. We were going to pay my husband’s car off, which we will do this month, buy me a newer car, sell mine, and get our daughter one. Now it looks like I’ll be keeping mine for the time being and maybe looking at a car payment for my daughter instead. My car is a manual transmission and she can’t drive it so giving my car to her isn’t an option. She will have to get a job but she realistically can’t work a whole lot during marching band season. Then we have a 12yo son who isn’t quite there in maturity so I’m hesitant to go back to work and possibly have to leave him home alone on occasion because my daughter won’t always be here due to work or band practice.

I’m praying, crying, panicking, shutting down which three out of four isn’t helping. Still begs the question, what can we do? The Republicans may be griping, talking about Creepy Joe and the ruined economy but no one is trying to do anything about it. How are we expected to survive?
 

Armor of Light

Praising my Savior all the day long!
When I have decisions to make I start in prayer and stay there until I get peace, complete peace about my decision. We are not young, have survived Jimmy Carter, and Obummer and now going throuh Bidenflation, and this is a doozey, we are cutting back on everything we can and we started cutting right when uncle joe was elected and passing massive $pending bills. All I can say is God is faithful, stay in prayer, ask for wisdom to make wise choices, have peace on any big ticket item you need, no peace no purchase, we have learned by experience and bad decisions in the past.
 

mattfivefour

Well-Known Member
When I have decisions to make I start in prayer and stay there until I get peace, complete peace about my decision. We are not young, have survived Jimmy Carter, and Obummer and now going throuh Bidenflation, and this is a doozey, we are cutting back on everything we can and we started cutting right when uncle joe was elected and passing massive $pending bills. All I can say is God is faithful, stay in prayer, ask for wisdom to make wise choices, have peace on any big ticket item you need, no peace no purchase, we have learned by experience and bad decisions in the past.
Exactly! Well said. People repeatedly ask, "What can I do in the face of all this that is wrong?" Chaser has given the correct answer, the ONLY effective answer.

The other day I saw a Charlie Brown cartoon in which Charlie is saying to Snoopy, "Many folks are praying for God to heal our land, but I think He is still waiting for people to humble themselves, repent and turn from their wicked ways."

God could turn this nation around in an instant. But why? So we can make some acknowledgement of Him then go back and enjoy life, live the way we want, focus on the many things this life offers --family, entertainment, fun-- give Him some time on Sunday morning and maybe a Bible study mid-week? That's not why He saved us. And that is not what we find ourselves in the situation we are currently in in America. He had allowed all this for a purpose. Can we know what that is?

Yes, He wants us in Heaven with Him for eternity; but He also desires multitudes of others to be there with Him, too. And that is why He saved us and left us here. The fact is that He has called us to do our part. And that begins by --each day-- entering into essential, daily, intimate relationship with HIM, dying to self-will and self-desire, and being absolutely willing to abandon our dreams for ourselves in exchange for His plan for us.

You can't talk it until you walk it. God does not accept lip-service, and He will not anoint a life lived in that way. America took Him for granted for far too long. Christians used Him as a means to their own ends; He was a source of answered prayer; His purpose was to supply the needs and, too often, the wants of those who called themselves His. In truth, their contact with him was shallow and convenient.

God has said, "Enough!!!" These ARE the last days. And if we who purport to believe that statement actually DO believe it, then what are we doing as a result?

I'm not speaking about religious activities, I talking of seeking a real relationship with God. It is NOT something God does in us: He has done His part in the world and us through Christ. He is calling on US to do our part. What is our part?

His Word tells us.

Over and over in the Bible we read of God working in the lives of simple human beings to accomplish His will. (Oh, what can be done by an ordinary man or woman in the hands of an extraordinary God!: But in every case we see things begin with the some form of the notification that the person "set his mind" or "set his heart" to seek God and obey Him. Can that be said of us?

You want to know what we can do in the face of all this that is gathering speed toward destruction around us? Stop looking to kings and princes, and chariots and horses; instead look to God and seriously seek His face and set your heart on it. Sarah, Nehemiah, Daniel, Isaiah. All of them. They had their own version of Jacob's cry! "I will not let You go until You bless me!"

Nothing else will do. You and I can continue to live for God half-heartedly and live on the lowest rung of heaven for eternity ... or we can truly stop living for self and set our mind to seek Him to gain the power to live for Him here ...worth the promise that we will live in eternity in the closest ring of His glory. That result has nothing to do with how great a work you do here on earth. Not at all. It has only to do with how willingly you surrender your life to Him. There IS a cost. But I assure you that as great as it may be here on earth, it is nowhere near the cost He, Himself, bore for us.

My friends, I pray you have read through to the end. Because what I have written above will provide not just a supremely blessed eternity but a life of real joy and true peace here on this earth ... regardless of our circumstances.

May God touch you deeply with His truth. :pray
 
In the meantime what do we do? I may be forced to go back to work before I’m ready. I’m struggling with anxiety and some depression here. Up until a few months ago, we were doing ok. Paid our bills, bought groceries, etc with no problem. Our bank account had a nice cushion. That cushion is getting smaller. It could be partly unwise spending on our part, but not all. Things have gone up way too high and some people are still out spending money like they’ve got unlimited funds. We were going to pay my husband’s car off, which we will do this month, buy me a newer car, sell mine, and get our daughter one. Now it looks like I’ll be keeping mine for the time being and maybe looking at a car payment for my daughter instead. My car is a manual transmission and she can’t drive it so giving my car to her isn’t an option. She will have to get a job but she realistically can’t work a whole lot during marching band season. Then we have a 12yo son who isn’t quite there in maturity so I’m hesitant to go back to work and possibly have to leave him home alone on occasion because my daughter won’t always be here due to work or band practice.

I’m praying, crying, panicking, shutting down which three out of four isn’t helping. Still begs the question, what can we do? The Republicans may be griping, talking about Creepy Joe and the ruined economy but no one is trying to do anything about it. How are we expected to survive?
Mama Bug-Jesus sees you and your whole situation. He knows you inside and out, through and through. Trust in the Lord. These are the days that as true believers, we have to decide once and for all to TRUST IN THE LORD about everything. We have to set our hearts to firmly and completely trust in Him. Our Lord God says we can.

"Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths." Proverbs 3:5-6

Mama Bug, what a grand promise God gave us!
 

MapleLeaf

Well-Known Member
The panic is real. I have to really force my mind not to go there. My sister told me the other day that she was listening to a pastor's podcast and he recommended that fathers just go ahead and take their family on that vacation this summer. Not be irresponsible but make those precious memories with their children in this very slight reprieve of freedom this summer. I had been stressing about the cost of gas as we have to drive for 30 hours to get to my family but I realised that we should just go. Things are about to get very dark and we may never get another chance. We've done the road trip before and often we don't do many of our planned stops because we feel too tired and lazy in the moment. (It is a long day) But this time? We are going to make sure we see what we all want to see. There are so many beautiful sights and so many pictures to take beside goofy statues. We're driving out on Canada Day and we're going to deck ourselves out in full patriotic gear and flags on our car.

I hate what is being done. I hate it. This morning I read Psalm 112 and it had some great verses there too, about the righteous being unafraid of bad news and that the wicked hates the joy of those who trust the Lord and that their wicked plans will melt away.
 

Epieikes

Active Member
It's quite stunning to see the human nature heart, devoid of God's Holy Spirit, increasingly and openly seen in this manner.

But, there's the plandemic and then praise God, there's the Lord's plans that sovereignly prevail:


The wicked frustrate the plans of the oppressed,
but the Lord will protect his people.


Psalm 14:6

The Lord frustrates the plans of the nations
and thwarts all their schemes.
But the Lord’s plans stand firm forever;
his intentions can never be shaken.


Psalm 33:10-11

The righteous person faces many troubles,
but the Lord comes to the rescue each time.


Psalm 34:9

Listen to the filth that comes from their mouths;
their words cut like swords.
“After all, who can hear us?” they sneer.
But Lord, you laugh at them.
You scoff at all the hostile nations.
You are my strength; I wait for you to rescue me,
for you, O God, are my fortress.


Psalm 59:7-9

The eyes of the Lord preserve knowledge,
But He overthrows the words of the faithless.


Prov 22:12

The fear of man brings a snare,
But whoever trusts in the Lord shall be safe.

Prov 29:25. :)


Not trying to be dismissive of reality here but just comforted that the Lord is here with us. I believe He'll faithfully help us and that our prayers for that help, for others and us is attentively heard and responded to....in His time.

In His permissive will, God is allowing this and I have to wonder if in His grace He's done so to stir hearts in Jesus Christ's direction for salvation.

I have to trust that God has a plan, He's working in the midst of this and it will be interesting to see how He utilizes the church to further His good plans.
Beautiful post...and per my discussion with my husband this morning, meant to pry our fingers from this world. One crisis, one development at a time, with different hot button issues and failed human systems/sectors achieving this among a diverse population. Many blessed to live with more resources than the rest of the world have an easier time holding on to lesser things. I've been guilty...and Jesus' lap is my favorite place. #StoredUpTreasures
 

Baby Yoda

Watchman
You can't talk it until you walk it. God does not accept lip-service, and He will not anoint a life lived in that way. America took Him for granted for far too long. Christians used Him as a means to their own ends; He was a source of answered prayer; His purpose was to supply the needs and, too often, the wants of those who called themselves His. In truth, their contact with him was shallow and convenient.

God has said, "Enough!!!" These ARE the last days

Exactly what I picture Him saying when He didn't let Trump stay in office. :sad
 
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