Bob Livingston Alerts: Chartering the Collapse By Chris Knight (Florida)

The Bob Livingston alerts come by email, there is not an easy to find website. In his most recent email, he details the plans of the globalist to destroy America, and by implication the rest of the West, through destruction of the middle class. As he quotes from American Compass, a conservative think tank, it is becoming impossible for the middle class to survive: “"While the typical man working full-time in 1985 could support a family on 40 weeks of income and then still have income from roughly 20% of the year left to cover other expenses and save, a comparable man working full-time in 2022 would work the whole year and still come up ten weeks short. This is not the prosperity that was promised, or that economists try to claim has been delivered."

The destruction of he family has been on the agenda at least since the 1960s and with social disintegrations, drug abuse and other mass degeneracy traditional society faces its greatest existential threat.

“The plan to destroy America by destroying average middle-class folks is proceeding apace.

"A sharp increase in 'deaths of despair' — deaths from poisonings, suicides, and alcoholic liver disease — occurred in the US in the early 2000s, but the initial rise began a decade earlier for middle-aged Whites. These developments are studied in 'Opiates of the Masses? Deaths of Despair and the Decline of American Religion' (NBER Working Paper 30840)." This paper examines "the relationship between the increase in such deaths and the widespread decline in religious practice that began in the late 1980s…" reports the National Bureau of Economic Research.

American Compass, a conservative think tank, created a Cost-of-Thriving Index (COTI) measures the number of weeks a typical worker would need to work annually to earn enough income for major everyday costs, i.e., How much does a family of four in the American middle-class need for food, housing, healthcare, transportation, and higher education.

The 2023 reports states, "While the typical man working full-time in 1985 could support a family on 40 weeks of income and then still have income from roughly 20% of the year left to cover other expenses and save, a comparable man working full-time in 2022 would work the whole year and still come up ten weeks short. This is not the prosperity that was promised, or that economists try to claim has been delivered."

The Brookings Institute's "Seven Reasons to Worry About the American Middle Class" put it like this: "Stagnant incomes and falling wages have meant that fewer Americans are growing up to be better off than their parents. Upward absolute intergenerational mobility was once the almost-universal experience among America's youth. No longer. Among those born in 1940, about 90 percent of children grew up to experience higher incomes than their parents, according to researchers at the Equality of Opportunity Project. This proportion was only 50 percent among those born in the 1980s."

NBER researchers also determined in a study completed a few years ago that there is a direct correlation between declining labor-market opportunities for blue collar males and an increase in divorce rates, a rise in the rate of unmarried mothers and an increase in the number of children growing up in households headed by single mothers.

Blue-collar men have also been hit very hard by "trade shocks," which are so-called free trade deals like NAFTA and China's entry into the World Trade Organization. This started in the late 1990s when manufacturing employment began a precipitous decline. As melmagazine.com, which interviewed study co-author David Dorn, professor of Economics at the University of Zurich, wrote:

"It's quantifiable, too: For every 1 percent increase in Chinese imports, the share of married women in the U.S. decreases by about 1.3 percent. Similarly, birth rates drop about 4 percent and child poverty rates increase by a whopping 12 percent."

Destruction of the American family, along with the destruction of the American middle class, is necessary for the globalists to fulfill their hundreds years quest to enslave America. The dismantling of the middle class has become the appointed, full-time task of the largest government alphabet soup agencies.

Your Congressmen and Senators are supported by the super rich, but they legislate in favor of the non-producers at the expense of the producing middle class. They never use terms that express what they are doing. They address the people with altruistic and collectivist statements. They use "for the greater good" which translates "share your production with the non-producers and the non-producing parasite system."

The term "the greater good" is not for the individualist and his pursuit of happiness.

Corporate "invasion of the body snatchers"

Wall Street has been enrolled in the destructive effort as well, to assure the success of elitist oligarchs. Their logic is that if those big middle-class producers and consumers can be decimated once and for all, then they can join the ranks of low-wage workers, as in Asia and Central America, and the world can return to pre-Capitalism's "bimodal" wealth, meaning haves, have-nots, and almost no one in between.

We don't often hear truth from any media, and there are a lot of distractions around what has happened with Bud Light and using a transgender to promote their product. But listen to the actor and rapper Ice Cube questioning people's conventional thinking on the Joe Rogan Experience: "I think about the people that own these companies… who controls Bud Light? Why would they make a dumb decision like that? Are they trying to ruin Bud Light? Why? Are they trying to take down some of our most iconic American brands? Why would that help them? Who's getting hurt? Is it the Anheuser execs? A lower-level person got fired, but a bunch of middle-class guys are paying the price. Distribution centers, guys that deliver the beer nobody wants - now they're out of a job. Now they're really attacking the middle class..."

What we are seeing is the ruling class working to undermine self-sufficiency by reducing the ability to work, which destroys woke ethic (why work if you're always getting laid off, fired, downsized and retired?) and encourages an ongoing cycle of dependency on "authority."

An independent, self-reliant middle class that demands an equitable reward for their labor and product puts them into competition for goods and resources with the global elite and puts a roadblock on the globalist-collectivist-cultural Marxist's drive toward One World Governance.

Robert Reich is correct when he says, "The real job creators are not CEOs or corporations or wealthy investors. The job creators are members of America's vast middle class," although, like most left-wingers, he's wrong about why this is true. Reich thinks it's because their "purchases cause businesses to expand and invest." No, that's conflating the consequence with the root cause. It's true because the middle class are the folks who work without leeching off society, who strive to better their lives by leveling up their skills, who start businesses (literally create jobs) and have children who become entrepreneurs (creating more jobs), and who are the producers and savers – as opposed to parasites like those in government, or those who have been fooled into believing their income should come through government.

By the way, for those who would argue that the size of the middle class is stable or even growing, they are wrong. In terms of market basket purchasing power, today's middle class is actually lower class, compared to the middle class of the 60's, 70's and 80's. I am not saying anything new to you who already know that you afforded more pricey goods on far less money in years past, notwithstanding the propaganda of the government's own Consumer Price Index.

It is important to remember that inflation and depreciation of the currency are for the benefit of government, the rich and the debtors. People who pay their debts and save are at their mercy if they begin to believe that government economic activity is "necessary" and that money equals debt.

Elitism flourishes where the hard-working, creative middle class perishes, or is not allowed to develop.  Now you know why the middle class is "disappearing." It is in reality being destroyed in order to render the freedom-loving, family-oriented individual today meaningless.

I do believe the attempts to destroy us will eventually fail. It might mean some difficult times ahead, but we will continue to help you prepare for the worst, while giving you hope (and ideas) for the best.