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Via Prison Planet.com \u00bb Commentary<\/p>\n

The Economic Collapse<\/a>
\nMay 27, 2010<\/p>\n

Today there is a great awakening going on across the United States and all around the world.\u00a0 Tens of millions of people are becoming aware of the growing tyranny of the global financial elite.\u00a0 Yet millions of those same people willingly enslave themselves to those very same financial powers.\u00a0 So how is this happening?\u00a0 It is called debt.\u00a0\u00a0The financial powers of the world use it to enslave individuals, corporations and governments.\u00a0 For thousands of years humanity has been taught the proverb that\u00a0”the borrower is the servant of the lender”, and yet today hundreds of millions of people around the globe willingly have run out and have made themselves servants of the money powers.\u00a0 You see, when you borrow money from a financial institution, you not only have to pay that money back, but you also have to pay a significant amount of interest.\u00a0 In fact, often the interest ends up being much more than the principal of the loan.\u00a0 Thus the borrower ends up devoting a great deal of his or her labor to earning money for the lender.\u00a0 Certainly there are times when it is necessary to borrow money.\u00a0 But what Americans have been doing over the last 30 years goes far beyond “necessary” borrowing.\u00a0 In fact, the massive debt binge of the last three decades has been nothing short of a huge percentage of the American population entering into willing financial enslavement.<\/p>\n

Do you think that is an exaggeration?\u00a0 Just consider the chart below.\u00a0 The word “insanity” does not even begin to describe the growth of household credit in the United States over the last 30 years….<\/p>\n

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So why is debt so bad?<\/p>\n

Well, there are a lot of reasons.\u00a0 Debt strips you of your freedom and slowly drains you of your wealth.\u00a0 It puts the fruits of your labor into the pockets of others.<\/p>\n

Getting others enslaved by debt is how the most powerful financial institutions in the world got so dominant.\u00a0 It is one of the most profitable ways of making money ever invented.<\/p>\n

What many people don’t realize is just how much interest they end up paying on some of their debts.<\/p>\n

For example, if you go to mortgagecalculator.org<\/a>, you can calculate the amount of interest that you will pay over the life of your home mortgage.\u00a0 According to that calculator,\u00a0someone with a $250,000\u00a0mortgage at an interest rate of 6.5% over 30 years will end up paying over $300,000 in interest before it is all paid off.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

So when those 30 years are over, you have bought a house for yourself and you have also bought a house for the bankers.<\/p>\n

But there are many forms of credit that are far<\/strong> worse than mortgage debt.<\/p>\n

So what are they?<\/p>\n

Just look in your wallet.<\/p>\n

Do you have a credit card in there?<\/p>\n

If so, and if you carry a balance each month, then you are “feeding the monster” and you have financially enslaved yourself.<\/p>\n

But you are far from alone.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a><\/p>\n

According to the United States Census Bureau, there\u00a0are approximately 1.5 billion credit cards<\/a> in use in the United States.<\/p>\n

In fact, 78 percent of American households had\u00a0at least one\u00a0credit card<\/a> at the end of 2008.<\/p>\n

So it is a rare person who does not have at least one credit card.<\/p>\n

But not only do the vast majority of us have credit cards, we are using them at unprecedented rates.<\/p>\n

At the end of 2008,\u00a0the total\u00a0credit card debt\u00a0piled up by American consumers was\u00a0more than\u00a0972 billion dollars<\/a>.\u00a0 That is an amount that is\u00a0greater than the GDP of the world’s 122 poorest nations combined.<\/p>\n

So why is credit card debt bad?<\/p>\n

Well, because it can drain your wealth faster than almost any other method ever created.<\/p>\n

For example, according to the credit card repayment calculator<\/a>, if you owe $6000 on a credit card with a 20 percent interest rate and only pay the minimum payment each time, it will take you 54 years to pay off that credit card.<\/p>\n

During\u00a0those 54 years\u00a0you will pay $26,168 in interest rate charges in addition to the $6000 in principal that you are required to pay back.<\/p>\n

That is before you include any fees or penalties you might accumulate along the way.<\/p>\n

Are you starting to get the picture?<\/p>\n

Do you really want to repay over $30,000 for a $6,000 purchase?<\/p>\n

Of course not.<\/p>\n

So what should you do?<\/p>\n

Stop feeding the monster.<\/p>\n

They are getting insanely wealthy off of your financial enslavement.<\/p>\n

It is time to get out of debt.<\/p>\n

One of the most common financial questions that people ask today is what they should do with their money.<\/p>\n

Well, the answer to that question is a lot more obvious than people may think.<\/p>\n

After purchasing all of the food and supplies that are needed for the hard times that are coming, people need to get out of debt.<\/p>\n

There are very, very few investments that will add to your wealth faster than debt is draining it.<\/p>\n

So don’t let your money sit there and earn a couple of percentage points if you are carrying any debt that you can easily pay off.<\/p>\n

Paying off debt will reduce your living expenses and will give you much more flexibility.\u00a0 It will also put you in a much better position to weather the very difficult financial times that are coming.<\/p>\n

When you get into more debt, you are playing the game that the Federal Reserve, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, Bank of America and Goldman Sachs want you to play.\u00a0 There are always going to be financial predators that are ready to drain your wealth.<\/p>\n

But you don’t have to play that game.\u00a0 Work to get yourself free.\u00a0 You will be glad that you did.<\/p>\n

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