415 Comments on “Crisis” - Post your own?

Basil says

There is no money [substance],hasn’t been since 1933.
All there is your sig­na­ture and mine which cre­ates debt..
If you want to bring this cor­po­ra­tion [gov­ern­ment and cor­po­ra­tions] down than stop sign­ing your name to all these con­tracts like mort­gages and loans etc..
It would not be a very pleas­ant world to live in with­out all our toys, lux­ury houses and vehi­cles so maybe we should just keep on sign­ing our names. Gov­ern­ment and cor­po­ra­tions are total fic­tions and can­not pick up a pen and cre­ate debt only men and women can and did put ink on paper,so if you want to stop it go ahead, you are in charge.Stop com­plain­ing and pay your debts.

r4i says

Thanks dear, You are shar­ing most use­ful infor­ma­tion. Every one are famil­iar for that issue. They are doing that. No ques­tion is here. The ben­e­fits are more then one.

arely says

I don’t know what needs to get done but I doubt it’s print­ing more money, yet I’m not into this social­ism that we are being dri­ven into, all about it seems wrong, at least to me and I come from a coun­try that was taken over by com­mu­nism and when it started it sounded very much the same as this is sound­ing. I’m sorry if I hurt any­one but I believe we all have abil­i­ties, and to depend on gov­ern­ment to “bail us out” indi­vid­u­ally with it’s assis­tance is giv­ing power to an entity out­side of us there­fore mak­ing that entiy stronger and us weaker.

Pam says

Hi Burt
I just want to say that I believe that any gov­ern­men­tal sys­tem run­nung amuck as the one in Amer­ica has of late can­not be bailed out or even helped. It must be changed. The change must come from inside for it trans­mute, just as a sin­gle human being can only change their own mind or self. Con­glom­er­ate, one change domino’s into many. John-Joseph told us that when we see the beast (gov­ern­men­tal sys­tem) with one foot on the ground(all gov­ern­men­tal nations) and one foot in the sky (satelite sys­tems used by every national gov­ern­ment on this earth right now) that we would know that the end of the sys­tem was here. We know that the only change can come from all of us not giv­ing over our choices to some­one else to ful­fil or use. It can be done smoothly or not, that is the real choice: work together or work against each other. In my world, I would plan to cre­ate a work-together-governemt that works. I can know this sys­tem in my head but still not be able to uti­lize the infor­ma­tion in the outer world. It can be surely real­ized that some­one in the outer world would begin a plan that oth­ers might adopt and take on as their own. Our world is very large and com­mu­ni­ca­tion would be vital in the pro­cess­ing of such infor­ma­tion. Per­haps it’s already started.

A.de Graaff NL says

Dear Bur­ton,
You ones in class said:“Value is a belief”.
The amer­i­cans belief that you can go on credit for ever.
Every aver­age fam­ily in the US, mother, father, and twee kids has a total debt of half a mil­lion dol­lars. So what to belief now.

Best wishs,
Andy The Netherlands

Ron Reynolds UK says

Hi Burt
Just got round to watch­ing the video, yes we are in a mess but has it been man­u­fac­tured? No doubt you have heard of Abra­ham, in his words “Don’t dwell on it, move on”.

Best wishes
Ron in the UK.

Laura says

Your sug­ges­tion that you have some­thing to help us all cope with­out run­ning around like chick­ens with­out a head is really needed.

Crises have come and gone but the jerk knee response with­out first look­ing for long-range effects is based on fear and the fear mon­ger­ing that politi­cians and bankers have used to herd the peo­ple to behave a cer­tain way.

The cur­rent elec­tions are the same, a herd­ing of peo­ple based on emo­tional responses not on clear-headed com­mon sense approaches. Throw out all the bums in Wash­ing­ton, not just the cur­rent president…but everyone…lock stock and bar­rel. Start anew and if what the peo­ple want is not adhered to…then chuck out that group and start anew.

Kevin says

Hi Burt,

If you gen­uinely want to help peo­ple get through these trou­bled times like you say you do, why don’t you offer your Pros­per­ity Pro­gram Solu­tion to us as a FREE download?

Seems to me & many oth­ers that every time we go on the inter­net some­one is ALWAYS try­ing to SELL us something!!!!!!!

And once again, the ONLY peo­ple that ever ben­e­fit are the ones with money!

Kevin

B. Nutz says

Burt,

some­times I won­der how would we be if Al Gore had been elected in 2000.

Also, some­times I miss those times just before 2000.

But we have to move forward !

Regards,

B. Nutz

Lawrence says

This has all been pre­dicted!
You ain’t seen nothin’ yet!
GREED is the cause!
Here comes 2012!

todd saed says

Burt’s guru, Yogananda was in the dis­ci­plic suc­ces­sion from Baba­jii, as many of you SRF peo­ple know, Baba­jii is God as the evo­lu­tion­ary, Jesus as the rev­o­lu­tion­ary, the long term time line in Vedic thought is four hun­dred and twenty seven thou­sand years until the spir­i­tual age for all, it would seem it is time for Jesus, but we all are Jesus, and it is not yet appar­ent to me where the time line fits in for these times, but it is awe­some to read these replies , to kick back into the com­mu­nal col­lec­tive con­scious­ness again, and this kiss of bliss can­not now miss. Maybe the past , present and future are one and every­thing has already hap­pened, or we are all from the future and try­ing to save others,will be glad to hear what it is?

JERON HANSON says

THE BAILOUT & MORTGAGE FORCLOSURE
10-11-2008
Today peo­ple are los­ing their home in fore­clo­sure. The gov­ern­ment is “bail­ing out” the banks, but the banks are not stop­ping their fore­clo­sure of the homes of mid­dle class white Amer­i­cans. What is the solu­tion to this prob­lem? Is the solu­tion the bail­ing out the banks that keep on fore­clos­ing on the aver­age mid­dle class Amer­i­can?
What should Con­gress do? What can a gov­er­nor do, as in the State of Michi­gan? What steps should the U.S. Fed­eral gov­ern­ment take to solve the prob­lem and sta­bi­lize the mort­gage busi­ness?
First let’s get an overview of the sub­ject and get the per­spec­tive right.
The Job of our gov­ern­ment lead­ers is stated in the Pre­am­ble of the Con­sti­tu­tion. It is as fol­lows:
“We the Peo­ple of the United States, in Order to form a more per­fect Union, estab­lish Jus­tice, insure domes­tic Tran­quil­ity, pro­vide for the com­mon defense, pro­mote the gen­eral Wel­fare, and secure the Bless­ings of Lib­erty to our­selves and our Pos­ter­ity, do ordain and estab­lish this Con­sti­tu­tion for the United States of Amer­ica.”
“Estab­lish Jus­tice”. It’s just another word for “FAIRNESS”. Con­gress is doing the “Bank Bailout” It’s not a bailout, it’s a fan­tas­tic reward for incom­pe­tence and greed of the “bank­ing indus­try”. To be “fair and just” about it lets bail out every­body. As it cur­rently stands the banks con­tinue to fore­close on bor­row­ers. This is cer­tainly Unjust! Banks and the gov­ern­ment switch the blame to the bor­row­ers because they wanted to fol­low the Amer­i­can dream and own their own home. Own­ing your own home is good. The banks haven’t said and Con­gress hasn’t said, at least from what I’ve heard that they are going to pass the “bailout” money down to the borrowers.

“Insure Domes­tic Tran­quil­ity”…
There has been much crim­i­nal­ity in the bank­ing busi­ness. Fines, penal­ties, and prison terms should be dealt out for break­ing the law, and in cer­tain cases, ban­ning them from any par­tic­i­pa­tion in finan­cial affairs of any kind in any busi­ness should be forth­com­ing.
They will not do that unless they are forced to do it by gov­ern­ment man­date. They have proven that they are very greedy, heart­less peo­ple. The “fruit” of their doing has been and is evil. Con­gress is not doing its job and is crim­i­nal in its neg­li­gence of its affairs.
That man­date needs to come imme­di­ately and it should be retroac­tive. The thou­sands or maybe hun­dreds of thou­sands of fam­i­lies who have lost their homes should be given their homes back or com­pen­sated for them pro­por­tion­ately to their inter­est in those homes.
Adjustable Rate Mort­gages (ARM) should be set aside and out­lawed. They have been a delib­er­ate trap to take from peo­ple what is right­fully theirs. They are so UNFAIR, so UNJUST !!!!! It is ruin­ing fam­i­lies and destroy­ing lives. This should be set aside retroac­tively going back to the begin­ning of them. These ARM’s should never have been allowed in the first place.
All fore­clo­sures should be stopped and a memo­riam put on them. This would give us valu­able time to come up with a good solu­tion. This would pro­mote the “Insure Domes­tic Tran­quil­ity” that the Pre­am­ble calls for. Not doing the above destroys and does not “Insure Domes­tic Tran­quil­ity”, as pro­vided for in the Pre­am­ble.
“Pro­vide For The Com­mon Defense”.
If we woke up this morn­ing and saw the head­lines of our news­pa­per that read,
“For­eign Mil­i­tary Forces Overnight Cap­tured Boston and Forced 100,000 Fam­i­lies OUT OF THEIR HOMES and Into Frigid Win­ter Cold”
Would the Pres­i­dent and Con­gress do noth­ing? Would they give a DAMN? Would they do the insane thing and come to the aid of the invad­ing forces and help them get the peo­ple out of their homes? How unthink­able!
You would think they would muster the armed forces and come to the defense of the cit­i­zens who were suf­fer­ing? Well folks, it isn’t hap­pen­ing! Where is Con­gress? Where is the Pres­i­dent? Where is the Mil­i­tary? Where are the Gov­er­nors? Where are the State Rep­re­sen­ta­tives and Del­e­gates? Where are the May­ors? Where is the National Guard? Where are the State Police? Where are the Sherriff’s? Where is the Mili­tia? Don’t allow FORECLOSURES. Don’t enforce them.
Doesn’t some­one in author­ity give a DAMN! If you have any of the above offices, Don’t you give a DAMN?
Isn’t what the Pres­i­dent, Con­gress and our State gov­ern­ments doing, is aid­ing the Bankers and allow­ing them to “invade” our coun­try from within, steal our homes and treat us worse than an invad­ing enemy? Our “Friendly Bankers” are not our friends. They by their actions and deeds have become our enemy. They need to be fought and defeated.
“Pro­mote The Gen­eral Wel­fare”. The Pres­i­dent and Con­gress in ONE act could turn this coun­try around. What is that one act?
DESTROY THE “FEDERAL” RESERVE, which is not a part of the Fed­eral Gov­ern­ment, AND PUT A HORRENDOUS TAX ON IT’S OWNERS, SIEZING ALL OF THEIR ILL GOTTON GAINS!
Think of it. Con­gress could pass leg­is­la­tion to get rid of the Fed­eral Reserve, then dress up in Rev­o­lu­tion­ary War Cos­tumes, march down to the Fed­eral Reserve Build­ing, and declare “The Fed” defeated.
They could then declare it a “National Hol­i­day. They could call the,
“NO-FED DAY”
This is very seri­ous. The Fed­eral Reserve Sys­tem and its con­tin­ual Rape of the United States Gov­ern­ment and Peo­ple is about to bring this coun­try down. We hon­estly don’t have a lot of time left to pussy-foot around. Action needs to be taken and taken NOW, before it is too late. Get it Right and Act NOW!

Below is quoted part of the “Dec­la­ra­tion of Inde­pen­dence”. Note the por­tions under­lined.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are cre­ated equal, that they are endowed by their Cre­ator with cer­tain unalien­able Rights, that among these are Life, Lib­erty and the pur­suit of Hap­pi­ness. That to secure these rights, Gov­ern­ments are insti­tuted among Men, deriv­ing their just Pow­ers from the con­sent of the gov­erned, — That when­ever any Form of Gov­ern­ment becomes destruc­tive of these ends, it is the Right of the Peo­ple to alter or to abol­ish it, and to insti­tute new Gov­ern­ment, lay­ing its foun­da­tion on such prin­ci­ples and orga­niz­ing its pow­ers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Hap­pi­ness. Pru­dence, indeed, will dic­tate that Gov­ern­ments long estab­lished should not be changed for light and tran­sient causes; and accord­ingly all expe­ri­ence hath shewn, that mankind are more dis­posed to suf­fer, while evils are suf­fer­able, than to right them­selves by abol­ish­ing the forms to which they are accus­tomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpa­tions, pur­su­ing invari­ably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despo­tism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Gov­ern­ment, and to pro­vide new guards for their future secu­rity — Such has been the patient suf­fer­ance of these Colonies; and such is now the neces­sity which con­strains them to alter their for­mer Sys­tems of Gov­ern­ment. — The his­tory of the present King of Great Britain is a his­tory of repeated injuries and usurpa­tions, all hav­ing in direct object the estab­lish­ment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let facts be sub­mit­ted to a can­did world.”

Con­gress and the Pres­i­dent, do your job. I FEAR for the future of this coun­try — It very sur­vival. Mil­lions of lives are in the bal­ance. You have set us up for great inter­nal strife with your open bor­ders, ter­ri­ble tax­ing struc­tures, with let­ting evil peo­ple rise to great posi­tions of author­ity and wealth, with our unright­eous for­eign poli­cies that are going to bring war from out­side and inside this won­der­ful coun­try. Be faith­ful to the Con­sti­tu­tion of the United States. Change Now. Act Now. Think of us, and your chil­dren and my chil­dren, your grand chil­dren and my grand chil­dren………..
The above mes­sage applies more to the cur­rent state of our gov­ern­ment than to the King of Great Britain to whom it was writ­ten. It’s a warn­ing to our lead­ers. Please lis­ten to its indict­ment of you. You’re wreck­ing our coun­try and our free­dom. Face your respon­si­bil­ity, be account­able. It’s not the lob­by­ist fault. You are respon­si­ble. Have the tes­ti­cle for­ti­tude to do the right thing. Just do it!
Sin­cerely,
Jeron C. Han­son,
Cit­i­zen of The United States of Amer­ica
PS. – I’d like your com­ments. Thank you kindly.
jeronhanson@earthlink.net

marilyn says

Hi from Scot­land.
Charles Dick­ens said some­thing which is per­ti­nent to this cri­sis.
Annual income £20.0.0. Annual expen­di­ture £19.19.06 result hap­pi­ness
Annual income £20.0.0. Annual expen­di­ture £20.0.06 result mis­ery.
What­ever cur­rency you change the above to the mes­sage is the same.
Do we never learn?

Marc DeTomaso says

Greet­ings Burt.
This “Cri­sis” is as sev­eral sub­scribers have pointed out, is the result of greedy peo­ple manip­u­lat­ing the reg­u­la­tions of the bank­ing indus­try from inside the gov­ern­ment. Thanks George! But they’re not done yet. There is and has been a con­certed effort to dis­man­tle the reg­u­la­tory aspect of gov­ern­ment for over thirty years,facilitated by the GOP, for the desired result of elim­i­nat­ing the bar­ri­ers to greater prof­its. This is a real­ity the sooner we come to terms with, the sooner we can immu­nize our­selves to it.
In the­ory and for much of our lives, Gov­ern­ment has func­tioned in behalf of it’s cit­i­zens. The repub­li­cans would have us believe that it just fos­ters depen­dancy and help­less­ness, with an obso­lete pur­pose in mod­ern life. That with a strong self reliant social structure,people could and would han­dle their own affairs, and busi­ness could then with gov­ern­ment out of the way, be left to flour­ish.
So they will con­tinue to pro­fess virtue while play­ing to our fears and pri­mal, ego cen­tered consciousness,until we are so con­fused and dis­ap­pointed by an inne­fec­tive con­gressthat we all say “It’s just not worth it” and fall for the ratio­nal.
Well in my hum­ble opin­ion there is a cer­tain ammount of mer­rit to this line of rea­son­ing, though I believe an Amer­ica exists that uses the struc­ture of gov­ern­ment to fur­ther the self reliance and pro­duc­tiv­ity of all amer­i­cans in a fair and equi­table way.
There is enough for every­one, there needn’t be suf­fer­ing along the way, and there is a way to cre­ate a safer and more secure world for our­selves through self reliance. So if you’re wait­ing for them to play fair, you’re kid­ding your­self. They wont! I believe in the good inten­tions of Barack Obama, and have worked my heart out to get him elected, but the best change comes from within!
Please go to my space.com/Marc DeTomaso to hear “Hur­ri­cane George” and “Change We Can Believe In“
Namaste

Mike Renz says

Hi Burt
If only 2% of the peo­ple who are affected by this see this prob­lem in there minds as already resolved to the high­est good for all it would go away overnight. Let us all use the power of though that god gave us. God bless all

Samuel says

Burt,

The ptw (pow­ers that be) preach scarcity and poverty by try­ing to con­trol every facet of our lives. At the fore­front of this con­trol is money (or what we per­ceive to be money). But, col­lec­tively we can change our present sit­u­a­tion for the better.

The con­trol we have through releas­ing impov­er­ished, neg­a­tive feel­ings will cause only pos­i­tive, wealth cre­at­ing thoughts to pen­e­trate and fil­ter into our daily lives. And as we know, as a man thin­keth, so is he.

Don’t let their leaven of greed and fear affect us who uncon­sciously no they have no power over us. Doubt is a stum­bling block, but faith will clear the path. Abun­dance is for the believ­ers, not the doubters.

Many bless­ings from Him,
Samuel

Steve says

this whole sit­u­a­tion brings me down…I trust you Burt…

Lisseth says

Hi Burt
I have 2 quotes for you.…

“Be believ­ing, be happy, don’t get dis­cour­aged. Things will work out.“
— Gor­don B. Hinckley

“We can let cir­cum­stances rule us, or we can
take charge and rule our lives from within.“
— Earl Nightingale

Lis­seth

todd saed says

Calderi, please excuse the harsh sound­ing com­ments, a bit out of place in this sea of love , but it is a seri­ous mat­ter that deserves thought, can McCain be allowed to pur­sue the same poli­cies that brought the reces­sion, war mak­ing, that killed , cor­rec­tion , two mil­lion Viet Nam inno­cent civil­ians, and one mil­lion Viet Nam free­dom fight­ers, defend­ing their coun­try. If you think so , love will con­tinue to be the only real­ity any­way, though at my age I pre­fer fan­tasy, and you will be free of all this with us soon enough, either way. To all the oth­ers heart felt thanks, I actu­ally feel saved.

Titomo says

Dr. Gold­man. Psy­cho­log­i­cal effect look to be the main prob­lem. 1929’s “New Deal” had coop­er­a­tion from all pub­lic speak­ers of the USA, as well some mea­sures adopted by G-men. Noth­ing to worry, I sup­pose. Actual cri­sis do not need to affect any­one, except per­sonal atti­tude. Let’s go to Alpha and let the finan­cial world on its own pathway.

hannah says

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=6131154665092759915&hl=en

Watch the video and then ask your­self, what the hell is your coun­try doing

Marion says

Hello Burt,

I do not like the fact that ‘my free will’ has been taken away by these greedy bureaucrats.

What­ever you decide to do I will join because it is for the bet­ter­ment of us all and planet earth.

Regards,
Marion

todd saed says

Calderil, sorry you did not take the time to read
what the other inspir­ing com­men­ta­tors wrote here,
any­one who did would not believe a word you say, MCPain
is a lost cause, fake hero who mur­dered inno­cent civil­ians in Viet Nam, three mil­lion killed there, wake up and smell the napalm.

Roger says

The prob­lem was cre­ated by the Fed and the USA was sab­o­taged from the inside in 1913 when this mon­ster was cre­ated. Paper cur­ren­cies have failed through­out his­tory. The US dol­lar has lost approx­i­mately 97% of its pur­chas­ing power since 1913. This is the hid­den tax of infla­tion. Con­gress­man Ron Paul has been the only politi­cian to acknowl­edge this and actively state that the Fed must be abol­ished. To para­phrase Baron Roth­schild, who more or less gave this false sys­tem legit­i­macy in Europe and thus bank­rupted Eng­land and Europe, “I care not who makes the laws as long as I am in charge of the cre­ation of money.” Obvi­ously if you are in charge of the money sup­ply through fiat cur­rency ( debt oblig­a­tions) you can con­trol every aspect of busi­ness and pol­i­tics. This is what has hap­pened in the US and most of the world. A few pow­er­ful men who con­trol the bank­ing sys­tem have delib­er­ately, with mal­ice, impov­er­ished the peo­ple of the world.
We have a great oppor­tu­nity at this his­tor­i­cal junc­ture to take back con­trol of money and our lives. Money must be based on some­thing of value such as gold or sil­ver that can­not be eas­ily man­u­fac­tured and is eas­ily divis­i­ble as well as durable. The era of paper money is over. Hope­fully, peo­ple will not be fool­ish enough to lis­ten to the vacant threats of col­lapse offered by the bankers to sub­orn them into accept­ing another sys­tem based on worth­less paper and dig­i­tal entries in com­put­ers. Stop work, demand real money and change the world.

Lynnette says

It is very inter­est­ing to read all of your replies and very enlight­en­ing. It seems that there are so many of us who really want things to be beyond this money hunger and self cen­tred­ness that is preva­lent. Join­ing our voices spir­i­tu­ally is cer­tainly chang­ing the energy lev­els. Now is all we have and now is the time when we need to have made the choice to believe in self and know that we can make the changes come about. These things had to occur and if we deny this then what are we try­ing to do to our­selves. It is for our ben­e­fit that these things hap­pen. The energy we have sent out is only com­ing back to us. We are never given the prob­lems with­out the solu­tions. Learn­ing solu­tions is the aim and some­times in our denials we have pain. Why do we do it to our­selves this denial? Remem­ber we are not all enlight­ened into the sacred­ness of who we are. We are all each and every one of us here for a rea­son. The rea­son is love no mat­ter what is thrown at us by our­selves. Love is the answer pure and sim­ple. Love where we are at this time, believe in self and send love to the ones who you feel least deserve it but in real­ity need it the most. We who are aware have empa­thy for those who make other choices than to share in our very spir­i­tual belong­ing. We are part of a plan. We do not always see the big pic­ture and we close our­selves to the very abun­dance that is ours here and now. Are we so accus­tomed these days to the throw­ing out of so many things pre­vi­ous gen­er­a­tions made do with that we can no longer see that all that we NEED (not would like)is pro­vided for. Be grate­ful for all we do have because in some coun­tries they do not have what we as a nation throw away. Be grate­ful please. Burt is doing a won­der­ful job here in being able to bring us together so we can show our appre­ci­a­tion for this very unique time in which we live. We chose to be here, no-one forced us it was our choice. So let us live in love and show the world what it is all about. Thank you Burt.
Love and light my fel­low co-workers.
Lynnette

Moazzam Husain says

Hi Burt,
I live in Bangladesh. I think that the Global Finan­cial sit­u­a­tion will improve quickly, how­ever I feel that it will ‘get worse before it gets bet­ter’. This is not just affect­ing the US now but it has become worldwide.

It is worrying,and I agree that a depres­sion is sure to come. This sit­u­a­tion did not come about overnight and the solu­tion will not come that way either(overnight that is) I feel that it is going to take a long time before things improve.

I still hope that sit­u­a­tion will improve. Lets hope and pray.

Best Regards
Moazzam

peter says

Money is the root of all evil??? No… lis­ten people…it never was and never will be.…it’s PEOPLES LOVE OF MONEY THAT’S THE ROOT…AS IN GREED!!!!! So before look­ing around for peo­ple to blame try to get a fix on yourself…when is enough enough for you? When will you be sat­is­fied with what you have? HC Ander­sen wrote a story many years ago about an emperor with­out clothes…everyone saw he was naked but denied it to be able to stay on “the gravy train” and peo­ple are still clos­ing their eyes all around the world to greed.….and greed never worked in the long run…and never will…because greed is the root of oppression…war.…whatever evil you can think of…drugs…tobacco…alcohol…but it’s up to you to make a deci­sion about your life …your way of thinking.…because every change in your world always starts from inside your­self and for sure there’s an alter­na­tive way to look at this so called cri­sis and some peo­ple will see this as a pos­si­bil­ity to change the course of our lives…and some will for sure see the pos­si­bil­ity to push it deeper to get to make a lot of money out of…war?.…People…every jour­ney starts with one small step..and it’s always you that has to make it…

Kathy says

Dear Burt,

You brought up a sub­ject that is on everyone’s mind. Just a lit­tle Amer­i­can his­tory (I’m a stu­dent tak­ing it in col­lege). The only peo­ple who set­tled here with­out debt were the Native Amer­i­cans who made the trek across the Bering Straight some time between 15,000 and 10,000 years ago. They set­tled from Alaska all the way down South Amer­ica. They had great civ­i­liza­tions and did won­der­ful works.

When the peo­ple from Europe started com­ing here (the Vikings about 1,000 AD) They almost all came here in debt. Most of our immi­grant her­itage? Bor­rowed the money to make the trip. The Rev­o­lu­tion was fought with a lot of bor­rowed money. The Con­sti­tu­tion was writ­ten, not for the peo­ple but because the wealthy were los­ing money. Every man at the Con­sti­tu­tional Con­ven­tion was wealthy. This was a require­ment of the Colonies that no man could rep­re­sent them in thier gov­ern­ing bod­ies with­out cer­tain finan­cial resources.

The Con­sti­tu­tion is a finan­cial doc­u­ment with the main pur­pose of pro­tect­ing the wealthy peo­ples for­tune. It was doomed from its onset. No big sur­prize. Greed and a total lack of morals along with no guilt or con­cern for others.

The only way I can see to cor­rect this trav­esty is for all of us in the masses to come together and reestab­lish the good things in life. Things like Love (not sex), peace, patience, kind­ness, good­ness, faith, mild­ness, self-control, and gen­eros­ity. Not one of these or the oth­ers that go along with them have to do with “money”.

The time is soon com­ing that we will have to pick the side we want to fight for. Per­son­ally I want to be on your side. We need to join together and we need each other.

Much Love,

Kathy

Carlos says

Last time I wrote in Span­ish.
I could not find it this time in the col­umn.
I may say some­thing a bit dif­fer­ent but I think if we put so much atten­tion to this mat­ter, we are just invit­ing the sit­u­a­tion into our expe­ri­ences.
The law of attrac­tion is uni­ver­sal and being so resent­full will only bring bad to all.
We need to be united in the thought that every­thing will be fine and we, the ones spir­i­tu­aly sen­si­tive, will not suf­fer the effects of evil and cor­rup­tion that are being men­tioned in this col­umn.
I am writ­ing and as I write I will walk away from it.
My faith is clear and I will not par­tic­i­pate in an answer to a wrong thing. I will have my expe­ri­ence and I will be complete.

Best to all.

Tom Steele says

I wish the Gov­ern­ment would bail me out like they did Wall Street.

Seems that every­time Wall Street gets into trou­ble the U.S. Gov­ern­ment steps right in. BUT let their cit­i­zens get into trou­ble and we’re all on our own.

And We Elect These People???

Thank God it’s an elec­tion year

Bev Krause says

I think amer­ica is scared, I know I am for all of us. The choices for Pres­i­dent is not good at all. It seems like we are doomed either way we go. What lit­tle money and free­dom we have had is all but over.

Bev

Mary Rouzer says

We should be out­raged at the con­tin­u­a­tion of rip­ping off the tax­pay­ers and not over­see­ing how the bail out money is being used. A $400,000 paid jun­ket for employ­ees of AIG right after receiv­ing money is a trav­esty. Don’t you sus­pect that Bush and friends are just try­ing to make the finan­cial mar­kets and bank­ing part of the One World Order. We must protest and even take to the streets on these mat­ters. I am wait­ing until the elec­tions are over and if the Repub­li­cans steal another elec­tion like they did 8 years ago I think it is time to protest. Wish I had demon­strated 8 years ago but it bet­ter late than never.

Barry Annesley says

The greed of a few has brought tur­moil to the fam­ilys of many. Unfor­tu­natly greed will always be apart of our world. How­ever we must remain pos­i­tive, ride the storm and above all be the best we can be.

Phung says

This bail-out plan will only move the prob­lem to some­where else. Change can only come from the peo­ple of Main­street by chang­ing they way we live. If peo­ple are buy­ing only to sell, then this could only result in infla­tion and unaf­ford­able homes. And then those that buy things out of their means can’t repay loans fast enough. There are too many expenses that we as Amer­i­cans have to deal with any ways for those that are not pay­ing mort­gages.
I know for sure that there are no quick fixes or solu­tions. I deeply believe that the only change that occur in order for the econ­omy to sur­vive is cul­tural changes at all lev­els of soci­ety. At the moment, most of every­one in the US is liv­ing in excess. We all give into our desires too hastily with­out think­ing and con­se­quently feed­ing our insa­tiable appetite for unessen­tial things.
I’m not try­ing to say that every­one is the prob­lem but I’m say­ing that we can­not rely on just the con­gress to fix things…we are the solu­tion.
Anyhoo…The bail-out money should have been used to fix the foun­da­tions of edu­ca­tion and health care. Long-term goals are all we have left. With­out health and knowl­edge, how can we ever see light?

Richard says

Sadly a lot of peo­ple got greedy. and other “organ­i­sa­tions have been at it as well!!

This cri­sis has been pre­dicted for some time!!!

Its time that the world joined together and shared resources.

Todd Kinden says

All i can say is com­plete IGNORANCE ( the amer­i­can way ). Proudly Cana­dian.
T

Robindra says

Focus on what one wishes to be, not what one wishes to get rid of, for the ener­gyz we put in is what will be manifested

Calderil says

((( AND,I WOULD TAKE THE WHOLE PAGES!! IF I SPEAK ABOUT AYERS!!! I CAN NOT UNDERSTAND, HOW A UNIVERSITY!!!
HAS SUCH A MAN TO TEACH!!!!!! BEYOND ME!!! )))) ?!?!?
UNREPENTED!!!!

WHAT DO YOU GUYS THINKKKK!!!!??????

Calderil says

I beleive, OBAMA, speaks with a charis­matic tone, just the same as other lead­ers that lead the masses into a deep hole, CAs­tro, in Cuba, and eve HITLER!
I DO NOT GO FOR THAT!! AT ALL.

HE IS PART OF THE GANG THAT ACCOMODATED THESE VENTURES!
HE EVEN GOT MONEY! FOR GOD’S SAKE FROM MORTGAGE DESGRACES OF USA FAMILIES!!!

I AM VOTING FOR A MAN WHO IS ‘BETTER’ AND A WOMAN WHO IS NOT CORRUPTED AS TO GRAB MONEY FROM UNDER THE TABLE!

LOOK , READ ABOUT ACORN!! ACORN!!!!!
OBAMA IS PART OF THAT ALSO!!
THEY WERE GETTING HOMELESS TO SIGN UP, AND MANY OF THE PEOPLE WORKING FOR ACORN HAVE COME ON PROBATION, OUT OF JAILS! FOR IDENTITY THEFT!!!!!!??????

BE REAL THOSE WHO DON’TCARE TO READ, PLEASE,DOOOO!!!
INFORM YOURSELF BEFORE YOU MAKE US INTO A DEPPER MESSSSSS~!!!!

ONE MORETHING:

FARRAKAN, IS A GOOD LEADER ALSO, THEY LISTEN TO HIM. AND I WANT TO KNOW ATLEAST A LITTLE ABOUT THESE MINDS.
I LISTEN WHEN HE HAD THE ONE MILLION MEN MARCH INTO WASHINGTON, AND NEXT TO HIM I SAW MANY FAMILIAR FACES,JUST LIKE JESSY JACKSON, WHO EATS AND LIVES OFF THE MEMORY OF HIM WALKING NEXT TO DOCTOR MARTIN LUTHER KING, A MAN OF FAITH. THIS IS A LEACH!!! AND FARRAKAN, AT THE END OF HIS MESSAGESAID:
THIS TIME, I SAID ONE MILLION OF MEN WOULD COME, AND THREE CAME!!! ( OVATION ) AND THEN, HE SAID:
THE NEXT TIME I SAY THERE WILL BE THE FIVE MILLION MEN MARCH, AND THEY WILL COME ARMED!!!!!

((((( IS PROBABLY YOU CAN LOOK IT UP!!))))) I DO REMEMBER THAT VIVIDLY!!! BECAUSE, I KNOW, MEN THAT HOLD THE POWER OF CONVICTION OVER MASSES, AT THE END ARE MAKIG A BIGGER MESS!!

BUSH, IS A NERD,SORRY„„ WITH ALL R3SPECT.… BUT
MAC CAIN IS ANOTHER MAN, AND FROM THE BAD AND THE WORST,I CHOOSE THE BEST.…

AFTER ALL, TWO YEARS AGO, TWOOOOO YEARS AGO, HE DID STA ND AND SPOKE ABOUT WHAT WAS COMING!!!!!
HE DID NOT MAKE ANY MONEY OF PEOPLE LOOSING HOMES AND HE DID NOT CONTRIBUTED ANY MONEY!! TO ANOTHER ACORN~!!!!!!! AND HE COMES FROM A STABLISHED FAMILY THAT BELEIVES IN OUR COUNTRY, THE OLD MEN OF HONOR AND BATTLE!!!! AND WILL NEGOTIATE!!««<—- BECAUSE HE KNOWSSSSSS WHAT IS A WAR!!!!
I WANT A PRESIDENT WITH BALLS!!!! AND A GOOD HEAD.…

WHEN, REGAN LEFT, I THOUGHT BUSH FATHER WAS GOING TO BE LIKE REGAN, AFTER ALL, THEY WERE TOGETHER,AND BUSH FATHER WAS NOOOTHING LIKE REAGAN!!!!!
HE ALSO WILLNOT BE ANOTHER BUSH, I KNOW.….

I RATHER ALSO RELY ON AMAN WHO DOES NOT HAVE AN IDENTITY DISORDER, OR DRUGS RECORD, LIKE BUSH!
AND THAT HAS MORE EXPERIENCE. IS THIS WHAT YOU WANTED TO KNOW FROM ME?

TELL ME IN WHAT I AM WRONG
I WILL READ YOU~

THANKSS FOR ALL YOU WRITE AND SEND ME

I.C.

Gilbert says

Our Friend Burt: Thanks for all the good infor­ma­tion you pass on to us — edu­ca­tional, infor­ma­tive, inter­est­ing and inspir­ing. I’m sure we don’t know all the facts because the politi­cians make sure of that. But from what we’ve been told or from what has leaked out, is enough for us to ques­tion what’s behind all of this. The first bill intro­duced by the Trea­sury Sec­re­tary was for us to give him a blank check to do as he wished with noques­tions asked and no over­sight. We haven’t been given the details of the mod­i­fied bill that was passed. No men­tion of any con­gres­sional hear­ings planned that could lead to pros­e­cu­tion and sen­tenc­ing of those respon­si­ble for the finan­cial cri­sis. Instead, we here of AIG exec­u­tives spend­ing (half a mil­lion?) for a vaca­tion after get­ting the bailout.

Sunny says

It really touched me to read all the won­der­ful respons on the video.
All I can say, go on and thank you for all you already did for a lot of peo­ple.
I am from the Nether­lands and I have also joined the peace inten­tion exper­i­ment from Lynne Mc Tag­gert.
We need peo­ple to make it happen.

M. Lewis says

Greet­ings to All
I guess this is the time to now Pull from what the Amer­i­can Monk has taught. I’m hop­ing that you didn’t think all that teach­ing was just for you, it was never about an indi­vid­ual, it has always been about Mankind and the Uni­verse as a whole. Unselfishly for­get about what you’ve lost but enjoy whats impor­tant. It’s from the inside out, not the out­side in. Maybe we all will have a con­sid­er­ably amount of com­pas­sion for the Poor and when this con­cludes we will focus on giv­ing back, and stay­ing away from arro­gance and judge­ment.
Peace

Carlos Habet says

Dear Burt I am a Belizean and even though I am not being hrt finan­ciaally I still look at this col­lapse of US econ­omy as seri­ous as the US touches every part of the world. But I think a lot of fin­ger­point­ing can be done In my opin­ion the blame can be put on some of the fol­low­ing
1 The finan­cial reg­u­la­tors of the FEDERAL did not do their job abd should be fired from top to bot­tom.
2. The CEO of this failed insti­tu­tion who col­lected mil­lions of dol­lars in salary and bonused should be inves­ti­gated and ask them to return the money.
3 The audit­ing firms that auduted the­ses cop­pa­nies and cer­ti­fied that every­th­n­ing was fine should be ques­tioned I could men­tion more but will stop here for now
Car­los Habet Belize

Florence says

What­ever form of cri­sis that sur­face is only man­i­fes­ta­tion of our past thoughts. Every­thing is Just As It is. And I am grate­ful. The focus NOW is on cor­rect­ing & puri­fy­ing our thoughts to man­i­fest love.
And it begins with me.….…..for I take account­abil­ity as part of the col­lec­tive con­scious­ness for the cri­sis hap­pen­ing in the world.

Flo­rence,
Malaysia

Myrle says

This is not for the aver­age tax payer, and under no cicum­stances helps the poor/less for­tu­nate. I have yet to under­stand who was mind­ing the store. How did they get in so deep. Who is help­ing those of us who’s homes have gone into for­clo­sure, with out an oppor­tu­nity to recover, by low­er­ing the mort­gage pay­ments and inter­est rates on the mort­gage and extend­ing the life of the loan.
This bailout is just an oppor­tu­nity for them to pay­out their bonuses for the year and cater to their out­landish lifestyles.

John Delta says

Burt is quite cor­rect regard­ing col­lec­tive con­scious­ness and its effect on our phys­i­cal reality.

The root cause of this cur­rent sit­u­a­tion was delib­er­ate manip­u­la­tion of pub­lic con­scious­ness using pow­er­ful meth­ods cre­ated at major U.S. uni­ver­si­ties by “bought” pro­fes­sors. “Phil­an­thropists” pro­vided the nec­es­sary fund­ing for the clas­si­fied psy­chol­ogy projects. I saw the inher­ent flaws in their logic and how the fool­ish project would lead to ulti­mate dis­as­ter, and refused to be recruited into the project dur­ing a 1993 meet­ing at a major Cal­i­for­nia uni­ver­sity with a dozen bought pro­fes­sors and the attend­ing “philanthropist”.

My sub­se­quent efforts to warn the pub­lic of the insane project earned me a place on a “hit list”. The rea­son I have sur­vived the numer­ous assas­si­na­tion attempts is appli­ca­tion of con­scious­ness to repair the many injuries and poi­son­ings. An Indian Shaman, a Pen­ta­gon Gen­eral and a retired exec­u­tive from the infa­mous “Skunkworks” (stealth bombers and Star Wars weapons) joined my cru­sade and quickly died under mys­te­ri­ous cir­cum­stances. Since their deaths, other poten­tial cru­saders will­ing to help derail the “Con­trol Pro­gram” received vis­its and threats and quickly lost interest.

The “Con­trol Pro­gram” is con­sid­ered even more impor­tant now by its cre­ators as it is applied to fix­ing the same prob­lems that it helped cre­ate. Peo­ple around the world have won­dered why the Amer­i­can pub­lic blindly went along with the schemes and plots that led to this cur­rent crisis.

I funded my cru­sade through money raised from my var­i­ous inven­tions. Recently, my three, pend­ing inter­na­tional patents were “hijacked” and I was poi­soned with chem­i­cal com­pounds that induced very rare forms of can­cer which are not nor­mally dis­cov­ered until it is too late. Foren­sic analy­sis con­firmed the poi­son­ing. A friend who has helped finance removal of the poi­sons from my body was recently threat­ened with arrest and worse.

Unless the Amer­i­can Pub­lic sud­denly awak­ens from its delib­er­ately induced coma, the worst is yet to come.

Action by your group to help shift con­scious­ness is absolutely essen­tial. The world needs to com­pre­hend the “Con­trol Pro­gram” that allowed the insane finan­cial pro­grams to flour­ish and even now attempts to manip­u­late the dis­as­trous aftermath.

is behind this cri­sis and oth­ers not “under con­trol” need to visualize

Dawn says

Hello Again!
Some­one wrote that there are not many CANADIANS con­cerned about the ‘cri­sis’. My com­ment is Oct 10 at 5:37pm. I am CANADIAN, I just didn’t men­tion that in my let­ter. I con­sider myself to be con­nected to my broth­ers and sis­ters every­where on this earth. My love and con­cern for my fam­ily has no bor­ders. I am involved! I care. What affects you affects me. I join forces with all of you in RAISING OUR CONSCIOUSNESS. Many Cana­dian peo­ple are con­cerned along with me too. HOPE will UNIFY US AND MAKE US STRONG!!! TOGETHER WE CAN DO IT.

Brian says

Money is only a sym­bol and truth is real !

I can assure you a dol­lar will never defined my worth !

Namaste

Brian

unni Lukashuk says

Hi Burt,thank you for the info.I am so aware of the cor­rup­tion we live with, but it will soon be over,Look up Blos­som Goodchild,you must know of her?If this does not come about we are in deep trouble,more then ever,One world order,oh how evil, but true and peo­ple need to send love and white light to the world, instead of liv­ing in fear,it is what will heal our planet.I live in Canada and feel blessed to be here but the mad­ness will be felt all over the world unless the light­ship comes tomor­row Oct.14th,Lets all pray that it does come.Love and light to all . unni

gobalakrishnan says

Dear Burt,
To my knowledge,financial cri­sis always hap­pened in every 10 yrs.Previosly it take longer time to recover, in 19th cen­tury it take about 6 to 7 years but it reduced to 3 to 4 years to recover in early 2000. Now i think it will take a few months to recover so don’t be worry. ” Mar­ket Always recover, Recov­ery Period is SHORTER.I see this, as oppor­tu­nity for me to get more sales,and with your won­der­ful MINDBOX pro­gram that i am going thru now i feel bet­ter and better.I take this oppor­tu­nity to thank you.You are my won­der­ful GURU.

Terry K. says

Our Gov­ern­ment has not been for the peo­ple or by the peo­ple for many, many, years now. The last time in my gen­er­a­tion I can remem­ber a Pres­i­dent truly for good change was John F. Kennedy, and we all know what hap­pened to him. The finan­cial “bailout,” As it was termed, cer­tainly did not help the peo­ple whom lost or are los­ing their homes. There is no sup­port for American’s with our gov­ern­ment, and It’s high time we get this real­ity very clearly. Retire­ment funds are another issue, where peo­ple aren’t going to have that option, not to men­tion social secu­rity or medicare sys­tems into the future. I believe each one of us as indi­vid­u­als must take our own con­cerns back into our own hands. This can begin on our home fronts, and expand out into the global effect. We do hold power in num­bers as the peo­ple of the world. We might be want­ing to appeal con­gress and the sys­tem in Wash­ing­ton for amend Fed­eral Income Tax, in this case, as why are we all pay­ing 30 to 50 per­cent of our hard earned money to pay a gov­ern­ment that does not pro­vide nec­es­sary jobs, health benefits,wage increases. We haven’t had a min­inum wage increase in years and years. Peo­ple can’t live on $8.00 an hour. This wage is for High School kids seek­ing part­time jobs! Most of our big indus­try in Amer­i­can has been sent to for­eign coun­tries! Does it make any since to send your own indus­try out of your coun­try? Does this help your work­ing class? No. Does this help your tax dol­lars? No.So why are we pay­ing income taxes to a gov­ern­ment that robs it’s own peo­ple of their hard earned money. We all should have a say on where our tax dol­lars are going. Not just the Pres­i­dent or the Con­gress. This sys­tem no longer is work­ing, and it’s real obvious.

I per­son­ally believe we need a whole new sys­tem. I say cor­po­rate Amer­i­can should not run this coun­try. THe whole polit­i­cal sys­tem has gone astray with what every­one is say­ing, Greed, Greed, and more Greed, and the real­ity is we just can’t afford all of this Greed any­more. Even if you live in an Ivory Tower, the trickle down the­ory will even­tu­ally effect every­one. It’s like throw­ing a rock into the pond, the rip­ples go far and wide on and on. It is high time for the good of all, and much higher vision, and this sys­tem is not going to do it. I am cer­tain that we have enough intel­li­gent peo­ple in this World to put forth their ideas, solu­tions, ground work, and the nec­es­sary sys­tem changes to re-build our Coun­try, and we all need to start speak­ing out about what solu­tions we envi­sion, for our Planet, for our Chil­dren, For all of our welfare.

Freddie B says

I don’t know about you but I sup­port Rus­sell Crowe’s
answer to the prob­lem. Give every amer­i­can cit­i­zen
one mil­lion dol­lars and they would in turn spend that money and stim­u­late the econ­omy. Sim­ple and effective.

karen lagrange says

Pres­i­dent Bush is the blame not democ­rats were have you been?

Bill says

Because Pres­i­dent Bush speaks like a Texas hick he will get the blame for every­thing, but it is Con­gress, led by Democ­rats that have sacked Fan­nie and Fred­die. We don’t hear about it because no Repub­li­can was involved. I just hope those respon­si­ble will loose those bonuses, be sent to jail. Bar­ney Frank, Chris Dodd and Barak Obama among others.

Kalegan says

Ok ok, things seem bad now, but first let me men­tion some­thing that may lead you to feel at ease.

NOW IS TEMPORARY!!!

All things now are in fact good if you can use them to your advan­tage but as soon as these things are no longer necis­ary they will dis­a­pear. Focus­ing on them will creat more of the thing so do this. Ignor the now and Focus On Future, FOF, always Focus On Future if now is bad, because you can change the future far more eas­ily then chang­ing now so. Dont worry about such things. If peo­ple are made home­less… in 10 years they will have a man­sion. If some­one his starv­ing now or in porverty they are rich and well fed in the future, Always focus on what you want more then what you don’t want.
There is no poverty only masses in the process of gain­ing wealth, there is no war there is only the process of attain­ing peace and there is no worry there is only Ever the process of sucsess.

FOF

Corpi Diem

sukhversha says

do not blame, do not com­plain, do not jus­tify
just do it

Kevin says

UNFORTUNATELY, MY COMMENTS HAVE BEEN REMOVED AGAIN!
If you want to know who is behind this man­u­fac­tured cri­sis, research ‘The ILLUMINATI’ ‘BILDERBURG GROUP’ ‘NEW WORLD ORDER’.

silvia says

Please read THE PROTOCOLS OF ZION
and
The Agents of Solomon’s power by Cristo­pher Knights
Maybe we can have an answer…for all this finan­cial crisis

Maureen says

Dear Burt,

I am writ­ing to you from Canada, and I know that we are not far behind you in our eco­nomic cri­sis. I have lit­tle so I have lit­tle to lose. I see this as the gate­way to change. The bailout is just ‘stomp­ing in fires’ it is not a solu­tion. Soci­ety is resis­tant to change, but it is com­ing and I look for­ward to help you and all con­cerned to make the adjust­ments nec­es­sary. We are strong and resi­lent and we will learn, evolve, and survive.

Bill F says

Jay had a very insight­ful com­ment. Pay off all of the mort­gages — or for­give up to $100,000 of them — which would put into cir­cu­la­tion bil­lions of dol­lars into the econ­omy. The new econ­omy cre­ated would dwarf our cur­rent one…

todd saed says

I for one have been put at rest read­ing these, am not alone despite twelve year exile in Asia, hope to get home some­day, Gin­ger thanks for some of the most clear headed and hon­est appraisals, in the worst case sce­nario you men­tioned at the end, those of us in the major­ity with con­science and obe­di­ence to the HIgher Self will join in the strug­gle to pre­vent mass vio­lent repres­sion, in the mean­time lay­ing low until every­one is ready. Silly lit­tle sur­vival busi­ness that causes rebirth they say, so may have to fig­ure a bet­ter plan

Kristal C. Owens says

Thanks for your work on our total well­be­ing. The bailout is a symp­tom of the spir­i­tual and moral bank­ruptcy that our polit­i­cal and finan­cial lead­ers suf­fer from on a very deep level. Your work helps indi­vid­u­als to find this core level of awak­en­ing that is nec­es­sary for true and hon­est liv­ing. Peace to you and all. Kristal

Robert says

This cri­sis is an OPPORTUNITY for us to strengthen our practice–to focus on what is really important–that we are here to prac­tice to for­give­ness, to lift up our broth­ers and sis­ters, to reeval­u­ate our own lives, to prac­tice inner joy and hap­pi­ness, regard­less of the cir­cum­stances. This cri­sis will make us stronger; it will bring us together; it will help to show us that we are ONE.

Robert Golden,
New York

Bill F says

This melt­down will be the begin­ning of a more global econ­omy sep­a­rated into three regions. 1. Canada, US, Cen­tral Am and South Am. 2. Europe, Africa, Mid­dle East and Rus­sia. 3. Asia and Australia

We have the Euro with the Amero on the way and anyone’s guess on the new name of the Asian cur­rency. Amer­i­can free­doms as we know them will erode away as Social­ism becomes the new global form of Gov’t. While the new finan­cial meau­res were wel­comed in as a nec­ces­sity, they are des­guised for the few to have power over the many.

I will con­tinue to stay pos­i­tive and pray for the new global con­scious­ness as we approach 2012 — the New Age.

Nur Azah says

Dear Burt,

hmmm (after read­ing some of the com­ments). I am not an Amer­i­can cit­i­zen but I AM a cit­i­zen of the world. I study your mate­r­ial as well as mate­r­ial from other great teach­ers such as Dr. Robert Anthony — and I believe in what I am learn­ing. So this is what I have to say…

I don’t watch the news and I don’t read the papers — unless there’s some­thing good to watch or read. How­ever I do have an idea of what’s going on around me and in the world. I just choose to stay away from the neg­a­tive waves.

First and fore­most, my per­sonal world is good and fine and in every moment my main focus is to keep it that way, because I believe that when I take care of myself I am in a bet­ter posi­tion to help oth­ers. I know that whether I like it or not, in every moment I am con­tribut­ing my energy to the world, whether it be bad or good energy. For all you know, in a way I may have con­tributed to this “cri­sis” that we’re talk­ing about. This is why it is impor­tant for me to focus on the good things and increase my level of good energy so that my con­tri­bu­tion to the world can help heal this situation.

My ATTITUDE is one of grat­i­tude. I know my future will be good and I pray the same for every­one, so Burt, let’s together chan­nel our col­lec­tive con­scious­ness towards pros­per­ity and know that every­thing will be alright. The jour­ney may be very chal­leng­ing but at least we know where we’re going to end up and we can still afford to feel good dur­ing the trip!

Lots of Love.

Iris Howell says

I Live in Aus­tralia, and this is our prob­lem too.
The banks lend too much money too eas­ily, and take far too much profit. Very best wishes to all.

Trudy says

Hi Burt, I don’t see this as an Amer­i­can sit­u­a­tion only, to me it is world­wide. But I must say that I have a dif­fer­ent opin­ion than every­body else. Until we keep say­ing it is our gov­ern­ments who have caused these chaos,and that it is up to them to fix it, we will not help to solve the prob­lem. We need to under­stand that com­ing from the One­ness this is everyone’s respon­si­bil­ity. We made it, we fix it. This is Universe’s way to tell us money is not where our con­fi­dence should be. We have been out of the way for too long and we are being kick back to our senses. Lets look inside of our­selves and let the Light shine in. Every­thing will be alright because I believe the Uni­verse is per­fect. In the mean­time, we have to change the way we live, we have to change the way we think, we have to change our­selves not the world. Thank you for let­ting us express our­selves in your web­site. Bless­ings from Florida, USA!!

Saleema says

No mat­ter what the out­comes of this “cri­sis” will be, guess who would pay the high­est price in any instance?
Is a dol­lar the same to some­one who’s income is $ 1,000; or $ 10,000; or $ 100,000; or 1,000,000; or $ 10,000,000 per year?
Cri­sis for some of us are almost at the order of the day and Pres­i­dent Bush does not even know or seem to care about it…
I took out stu­dent loans to com­plete my edu­ca­tion and advance in my work­place, but all I have achieved is a $ 90,000 debt I don’t know how to repay…
I have bought and almost lost a house after 7 years of pay­ments (of which almost 90% was applied towards the mort­gage inter­est), when my hus­band lost his job. I applied for a Chap­ter 13 to keep it, only to see the mort­gage own­ers sell it to another com­pany. The amount of money I owe is still the same I thought I was buy­ing the house for…
Should I care about the fall of a sys­tem that has kept me in poverty, despite my edu­ca­tional level and my sin­cere efforts to pay Cae­sar and God what is “theirs”?

Linda Piel says

This was the plan from the begin­ning, to take down the WORLD, not just this coun­try. Bush signed, with­out any con­sent from any­one, the NORTH AMERICAN UNION, which voids our con­sti­tu­tion. The peo­ple do not know the full extent of what will be com­ing down. The forces are ready to drop in with mar­shal law. Armed and ready. We are in the hand­bas­ket on the way to you know where…

Blanca Thompson says

When the news reporters speak with such high/intense emo­sion about the econ­omy, I feel goose pumps all over my body and turn­ing off the TV or Radio relieves that feel­ing.
Lets pray for all the CEOs in this coun­try; lets pray for the awak­en­ing of the un-concious minds of some;
and lets live our lives the best we can for our own sake and the sake of our fam­i­lies and human­ity. Lets do what makes us feel good and in that estate remem­ber the good in all of us with love. Money is money and there is only so much money needed in order to live with opu­lence and be happy, the excess of money cre­ates greed. Greed that is not seen with the eyes of God, greed that cre­ates stag­na­tion and suf­fer­ing. God bless us all and ilu­mine this world so can live a won­der­ful life with all Its Opu­lence! With all my love and blessings.

june says

this is a man­u­fac­tured cri­sis. We are being manip­u­lated as usual..with a result that can­not be for the col­lec­tive good.We need more than ever to med­i­tate to change this planned outcome.

Kumoso says

Burt,

After read­ing many of these posts, it would seem that the world is wor­ried about us going into a depres­sion. I think that our sit­u­a­tion is only being caused by greed, and it will only repeat itself because we are not fix­ing things sim­ply using the bailout as a “band-aid”. Like sev­eral peo­ple have stated, an advi­sor that has had some issues with the part of greed, was hired back on for 1 mil­lion dol­lars a month. I would enjoy sim­ply mak­ing 1 mil­lion per year. How do we plan to lower the national debt when we are pay­ing some­one 12 mil­lion per year to fix a prob­lem they may have been key in cre­at­ing. It makes no sense.

Louise says

Dear­est Burt,
I live in Aus­tralia but we’re all in it together as we can see from the amaz­ing list of responses here — we are human­ity and we need to learn the lessons indi­vid­u­ally. Let’s take deep breaths and “hold hands” to keep each other afloat through this incred­i­bly dif­fi­cult time. Hop­ing this is the start of finan­cial equal­ity for the planet. All the best to everyone.

Sue says

It took a long time for this to build up, and the solu­tion will also take time. For decades, the US Gov­ern­ment has been taken on pow­ers that were never intended by the Con­sti­tu­tion, med­dling in affairs they had no right to.

We need to get our gov­ern­ment back on the right track. The first thing is to edu­cate the Amer­i­can peo­ple (includ­ing some of our con­gress­men) to make sure they under­stand the con­tent and intent of the Dec­la­ra­tion of Inde­pen­dence and the U.S. Con­sti­tu­tion and what the fed­eral gov­ern­ment should and should not do. We need to get back to our polit­i­cal roots and demand total reform.

Many peo­ple blame the gov­ern­ment for ship­ping our busi­ness over­seas. One large rea­son is that the cap­i­tal gains taxes are so high in this coun­try that busi­ness are FORCED to go over­seas. As aver­age cit­i­zens, we must do our research. Look at the exam­ple in Ire­land. They were crip­pled by high cap­i­tal gains taxes, and when those taxes were dras­ti­cally low­ered, the coun­try turned around almost mirac­u­lously. Tax­ing the “greedy rich” isn’t the solution.

Another thing we must do is demand to see ALL the Con­gres­sional “ear­marks” and spe­cial inter­est projects pro­posed. I, for one, would LOVE to see exactly how the gov­ern­ment is spend­ing my money! I under­stand that one of the ear­marks in the “bailout bill” is for research on bear DNA. Not what I want my money to go to.

Do not let the media or the polit­i­cal pun­dits scare you into blam­ing the wrong peo­ple. DO YOUR HOMEWORK!

Lyn says

Hi Burt,

I live in Aus­tralia and say the sooner we can start to pick up the pieces, the better.

Count me in to what ever you have in mind.

Love and light
Lyn

Sharon says

the rich get richer the poor get poorer

jorge says

The whole thing is just an other move­ment of the own­ers of the money… the “ones” behind the global power!!!
They want to make us slaves by con­trol­ing our power of get any­thing we need!!! So it´s time for all in the world, every human being, to wake up and get plan­e­tary unity!!! Just united is the only way to make a dif­fer­ence agianst the slav­ing power!!! We musn´t be afraid or some­thing like that… we nust bring the power to our­selves and start to cre­ate an alter­ne­tive out of the sis­tem… we can´t fight with weapons!!! We have to fight with cre­ativ­ity… we must cre­ate alter­ne­tives out of the sis­tem… sounds crazy? maybe… but only if you want to pre­serve the con­fort!!! if you realy realy want to make a difer­ence… we must be brave and seek for oth­ers to make the alternatives!!

Casimir says

We should have no fear, because what is is absolute and this in turn makes all things pos­si­ble. And, if we truly believe that, we can see that what is hap­pen­ing is just part of it. We are only dis­cov­er­ing our self and every­thing that we can pos­si­bly be because it stands to rea­son that every­thing must be made man­i­fest. It is all knowl­edge of self, I am, the One which ever you choose. What those of us who are aware can do is seek peace within, through what every way is best for you. Whether it is med­i­ta­tion, chant­ing or prayers, do it not to free your self but for all. We should not be judg­ing oth­ers because we are unable to judge our­selves. Due to the fact that we lack clear per­cep­tion and it is only by root­ing out every­thing that obstruct our vision that we can truly help. If you wish to be a true warrior/servant do the real bat­tle, lib­er­ate self. You will ignite a spark in every liv­ing thing and your pres­ence here will do more for the awak­en­ing than you can imag­ine. Good and evil are only in our eyes and because we are absolute this to must be. There is absolutely noth­ing to fear, even fear itself is an expe­ri­ence (tool if you wish). It is aware­ness that con­trols so when the absolute is your aware­ness all things will become as one.

Peace be with us all

Ginger says

Dear Burt,

This video is loaded with lies told by a moron who knows absolutely noth­ing about eco­nom­ics. On the con­trary, he was put in the Oval Office by his father to con­tinue his father’s ambi­tions for a New World Order. Fail­ing insti­tu­tions deserve to fail. The free mar­ket has always made the nec­es­sary cor­rec­tions. When the gov­ern­ment has NOT bailed out fail­ing insti­tu­tions, the mar­ket cor­rected itself within a year. The last time the gov­ern­ment inter­fered and did a bailout (in the ‘20s), it took a decade for the mar­ket to cor­rect itself. What we’re not being told is that Con­gress insisted that banks loan sub-prime mort­gages (under threat of penalty) to peo­ple who were not finan­cially sta­ble. This whole fiasco was planned by the banksters. As Theodore Roo­sevelt said, “Noth­ing in pol­i­tics hap­pens by accident.”

America’s demise has been on the books of the banksters since the Fed­eral Reserve Act was sneaked through Con­gress in 1913 by Pres. Wil­son. This uncon­sti­tu­tional bailout was just another plank in their agenda. What Amer­i­cans are not being told is — not that their hard-earned sus­te­nance will be used to bail out the banks in the U.S. — but that the bailout includes failed loans in for­eign banks on prop­er­ties in for­eign coun­tries. All foisted on the backs of the hard-working Amer­i­can taxpayers.

Thomas Jef­fer­son warned us that if this gov­ern­ment estab­lished an uncon­sti­tu­tional cen­tral bank (the Fed Res)with the power to cre­ate inflation/deflation, our chil­dren would wake up home­less on the land their fore­fa­thers fought to save for them. Well, here we are, Thomas — our econ­omy totally con­trolled by an inter­na­tional con­sor­tium of banksters who do not answer to any­one, who print worth­less paper out of thin air, and, since the Fed is not a U.S. gov­ern­ment agency, it can/and does refuse to be audited. Our econ­omy is totally con­trolled by anti-Americans.

We, the Peo­ple, have no true rep­re­sen­ta­tives in Con­gress, save one, Rep. Ron Paul. This pres­i­den­tial cam­paign run by the two major par­ties is a dog and pony show for igno­rant sheeple. Since Ron Paul (a strict con­sti­tu­tion­al­ist) has endorsed Rev. Charles Bald­win run­ning on the Con­stu­ti­tion Party ticket, he is the only per­son who deserves my vote, albeit it will be noth­ing short of a mir­a­cle if he makes it to the White House. He advo­cates abol­ish­ing the Fed­eral Reserve (putting this coun­try back on the gold stan­dard); abol­ish­ing the law­less, black­mail­ing, IRS; abol­ish­ing government-controlled edu­ca­tion (col­lege stu­dents inter­viewed by Jay Leno didn’t even know how many States there are in the Union); abol­ish­ing the uncon­sti­tu­tional Patriot Act; dis­con­tin­u­ing spy­ing on Amer­i­cans; etc.

Every clear think­ing Amer­i­can should vote OUT of office every Con­gress­man, save Ron Paul and Den­nis Kucinich, who truly under­stand the Con­sti­tu­tion. Or move for their impeach­ment for treason.

In spite of this seem­ingly unstop­pable, silent (or not so silent) con­spir­acy to con­tinue to insid­i­ously enslave all U.S. cit­i­zens — judi­cially, finan­cially, spir­i­tu­ally, morally and phys­i­cally (we have the high­est per­cent­age of pris­on­ers in the world) — I am still a cock-eyed opti­mist. I firmly believe that We The Peo­ple still have the power to destroy the evil that has taken over the reins of our Repub­lic (yes, folks, the found­ing fathers set up a Repub­lic, NOT a democracy).

It’s more than time to fight back. I know we can stop this destruc­tive evil in its tracks through the pow­er­ful energy of col­lec­tive con­scious­ness. And I will spread the word far and wide to par­tic­i­pate in this activ­ity — to patriot radio show hosts, to churches, to orga­ni­za­tions, to news­pa­pers, to gov­ern­ment officials.

I believe this is our last stand before a bloody rev­o­lu­tion. If you think the gov­ern­ment is not prepar­ing for this antic­i­pated show­down, an Army brigade has been recalled from Iraq and being trained in “crowd con­trol” against cit­i­zens in this country.

We can make this effort work. LET’S DO IT!!

Eileen Parra says

I agree that this all sounds like prophecy com­ing true, but must we buy into that? I believe in the law of attrac­tion. I find that if I focus on what I want for my life, then things fall into place. I can’t con­trol what hap­pens in the world around me, but I can send love and think pros­per­ous thoughts for myself and the nation I live in.

hasnah says

Hi Burt,
I,m not sur­prise with what is hap­pen­ing now but I feel very upset and very sorry for our broth­ers in Amer­ica espe­cially and to all the peo­ple of the workd and myself also. Do you agree with me that this is a pun­ish­ment from the God for what we have done ? We have been divert­ing from the right part in han­dling the econ­omy for a very long time and now the God is try­ing to show that He is very angry. Of course we should try our best to get out of this dirty pool, but don’t for­get that God is the Greatest!

OLGA says

HELL BURT,

I’M SO FURIOUS ABOUTH THE WHOLE THING, I HAVE NOT EVEN BEEN ABLE TO PAY MY MORTGAGE FOR THE LAST TWOMONTHS, I HAVE BEEN LIVING IN THIS COUNTRY FOR 42 YEARS AND HAVE NOT EVER EXPERIENCED NY SITUTATION LIKE THIS ONE. WELL I’M VOTING FOR THE DEMOCRATS ALL THE WAY. WE DEFINITELY NEED A CHANGE. THIS IS FOR MRS MC CAINE, I KNOW YOU WERE BORN FILTHY RICH AND GOD BLESS YOU FOR THAT BUT DO NOT BRAG ABOUT SPENDING MORETHAN $300000FOR A DRESS WHEN MOST AMERICANS DON’T KNOW IF THEY WILL BE ABLE TO EAT TODAY. THAT IS AN INSULT.

THAT IS ALL I HAVE TO SAY,

OLGA

David says

Wow, thats strange. Now its back.

David says

I posted on here yes­ter­day. Why has my post been removed??

Dr. Coomi B. Singh says

Dear Burt,

Yes, we have been impacted here in India. It is a shame what has hap­pened — but then, this will surely lead to some reform in the long run. Mankind must learn from past mis­takes. Mean­while, let us believe in the col­lec­tive con­scious­ness and pray for the abun­dance that is out there in the uni­verse, avail­able for all of us. I believe!
Coomi

Torsten says

Dear Burt,

Thank you so much for address­ing this prob­lem.
The glob­al­iza­tion of the finan­cial mar­kets makes it a global prob­lem; and of course my coun­try is also deeply involved, Ger­many. (Burt, I attended four of your sem­i­nars near Stuttgart/Germany and in Seefeld/Austria.)

But it seems to me that this finan­cial prob­lem and its $700 bil­lion bailout are only the begin­ning. A group of finan­cial instru­ments, called deriv­a­tives, now have a nom­i­nal value of about $500,000 bil­lion. Not all deriv­a­tives will default. But if only one per­cent will default, what for some experts seems to be the min­i­mum, there might be a need for a bailout which is seven times as big as the one we speak about today.

There are other prob­lems as well, which also have global effects, like global warm­ing, wars, AIDS, dwin­dling resources like crude oil and water, etc. These prob­lems are around for quite some time, and I don’t think they can be solved in tra­di­tional ways.

Actu­ally I think the bib­li­cal “end of times” is near. And accord­ing to the prophe­cies of the Mayan there might be an impor­tant change in Decem­ber 2012.

If I under­stand the books (“Con­ver­sa­tions with God” etc.) by Neale Don­ald Walsch and – if I may say so – his co-author, God, cor­rectly, in a very few years there will be a rather instant change for the bet­ter we now think is just unbe­liev­able. How can this hap­pen? One impor­tant fac­tor will be a change of con­scious­ness; all peo­ple and peo­ples will think and act on the premise that we are all one. Like the fin­gers of a hand. Each fin­ger “knows” that it can have a good life only if all other fin­gers also have a good life. There is no need for laws or courts to “con­vince” the fin­gers about that. The same will be true for peo­ple and peoples.

One other book I would like to men­tion here because it offers so much guid­ance and pro­found hope is “The Law of Attrac­tion. The Basics of the Teach­ings of Abra­ham” by Esther and Jerry Hicks.

So the change of con­scious­ness is a key, or as you might say, Burt, change of attitude.

But how do we come from here to here, and how can we sur­vive or even thrive dur­ing the dif­fi­cult time in between?

That’s the big ques­tion. Besides the books I men­tioned, I’m really look­ing for­ward to the guid­ance you will offer.

Also, I would like to thank for the many inspir­ing com­ments on this board.

And BTW, Burt, thank you very, very much for the CD series you have pro­duced, espe­cially the Mind Box. They are awesome!

Your friend,
Torsten

Anna says

Have any of you been lis­ten­ing to ANYTHING Burt has had to say? I recently read (here? pos­si­bly, but I think else­where) that Pres­i­dent Roo­sevelt banned the word reces­sion in the press, and the coun­try got away with­out one, because it was not in the pub­lic con­scious­ness. (Pity the present pres­i­dent is not that intel­li­gent, that he must con­trol the peo­ple with fears and induce a recession/depression, and here’s pray­ing for who­ever gets in next. Hillary has the guts to do it, but the pop­u­lace (at least the vot­ing part) hasn’t.)
If you want to pre­vent a reces­sion, and make it rich your­self, wake and smell the roses, peo­ple! And while you’re enjoy­ing the smell, think of how rich the whole world is, the uni­verse in fact, and how rich you are. Deny energy to fear-inducing talk, and remem­ber your mag­nif­i­cence. Believe ONLY in abun­dance, take a look around you! Ever tried to count the leaves on a tree, the blades of grass in a field, the num­ber of grass seeds in the same field??? How many snowflakes fell on Alaska last year? It’s an abun­dant world out there, that is all you need to focus on.

Bobby says

If I were to allow things of this nature to weight me down or hin­der me from see­ing things clearly in my world, that would be a cri­sis. I don’t know very much about this issue, but to me it seems like peo­ple are mak­ing a big issue out of small sit­u­a­tion. There always seems to be somekind of cri­sis at hand in our soci­ety, and i used to let it effect me. Then i real­ized that if i don’t let that kind of stuff effect me then it won’t

Jan says

We do need to unite our col­lec­tive con­scious­ness and stay in the pos­i­tive in the abun­dance that is so evi­dent and obvi­ous in nature itself, and at our core within each of us.…so count me in!

There are so many global / world Peace med­i­ta­tions, why not a global /world abun­dance med­i­ta­tions. Let’s do it. Now. tonight! .… at level!

Stephen says

Hi Burt!!!
Thakns for open­ing up this can of worms. I am an Amer­i­can who lives in Japan, and it is hard to look back at my coun­try and feel proud. Wall St and the White House have sold out the aver­age per­son so that those in power get richer while the rest of us get poorer. Our sav­ings, or invest­ments, and now worth much less than we we frist invested them, and who prof­its??? Yup, that’s right! Not us!!!
I would be happy and proud to join any col­lec­tive con­scious­ness activ­ity you may have in mind. Let’s see if we can turn the tide and make this world a decent place to live in—for ALL humanity.

Lyn McDermott says

Dear Burt,
I am not an Amer­i­can so I don’t know what it feels like over there. I just know that here in Aus­tralia I am sick­ened by the way this admin­is­tra­tion by George Bush is going. I can’t say that I am over­joyed about what is hap­pen­ning here either. Some say we are in a reces­sion that we had to have. HMMM!!! Unit­ing our voices so that the poli­ti­tions will have to acknowl­edge our recur­ring pleas to be heard may be of ben­e­fit. I fear that it is too lit­tle too late for this time but we could learn from it and look within for the answers to being able to cope in what is cer­tainly trou­bled times. I have been read­ing lately about the power from within and I know that changes with­out start from within. We have no way of chang­ing the way oth­ers think and feel, we only can change ourselves.If oth­ers note how we deal with this crit­i­cal times with calm­ness and lack of fear that comes with our core belief’s, we can come through this with each oth­ers help. We need to be able to give sup­port to each other in love and spirit for us to sur­vive no mat­ter what. I appre­ci­ate what you are doing. Keep it up.

Willlll says

I get more and more upset at the cur­rent gov­ern­ment every time I turn on the tv. Even back in 2002, when peo­ple asked me what I thought about GWB being in charge I said “He’s going to make our coun­try go broke! He spent like 4 tril­lion on a defense bud­get and can’t even under­stand basic gram­mer. He will ruin us”. But it seemed few cared and now I see exactly what I was telling them and I feel hope­less until a peace focused lead­er­ship gains power. I worry about things like, what if more failed lead­er­ship takes con­trol or if this will be a glob­ally ter­ri­ble thing. I just won­der though, is this the first step in mass glob­al­iza­tion based income?
The future looks com­pli­cated and full of some amaz­ing new systems!

Gordon says

Hi Burt,
I live in Australia.but have been fol­low­ing the manip­u­la­tion of this sit­u­a­tion by the Lying Bush regime for some­time and the cor­rup­tion is unbelieveable,The only way to fix this is by Col­lec­tive Con­cious­ness and Action to remove Your lying cheat­ing admin­stra­tion in the Black House and Congress,The have dumbed down the Amer­i­can peo­ple until they almost like Pavlovs Dogs.Any ini­tia­tive to remove this lot will be my plea­sure to par­tic­i­pate in.

Love and Light

Gor­don

todd saed says

What is the worst to con­tem­plate, is peo­ple have invested their spirit and soul all their lives into mak­ing a life for their loved ones, and now are being robbed of this, George Car­lin has youtube skits about how cor­po­rate Amer­ica does not care about you, they need to be replaced, plp.org sug­gests how. It almost does not mat­ter in a way, only the next world may be able to heal it, so sorry for us all.

todd saed says

Thank you Larry and Bobby for the pos­i­tive input,Bobby I think you should write the book, for your­self if nobody else, I have heard Mae Brus­sell say there are one hun­dred fam­i­lies that rule the world, at newsmakingnews.com she has archives. Larry , I will check the site, prob­lems are an oppor­tu­nity the old say­ing goes, or leapfrog them, rib­bit. Froggy went a courtin and he did ride, sword and a pis­tol by his side, polit­i­cal power comes from the bar­rel of a gun, great bat­tles are won with­out weapons, the war best won is the one not fought.

Navnit says

Isn’t all what is hap­pen­ing in U.S.A. and all over the world the results of insa­tiable human greed. It’s sad that the role of the gov­ern­ment even in all so called democ­ra­cies ( Includ­ing my own coun­try India) has been shifted from good gov­er­nance and com­mon good to being agents of big busi­ness houses.
Why does the gov­ern­ment allow these busi­ness houses to expand their busi­ness to a level beyond their risk tak­ing capa­bil­ity. Do these busi­ness houses donate their earn­ings for free when they see huge mar­gins? Then why do they expect the tax pay­ers to sal­vage them out of the mess they them­selves have cre­ated.
Yes, a change in uni­ver­sal con­scious­ness is cer­tainly needed which can take the focus from only mate­ri­al­is­tic growth to a holis­tic one.
Navnit
http://indian-thoughts-navnit.blogspot.com/

jericho of galilee says

I will not com­ment. I want the 289 per­sons who wrote in to medi­ate on joy and hap­pi­ness for 7 days for all of the world’s good­ness. Every­one counts so much more than ever before. SO PLEASE BE HEARD.

Eter­nal JOY and Bless­ings to my broth­ers and sisters

P.S. I am con­stantly send­ing you waves of agape right now.

jericho of galilee says

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alain says

Hi Bert, I am from Canada,
This finan­tial sit­u­a­tion is another sig­nal to take con­trol of our finances and of our lives. The pre­vi­ous polit­i­cal attempts to bail out the banks and finan­tial insti­tu­tions have failed and the aver­age earn­ers are pay­ing and will con­tinue to pay the note for a long time.
I am open to your sug­ges­tion and to unite into a col­lec­tive con­scious­ness. And when it is in accor­dance with your plan, attract a con­struc­tive and suit­able out­come for the gen­eral pub­lic in the world, in the long term. This is a world wide finan­tial cri­sis in my view. I pre­fer to attract wealth and abon­dance for everyone.

Kim Markwell says

Nature has two forces, the con­struc­tive and the destruc­tive. This is the way of things. The econ­omy is a nat­ural cycle like every­thing else. It is inevitable that this would hap­pen, how can it be otherwise?

How, can we enjoy the good times with­out the bad. If we bail out the finan­cial insti­tu­tions
Is it not the same as indulging a spoiled child? How do we teach a child not to be greedy, but let them suf­fer the con­se­quences? Do you think bail­ing them out would be a one time thing? Let us learn from it and move on to the next stage .

This will hurt a great deal of peo­ple who put their faith in the wrong places. There is no such thing as secu­rity, it is a myth cre­ated to sell things . I believe I am strong enough to face the future, unafraid. What will be., will be. After all, do I, or do I not believe, that we are cre­ators of our own real­ity. In the face of
Adver­sity I will be tested, not when things are going good.

Margarete N. says

U-tube track # 4 with Peter Defazio and # 5 analy­sis reports and Ger­man papers com­ments were excel­lent and should be largely dis­trib­uted. The qual­ity of # 6 was tech­ni­cally dys­func­tion­ing and ‘unin­tel­li­gi­ble’ and should be taken out, the mes­sage got com­pletely lost…
irri­tat­ing!!!
There has been a lack of inter­est in polit­i­cal issues in the Amer­i­can peo­ple, for the last sev­eral decade­sat least. Because of a blind trust in their elected offi­cials and Pres­i­dent, no infor­ma­tion nor account­abil­ity has been asked for or given. Trust is good, but check-it-out is more effec­tive and keeps a sys­tem work­ing when there’s ram­pant greed involved. In big busi­ness, ‘any­thing goes’, i.e. with­out reg­u­la­tion: the more decep­tive to the con­sumer, the more decep­tive mar­ket­ing tricks are viewed as ‘effec­tive busi­ness prac­tice’. The gov­ern­ment is a cor­po­ra­tion assumed to serve the peo­ple, but now more and more is in sync with other big pri­vate cor­po­ra­tions who are not in the prac­tice of ethics or respon­si­bil­ity in favor of their fel­low humans, the only legally ‘real’ per­sons in this
legally dysen­fran­chised sce­nario. Because of bank­ruptcy options for busi­ness peo­ple, their own­ers don’t go to jail even if they com­mit­ted fraud, which nobody want to look at, because our big gov­ern­ment cor­po­ra­tion bails out the big gam­bling cor­po­ra­tions’ debts — at the cost of the tax payer who bears the burden.

Peo­ple must learn to get to know and com­mu­ni­cate with their elected offi­cials, tak­ing the place of paid lob­by­ist for pri­vate cor­po­ra­tions. Youth should be taught about the sys­tem and a citizen’s duties and rights.

As for those of us who can’t be ‘activists’ any­more, and any­body with a higher con­scious­ness: we should unite in invocation/prayer sev­eral times a day or week in sup­port send­ing Light, Love and Sead­fast­ness to those cho­sen for our State Assem­blies and in Wash­ing­ton who feel a higher call­ing from their Souls/Consciousness, to coop­er­ate and bit by bit solve the vis­i­ble and invis­i­ble Chaos.
Human­ity is tran­sit­ing from outer 3rd-dimensional ori­en­ta­tion to 4th and 5th dimen­sional Con­scious­ness and Existence.

Love and Peace to All,
Mar­garete N.

Mikael says

I think this is a a tool to paral­yse peo­ple and an awak­en­ing that money is just a paper we told our self to work for. It is a trans­for­ma­tional momemnt for us to real­ize the facts, that the world is a energy linked sys­tem
that when we mea­sure form to mol­e­cules by our mind. The world is the cause of our sub­con­scious send out of mod­u­lated energy, just as we have fre­quency mod­u­la­tion, ampli­tude mod­u­la­tion, in radio. We have it in our brain and its a part of the true cre­ation of real­ity from our con­scious­ness. The money paper we are wor­ried about is mol­e­cules. The most impor­tant awak­en­ing is our belief and value made that paper exchange for ser­vice. We peo­ple can start true wealth exchange with­out money. By using our ser­vices. And if we started another value tool. Like in ear­lier days money was pieces of wood. We could as peo­ple with col­lec­tive con­scious­ness exchange our pas­sion tal­ents, abil­i­ties, inno­va­tion to sup­port food, tech­nol­ogy, health, all areas with­out the gov­ern­ment. It is about us real­iz­ing the value we make money is in our mind. And true suc­cess and being rich, filthy rich is fre­quency rise in attract­ing ideas that give the value in con­sis­tent action with what peo­ple you help have in wood, metal, paper what every money wee pick. Peo­ple have drive within them, that is a legacy, a unique­ness that is pow­er­ful, unlim­ited, one with the energy con­scious­ness we all live with in now, that peo­ple call the quan­tum, zero point, super string, etc field. were every thing phys­i­cal derive and it is where we go direct down­load of our mis­sion, that is fre­quency mod­u­la­tion going trough the Tv chan­nels, Radio chan­nels , but that for us is grabbed in a res­o­nant tun­ing fork in our heart, heartmath.org research, nobelprize.org, new sci­enc­tist, just look and you will put the dots toge­heter. And the heart is in turn pul­sat­ing the energy from the heart to our phys­i­cal brain as intu­ition, inspi­raiton, vision, true dream. So we are in time for wak­ing up and access­ing our unique­ness legacy that is as val­ue­able as we all­ready have attracted in trough every one in our hearts res­o­nance, attrac­tion field. And our
dream is already us send­ing in and out the mod­u­la­tions to each other in our con­nected field. So wealth is the games of trans­port­ing that mod­u­la­tion of our true dream to another that have use value for it and ris­ing from all areas of our life in well being. And the true dream is our pas­sion, mis­sion to be a cause of good on this planet.

I think this is the call­ing of us in our true hum­ble exis­tent vision of flour­ish­ing being full­filled alive for life in con­nec­tion to inner stand­ing, where life is all us are wealthy and it starts within our legacy and fol­low­ing our flow that is our unique­ness tool to cre­ate winw win.

The life we live is in our mind, and we have been told that gov­er­ment and other things that gov­ern, gov­ern that nat­ural move­ments of life. The nat­ural move­ments are laws of physics and our inner abil­ity send out the waves of our sub­con­scious that we image. EVERYTHING PHYSICAL IS AN IDEAS CREATED BY A PERSON IN DIRECT CHANNEL TO THE UNIFIED ENERGY FIELD THAT ORIGINATES EVERY PARTICLE , EVERYTHING THING. AND EVERY PARTICLES IS FORMED TO TIME AND SPACE BY US IN OUR MIND WITH OUR IMAGINATION CONVERTING THAT ENERGY BY CUTTING THE ENERGY FIELD INTO TIME AND SPACE. THIS OUR TRUE ABUNDANCE. WE CAN WAKE UP TO THIS TRUTH AND THEN THE WORLD WITH RIPPLE EFFECT, IS MOVING FORWARD BECAUSE THE GOVERMENT AND EVERYTHING ELSE IS ORIGINATED BY THE SOURCE THE ENERGY FIELD. AND BURTH IF YOU HAVE A LOVE CARE SELF DEPDENT NON DOCRINATING WAY OF DOING THIS THEN COUNT ME IN TO EVOLVE OUR AUTHENTIC POWERS. THANK YOU FOR CONTRIBUTING YOUR SPIRIT AND LIGHT WITH SUCH OPENESS. ALL LOVE TO EVERY ONE. BE IN THE PATH THAT FLOWS THAT FILLS JOY, PASSION IN YOU THAT IS NATURAL THAT LOOSE TIME AND SPACE IN YOUR LIFE AND WEALTH IS IN FREQUENCY. IF WE AL COULD FIND A RESONATING TONE MONEY EXCHANGE OF EVERY ONES MODULATED LEGACY THAT COULD BE HELPING US BIG TO LIVE THE REALLY ABUNDANT LIFE WE ALL WERE MEANT TO LIVE.
THANK YOU

Larry says

Prophecy is com­ing true, whether we like it or not. There is noth­ing tak­ing place on the planet that is not by design. We are advised to seek spir­i­tual enrich­ment espe­cially at times such as these, and man­i­fest it in our love for our­selves and oth­ers. This is not a time to bury our heads in the sand though…awareness is vital. Is there a solu­tion? You bet! If I’m allowed , please check out http://www.wssic.comm, for your solu­tions to ALL these finan­cial cri­sis. Find out how inde­pen­dantly we are all richer than you can imag­ine, and how to learn about how you are going to manu­ver in the sea of com­merce.
ALL WAYS US LIVING LOVE

relizare says

Kevin,

I agree, this is a video every­one needs to see. To make wise deci­sions, we need to know the real truth. Fear is not of God, but folks please do not bury your heads in the sand, and think we are try­ing to lead you into fear.

Edu­cate your­self with truth:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912

Like Alex Jones says, we are in a bat­tle for our minds. Our lives and sur­vival are at stake as a world. Only when we edu­cate our­selves, wake up to the truth, come together, care and love each other, can we do some­thing to stop all this. We need to gain courage through our pos­i­tive think­ing, not fear.

I believe life needs a bal­ance. While we need pos­i­tive thoughts, we also need to find the truth. The sys­tem was setup to divide us, cre­ate mis­trust, divide us and cre­ate fear to con­trol us.

We need to over­come this and take down the big Corps, the fiot money sys­tem, and Fed­eral Reserve which by the way is noth­ing but a pri­vate Corp and are some of the most dan­ger­ous crim­i­nals along with all the oth­ers in power com­mit­ting crimes and atroc­i­ties yet pay no con­se­quences. We need to get rid of the Fed­eral Reserve, cre­ate our own money sys­tem. and start con­trol­ling the Corps by tak­ing away its power, and invisibilities.

I have spent many years of my life work­ing with oth­ers who have all put our heads together to use the Court Sys­tems, our knowl­edge of the Law, our time, our resources, and our voices to do just that. But as the broad­cast­ing sys­tems con­trol infor­ma­tion, and peo­ple are dum­mied down and hyp­no­tized by their lies fears and enter­tain­ment, peo­ple refuse to seek the truth and demand it, while the ones doing the doing become demo­nized and are too few.

I was once noth­ing but a wife and mother who wanted noth­ing more than to show my fam­ily and any­one else that came across my path noth­ing but God’s love, care, respect and respon­si­bil­ity. My son, who is mul­ti­ply hand­i­capped, used to say I was like an old time flower child.

Then one day, my now for­mer hus­band gave me a man­date. I was to hand my son over to the state or else. He did not want to help care for his own son, but wanted every­thing for the bet­ter­ment of his own life alone. He thought if he gave our son to the state, he would not have to pay sup­port, or his time or effort.

I refused, and he tried on sev­eral occa­sions to kill me. I was and am today a Chris­t­ian, pos­i­tive thinker, and a doer, and refused to give up on our son.

Then finally my hus­band left, but he said he knew how to use the Court sys­tem against me and he would take every­thing from me.

For 18 years, even after our divorce, and after he remar­ried, he dragged me through the Courts act­ing like an upstand­ing cit­i­zen try­ing to do right, after he ille­gally had taken all the money, all the prop­erty still in my name, and kept mak­ing up fic­ti­tious rea­sons and friv­o­lous law­suits to try to keep tak­ing any­thing else I would end up with, every time I started my life over after his path of destruc­tion. In all that time not one Judge ordered him to pay a penny in Child sup­port, despite pre­vi­ous Court orders. His money went to pay crooked attor­neys, and Judges. It took me that long, and my son to threaten sui­cide if I did not do some­thing to stop him for me to wake up and stop being a vic­tim. He only used the Courts to keep steal­ing things that did not belong to him, not pay any sup­port for a child that needed much care, and spe­cial needs, but out­side of Court, he would con­tinue to threaten our lives, harass, destroy prop­erty, and abuse our son every chance he could and often phys­i­cal attacks. I saw how cor­rupt the Courts were! It was shocking!

He had all the money, and I had all the respon­si­bil­i­ties and prob­lems to deal with.

My son said to me once, the rea­son I could not pro­tect us from his dad was because I was so busy try­ing to think good things about every­one all the time, I was not fac­ing the truth, and I did not know how to think like his Dad, to know how to fight the evil.

I had to edu­cate myself fast, so I began study­ing Law on m own, by spend­ing most of my time in Law Libraries and tak­ing over my own cases with my for­mer hus­band at the same time. I could not trust any attor­ney, part of the bar or big boys club when there was so much money and cor­rup­tion going on by my for­mer hus­band. He had every­one in his pocket. I had to go after them all by myself with no help, no other fam­ily, and a mul­ti­ply hand­i­capped son.

I went after all of them, and went all the way to the fed­eral Court, where I indicted a Fed­eral Judge, and three Attornies. They shut down the Court room that day for dam­age con­trol and to keep any pub­lic­ity out.

This took me about 4 to 5 years of pure courage, con­stant sac­ri­fice, all resources I could muster, and a greater faith in a higher power. What I learned in my study of the Law and also in learn­ing to lit­i­gate in the actual Courts by myself, left me in such shock as to the truth of our sys­tems, the laws that they keep chang­ing the mean­ing of words, manip­u­lat­ing the mean­ings and hid­ing any real rights, as well as how it all hap­pened, and what truly hap­pen­ing in this coun­try that of led me to much of the infor­ma­tion already in this Video which was able to see and expe­ri­ence upfront, close and personal.

Yet it still was not over! I then had heli­copters con­stantly over my home, FBI agents harass­ing and threat­en­ing me con­stantly, local police con­stantly fol­low­ing me, my lines tapped, and even some strange deaths of my clos­est friends as I refused to keep quiet!

I found oth­ers who knew the law and used their knowl­edge to help oth­ers and fight the sys­tem with the sword of the pen, the Courts, and our speech. Now it is 2008, and there are so few left of any courage, love, back­bone and will­ing­ness to do, and the mon­ster has become too pow­er­ful for so few!

In case you have not guessed, I am a woman. I am only 5’1″ tall, yet they never saw me com­ing in the Courts, armed with any knowl­edge. I think they mis­tak­enly took me for a dumb blonde! Lol!

I took down some very cor­rupt peo­ple, and am still pay­ing the price and still tak­ing care of my hand­i­capped son by myself. Why do the men these days seem to have no back bone, no courage, to do what is right, and to put them­selves out there to do things that will help mankind!

When these peo­ple take these huge pay­ing jobs in these non-caring dam­ag­ing Corps, where are their morals! When we con­vince our sons and daugh­ters to go fight for Amer­ica in Iraq, killing inno­cent peo­ple and some­day the pow­ers that be will use them to enforce mar­tial law upon their own coun­try where will their loy­al­ties lie? What have you done to teach your own kids the truth, and how to stand up for what is right, and have true moral val­ues. For all of you who are police­man and fol­low orders to beat and arrest ordi­nary cit­i­zens for doing noth­ing more than protest­ing and free speech what do you tell your­self that makes it ok and how do you sleep. Where will your loy­alty lie when they declare mar­tial law?
I love you all!
God Bless, be of good courage and a sound mind!
Lets sup­port each other and not the sys­tem and keep up our pos­i­tive thought and faith for our good courage!~
Love and Bless­ings to you all!

P.S.
Another video peo­ple need to see to under­stand is “The Cor­po­ra­tion”. It shows the com­par­i­son of the Corp, sim­i­lar to giv­ing power and money to a ser­ial killer. The Corp has no moral val­ues, no con­scious­ness, takes no respon­si­bil­i­ties for its own actions, destruc­tions, or dam­ages, and the only mean­ing to it is the almighty bot­tom line, the almighty fake fiot, debt note, or prof­its. I saw it on Link TV, which is a pri­vate access chan­nel, not con­trolled by a Corp.

Celestian Tau says

I think that the next Amer­i­can Rev­o­lu­tion should more closely resem­ble the French Rev­o­lu­tion. Their is an Amer­i­can elite run­ning wild while ordi­nary peo­ple suf­fer. The last time I checked the ordi­nary 99% out­num­ber the top 1% it could be done tomor­row. But noth­ing will hap­pen as long as the beer stays cold and their are boobs bounc­ing across the T.V. screen. Amer­i­cans have been been beat down to the point of lethargy. Sure a lot of them will talk a good game but when crunch time comes you find that it’s all hot air. The patriot act was put in place to pro­tect the elite from the amer­i­can cit­i­zen as well as for­eign ter­ror­ists. No one has the balls to do what needs to be done. It is the sad­dest truth I’ve ever realized.

mary says

I am not american,bat eart is our’s home in the over the world.It is a prob­lem in Amer­ica ‚is the prob­lem in over the world.This is the time for new life for over the peo­ple and for ani­mals to..Maney and mate­ri­als is nothing,only for sur­vivers. It’s time for peace and love;)

Bea says

Hi Burt,

Thank you for the oppor­tu­nity.
Well,what can I tell you.What I don’t under­stand is,why most peo­ple are so surprised!This was on it’s way for a long time.Suddenly sur­prise??? We ‚the gov­ern­ment now is the heroe and we will “save” the rich,again.
This is just a bandaid.I never heard any­one say: Let’s
find out first,why this hap­pened and what was done wrong to get us to this point,before we know,how much it will cost.
When you go to a doctor,before he sug­gests anything(if he’s a good one)he has to find out and under­stand what the cause is first.
How can you fix something,if you don’t know what caused it in the first place.Money is being “gifted“left and right as a “reward“for greed.etc.

Another ques­tion I have been ask­ing myself is:who is the
boss?The gov­ern­ment or the people?????????????????????????

In my “igno­rance” I say:we always have been the ones pay­ing for the big corporation’s,etc.STUPID mis­takes.
Has the gov­er­ment said:“well let’s allo­cate $700 bil­lion
(our money) to help the people.Many are now liv­ing in their cara,lost homes,etc.

I can’t under­stand how they say that they care about the peo­ple and are only look­ing out for the people,if they let the credit card com­pa­nies and banks,charge such astro­nom­i­cal interests,so that the aver­age per­son will never pay­down his/her debt.Where is the help for the people????

Bush gave every­one a slap in the face by giv­ing #300(singles) and $1200 (fam­i­lies) and now we have to bailout out people,who have their money stashed away some­where for sure and ‚who let greed and no regard for the peo­ple bring them to this blowout!

The House,Congress and the pres­i­dent have been cho­sen to rep­re­sent our inter­ests and to make sure,that we will be taken care of.Our input doesn’t matter,they do what­ever they want,without any regard for the people,whose backs can’t take it any more.
Very sad situation,Burt and I can keep on going,but it won’t change much.

Now I under­stand and agree,that the only way we can change things around is by stay­ing pos­i­tive and hold­ing the high watch.That’s what I have been doing and will keep on doing.
I was not sur­prised at all this,because I received a great advise from Leonard Horowitz once:“Be aware,for those who are aware can save them­selves and their fam­i­lies”.
I edu­cate myself daily,I read and lis­ten to all the parties.There will come a time,that you learn to read between the lines and know,who is gen­uine or not.

I am on board with you,so let me know,what we can do on a
Divine level to help.
Sincerely,

BJ.

Diane says

I am actu­ally very excited and very pos­i­tive about the finan­cial col­lapse. This is a real oppor­tu­nity to raise the con­scious­ness of the world since it is a clear and con­crete exam­ple of how we are all joined together. I will use this as an oppor­tu­nity to med­i­tate on peace and oneness.

Lawrence Plato says

Hello Burt,
The solu­tion is to Get back to the Con­sti­tu­tion. Have the con­gress print what money is needed and put it into cir­cu­la­tion. get rid of the cen­tral bank and have the con­gress loan money as needed with an inter­est rate set to cover the cost of expenses. No div­i­dends or bonuses paid out as this would be a non profit system.

Lawrence Plato

Dude Rono says

I have lost money with this event just like mil­lions of oth­ers. My inner feel­ings are that stabailiza­tion of the mar­kets are close at hand. I see the mar­ket lev­el­ing out and start tak­ing of in a upward trend from Febu­rary to April of next year. But dur­ing this time I see the stock mar­kets being cleaned out of a lot of the adul­ter­ated and infected peo­ples and buis­ness that are a part of it.

I see a econ­omy that sur­vives that will be a econ­omy of true val­ues. I see this inflated econ­omy that we are it being destroyed tak­ing with it most all of the cor­po­ra­tions and peo­ple that have lied cheated and stolen money from others.

The world and econ­o­mys that sur­vive will be strong. I feel that the money that is left in our retire­ment accounts after this will have more buy­ing power than we have in the econ­omy that we are in now.

Thanks for this blog I enjoy it as well as all of your help­full advice. Duderono

Bobby McKinney says

Hello Burt!!
Words of wis­dom is applied to this commune,We light work­ers of this world know exactly what is tak­ing place,at these try­ing times.Yes we are knee deep in a sit­u­a­tion that will not go away.It’s time we take our coun­try back,
Crime,fraud to the peo­ple of this coun­try push­ing down our throats,trying to cause great fear to all.
Our media is so full of bull about what is tak­ing place in our ‚none of them speak truth. I got where I turn off these crea­tures from down under.Yes we need change but not the one’s run­ning for Pres­i­dent they can’t even tell the Amer­i­can peo­ple the truth.They are pup­pets on dan­gling string,As you nknow their are 13 familes run­ing this cor­rupt sys­tem what they say goes,the canai­dates run­ing the office is also cor­rupt. Yes Burt it’s time we seniors of this mad house we live under,makes a stand and take our coun­try back from these mongu­rals.
I could write a book on this subject,but that would be a waste of time.
From A senior citizen

bman says

well, here we are. mind­set and atti­tude are every­thing.
believ­ing in our fel­low cit­i­zens and our abil­ity to work and cre­ate value are crit­i­cal.
the sys­tem is no longer the end all.
may we each find peace in each of the moments in the time that is ahead of us.

beth says

I feel that this is just a bunch of bs to make the gov­ern­ment look good when in fact it is going to cause a global melt down and poss­ably job loss and maybe a poss­able holy­cost like another hitler ris­ing. with mil­i­tary roam­ing the streets and hav­ing to be marked with a very chip if you dont take it peo­ple will be shot or pris­oned etc… just another way for the goven­ment to put fear in the soul of peo­ple but on the other hand it just a sign of the times said in rev­e­la­tions in the bible!

Gerry says

Dear Burt.
I do’nt pro­fess to know much about global finances, but, I am a senior on a fixed income and this sit­u­a­tion scares the “bee-gee-bers” out of me! I am liv­ing on gov­ern­ment pen­sion, period, what hap­pens if this cut off? From past expe­ri­ences I know one thing.….THROWING MONEY AT A PROBLEM ONLY DELAYS IT, IT DOES NOT SOLVE IT!!!! I fran­ti­cally that some com­mon sence will somhow prvail.

Helena says

To think pos­i­tive is the bet­ter solu­tion. Cri­sis are the best way to change the sys­tem. I think the time has come to make somet­ing new, to replace the old pat­terns. Maybe we just need a plan and to be united — a col­lec­tive desire of change is already fixed.

Maria Perez says

Dear Burt:

We are liv­ing the causes of the way of think­ing of the col­lec­tive mind, I believe that all of us in the planet should shift the col­lec­tive mind to newthinking.

I would appre­ci­ate that if you have an idea with some exer­cises or some other way to start work­ing, please let me know.

I am will­ing to fol­low for the good of the whole world.

Thank You.

Maria

Peter North says

Hi Burt
Thank you for com­ing up with this. Count me in with what­ever is decided to insti­gate the col­lec­tive con­scious­ness of the group.
Our res­i­dent Social­ist in the UK, Mr Brown, has gone a slightly dif­fer­ent way to the USA, but I hear that they are now fol­low­ing suite by buy­ing shares in the banks! Why? Surely the fat cats bankers, traders and spec­u­la­tors that made obscene profit on the backs of the major­ity of peo­ple should be made to pay for the recov­ery! But, we need a new sys­tem other than the debt dri­ven soci­ety we now have. I per­son­ally would close down all the worlds Stock Exchanges to stop the FAT PIGS from slop­ping any more from the trough!
Good luck and best wishes, from Peter in the UK

Hermine says

DON’T PANIC..EMBRACE THE CHANGE. Let the cur­rent mon­e­tary sys­tem fail so that a new Resource Based Eco­nomic Sys­tem can emerge. This new sys­tem will ben­e­fit ALL.

Carol Harse says

Hi Burt,
I con­tinue my med­i­ta­tions and my focus on bring­ing love, peace and abun­dance for the globe I inhabit.
May your JOY always be as close as your own smile,
Lucky Carol in Paradise

Leola says

Hello Burt,

I am a cit­i­zen of the grand old U.S.A, and I do not fully under­stand all that’s been going on in the Econ­omy world, but I do get this very strong vibe that we’re in major trou­ble, and unfor­tu­nately it doesnt seem like things will get bet­ter in the long run. Some have thrown out sug­ges­tions about what to do about the cri­sis, but they don’t make sense. It is not just our coun­try in this mess, basi­cally it is the whole world, I hope we don’t get into another war.…anything is pos­si­ble. I am a col­lege stu­dent, already heard talks of some not being able to get any more stu­dent loans and such, the wealthy are com­plain­ing about why minori­ties or those with a lesser income should get loans and such try­ing to get into col­lege, when they can not. There are too many things going on all at once, how can we tackle each of them? The most con­cerns are the Econ­omy and the state of the Planet. If I was run­ning, I would say our main goal should be to focus on the issue of Global Warm­ing, because sooner or later all our lives will be at stake…just look at what is going on in third world coun­tries, our East and West coast, the many hur­ri­canes and such, the Arc­tic caps melt­ing at alarm­ingly high rates, you think we’ll make it in the next few years? It will be the like The Day After Tomor­row, minus the ice and snow. But I am get­ting away from the main topic, as for the finan­cial sit­u­a­tion, being a 2nd year col­lege stu­dent, I have a lot of things going for me, yet I have no income, and just barely try­ing to save what lit­tle dineros I have. Jobs, busi­ness are indeed going bad, clos­ing down and-it is tough just even try­ing to get a retail job. You would think that in this time and age, the state we’re in employ­ers would not care who they hire regard­less of race, creed, background…again I wish we were all at peace, have some­how learned to really, truly live together with­out all this mess. Also, yes I totally agree we all need a change, some­thing has to give, yet would Obama be the one to change our future into some­thing bet­ter, for the Peo­ple?? Right now I do not know, but elec­tion day is only a month away. I under­stand very lit­tle of tax, tax pay­ers and incomes, but I under­stand all the wealthy is pretty much hog­ging all the cash us lower class spend just to keep the econ­omy flowing…it isn’t work­ing. What is there to do? I am all for it, so count me in. Peace.

Leola

David says

Unfor­tu­nately, the neg­a­tiv­ity rep­re­sented in all of these com­ments is only adding to the prob­lem. What is our mind­set? When some­thing is writ­ten it actu­ally has even more inher­ent power than the spo­ken word. These are dec­la­ra­tions that are being made, regard­less of the under­stand­ing of the peo­ple mak­ing them. Never write down your fears! It only gives them strength.

My expe­ri­ence with the amer­i­can econ­omy, cor­po­rate greed etc., has not been a pos­i­tive one but, I will not allow my future to be annother casu­alty of oth­ers mis­deeds. I WILL NOT BE THEIR VICTIM!

The cor­po­rate exec­u­tives have sown the seeds of their own destruc­tion, not mine! We need to bring our hearts and minds, our will and intent back around to the pos­i­tive. Look to the solu­tion not the problem.

I see our econ­omy come­ing out of this, begin­ning today! Lets declare the solu­tion! Lack is an illu­sion and I won’t buy into it! Does any­one agree with me?

David

Peter J. says

to TODD SAED ..hmmm I am sur­prise to hear such dia­tribe against cap­i­tal­ism ‚I agre its not th ebest .but I rememebr watch­ing the hor­ror of com­mu­nisn as well ‚remem­ber ?
I per­son­ally am not ter­ri­bly excited or impressed by any sys­tem devised by humans so far .works for a while but sooner or later .…

Bill says

I’ve heard it all before. They just are not telling us the truth, and appear to be imple­ment­ing their secret plan for totalitarianism.

debra says

hi burt I dont have a com­memt as I live in cal­gary canada but I hope it all works out for everyone

Jacobus Jurgens says

Dear Burt,

I think you are doing a won­der­ful job in try­ing to help out dur­ing this extra ordi­nary time in his­tory. My main con­cern is that it seems that we are con­stantly try­ing to fix things AFTER the fact, rather than prop­erly for­ward plan­ning for any even­tu­al­i­ties. So many times when things go wrong, a string of fin­ger point­ing actions occur, instead of find­ing ways how to cor­rect the prob­lems by learn­ing from mis­takes made in the past. Todays hor­ren­dous eco­nomic prob­lem is of global pro­por­tions and has been in the mak­ing for many years. It now has affected so many of us espe­cially the seniors liv­ing of fixed incomes, includ­ing myself. We are now forced to reduce our liv­ing style to insure of what we have left will carry us until the end of our lives, now that we have lost almost HALF of our life­time IRA sav­ings!! Once again, with­out for­ward plan­ning we would not have sur­vived, this cat­a­stro­phy has now forced us to excute the alter­nate plan which include with­draw­ing all our sav­ings until there would be noth­ing left for our chil­dren. Many of our neigh­bors in this senior liv­ing com­mu­nity are in even worse con­di­tions than we are. So, where do we go from here? What lessons if any will we have learned? I am com­ing back at the fin­ger point­ing busi­ness, we as a nation are doing this much to often in any aspect of our daily lifes, pres­i­den­tial can­di­dates are dig­ging deep into the past to come up with detri­men­tal events, this eco­nomic cri­sis has lead to a lot of fin­ger point­ing rather than find­ing accept­able solu­tions to the prob­lem. Every­body is always com­plain­ing rather than offer­ing con­struc­tive ideas on how we could over­come this dif­fi­cult sit­u­a­tion. True, its us who have caused this cri­sis to occur to begin with any­way, but again I say, this is caused because the lack of for­ward plan­ning and not insur­ing that reg­u­la­tions and laws are in place to avoid greedy activ­i­ties to flor­ish in our soci­ety. We got laws to con­demn crim­i­nal activ­i­ties and I con­sider these greedy activ­i­ties crim­i­nal. Burt, I believe in the power of col­lec­tive prayer and pos­i­tive think­ing and I hope that you’ll suc­ceed in your efforts to ini­ti­ate this.

Casimir Bruce says

This whole sit­u­a­tion was inevitable, and we can (if only we could see clearly) come out of this in a bet­ter light. The prob­lem is that we are not address­ing the real issues. If only some­one in author­ity would stand up a say that we as a whole are respon­si­ble and only col­lec­tively can it be solved. Most of us are under the impres­sion that we need lux­u­ries to make our life bet­ter so we spend money that we do not have and there are always some of us ready to oblige for our own ben­e­fits. We move about this soci­ety doing things with no thought of the con­se­quences just so that we can have what we call ours now. I can­not say that any of this is bad because I am aware of my igno­rance, but I will say that it can be used and seen as good because it should make us aware of the results of our actions. Learn­ing is one of the most beau­ti­ful abil­i­ties we have and this is a per­fect oppor­tu­nity. If we can only see this for what it truly is, we can come out of it shin­ing. It is the very thing that we fight to hold on too that is caus­ing the prob­lem and that is our way of life in this and all other soci­eties. Our actions are the true root of the prob­lem if you wish to call it that (a prob­lem) and we have an oppor­tu­nity right now to edu­cate our selves and cre­ate some­thing bet­ter for all. Of course this will not hap­pen now because of our present mind-set. I sup­pose that it will have to get extremely bad for us to finally say, look what we have done. We truly do not know what we are doing.

How the idea of money works is that we spend it sen­si­bly, but spend it we must because it has to keep cir­cu­lat­ing for it true ben­e­fit to manifest.

The bailout may help (but only slightly), but we will be back here again until all of us come to the real­iza­tion that our actions have con­se­quence and only by under­stand­ing the sci­ence in it will we learn to rise above it and cure our ignorance.

There is no greater thing than life itself and until we respect it, serve it, and see its beauty igno­rance will be our way.

Peter J. says

Hi guys ‚dont worry ‚This too shall pass ‚birds sing ‚ocean has waves,clouds pass ‚grass grows ‚peo­ple get born peo­ple die ‚the real life goes on ‚wall street is wall street , pretty drab part of the world all this is ego stuff and will get sorted out ‚hap­pened before ‚will hap­pen again obvi­ously mind stuff real­ity is still real­ity fact is we are still mag­i­cal beings no mat­ter what ‚and there is no telling how this will unfold as the uni­verse is pow­er­ful and we are it ‚it sim­ply IS we need to think our­selves out of this ‚the same way we thought our­selves into it , we need to get back to basics ‚all this is so typ­i­cal and superficial…

Eric says

Dear Burt, Thanks for all of your help­ful insights, I have devoted a great deal of time in research­ing this real­ity as we know it from many dif­fer­ent angles and view points. If we take a closer look at the events hap­pen­ing in our world today it is appar­ent the influ­ences of the dark force lead­ing up to these events. There is also an agenda behind the events, I urge peo­ple to pay attne­tion to where the con­trol seems to end up when the solu­tion has been put in place, there you will begin to find the source of the problem.

I believe that we hve the power to bring about a change for the bet­ter for all peo­ple on earth, for we are all con­nected in some way, when you suf­fer, we all suf­fer and vice versa.

Charles says

Dear Burt,
Thank you for open­ing this dis­cus­sion to us in such dif­fi­cult times. I read some­where the other day that fear is a much more pow­er­ful emo­tion than greed. Fear seems to be rul­ing the day in the econ­omy and soci­ety at large. I hope you can give some guid­ance for those of us who seek to live the awak­ened life.

Marcos says

Dear Burt
I live in Mex­ico the gov­er­ment here sais that we are pro­tected but i think we are not the hole world is havin fin­in­cias problems

todd saed says

Karen , sorry you have not begun to under­stand how cap­i­tal­ism as a philos­phy has been dead one hun­dred and fifty years, and your cul­tural con­di­tion­ing has not been dis­cov­ered, cap­i­tal­ism dam­ages the human spirit, China has a com­mu­nist gov­ern­ment and is the largest cred­i­tor nation in the world, the US is the largest debtor nation in the world, now suck­ing the world into eco­nomic mad­ness as it has done since the Korean war. So even in capitalism’s own archaic terms , it has failed, as the debts pile up, and infla­tion runs up, but all this only under­scores it has been a fail­ure for sixty years for the mil­lions of unem­ployed, those killed in wars, those stripped of free­dom by the largest rate of incar­cer­a­tion in the world, the minori­ties looked down on, still hap­pen­ing, how can you answer all these sim­ple facts, real­ity will soon show you the light, too bad it had to be through the hor­ror of capitalism.

Sharon says

This can be truly fright­en­ing. What to do? Is it naive to think our real­ity is pli­able? That it can be altered?

What lit­tle I know of quan­tum physics encour­ages me as do emails from Burt and oth­ers with his mindset.

Even when things seem over­whelm­ing I keep remem­ber­ing it is our response to them that makes it so.

Get­ting beat-up in beta doesn’t seem very productive.

Like every­one else I’m look­ing for answers and they have to be there.

Look­ing for­ward to the hun­dredth mon­key kick­ing in,
Sharon

Angela Ward says

Dear Burt,
My con­cerns is that the bil­lion, tril­lion dol­lar bill is too big for me to pay. How am I to pay my bills when I am respon­si­ble to pay a tril­lion dol­lar debt? Will I lose my house to pay this bill? Will I lose my job to pay this bill? Will my son lose the oppor­tu­nity to go to college?

I do not watch daily news on TV because it cre­ates fear. Peo­ple watch­ing this focus on the cri­sis and it is man­i­fest­ing what we do not want. My mother says watch­ing the cri­sis on TV gives her stom­ach ache.

At work, I hear every­one and they are fear­ful. I know peo­ple are pulling their money out of banks, sell­ing every­thing they have in the stock mar­ket. Every­one is so scared!!!

Burt, I think peo­ple must get out of the fear. We need to focus and cre­ate the world we want to live in. We could put on our mag­net hats and draw to us what we want for our­selves and our coun­try. We could put on our pos­i­tive view­point glasses and see this in the pos­i­tive light. I AM GOING TO BE OK AND EVERYONE ELSE IS GOING TO BE OK!!! We could focus on wise and hon­est peo­ple to address the cri­sis. Abun­dance. Enough for all. I think it is wise for us to come together and man­i­fest the world we want to live in.

karen says

The U.S. gov­ern­ment caused this whole cri­sis. The hunger the Gov. has for social engi­neer­ing has cause one prob­lem after another . The so called “war on poverty” has caused bil­lions and has only led to the col­lapse of the black fam­ily. If it was a war, poverty won.

The idea that ever­thing desire­able is now a right is sure to lead to other dis­as­ters. The only peo­ple who have a right to a home are the ones who have saved, worked hard and have pre­pared them­selves for that obligation.

The Gov. bailout will make things worse. Cap­i­tal­ism is the only hope for free­dom for us and our chil­dren and it has taken a major hit thru this crisis.

Thru it all though, God is our provider and He doesn’t care what the gov. does.

Charles says

I see almost every­one sees this eco­nomic prob­lem as caused by some­one else. I believe we cause our own prob­lems.
I believe we need to put our own house in order. First, put away all these thoughts of gloom and doom. Look for the good that will come out of these problems.

Years ago I had a busi­ness fail­ure, that took almost every­thing I had. I lost two homes and well over a $100,000 dol­lars. I believed the banks, and the gov­er­ment were cor­rupt, and the world was headed for chaos. My world con­tin­ued to crum­ble for ten years, until I finally learned that you cre­ate the world you live in. Change your thoughts, and you change your world.

There are many oppor­tu­ni­ties here to help each other. Faith in a brighter future, not fear, should be our goal.

Bhupi says

Tough days world­wide. Am sure there will be a turn around soon. When you have to face it, do so and do not loose sleep over it. The guys in charge are surely doing some­thing about it. We will get after them if noth­ing hap­pens soon

mandy says

I live in the U.S. I have 3 kids and run a free ani­mal care ser­vice as well as work 45 plus hours a wk my hus­band also works 50–60 hours a wk and we may be fill­ing bank­ruptcy do to the eco­nomic cri­sis. Taxes in our coun­try are in place to keep the rich richer and the poor poorer. With out a major influ­ence from good things will only get worse. this crunch is being felt every were not just in my coun­try. send love every sec­ond and remove the hate,greed, and fear.

josie says

i’m not really sure what the bail out plan entails. i don’t take too much inter­est in amer­i­can pol­i­tics com­ing from ‘across the pond’ i usu­ally wait till the riples reach here and being such a big pond i always live in hope that they will have fil­tered out by then. of course some things are hap­pen­ing here but some busi­nesses are actu­ally thriving.

but you know i watched a film, Star­man, and he said that what he loved most about the human race is that we are at our best when things are at their worst. one per­son said they would think about grow­ing toma­toes. well if you have a back yard and your neigh­bour dosn’t ask your neigh­bour to help with grow­ing the toma­toes then share the toma­toes. (toma­toes being an analogy)!

Diana says

I feel that this sit­u­a­tion is a just in time cor­rec­tion of an overblown, out of con­trol cycle of greed. I am very happy that the builders are ham­pered from pour­ing con­crete over every bit of green space they encoun­tered (in my area, they would call open space “unde­vel­oped” and would has­ten to “develop” it.) They were build­ing McMan­sions on the spec­u­la­tion that the buy­ers would be there. I am pleased as punch that they are shut down. Also, many many peo­ple who are default­ing on mort­gages are investors who jumped on the money train, and bought prop­er­ties with the inten­tion of “flip­ping” them. TV pro­grams were devoted to this, one of them was Flip This House. It’s a good thing that they must now take a more con­ser­v­a­tive view of life. Water seeks its own level. The pen­du­lum will swing. I am old enough, I saw this same thing hap­pen in early 70’s, with the implo­sion of sav­ings and loans here (Texas). Almost 40 years ago was too long for the cur­rent crop of char­la­tans to remem­ber, so his­tory repeated itself. Life will go on.

Kris says

I’m won­der­ing why the focus in on the sysmp­toms and not the dis­ease. Per­haps if we, as a nation, pulled our atten­tion away from the media and into the ways we har­bor greed, self­ishenss and inac­count­abil­ity in our own lives, and owned up to that, we could see more clearly that our insti­tu­tions and our gov­ern­ment only reflect our­selves. Do I know when enough is enough? Do I look to the future when I take action? Do I hold myself respon­si­ble for the results of my life?
Cer­tainly huge mis­takes have been made. Mis­takes of a mag­ni­tude beyond my under­stand­ing. I feel pow­er­less to make any pos­i­tive dif­fer­ence. But, as the respon­der from Ser­bia pointed out, my home has not been bombed. My fam­ily is alive and well. I have food, shel­ter, cloth­ing, and the love of many peo­ple in my life. For this I am most grate­ful.
The only dif­fer­ence I can make is to move my focus from the prob­lems of the world to the state of my own con­scious­ness. I can hold out the pos­si­bil­ity of a turn­ing of the Amer­i­can peo­ple from ‘gimme’ to ‘what is my part?’. I can hold out the pos­si­bil­ity that our cor­po­ra­tions will become respon­si­ble cit­i­zens, that our politi­cians can use com­mon sense, and that our finan­cial insti­tu­tions will see the lessons and move to change. Pollyanna? Most defi­nately. But it is the only place I can stand and stay sane.
On the plus side — I no longer have to see Paris Hilton on the news!

Christine says

I would like to see all those mil­lions that were paid to the CEO’s , taken back from them. Why should they enjoy , while every­one else is suf­fer­ing and on pins and nee­dles. There should be a cap on those redicules salaries, and they should be account­able.
I’m also in on the col­lec­tive pos­i­tive think­ing, God bless every­one of us..

Tammy says

I watch this stuff on TV and it is defi­nately about wall street and not main street. If the gov­ern­ment con­tin­ues with their plans to bail out these large com­pa­nies, they need to have some sort of plan that they are paid back even if it is just a per­cent­age. The main street are always the ones pay­ing the price .… If I ran my house­hold account like they have been run­ning there busi­ness I know the Gov­ern­ment wouldnt bail me out. If it has to be done, then pay­ment back from the com­pa­nies when they get back on their feet should be part of the solu­tion. We need to stand beside each other and do what we can.

todd saed says

plp.org, not or. , and not abd

todd saed says

Terry
The most bril­liant com­mon sense response ever on the
bail out mess, give the peo­ple the money,obvious, unforu­ately they will not do that, so the US money may become worth­less, and a com­mu­nist type soci­ety emerge some­time later,see plp.or, no money, no wages, no prof­its, each per­son work­ing at what they love, no com­pe­ti­tion except the healthy kind in sports,etc. , love
com­ing nat­u­rally, being real­ized effort­lessly, no racism,
no sex­ism, no war, health care, ratio­nal social being,
and for die hard boomers like me, legal pot, no over­bear­ing bosses, no oil con­sump­tion, no police bru­tal­ity, no brain­wash edu­ca­tion, no reli­gious fanat­ics, no men­tal dis­or­ders, no pris­ons, them on desert recla­ma­tion projects until ready, no divorces , com­mu­nal fam­i­lies, all things pro­vided as needed. It will hap­pen, it is hap­pen­ing, every­thing in his­tory and scrip­tures has pointed to it, but even in a per­fect world and soci­ety , your per­sonal soul, Self, and love is pri­mary, as many have sug­gested here, maybe four hun­dred and twenty seven thou­sand years until the age when all are really spir­its, Vedic time line, so relax and be glad you had a chance to wit­ness the end of the Kali Yuga , a rare priv­i­lege, the chance of hav­ing a human body is the same as that of a tur­tle com­ing up in the ocean, nose through a dough­nut, count­less souls all at one time your brother, sis­ter , mother, or father, and each one a uni­verse, also in the other dimen­sions you exist now , and things like CERN are dis­cov­er­ing this sci­en­tif­i­cally, really no time to worry
The human body is the peak of cre­ation, your des­tiny is real­ized with it to attain Bud­dha­hood, per­fec­tion, self sac­ri­fice is the way, so many here show they know.

mike barnett says

I have watched out econ­omy go from bad to worse after the bailout which in my opin­ion did not work. I would like to see the 700 bil­lion divided amoung the AMERICAN peo­ple, this would inturn let peo­ple buy their homes back and get peo­ple putting money back into the econ­omy, after all thats what the gov­ern­ment wants to really do is buy all the bad mort­gages and wipe the slate clean so the home­owner or AMERICAN peo­ple will start spend­ing money again. Give it to the peo­ple and they will spend it for them­selves and not let some­one else decide how to spend the money that we are going to have to pay back. I have pre­dicted this a long time ago about the demise of the UNITED STATES fail­ing, and if it keeps on with­out the AMERICAN peo­ples help we are all doomed. No con­gress or any PRESIDENT can fix. Its up to us to unite. UNITED WE STAND DIVIDED WE FALL.

Kenneth says

Dear Burt
As a mat­ter of fact I and my fam­ily have never expe­ri­enced being on the top nor mid­dle ways in life. We have always been at the bot­tom try­ing to rise. It appears that each time we are in posi­tion to improve some­thing of this mag­ni­tude occurs. Some thing hin­ders the improve­ment of peo­ple on our level and quite frankly we feel lit­tle of the crunch when it comes.

I feel for those who have had the lux­ury of a good life and the means to enjoy their life, they will be effected the most.

Yes we all will suf­fer some, but if you never had it, you will not miss it. Neg­a­tive or not this is the plain truth.

I will con­tinue to think pos­i­tively as you are teach­ing me to and deal with real­ity as it comes. Unit­ing as you sug­gest is the proper thing to do, and hope­fully turn this econ­omy around. It can be done!!

Respect­fully Sub­mit­ted
Kenneth

todd saed says

Kath­leen, Jose, Rico , June, Terry, Laura, and Richard
Thank you for the mov­ing and pro­found sto­ries, proof there is always hope. I would like to assure you God is real,I was once per­son­ally con­tacted when drafted into the Army, quite over­whelm­ing. Abd none of this mess is real in the absolute sense, a tran­si­tory illu­sion, clean­ing house, the weeds in the mind make it inter­est­ing, and so on the macro level , no fear. I am sure you all know all of this, just reas­sur­ing you , you are not alone, on a per­sonal level either, In the army, and army prison, I expe­ri­enced far worse than any depres­sion can con­jure, and as a Viet Nam Era vet, had another twenty years of hell after that, now a fourth year pro­fes­sor in Korea,and oth­ers did bet­ter than me from lower places, some of my friends did not make it, will be glad to party in the spir­i­tual sky soon, forty years from now, with them. God works.
ON the micro level, things are com­pli­cated, I would sug­gest plp.org to give detailed instruc­tions on action, and Patan­jali, Yogananda ( Burt’s guru), and Dr Evan Wenz’s Tibetan Yoga books, to assure your spir­i­u­tal growth and main­te­nance. Get back to me when you have
expe­ri­enced these, if they con­nected with you. It is all inside , noth­ing in here to grasp or out there, when you look for the mind you can­not find it, so there it is. Do not let these exter­nals fool you, or gurus who take money, and make polit­i­cal or his­tor­i­cal pro­nounce­ments, all scams.

Kenneth says

Dear Burt
as a mat­ter of fact I and my fam­ily have never expe­ri­enced being on the top nor mid­dle ways in life. We have always been at the bot­tom try­ing to rise. It appears that each time we are in posi­tion to improve some­thing of this mag­ni­tude occurs. Some thing hin­ders the improve­ment of peo­ple on our level and quite frankly we feel lit­tle of the crunch when it comes.

I feel for those who have had the lux­ury of a good life and the means to enjoy their life, they will be effected the most.

Yes we all will suf­fer some, but if you never had it, you will not miss it. Neg­a­tive or not this is the plain truth.

I will con­tinue to think pos­i­tively as you are teach­ing me to and deal with real­ity as it comes. Unit­ing as you sug­gest is the proper thing to do, and hope­fully turn thid econ­omy around. It can be done!!

Respect­fully Sub­mit­ted
Kenneth

June Steiner says

I am a PhD, who at 75 finds it still nec­es­sary to work to main­tain a liv­ing. My hus­band is a con­trac­tor who has been fight­ing the econ­omy for the last 9 years and is in a posi­tion of work­ing the rest of his life to pay off the debts incurred dur­ing these kind of times.. All this after being respon­si­ble, spir­i­tual, hard­work­ing peo­ple who have been involved in com­mu­nity work all our adult lives.
Both our pen­sion plans have just about dis­ap­peared. What hap­pens if we can’t make our pay­ments and lose out home, our health insur­ance, our dig­nity. All the while, deci­sions are made against the will of the Amer­i­can peo­ple with­out clar­ity, cre­ativety or con­science. We have put the money back in the hands of those that cre­ated the prob­lem, had our con­ti­tu­tioonal rights taken away, and are now find­ing our con­gress­men threat­ened with mar­tial law if they didn’t vote for the bailout.

Thank you for pro­vid­ing a place where peo­ple can put out their true thoughts and hope­fully peo­ple will read them and wake up from their col­lec­tive trance and lis­ten to their own truth with­out the fear that has been cre­ated to allow the “pow­ers that be” to con­tin­u­ally rob us of our rights because the fear has par­a­lyzed most of the pop­u­la­tion Our very exis­tance is in peril and I ask that each indi­vid­ual set the inen­tion to reignite the morals, the respon­si­bilty and the dig­nity of this nation. Thank you, June Steiner

Richard S. says

every time I type .ca at the end of my email I have a deep patron­age and pride in my coun­try. It is obvi­ously not the US! some words come to mind such as Fedr­eral Reserve Act, banksters, oil, illu­mi­nati, lies

just think­ing out loud i sup­pose. Not that any coun­try is immune to the Big Sleep but all Truth and last­ing change has come from the lit­tle peo­ple with big aware­ness. Let us not be hyp­no­tized by the mass media folks. some­one has to be the hun­dredth mon­kee now don’t they>?

RS

Jose says

Hi,Burt:
One of the ways to fix the eco­nomic is to change people’s mind.This sit­u­a­tion has been brought due to the ambi­tion and stupidity.Why do I say that?Yes,that what it is,making wars which do not have any sense,spending money in other countries,fixing other people’s house when your own needs a lot a repair.I have been affected by this,I have been ter­mi­nated from work,and who knows until when,perhaps definetelly.A change in this coun­try is necessary,but who is going to be capa­ble to change it?I do not think so as long as money is what you see in front of your eyes.Why no to sta­b­lish rela­tions with Cuba,for example?Why to have mil­lions of peo­ple not hav­ing the oppor­tu­nity to live better?It good be a good thing for the coun­try and the rela­tion with others,besides the ben­e­fits that a tourism could bring.When racism,age discrimination,and smarter lead­er­ship leads this country,then is when I may see a change.Meanwhile,this is becom­ing a real mess everyday,getting worst as the time pass.Honestly is needed to fix it,and I don’t see it.

Terry says

Dear Burt, This whole sit­u­a­tion, in a way, comes as no sur­prise, to me. I had read of this kind of a sit­u­a­tion years ago in a book called “How To Pre­pare For The Com­ing Crash.” But noth­ing hap­pened back then. Even though he said many times in the book,“Better to be pre­pared years too soon, than one day too late,” things in the coun­try seemed to be going well. Though it had all laid out to me, with the whole mon­e­tary sys­tem, in the book, I just didn’t let it pen­e­trate all the way through. I know that it’s not good to throw fear food into the feed­ing frenzy, so maybe I’ll just go laugh my ass off at myself for not pay­ing atten­tion. I will pray and send heal­ing energy to the whole sit­u­a­tion, too. Burt, God Bless You.

Laura says

I love this world and I love all the peo­ple and crea­tures in/on it. I feel as if the lead­ers have no idea how to love and care for oth­ers they knew this was com­ing and yet did noth­ing but you can only for­give, for they know not what they do, until now, some­times it takes things like this to cre­ate change for the bet­ter. I believe in all peo­ple and know that we will suc­ceed and fig­ure out a way to make it work.

Thomas says

As a Yank in Ari­zona I would like to give a thanks to all those out­side our coun­try who took the time to write and extend thoughts and prayers. Most of these opinons offer some truth in their assess­ments and each day brings new chal­lenges. Every ancient prophecy in the world has pre­dicted what is hap­pen­ing right now. Ren­der unto Ceasar the things which are Ceasar’s. Turn­ing to God through the pow­er­ful force of med­i­ta­tion is per­haps the best hope in all this. Some of us see all this as inevitable evo­lu­tion in the spir­i­tual rev­o­lu­tion but, it could get messy. The Con­sti­tu­tion and the Bill of Rights is the last thing stand­ing in the way of world dom­i­na­tion by demonic forces that are pulling the strings and orches­trat­ing this whole scene. Europe has laid down and let social­ism take over their con­ti­nent. The Lon­don based Illu­mi­nati have designed this mess and it’s been on the books for decades.If we could gather the angelic force of all the chil­dren in this coun­try and the world, teach them to med­i­tate with sim­ple Hatha meth­ods, we could ele­vate our­selves out of this sit­u­a­tion in the blink of an eye.Turning away from nature in the sense of using chem­i­cals to treat dis­ease, drink­ing asper­tane, sit­ting in front of video games for hours instead of giv­ing thanks to God for the sun and the rain is enough to tick off any cre­ator God. It seems nat­ural that he/she would have to shake things up after watch­ing that for so many years. “And the first shall be made last, and the last first”. Bahau’lah said that we’d be look­ing to the Native Amer­i­can Indi­ans dur­ing this time of trbu­la­tion for guid­ance dur­ing this time. Burt rocks, wouldn’t it be nice if he were on the bal­lot for Pres­i­dent? God’s rich­est bless­ings to every­one involved with this web­site and all its con­tributers. Through the eyes of a child we must know how to see.

The BITCH. says

Wow, wor­ried about what is going to hap­pen to the Amer­i­can peo­ple after he is released from his duty as Pres­i­dent eh?

A full blown depres­sion, or allow­ing banks and the morons who got them­selves into this posi­tion in the first place to get a get out of jail free card? Come on Burt and other ‘smart’ (if there is such a thing) read­ers and view­ers. We all know that let­ting kids run around with­out a good smack on the ass when they need it has got­ten us into this sit­u­a­tion in the first place, and every­one is wait­ing for some­one else to ‘slap them on the wrist’ and tell them that they have been bad, and not to do it again.

This is why I hate amer­i­cans. A won­der­ful lass men­tioned that this IS NOT some­thing new and unfore­seen. It is some­thing that has been an impend­ing doom for quite some time, although with our self­ish ‘me me me’ atti­tudes, we didn’t care to pay attention.

So the recipe to get­ting Amer­ica (and the world… although that’s a lit­tle too much to worry about right now) is to stop the bailout, and let the econ­omy crum­ble. It’s going down, peo­ple are going to lose every­thing, the USA will no longer be a world power, and it’s time for Amer­i­cans’ to face the fact that the world no longer revolves around them.

Enough Said.

- The BITCH -

Rico says

Dear Burt,

I live in Thai­land and as you might know here we have protests oppos­ing the cur­rent gov­ern­ment. It is not as bad as the media shows it and life actu­ally goes on as usual but that’s not the point.

I am glad that this hap­pens here as it shows that there are peo­ple of thought, who resist con­stant blood suck­ing, cor­rup­tion and don’t give in to be “good” (read stu­pid) tax pay­ers financ­ing self­ish inter­ests of indi­vid­u­als, fam­i­lies and groups of people.

If you think the states are dif­fer­ent, think again. It just is more refined and even more mendacious.

The tax payer to bail out the banks and the gov­ern­ment so they can pocket even more and finance their var­i­ous escapades includ­ing war and money mak­ing schemes? What a sad sad joke.

As one of the other posters said: “If you have a plan, let me know.”

Kathleen says

Hi Burt,

What sur­prises me is that this seems to be so unex­pected by so many peo­ple. This has been talked about and for­casted for years, mind you it came about 3–5 years before I thought it would but then you know how things go when you bring in the fact of any­thing mov­ing expo­nen­tially. But every­one seems to be sur­prised that the finan­cial insti­tu­tions lost all this money, CEO’s are mak­ing all this money and we have to pay for it now. Did you just fall onto the planet last night or are you really that stu­pid not to have seen it coming.

We blame the gov­ern­ment, China and India but how many of us look in our mir­ror and say, ‘it was my fault to and I am to blame to’?? I would have to say it would be very few of us that would admit to that fact. It’s the gov­ern­ment, it’s the banks, it’s the CEO’s, it’s the rich!! Are we not the ones that have over extended our­selves in every area of our lives. We have demanded and received, mort­gages of 100–120% on a prop­erty, have we not bought a house beyond our means, have we not demanded to have access to big­ger, bet­ter, faster cars and hol­i­days? Have we not extended our­selves far beyond the reach of our pay­check with credit cards and bank loans? Do we not want our chil­dren to have every­thing we didn’t have and we give it all to them?

And from this we have cre­ated the gen­er­a­tion of ‘self grat­i­fi­ca­tion, instant want and demand mode in all areas of their lives’ in fact its’ the new gen­er­a­tion we have cre­ated called ‘ME’. I want it and I want it now, no wait­ing for a house or a wed­ding, a car or any­thing else. And who are we blam­ing?? Wake up and get the cof­fee brew­ing NOW!!

Then when we have over extended our lives into the vast waste­land of never being able to afford to make min­i­mum mort­gage and credit card pay­ments and due to life chang­ing and inter­est rates jump­ing a per­cent it sends our life into a spi­ral and we can then start whin­ing and cry­ing that it’s every one else to blame except for us cause we can’t make the pay­ments. Or the young lady that gets a loan for a BMW with 22 cents in her bank account and when asked about pay­ing for it she says, so what if I can’t they gave me the loan, they knew I couldn’t pay for it. Hmmmm and who are we blaming??

Yes the gov­ern­ments deserve to be chas­tised for what they have done, they have had an open line of credit, which we gave to them as we never once stood up to them and said. NO MORE, the bank is closed, lets pay off what we owe. No we wanted more, more pro­grams, more wel­fare, more ways to not work. And a lot of peo­ple won’t work at cer­tain jobs or just plain don’t want to work at all and that my friends is why China, India and Rus­sia are going to be the forces to be reck­oned with. Because we are too lazy to do what they will, we are the new slaves. To the gov­ern­ment, the banks, to the new pow­ers and to our­selves, all because we have no back bone, no guts and we are just a melt­ing pot of the shal­low end of the gene pool.

Get off your butts, take your share of the blame and lets move on. We have the chance to re-build the right way, but lets be seri­ous folks. Will it happen??

As a smart per­son I know says. . enough said.

todd saed says

Jim, sorry , saw the Blos­som Child video, even if they
come, and the his­tory of mil­lenar­i­ans shows it to be very unlikely, this love has been since beyond time, takes no exter­nal reminders, human his­tory is a tes­ta­ment to it, and there is seri­ous research in sci­ence and meta­physics that makes that stuff seem silly, do not dis­tract from it.
Tammy , so very inter­est­ing, won­der if you use wild plants
to eat,been research­ing it, enough there it sounds like,
hope you can turn your strug­gle into a daily flow with your work, let the work flow through you and become one with it, am sorry it got harder, but your hon­est spirit is an exam­ple for all, you will have great rewards

Linda says

Hi Burt,
It seems that every­thing is topsy turvy. What I’ve seen so far is: Actions that are sup­posed to work in a cer­tain way, don’t. Logic doesn’t seem to be work­ing the way it should either. Throw­ing money at the prob­lems don’t work. People’s desire for instant grat­i­fi­ca­tion causes the anx­i­ety to run ram­pant. Peo­ple have no idea what to do about this and that thought causes terror.

I don’t know what to do exactly either; how­ever, I do know that the root of the prob­lem is spir­i­tual, not a phys­i­cal or fis­cal prob­lem. It won’t be solved by phys­i­cal means. Not every­one is able or will­ing to believe this, take respon­si­bil­ity, and do the hard work nec­es­sary to look at them­selves squarely and stop the blame game. All, includ­ing myself, have had a hand in this, one way or another. It will take every­one will­ing to put the world back together again.

It’s a scary time. I work in a place where half the peo­ple are look­ing for the Sec­ond Com­ing and the other half are scared wit­less. I don’t know what’s going to hap­pen from day to day. My partner’s IRA goes up and down and all around. We don’t know if he’ll have money left to keep him going. Friends are scared of los­ing their homes, won­der­ing how to pay for their kids col­lege (or their own). I won­der how I’m going to pay for my own stu­dent loans now.

There are so many things that are out of my con­trol it makes my head spin if I take time to think about them. It’s amaz­ing what I thought I had con­trol over and now I see I really never had con­trol over any­thing. Job secu­rity depends on my employ­ers and the mar­ket. The inter­est rates on my cards depends on the banks and the gov­ern­ment. Prices at the gro­cery store and gas pump depends on a vari­ety of other enti­ties. The only thing I do have con­trol over is ME. What I do and how I think, now those are in my con­trol and no one else unless I choose to give away my power. That, Burt, is excit­ing because that means I can change my world. And chang­ing my world is very impor­tant to me. In clos­ing this rather long reply I say I’m ready to help in any way I can to hold our world up in thought­ful love.

info says

For­mer head of the FDIC–the % 700 bil­lion bail out could have been used to cre­ate $7 Tril­lion in lend­ing cap­i­tal –
“I was opposed to the bailout bill, mostly because I don’t think it will work. The banks — tak­ing $700 bil­lion of bad loans out of the banks doesn’t help get banks lend­ing again. It just solves some prob­lems in some banks. And it doesn’t have any lever­age to it. If the Trea­sury were to put that same $700 bil­lion and used that to invest in bank cap­i­tal, the banks can loan $10 for every dol­lar of cap­i­tal, roughly, which means that the Trea­sury would be cre­at­ing $7 tril­lion of new lend­ing capac­ity in the banks. And that is vastly supe­rior to buy­ing $700 bil­lion of prob­lem loans. It just — it will really give some punch to the econ­omy. It will get banks back into the lend­ing busi­ness….. And to do that we need to get some cap­i­tal back in there.”

http://www.prisonplanet.com/run-on-the-system-black-friday.html

Terri says

Here is some­thing for­warded to me. Sounds like a good plan.
Here’s the Fix.

I’m against the $85,000,000,000.00 bailout of AIG. Not includ­ing the rest of the thieves.

Instead, I’m in favor of giv­ing $85,000,000,000 to Amer­ica in
a We Deserve It Dividend.

To make the math sim­ple, let’s assume there are 200,000,000
bonafide U.S. Cit­i­zens 18+.

Our pop­u­la­tion is about 301,000,000 +/- count­ing every man, woman
and child. So 200,000,000 might be a fair stab at adults 18 and up..

So divide 200 mil­lion adults 18+ into $85 bil­lon that equals $425,000.00.

My plan is to give $425,0 00 to every per­son 18+ as a
We Deserve It Dividend.

Of course, it would NOT be tax free.
So let’s assume a tax rate of 30%.

Every indi­vid­ual 18+ has to pay $127,500.00 in taxes.
That sends $25,500,000,000 right back to Uncle Sam.

But it means that every adult 18+ has $297,500.00 in their pocket.
A hus­band and wife has $5 95,000.00.

What would you do with $297,500.00 to $595,000.00 in your fam­ily?
Pay off your mort­gage — hous­ing cri­sis solved.
Repay col­lege loans — what a great boost to new grads
Put away money for col­lege — it’ll be there
Save in a bank — cre­ate money to loan to entre­pre­neurs.
Buy a new car — cre­ate jobs
Invest in the mar­ket — cap­i­tal dri­ves growth
Pay for your parent’s med­ical insur­ance — health care improves
Enable Dead­beat Dads to come clean or else

Remem­ber this is for every adult U S Cit­i­zen 18+ includ­ing the folks
who lost their jobs at Lehman Broth­ers and every other com­pan y
that is cut­ting back. And of course, for those serv­ing in our Armed Forces.
If we’re going to re-distribute wealth let’s really do it…instead of trick­ling out
a puny $1000.00 eco­nomic incen­tive that is being pro­posed by one of our can­di­dates for President.

If we’re going to do an $85 bil­lion bailout, let’s bail out every adult U S Cit­i­zen 18+!

As for AIG — liq­ui­date it.
Sell off its parts.
Let Amer­i­can Gen­eral go back to being Amer­i­can Gen­eral.
Sell off the real estate.
Let the pri­vate sec­tor bar­gain hunters cut it up and clean it up.

Here’s my ratio­nale. We deserve it and AIG doesn’t.

Sure it’s a crazy idea that can work.

But can you imag­ine the Coast-To-Coast Block Party!

How do you spell Eco­nomic Boom?

I trust my fel­low adult Amer­i­cans to know how to use the $85 Bil­lion
We Deserve It Div­i­dend more than the geniuses at AIG or in Wash­ing­ton DC .

And remem­ber, The Fam­ily pla n only really costs $59.5 Bil­lion because $25.5 Bil­lion is returned instantly in taxes to Uncle Sam.

Ahhh…I feel so much bet­ter get­ting that off my chest.

Tom

J Alley says

Hi Burt

Yes, it is dif­fi­cult to main­tain opti­misim when every­thing around us appears to be falling apart.

This will be the sec­ond time my retire­ment has taken such an extreme hit since the dot com crash.

It’s tough for all of us to focus dur­ing these days of total “insta­bil­ity” in the future of what we work for every day of our lives.

Appre­ci­ate your thoughts as they come in my email and help me see things from your per­spec­tive — so what do you think Burt?

Karen says

Hi Bert,
First thanks for all your teach­ings, and the chance to voice all our thoughts.
This will only be a ‘prob­lem’ for those who have placed too high a value on Finance and lived their lives in the mate­r­ial world, for the rest of us spir­i­tual minded folk life will go on the same. It can be likened to the
tower card in Tarot. We all have our unique lessons to learn, I feel it’s impor­tant to not dwell on things we can­not change, and always try to see the pos­i­tive that will come out of every­thing, ‘good’ and ‘bad’. Bless­ings and Light to all,
Karen, Australia

Mario Gunter says

We are in a sit­u­a­tion where SURVIVAL seems to be the main focus, right? So what does the ordi­nary per­son do to deal with all these issues of con­cern? Hier­ar­chy of needs — free­dom > inde­pen­dence > inter­de­pen­dence > depen­dence > slav­ery. Again the view­point is sim­ply an opin­ion of what might be. This sit­u­a­tion calls for a change of direc­tion of motion. Change from a path of destruc­tion to the path of cre­ation. In a world of LIMITLESS pos­si­bil­i­ties, CHOICE allows only ONE result. Each new choice cre­ates a new pos­si­bil­ity / result. “Choose wisely.…said the old man.The future of the bird is in your hand.” (sorry I’m not refer­ring to Burt!)

Jonella says

Hi Burt,
I didn’t watch all the videos — just one was enough! I don’t agree with the gen­eral analy­sis or solu­tions. I love that peo­ple all over the world want to cre­ate some­thing bet­ter! I want to join forces with that!

Andy says

Hi Burt,

Tril­lions of $ sold down on share­mar­kets around the world. Same amount being bought by oth­ers. Banks, insti­tu­tions being centralised.

Manip­u­la­tion, manip­u­la­tion, manip­u­la­tion — some­one want’s to fund a war.

On the brighter side, it makes us all clean up our act and re-invent for what is impor­tant. Gold is refined through burning.

Regards
Andy

Lois says

You have a plan…I want to hear it.

Mike McC. says

Burt, not sure what you’re up to, here’s my 2 cents. I agree with Joe Schofield. Go to work next week, work your best, pay your bills — DON’T WORRY!!! I feel for peo­ple like Katharine Welch who have lost 3/4 of their retire­ment funds after doing every­thing right through life. I’m 49. For some rea­son I never trusted mod­ern finan­cial sys­tems (Stock Mar­ket, tax shel­tered invest­ing –I don’t trust gov­ern­ments). I have a small Reg­is­tered Retire­ment Sav­ings Plan — if I can beat some taxes why not? Guess it’s worth a lit­tle less now — oh well! I’ve expexted to have to work to my death for a long time now. I think that is actu­ally nat­ural — you need to con­tribute for as long as pos­si­ble — as long as health holds out. The mar­kets will cor­rect around the world, we may have to live a bit sim­pler lives. LIFE WILL GO ON! The media will always say the sky is falling — it sells! I guess indi­vid­u­ally we have to com­mit to not worry, be involved and perser­vere — it’s not too com­pli­cated.
Best to all!

Mario Gunter says

Hi Burt and the world! Events hap­pen­ning in one place also has effects in every place. This is Uni­ver­sal Law tak­ing place. All the feed­back thus far is just OPINION of other peo­ple in cir­cu­la­tion. Some are great advise. Some a great sto­ries, although tragic and sad because of the news and hap­pen­ings. And we haven’t talked about floods, hur­ri­canes, tor­na­does, sunami, earth­quake. We humans seem to shift into “fear” mode because of the speed of news cir­cu­la­tion. We should know the truth rather than remain drowned in the sea of neg­a­tiv­ity. A jet plane has not been cre­ated just to look pretty sit­ting on the park­ing lot. A plane is cre­ated to fly high in the sky! Like eagles. We are cre­ated for a pur­pose. TO SOLVE PROBLEMS. Focussing on the prob­lems won’t make it go away. But a world­wide effort, start­ing with just one per­son (you and I and Burt)at a time much can be accomplished.…within 24 hours. If every­one takes a neg­a­tive view the world will be neg­a­tive and that is what this whole scam is about.…to cre­ate destruction.…so as enlight­ened beings we can do the OPPOSITE.…and there is hope yet for this world. Can you see? STOP…GETTING BETTER…YES THAT’S IT!

Tom says

We are expe­ri­enc­ing egos gone wild…! It’s the time for Wis­dom. We are all one.

Maeve says

I am a Cana­dian who is deeply sad­dened by the events and dark times that have been esca­lat­ing over the past 8 years in the USA. I have always admired the courage and tenac­ity of the Amer­i­can peo­ple and believe that enough of the nation is “awake and aware” and will find a way from chaos and fear to re-creation and love. I pray that the cur­rent cri­sis does not cre­ate more strife and strug­gle for those peo­ple who are already marginalized.

Each day that passes presents more news about another coun­try in crisis–today it was Ice­land. It is said that Canada has the most secure banks in the world, and yet this week our stock mar­ket has con­tin­ued to plum­met. Now is time for rad­i­cal changes to our thought processes, per­sonal prac­tices and how we view our world.

David Tucker says

I have no idea what you may want me to do but if it’s to
use our minds more,then i’m all for it.I think that if we all used our col­lec­tive con­scioness to get us through this mess,we would be bet­ter off than not.One mind does great things but a lot of minds together does wonders.

toddsaed says

Marla, Mar­cia, Zolar, John, and Carla
Thank you for your illu­mi­nat­ing and thought­ful responses. They helped calm and direct me, twelve years in Asia have
pro­duced many fraz­zling moments. I want to live in Nor Cal, my home for forty five years, but unac­cept­able jobs and govt pol­icy pre­vented it. I only want to go home,and you have helped point the direc­tion, and you have reminded me the inner and outer can become one , and we will have our envi­ron­men­tal har­mony, let­ting God be us again, the voice of the peo­ple is God I remem­ber hear­ing long ago. Thanks to Burt for the kind and accept­ing space for heal­ing and the tapes. There are too many of us to lose, and we are get­ting direct mes­sages from God now to qual­i­ta­tively break through into our true Selves, rain­bow peo­ple, we are here.

Peter says

Dear Burt,

I first learned about deriv­a­tives in 1993. I was so scared back then, it pushed me into gold. I was run­ning scared for sev­eral years… and can you imag­ing how SMALL the prob­lem was back then, as com­pared to now.

Back then, Clin­ton was Pres­i­dent and he cre­ated the Tech Bub­ble and the start of the Hous­ing Bub­ble — it was the Democ­rats who wanted peo­ple to have easy access to credit, the Fred­die and Fan­nie way. That was the start of the sub-prime garbage.

I think in 2003, Bush wanted to do some­thing about it, but the Democ­rats refused…

I think deriv­a­tives started in the 1970’s or early 1980’s.

I’m no mar­ket or finan­cial his­to­rian. But one man who was present through­out all of these bub­bles… and largely respon­si­ble for cre­at­ing the dis­as­ter, by not reg­u­lat­ing Hedge funds and OTC deriv­a­tives, was Alan Greenspan. Serv­ing his mon­e­tary mas­ters… like a puppet.

Don’t get me wrong — I’m not a Bush fan — I am not from US.

Then entire sys­tem is a fraud. Finan­cial & Government.

God help us!

Please con­tact him quickly.

My warmest regards,
Peter

George says

This too shall pass. Go to level, imag­ine a bet­ter world for us all and cre­ate the kind of world you want to live in. Some peo­ple are going to make mil­lions off this. Get your­self into align­ment with wealth and share in the prof­its. Let your imag­i­na­tion point the way.

TAMMY says

I have moved from the city to the moun­tains as all this first began.I SAW it com­ing along time ago!I live in a tiny 3 room cabin,use wood heat and cook on the stove I heat with.I haul my own water in on the back of my truck in a 300 gal­lon water tank.The water comes from a spring right out of the mountain.I use a pump,water hose and generator.I haul it home,set it hihg on a hill and directly hook it to my house.I have alot of work to do just to eat,bathe,stay warm,ect.All of this is seper­ate from a full time job that only now barely gets me by.I am not com­plain­ing but it sure was alot eas­ier before BUSH.I had a 3 bed­room home in atlanta ga. that had been in the fam­ily for gen­er­a­tions only to loose it and be forced to move where it was a bit more affodable.Now with the elim­i­na­tion of some bills,gas rose,groceries and gen­eral mer­chan­dise rose,Taxes,oh man!!!I for one have been pushed as far as I can go!I say,“NO MORE!“I dont want to live in a tent!I have raised 8 chil­dren and that was hard but this is sickening.Im with you Burt!Tammy

Val says

Burt I’m in!!! Lok­ing for­ward to your guidance.

Maybe it is not too late to elect you President!!!

John says

I really don’t know what you want from me, my thoughts on what to do next is far beyond my knowlege.

How­ever I think it can eather be a good or you may find one morn­ing when you wake that the land of the free is gone for­ever. For this is the man that has already taken your rights to a speedy trial and to have a lawer and to stand in front of a judge away from you just by call­ing you a terrorist.

He is a man that uses fear to make new poli­cies and if I were you I would be won­der­ing if your banks are stu­pid. Or is there some­thing else in your con­sti­tu­toin that he wishes to change before he leaves office.

Linda says

The gov­ern­ment made a big mis­take by bail­ing out Wall Street. Now, accord­ing to pop­u­lar opin­ion, Obama will be our next pres­i­dent and his lying and cor­rupt ways will be lead­ing this coun­try down the tube.
I wrote my rep­re­sen­ta­tive and voiced my objec­tions but he voted for the bailout any­way. He lost my vote. We have to show our offi­cials that it’s time to clean up Wash­ing­ton D.C.

Connie Williams says

I am sin­cerely fright­ened for all of us.

toddsaed says

Dear Mar­cia, Mari,Carla, Praveen, John, and Zoltan
Thank you for your illu­mi­nat­ing and thought pro­vok­ing com­ments, they were very calm­ing and direct­ing for me, liv­ing in Asia twelve years has pro­duced many fraz­zling moments, I want to live in Nor Cal , my home for forty five years, but unac­cept­able jobs and govt poli­cies pre­vent it, just want to go home, and you have pointed in the right direc­tion for me, believe we can make it hap­pen as it should and con­nect the inner to the outer, our envi­ron­men­tal har­mony, and let God be us again, the voice of the peo­ple is God was one idea I remem­ber a bit,.

Joyce Duke says

Hi Burt, I think peo­ple are mis­taken by blam­ing our predica­ment on the last 8 years. Our prob­lems got worse in the 8 years pre­ced­ing them, with Nafta and our tax money being used to help com­pa­nies to relo­cate out­side the United States and so many of the jobs being out­sourced. Gov­ern­ments answer seems to always dip fur­ther into the tax pay­ers pock­ets, but those pock­ets are quickly being depleted. I think we long since reached a state of hav­ing a gov­ern­ment that was not of the peo­ple nor for the peo­ple. How do we get back to sol­vency when gov­ern­ment answers every­thing by throw­ing more money after bad. The sit­u­a­tion on Wall Street reminds me of some­thing. Seems like we are kind of in the bind because as one fel­low said, fin­ish high school and you can prob­a­bly steal a lot from the rail­road, but get a col­lege degree and you can prob­a­bly steal the whole rail­road. Too many over­paid Wall Street CEO’s have
got­ten away with too much too long. What kind of man­age­ment gives a sev­er­ance of mil­lions of dol­lars when the one being sev­ered has usu­ally proved incom­pe­tent for the job?

Teresa Wells says

Although I have no money involved in this mess, I find myself dis­agree­ing with the government’s bailout of Wall My hus­band had a stroke 5 and 1/2 years ago and I have Fibromyal­gia and have been out of work since 06/07. Although Con­gress extended the ben­e­fits for the unem­ployed for 13 weeks. Although it helps, it is still not enough. We spend every penny we have to pay our bills yet no one is offer­ing us more help. If Con­gresshas so much money to bail out Wall Street, then maybe they can send some of that money to those of us who need finan­cial help to buy food, shel­ter, elec­tric­ity, and pay for pre­scrip­tions and Doc­tor vis­its rather than help­ing the fat cats of Wall Street keep their high salaries and other perks. Wall Street needs reform of their prac­tices NOT a bail out so that it’s busi­ness as usual!

mack says

I think lob­bist need to be elim­i­nated and drug test should be required.Perhaps a 12 step pro­gram should be manda­tory for goverment

Bruce says

Hi Burt,

I am another LUCKY Aus­tralian. We appear to be much bet­ter off than most. Hav­ing recently vis­ited U.S., have to say they don’t have “free­dom” even though they think they have. Appears Mr Bush is the worst Pres­i­dent ever. Our pre­vi­ous Prime Min­is­ter Mr. Howard even lost his own seat in the last elec­tion because he was too much a “Bush man !!”. I also vis­ited China 3 years ago. When I returned I said they would rule the world in 10 — 15 years, this will bring them much close. Amer­ica are tril­lions of dol­lars in debt to China. The recent bail out seems to be just to help Wall Street hang on a bit longer. Greedy CEO’s through­out the world (includ­ing Aus­tralia) who col­lect obsecene salaries have caused and will con­tinue to cause sim­i­lar prob­lems unless gov­ern­ments “have the balls” to stop it.
Seems the Democ­rats must win your next elec­tion, but per­son­ally would have pref­ered Hilary Clin­ton as can­di­date, but at the same time no great objec­tion to Mr Obama.

Happy to join with you in any­thing you plan

Stay safe,

Bruce

Rick says

One bailout leads to another. Who is to say that each and every cent of this money will go to pro­tect­ing our inter­ests. With or witout this money the coun­try, make that the world, suf­fers. I think we should have let the whole mess play itself out and fol­lowed up with strict reg­u­la­tion and close mon­i­tor­ing. Good luck to the next pres­i­dent and may our kids have the strength, knowl­edge and patience to regain our for­mer power and wealth.

Gary says

Burt,
For years we have been hear­ing that both sides need to come together in Con­gress. I dis­agree! Both sides need to leave and men and women of integrity, men and women who have moral char­ac­ter, men and women who have val­ues, true ser­vant lead­ers must be put into posi­tions of lead­er­ship in this coun­try. The only true cri­sis that we face today is the lack of lead­er­ship. Cor­rup­tion has started at the top and has fil­tered down all the way into the Amer­i­can house­hold. If we are to fix any­thing, we must first fix our­selves. Once we under­stand truth, then we can work on our Fam­ily, then our com­mu­nity, then our state, our nation, and finally the world. As long as indi­vid­u­als are will­ing to put up with fraud, deceit, dis­hon­esty, dis­loy­alty, the tak­ing of another’s prop­erty, prej­u­dice, class envy and every other form of cor­rup­tion in their own lives, how can we expect any­thing bet­ter from the lead­ers we elect. We get what we ARE, not nec­es­sar­ily what we WANT. And let’s face it, what we have at the top is the amal­ga­ma­tion of the col­lec­tive con­scious­ness of nearly 300 Mil­lion peo­ple. What we need most is for indi­vid­u­als to become aware. As far as the $700 Bil­lion bailout goes, we all know that it will never stop there. When have we ever seen the Fed­eral Gov­ern­ment stop when it writes itself a blank check. Our Gov­ern­ment right now is in the process of a hos­tile takeover of our entire econ­omy while using our money. I have already heard rum­blings of sav­ing the Auto indus­try. So where does it stop? The frenzy at the top sug­gests they have not paused long enough to con­sider the stop­ping point. Those respon­si­ble are never going to take respon­si­bil­ity, and they will con­tinue to point fin­gers of blame away from them­selves. So what is at stake? Free­dom is at stake! The more Gov­ern­ment con­trols, the less free­doms we enjoy. If they raise your taxes, they con­trol a lit­tle more of your free­dom. If they say “TAX the RICH”, they slow the engine of our econ­omy which reduces oppor­tu­nity for employ­ment, and sup­presses Entre­pre­neur­ship which seeks reward in exchange for Risk and Effort. There is a rea­son why the United States has been the leader in Indus­try, inven­tions, pros­per­ity, lifestyle and nearly every other met­ric. It is not because we are bet­ter or smarter, but sim­ply because our Gov­ern­ment has not inter­fered with our lives as much as other coun­tries inter­fere with the lives of their peo­ple. Our coun­try is a vast melt­ing pot of every nation­al­ity, and when peo­ple come here, they pros­per because they are free. Unless we do some­thing to grow lead­ers of integrity from the bot­tom up, we will be left only with vague mem­o­ries of the once great nation where peo­ple were free.

Tim says

Dear Burt:
It’s time to keep track of our thought pat­terns. Your pro­grams have been very pos­i­tive and worth­while. Anger and fear seem to be envelop­ing the entire planet. I am open to your thoughts, reflec­tions and ideas. Thanks

jim farmer says

Oops, typo. In the sec­ond para­graph of my com­ment of 11:06 today, that value of “100” should be “1000”, of course. Sorry.

Leonie says

Hi Burt
Thank you for this oppor­tu­nity to voice my opin­ion. I believe that the peo­ple in charge of these finan­cial insti­tu­tions should all go. How can any com­pany sur­vive and oper­ate with peo­ple who only care about them­selves and prof­its? That’s how they got in this mess.
Adver­tis­ing doesn’t help either. It’s in your face every­where you go, telling us what we need or should have. The banks were only too happy to lend money and give credit.
If we all were grate­ful for what we have and not be greedy maybe things would be dif­fer­ent.
But I also agree that dwelling on it could make it worse.
We need more peo­ple like you Burt who can help guide these unen­light­ened peo­ple.
Now more than ever we all need to be more con­sid­er­ate and lov­ing with each other, more will­ing to help and be patient with one another.
I would be more than will­ing to help in any way.
Bless you

jim farmer says

I read recently that the rea­son that the Great Depres­sion (1929 onwards) was so severe was that the mar­ket was allowed to oper­ate freely. So, it appears that we the cit­i­zens will have to pay in one way or another. Either we pay for a bailout or we suf­fer the costs of a depres­sion. Well, it also appears that we have not learned the other lessons about macro-finances either; in par­tic­u­lar that, in a market-based econ­omy, the own­ers and oper­a­tors of com­pa­nies will push their oper­a­tions to the legal lim­its in order to max­i­mize short-term prof­its. (Think Lin­ear Pro­gram­ming) It is not a mat­ter of us (the work­ers) ver­sus them (the exec­u­tives) really, because the whole cul­ture is imbued with the same counter-productive mind­set of self-interest first and only. So, since it seems that human­ity needs three trau­matic expe­ri­ences within liv­ing mem­ory in order for a sig­nif­i­cant major­ity to change mind­set, let’s let the les­son sink in by not dilut­ing the effects of bad judge­ments. How­ever, once the delin­quent home­own­ers have lost their prop­er­ties, and the irre­spon­si­ble bankers have lost their jobs and their wealth, then we can be com­pas­sion­ate and sup­ply food and shel­ter with funds that the gov­ern­ment will bor­row (for future gen­er­a­tions to pay back, sup­pos­edly.) That, it seems to me, might be the opti­mized plan of action.

Now, let’s not do any­thing before Octo­ber 16th, because a very sig­nif­i­cant event is very likely to occur dur­ing the three-day period end­ing on that date. (Search for “Blos­som Good­child” on the Inter­net and in YouTube. Both myself and another per­son have cal­i­brated the Mes­sage from the Fed­er­a­tion of Light with our dows­ing rods, and we both got 960 out of 100, which is very high.) That event will stun many, many indi­vid­u­als. It might even pro­vide the blow that will reori­ent the preva­lent cur­rent mind­sets towards more con­struc­tive con­cepts and behaviours.

Even­tu­ally, the cur­rent eco­nomic sys­tem will have to change dra­mat­i­cally. Indeed, the changes in both the Earth and Human­ity that will occur in 2012 will cat­alyze fur­ther con­ver­sions of mind­set. A recent chan­nel­ing by Ken Barkin said that the stock mar­ket will cease to exist within 20 years. Well, I sus­pect that it won’t last that long.

OK then, per­haps the nec­es­sary three trau­matic expe­ri­ences are lin­ing up to happen.

LadyExpat says

Hi Burt,

I am not Amer­i­can, but (imo) this is not an Amer­i­can cri­sis. This goes world­wide. What is hap­pen­ing in the United States is vibrat­ing around the world. How the dis­hon­esty and greed of the peo­ple run­ning these banks and finan­cial insti­tu­tions could have gone unno­ticed for so long is mind bog­gling. I doubt it was unno­ticed, sim­ply ignored. This bailout is a joke, and may pro­vide a tem­po­rary fix, but longterm??…I am skeptical.

John says

WE NEED TO CHANGE OUR THOUGHTS PATTERN FROM NEG TO POSITIVE
IT IS NEVER TOO LATE!
DEAR BURT, I KNOW YOU HAVE BEEN AIMING TO RAISE OUR CONSCIOUNESS HIGHER MAYBE THIS IS THE FIRST STEP TOWARDS HIGHER CONSCIOUNESS.. THE FLIPSIDE OF SEEMING BAD IS SEEMING GOOD
WE ARE NOT LATE JUST “RETARDED“
LOVE AND HAPPINESS ARE WITHIN US NOW NOW NOW!

Blake R. P. says

ZOLTAN STUPAR!!!, if you read this, I would like to talk to you. You say you grew up in an orphan­age in Roma­nia? I have a friend who did the same for a few years. It just seems like an odd coin­ci­dence that the only two peo­ple I know who lived in an orphan­age are both from Roma­nia. Please respond to this before I give any con­tact info.

Any­ways, to the real issue.

My mother had a good idea about this and George Bush’s finan­cial advi­sors (if he has any) are the biggest retards in exis­tance if they couldn’t think of this one.

There are a few more than 300 mil­lion peo­ple in the United States. Instead of giv­ing $700 bil­lion to some strug­gling fat cats, why not give ONE mil­lion to each tax-paying cit­i­zen of the United States, but the money goes directly to pay­ing off the mort­gages, bills, taxes, etc. Then, the com­pa­nies are all get­ting their money. How many mort­gages are more than one mil­lion? You could give every­one FIVE mil­lion, and you’re still spend­ing less than two bil­lion dollars.

IS IT REALLY SO HARD, PEOPLE?!

Nora Walters says

I FORGOT TO SAY: “I LOVE YOU BURT”

Vicente Perez says

Well, this is not an amer­i­can issue, it is global. It is not only a mat­ter of who we vote for the next 4 to 8 years, it is a mat­ter of ethics. The par­a­digm doesn’t work any­more and we, all human­ity, have to change our minds, our way of life, our way of liv­ing the life. Do we really need all those gad­gets we buy every time we go to a mall? Is it com­pletly nec­es­sary that we leave the com­puter on all night long and spend­ing elec­tric­ity? Do we want to look at our­selves like “con­sumer goods” or like human beings?

It is gonna be rough, true. But I see this like a won­der­ful oppor­tu­nity to change the par­a­digm, from money and greed to love, gen­eros­ity and light, to live a bet­ter and more peace­ful life, to respect this beau­ti­ful planet. We have to learn, or remem­ber, how to live with­out “need­ing” all those unece­sary objects, com­ing back to earth and to Earth.

Is this maybe the end of the world as we know it? Maybe… and per­haps it could be good news after all.

Bless all, and please, be calm. I’m sure we can do it.

Shawn says

It’s a dif­fi­cult issue, so com­plex that I’m not sure more than a hand­ful of peo­ple REALLY under­stand it. I know I don’t. It’s easy to rail against Wall Street and pity poor Main Street, but the truth is, they are insep­a­ra­ble, as we’re find­ing out. We may want to see a greedy CEO pun­ished, but what about the work­ers in that com­pany? The ones like us? What hap­pens if they get laid off? What about the peo­ple who ship and sell the prod­ucts made by that com­pany? What about the peo­ple who can no longer afford to buy those prod­ucts because the man­u­fac­turer raised the prices to stay afloat. What affects one, affects all.

Of course, I think some of the blame has to also go to the peo­ple out there who spent beyond their means. Just because some­one will loan you money to buy a house you can’t afford doesn’t mean you have to take it. I think we’ve let per­sonal respon­si­bil­ity slide a lit­tle bit and made our­selves into vic­tims a lit­tle bit. “Look what the big bad cor­po­ra­tion did to me, the lit­tle guy.” But there’s some truth to the say­ing “you can’t cheat an hon­est man.”

That said, I find the whole thing as dis­taste­ful as well. I’m try­ing not to fall prey to my biases, or let pol­i­tics play a role–at this point, nei­ther one is going to help much. I think I’ve come to the con­clu­sion that you can teach the CEOs a les­son, or you can try to fix the sit­u­a­tion, but you can’t do both at the same time. There may be other solu­tions that would work bet­ter. Per­haps mak­ing these heads of cor­po­ra­tions take their pen­sions, etc. in the form of com­pany stock–let’s see them buy into the prob­lem just like the stock­hold­ers. Maybe instead of the gov­ern­ment using the money to buy the bad debt (I guess it’s really a “buy­out,” not a “bailout”–we’re likely to end up get­ting a lot of it back down the road.) they could give the money to the home­own­ers, and let them PAY OFF the bad debt, and take the money they were pre­vi­ously spend­ing on mort­gage pay­ments and re-inject it into the fal­ter­ing econ­omy. Would that be “trickle up” economics?

loni says

I am try­ing to fig­ure out why i have not as yet to read any com­ments from canada. Liv­ing next door to a spoiled ele­phant has its moments. Often found…Where it goes we fol­low. To an extent. We are there with our prover­bial shov­els to clean-up after the cir­cus. As the world over well knows we unan­i­mously agree that all peo­ples in this stage of his­tory should be and are treated equally. I am pos­i­tive when i say then,. The only solu­tion is to get back to a col­lec­tive vision.Think it feel it be it. Some­body needs a good old fash­ioned spank.

Lucky Kruse says

Burt,
The only thing I know for sure is not to panic that just makes every­thing worse. As for as join­ing you that is a yes.

Joe says

The dat after the cri­sis hit my employer nul­li­fied my employ­ment con­tract took my brand new raise the first ever recieved in my 7 years and put me on salary. Took away my abil­ity to accrue sick and vaca­tion time as well. I work in a col­lege. With the year clos­ing and the Thanks­giv­ing and Christ­mas hol­i­days approach­ing there will be few shists for me to work in Novem­ber and only 5 in Decem­ber. There is need­less to say a very tight job mar­ket. All your free advice and other emails are of lit­tle use to me now. Got a job ? Wanna send me the mind box set for free? I don’t think either of those will hap­pen because like my Catholic Col­lege you’re run­ning a busi­ness and just can’t afford me. No sur­prise really. I have asked to have you’re emails stopped sev­eral times to no avail. Guess it was best since I got to at least express this before they cut off my inter­net since I can no longer afford it .

Angela says

Hello all,

Wouldn’t it be nice to see the greedy, rich value destroy­ers finally get what’s com­ing to them. Sorry if I sound so cyn­i­cal, but why don’t any of you, espe­cially a fam­ily of four, try liv­ing on no income or help what­so­ever for one year with a two-income fam­ily aver­ag­ing $45,000 per year the ten years prior. I’m here to vouch that it’s not the end of the world. That would be too easy. I really hate for the ones that have no love in their life, because it is the only thing in the uni­verse that is going to you to places money can’t even buy.

Jose says

Hi,Burt.Although I’m not a citizen,I just want to say that eco­nomic prob­lems here is due to the wars this coun­try has like the one in Iraq.I think the best way to live,and every­one in the world,is try­ing to resolve the inter­nal prob­lems first,and keep­ing the noses out of every­one business.I have been affected by this falling eco­nomic because I have been ter­mi­nated from work til jan­u­ary or defenetely,who knows.This lay off given to me,being a superhardworker,makes me feel with a tremen­dous dissapoinment.Things could be much bet­ter when every­one gets together,and hav­ing good rela­tions with some coun­tries like Cuba which has been treated with­out any consideration,and I mean the cuban peo­ple not the Cuban’s goverment.The racism,the age discrimination,and other facts,is mak­ing this coun­try with the need of a great change which is not going to hap­pen that easy due to the men­tal­ity of money that have been cre­ated by generations.

urwhatuwant2b says

A lot of us are get­ting caught in this very sophis­ti­cated trap that has been laid out as David New­man speak of. The pow­ers that be actu­ally know of and are using ancient knowl­edge to accom­plish their goals. The New World Order has been on the draw­ing board for some time. The peo­ple that are try­ing to bring it into exis­tence know that we have the power to make “real­ity” with our very energy; whether we believe it or not. They actu­ally count on us not belieiv­ing it b/c then it is eas­ier to manip­u­late our ener­gies through our emo­tions. The law of attrac­tion is ‘designed’ in such a way that what you con­cen­trate on is brought into your real­ity. Good or bad. Fear is a means of focus­ing that energy. By putting this on the news daily and get­ting the can­di­dates focus on this topic enables them to fur­ther entrench us into their web.
The more you fear and resist with fear then the more you are entan­gled. I’m not telling you not to fight. I’m not telling you not to protest, plant food and pre­pare. I am sug­gest­ing that you not fear them. They are as the Wiz­ard of Oz was; a tiny fee­ble man (men) behind the cur­tain with a loud voice to ener­gize your fear in order to ben­e­fit them. You know that “secret library” in Rome we keep hear­ing so much about. They pass this knowl­edge through higher level par­tic­i­pants of their secret soci­eties. Also they were bold enough to declare favor of their endeavor right in our faces with the phrases: “Annuit Coep­tis” & “Novus Ordo Seclorum”

In order to get through this we will have to come together and help & love one another. To be hon­est this is nec­es­sary to get where we need to be; like the Venus Project. We have to learn to be the “mas­ters” of this realm as we are capa­ble of becoming.

Con­sider this; before a beau­ti­ful and new life is brought into the world a woman goes through the most tur­moil­trous time in her life; rag­ing hom­rones, organs being squeezed, cir­cu­la­tion being slowed, emo­tions caus­ing irra­tional behav­ior, stom­ache and skin being stretched til it irritates/hurts, then con­trac­tions that grow to almost intol­er­a­ble pain, to the drain­ing of the push and dis­com­fort of the pass­ing of new life.

Any mon­e­tary sys­tem is pri­ma­tive and truly unciv­i­lized if you look at it objec­tively. It is the rea­son that our advance­ment of has been stalled. We are all in this together but they divide us to con­quor us.

Live life, don’t just exist, and love strong

Naz

Brian Robson says

Dear Burt and friends,

what has hap­pened in the world over the years has been build­ing up to this point in time, the econ­omy has been shaped and guided to this point, for what rea­son you may ask, well its plain to see, that all the new on the Inter­net about New World Order is not just a fan­tasy, it is real! and becom­ing more appar­ent each day, you only have to look on YOUTUBE to see some truths out there about FEMA, and Con­cen­tra­tion Camps in Amer­ica, and yes that’s right Con­cen­tra­tion Camps, for what pur­pose you may ask? again, you will find the answers on the inter­net, you see peo­ple, the Inter­net has the last free space in which infor­ma­tion can be freely be passed around, well that is for now any­way, as the gov­ern­ments are now plan­ing to set up a full mon­i­tor­ing sys­tem for all text mes­sag­ing, e-mail and phone lines, so if you do have an opin­ion or infor­ma­tion you would like to share with the world, it will be quickly mon­i­tored and closed down, we are head­ing into some­thing so dark, it will be impos­si­ble for you to con­ceive the true Hor­ror of the future events that lay ahead of us all.

for many years I have been inter­ested in the ancient pre­his­tory of mankind, for many years I have been piec­ing this puz­zle together, have you ever heard about why the Amer­i­cans are really in Iraq, well it cer­tainly isn’t just Oil my friend, there is a much big­ger rea­son, what lays beneath the sands and rock deep under the desert in Iraq, is an ancient form of Par­ti­cle Accel­er­a­tor, but there is only one rea­son for it use, it is a Por­tal, along with the one in Tibet, that’s why China is in Tibet, the only real reason.

The CERN Par­ti­cle Accel­er­a­tor in Geneva, is so much more, its a gate­way much more than exper­i­ment­ing the Big Bang, or new forms of power, you know and I know what has been going o for the past 300,000 years, pre­vi­ous to that man was so much more than he is to day, I can show you what I have found, if you should like to look into it.

If you look at this Par­ti­cle Accel­er­a­tor, its some machine this, its not the one in Geneva, but it may have more power in some ways, I watched a pro­gram on Thurs­day about the new one that will be fired up on Wednes­day, the sci­en­tist have many theory’s of what they will cre­ate, many want to try and har­ness it power to cre­ate a new type of power source, etc., but some have said it may open new dimen­sions, who really knows he said, That said, when you look into Telsa exper­i­ments in Elec­tro Mag­netic field Cores, you will find all sorts of weird exper­i­ments, some of which con­tinue today, The Philadel­phia Exper­i­ment, or Project Rain­bow of the 1940s, and the secrets of Mon­tauk Points Camp Hero Air Force Base,

Telsa was way way ahead of his time, many will never really know what he was truly capa­ble of, they say he may have opened up a Por­tal through time using these strong field mag­nets, the only way to visu­alise what he had done, and what this new device is for, is to take two ring mag­nets place one on the top of a wooden table, and one below, they are now pul­ing at one another, yes, now what the sci­en­tists are look­ing at are what’s hap­pen­ing with the par­ti­cles in-between with var­i­ous exper­i­ments, what hap­pens in the mid­dle, between these two Mag­nets, ques­tions some ask, if the physics is right could you pass through this Mag­netic field, now built on a much much grander scale, and tak­ing into account of the earths own mag­netic fields and core, could these exper­i­ments be much much more, I was talk­ing to my good friend about it, he was say­ing there are 5 oth­ers around but not as big, but Amer­ica is work­ing on one even larger that this new one, now why would you need to spend 6 bil­lion dol­lars on just some exper­i­ments into the Big Bang??? take a look at the Z machine below
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/extreme_machines/4212225.html
Last year it pro­duced tem­per­a­tures of 2 bil­lion degrees Kelvin, hot­ter than the inside of the sun. And for its final trick before going offline for an eight-month over­haul, the Z machine gen­er­ated enough pres­sure to melt a dia­mond. now if some said to you they could melt a dia­mond 20 years ago, you may have laughed at them, well maybe in the future we may say the same things about what is hap­pen­ing to day its cer­tainly asks some ques­tions, I’ve got my own the­ory, just as valid a the­ory as these sci­en­tists have, but that as they say, is another Story!!

Kind regards
Brian Rob­son
England

Wendy L. says

Hello Bert,
Could this all have been planned to make way for the New World Order that Bush and past pres­i­dents have spo­ken of, which is just another way to con­trol us all? I used to be a happy pos­i­tive minded per­son until I learned about how con­trolled and manip­u­lated we all are and have been for cen­turies! Just read David Iche’s books to see what has been and is com­ing down. It is time for all of us to wake up and fig­ure out how to get out of the grip of con­trol. The only thing that keeps me bol­stered is know­ing what and who is really in con­trol and it is not man nor woman, thank God. Bless­ings!
Wendy L.
P.S. to Bert…do you know how we can get to the planet that Sri Yuk­teswar is said to be on, accord­ing to Yogananda in Auto­bi­og­ra­phy of a Yogi? I would love to join him and the won­der­ful advanced beings he is teach­ing there or has he moved on? Maybe that is where you are headed too!! :O)

francie says

If cana­di­ans think that this eco­nomic col­lapse will not affect us, we’re in a lot of trou­ble. I live in a very small town in the Yukon Ter­ri­tory, Canada, and have endured gas prices ris­ing from $129.9 Ltr to 169.9 Ltr in a mat­ter of three days. Milk and sta­ples are no longer afford­able, heat­ing a house here for nine months of the year runs into $400.00 to 600.00 a month. Hydro has risen 15–20% every year with no end in sight. this goes on end­lessly while we watch our Pre­miers, Prime Min­is­ters, and oth­ers in power live like pam­pered hogs while the world col­lapses around us. We’re sick of pay­ing for the Pres­i­dent of the United States to play God with our lives. United we stand!

jim says

I’m not in favor of the ceo’s and wal street walk­ing off with mil­lions while the lit­tle guy that made that for them loses every­thing. Let the peo­ple that caused the prob­lem take their fair share of the blame why should top per­son­nel walk off with mil­lions while every­one else in the com­pany loses every­thing. I’ve been through this-the big boys got mil­lions while me and my co work­ers lost their job–many not find­ing jobs or find­ing jobs that paid them as well with ben­e­fits. I’ll help in any way I can. I strongly believe there is a change in con­scious­ness on the way.

docTom says

They should have saved $699Billion by spend­ing $1Billion pros­e­cut­ing all the irre­spon­si­ble and neg­li­gent admin­is­tra­tors and recoup thier out­ra­geous salaries and expenditures.

Bettie Ann says

Those who chose greed and theft over hon­est work, are mostly in cor­po­ra­tions & govt. Not all are bad but the major­ity are only look­ing out for them­selves and their sta­tus quo. Together they orches­trate crises to achieve the changes they want. Intent is ALL. Once we under­stand this, we must use our hon­est intent to open the door to true change for GOOD. We are in school here and we must learn and under­stand our way thru this time of crit­i­cal change. Nice work Burt, bring­ing so many minds together for good. Think Peace, Pros­per­ity and Good Health for the world in gen­eral and for our­selves par­tic­u­larly. Each one of us can help bring these about.
Namaste.

Fab says

Hi,

I just couln’t read all com­ments, only the first dozen I think. All very inter­est­ing and touch­ing, and com­ing from all parts of the world. Nobody from France(except me?).
Dur­ing the past 15 years or so, we have been wit­ness­ing the break­down of social­ism, with East Ger­many being re-unified to West Ger­many, the sep­a­ra­tion of USSR, east­ern Europe turn­ing to mar­ket econ­omy etc. Is it today the end of cap­i­tal­ism? Prob­a­bly not. But his­tory always shows that extremes (ide­olo­gies, prin­ci­ples, author­ity, …) can­not last a very long time. And the nature of the mar­ket econ­omy we have been know­ing for decades will stop (I mean an econ­omy where the mar­ket value of an object, ser­vice or stock has no more con­nec­tion with the value it would have if the pro­ducer of that object would have sold it directly to its user). I’m con­vinced that none of us, we who have left a mes­sage here, will be able to change any­thing in that sit­u­a­tion. But I’m con­vinced that this kind of cri­sis will no longer be pos­si­ble in the future, world­wide insti­tu­tions finan­cial have begun to col­lab­o­rate (for the first time in his­tory to such an extent) and take mea­sures.
All we have to do, as indi­vid­u­als, liv­ing in a democ­racy, is to let our money in our pre­ferred bank, and above all, when it’s time to vote… choose the right guy!
Things will prob­a­bly be tough in the com­ing months, reces­sion will come world­wide. Let’s con­sider this as the con­se­quence of a nec­es­sary adjust­ment to the way human­ity has been car­ry­ing on his busi­ness up to now.

Yours,
Fab

Ljerka says

Dear Burt,

I think it’s again the same old story: The big fish eat the small ones.

Yes,we all have to change. Every­one should try to do some­thing. WE,the peo­ple, have to stop wor­ship­ping the golden calf. It is the pri­mal sin of the mankind.

Regards to you all who want to make a change,

ljerka

Cheri B says

We need to pray, send white light, reiki, and think pos­i­tive. With prayer and pos­i­tive thought like the power of inten­tion and the lost mode of prayer peo­ple with open minds may be able to send some heal­ing to the sit­u­a­tion. I pray the indi­vid­u­als and com­pa­nies are held account­able for resti­tu­tion and that the gov­ern­ment han­dles this money apro­pri­ately. I hope there is account­abil­ity with all spend­ing and peo­ple respect they are being watched. Read the divine matrix it tells how the pos­i­tive thoughts of a crit­i­cal mass can make a change. Peace to all.

Earlene Kirkpatrick says

Dear Burt: In God We Trust, I did not read once in all these com­ments, or Uni­ver­sal Being, Cre­ator in whom we trust. All thoughts were given to man’s thoughts and deed, blame and fear is what I read. I “tried” to read the responses to your request of what is going on with the “Gov­ern­ment?” today and they “scared” me basi­cally for I heard the same “spin” I hear every­day on the T.V. Radio, when I decide to lis­ten to keep abreast and be aware, FEAR — BLAME, Point­ing fin­gers, not tak­ing respon­si­bil­ity for our own indi­vid­ual actions, cre­ations and thoughts. When we point our fin­ger three more point back at us and one points to the Uni­vere, we have for­got­ten that one. In God We Trust has been taken off the new gold dol­lar bill! and it seems out of minds! They have taken away our farm lands, our farm­ers, our food bas­ket, destroyed food crops with poi­sons and we eat, it comes from the sky daily, they have down­sized the golden wheat that gave waves to the fields in the mid­west, the corn as high as an ele­phants eye is no long. they are short for more poi­son yield to feed us. The Amer­ica we knew 40 years ago that all were proud of is all but gone and we allowed, we did not stand up to them and say no and we are now in the mess we are in today.

I read and heard a lot of fear in the arti­cles which only gives energy (fear gives “them” energy also) to what is going on today, this is what “they” intended for indi­vid­u­als to do, “they” have been feed­ing us fear for cen­turies so we would depend on “them” instead of tak­ing respon­si­bil­ity for our­selves! We handed our­selves over to so many insti­tutes we are lost and won­der why we are in the mess we are, sick, our chil­dren with so many envi­ro­men­tal ill­ness, ill­ness unheard of just a few years ago, adults and chil­dren alie, and we still hand them over to oth­ers with­out ques­tion, da, why?…because we do not think for our­selves, we are asleep and we have allowed all this mess, we do/did not stand up for OUR GOD GIVEN RIGHTS. FREE WILL, FREEDOM, SOVEREIGNTY. We brought into all the “LIES” “THEY” have feed us for so many years. “THEY” the pow­ers that be, who know the Truths and how to deceive!

What I read today made me sad, peo­ple blam­ing oth­ers and not look­ing at them­selves, we are to blame, we are also greedy, not just “they”, they sold us a bill of goods and we bought, we bought into the Amer­i­can Dream, chicken in every pot, own your own home, why, lot of headaches and expense goes with that dream, stress, fear, just what “they” wanted, we jumped for joy when we were approved for what­ever loan, credit card,and WE used to the hilt, they socked it to us with Inter­est rates, WE devel­oped WALL STREET with OUR GREED! This does not make me happy or sat­is­fied to voice my thoughts, how­ever, TRUTH is TRUTH, it may not be your truth but it is mine and still TRUTH, and we all know how hard it is to hear Truth. It is not easy for me to real­ize I cre­ated this also with my greed. I have the right still to voice my opin­ion for feel it is time we “wake up” and take respon­si­bil­ity for what we cre­ated, a HUGE MONSTER that has been run­ning over us “surfs” for a long time. Cre­ated from FEAR!

WE CREATED this mess, we allowed, for we are Cre­ators of Our Own Des­tiny! Remember…Genesis 1:26: And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our like­ness: and let them have domin­ion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cat­tle, and over all the earth, and over every creep­ing thing that creep­eth upon the earth.(We took that lit­er­ally, and look what we did) Gen­e­sis 1:26 So God cre­ated man in his OWN IMAGE, (we are Cre­ators?) In the image of God Cre­ated he him; male and female cre­ated he them. So if we are Cre­ators did WE not cre­ate this whole mess? We gave away to oth­ers our God Given Rights, allowed pray to be taken out of the whole com­mu­nity, ohters to tell us how we pray to our Cre­ator, allowed reli­gious activ­i­ties to Be cur­tailed, WE ALLOWED, so WE CREATED!

WE allowed the hap­pen­ing of today to take place, We stood by while these peo­ple took away our rights, “they” knew what they were doing, they made us weak and pit­ted us against each other and we retired into our homes,hide behind fences and for­got about com­mu­ni­ties and being kind to neigh­bors and help rais­ing our neig­bor­hood chil­dren, and we won­der why we are in the mess we are today. We torn down the clothes lines in our back yards, our alleys so builders could put more houses on the land and get richer, we allowed, moth­ers no longer con­versed to one another,heck, we do not even smile at peo­ple any more or our­selves, we hide our heads in the sand. and we became depen­dent on “them”, more “ser­vices” to ser­vice us, “they” knew would hap­pen, you do not have to destroy Amer­ica with bombs, destroy the fam­ily unity,community pride, rela­tion­ships, they did, they made moth­ers go to work, leav­ing the home and chil­dren so they could have their big fancy homes, big gas guzzel­ing cars, expen­sive vaca­tion, things we do not need, fancy clothes, food, pay the taxes, we cre­ated by moth­ers going to work and mak­ing a salary? So, who cre­ated this mess, it was not just the gov­ern­ment, the Mort­gage com­pa­nies, etc, we did with OUR GREED! OUR GREED, take the responsibility,and we are liv­ing the real­ity of this greed and expe­ri­enc­ing the results. Do we live with it or do we do something?

Our Fore­fa­thers are not just rolling over in their graves, they are not rec­og­niz­ing us as part of the Amer­ica they gave up so much to form, how many of you know what hap­pened to their fam­i­lies after sign­ing the doc­u­ments we are allow­ing to be destroyed today. They made mistake’s, they were “man”, there was greed then also, but the major­ity lost every­thing they had when they signed the Dec­la­ra­tion of Inde­pen­dence and our Con­sti­tu­tion. There has been greed in the world for­ever sadly and we have laid down and allowed because we wished to be taken care of and have OUR GREED! The stronger pre­vail, should we not ask why? We allowed! We chose to call them “our dreams” and they cap­i­tal­ized on this greed of ours. We turned our­selves over to the gov­ern­ment and the med­ical gurus, and all oth­ers, all of which are killing us daily with chem­i­cals and tox­ins, “dumb­ing” us down to where we write the words and excuses and blam­ing of oth­ers, I read above. “Dumbing-down” starts in our schools, our pre-schools and we put our chil­dren there because we have to go to work for oth­ers, make them money, we pay dearly for this and they become dumbed down and we turn the rais­ing of our chil­dren over to oth­ers, we cre­ated this mess! We allowed, take the respon­si­bilty and do some­thing about it. Wake UP!

Burt, I am not con­demn­ing any­one for their words and lack of under­stand­ing of what is really going on for most are asleep and choose not to look in the mir­ror at them­selves, the mir­ror shows us who we are IF we would but open our eyes and really look and let go of the ego and the; “I am bet­ter than every­one else, just look at me, my expen­sive what-ever”,I have more things I con­tribute to the mess we are in, but they do not see this. I know what they are expe­ri­enc­ing and think­ing for they have been pro­grammed into these think­ing pat­terns over many years of false adver­tis­ing and slo­gans and there are those who are bet­ter and more deserv­ing than oth­ers. IF we truly believe the Bible this is not what God told us, no one is bet­ter than any­one else. Believe it!

I, how­ever, was sur­prises to hear these words on your site with all you have taught us and oth­ers and what peo­ple pro­fess with their mouths, are they just words? Spin, like the Gov­ern­ment feeds us and we feed our­selves daily!. I read “col­lec­tive minds” where are they, yes, we are col­lec­tive minds that have been pro­gramed with FEAR (false evi­dence appear­ing real) and we have reacted to this fear for so many years and passed it down to our chil­dren and this is the results we live in today. WE CREATED THIS WORLD WE LIVE IN! TRUTH, we sat back, closed our hearts and mind and now we are faced with what we cre­ated. Bail-out, bail out of what, Greed, Self­ish­ness, Ego, no, it just continues.

There were more writ­ing from out of coun­try than from our United States, why? I have spo­ken my truth, I was born in the big mid-west, basi­cally more shel­tered than those on the coasts from the per­ils of that time, after the Great Depres­sion, 1934, I lived and saw the lack and per­ils of that time, how peo­ple lived, they did not have much, but they had each other, they United, they helped each other, there were peo­ple who “preyed” on the down and outs, they climbed over their backs with their greed, took advan­tage of oth­ers, used them and we allowed. The Rich became rich because we allowed them to put us down, to use us, we gave our­selves and rights away. We allowed the “Mid­dle Amer­i­cans” to be lost, yet, we sup­port “them” with our efforts, HM! Some­thing is wrong with this pic­ture. What are they going to do with­out the worker bees? We forgot…ALL MEN ARE EQUAL, BORN IN THE IMAGE OF GOD, we forgot…

NOW, what are we going to do, get our heads out of the sand, wake up, stand up for our rights I pray, the huge homes,cars, build­ings are all images glar­ing back at us for what we have traded our God Given Rights for, are these peo­ple happy, most of them no, they keep tak­ing to feed their unhap­pi­ness, big­ger, big­ger, destroy towns, views of Nature, destroy Mother Earth, they have no feel­ings for them­selves let alone oth­ers, they are “dead” and have cre­ated a very unreal world, Mak­ing a Mil­lion dol­lars a day, what do you do with that, buy more “THINGS” kill more of our young men and women to feed their ego and greed. “they” have no feel­ings, they love the Golden Idol, when are we going to destory them and take back our life on Earth? This is the world we are liv­ing in at this time. Do you like it?

It is not George Bush, or any other per­son in the Gov­ern­ment, any other Pres­i­dent past, present, future, they are only doing what we have allowed, what they were taught and told to do for we ALLOWED, we CREATED this GREED! IT is our mess and we as Cre­ator are to clean it up! Are you up to it?

We are payng big time, the Gov­ern­ment will make more money, bor­row from other coun­tries to keep the Amer­i­can Dream alive, are you not tired of hear­ing this, where is it, our Planet is erod­ing, our cities are in dire destruc­tion, our small towns have been goobled up,Mom and Pop lost their busi­nesses cre­ated for the com­mu­nity, to greed of big­ger greed, where is the Amer­i­can Dream? that got lost after the Sec­ond World War, the baby boomers got what they wanted, par­ents wished to give them more than they had, for­get­ting what this could do and learn­ing from the past civ­i­liza­tions. MORE! never sat­is­fied and we Allowed, we Cre­ated this mess, get over it, accept and quite com­plain­ing what you cre­ated or do some­thing. Stop feel­ing sorry for your­selves and get out of fear, you reside on this Beau­ti­ful Planet that the Cre­ator gave to us, so says the Bible, WE are the Keep­ers of this Beau­ti­ful Emer­ald Planet and look what we have done to it and allowed to hap­pen to Planet Earth and our­selves. Many stopped doing for them­selves and relied on the serfs to do the work for them while they played and became weak and none think­ing. Sound harsh, but true? We are a sick nation for we do not take respon­si­bil­ity for our­selves so we dete­ri­ote! Ever thought of that and think oth­ers are bet­ter than us, bull!

WAKE UP, take up the cause, we must Share This Cause, We Cre­ated It. “THEY” are killing us daily with chem­i­cals falling from the sky daily, our food and med­ical chain. This so-called crises is keep­ing your eyes and minds daily off of the really impor­tant CRISIS,Your Sur­vivial? YOUR LIFE is in DANGER, are you aware of this, not just your pocket book, this is seri­ous but not the big issue today. YOUR LIFE, YOUR FAMILIES, YOUR CHILRENS, our PLANET,“We are allow­ing them to destroy all. So the Stock Mar­ket is falling, so what, YOU are falling, which is more impor­tant? Solu­tion, we help each other, we take respon­si­bil­ity for our­selves, there are ways, we do not have to depend on the idols we have given our life’s to, we were given every­thing on this planet to sur­vive, “they” just can­not patent and make money on things given by God, so they “rub” God out of the pic­ture and we thought Capone was bad?

Burt, this is lengthy and I prob­a­bly will make lots of peo­ple very unhappy IF you allow my writ­ing to stay on the site. Wish I had a copy of this, it came from deep inside and had to be said. I pray you believe in the Truth of what is hap­pen­ing to day and what we have cre­ated we can uncre­ate. Our Col­lec­tive Minds are dam­aged, we are not think­ing, we have become pup­pets and “they” pro­gram and wind us up each and every day with FEAR!

Thank you. We Cre­ated this mess and WE can have the abil­ity and right to Cre­ate a bet­ter world when we decide to clear our minds, clean our minds add bod­ies. WE are the CREATORS!

Thank you to all who read and under­stand what is hap­pen­ing to our Beau­ti­ful Planet and our­selves. Love to all and We are Cre­ators! Let’s ALL Cre­ate Together the Par­adise that was once given to us. Earlene

fiona says

i won­der how the bank writ­ers, think that they will be able to sort this whole mess out on their own.
Peo­ple need to keep an eye on there money…But they pre­fer to live their lives on auto pilot.… So, blame the goven­ment for their own short com­ings.
Get a life.

Civ.lunrest.…..Think peace instead
lal

Bill henderson says

Burt. I am a Cana­dian and I feel this is a long over due adjust­ment to a coun­try that felt it deserved to live high on the hog. This was all cre­ated by peo­ple who wanted to brag to the world how powe­ful they were even if it meant doing some­thing as stupit as giv­ing mort­gages to peo­ple who could not afford them. How did they expect peo­ple to make the monthly pay­ments — win a loto? I feel we should have let the bad guys go under and start to build an econ­omy that hinges on truth and aford­abil­ity not greed. I was raised to pay my bills and bud­get accord­ingly — see any­thing wrong with that? We watch the world very closely and have friends all over this planet. we do not live in a bub­ble. Wake up Amer­ica and try work­ing with the truth. let com­mon sense and a love for the Cre­ator who I’m sure will point us in the right direc­tion. You will reap what you sow. In clos­ing let me make this state­ment — I love all the peo­ple in this world and wish every­one noth­ing but good things. God Bless you all.
Bill

Vasudev says

The whole episode of the US finan­cial melt­down is going to be a hor­ri­ble legacy for the incom­ing admin­is­tra­tion to address and the Bushes must per­fect its rem­edy before quit­ting office. In this age of hypocrisy and fight­ing, I’m not at all sur­prise of any eco­nomic down­turn when over the past eight years there was too much “devo­tion” to sky­rock­et­ing war bud­get. Obvi­ously there is no lack­ing in the uni­verse except virtues. Let’s be pre­pared for the worst and this is no pes­simism. Requital epis­te­mol­ogy holds sway but let’s be a lit­tle holistic.

Vladimir Deming says

What can I say? I came to US 33 years ago and every year I saw how things become worst and worst. I feel pain and shame, watch­ing how greed and stu­pid­ity little-by-little killing the coun­try, which has everething to be the best in the world.
For­give me for beeng straight forward.

Ben says

Hello all,

Well indeed the sit­u­a­tion in Amer­ica has poten­tially grave con­se­quences for us all in and out of the US. I am from Eng­land and i know full well the squeeze is being felt there too. Sadly this sit­u­a­tion is noth­ing new and is inevitably designed to ben­e­fit the peo­ple at the very top of the money pile i would thus like to draw your atten­tion to this infor­ma­tion about the fed­eral reserve sys­tem, about how it is a pri­vately (not state) owned bank that is actu­ally ille­gal under the constitution.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dmPchuXIXQ

This link is the first of 5 short videos on youtube that make up one chap­ter (of a poten­tially very impor­tant doc­u­men­tary). This chap­ter explains how the mon­e­tary sys­tem of the US came into being and i feel it is cru­cial to us all to under­stand the cur­rent sit­u­a­tion. The film in my opin­ion is very pow­er­ful how­ever, in abso­lutly no way am i using Burt’s Blog to pro­mote the film in its entirety just the sec­tion about the fed­eral reserve. I have no wish to start philo­soph­i­cal debate, espe­cially here.

That said my con­scious­ness is with yours and all of Amer­ica 100% and i have no doubt in my mind we will all be able to make a totally pos­i­tive change for best.

Love to everyone

Ben:)

jm says

I don’t have the heart to read every one of these sober­ing com­ments, as I feel sick about the entire set of cir­cum­stances already. The foxes have been in the hen­house a long time, and I guess we shouldn’t be sur­prised at the car­nage. Burt, help us, please. Let us know what you think is a pos­i­tive, effec­tive action to take for what now must lit­er­ally be global heal­ing. I’ll par­tic­i­pate, I promise.

Denise says

Hi Burt. I wont go into the ‘reli­gious’ side of this, as accord­ing to some,it is already proph­e­sized, and writ­ten in a book that has been trans­lated the same way, for 100’s of years. Nor, will i get into polit­i­cal, as i am not edu­cated enough, and just a basic une­d­u­cated opin­ion, is a beau­ti­ful right, but..useless.

We can all see we are in BIG trou­ble. Now it is being felt world­wide, is not just the US. I do not claim a polit­i­cal party, because it is the integrity and at least ‘reported’ ideals of the per­son run­ning, i could care less who the party is. But for the first time in my life? I am afraid of this elec­tion. NEITHER side is qual­i­fied in my sight. But, while Rea­gan was an actor who became pres­i­dent, and while not per­fect, did much for our ‘state of being’ as the US. NONE of the politi­cians are per­fect. THE prob­lem i see is yes, greed.
They are over­paid, over­com­pen­sated, and the gen­eral pub­lic truly has NO CLUE as to what REALLY is hap­pen­ing, it is intended that way. We could have alter­na­tive energy, but they ‘feel’ every­one feels enti­tled to put it at a level that 90% of soci­ety can not reach. The mon­grels on wall street, and gov­ern­ment? They are not going to let loose of their extrav­a­gant lifestyles, for God’s sake we play mil­lions of dol­lars to some guy to play sports!!! While 50% or more cant make their house pymt. or put their kids thru school, so they can make a bet­ter liv­ing. Banks? what if they worked out a sit­u­a­tion in ‘real life’ terms to keep peo­ple in their homes, yes…perhaps a reduc­tion in inter­est to make their loan pymt. pos­si­ble? Sure, they might not make quite as much, but isn’t hav­ing the loan paid at all MUCH more sense than kick­ing them out on the street, while the home sits there, with­out NO ONE pay­ing for it, then sell it a ridicu­lous price, which the loan co’s. have ALREADY lost money? What is truly wrong with humanitie’s con­cious IS what IS caus­ing this. This ME for ME men­tal­ity will destroy EVERYONE. If every­one would ‘give’ a lit­tle, than the ALL of us would sur­vive, but you have to CARE first. The Big Guys, are only Big, because of all of us ‘lit­tle peo­ple’ made them, you destroy the lit­tle peo­ple — = 90% of human­ity, you will have NO Big Guys. Come on world we are being given a divine call, please let us not ignore it, for the giv­ing and car­ing of our ‘fel­low brother/sister’s’, IS THE ONLY WAY WE OURSELVES are assured a future — of any kind.
Thank you, and God be with us all, whomever you call it.

zoltan stupar says

INCOMPETENCE OR GREED? WICH ONE IS THE TRUE FACE OF AMERICA NOW? ONLY TOOK 8 YEARS TO CHANGE THE IMAGE OF THIS BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY IN WHAT IT IS TODAY UNDER THE GOVERMENT OF BUSH‘S GANG, WHO LOOKED MORE FOR A PERSONAL VENDETA AGAINST SADAM HUSEIN THAN THE INTEREST OF THE PEOPLE WHO ELECTED THEM IN THE OFFICE.SO WHAT WE LEARNED FROM THIS?
IT IS TIME MAYBE, TO GET ON THE STREETS SO WE CAN BE HEARD AND NOT LISTENING TO OBAMA OR MCCAIN CHANGING LIES ON OUR EXPENSE AND IN THE END TAIKING CARE ONLY OF THEIR OWN.I CAME FROM ROMANIA,I GREW-UP IN THE ORPHANAGE AND I LEARNED THAT ONLY THE BIGGEST EXPENSE COULD CHANGE THIS BEHAVIOR OF THE gov­er­ment WHO WAS CHOOSE FROM US TO SERVE US NOT TO ABUSE US,AND THAT IS– BLOOD !!!!!!!

Susaneve says

There doesn’t seem to be much point in com­plain­ing about some­thing that has already occurred. My feel­ing is that we (as a nation) need a shift in conciouness.

OK…we’re in this mess. What we need to be focus­ing on is a viable method of repair. We seem to be stuck in the insan­ity of “doing the same thing over again, yet expect­ing dif­fer­ent results.”

I think pretty much every­thing has been said. Meaning…we all seem to be on the same page, here. Let’s start looking/manifesting some solutions.

David W. Dwight says

My retire­ment sav­ings (in an IRA) are decreas­ing rapidly. And they are becom­ing worth less because we are headed into a time of double-digit infla­tion, which will hurt those on fixed incomes (e.g. enti­tle­ment pro­grams) the most. In fact, enti­tle­ment pro­grams (Social Secu­rity, Medicare, etc.) prob­a­bly are high on the list of expen­di­tures to be cut.
How­ever the finan­cial cri­sis turns out, the world will soon be fac­ing another, more seri­ous cri­sis: the dwin­dling sup­ply of oil. Huge invest­ments in alter­na­tive energy sources must be put in place NOW in order to avert a global col­lapse of civ­i­liza­tion as we know it. It would be wise for every­one to look back at the way food, energy and lifestyles were in the pre-automobile USA, and begin doing every­thing they can to pre­pare them­selves for major Downsizing.

Vierotchka says

In my opin­ion, shared by many lucid peo­ple, this is a planned global col­lapse in order to bring not only the USA but the whole world under the con­trol of the neo­cons. It ben­e­fits 1% (at most) of the US’s and the world’s elite pop­u­la­tion. But I think that the neo­cons will find that it is impos­si­ble to keep 6.5 bil­lion peo­ple in slav­ery and under their con­trol. They are bit­ing far more than they can chew. I have seen this being put in place ever since Bush took office in 2001.

There are brave, intel­li­gent and lucid peo­ple who have seen this com­ing and have been warn­ing us for years. One of them is Naomi Wolf — her lat­est video is a must watch:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XgkeTanCGI&fmt=18

Peo­ple in afflu­ent coun­tries will have to learn to sur­vive and make do with the bare essen­tials, to live sim­ply and to con­nect with their neigh­bors so as to come together and help each other out, to cre­ate col­lec­tive gar­dens so as to ensure there is enough food for every­one in their group. Bar­ter­ing will largely replace money, too. This is the death of the self­ish, destruc­tive old ways and an oppor­tu­nity for pos­i­tive new ways to arise.

A great many peo­ple will hurt, world-wide, and a great many peo­ple will know hunger and even famine — it is up to the stronger among us to help the weaker and most vul­ner­a­ble among us. Human­ity is resilient, it will sur­vive, but many peo­ple won’t.

It is also con­di­tions that will allow a great many peo­ple to wake up, to exam­ine their lives and to rearrange their priorities.

Night is at its dark­est just before dawn.

Carla Kane says

Hi Burt,

I am an ordi­nary work­ing wife and mother. I have very lit­tle knowl­edge of finan­cial stuff. In my opin­ion, the world needs to STOP, take a deep breath and calm down.
The world lead­ers should sit down, for­get prej­u­dice and petty squab­bles, put their heads together and face the fact the world we once knew is gone and it’s time to start again.
All of the most promi­nent peace keep­ers and whole brain thinkers need to inter­vene here and start demand­ing to be heard.
I am from Ire­land and what is hap­pen­ing here is just like slip­ping back in time to the reces­sion here in the eight­ies. I don’t want to go back­wards, it’s time to move on. The human being may have evolved phsy­cally but we haven’t even scratched the sur­face of what the men­tal and emo­tional pos­si­bil­i­tys evo­lu­tion has for us.
Count me in what­ever you need I will help.

marcia says

I believe that all this was meant to hap­pen and no one has any­thing to fear.No I am not a mil­lion­aire, I live in uk I have a full time job and have a mort­gage. I feel it is time for a ‘clear out‘ ready for our new future, the future we want.We are in a stronger posi­tion as a col­lec­tive, to change this world for the good. I do not lis­ten to the news, that way I dont become part of it. I dont put myself in a posi­tion where I give thoughts and feel­ings to the sit­u­a­tion, instead, my thoughts are on peace, love and heal­ing to all liv­ing things. I hope you will join me.
Marcia

Karen Gill says

Hi Burt,
I’m the Bro­ker Owner of Cold­well Banker Town & Coun­try Real Estate in Brighton, Michi­gan. You can only imag­ine how all of this has affected my area. I think good can come out of this, if we as cit­i­zens keep ask­ing ques­tions and not set­tle for what we’ve set­tled for in the past. The pen­du­lum always swings back the other way, it was so good (we thought) for a long time, and now we are deal­ing with the after­math of a mar­ket that did not improve as it has in the past. It’s really sad to meet with dif­fer­ent sell­ers and hear their finan­cial losses, job losses, and their loss of hope. But we knew this was com­ing even­tu­ally, apprasials com­ing in 25% higher than the home was worth so a home­owner could take 100% of the equity out. Houses have been used as ATM’s and now the houses are not worth what is owed, we’ve seen that hap­pen all the time. The bailout is like putting bub­blegum on a leak in the hover dam. The up side is, peo­ple are look­ing inward and look­ing at what is really impor­tant in their lives.
The greedy always reap what they sow, it’s uni­ver­sal.
As peo­ple of the earth we need to think peace, hope, and light to all in pos­i­tive affir­ma­tions daily.
Col­lec­tively we can all make the change hap­pen!
Karen

Shelley says

Dear Burt,

It seems ter­ri­ble, yet it is an oppor­tu­nity for change. My par­ents lived in the Great Depres­sion yet they got enough to eat and were happy. I learned to try to live in a bal­anced way. What­ever hap­pens, it doesn’t help to worry. I’m happy to help any way I can.

Bless­ings,
–Shelley

Pascal says

HI BURT,

I’m a French cit­i­zen and can con­firm that the now the whole planet is in cri­sis and the tax pay­ers here are going to pay (dur­ing sev­eral years I guess) to clean the mess.
This is the end of a way of life, but I’d like to stress, the begin­ning of some­thing new.
And I’d sure love the new thing being bet­ter than the old one.
Maybe we can do some­thing about that?

Pas­cal

Veronica says

Hi Burt

This is a time for clean­ing on a global scale. Yes count me in, I am ready to help you fol­low the col­lec­tive con­scious­ness, and raise aware­ness to make a dif­fer­ence. This depres­sion is all neg­a­tive thinking.

Dr. David H. says

Every­body thinks the present state of our econ­omy is the Pres­i­dents fault, but the decline started as soon as we had a demo­c­ra­tic major­ity in con­gress. The Pres­i­dent is a fig­ure­head and can­not do much of any­thing with­out con­gres­sional approval. Even now the democ­rates are about to give $50 Bil­lion away to some African coun­tries and the still have there give away pro­gram of $700 Bil­lion they give(not loan, give)to coun­tries that hate us EVERY YEAR. And on top of that, the amount of intrest banks charges is over 100%(just look at your loan amount and then look at how much you will have paid when you get it paid off).

Deena says

As I read, and watch all of the neg­a­tive and widely pub­li­cised news about the finan­cial cri­sis, war, peo­ple los­ing their homes etc., I feel that this is a per­fect oppor­tu­nity for us RIGHT NOW, to be of ser­vice to each other!
Some­how, peo­ple every­where need to be edu­cated on the power of inten­tion and what WE can change on a col­lec­tive and spir­i­tual level. I’m with you, Burt!

Marian says

Hello every­body, how teri­ble it is whats hap­pend with the cricis not only in the US it is global. There is only one thing .…if whe keep focussing on the cri­sis it will be more teri­ble. Bet­ter is to focus on the good things, how dif­fecult is may be. Focus on love com­mit­ment, dialoge, hap­pi­ness, health.…

Dave W says

We know what is hap­pen­ing, if we stop and think about it. Is it sim­ple, a byprod­uct of col­lec­tive think­ing, and we need not be afraid. We need to counter fear with under­stand­ing. Fear causes hos­til­ity, anger and blam­ing, all dark things. Under­stand­ing coun­ters fear with light.

It will be tire­some, but we can deal with it. What hap­pened was:

1. After 40 years of con­tin­u­ously ris­ing home real estate val­ues, backed by gov­ern­ment guar­an­teed FHA mort­gage loans, we col­lec­tively assumed it would con­tinue for­ever. Real estate was the per­fect invest­ment — it was guar­an­teed by the gov­ern­ment (FHA)! Both buy­ers and lenders assumed this. Since most of the buy­ers and lenders were born after this got started, this is not astonishing.

2. Even­tu­ally (now), real estate stopped going up in value.

3. Most peo­ple bought homes with mort­gage loan for 80–100% of the house pur­chase price. When the real estate value dropped by 20% or more, the mort­gage was for more than the house was worth. Some walked away from their houses, to be repos­sessed by the bank. Oth­ers tried to keep up pay­ments but ran out of cash– they could not refi­nance. Both the ex home owner and the bank had a prob­lem. The home owner no longer had a home, and the bank has a house worth less than the loan that bought it.

4. Banks — the finan­cial sys­tem — treats loans as cash. The cash value is some­where between the loan value and the col­lat­eral value for the loan. That is how it works. (Look up frac­tional reserve bank­ing.) Sud­denly the whole finan­cial sys­tem had *much* less cash on its books than it did before real estate val­ues went down. The banks can pre­tend that this is not true, but only for a while.

5. Because of how banks work, a decrease in cash at the bank (cap­i­tal) means a much larger decrease (5-10X) in the loans it can offer. So, now the banks reduce their loans. Since banks loan to each other, this mushrooms.

6. Busi­nesses need short term loans on a con­tin­ual basis to keep things going smoothly. You have to buy the stuff before you sell it, and you have to pay the employ­ees that made the stuff before you get paid for it by the cus­tomers. Sud­denly, there is no loan money avail­able from banks. Busi­nesses can­not buy stuff, and they can­not pay their employ­ees. So, they stop buy­ing for a while and lay off employ­ees. This also mushrooms.

7. Many peo­ple went from hav­ing a nice nest egg invest­ment in their house to hav­ing noth­ing. So, they con­tract their spend­ing, which adds to the downturn.

8. So, we under­stand what hap­pened, if we think about it. It did not hap­pen to us from the out­side, and it did not hap­pen because we were friv­o­lous or greedy. It just hap­pened because we all were wrong in an assumption.

Being wrong is hard on our pride. We would rather blame some­one else.

Yes, there was greed and preda­tory prac­tices in the mar­ket. When were there not? But greed was not the pri­mary cause of this prob­lem. No bank wants to make a risky loan, even at a high inter­est rate. Man­ag­ing risk is what they do. But *every­one* believed that there was no risk. The gov­ern­ment (FHA) guar­an­teed it! So every­one got very enthu­si­as­tic. Until the unthink­able drop in real estate value.

This is not hope­less. It has hap­pened many times before. Peo­ple still need to eat, sleep, work and enjoy life. We are not help­less. We will sur­vive this, as we have before.

We will sur­vive it more effec­tively if we real­ize that being col­lec­tively wrong is a part of life, not some­thing from the out­side. We need to counter fear with understanding.

Praveen says

Burt,

It is sad what is hap­pen­ing in US and also effect­ing the world around. I live in Canada and have worked extremely hard to set­tle myself here in the last 25 years. What hap­pens to our neigh­bours is bound to effect us here. I am hop­ing it will not be as bad here. Nonethe­less, it con­cerns us deeply. Hope­full US will come up with a bet­ter solu­tion. Can the reces­sion be avoided? I doubt.

Ms.Praveen Sood

Cheryl Zortman says

I do not blame this on Bush, How­ever I do blame the greed of Amer­i­cans that want every­thing now. I am 57 and am rent­ing a house because I can­not afford to buy a house and I do not believe in debt. I do not think it is my respon­si­bil­ity to bail out the reck­less egos of the Amer­i­cans. I to could have taken out a loan sev­eral times to pur­chase a home. How­ever I chose to be respon­si­ble for myself and mak­ing my own pay­ment. I don’t even have a credit card, and I do not believe for one minute that every Amer­i­can should own their own house. I wished the peo­ple that like to blame Bush would look at the Democ­rate Con­gress and see who is really behind this prob­lem. They always want more gov­ern­ment so they can rule in our lives. Now they have what they want and they don’t have a clue what to do with this mon­ster they have cre­ated. I say if you can’t pay for it with cash you don’t need it. I think Amer­i­cans need to start accept­ing respon­si­bil­ity for their own action and quit blam­ing Gov­ern­ment for every­thing. cheryl zortman

info says

Rock­e­feller. In his book-memoir on page 405, he actu­ally does say this, “Some even believe we (the Rock­e­feller fam­ily) are part of a secret cabal work­ing against the best inter­ests of the United States, char­ac­ter­iz­ing my fam­ily and me as ‘inter­na­tion­al­ists’ and of con­spir­ing with oth­ers around the world to build a more inte­grated global polit­i­cal and eco­nomic structure—one world, if you will. If that’s the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.”.

Misha says

It is help­ful to read the com­ments from peo­ple liv­ing out­side of the U.S. So lit­tle of what we hear via the media can be trusted these days. I am ready to focus my thoughts and actions on pos­i­tive solu­tions to trans­form the fear of human­ity into pure Love. I almost died in a head-on col­li­sion, and was given a glimpse of the love that is in and around us. I pray that we can all be infused with that energy right now, so that we can be the change that needs to hap­pen to evolve our con­scious­ness on a mass scale.

Manifestor says

I don’t think it is about gov­ern­ment or busi­ness fail­ing.
I believe that it is about mass mar­ket­ing work­ing. In the 1930’s, radio began chang­ing the face of our world. Hitler used the mass media tool (radio) to an advan­tage. Next up, TV; since the 1950’s, per­sonal con­trol and direc­tion were given up, will­ingly, by peo­ple that ‘bought into’ what the wealthy cor­po­ra­tions (advertisers)suggested. Per­sonal expec­ta­tion grew well beyond needs. Mate­ri­al­ism (which has always been a social dilema) grew to ridicu­lous lev­els; through adver­tis­ing. The TV con­tent was a vehi­cle to manip­u­late our desires. Peo­ple were told they ‘should’ be ‘informed’…by what, by whom? By cor­po­ra­tions that know if you watch enough TV, ‘we can and will shape your inner values’…to suit our (cor­po­rate) model of con­sumerism and excess.

I believe that it is impor­tant to be aware of ‘your world’. The one around you…the one you can affect and the one that affects you. Glob­al­iza­tion is peo­ple los­ing touch with that which mat­ters, their true, spa­tial world. If all the media was ignored; then most of us would be influ­enced by our neigh­bors (our real world). Back in the days of the real Amer­i­can Dream, when some­ones barn burnt down, the neigh­bor­hood and com­mu­nity was there. Now, most peo­ple don’t know their neigh­bors (or care to help them) but they do know that Robert Mugabe is mak­ing a mess of an African state and seem to be con­cerned about that?!? … more than their neigh­bors plights!

Why is this impor­tant? Because our level of abil­ity to help each other and the world around us (not the whole world, the world phys­i­cally around us) comes from us car­ing about that which we can affect change in, through being human beings…not by being media beings. This is a greater con­scious­ness, to be aware of ones power within.

Through the media, peo­ple are con­stantly told (instructed to) ‘think beyond their nat­ural bound­aries’ which actu­ally makes us much less able to make a real dif­fer­ence. We know that our strength and power comes from within. We are what we think. If the media tells us what to think, con­stantly gives us neg­a­tiv­ity, why do we buy into it?

A thought…those that have not heard or watched the lat­est media frenzy (mort­gage cri­sis) are not affected by it. Had those same peo­ple never watched TV and mass media and sim­ply lived the ‘good life’ (not obses­sive and greedy lives) which has been within all our means (rea­son­ably speak­ing here in North Amer­ica) then, they would HAVE and OWN their lives, and what they’ve worked for.

The solu­tion is for more peo­ple to be happy (and con­tent) with what our world offers (another day, sun­shine, rain, chil­dren, neigh­bors, local food and so on). Grat­i­tude is not for hav­ing so much, grat­i­tude is for being alive.

The more we focus on the cur­rent fear they are sell­ing us the more we are drawn away from our truest power, to be human; to care for our­selves, our niegh­bors, the world (land) ‘around’ us. The greater con­scious­ness can only be if the greater num­ber of us resists the forces of mass manip­u­la­tion through mass media.

The inter­net has given us the great­est tool to unite mankind into the greater con­scious­ness. How­ever the inter­net has come to be, let’s rec­og­nize that its greater good is not to use it to buy, sell and manip­u­late but to con­nect and embrace our one­ness with pos­i­tive thoughts, a view to good­ness and a sin­cere belief that through greater con­scious­ness we will get back to being human…living within our means (and that is the GOOD life!!) thereby con­tribut­ing to the greater good and the greater con­scious­ness and then, to our future.

Thank you, Be well.

Stephanie Banaszak says

Thanks Burt for tak­ing action and serv­ing as an out­let for me and oth­ers to act.
Our elected offi­cials need to hear a clear mes­sage: The CEO’s of the fail­ing com­pa­nies to be held account­able: their con­tracts full of loop holes that ensure their own safety needs to be rede­fined to stop this blood­let­ting.
In my early years, I learned hard a les­son about finances. I was angry that no one bailed me out. I had con­se­quences. For­tu­nately, I had peo­ple who were con­cerned for me to teach me a dif­fer­ent real­ity. If a check bounces, it’s not the bank that cov­ers the debt, it’s the check writer. I begrudge giv­ing any more to the gov­ern­ment when it is re-routed to com­pa­nies for futher indul­gences and inten­tional dis­re­guard. Never before have I expe­ri­enced a gov­ern­ment bailout, although I am 42.
We are the source of the bailout. When we under­stand that we have the power (at some cost), we can reor­ga­nize and asses where our val­ues and integrity lie.

I’d like to see the two par­ties put aside their power pref­er­ences and con­cen­trate of the health and aid of our sit­u­a­tion.
Let’s begin tak­ing respon­si­bil­ity. Look to your own back­yard for imme­di­ate solu­tions: buy local, rely on your­self, rely on your neigh­bors, vote on local, state and national rep­re­sen­ta­tives. Not many of us think to con­tact our local and state rep­re­sen­ta­tives and really voice our con­cerns and com­mon sense that gets us through tough times. When Arabs were to buy US ports two, or so years ago, I heard of cit­i­zens call­ing and email­ing their rep­re­sen­ta­tives telling them no! I thought, “Oh, the reps don’t want to lose their elected job, they are going to listen”…and they did! We got what we wanted. Let’s do it again. Call, or email your state rep­re­sen­ta­tive today.
Although good at rep­re­sent­ing their party, some poli­ti­tians have no busi­ness han­dling our/my country’s fin­cances.
Pas­sion­ately,
Stephanie Banaszak

Ray Irwin says

Oct 11 2008
As an old age pen­sioner with fast-evaporating (sud­denly!) life sav­ings, I am dis­mayed at the finan­cial wolves in their death throes cir­cling the “gen­tle” people.

A morsel with peace is bet­ter than a feast of pie-in-the-sky with lust.

Your web­site is typ­i­cal of the lat­ter, and a mil­lion other sites, ped­dling oft-regurgitated party tricks, plat­i­tudes, and the­o­ries, using the usual devi­ous and ques­tion­able mar­ket­ing prac­tices, and all symp­to­matic of a self cen­tered get-rich-quick civ­i­liza­tion rush­ing to a Lemming-type extinction.

As I write, this crosses my mind: I think of a guy by the name of H W Arm­strong, fore­cast­ing from 1933 onward, that Britain would lose her sta­tus and empire. How right he turned out to be (at least on that score). He also proph­e­sied in the same vein, amongst other things, that, through twist­ing nat­ural uni­ver­sal laws of trad­ing, Amer­i­cans would become slaves in their own con­quered coun­try. The writ­ing is on the wall– and blood on the carpet.

The sad­ness is, and always has been, in the col­lat­eral dam­age to the inno­cent souls of this world, who wish only to live in peace. Pay­ing cash for a house is not com­monly one of their options in life, and so they have lit­tle choice but to go to the “Rich­est man in Baby­lon”, who of course gets richer as they get poorer. Usury is a psy­cho­log­i­cal and phys­i­cal mine­field for the lender AND the borrower.

The solu­tion? They say that a demo­c­ra­tic peo­ples always get the gov­ern­ment they deserve: I am astounded by the Pres­i­den­tial aspi­rants in your cur­rent line-up of hope­fuls. All I can say is, “Good Luck”. Time will tell, but we don’t have much of that as we had yesterday.

Will short sell­ing, deriv­a­tives, CFD, mar­gin lend­ing, cre­ative account­ing, out­ra­geous salaries and com­mis­sions to paper shuf­flers, all be banned?

Ray Irwin.

David C says

What is dri­ving the mar­ket today is panic. I think all Amer­i­cans need to take a deep breath, step back, and allow the mar­ket to adjust. Panic sell­ing is only fuel­ing the cri­sis. Just take a deep breath and relax.

Ervin says

Sadly the events in this coun­try mir­ror whats going on in the world. We have peo­ple in power who are uncon­scious and unaware, lead­ing a soci­ety of fol­low­ers who are much the same. Until we wake up as mankind and raise our­selves, col­lec­tively, to a higher plain I fear this is only the begin­ning of future tragedies.

Suzanne says

I don’t see this “BailOUT” help­ing us at all. They knew this would hap­pen years ago yet did noth­ing to stop it. All this is going to do is make it even harder on us to pay our bills,eat and go to work. I hate that WE have to bail out the very com­pa­nies that have put so many out on the streets!

Lloyd says

Dear Burt and fel­low bloggers,

Please copy, E-mail,fax and send a hard copy of this let­ter of twenty one solu­tions to America’s finan­cial cri­sis via snail mail to all mem­bers of con­gress. You will need to insert your name address, e-mial, and the name, address of the Sen­a­tor or Rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the House sign or write your name at the end of the letter.

When mem­bers of both Houses of Con­gress truly decide to solve the finan­cial cri­sis they will need to have the courage, brav­ery and wis­dom to ful­fill their respon­si­bil­ity to end the ugly despi­ca­ble greed of the ugly despi­ca­ble greedy rich pup­peteers, the Banks and Wall-Street, by pass­ing these twenty one solu­tions by a two-thirds major­ity to be the law of land:

1. Restore the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 which was over­turned in 1999.
This act sep­a­rated invest­ment and com­mer­cial bank­ing activ­i­ties, which pro­hib­ited comin­gling of funds between banks and Wall-Street. It was one of the most impor­tant major acts that ended the Great Depres­sion and restored con­fi­dence in Com­mer­cial Banks and Wall-Street.

2. Elim­i­nate Derivatives.

3. Elim­i­nate Hedge Funds and Hedge Invest­ments. Deriv­a­tives and Hedge Funds are very risky invest­ments invented since the 1980’s used by the very rich to con­trol and manip­u­late the Banks, Real-estate and Wall-Street.

4. What goes up must come down let the ugly despi­ca­ble greedy rich pup­peteers, Com­mer­cial Banks, Invest­ment Banks, Real-estate and Wall-Street col­lapse. Let the crooks learn their lessons pay for their own ugly despi­ca­ble greedy mis­takes so true recov­ery can begin. Ninety-nine per­cent of Amer­i­cans have to learn from their mis­takes and have to pay the price so do the rich­est one per­cent of Amer­i­cans. The rich­est one per­cent are not bet­ter or above the ninety-nine per­cent of the rest of us Amer­i­cans. We are all Equal in all ways includ­ing being account­able for our actions. It will be hard on all of us. We are American’s. WE can and will pull through this finan­cial dis­as­ter. Our grand par­ents and great grand par­ents did it and so will our generation.

5. Restore bank reg­u­la­tions and make new bank reg­u­la­tions for com­mer­cial banks to cre­ate trust, account­abil­ity and stability.

6. Restore Wall-Street and Invest­ment Banks reg­u­la­tions and make new reg­u­la­tions for Wall-Street and Invest­ment Banks to cre­ate trust, account­abil­ity and stability.

7. Elim­i­nate Sup­ply Side Eco­nom­ics or Trickle Down Eco­nom­ics. This was one of the major causes for the Great Depression.

8. Adopt and use Nash Equi­lib­rium Eco­nom­ics Amer­ica has always pros­pered when busi­nesses, employ­ees and con­sumers win together. This is true win /win economics.

9. Elim­i­nate Free Trade.

10. Restore and cre­ate Fair Trade.

11. Elim­i­nate the Patriot Acts 1 & 2

12. Restore the entire United States of America’s Constitution.

13. Elim­i­nate all risky com­pli­cated invest­ment instru­ments cre­ated since the 1980’s.

14. Require full trans­parency of Banks and Wall-Street.

15. Restore the Truth in Free­dom of the Press by restor­ing and mak­ing new reg­u­la­tions that break up the monop­oly of all types of press media that a very few greedy rich pup­peteers con­trol and manip­u­late the Amer­i­can Peo­ple with their lying pro­pa­ganda for their ugly despi­ca­ble greedy purposes.

16. Break up all Monop­o­lies of major Cor­po­rate Indus­tries, Com­mer­cial Banks, Invest­ment Banks, to few own and con­trol retail, media, man­u­fac­tur­ing, finan­cial ser­vices, insur­ance, and ser­vice sec­tor com­pa­nies. They are so huge that there is basi­cally no healthy com­pe­ti­tion. They not only elim­i­nate com­pe­ti­tion in their busi­ness sec­tor but all other busi­ness sec­tors as well. They cause most small busi­nesses to close because American’s can’t afford their goods and ser­vices. Real Exam­ple: Mas­sage Ther­apy. Mas­sage Ther­apy doesn’t com­pete as a busi­ness with Wal-Mart but when Wal-Mart comes into an area salaries drop and incomes dis­ap­pear when most small busi­nesses go out of busi­ness includ­ing Mas­sage Ther­apy busi­nesses. Big out­ra­geously gigan­tic busi­ness destroys small busi­ness our econ­omy and the Amer­i­can Dream.

17. Tax heav­ily Cor­po­ra­tions to the point it is unprof­itable to remain over seas that have shut down their com­pa­nies in the USA and set up shop overseas.

18. Give tax incen­tives to keep com­pa­nies and jobs in the USA that pro­vide liv­ing wages for peo­ple to make the Amer­i­can dream come true.

19. Elim­i­nate World Trade Organization’s pow­er­ful con­trol of USA Trade policy.

20. Elim­i­nate all the lob­by­ists of the spe­cial inter­est groups and the greedy rich puppeteers.

21. Over­turn the 700 Bil­lion Dol­lar Bailout. DO NOT Give Wall-Street and Banks 700 Bil­lion dollars!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

These twenty one solu­tions will greatly ben­e­fit the Amer­i­can peo­ple. Unfor­tu­nately for the Amer­i­can Peo­ple most if not all of these twenty one solu­tions to save the Amer­i­can Finan­cial Sys­tem and our econ­omy will be very unpop­u­lar with the World Trade Orga­ni­za­tion, the very ugly despi­ca­ble greedy rich pup­peteers, Con­gress, the Pres­i­dent and the Vice-President.

The Seven Hun­dred Bil­lion Dol­lars will be only a tem­po­rary band-aid and a reward to the greedy rich pup­peteers who cre­ated this finan­cial mess. The col­lapse of the finan­cial sys­tem under cur­rent con­di­tions is an absolute. This money may delay the col­lapse into the new Pres­i­dent and Con­gres­sional terms. The new Pres­i­dent and Con­gress will get the blame for the cur­rent finan­cial cri­sis which will only get much worse and not the cur­rent admin­is­tra­tion which caused this crisis.

Throw­ing money at the Banks and Wall-Street makes the prob­lem worse, last longer and won’t solve the prob­lem. The Seven Hun­dred Bil­lion Dol­lars is a reward to the very ugly despi­ca­ble greedy rich pup­peteers who con­trol and manip­u­late Com­mer­cial Banks, Invest­ment banks, Wall-Street, the Media, the Peo­ple, Con­gress, the Pres­i­dent, and the Vice-President. It’s time for the greedy rich pup­peteers, Banks and Wall-Street to be account­able and accept their respon­si­bil­ity to receive their losses for their ugly despi­ca­ble greedy actions. The twenty one solu­tions when passed by two thirds of a major­ity in both houses will solve most of the finan­cial crises or per­haps solve the entire cri­sis and get this coun­try back on the road to being finan­cially strong, pow­er­ful and being a great coun­try again.

When you and your col­leagues in the US House and US Sen­ate truly decide to end this finan­cial cri­sis for American’s both houses of Con­gress will stop rak­ing the tax pay­ers of Amer­ica over the hot burn­ing coals of the extremely greedy rich pup­peteers. I strongly urge you and all of the mem­bers of the US House and US Sen­ate to have the courage, brav­ery and wis­dom to ful­fill your respon­si­bil­ity to cut Con­gresses pup­pet strings to the greedy rich pup­peteers and do what is right to take back Amer­ica for all peo­ple and pow­er­fully force the greedy rich pup­peteers to accept their account­abil­ity and respon­si­bil­ity to receive their losses for their ugly despi­ca­ble greedy actions.

Remem­ber We the Peo­ple of the USA are your bosses. We voted for all of you to be in office. We the Peo­ple can vote mem­bers of both the Sen­ate and House out of office. If vot­ing out mem­bers of Con­gress doesn’t work and mem­bers of Con­gress don’t ful­fill their respon­si­bil­ity to pow­er­fully stand up to the greedy rich pup­peteers. The Amer­i­can peo­ple will take action. The Amer­i­can peo­ple no longer are pas­sive bystanders. It is time for Con­gress to stop being pas­sive wimpy bystanders and take a strong and pow­er­ful stand against the greedy rich pup­peteers of this coun­try and the World Trade Orga­ni­za­tion to do what is right for all Americans.

It is an absolute that the peo­ple will do what they did to King George III of Eng­land and declare them­selves inde­pen­dent from the greedy rich pup­peteers of this coun­try. The Two Hun­dred Ninety Seven Mil­lion Amer­i­can Peo­ple far out num­ber the Three Mil­lion Rich Peo­ple of this coun­try. It is only a few greedy rich pup­peteers of this Three Mil­lion Rich Peo­ple who are pulling Con­gresses pup­pet strings. The odds are in favor of the Two Hun­dred Ninety Seven Mil­lion Amer­i­can Peo­ple. You and Con­gress can stop the next Amer­i­can Rev­o­lu­tion by coura­geously, bravely, and wisely ful­fill all of Con­gresses respon­si­bil­ity to pass leg­is­la­tion by two thirds major­ity in both Houses of Con­gress that must include the twenty one solu­tions above.

Per­son­ally I strongly encour­age you and the other mem­bers of both houses of Con­gress ful­fill your respon­si­bil­ity to the Amer­i­can Peo­ple and pass these twenty one solu­tions into law. We the Peo­ple of the USA are a lot smarter, stronger and more pow­er­ful than you, your col­leagues and the greedy rich pup­peteers think we are. I believe the mem­bers of Con­gress who out num­ber the greedy rich pup­peteers are smarter, stronger and more pow­er­ful than the few greedy rich pup­peteers who are pulling the strings of Con­gress. Con­gress proved they were stronger and more pow­er­ful than the greedy rich pup­peteers in 1930’s. Will both Houses of Con­gress prove they are stronger and more power than the greedy rich pup­peteers now? All American’s hope and pray you and your col­leagues will bravely, coura­geously and wisely ful­fill your respon­si­bil­ity and stand up pow­er­fully to vote against the greedy rich pup­peteers and vote for all the cit­i­zens of the USA. So there will be no need for the Amer­i­can Peo­ple to rise up and have another Amer­i­can Revolution.

Rev­o­lu­tions are bloody messes. It is extremely impor­tant that you and your col­leagues do what is right for all American’s and not just do what sup­ports the ugly despi­ca­ble greed of the very few greedy rich pup­peteers. If mem­bers of both Houses of Con­gress don’t pass these twenty solu­tions in to law then all mem­bers of con­gress will be respon­si­ble for the blood, sweat and tears of ninety-nine per­cent of American’s and it won’t be pretty.

I am a man of peace. I can’t con­trol the masses and nei­ther can you, your col­leagues or the greedy rich pup­peteers. I can only con­trol myself. I choose peace and pros­per­ity for all. What about you and your col­leagues? Do you and your col­leagues in Con­gress have the courage, brav­ery, and the wis­dom to ful­fill your respon­si­bil­ity to do what is right for all American’s to cut Con­gresses pup­pet strings to the ugly despi­ca­ble greedy rich pup­peteers and pass these twenty one solu­tions to solve the finan­cial cri­sis? Mem­bers of Con­gress please ful­fill your respon­si­bil­ity to all of the Amer­i­can Peo­ple to be the brave, coura­geous, wise and pow­er­ful hero’s the Amer­i­can Peo­ple elected all of you to be. Thank you!

Sin­cerely,

P.S. I have been and will always be against all vio­lence to solve the prob­lems of our country!

Jim Yhunder Bear Yates says

Dear Sir, My 401K is in the tank but I still have a job and that’s good. As you can see I’m a Native Amer­i­can and many of my peo­ple have been prepar­ing for this for many years. We see a crash of prophetic pro­por­tions and are going back to the old ways. This time was proph­e­sied in the Hopi and Crow Prophe­cies. I pray for all those that are unpre­pared but I also know that every­thing will work out in the end. Thun­der Bear, AHO

Victoria H says

I really do not believe that “main Street” (or any Street!) USA will be able to divert a depres­sion. This has been in the mak­ing for many years. Rather than play­ing the “vic­tim” I would rather play the “farmer” raise my crops, do with less and pray that we Amer­i­cans will sur­vive this with the strength and integrity we believe we have. The rest of the world will be watch­ing and for once, we need to be the role model we like to think we are.
Burt, I want to hear what you have to say. Thanks.

Jim says

Of course, and as always, the stock mar­kets are tum­bling because of fear — peo­ple get­ting out of mutual funds and the funds hav­ing to sell to get enough money to pay out. And there are no buy­ers. Stock prices nat­u­rally plunge. The bank’s liq­uid­ity cri­sis is the same. Nobody in the banks trust the sit­u­a­tion and money is likely to be lost. As I talk to my invest­ment coun­selors I find that smart money is sit­ting this out. Wait­ing until the mood changes and then buy­ing up some great bar­gains in stocks out there for lots of orga­ni­za­tions which are not part of the finan­cial sec­tor and which will do well in the future. In past years the mar­ket seems to have gone pretty silent around the time of an elec­tion and all the uncer­tainty that sur­rounds it. Espe­cially this year.

Most of our retire­ment money is in stocks and mutual funds. We won’t look at the reports for a few months, for there is noth­ing we can do except get scared like so many oth­ers. I believe that, as in the past, the mar­kets will come back because the desire to par­tic­i­pate in feel­ing a part of good com­pa­nies and help­ing them make bet­ter prod­ucts, the excite­ment of the gam­ble, good old human greed and mak­ing money off of other people’s sweat is a part of human con­scious­ness and is not going away any time soon. For most of us it will be hun­ker­ing down and wait­ing this all out.

Do I trust Bush and his troops? They haven’t told the truth to us about any­thing. Includ­ing 911, I’m quite sure. As in all things, they have taken care of their own at a huge cost to the rest of us.

That said, the feds are a nec­es­sary part of the answer and maybe we’ll have an inspir­ing, calm­ing, smart lead­er­ship group next time around. I pray so. Then good com­pa­nies of peo­ple can get on with mak­ing stuff we actu­ally need and doing a lot more of it here at home and we can get back to invest­ing in those good com­pa­nies to help them and our­selves along.

In a larger frame, the USA, with 3% of the worlds pop­u­la­tion, can­not con­tinue eat­ing up 25% of the earth’s nat­ural resources. We can­not con­tinue think­ing that we own the world. We can­not con­tinue the immense silly busi­ness about being the shin­ing bea­con on the hill that does no wrong to any­one else. We are not the great­est coun­try in the his­tory of humankind. We are just 3% of humankind, doing it our way. Oh yes and we have our mil­i­tary in what, over 100 coun­tries in the world? We never leave. And we are most cer­tainly not anointed by some cos­mic muf­fin to be spe­cial. Seems to me that the world is finally mak­ing the adjust­ment to put us in our right­ful place as a mem­ber of the world com­mu­nity, not the owner of it.

This will be a long and dodgy trans­for­ma­tion for a coun­try used to the quick fix, dumbed down by tele­vi­sion and talk radio, unwill­ing to tell itself the truth, and hopped up on way too much fun­da­men­tal­ist reli­gion and car­ry­ing way too many per­sonal firearms. Wel­come to the rest of this cen­tury. As a friend of mine put it when I got a can­cer last year, “Don’t die yet, the next fif­teen years is going to be soooo interesting.”

James says

Burt, after I heard your talk on spir­i­tu­al­ity and higher con­scious­ness I con­sid­ered writ­ing your name in on the elec­tion bal­lot for our next polit­i­cal leader. A devel­oped con­scious being lead­ing peo­ple with con­cepts of love, empa­thy, kind­ness, truth, trust and for­give­ness
would be a dream man­i­fest.
The con­cept of retire­ment leads peo­ple to accu­mu­late sav­ings for an unforsee­able tomor­row dev­as­tated by losses of their future secu­rity. Instead of retir­ing, re-“tire”! Put another tire on and keep going, liv­ing as a pro­duc­tive con­tibut­ing ele­ment of this exis­tence.
Fear and greed run the mar­kets and finan­cial deci­sions based upon these emo­tions are unhealthy.
Mass media med­ica­tion can be deliv­ered through videos like this one. Remem­ber the Souce of it all always was, is and will be.….….……Love

Freelancelot says

Max and oth­ers here are show­ing their total igno­rance of eco­nom­ics and how gullible they are to be played upon by politi­cians. Obama is a jerk and can only win through these use­ful idiots, but there are oh so many of them (but there are plenty of Repub­li­cans to blame, too).

There is no need of a bailout. This is sup­posed to be the free mar­ket, not the 100%-failure reli­gion of Social­ism. But, since the gov­ern­ment (who is the cul­prit behind all of this, not “greedy bankers”–what a laugh!) has caused all this by entan­gling itself where it has no busi­ness being, I guess we need to PHASE OUT government’s involve­ment, so that the peo­ple can learn to be strong and free again, not dole-begging whin­ers who think they are “enti­tled”. So, let the bailout be; but imme­di­ately begin remov­ing the cur­rent “reg­u­la­tions” and set­ting up just a sparse few new but strong ones. In the future, no bailouts: let fail­ure ring. Free­dom isn’t free. If you want free­dom, you’ll have to accept the cre­ative destruc­tion of the free mar­ket. Let peo­ple learn to be account­able for their deci­sions again. Respon­si­bil­ity is the price of freedom–of ANY KIND of freedom.

justin says

well, since it’s all been said on this site…www.learnrv.com

Sheri Gorbey says

The col­lec­tive con­scious­ness pri­mar­ily espoused above is what got us to the place we are and is pre­vent­ing the shift to bet­ter times. The pre­dom­i­nantly neg­a­tive col­lec­tive con­scious­ness (of fear/worry) is feed­ing on itself to cause MORE negativity.…which pro­duces neg­a­tive results! If we all have hope and believe that the future will bring won­der­ful things and the econ­omy soon will improve, then it WILL.

I per­son­ally am incred­i­bly blessed in my life with great fam­ily and friends, a won­der­ful job and many crea­ture com­forts. And I am not wor­ried about the future because I know how to CREATE MY OWN. No mat­ter how bad things get for any­one else (or how bad they per­ceive things to get), I know I will be fine. If you don’t, then you need to go back and lis­ten to the Amer­i­can Monk lessons.

Every­one should try to look for the sil­ver lin­ing or the “bless­ing in dis­guise” for the cur­rent U.S. eco­nomic sit­u­a­tion. I am invest­ing as much as I can rather than cash­ing out. This is a buyer’s mar­ket. When Wall Street turns around, AND IT WILL, every­one will won­der why they wor­ried and why they didn’t do the same.…

Maksym says

After watch­ing this video I thought that Feds will take over bank­ing sys­tem and will be able to con­trol con­sumer con­sump­tion. I do not know whether it is true or not but its what I think. I am 100% per­cent that Great Depres­sion II will be felt but will not bring huge dam­age to Amer­i­can cit­i­zens and res­i­dents nor to cit­i­zens and res­i­dents of other coun­tries. This video shows insta­bil­ity of “bor­row­ing money” or loans busi­ness; how can you bor­row money if you can­not afford it to fully pay it off includ­ing interest?

Nancy Algazi says

Dear Sir: I was hap­pily born in Cuba, but after Cas­tro took over, we came to live in this won­der­ful coun­try. And for the last 45 we have been liv­ing here (Thank God.) But we are extremly con­cern with the eco­nomic sit­u­a­tion. After so many years of hard work, now that my hus­band died and that I’m retired the future is very uncon­fort­able. What can we do to help ?
Cor­dially Nancy Algazi.

Gale says

Yes, this a ter­ri­ble mess but you need to remem­ber who started it. Carter and then Clin­ton set forth leg­is­la­tion that forced banks to make loans whether or not they could be paid back. Now the media cir­cus has turned Obama, a man who has absolutely no respect for Amer­ica — says lots of words but gives no solu­tions other than cut­ting taxes and mak­ing big­ger gov­ern­ment to give more enti­tle­ments. That’s what’s wrong! To add insult to injury he now has 3 exec­u­tives that left Fanny and Freddy work­ing for his cam­paign as finan­cial and eco­nomic advi­sors. God help us, they were on the inside ben­e­fit­ing while Amer­i­cans lose their shirts. Obama is slick and the media dar­ling but he won’t admit he was raised a Mus­lim & yet Hamas is sup­port­ing him. He was put into office by the Chicago crime lead­ers, Ayers raised money for him to get into the Sen­ate where he spent 143 days after being a com­mu­nity orga­nizer. I’m not crazy about McCain but at least he has expe­ri­ence and is a true Amer­i­can with Amer­i­can inter­ests at heart. There is that within us that knows the truth and I for one will keep focus­ing on the truth! Thanks Monk for help­ing me not only see the truth and refuse to run from it.

Cyndi Marsico says

The cur­rent finan­cial prob­lems in the US and around the world are being manip­u­lated by the inter­na­tional finan­cial elite, who are using it for their own ends (see “Zeit­geist” on YouTube). I think all fail­ing busi­nesses should have taken it on the chin and allowed to fail. It is not the respon­si­bil­ity of Main Street to bail out busi­nesses that make poor deci­sions out of pure greed. Allow home own­ers to keep their houses, even though they too made poor choices by tak­ing on more debt than they could real­is­ti­cally han­dle. It’s all smoke and mir­rors, folks. Keep your eyes on the men behind the curtain.

Dawn says

THANK YOU !!!, Burt, for the OPPORTUNITY for us to SHARE our thoughts and feel­ings together. We are AWAKING to this SPECIAL time in his­tory that has been fore­told and planned.. Humans don’t always like CHANGE yet it brings out amaz­ing QUALITIES in us.

As we attain UNITY of mind and spirit we can STRENGTHEN our­selves. I see this time as a GREAT OPPORTUNITY to give us MOTIVATION to ADAPT and to be GRATEFUL for all that we have. I want to say THANK YOU for every­thing that we have, all the TOOLS for us to RAISE OUR CONSCIOUSNESS. I am cul­ti­vat­ing APPRECIATION for my ABUNDANCE rather than focus­ing on my lack and the world’s ‘lack’.

I totally love this lit­tle say­ing and I use it all the time with myself and my clients, ‘Two pris­on­ers looked out from prison bars. One saw the mud, the other saw the stars.’ I have walked a dif­fi­cult path in life. There­fore, I have learned from my ‘pain’ to turn my atten­tion to what I LOVE and to what is GOOD and to what BENEFITS I have and to WHAT I CAN DO WITH WHAT I HAVE BEEN GIVEN. What­ever my restric­tions have been I ask, ‘What is my FREEDOM here? What am I LEARNING?’ WHAT CAN I DO NOW? This has been a tech­nique to get me through great oppres­sion. It has made my char­ac­ter stronger and more resilient.

Suf­fer­ing doesn’t feel good, poverty doesn’t feel good, fear doesn’t feel good so I answer these ques­tions: WHAT CAN I DO to CREATE a bet­ter feel­ing? This is what we are here for, to CREATE, to find the JOY IN THE JOURNEY NOW…TODAY. Our time is short so WHAT IS MOST IMPORTANT? How can I BE A LOVING BEING and LOVE my fam­ily and my ‘neigh­bor’? How can I ful­fill the pur­pose of my life even in the face of great turmoil?

I CHOOSE TO FOCUS ON WHAT I WANT not on what I don’t want. ‘Look where you want to go’ is another favorite phrase that I quote a lot. I choose to EXPAND in my efforts to HEAL MY LIFE and RAISE MY VIBRATION through LEARNING ALL I CAN THAT IS POSITIVE AND SUPPORTIVE. I also use PRAYER, and MEDITATION. I con­tinue the prac­tice of let­ting go of the past hurts when I see that I am stuck. By doing these things I affect every­one around me. When I have neg­a­tive emo­tions I find cre­ative ways to process them and move through them.

BURT, your won­der­ful pro­grams help us to TAKE RESPONSIBILITY for our lives and to BECOME who we are meant to be and to MAKE CHOICES in our lives. You teach in such a pos­i­tive a reas­sur­ing manor. You help us to CULTIVATE HOPE in our lives. We need to feel there is hope. If there was no ten­sion in the world many of us would not be seek­ing to IMPROVE OURSELVES. Many would just enjoy a com­pla­cent life. These world trou­bles, are a great oppor­tu­nity. THANK YOU, SO MUCH FOR THE SPECIAL ROLE YOU HAVE IN SUPPORTING CHANGE FOR OUR BETTERMENT.

We also have HOSTS OF HEAVENLY HELP sup­port­ing us. We have ANGELS and GUIDES. There are many degrees of LIGHT. Regard­less of the severe dam­age reli­gious dogma has done to dis­tort or destroy spir­i­tual light, no mat­ter what we spir­i­tu­ally believe, JESUS CHRIST is the SAVIOR and King Eter­nal FOR ALL OF US. Not one per­son is excluded from His love nor are we excluded from the plans for our future. Whether we under­stand Him or not we will be blessed for our good­ness. ‘Come unto me, all ye that ‘labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my bur­den is light.’ Mathew 11:28–30 We surely need to do all that we can for our­selves but we won’t be left alone with­out SUPERIOR HELP for WE ARE, EVERY ONE OF US, CHILDREN of a LOVING HEAVENLY FATHER. We are in fact GODS AND GODDESSES IN EMBRYO.

BLESSINGS TO ALL OF YOU IN THIS DIFFICULT TIME. Through our efforts we can find INNER PEACE.

mark says

20 years of thiev­ery and excess by bankers, invest­ment bankers, and mort­gage bro­kers who charged usurous fees on every­thing while giv­ing any­one with a heart­beat an adjustable rate mort­gage in the last 6 years finally blows up in their faces. Dick Fuld, ceo of lehman, only pulled out 350 to 480 mil­lion dol­lars the last 6 to 8 years for his con­tri­bu­tion to the ulti­mate bank­ruptcy of the com­pany. CEO top man­age­ment sto­ries of extreme excess are numor­ous. Mean­while, Joe and Jane Main­street Amer­ica get charged fees for every­thing their banks can dream up. A fee is not inter­est because our con­gress­men let in laws to enable the bank­ing indus­try to do so. Miss a credit card pay­ment, or you are late, and it is $35 late fee, then they can also increase the inter­est rate. This is fol­lowed by your other credit card car­ri­ers see­ing you missed a pay­ment or were late, and then they all jump your inter­est rates. For those of you who live on cards dur­ing slow peri­ods of your busi­nesses etc, be care­ful, as I have heard they are con­sid­er­ing reduc­ing the lim­its of many card­hold­ers, thus reduc­ing monies you may have banked on being avail­able in the past unavail­able. Sad­dest is those who believed their bankers, mort­gage bro­kers etc, and bought into the hype of adjustable rate mort­gages and overblown appraisals. Now find­ing them­selves upside down ( mort­gage greater than home value) what can they do?
Part of me believes we will look back at this some­day and see it as one of the great­est trans­fers of real estate from the poor to the rich of all time. Only the rich will be once again buy­ing at huge dis­counts ver­sus the huge pre­mi­ums peo­ple were conned into dur­ing this col­losal scam. Per­son­ally, through a series of unfor­tu­nate events, I have lost all my mon­e­tary assets.
No one can steal my pri­mary asset though, a desire to live a happy and joy­ful life. A smile each day, a pro­found amount of grat­i­tude to be here now, sim­ply enjoy­ing the great friends and fam­ily I have, and the nat­ural beauty sur­round­ing me. Good luck to all of you.

Annemarie says

I can not believe this is hap­pen­ing just because of some greedy peo­ple who do not care about the rest I hope and wish this to be over­turned and world focues on what is really impor­tant stop these peo­ple spe­cially Mr Bush who does not seem to care

Jonathan says

scan­dal wake up peo­ple your con­trolled by a mon­e­tary sys­tem that does not work just enslaves you to debt!! The time for seri­ous ques­tion of these so called lead­ers is now !!
This is the time for rev­o­lu­tion!! They’ll bail out wall street crooks then spend all your money on the sham of a war ! 89 Bil­lion on war or 8000 dol­lars for each u.s cit­i­zen think about it ? Plus you know that our cor­rupt media won’t show whats really going on behind the scenes?

Michael Varada says

I think it would be best if we do what Jose Silva and Burt has taught us — stay focused on the end result we desire. Instead of panic, worry and fear (and “the prob­lem”), we need to keep our minds focused on the econ­omy being in good shape and the best for all involved and know it will all work out in the end.

Vivian Crowhurst says

Dear Burt I am an Eng­lish artist in Mex­ico. I want every­one to wake up to the biggest fraud in Bank­ing his­tory. Instant CREDIT is actu­ally INSTANT DEBT. We can’t assume that we will increase earn­ings to pay our debts. That is neven­ev­er­land. If I can’t man­age on what I earn this week, I most cer­tainly won’t do any bet­ter next week with the added debt from this week. Bush is just a gun-toting-cowboy with access to unlmited funds which you and your chil­dren are hav­ing to repay now, hence the cri­sis! Wel­come to the real world and good­bye to the Amer­i­can Dream.

Carlos Bauzá says

Hi, Burt.
My main con­cern about this bailout and all its ram­i­fi­ca­tions is that too many peo­ple are focus­ing on the prob­lem and throw­ing caca at every­one else, rather than ask­ing together the ques­tion “What can I do to pitch in to the solu­tion”? Many peo­ple are blam­ing and despair­ing, but if we all take the high road toward a solu­tion that starts with each individual’s abil­ity and respon­si­bil­ity, then the mess will clear up quicker than we think.
Can you help to walk us toward a solu­tion, since you have such great “pull” with your students?

Thank you for all you do. God bless.

Julia McGraw says

Burt, you’ve asked for my input, this is from the heart.

We have to keep in our hearts “Love”. We all have a choice, fear or love. This is the time of our evo­lu­tion. This is the time for you to make a choice, more then ever, do you want fear as we go through what is hap­pen­ing now and what is com­ing ahead of us or do you want love to be with you. It is our own “will” which way we choose. Stronger ener­gies are emerg­ing, dis­solv­ing the old neg­a­tive ener­gies. They will not sur­vive, they can not for they are not for the ben­e­fit of mankind. We are not sup­pose to live in fear, sor­row, hate, anger, greed, lack, poverty, finan­cial hard­ships, or to make sac­ri­fices so that a few may live to the high­est lux­ury and tell oth­ers how to live. The strong ener­gies of Light and Love are grow­ing every day, to tram­ple the old way of liv­ing. We have to let go of the way things were, open up your hearts and make room for the new ener­gies of light and love com­ing to us. We are not going through this alone, but we must go through it and we will. Don’t resist it, for that is fear.

Keep in your hearts and truly know this. The new earth is emerg­ing. A new beau­ti­ful, peace­ful, lov­ing, abun­dance way of liv­ing will be the new way of liv­ing. It will come. It knows no other way. Truth. Lis­ten to your inner con­scious­ness, your higher self, your heart, feel your love, love your­selves. What each and every­one of has inside, will truly blow your mind. All the hid­den abil­i­ties we have, what each and every one of us are able to do. That are and will be emerg­ing more and more. We are here to cre­ate, to cre­ate value for the ben­e­fit of oth­ers includ­ing your­self. To live our life in abun­dance, to invent (cre­ate) some­thing of value, eas­ier way of liv­ing, to use our minds more. We use only 5% of our brains now, there is 95% left that we haven’t touched yet or don’t know how to use at this time. This is all a part of our evo­lu­tion, to learn how to use the other per­cent. Look back in time, the pre­his­toric times, they just had sur­vival skills, years later, they evolved higher, they used their brains more and started invent­ing objects to live more suf­fi­cient, the wheel, hunt­ing tools etc. We are in the midst of the next evo­lu­tion and in the true way of life. Our essence of who we truly are will emerge.

And another way of cre­at­ing is with energy, you can either cre­ate neg­a­tive ener­gies back to you or you can cre­ate pos­i­tive ener­gies back to you. You receive back what you put out. And right now cre­ative ener­gies are high right now, whether they’re neg­a­tive or pos­i­tive. Know that we are the high­est beings in the uni­verse, we just didn’t know this and it was kept from us, by fear, for thou­sands of years. We are all one, con­nected to the ALL, one source. If you want to know where I’m com­ing from, start search­ing. Find out who you truly are. Find the truth. Ask with your heart. Find out what our life pur­pose is here, now. And help with what is emerg­ing by hav­ing love in your hearts and giv­ing love to whom ever you come in con­tact with and all of mankind around the world, and mother nature, ani­mals, plants. Radi­ate your high ener­gies (love) out to the uni­verse and mother earth, for she is chang­ing (weather), Since mother earth is chang­ing, that is why we are also feel­ing this change. Find out about your higher con­scious­ness. The light you have inside of you. Our DNA struc­ture, quan­tum physics, con­nect­ing our right brain to our left brain. Sci­ence has finally caught up to this time of spir­i­tu­al­ity and the higher con­scious­ness. We are con­nected to Mother earth, the Uni­verse. Here are a few places you can start. The Emer­ald Tablet, Ein­stein, New­ton, Aris­to­tle, Eck­hart Tolle, the true mes­sage Jesus was try­ing to give us. If you haven’t started explor­ing spir­i­tu­al­ity, start. Just ask for guid­ance and take the action to find out, surf. Awaken to a new state of con­scious­ness and fol­low the path to a truly ful­fill­ing exis­tence! It’s amaz­ing and it’s all of our path, the ones who choose it. I’m learn­ing too, I just ask to give me guid­ance of what I was think­ing about and what I wanted to know. When I was led to a site, I felt inside what was true to me and what wasn’t. You’ll know. Trust your­self, feel, you’re the best guide for your­self. We are all mag­nif­i­cent beings. We are all head­ing there. But it’s your “Will” to choose Love or Fear to get there and how you will get there.

I do have to say one more thing, keep in your hearts love, in the next fol­low­ing days. Don’t let fear come to you. We are loved and being watched over.

Love and bless­ings to all. Stay strong with love.

steven says

The whole sys­tem is crash­ing down and I don’t think there is any sav­ing it. It’s time for all of us to get to know our neigh­bors and build com­mu­ni­ties to avoid madness.

Vidal says

Dear Burt,
I feel really sorry for what the greedy guys do every now and then sis­tem­at­i­cally, for they know how to profit every up and down.

Wayne says

The prob­lem is more seri­ous than just the fail­ure of the hous­ing mar­ket and Wall Street. The cor­rup­tion in Fan­nie Mae and Fan­nie Mac, Wall Street, Invest­ment Bank­ing and our own Gov­ern­ment is despi­ca­ble and at a time when we are to elect a new Pres­i­dent. Both par­ties are in this up to their eye­brows. If this coun­try does not get back to its moral and spir­i­tual stan­dards were sunk. My the­ory is that this bat­tle has to be fought and fought hard in the spir­i­tual more than the phys­i­cal because we have been attacked because we were weak by strong demonic forces. This may be the begin­ning of the end if we do not wake up.
GOD HELP US.

Joanna Beresford says

The first thing that needs to be said is, there is some­one who saw it com­ing, there is a voice of san­ity. Check out Cather­ine Austin Fitts of Solari. Good luck and God Bless, Joanna Beresford

John McCann says

Hi Burt

I live in Scot­land and 2 of what were con­sid­ered to be rock solid insti­tu­tions — the Bank of Scot­land and the Royal Bank of Scot­land have been endan­gered. Our gov­ern­ment has put in £5000billion — not to save the fat cats but to save our way of life. What has hap­pened has hap­pened so the prime need is to stop it get­ting worse, then we deal with thoe respon­si­ble mak­ing sure they can­not hold on to their ill got­ten gains and ensur­ing it does not hap­pen again. All coun­tries of the world must pull together

John, Dunde, Scotland

Jay says

Divide the money between the peo­ple then they can pay off all their mort­gages and the cri­sis is gone, its tax­pay­ers money any­way.
Also pub­lic spend­ing from the “aver­age” US cit­i­zen will re-float the econ­omy and all the money will be back in cir­cu­la­tion, not just in the hands of a few incom­petant buisunissmen.

Yvette says

I believe a shift is happening.….….planet wide! We are born in a time of rapid change. Those of us who see this as a good and nec­es­sary thing to wake up enough peo­ple world wide, it’s time for us to come together and dream a new future into being.

Sharon F says

Greet­ings:

I have been read­ing the var­i­ous web sites speak­ing about the doom and gloom about to befall planet earth for the last cou­ple years. Ini­tially I was ter­ri­fied and believ­ing the worst but there is an under­pin­ning of faith that we the peo­ple as a col­lec­tive power through pos­i­tive thoughts and imag­in­ing the world as a pris­tine, abun­dant source of food and love, can change the out­come. The more I thought about change via man­i­fes­ta­tion, I have made dra­matic improve­ments in my on life which has been a pos­i­tive influ­ence on my atti­tude and belief as to the out­come of the future.

For the first time in my 46 years on this planet, I have no dooms­day fear. I feel an invis­i­ble pro­tec­tion has enveloped me, and because of this I believe that every per­son who makes a point of heal­ing them­selves phys­i­cally, spir­i­tu­ally and men­tally will also find peace and solace in these sur­real times.

Turn off your T.V’s, tune into your own thoughts and feel­ings, don’t be con­trolled by Hol­ly­wood, the Fash­ion Indus­try, or Mass Mar­ket­ing. Eat healthy, detox­ify, and most impor­tantly think for yourselves.

Remem­ber, think pos­i­tively. See the world as liv­ing organ­ism that is tuned into our thoughts and responds accordingly.

The good will prevail!

Sharon

mark patrick (d.hyp) says

once again it serves an agenda of cen­tral­is­ing power by the few fam­i­lies who own most of the wealth. this is just another pearl har­bour to place the fear of god in peo­ple and get us all run­ning in the direc­tion they want us to run. its time we thought for our­selves rather than just act­ing like lemming.

con­cider this:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912

regards, mark.

Patchouli says

Dear Burt,

I have two words for you: Zeit­geist Adden­dum.
http://zeitgeistmovie.com/

Love,
Patchouli.

todd saed says

David saw the LOL Amero link at your youtube site, he
said the Amero shown was pro­duced by a nov­elty com­pany
and is fake, check youtube.com, for some har­mon­ica and dance act­ing, Peo­ple Get Ready harp dance, relax from con­spir­acy input, it may be true, but always a higher truth, not for this world , or is it?

jc olson says

Left to right: bil­lion­aire War­ren Buf­fet, Arnold Schwarzeneg­ger and tril­lion­aire Jacob Roth­schild on the latter’s estate in 2002. Arnold was cho­sen to be govenor at this meeting.

The Roth­schilds and Rock­e­fellers ARE THE –SHADOW GOVERNMENT!!! THE NEW WORLD ORDER!!—-The Fed­eral Reserve Bank of New York was con­trolled by five banks which owned 53% of its stock. These five banks were con­trolled by Nathan M. Roth­schild & Sons of Lon­don. Con­trol over the U.S. Fed is basi­cally con­trol over the world’s money. That fact alone shows how immense the Roth­schild Power is. If one exam­ines who has been appointed to head the Fed, and to run it, the con­nec­tions of the “Fed­eral” Reserve Sys­tem to the Roth­schilds can fur­ther be seen.
Thus, the Rothschild’s and their allies are able to choose polit­i­cal lead­ers and dic­tate what direc­tion they will fol­low, while the pub­lic remains bliss­fully unaware of who is really call­ing the shots.

jc olson says

David Rock­e­feller, CFR/Bilderberg/TC, 5 June 1991.

“We are grate­ful to the Wash­ing­ton Post, the New York Times, Time Mag­a­zine, and other great pub­li­ca­tions who direc­tors have attended our meet­ings and respected their promises of dis­cre­tion for almost forty years. It would have been impos­si­ble for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been sub­ject to the bright lights of pub­lic­ity dur­ing those years but the world is now more sophis­ti­cated & pre­pared to march towards a world gov­ern­ment which will never again know war but only peace and pros­per­ity for the whole of author­ity (this means for them only). The supra­na­tional sov­er­eignty of an intel­lec­tual elite and world bankers is surely prefer­able to the national auto-determination prac­ticed in past centuries.”

jc olson says

“It is well enough that peo­ple of the nation do not under­stand
our bank­ing and mon­e­tary sys­tem, for if they did,
I believe there would be a rev­o­lu­tion before tomor­row morn­ing.“
Quote by: Henry Ford
(1863–1947) Founder of Ford Motor Company

Annie Millett says

One other thing, I know and believe that Christ Con­scious­ness is here, you are all exam­ples of that, but I believe when we raise our vibra­tions enough, we will walk and talk with these accended mas­ters in the flesh, so enough peo­ple on the planet have to wake up to this for it to happen.

The video is a 3 part, so you have to watch the next one, then the next one, when the other ends. It will help you all real­ize what is really going on, and the only path to cor­rec­tion is con­nect­ing with the God within, and becom­ing one with light and love, just as in the books, “The life and teach­ings of the Mas­ters of the Far East.” Project light and love to all, start­ing with your­self. God will guide us all as to where we need to be while rid­ing this tur­moil out, so we can get to the other side of it. Life as we know it will never be the same, Thank GOD!

jc olson says

“The Tri­lat­er­al­ist Com­mis­sion (founded by David Rockefeller–also CFR founder) is international…(and)…is intended to
be the vehi­cle for multi­na­tional con­sol­i­da­tion of the com­mer­cial and
bank­ing inter­ests by seiz­ing con­trol of the polit­i­cal gov­ern­ment of the
United States. The Tri­lat­er­al­ist Com­mis­sion rep­re­sents a skill­ful,
coor­di­nated effort to seize con­trol and con­sol­i­date the four cen­ters of
power — polit­i­cal, mon­e­tary, intel­lec­tual, and eccle­si­as­ti­cal.” Quote by: Barry Gold­wa­ter
(1909–1998) US Sen­a­tor (R-Arizona)
Source: in his book “With No Apologies”

jc olson says

“Give me con­trol of a nation’s money
and I care not who makes the laws.“
Quote by: Mayer Amschel Roth­schild
[Mayer Amschel Bauer] (1744 –1812), God­fa­ther of the Roth­schild Bank­ing Car­tel of Europe

Nathan Roth­schild, now in essence con­troller of the new cen­tral Bank of Eng­land, said,
I care not what pup­pet is placed upon the throne of Eng­land to rule the Empire on which the sun never sets. The man who con­trols Britain’s money sup­ply con­trols the British Empire, and I con­trol the British money sup­ply. –Mayer’s–son–1846

jc olson says

Cen­tral banks con­trol the mon­e­tary sys­tem of the world and deter­mine when busi­ness cycles are going to change sim­ply by increas­ing or decreas­ing the money sup­ply in the bank­ing sys­tem. This small group of pow­er­ful insid­ers know when to sell high and buy low because they deter­mine when the mar­ket cycle is going to change. What has just hap­pened with oil and gold prices is an exam­ple of the power bro­kers who rule the world.

http://www.rense.com/general75/wrus.htm

Diana Eiranova-Kyle says

Dear Burt:
I’m an Argen­tinean who has been liv­ing in the U.S. for the past 25 years, wit­ness­ing the eth­no­cen­tric­ity, greed, inhu­man­ity and grow­ing lack of civil­ity and com­pas­sion of most of the peo­ple who voted twice for this pres­i­dent and his poli­cies and who unfor­tu­nately may be vot­ing for his suc­ce­sor in less than 30 days. If so, I don’t believe that any amount of mass con­scious­ness will save this falling empire from col­laps­ing even fur­ther. God and the Uni­verse have been try­ing to warn us, teach us to be kinder, gen­tler and truly con­cerned for one another. There, I believe, lies the solu­tion to the world –and to this country’s– ills. I hope that peo­ple soon will real­ize that if they start lov­ing those who are dif­fer­ent from them­selves and stop blam­ing the less for­tu­nate for tak­ing their jobs and destroy­ing their com­mu­ni­ties, good things will start hap­pen­ing to them too!

abraham says

our sys­tem of cap­i­tal­ism rewards money rather than work — per­haps this is an oppor­tu­nity to real­ize that work­ers are impor­tant and the stock mar­ket is built, now, for investors only. we have the chance to look, for exam­ple, at a com­pany and not say, oh, that com­pany is fail­ing because it made only 2 mil­lion profit — take away work­ers ben­e­fits — rather we are happy with 2 mil­lion profit. as you say, it’s all in the mind — and look at the way the mind of need — more, more, more, — has created.

Cora says

Not sure why my pre­vi­ous com­ment did not appear (maybe it takes a while, so sorry if it comes up twice), so here it is again:

I believe this cri­sis was set up, and just the same is set up to be “resolved”, in such a way that the big guys get to profit, while the lit­tle guys are ripped off (as usual).

I think a (phys­i­cal) solu­tion would be to get rather inde­pen­dent of the whole industry/society, and live a sim­ple, self-sufficient life, in a small com­mu­nity of like-minded peo­ple, “far from the madding crowd”.

As for a spir­i­tual expla­na­tion — maybe we have what we deserve (as a col­lec­tive con­scious­ness)? Solu­tion — get work­ing on the qual­ity of your con­scious­ness, you can only make a change within yourself!

Gretchen says

Thank you Burt for your will­ing­ness to be a sup­port­ive and gal­va­niz­ing influ­ence for all of us in these chal­leng­ing times. I’m try­ing to main­tain some per­spec­tive about this global finan­cial sit­u­a­tion despite my acute dis­ap­point­ment with our government’s role and neg­li­gence that con­tributed to the cir­cum­stances. How­ever, my great­est desire is for a uni­fied col­lec­tive con­scious­ness that will pull us out of this down­ward spi­ral by focus­ing on a pos­i­tive out­come. I’m using Lynne McTaggart’s affir­ma­tion of, “My inten­tion is for world lead­ers in the polit­i­cal and finan­cial com­mu­nity to act intel­li­gently and with gen­uine hon­esty and integrity to sta­bi­lize the global econ­omy for the greater good of all peo­ple.” Thank you for your con­tri­bu­tion and voice of wis­dom! Namaste’

todd saed says

Like your com­ment Andre, how about more
on the man in the street con­sen­sus in your
neigh­bor­hood, noth­ing may exist, noth­ing in here
to grasp or out there, but we care for our loved
ones and will act, no other way for the body,
maybe this will lib­er­ate our bod­ies to truly
join our Higher Self, and see there is no prob­lem,
prob­a­bly that, merg­ing with the three quar­ters energy of God in the spir­i­tual sky, but bod­hisattvas also
like it here sometimes,

John says

This prob­lem is one of con­flict instead of coop­er­a­tion. Politi­cians tried for a quick fix to low cost hous­ing needs and now a quick fix to the prob­lems aris­ing out of the pre­vi­ous quick fix. This is from fear. CEO’s know­ing that the sit­u­a­tion was unten­able in the atmos­phere of change from with­out acted with greed. all of this was accler­ated my media hype. When things are good the media says that they are too good when things are tough the media gloats and blames.
This is symp­to­matic of a world civ­i­liza­tions in the midst
an ado­les­cent iden­tity cri­sis. Our cul­tural cre­atives instead of tak­ing the long view are push­ing for imme­di­ate change in all areas of life.
We actu­ally can fix this with affir­ma­tive prayer and liv­ing from per­sonal spir­i­tual val­ues and with ethics that are based on the golden rule which runs through all reli­gious and spir­i­tual tra­di­tions.
Let us be for pros­per­ity, for peace, for equal­ity and let each of us do as Goethe sug­gested when he said, “…Clean in front of your own dooor.”

Gary says

We need to put aside pol­i­tics and reli­gion and focus our col­lec­tive con­scious­ness on prob­lem of the world’s sta­bil­ity. What­ever hap­pens here in the US will have an affect on the rest of the planet. Together our power is greater than just the indi­vid­ual. Burt I am pre­pared to join in what­ever effort you are planning.

Antoni says

Hi Burt,

I don’t know much about world econ­omy and what influ­ences what. But I do know some­thing seri­ous is hap­pen­ing to the econ­omy espe­cially when I hear about per­sonal friends los­ing there sav­ings. It seems life is giv­ing the world a wake up call. Out here in Que­bec I haven’t per­son­ally felt the pinch yet but sooner or later I believe this will be affect­ing every­one in some way or other. The only thing I can think of doing per­son­ally at this point at the very least is not add on to the prob­lem by being pes­simistic and talk­ing neg­a­tive about it. I believe in the power of send­ing heal­ing vibra­tions out into the world espe­cially in num­bers. So I’m all for unit­ing our col­lec­tive con­scious­ness to bring peace and stability.

God bless

Kar says

I am pray­ing for all the world. I keep try­ing to keep a pos­i­tive spin. I know all is good. This is a test, this is only a test.

Peg says

Be the change you would like to see. Stay calm, keep your thoughts pos­i­tive, peace­ful, for­giv­ing. Your thoughts are very pow­er­ful. Please do not try to weaken and inflame oth­ers with your fear, anger, and com­ments which include pro­fan­ity and links to fear­breed­ing web­sites and videos . All of this will pass. Remem­ber what is truly impor­tant. Remem­ber that you are an Eter­nal Being and none of this can touch the REAL YOU. The answer is always LOVE. Choose your own feel­ings, don’t let oth­ers force their feel­ings on you.
It is always dark­est before dawn, so rejoice in the LIGHT that is with­out a doubt com­ing our way!

Karen says

What is hap­pen­ing now all around the world is the results of gread,and selfishness,we will all be alright,and no doubt we will all have learned a very great lesson.It is going to take a while.But ever­thing will work out for the bet­ter. What is hap­pen­ning now, is hap­pen­ning for a reason,in my opin­ion.
We can all change the way things are,so lets not wait for oth­ers to do it for us, as it will never hap­pen if we do.Do not worry as,really deep down we new some­thing had to happen.(got lots to say but i will be quiet now and give some­one else a chance)

Raquel says

Let me start by say­ing that I’m latin and I’m a woman. Accord­ing to the gov­ern­ment that qual­i­fies me twice as a minor­ity.
This eco­nomic cri­sis is a result of the enact­ment of a Law orig­i­nally con­ceived by Pres­i­dent Carter, and later pro­posed by Pres­i­dent Clin­ton and enac­terd by Con­gress in the nineties. This Law called “Com­mu­nity Rein­vest­ment Act” forced Banks to relax their stan­dards when con­sid­er­ing giv­ing loans to minori­ties that would oth­er­wise will not qual­ify for for home loans. When Banks resisted, ACORN, Asso­ci­a­tion of Com­mu­nity Orga­niz­ers Now, threat­ened and sued sev­eral banks. (This orga­ni­za­tion is been inves­ti­gated by eleven states for voter’s fraud). The gov­ern­ment then instructed Fan­nie May & Fred­die Mac, to guar­an­tee these loans, allow­ing banks to pro­ceed with “new Cre­ative Financ­ing Loans“
(120 loan to value, no income ver­i­fi­ca­tion, adjustable mort­gages, bal­lon pay­ment, etc). Banks found a way to give away junk loans and it did not mat­ter because the gov­ern­ment was going to buy them. Then Fan­nie and Fred­die packed these loans and sold them to money mar­kets all over the world. These money mar­kets had a great deal of our pen­sion plans invest­ments. Greed and abuse spread all the way down to the mort­ga­gage bro­kers, real­tors and peo­ple lying in their appli­ca­tions to obtain these loans. Since the gov­ern­ment was going to absorb all these bad loans there was no risk involved. After 12–15 years of this, it was inevitable it was going to crash. Unfor­tu­natelly every­one is blam­ing Pres­i­dent Bush, when in real­ity the Admin­is­tra­tion as early as 2001, 2203, 2005 was warn­ing Con­gress of the need to tighten the rules. A pro­posal was enacted in com­mi­tee in the sen­ate in 2005, and the demo­c­rat lead­er­ship did not allow it to get to the floor for a vote.
I think we have to clean Con­gress of all these bozos that keep feed­ing us the story that they are doing this to help the poor. To me that’s an insult, that the gov­ern­ment has to bring down the stan­dars in edu­ca­tion, loans and other mat­ters to acco­mo­date minori­ties. For me that per­pet­u­ates the minor­ity and poor sta­tus, and there­fore insures these poli­ti­tians in power. They make the peo­ple think they can’t sur­vive with­out their pro­tec­tion. There is no incen­tive for excel­lence any­more.
The amer­i­can dream now has a cap of $250,000. They tell us that if you make less than that amount you have noth­ing to worry about your taxes. That is class war­fare. What’s wrong with been suc­ces­ful? Abun­dance is the way of the Uni­verse. The rest of the world is get­ting richer while in Amer­i­cans are wrong when they suc­ceed?
Don’t allow the politi­cians to put you down. Give me free­dom and cut down taxes and you see how this coun­try will be back in no time. Gov­ern­ment was cre­ated only to serve people,not to con­trol it.
Raquel

Cecilia says

Dear Burt,

Do some­thing if you can, and advice us what to do, focus and faith are strong allies for the bet­ter­ment of human­ity.
Count me in!
Love

penny says

Hi Bert,
My views are slightly dif­fer­ent. i just think that
spir­i­tu­ally enlight­ened peo­ple are in the minor­ity
and once we’ve sussed this whole life game out we’l
prob­a­bly be sent to another plane of exis­tance, which is
a lit­tle unfair! This world is an illu­sion any­way.
the major­ity rules it seems. but in the words of Mother Teresa “all is pass­ing” so lets not get to hung up.…anyway they make great tents now!!

sharon farris says

Hello Burt!

Beau­ti­ful Day(s) to you and all that fol­low here. I would LOVE to be a part of a POSITIVE/UPLIFTING/MOVING FORWARD col­lec­tive con­scious­ness for the whole of human­ity. Blessed are we who rise above earthly mate­ri­al­ism to receive our true prosperity!(our earthly rewards will return to us just as quickly as they seemed to go) Bless you Burt, for bring­ing this oppor­tu­nity about. This is a mes­sage I will be tak­ing to the rooftop to ensure the mul­ti­tudes receive it.
Abun­dance of UNIFIED HUMANITY in Peace, Love and Calm­ness,
Sharon

Cora says

I believe this cri­sis was set up, and just the same is set up to be “resolved”, in such a way that the big guys get to profit, while the lit­tle guys are ripped off (as usual).

I think a (phys­i­cal) solu­tion would be to get rather inde­pen­dent of the whole industry/society, and live a sim­ple, self-sufficient life, in a small com­mu­nity of like-minded peo­ple, “far from the madding crowd”.

As for a spir­i­tual expla­na­tion — maybe we have what we deserve (as a col­lec­tive con­scious­ness)? Solu­tion — get work­ing on the qual­ity of your con­scious­ness, you can only make a change within yourself!

JJ Amanda Diambrini-Palazzi says

Hi Burt — I out­lined a long reply which was not accepted, so will just give a briefer comment.

Am a sci-fi scriptwriter and on research­ing for my sec­ond script in a three-part epic, GODZ GARDEN,needed a back­drop for my heroin, Syd­ney, return­ing to an Earth in utter chaos.
My stud­ies led me to the Annunaki, Planet X, FEMA (con­cen­tra­tion camps), the New World Order, Illu­mi­nati, World Bank­ing Giants, and of course the Alien Agenda. One sub­ject leads into oth­ers con­nected to it. A good way to get an overview (if you can sift through the rub­bish to the more seri­ous stuff) is through Youtube. I found David Icke and Michael Tso­rian there — both a wealth of infor­ma­tion and well worth lis­ten­ing to.

I have, how­ever, come to the con­clu­sion it is time to look at every moment in life as an expe­ri­ence, and only that, that we were never meant to live on this par­tic­u­lar planet per­ma­nently. Being overly attached to any­thing on it and even our lives is a mis­take and will make us mis­er­able as we lose every­thing mate­r­ial. This is not easy, cos every­thing in our ‘mod­ern’ dumbed-down lives is intended to enslave and con­trol us. Fear being the main (and very effec­tive) con­trol mech­a­nism.
Leav­ing Amer­ica is not an option for me so I will do my best to pre­pare for what’s com­ing, look­ing after fam­ily, friends and neigh­bors the best I can.

JJ

john says

R E S P O N S I B I L I T Y, MAKE A CHOICE! YOUR CHOICE YOUR R E S P O N S I B I L I T Y!!!

Dave says

Thank you, Burt, for giv­ing peo­ple a chance to express opin­ions on this sit­u­a­tion. I am an Amer­i­can cit­i­zen, and I think and feel that we need to own this prob­lem because this is our coun­try and we have both the respon­si­bil­ity for the prob­lem and a stake in the solu­tion. By not get­ting involved in local and fed­eral gov­ern­ment, we have allowed the few to make deci­sions that have con­se­quences for the many. We have sat and watched, and we have been mis­guided into a sense of help­less­ness. But the truth is, we are the peo­ple, and we can make a dif­fer­ence! It will mean mak­ing real and mean­ing­ful sac­ri­fices. Some­times we have to be hurt into action, but when we act, we have shown our­selves to have the drive and resource­ful­ness to make pos­i­tive changes in the rules and laws that make our way of life bet­ter. We can­not give up on this ideal, but we have to act. We can­not sit back and hope that oth­ers will do it for us. We need to tighten our belts, lick our wounds, put our backs to the work, and get the job done. If we lose some money, then it is our fault for not pay­ing atten­tion. But let us never lose our free­dom to think, to pray, to hope and to imag­ine that we can turn a bad sit­u­a­tion into a good one. I am with you all in this quest to make the world a bet­ter place.

kevin says

Bob ~ I really think you should review this per­son­ally and decide if you should for­ward this to your sup­port­ers.
kevin
http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/

Mason says

The ONLY rea­son I wake up in the morn­ing, is because Source has given me another chance to do things right, and to do the right thing. In light of the cur­rent finan­cial dis­as­ter affect­ing every­one, it is an oppor­tu­nity for every­one to recon­nect with their con­science and do a self eval­u­a­tion as to whether or not we have wisely used the time given us to do the right thing. Doing what I call mak­ing a cor­rec­tion in direc­tion requires us to under­stand that we as a peo­ple are just that, we. Not a you v.s. me dichotomy. I hope and pray, for ALL, even those respon­si­ble for their part in this World econ­omy dis­as­ter, that all are embraced with love, hope, and under­stand­ing, that we are all com­forted by and recon­nected to, the love of Source, for it is only this that will put the World at peace. I think Bono put it best in his song, “We are one but we’re not the same. We got carry each other. Carry each other. One”.

Andre says

Sorry for two in a row my friends but seri­ously: “go to it and phys­i­cally help some­one out how­ever large or small the act”. Only peo­ple who actu­ally do some­thing are what they claim to be and right now is what tests it out for you.

David Newman says

My con­cern is that the intrest we are pay­ing on the debt we owe will be more than what the coun­try can pay. When that hap­pens, our coun­try will go bank­rupt in about 6 months. when that hap­pens, the dol­lar will crash and worth almost nothing.

*** CUT AND PASTE THIS LINK TO WHAT I AM SAYING ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge2J2lNusJs

From there they will cre­ate the “Amero” instead of the dol­lar for pen­nies on the dol­lar. every­body who has money will become instantly poor, there will be riots in the streets and a very dark time in our country.

If any­body still has money left.…..get rid of it now or within the next 6 months. con­vert it to gold or con­vert it to a dif­fer­ent cur­rency out the country.

Not the Euro.… its not insured

G-d Bless every­body in this time of cri­sis around the World and say thank you to the greedy bankers of this world who tried to push the Amero for over 60 years and finally get­ting there way.

Karin says

Dear Burt,

As I live in Swe­den, I’m not affected, at least not yet.
I have fol­lowed the amer­i­can elec­tion and dif­fer­ent dis­cus­sions on TV, and I do believe, if any­one can clear
up the mess Amer­ica is in, it’s Obama.
It’s REALLY sad to read an hear on Utube about the Repub­li­cans, their vice (to be) pres­i­dent, can stoop to
such a vio­lent behav­ior to engage in shoot­ing wolfs from
air­planes!! Any­one with a heart would NOT do this!!

And a BIG Heart is needed in times like these.
Thank you for being a part in my life Burt..

Karin

Annie Millett says

I believe this has all been orches­trated on pur­pose. My advice, besides stay­ing pos­i­tive and out of fear, is get pre­pared the best you can with food stor­age and other neces­si­ties, and be pre­pared to ride out some tough times, as in the cleans­ing process, it will get worse (if you judge it that way) before it gets bet­ter. Please watch the video’s below, as every­one needs to under­stand what is really going on. The way out is edu­ca­tion, then quit play­ing their game, and work­ing together to cre­ate a shift in con­scious­ness on a larger scale. Please do quit think­ing there is such a thing as Repub­li­can vs Demo­c­rat, and that who you vote for will make a dif­fer­ence. The only thing that will make a dif­fer­ence is more peo­ple wak­ing up from their lethargy, tak­ing back their per­sonal power, and send­ing intense amounts of love and light to all, gov­ern­ment, and the peo­ple on the planet. Start small if you need to, and at home. Quit watch­ing the news. They show you what they want you to see, in case you haven’t fig­ured that out by now. Christ, Bud­dha, Allah, (to me they are one and the same) con­scious­ness will return to the earth when enough peo­ple wake up and man­i­fest it from within, which is where it has to start.

http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_14910.cfm

Kristina says

I believe that the “Exec­u­tives” that have got­ten the large salaries should bail them­selves out. I live in the North­east and just to heat my home and take care of my fam­ily is hard enough.…and we get no help even for the basics. I do not see why we should pay to fix their excesses. Bail out the peo­ple not the banks…if we did that the right peo­ple would get the money…not the rich peo­ple that have made such poor deci­sion and spent so frivilously.

Patricia S. Ortiz says

I will soon be 66 years old. I am sick and tired of hav­ing to bail out criminals–the cur­rent ones, the ones from the S&L scan­dals, etc. I fre­quently think that this is just a lit­tle part­ing gift from Bush to his rich friends. The only goal of his pres­i­dency was to raid the US trea­sury; now he has done it again. But I too am will­ing to join any effort to get the rest of us through this time of cri­sis. I also believe that a shift in con­scious­ness is the answer.

Peaceful says

I live in the now and live in pos­i­tive thoughts so as to the bailout, I have believed it’s about a cleans­ing and count me in for a mass con­scious­ness to help the planet for it’s high­est and great­est good… ONLY the Uni­verse knows what’s for the plan­ets, and those liv­ing on it, high­est and great­est good.
Namaste to all

oyinlola says

Hello Burt, I am wait­ing for some words of wis­dom from you, thanks.

Suzette says

Hello Burt, Those who com­mented, You who are read­ing them now, & the future Read­ers,
Com­ing to you from the wet­lands of south Louisiana, and not enor­mously affected by the recent hur­ri­canes as my fam­ily, friends and neigh­bors are. Thank all you who are send­ing bless­ings on behalf of the less for­tu­nate.
Reliance on any struc­ture of power (that is only for them­selves in sheep cloth­ing) is IMO a false evi­dence appear­ing real & we all heard what that is FEAR. I turned off my TV a year ago to allow my mind to turn inward. Oh! such a turn of events for me indi­vid­u­ally I will not elab­o­rate except to exclaim the energy shifted. Quite frankly, I feel I dis­con­nect from mass conscious-ness to the One that is! Oh, What a glo­ri­ous day this is!:)
With an elec­tion soon, I admit has con­cerned me for all the globe, espe­cially, those unaware con­sciously. I am a sin­gle mother of 54 yrs. (lol-yes a baby) who is a work­ing class. Although my son is 19 yrs, depen­dent upon me with “Big Dreams”. I feel great respon­si­b­lity for the future of all of us. In that, I believe, I hope, I trust!!!
Con­nec­tion is so impor­tant to the out­come of these times. I am grat­i­ful for inter­net to have a voice, to con­nect and serve toward the greater good of human­ity. I have no sug­ges­tions to how “they” can cor­rect “their” prob­lems. I am not in their arena although, effected by it. Actu­ally at this point I’m not sure it is even fea­si­ble to cast a vote toward the unity we are innately called to. Please! excuse me for say­ing that, it’s because watch­ing all this hap­pen year after year in my life­time, know­ing it is ridu­cu­lously enor­mous stu­pid­ity, greed & ego (earth guides only) fuel­ing their own agen­das. That is not the solu­tion try­ing to cor­rect a prob­lem with the same action repeat­edly. Nor is “my” way any dif­fer­ent or bet­ter, for­what do I know. Although it is a dilemma, I am not excluded. Day to day sur­vival has been my agenda. Human-ness in liv­ing a time space real­ity which will even­tu­ally dis­si­pate for each But how & what is the appro­pri­ate way to change for the greater good? Albeit, a mir­a­cle can hap­pen.
Yes, resound­ing! From here, I will par­tic­i­pate to the best of my abil­ity toward any sug­ges­tions you may have to solu­tion. “WE” can do it!!!
I am already doing “inten­tional” med­i­tat­ing for this planet! Respect­fully, Appre­cia­tively, Lov­ingly, I remain, Best Regards to All

Andre says

Hello mate, Mind mat­ters or think­ing our way out of things for mate­r­ial rea­sons only,always has hairs on it. It will as usual fail in the long term unless the thought which brings the action is first guided by deep feel­ings or mat­ters of the heart dri­ven by com­pas­sion for all. If humans only build the tallest build­ings in wor­ship of the dol­lar, place lust in front of love,abuse all the pure ele­ments, swamp the Earth and our minds with end­less mate­r­ial fre­quen­cies which blan­ket the divine fre­quency; then all that shall be wont be Gods doing, it will be a con­se­quence of our own actions as one. I love whats happening.

Joe Schofield says

This finan­cial cri­sis was brought about by greed. Greed on wall street and greed on main street. Peo­ple have been liv­ing off more then what they could afford. Check out my blog post. http://www.turbowealthbuilding.com
This cri­sis will find a res­o­lu­tion. As long as your are employed, pay your bills on time, do not get into deeper debt, and invest-very con­server­ta­tively for the next few years, you will be okay. We need to stop being vic­tims blam­ing every­one and start accept­ing respon­si­bil­ity. I do not feel bad if you were greedy or made a bad invest­ment. That the busi­ness of finance. If you cant afford to lose money, get out of the stock mar­ket and put your money into more con­ser­v­a­tive investments.

Kathy says

Good morn­ing.

I am a bit torn on this sub­ject. Some­thing needed to be done to stop the bleed­ing, so in that respect I think it needed to be done. The actual bur­den will not total $700B, but some­thing less, as there are actual assets asso­ci­ated with buy­ing these bad loans (busi­nesses, and homes that have some real value).

Of course the ques­tion now is who is in charge of the admin­is­tra­tion of the funds, and are they trust­wor­thy. The fact that we have to ask this about our own gov­ern­ment sad­dens me. Fur­ther, the fact that I feel sure that there will be crooked deal­ings asso­ci­ated with the bailout, sad­dens me all the worse.

I believe that we are in the midst of a global “reset”, at many dif­fer­ent lev­els and that we may be in for some very try­ing years. I feel that more will be revealed in the next weeks and months, that will shake us even further.

I thank you for reach­ing out to your com­mu­nity, Burt. We need to ban together in these times, and we will find a way to all come through it together.

Best wishes,
Kathy

Cletus says

Much as it is unpleas­ant, i have to dis­agree with some of the sen­ti­ments expressed here, that the bailout plan was unnec­es­sary or some form of con­spir­acy. If the bailout will work and stop the free fall of the mar­kets and the freeze in the bank­ing sys­tem, restore some form of credit nor­malcy and con­fi­dence then pay­ing for it over the longer run is prob­a­bly a more palat­able solu­tion then the imme­di­ate spec­tre of finan­cial armaged­don, which in my view will hurt the rich, mid­dle class and poor alike much more painfully.

Though i am out­side the US, the view from over here is the UK is nearly the same.

I do like the sen­ti­ment expressed by Cos­mic Ray that we maybe need to use these cur­rent times and events to replace ram­pant greed with grat­i­tude and love for all of creation’s won­ders. And since it is true that we become what we think about, think­ing grat­i­tude and abun­dance should help turn us all back in that direction.

unni Lukashuk says

Hello Burt.These are some of the rea­sons for all this evil,gross stuff going on to begin with,THE ILLUMINATIES,Churches,Politics,war mon­gers like Bush amongst many and of course greed. i live a peace­ful life doing my reiki,making beau­ti­ful jew­ellery leather native bags,it keeps me sane in this insane world of our‘s.I love list­ning to some of your med­i­ta­tive stuff but i do feel you charge to much for the avarage per­son to afford as so many self help courses etc,do charge to much,I have gone out on the limb as i live on a pen­sion as so many do and they can never afford this,Can the charge not be on a slid­ing scale so more can afford the help they might need,greed comes to mind.Namaste, unni

Julie says

I believe that if we con­tinue to fear we will help in cre­at­ing more of what we fear. Let us focus on cre­at­ing a more pos­i­tive out­come for all peo­ple visu­al­ize over­com­ing the cri­sis. Send love to all in clud­ing those you are angry at. It does work.

Cheryl I. says

Hi Burt:
I live in St. Maarten in the Caribbean (beau­ti­ful island, which thrives only on tourism, how do you think this will affect this island?), how­ever I attempt not to fol­low this, as I do not wish to dam up the flow of the good com­ing into my life.

I live only for the pos­i­tive and the good in LIFE. We have eter­nal LIFE, which means we should know the Father and the Son, we should know LOVE.

LIFE means Love Is For Ever.
We should acknowl­edge this, not only say it, feel it, vibrate it. We should really think it, and you will auto­mat­i­cally smile it to every­one you come into con­tact with. This energy will con­nect and so we will shift the con­scious­ness of this planet.

Also I would like to thank all the per­sons who sent in their com­ments. There are a lot of dif­fer­ent views on the same object, as one says we are all dif­fer­ent. How­ever I have to say that LOVE is not dif­fer­ent, it is NOT GREEDY. Fur­ther­more I would like to say that I agree and send a thank you to David Hurd, Kim K, Shel­ley, JD Forbes and Aline for their comment.

“A vision is bet­ter than a View — Go as you Grow, and Grow as you Go”

Tony says

How is that the value of shares etc. drops sud­denly, and to such an extent? OK so it was all ‘fake’ money based on the sale value of shares etc. and no actual money changed hands. But some com­pa­nies, mainly finan­cial insti­tu­tions went bust, and so, I sup­pose did a lot of investors. What hap­pened to the ‘other side’ of the ledger. It is my firm belief that while many lost a few, the clever few, became very, very rich or bet­ter still:very, very much richer.

Angela says

I am in South Africa, our econ­omy is not being hit as hard as the Amer­i­can econ­omy. Gov­ern­ment put rules in place early 2007 to pre­vent what is hap­pen­ing now, over­spend­ing on credit.
Unfor­tu­nately I can­not see Obama fix­ing the prob­lem. Power, world­wide, needs to come to a fall before a recov­ery.
Together we must believe and trust that the Uni­verse will bring the solu­tion and not man. Start with the indi­vid­ual and not the gov­ern­ment, work from bot­tom up and not top to bottom.

dorine says

noth­ing should have been bailed out, its pay­ing the crooks, and reward­ing them for their GREED, instead jail should be their next stop and their homes and prop­erty, taken as some of the payback

Jennifer Johnson says

Hi, I’m an appraiser and cur­rently work in val­u­a­tions for these fore­closed prop­er­ties that the gov­ern­ment is buy­ing. First, they are buy­ing bad debt, what this means is they are pay­ing full price (over val­ued some­times buy 1000%, yes you read that right) for the defaulted mort­gage value on many vacant prop­er­ties that no one is buy­ing, and then they are turn­ing around and hir­ing the banks bank to sell the prop­er­ties. Why tax pay­ers are not demand­ing that the tax dol­lars be given directly back to the tax pay­ers is beyond me. This was embez­zle­ment plain and sim­ple and EVERYONE, and I mean every­one in the mort­gage indus­try has known for years now that the feds were gonna cut this check when S*** hit the fan. It is so ridicu­lous, if this does not get peo­ple march­ing to the White­house, there is no hope for us. Let­ting these fraud­u­lent lenders go belly up is the best thing that could hap­pen to us, besides if they wanted to put Amer­i­cans in homes, why not do what the lenders do with eachother and buy the bad mort­gages for pen­nies on the dol­lars as the mar­ket dic­tates and sell them at mar­ket value to the pub­lic? Or bet­ter yet sim­ply refi­nance 700 bil­lion in cur­rent mort­gages? The banks get the cash and home­own­ers get a break. Bad debt = vacant fore­closed houses peo­ple, some of which here in Chicago were mort­gaged for say $250K and can’t sell today for $40K, I am not kid­ding. There is not a chance in hell that any­one is get­ting any money back from the 700 bil­lion because they didn’t set it up that way. Wake Up and ask sim­ple questions.

Richard says

I think it’s painfully obvi­ous as to why this hap­pened: Amer­i­cans sim­ply DO NOT live within their means. The atti­tude of big­ger and more is bet­ter has them, and the rest of the world, in this dire sit­u­a­tion. Well if big­ger is bet­ter, aren’t you happy with more debt and a big­ger num­ber at the pumps? This bailout is only help­ing Wall Street and CEO’s. If the U.S. Gov­ern­ment is SO con­cerned with help­ing its fel­low cit­i­zens, try this hat on for size: Call off your piss­ing con­test in the East, bring back the troops and reduce your mil­i­tary spend­ing — by AT LEAST HALF — and then it won’t be such a bur­den for the aver­age Joe. The World Gov­ern­ments have always been about padding the pock­ets of the wealthy, and fak­ing an inter­est in the com­mon man when the urgency arises. Amer­ica needs to col­lec­tively get its head out of its ass as a whole coun­try and real­ize they are liv­ing an unre­al­is­tic lifestyle they can­not sup­port. They all laughed at the Ger­mans and Japan­ese with their small effi­cient cars — now who’s laugh­ing. As a Cana­dian it makes me sick that our great Coun­try is attached to theirs.

Doni says

Chaos pre­cedes cre­ation. It’s got to burn to ashes before it can be rebuilt. I say out with the old and in with the new. It’s cer­tainly not the fault of the Bush Admin­is­tra­tion or for that mat­ter, any admin­is­tra­tion. I am not a fan of Geo. W. Bush. How­ever, I am smart enough to know it’s not his fault nor his Daddy’s fault, nor Bill Clinton’s, or any other pres­i­dent. It’s greed and power gone amuck in the land of free­dom where milk and honey have flowed abun­dantly for the upper class. Well, sud­denly the milk has gone sour and the the honey as crys­tal­ized. It’s gone and some­thing new and bet­ter is now able to come in. What that new and bet­ter thing is will be revealed in the days and weeks and months ahead.

Kathy says

And first thing the admin­ista­tion of AIG did was go on a jun­ket where the cost was dou­ble digit thou­sands per per­son and con­sisted of daily mas­sages, man­i­cures, pedicures?

This is what our tax dol­lars are doing? And the over­whelm­ing response for the econ­omy was to lose 20% of my retire­ment income. Trickle down?? I think not!

Gerda says

Burt,

First I’m not from Amer­ica. How I see it as an out­sider watch­ing the Bush admin­is­tra­tion. I see that since Bush jr. is in con­t­role not much good came over your coun­try and the world. He cre­ated fear, cre­ated a war, peo­ple died for his believe, money fled to war and now sur­prise, sur­prise there is a cri­sis? One thing leeds to another. Fight and you cre­ate resis­tants. He under­rated his oppo­nent. Made you believe he could save the world, but safe from .…, fear he made it big­ger than it was. Yes there are teror­ists, we must be aware of them. But by giv­ing them so much (credit) aten­tion we give them more power and give are own power away.

Keep the power to your­self and give aten­tion to a good outcome.

Tom says

I do not believe in trickle-down method­ol­ogy as it is unfair and ineffective.

Those who should ben­e­fit first from the “bailout” are first-time home buy­ers who have seen their home value drop below mar­ket value. If we can help those peo­ple to main­tain own­er­ship of their homes, the risk of defaults will be reduced, thereby help­ing the finan­cial system.

Opaque deriv­a­tive prod­ucts such as “mortgage-backed secu­ri­ties” which are cross-insured by “credit default swaps” are to blame for much of this cri­sis. This effec­tively pack­aged worth­less assets along with valu­able assets into a grab bag which finan­cial insti­tu­tions gob­bled up.

Thanks for listening.

Debbie says

Hi Burt,

My heart goes out to every­one in Amer­ica in these tough times. Over here in Scot­land we have just had dumped on us that alot of our local author­i­ties monies were invested in Ice­land and their banks have gone down too.

I full believe that a col­lec­tive con­scious­ness of like minded peo­ple can and will turn these bad effects around.

You have so many won­der­ful peo­ple out there that believe in you from all around the world. We’re here and wait­ing for your call.

Angel bless­ings from Scotland,

Deb­bie xxx

Todd Saed says

Your soul is evolv­ing to be the God of it’s own uni­verse, noth­ing to worry about

Raymond (CosmicRay) says

We did not arrive on this planet with the thought of destruc­tion through war pro­pelled by greed and indif­fer­ence, fear, hate, and intolerance.

An end must be pro­claimed to these destruc­tive thought pat­terns which have allowed such great pain and death of so many of our beloveds, our moth­ers and chil­dren which were des­tined to lead our global nations in peace and prosperity.

To get a glimpse at what has hap­pened to us, view the refec­tion of what has happed to our beau­ti­ful planet Gaia, which sus­tains us under all sea­sons. We need now to con­sciously replace these col­lec­tive neg­a­tive thought pat­terns and thus return to our orig­i­nal indi­vid­ual pur­poses and mis­sions. Replace greed with grat­i­tude and love for all cre­ations as we imag­ine our­selves held safe in the lov­ing heart of our spir­i­tual Parent.

Love to all and best wishes,

Cos­m­i­cRay

Todd Saed says

Most gurus do not have the his­tor­i­cal knowl­edge or polit­i­cal expe­ri­ence to see the whole pic­ture, thus the hare krish­nas are anti-communist, see­ing only that Rus­sia failed, not real­iz­ing the US caused it. China has a com­mu­nist govt and is the largest cred­i­tor nation, the US with the largest prison pop­u­la­tion and more mil­i­tary spend­ing than all coun­tries com­bined has cre­ated this eco­nomic absur­dity and because of this the house of cards is falling, enjoy the ride down, a Zen mas­ter is happy in hell.And it will come up , like all cycles,
it is only the US govt ruin­ing the world, the US peo­ple are becom­ing angry enough, and will be forced to com­plete the armed upris­ing began in 1776, pre­pare for the worst, expect the best , or expect noth­ing, two sides of the same coin

L.C. says

Does any­one remem­ber the old story of the grasshop­per and the ant? Not such an old story is it?

Karen Judd says

Hi Burt,
I am being affected by this econ­omy because I have money in the stock mar­ket and retired. I’ve been in the mar­ket for a long time (since 1987) so I’ve weath­ered a few storms already, but none as scary as this. How­ever if we all just allow the mar­ket to start mak­ing progress (baby steps) then we’ll be ok. It may never get up to what it was before and for me that’s ok because it was way over it’s head any­way.
What I worry about is this so called “one world order”. I worry that this bailout is the means to a spe­cific end. We must not allow that to hap­pen. If our com­bined con­scious­ness can pre­vent any­thing then that is what I believe we should work on.
When we dereg­u­lated the banks and then the mar­ket we took their struc­tur­ing away. Those that wanted to cor­rupt the sys­tem had a free hand and there are quite a few that took advan­tage of that. The reg­u­lat­ing needs to be in place again or else there will be more of this down the road.
I have not read all of the com­ments and I plan on doing that next.
My prayers will be for a nation and it’s peo­ple that have given will­ingly to the masses of need year after year. We are in need now. I will pray for pos­i­tive to come from this and that we as a peo­ple will reunite to save our­selves and our won­der­ful nation as we have for so many other nations in the past.
I will pray for an out­pour­ing of love as love can over­come any neg­a­tive that wants to get a foothold.
In Love and Light,
Karen Judd

Andrew says

In his book, What Does God Want, Neale Don­ald Walsch talks about exactly what Leila said — our way of see­ing things is con­fused! Our most highly val­ued pro­fes­sions — teacher, nurse, police, fire/EMT pro­fes­sion­als, are vastly under­paid, while peo­ple who at times behave noto­ri­ously (indi­vid­u­als within the group), like pro­fes­sional ath­letes and other “celebri­ties” earn mil­lions for enter­tain­ing us. What are we “cel­e­brat­ing” in our cul­ture? If we are not cel­e­brat­ing Ram Dass, Burt Gold­man, Jose Silva — even those who have become celebri­ties like Tony Rob­bins — if we are not cel­e­brat­ing our teach­ers, our best stu­dents, our best envi­ron­men­tal­ists, we are not cel­e­brat­ing what is good in life!
The bail out is a trav­esty of jus­tice! There are no real pro­tec­tions in the bill that pro­vided that money. Con­gress could have passed a res­o­lu­tion say­ing the money will be pro­vided AFTER proper pro­tec­tions are put in place. The promise of $700 bil­lion has not stopped Wall Street and other mar­kets world­wide from tum­bling.
Yes — we need to med­i­tate on — and visu­al­ize — what we want in our soci­ety! Go to level and visu­al­ize! I find it hard to find time to do so — like many, I have the tools, but have not taken the time to really learn how to use them.
Thanks, Burt, for this sound­ing board.

Mikelo says

The crux of this cri­sis is sim­ple: lack of finan­cial intel­li­gence. Peo­ple are told to buy assets, and then sold lia­bil­i­ties. “Your home is your biggest asset!” Well, it IS an asset to the bank; it puts money into their pock­ets. When you buy a house or a car, it takes money out of your pocket.

It’s also a cul­tural thing. We think that to have the “Amer­i­can dream” we absolutely MUST invest in a house (which is called a home, to give it a warm and fuzzy feel­ing). Then the banks sold peo­ple on ARMs as a great way to nab that dream, and peo­ple did what it took to get the dream, includ­ing lie about their incomes, and then when the rates adjusted and went up, well…

Peo­ple need to raise their finan­cial IQ, and there are great books to help you do that. I rec­om­mend “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” as a start­ing point.

Also, the gov­ern­ment needs to butt out of the mar­ket and let it fix itself. It will, even if it’s tough for awhile.

Ryan says

I don’t believe this is a bad thing. This is a good thing. The events of the com­ing months and years will, hope­fully, pro­duce peo­ple who do not see mate­ri­al­ism as an end in itself–people who are not work­ing so many hours that they are tak­ing mul­ti­ple drugs to get their bod­ies to some­how han­dle it all–people who will accept respon­si­bil­ity for all por­tions of their lives. The ques­tion is, how much suf­fer­ing will they need before that is the case?

Todd Saed says

AL White was too close to the truth for com­fort, Iraq vet­er­ans have already been trained in crowd con­trol, and the con­gress threat­ened with mar­tial law if the bailout did not pass. The his­tory of this online is volu­mi­nous, I will give my take.
I have been in Asia twelve years, eight years of job hell to get my cur­rent pro­fes­sor job at a Korean uni­ver­sity, and fore­saw the Mus­solini style fas­cism Rea­gan started mov­ing toward the overt Nazi style, so have stayed gone. I was drafted into the army, and impris­oned for sev­en­teen months, tor­tured , psych ward for thirty days, soli­tary con­fine­ment for two months, and in the psych ward at the Pre­sidio on 1968 was con­tacted by God, sent back to duty, I had been an anti war activist , com­mu­nist fel­low trav­eler, and refused orders.
So there is no love for the US gov­ern­ment, but con­cern for it’s peo­ple, and for them to avoid WW lll, the cycle of the past of war and depres­sion need not occur, with the worst case sce­nario of the eight hun­dred US con­cen­tra­tion camps being acti­vated, I would return for the armed strug­gle, if not retire to my rub­ber farm. The pref­er­ence is obvi­ous.
After find­ing yoga in 1972 I recov­ered got my MA in his­tory from CSUC< , UCSC BA, and got to Asia. There was never free­dom or truth cming from the US govt, under­lined in 1960 with the high pro­file U2 case, and demon­strated con­stantly since then, and I believe it will only be after the third stage of the US rev­o­lu­tion, the oth­ers being 1776, and 1968–75 ones, and now the third wave one ‚is resolved. This could be from WW lll, the US being defeated by Rus­sia, China, and Europe, then to sur­vive it will be nec­es­sary, or it could be from tran­scen­den­tal aware­ness with luck. SInce Obama has threat­ened Pak­istan, the chance of this are worse,.
Com­mu­nism, Chris­tian­ity, Islam, Hin­duism, Bud­dhism, Judaism and Tao­ism all agree on the need for com­mu­nal liv­ing and this will come from neces­sity. Yogananda, Patan­jali, and Evans Wenz can guide us to keep our spir­its intact through the exter­nal mess, because it is sec­ondary. There will be a world , call it com­mu­nist or comey­ounist, does not mat­ter, with holis­tic health, lib­er­a­tive artistry, free­dom and eco­nomic secu­rity for all, after the cri­sis, as the yogis told us, what is true, beau­ti­ful, good, and real last forever.

Michael says

Dear Burt,

I like your voice. The audi­tory one, and the metaphor­i­cal one too. I feel glad some­one asked how I feel.

Per­son­ally, on this cur­rent events issue, I’d rather not be sad­dled with debt that some­one else made and wasn’t respon­si­ble for.

Bill Houghton says

Its like peo­ple jump­ing off a cliff. We send more ambu­lances and more. No one is will­ing to prac­tice a lit­tle crowd con­trol at the top. Build some fences. Stop the rea­son for jump­ing.
We in Amer­ica must to back to doing what is right and mak­ing oth­ers do what is right with seri­ous con­se­quences for not doing right. Like jail time. A long time.

Kathy says

We all need to change our thinking…No won­der things are bad right now. We are all think­ing the same way.

anna says

I know that the sit­u­a­tion is very seri­ous. I belong to those with­out much of a finan­cial secu­rity for my old age, but def­i­nitely have big­ger prob­lems that this in my hands at the moment. I have to deal with a prob­lem of a severely men­tally sick child with­out any insight to her sick­ness, and am try­ing to pro­tect her from her­self. I need a mir­a­cle here.
I will be happy to join the col­lec­tive prayers for the well­ness of the world.

SMA says

Burt,

It pains my soul to see such crazy actions in the US and abroad. Of course these are dif­fer­ent here in the US where the prison cell is much larger and there are many Monarch’s (CEOs, Politi­cians) call­ing the shots and tak­ing from the hard work­ing cit­i­zens. Some­how we are led to believe we are free but are still trapped into an assem­bly line life with­out free­dom. Cer­tainly it is well known that there are other cul­tures out there whose peo­ple are not only impris­oned but also tor­tured, pil­laged and worse than here in the US. How­ever, none is right.

The CEOs and politi­cians need to live humbly and not expect to make more than 20x the low­est paid per­son in the orga­ni­za­tion. If money and resources were allowed to cir­cu­late to all peo­ple, our sys­tem would not be so hor­ri­bly messed up.

Sad to see the world in this sit­u­a­tion and wish the greedy and power hun­gry would have a change of heart and do the right thing for humanity.

Much love,
Stacie

Blanca says

I could not bear the thought of watch­ing this clip.

JP says

Hi,
Hello form Bel­gium res­i­dent…
Another coun­try vic­tim of the crisis.

I would like to offer hope, but the truth is that IMHO, this is just the begin­ning. Econ­o­mists say the fun­da­men­tals are strong, but that is only half of the story. Amer­ica is so much into debt, that now cred­i­tors don’t want to take the risk any more… and they are in fear.

That is why they say bailout is nec­es­sary.. Just to keep the old sys­tem going. But that is doomed to fail­ure, as you can’t expect to buy “Trust” by print­ing money more fake money.

Unfor­tu­nately, our economies are linked, so we are all pas­sen­gers of this sink­ing boat.

Time to start think­ing on the after cri­sis word..

- Where china has to scale back pro­duc­tion, and turn inwards for eco­nomic growth.

- Where Euroland will have to adjust and replace Amer­i­can gen­er­ated rev­enues with another sources.

- Where busi­ness will have no access to credit, and will be forced to close.

- Where peo­ple will be make redun­dant in great numbers.

- Where social pres­sures will be so high that social unrest will be a com­mon thing.

Don’t let fears freeze you thoughts.
Just be pre­pared, and act.

Regards, and thanks for all the fish.

Zeldawilli says

Hey Burt!
Here’s another one: AIG EXECS: Post-bailout, what’s next? How about $440,000 for facials, golf­ing and food at an exclu­sive spa in Cal­i­for­nia?
I guess they’re not wor­ried about the econ­omy! Do we really want 4 more years of Repub­li­can Pres­i­dents? Sorry, I wasn’t going to make this reply a polit­i­cal one, but I just couldn’t help myself.
Ok, I’m back. I thought “The Secret” had caught on. Why is every­one think­ing neg­a­tively? I know, we’re in seri­ously bad times here, but I really believe that if every­one was think­ing pos­i­tively instead of neg­a­tively it wouldn’t be this bad. Maybe we should all quit “talk­ing” about the Uni­ver­sal Con­scious­ness and start “prac­tic­ing” it. What a con­cept, huh?
Zel

Leila says

It seems to me that we live in such a diverse and dis­parate com­mu­nity now that nobody knows what any­one else is doing. As col­lec­tive con­scious­ness we still give things value accord­ing to their mate­r­ial worth — what they can be sold for. That, of course, isn’t true for some peo­ple, but on a col­lec­tive level it is. So, nurses, teach­ers, car­ers earn lit­tle while bankers earn a lot and are given free rein to do what they like with other people’s money in the name of cap­i­tal­ism. Once this way of see­ing things is seen for what it is …just one way of see­ing things …there could be some progress in the direc­tion of more equal­ity for dif­fer­ent ways of being.

Andy (UK) says

hi Burt,
Tem­porar­ily, and again, I am glad to be british and thereby per­haps not quite so ter­ri­fied of the bank­ing sys­tem fold­ing! It won’t hap­pen, though the power may well move a goodly dis­tance! (China or other east­ern economies) I think that a belief in the blos­som­ing eco­nomic upturn that will surely fol­low in due time will help to bring it into being sooner rather than later. The uni­verse WILL pro­vide it always HAS/DOES!

Dorothy says

Has any­one checked with the astrologers. They are all say­ing the same thing that every time Pluto comes into this con­fig­u­ra­tion with the planet earth there is major change. Look­ing back through his­tory one can find that about every 247 years (which is pluto’s orbit) the world under­goes a shift. Rev­o­lu­tions of one kind or another, etc. Com­ing out on the other side of this shift, con­scious­ness and ways of approach­ing life’s exi­gen­cies will be dif­fer­ent and let us pray more tol­er­ant and lov­ing worldwide.

Sally says

No ques­tion this has been an era of greed and nepo­tism. Peo­ple have wanted more than they can afford and have been trust­ing in man rather than God. Per­haps this is God’s way of turn­ing us back to Him and trea­sures that we have laid up in heaven. Trea­sures that we have laid up on earth are being destroyed.

ester says

Hello Burt:
You see I am not affraid and I think those are times of change.Genaraly peo­ple don‘t like changes,that‘s why we mustt now be brave and not like those cawords that stole people‘s money.Where are the human‘s val­ues?
They say you are a wise man,let us hear your word we are thirty foe wis­dom.
ester from israe

Lesley Swope says

I can not believe the reporter said the Amer­i­can tax pay­ers were asked to pay this debt. We were not asked but told we would do so. I think it’s all a big joke! And now we’re hear­ing AIG got the money and spent some $25,000.00 on a day spa along with a huge bar bill all for the sake of train­ing? Red­cu­lous. That’s what it all is and Bush doesn’t know a thing about main street. He’s never been on main street. ” Unless a per­son has lived in poverty, one will never know just how expen­sive it is to live in poverty!”

Sophia says

Dear Burt,

I am so aware of that this bailout and other “unreal” solu­tions of this kind pro­mote pow­er­less­ness and increase fear in peo­ple every­where on the planet. For myself, the answer is to con­tinue to be PRESENT to myself and to oth­ers, to stay out of the fear, to be authen­tic, to focus on Love, Truth, Clar­ity, Free­dom, Pros­per­ity, Heal­ing and One­ness in all sit­u­a­tions, in all cir­cum­stances. To live in the Light.

There is so much groan­ing at this time on our beau­ti­ful Earth, so much trans­for­ma­tion being incu­bated. These cur­rent events, “finan­cial dis­as­ters” are the effects of the Greed that are beyond some of our imaginations.

I choose to focus my atten­tion on the heal­ing of my fel­low human beings and on the planet that is our home. We can­not depend on the Gov­ern­ment to act wisely on our behalf, it is an illu­sion that this bailout will solve the prob­lem because it is prob­lem within peo­ple, it is not just a mat­ter of mov­ing money around. It requires a spir­i­tual solu­tion beneath it all, a shift of con­scious­ness and of under­stand­ing towards oneness.

We have a lot of inner work to do together to turn things around. There is no quick fix or fast solu­tion, but it does require an increase in wis­dom and a “soul-ution” on everyone’s part.

Thank you for this Forum, Burt. We are join­ing together our inten­tions to live in the Light and invite oth­ers to join us.

Hern­don, VA

Fred Mars says

We all need to take respon­si­bil­ity for our own actions, and the Bush Admin­is­tra­tion and our elected Con­gress has instead made us respon­si­ble for the actions of preda­tory lenders and greedy insur­ers and banks.

Instead of fix­ing a sys­tem that was flawed from the start, we need a new sys­tem that works towards the ben­e­fit of the peo­ple and not the banks and corporations.

Kathleen says

This all comes down to greed and irre­spon­si­bil­ity. The most impor­tant ques­tion we can ask our­selves is how respon­si­ble was it to leap into the real estate frenzy full well know­ing that per­haps many peo­ple could not pay those sub-prime mort­gages. Hey, but if you were mak­ing your com­mis­sion who cared about that? And, if you were fool­ish enough to think that you could turn your house around in 3 years, sell it, and make a huge profit and that this kind of prac­tice would con­tinue indef­i­nitely, than too bad for you. Tough les­son to learn. You took a risk. It was like going to Las Vegas and putting all your money on red or black. What is the dif­fer­ence? This irre­spon­si­bil­ity per­tains to every­one who was involved..the seller, the pur­chaser, the mort­gage lenders, the greedy real estate agents. I am a self-employed graphic designer and had the “plea­sure” (say­ing that fece­tiously) to work with sev­eral real estate firms and builders who were arro­gant, greedy, self­ish, thought only of their own per­sonal gain, etc. They paid me peanuts, mean­while they were all liv­ing high off the hog. Well, one of the those builders is bank­rupt and the three real estate agen­cies with whom I worked aren’t doing well. Even the non-profit orga­ni­za­tion that I worked for — the orga­ni­za­tion that was sup­posed to help peo­ple get into afford­able hous­ing was filled to the max with greedy peo­ple, espe­cially the ruth­less direc­tor and mar­ket­ing resources per­son with who I worked closely, both acted like lit­tle Hitlers. I live in Santa Fe, New Mex­ico and no one thought the hous­ing bub­ble would burst here. Wrong! So, now the gov­ern­ment is bail­ing all of these greedy peo­ple out of this big mess. In my opin­ion, it’s good that this is hap­pen­ing because peo­ple need to look very deeply as indi­vid­u­als, and col­lec­tively as a soci­ety to see where the value sys­tem in this coun­try has gone awry. Mean­while the school sys­tem in this city is the pits. Why can’t the 700 bil­lion go to the schools, health­care, etc. I am dis­gusted with this gov­ern­ment and quite frankly Obama isn’t the knight in shin­ing armor either and doesn’t have the answers to our prob­lems. You and I are the only ones who have the answers. He’s no Gandhi and don’t be fooled to think oth­er­wise. We need a spir­i­tual over­haul on all lev­els of our beings. Wake up Amer­ica. WAKE UP!!!!! All of us NOW. Turn off that hor­ri­ble TV with all of the neg­a­tive images and stuff bom­bard­ing you and let’s think and choose for our­selves. What kind of a coun­try, life do we want to cre­ate for our­selves. Can liv­ing with less mean liv­ing with more?

george says

OK, so here is my twopence worth of opin­ion:
This event is not hap­pen­ing because of a law of nature has been vio­lated.
This event is man­made, and to make things worse, it´s made pur­pose­fully with crim­i­nal intent.
There were peo­ple mak­ing bil­lions of prof­its out of the so called glob­al­i­sa­tion.
This is the rea­son why, with the US lead­ing, all coun­tries around the world are fac­ing this cri­sis.
There are peo­ple mak­ing a profit out of this sit­u­a­tion now.
The ones who have to pay for the whole s**t, are the same peo­ple who have paid all the time, through the ages,
the nor­mal work­ing peo­ple.
All gov­ern­ments are equally respon­si­ble for this, because they neglected their duty. Have they not sworn solemnly to work for the good of their coun­tries, to pre­vent dam­age to their nations. They have bro­ken their oath, they should be held account­able, because they paved the way for the prof­i­teers with leg­is­la­tion, rules and reg­u­la­tions enabling this mess to come about.
I am really dis­gusted at the hyp­ocrites how are try­ing to put the blame upon the nor­mal peo­ple, telling them, they should´nt have been so greedy ask­ing for high inter­est rates for their sav­ings. Yes, I heard this being said in TV by one of the lead­ing bankers.
It was clear for a num­ber of years, that this cri­sis would come, but nobody took the warn­ers seri­ously, instead they were ridiculed and their warn­ings dis­missed.
If con­fi­dence in poli­ti­tians if to be restored, it will depend upon their actions now in deal­ing with the sit­u­a­tion.
If all these bil­lions of $ and € are going to end up in the same pock­ets already full of booty, then the vot­ers should have a good look at their leg­is­la­tors and their assets.
Now I have spilled my anger and frus­tra­tion and all this neg­a­tiv­ity makes be sick.
A rethink is needed urgently and I think Burt Gold­man is on the right track. If we read, what he has to tell us we will find a lot of sound advice.
It is no use, to demand the “oth­ers” to change their view, if we are not chang­ing ours first.
george

Pius says

Dear Burt,

Do some­thing if you can, also advice us what to do, for our bet­ter­ment & mankind’s.

yohanna says

WOW, what an awe­some group of peo­ple have writ­ten in.

Please also count me in. I guess the most cogent thought I am hav­ing is that the lack of tak­ing respon­si­bil­ity for one­self and the greater good has brought us to this precipice. I am 62 and my zen prac­tice is help­ing me stay cen­tered. And, my part­ner and I agree that mod­est accu­mu­la­tion will usu­ally be more peace­ful and com­pas­sion­ate. Those peo­ple who missed that are suffering..wow, it does bring to mind the 8 fold way.

I am started with my med­i­ta­tions and thought con­trol and eager to join a group of peo­ple all over the planet doing some­thing that will help.

yohanna

jonnyboy says

Time to gather up the guilty, take them to a tree and do the right thing with them, all of them. then start over with­out the greed and let­ting all see what hap­pens to the extreme greedy.

Katharine Welch says

Dear Bert,

We have lived our lives respon­si­bly, bought a house within our means, used our credit cards spar­ingly except for travel, put two kids through col­lege, paid our taxes and saved for retire­ment. I retired in June of the year at 55.

We are now respon­si­ble for 700 tril­lion dol­lars in other people’s debt. We are reward­ing the exec­u­tives with mas­sive bonuses for failed busi­ness plans, our neigh­bors are being bailed out for bad finan­cial decisions.

And I’ve lost over 3/4 of my retire­ment fund and now I must go back to work after we planned well and saved for the future.

It’s not a pleas­ant posi­tion to be in, and frus­trat­ing when we’ve done things cor­rectly and we are being pun­ished for other peo­ples bad decisions.

This is now a global issue I can only col­lec­tively offer up prayers for all.

P.S. My son gra­ciously gave up a lot to serve in the U.S. Army to pro­tect free­dom world wide.

Kelly says

Yes, I agree that there is a prob­lem in today’s finan­cial mar­kets. How­ever, I believe that the media is mak­ing it worse by bring­ing the news of it into our homes every­day. Every­one you talk with talks of noth­ing but the finan­cial cri­sis. It will become even worse if we con­tinue to allow our­selves to be pulled in by the media and to give more energy to the prob­lem. In every prob­lem there is an oppor­tu­nity. What has hap­pened, has hap­pened. Rather than put our ener­gies in the past, let’s look to the oppor­tun­ties of the future.

juanita says

I would guess that i am in the place of say­ing that all of this neg­a­tiv­ity float­ing around and ener­get­i­cally can only be harm­ful to good out­comes. i am med­i­tat­ing reg­u­larly for the econ­omy to sta­bi­lize and come back into order.

no i do not agree that the big guys on wall street should ben­e­fit and it pro­vokes neg­a­tive in me, but over­all am try­ing to keep myself and oth­ers that i coun­sel together for a greater good, for every­one.
juanita

Jeanne Henry says

Burt, Con­gress did not vote the will of the peo­ple, and that, of course, is noth­ing new. I believe there will be a depres­sion, bailout or not. This bailout will only pro­long the agony, and the debt to our chil­dren and to their chil­dren and to their chil­dren is incal­cu­la­ble. Throw­ing money on a blaze will not work, it will only fuel the fire. Some­times, the only way to rebuild is to raze every­thing and start over from scratch, build­ing from the ground up. The greedy bankers on Wall Street got us into this mess with the aid of the Fed­eral Reserve Bank. Every­one knows that you can­not fix a prob­lem with the same mind­set that cre­ated it. I do believe, how­ever, that the con­scious­ness of the masses must develop a vibra­tion of pros­per­ity, abun­dance and plenty, and if we can accom­plish that, one by one, until we reach “crit­i­cal mass”, we will not only over­come, but we will thrive and prosper.

Aline says

I really have lit­tle right to com­ment because I am not an Amer­i­can, but when I went bank­rupt which was cre­ated by my gov­ern­ment a few years back, there was no one will­ing to come in and help me. We are all respon­si­ble for our own actions, being an indi­vid­ual or a con­glom­er­ate and the back­lash of the enor­mous greed of the Bush admin­is­tra­tion is finally com­ing to and end.

Kim K. says

Hi Burt,
I believe the gov­ern­ment “cre­ates” the crises for us and then they can “save” us!!!
I’m very jaded where our gov­ern­ment is con­cerned. The gov­ern­ment had over 200 “watch-dogs” who were sup­posed to make sure this didn’t happen…enough said…
Love, Light (& choco­late)
Kim

Maria says

I cant help but won­der a few things, first and fore­most, why is there money going to other coun­tries with no plan of repay­ment when the US is in need of the funds? One would think after the S & L bailout a bet­ter hold on the US wal­let was needed? And yet here we are.. I guess Im just not a rocket scientist.

And how much dif­fer­ence will any relief be if OBama gets into office. I liked OBama, but he seems to be just a pretty face look­ing to leave his mark on the world. Three Key men who are respon­si­ble for the col­lapse of wall­street are OBama’s Finan­cial Team??

WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

1. FRANKLIN RAINES? Raines works for the Obama Cam­paign as Chief Eco­nomic Advisor

2. TIM HOWARD? Howard is also a Chief Eco­nomic Advi­sor to Obama

3. JIM JOHNSON? John­son hired as a Senior Obama Finance Advi­sor and was selected to run Obama’s Vice Pres­i­den­tial Search Committee

IF OBAMA PLANS ON CLEANING UP THE MESS — HIS ADVISORS HAVE THE EXPERTISE — THEY MADE THE MESS IN THE FIRST PLACE. Would you TRUST the men who tore Wall Street down to build the New Wall Street ?

1. Franklin Raines: was a Chair­man and Chief Exec­u­tive Offi­cer at Fan­nie Mae. Raines was forced to retire from his posi­tion with Fan­nie Mae when audit­ing dis­cov­ered severe irreg­u­laties in Fan­nie Mae’s account­ing activ­i­ties. At the time of his depar­ture The Wall Street Jour­nal noted, ” Raines, who long defended the company’s account­ing despite mount­ing evi­dence that it wasn’t proper, issued a state­ment late Tues­day con­ced­ing that “mis­takes were made” and say­ing he would assume respon­si­bil­ity as he had ear­lier promised. News reports indi­cate the com­pany was under grow­ing pres­sure from reg­u­la­tors to shake up its man­age­ment in the wake of find­ings that the company’s books ran afoul of gen­er­ally accepted account­ing prin­ci­ples for four years.” Fan­nie Mae had to reduce its sur­plus by $9 billion.

Raines left with a “golden para­chute val­ued at $240 Mil­lion in ben­e­fits. The Gov­ern­ment filed suit against Raines when the depth of the account­ing scan­dal became clear.http://housingdoom.com/2006/12/18/fannie-charges/. The Gov­ern­ment noted, “The 101 charges reveal how the indi­vid­u­als improp­erly manip­u­lated earn­ings to max­i­mize their bonuses, while know­ingly neglect­ing account­ing sys­tems and inter­nal con­trols, mis­ap­ply­ing over twenty account­ing prin­ci­ples and mis­lead­ing the reg­u­la­tor and the pub­lic. The Notice explains how they sub­mit­ted six years of mis­lead­ing and inac­cu­rate account­ing state­ments and inac­cu­rate cap­i­tal reports that enabled them to grow Fan­nie Mae in an unsafe and unsound man­ner.” These charges were made in 2006. The Court ordered Raines to return $50 Mil­lion Dol­lars he received in bonuses based on the miss-stated Fan­nie Mae profits.

2. Tim Howard: Was the Chief Finan­cial Offi­cer of Fan­nie Mae. Howard “was a strong inter­nal pro­po­nent of using account­ing strate­gies that would ensure a “sta­ble pat­tern of earn­ings” at Fan­nie. In every­day Eng­lish — he was cook­ing the books. The Gov­ern­ment Inves­ti­ga­tion deter­mined that, “Chief Finan­cial Offi­cer, Tim Howard, failed to pro­vide ade­quate over­sight to key con­trol and report­ing func­tions within Fan­nie Mae,”

On June 16, 2006, Rep. Richard Baker, R-La ., asked the Jus­tice Depart­ment to inves­ti­gate his alle­ga­tions that two for­mer Fan­nie Mae exec­u­tives lied to Con­gress in Octo­ber 2004 when they denied manip­u­lat­ing the mortgage-finance giant’s income state­ment to achieve man­age­ment pay bonuses. Inves­ti­ga­tions by fed­eral reg­u­la­tors and the company’s board of direc­tors since con­cluded that man­age­ment did manip­u­late 1998 earn­ings to trig­ger bonuses. Raines and Howard resigned under pres­sure in late 2004.

Howard’s Golden Para­chute was esti­mated at $20 Million!

3. Jim John­son: A for­mer exec­u­tive at Lehman Broth­ers and who was later forced from his posi­tion as Fan­nie Mae CEO. A look at the Office of Fed­eral Hous­ing Enter­prise Oversight’s May 2006 report on mis­man­age­ment and cor­rup­tion inside Fan­nie Mae, and you’ll see some inter­est­ing things about John­son. Inves­ti­ga­tors found that Fan­nie Mae had hid­den a sub­stan­tial amount of Johnson’s 1998 com­pen­sa­tion from the pub­lic, report­ing that it was between $6 mil­lion and $7 mil­lion when it fact it was $21 mil­lion.” John­son is cur­rently under inves­ti­ga­tion for tak­ing ille­gal loans from Coun­try­wide while serv­ing as CEO of Fan­nie Mae.

Johnson’s Golden Para­chute was esti­mated at $28 Million.

Earl Purkey says

As I under­stand it…millions of peo­ple called and wrote let­ters and emails to their (cough) representatives…saying “Do NOT vote for this thing”. And what did they do? I see it as “We have been sold out”. A Pos­i­tive Con­scious­ness and per­sonal thoughts of Love are about the only thing that will be strong enough to turn this world sit­u­a­tion around and get us back to where we should be.

Earl

Greg says

I think the only thing that will save the econ­omy is if peo­ple slow down. There’s too much rac­ing around, like there is some place to be, but the future is built on the present. If we can all grow deeper roots in what we do, every­thing will be a lot more solid. Every­thing needs to come from the ground up. Self-determination. And com­mu­ni­ca­tion. Those two things are very impor­tant, and I they are the key ingre­di­ents to a sta­ble econ­omy. I imag­ine a soci­ety that prac­tices things like appren­tice­ship, crafts­man­ship, agri­cul­ture, coun­cil, and the focus of the econ­omy is more on the shar­ing of resources and sup­port­ing growth and diver­sity, rather than com­pe­ti­tion and squan­der­ing resources. If our resources are not infi­nite then we must learn to live in bal­ance with them. Every­one is here for a rea­son, there is no such thing as over­pop­u­la­tion. We just need to orga­nize our­selves bet­ter. If peo­ple are given the space to be self deter­mined, incred­i­ble things can hap­pen. What is best for one is best for all, and vice versa. I don’t know if this is mak­ing any sense. I don’t even know how com­mu­ni­ca­tion works! But I don’t think any­one does. Isn’t that wild? Some­how it just hap­pens. This life is sublime.

pepa lucido says

Hi i want to have a cd from you to guid­ance my life,but ny saler is so lit­tle, I can by not­ing. greet­ings pepa

Shelley says

I watched the video twice and read all the com­ments first before I decided to answer. I am not amazed at how many peo­ple from all over the world are angry (to put it lightly). For years I have been won­der­ing where are all the col­lec­tive thoughts and broth­er­hood. I am excited to see so many will­ing to step for­ward from all over the world. I have spent my life afraid because I have seen the broth­er­hood of man crum­bling before my eyes, even as a child I felt it crum­bling. That is a hugh bur­den for a child to take on and many chil­dren do carry that bur­den. Peo­ple don’t care about peo­ple as they use to. It’s all about the almight dol­lar. Greedy peo­ple get­ting greed­ier, rich get­ting richer and the poor get­ting poorer and those once able to keep up with the Jones are now bot­tomed out too. It is not just the bank­ing sys­tem although I agree that they pad their pock­ets as any other indus­try does. But none of it goes to the work­ing class who deserve it. The ones that keep those indus­tries run­ning. CEO’s couldn’t do it with­out those they hire under them. Yet they take all the credit. The heads of our gov­ern­ment are to blame for allow­ing this to take place. They should be in con­trol, but then again indus­try is fol­low­ing suit with our elected gov­ern­ment offi­cials. Free­dom isn’t so free if you have to strug­gle to find it in the sys­tem. Where is our free­dom of choice to have a roof over our heads and a job we can count on and the abil­ity to take care of our chil­dren. I can prove so many dis­crim­i­na­tions in many states in our coun­try. Our Con­sti­tu­tion has been vio­lated so many time by our own gov­ern­ment I am sure our Fore Fathers are flip­ping in their graves.

I for one have looked des­per­ately for the col­lec­tive. I want to see men, women and chil­dren stand together united all over the world to help make a bet­ter world not just one nation under God but a World Under God or as many of us believe; A World United With The Universe.

God in Geni­sis said that he cre­ated man in his own image. I believe whole heart­edly that he gave us legacy to his abil­i­ties the right to learn how to use that other 90% of our brains. Many peo­ple have tapped into that abil­ity to a slight degree. Imag­ine the good we could do with that kind of abil­ity. (It could and most likely would also be deves­tat­ing in the wrong hands.) So if we stand together united col­lec­tively for the good of human kind then we all should be capa­ble of mak­ing some dif­fer­nece and turn some of this around for the ben­e­fit of all. I for one would like to step up. Count me in!

Jerry says

I’m see­ing and hear­ing a lot of fear from some sup­pos­edly smart peo­ple these days. Fear will not guide us through this.

There were com­ments totally blam­ing the Bush admin­is­tra­tion, which is under­stand­able, but peo­ple for­get Bar­ney Frank and Chris Dodd, both Deme­crats and heads of the House and Sen­ate bank­ing com­mit­tees, stand­ing up and say­ing that there’s no rea­son to reg­u­late these finan­cial and mort­gage enti­ties. In fact, Frank said we should give more mort­gages to peo­ple who don’t qual­ify. Pan­der­ing if I ever heard it.

The fault isn’t dereu­la­tion! There’s been reg­u­la­tion after reg­u­la­tion put on the bank­ing and finan­cial indus­tries for years.

The fault is greed! And ladies and gen­tel­men, greed knows no polit­i­cal party. Buy­ers unwill­ing to wait to afford a house. Mort­gage lenders push­ing peo­ple to lim­its they can’t afford, just to get a big­ger com­mis­sion. Wall street yelling “bring it on…more, more , more.” And gov­ern­ment stick­ing their heads in the ground.

There’s blame on both sides. So instead of blame, let’s get to solutions.

I’m will­ing to hear and eval­u­ate what­ever Burt come up with.

RML says

This entire gam­bit is locked within a zero-sum gain machi­na­tion. If tril­lions of dol­lars are sucked out of one kitty, its adjusted value will end up in the honey-pot of another. This is wealth trans­fer on a pan­demic level.

Per­son­ally, our busi­ness is stuck in the final moments of a clos­ing — that even though it is in Europe — may not hap­pen unless “trust” is restored. Our busi­ness will be in limbo.

On an inner level, I sense that this is a test — a test of com­mu­nity, of the prover­bial los­ing one­self in the efforts for the greater Good. Even though we may col­lec­tively feel that our very sur­vival depends upon the assuage­ment of the powers-that-be in the credit world, this may very well be an oppor­tu­nity for our much-needed sense and real­ity of community.

Thank you very much.

J. D. Forbes says

WOW! I’m shocked that there are some super neg­a­tive vibes in some of these state­ments! Come on peo­ple, WAKE UP! This just con­tributes more to the con­sen­sus neg­a­tive per­cep­tion of the mate­r­ial real­ity. You want this to pass as quickly and pain­lessly as pos­si­ble? Then get on the stick, go to the Daisy Pond and GET REAL! Use what you have learned from Burt, and per­haps many oth­ers in the self-improvement field. We can do this. If you ain’t with us, you’re agin us…
Sub­vert the dom­i­nant paradigm!

Kathryn says

Hi Burt,
I believe no one should enter into fear…this is a uni­ver­sal cleans­ing lead­ing to a higher con­scious­ness, period!
Kathryn

Miriam says

Do we want four more years of this…or even worse? We need real change. We are get­ting a chance to get this in Novem­ber. Are we going to act responsibly?

Rebecca says

Hi, Burt:

I feel that greed got us this mess and the Bush admin­is­tra­tion and all repub­li­cans have spent 8 years get­ting their pock­ets lined with our money. I am on DSSI and my check barely makes all the tax increases in every­thing. I feel that we will go into another great depres­sion and it is already here. How­ever, I feel that it may be a sil­ver lining.

I am all for doing some­thing on a col­lec­tive con­scious level to help straighten this out so peo­ple can keep their homes and their hard earned money and the wealthy doesn’t get any wealth­ier from us. I per­onally can’t take 4 more years of a repuli­cian party. It has sicken me of how greedy and how cor­rupt this party and our econ­omy has become. I feel the prophe­cies of the Myan 2012 is here Now.

Bless­ings,
Rebecca

David Hurd says

Hi Bert, I don’t watch TV news because I don’t choose to get caught up in the drama. I choose to know that I will be OK.
The sys­tem is cor­rupt, and the pow­ers that be will do what is in their best inter­ests. I know that what­ever hap­pens, I will be OK, because they don’t con­trol my reality…I do.

When this mess hit I had $30,000 in debt, and I thought it wise to be out of debt. I have man­i­fested $28,000 of it already. It was easy because my focus was on my good, not the fear of the sit­u­a­tion. I lis­ten to your mate­r­ial on my Iphone every­day, and I am find­ing that my energy keeps shift­ing toward a peace­ful heal­ing place. Liv­ing in that space keeps me happy and alive. We all get more of what we focus on, and lis­ten­ing to your med­i­ta­tions helps me stay focused and peaceful.

The panic of 911 caused a huge amount of unnec­es­sary dam­age to our econ­omy, because we bought into the media hype. Maybe if we don’t do it this time, the out­come will be dif­fer­ent.
Thanks, David

Jerry says

I’m see­ing and hear­ing a lot of fear from some sup­pos­edly smart peo­ple these days.

Bruce says

After all is said and done “I Am”

Celia M. Loyola says

Hello, Mr. Gold­man:
I am from Puerto Rico and here we are feel­ing the reces­sion also. Yes­ter­day I heard that Europe’s stock mar­ket went down too. I think we have to unite to pray
in order that peo­ple could found peace. I could see in
the streets worry in people’s faces. Burt, thanks for
your letters.

Allen says

Hi Burt
I to live in Aus­tralia, sorry to say I can’t and wont trusr any Politi­cians any­where. With­out doing research, spend­ing hours and hours sift­ing through past world his­tory, I think it’s safe to say we never had some­one like your self in such past crises as reces­sions to help guide peo­ple along. If there is away using the Col­lec­tive Con­cious­ness that you are aware of, lead on.

Allen

Simon says

Count me in on help­ing with your plan.

jayanthi says

I didn’t ana­lyze the sit­u­a­tion much but one thing is clear — it has led to a global finan­cial cri­sis. Here in India , stock prices have plum­meted leav­ing many a com­mon man and pen­sioner high and dry. There is a pall of gloom all around.There is no job secu­rity any more and there is talk that out­sourced jobs will move away from India.
In this atmos­phere of global gloom , we are all sit­ting in prayer at a fixed time daily for 15 min­utes and pray­ing that
peace may descend on all and love and devo­tion may fill all
hearts

Bob Hicks says

Well, Burt, my busi­ness may have to close soon due to this lack of con­fi­dence econ­omy, and leave me in a bad finan­cial sit­u­a­tion, but that’s okay! When I get MY Bail-out check, I’m tak­ing all my hon­est, hard­work­ing employ­ees on a retreat to a glam­orous spa to cel­e­brate! Hey! If the inept/crooked execs at AIG can get away with it, why not us? Appar­ently no one cares how the Swedes
delt with the same sit­u­a­tion in 1992, huh?

silvia says

Dear Burt,
I think we are in a big trou­ble, with major plan­e­tary changes ‚the finan­cial sys­tem is from long time ago polit­i­cal pro­grammed for this crash ‚and some­body will gain THESE “fruits”, so,maybe we can help only spir­i­tual–
Sil­via( Romania)

Thanks God says

We have to learn from the mis­take and from there we picks up the pieces and no by point­ing and talk­ing rub­bish because this will affect the world comu­nity and hope by ask­ing the oil rich coun­try to help sta­biliseh the chare and banks with the oil money as soon as possible.

Becky says

Dear Burt

I once viewed a one-hour video by a Tai­wanese Bud­dhist Mas­ter and she said that GREED is the rea­son for the Dec 2004 Tsunami in Asia. It’s about energy and all those higher con­sciouness stuff. It feels to me that the cur­rent finan­cial tur­moil in US, Europe and now spread­ing to Asia, is indeed a col­lec­tive energy of GREED too. I call it the Finan­cial Tsunami.

It doesnt help that the media is report­ing these news every­day, and the more it reports, the more ‘energy’ we are giv­ing to the melt­down, result­ing in a snow­balling effect that is spread­ing like can­cer globally.

It’s time to pray or have a con­scious gath­er­ing of sorts so that we can all col­lec­tively res­cue the world. Small as we are, but never under­es­ti­mate the power of col­lec­tive consciouness.

God bless every­one on this Forum and on earth.

loren frost says

Hi Burt, we must all think positive..that is the only way out of any mess..think of some of the old say­ings they were said for a reason…for every cloud has a sil­ver lining..everyone has heard that..to me that means that any­time I am down because of life’s lit­tle neg­a­tive digs…I know it will pass it always does.. every­time not just once in a while but all the while..if we all dwell on the negative..that is what we will get.. so col­lec­tively think­ing of the good we have in our lives will give us more good…thanks.. Loren

Sue says

Hi Burt
I live in the UK where the same sort of thing is hap­pen­ing, but I feel that all this ‘cri­sis’ has been engi­neered by the ‘pow­ers that be’ for their own ben­e­fit.
We really need a turn-around so that the peo­ple have a say in weaht hap­pens to their money, which seems to be squan­dered by those in power.

John says

By the way, if we are going to solve this money prob­lem by throw­ing more money at it, we should take a hint from the Swedish bailout of 1992 — by requir­ing the banks them­selves to take on — and write down — as MUCH of their debt as pos­si­ble — before giv­ing them a fed­eral penny.

I will med­i­tate to envi­sion pros­per­ity and abun­dance, not only for Amer­ica but for the world. Only our vision and inten­tion — col­lec­tively — will take us out of this mess.

Maria says

I have been fol­low­ing this hor­ren­dous affair on TV. I believe that it is all a huge man­u­fac­tured ‘crisis’by peo­ple ‘behind the scenes’ who are the ones who really ‘gov­ern’ the world. Just like that idiot Hugo Chavez can be Pres­i­dent of Venezuela — he is a pup­pet for oth­ers, he doesn’t have the brains to think.

I am afraid that other forces have steered the finan­cial cri­sis we are in, and it started many years ago, some­where in the ‘90s; you can­not achieve this in just a cou­ple of years, and this admin­is­tra­tion is get­ting the blame.

In my opin­ion the whole bakc­ground of it is:

the neo­mod­ern pol­i­tics, every­body gets 1st price; every­body is ‘equal’; there should be no dif­fer­ence between peo­ple. That is all baloney!

We ARE dif­fer­ent; there are socio-economic classes whether you like it or not!; the very dif­fer­ences between peo­ple is what makes this world turn; the hard work­ing peo­ple should not have to ‘give’ their hard earned money to the lazy ones.

Peo­ple ARE dif­fer­ent! We can­not ALL get 1st price!, only one wins in a com­pe­ti­tion. Just a mat­ter of com­mon sense, which nowa­days is absent.

The above is applic­a­ble to the loans that have been given to peo­ple who didn’t deserve it, fol­low­ing the ‘equal­ity’ line.

I believe that it is wrong for the gov­ern­ment to bail then out, but there is no alter­na­tive right now.

Now, what IS impor­tant is that the very peo­ple, the per­sons, the liv­ing and breath­ing cul­prits who caused all this, should be brought to jus­tice and pay jail­time after due process in Fed­erla Court.

In the mean­time, we should keep on pay­ing our mort­gage, keep deposit­ing our money in the bank, keep invest­ing and espe­cially NOT PANIC!

Panic will cer­tainly cause a depres­sion like in the ‘30s.

I will join Burt in doing what is best for the peo­ple on Earth.

God bless all!

Maria

sabina says

I believe the great change of con­scious­ness is here, NOW !! and human­ity has the power to change any­thing for the ben­e­fit of all. Col­lec­tive and indi­vid­ual con­scious­ness well directed, with inten­tion, coop­er­a­tion and the vision of a bet­ter and fair world, bank­ing sys­tems, com­mu­ni­ca­tions, inventions,climate, dis­as­ters, fuel etc. may be altered to pro­duce the change human­ity needs to open hearts, awaken, and take charge of the respon­si­bil­ity we have handed out­side on a sil­ver plat­ter. Let us be respon­si­ble for our own actions and MAKE THE BIG CHANGE human­ity needs and we, as indi­vid­u­als deserve –MAGIC WORDS — ALLOW,BE WORTHY,TRUST!!! San­ti­ago Chile

monisha says

i dont know too much about the finan­cial aspects not being con­nected with the impli­ca­tions of the amer­i­can econ­omy. but if the pack­age is there it needs to be used wisely. it is also pos­si­bly time to then reduce the war related fund­ing and spend­ing and drain out that is hap­pen­ing in iraq, sus­pend it till things sta­bilise world­wide and cor­rec­tive mea­sures are put into place and world over the changes show results. it is also time to attend to the envi­ron­ment because with all of this, and the ter­ror­ism scene hot­ting up all over the world: (there is ter­ror every­where almost in india and i won­der what are we lead­ing to.) cli­mac­tic issues will mess up all the responses. will be too much too han­dle every­thing.
ded­i­cated, hon­est and the best peo­ple are needed to decide the best course to take and if tough deci­sions which are polit­i­cally uncom­fort­able are taken we need to live with them and absorb them as coura­geously as we can.
and the role of uni­ver­sal con­scious­ness in not just the econ­omy but the envi­ron­ment as well and ter­ror­ism as well.
we are killing each other in the name of reli­gion, we are los­ing all the human ness we have devel­oped over time. we are killing peo­ple in counter attacks. trust is not there. one doesnt know whether the per­son sit­ting next to you car­ry­ing a packet doesnt have a bomb or not?
is this the way to live? where is human con­sid­er­a­tion and com­pas­sion?
thanks for lis­ten­ing
monisha

Helena Jackson says

This is all quite fright­en­ing. It appears we are wit­ness­ing the melt­down of a fiat cur­rency and a way of life. The bailout will not work, of course. My fears are of what is com­ing next. Will I lose my house? Will there be food to eat? Will my fam­ily be okay? Where do we go from here? These are mate­ri­al­is­tic con­cerns, of course, but at 63, I may have to find a new way of being. I hope I’m up to the next adven­ture life has in store.

John says

We need an alter­na­tive sys­tem to cash money. Things are no longer val­ued by their use­ful­ness, and too much of this legal ten­der goes to the wrong way. Why should use­ful peo­ple sit at home, unem­ployed and unable to eat, care for their fam­i­lies and live, because so much of this cash money stuff is going to peo­ple who have far more of it then they need?

Ricky Martin says

Burt

This was in the mak­ing for over 30 years , since Nixon removed us from the Gold stan­dard our econ­omy will not func­tion like it should. There have been many other rea­sons also , but it has hap­pened. We need to do a com­plete paradime shift in our think­ing and heal this on a global level. Count me in on any­thing you have planned, to help heal this sit­u­a­tion for all peo­ple world wide that have been effected.

Bless­ings of light

your friend
Ricky

Jo says

Hi Burt,
I live in Aus­tralia & yes the author­i­ties here are hop­ing I think that the Global Finan­cial sit­u­a­tion will improve quickly, how­ever I feel that it will ‘get worse before it gets bet­ter’. This is not just affect­ing the US now but it has become worldwide.We are feel­ing it here dow­nun­der. It is worrying,and I agree that a depres­sion is sure to come. This sit­u­a­tion did not come about overnight and the solu­tion will not come that way either(overnight that is) I feel that it is going to take a long time before things improve.
Please count me in to what­ever you have in mind.

Jo
Australia

Kevin O`Callaghan says

Hi Burt
Iam from Ire­land as we see it here the big cats look after the big cats the work­ing peo­ple all over the world have to look at all our gov­ern­ments and see the big lad work­ing together over here our TDS in gov­ern­ment and the low payed are on €100,000 + TXP we the work­ing peo­ple of the world have to live on 1/3 of that we the peo­ple need to look at the peo­ple we put into gov­ern­ment from now on and make them work for us and not the big cats and if they do not put them out and tell them Y .good luck to you all in the USA and hope they get it right as we hope here
Your‘s Kevin

Al White says

Burt -
“Sell­ing” these pack­ages of loans is the prob­lem. The rea­son that a bank wants to ‘sell’ a loan is to free up money to make more loans. Right now, what these sup­pos­edly insol­vent insti­tu­tions need to do is “ser­vice” the loans. Stop pass­ing the buck and sim­ply col­lect the pay­ments from the 99% of the peo­ple who are mak­ing their pay­ments on time.

I believe that this sit­u­a­tion is being manip­u­lated behind the scenes. Yes, a con­spir­acy. Amer­i­cans are being stam­peded from one man­u­fac­tured cri­sis to another in order to make changes that some­one wants made. Notice how the price of gaso­line has plum­meted since Con­gress passed the bill allow­ing oil com­pa­nies to drill in more places in Amer­ica? Right… as soon as some­one gets what he wants from this finan­cial cri­sis, we can move on to the next cri­sis. Since the “No Banker Left Behind” bill has been passed, I feel that we will soon see the rebound of Wall Street, and we will have some other and entirely dif­fer­ent cri­sis to deal with. In fact, I will be so bold as to pre­dict riots of such scale that con­gress will be asked to pass a law allow­ing the Pres­i­dent to order US sol­diers to take up arms against Amer­i­can citizens.

We’ll see what actu­ally hap­pens next. I very much doubt that it will be a return to com­pla­cent nor­mal living.

Al

Gerald Moore says

This is a cleans­ing of the excesses that been allowed to exist. The solu­tion is painful but per­haps nec­es­sary to bring the US espe­cially, but also other coun­tries to real­ize that money and mate­ri­al­ism should not be placed ahead of eth­i­cal and spir­i­tual matters.

Tony says

I’m not Amer­i­can, but my under­stand­ing is that this has come about because the safe­guards pre­vent­ing it were abol­ished. You don’t have brakes, you crash, so not a sur­prise really. You can’t trust greedy peo­ple.
Greed seems to be an inte­gral part of the prob­lem, and as long as there are greedy, power hun­gry peo­ple get­ting their own way, there will be prob­lems for those who let them. Absolute power cor­rupts absolutely etc, etc.
Per­son­ally, I think a major part of the prob­lem is hype and reac­tion. A lit­tle cat­a­lyst has a big reac­tion and the domi­nos start to top­ple, but they don’t have to. The twitchy stock mar­kets react and we all pay the price.
Like per­sonal depres­sion, a lot of it is atti­tude, and if the ner­vous financiers caus­ing this col­lapse had acted more respon­si­bly, more pos­i­tively, and less like fright­ened rab­bits, there may not have been such a mas­sive prob­lem.
Of course, if they had acted respon­si­bly in the first place, there wouldn’t have been any prob­lem to react to.

Leon says

I have three words

Fear, Reac­tion, Solution

Aris Notis says

Dear Burt,

For some peo­ple this is not a surpis­ing thing, it means the end of one finan­cial sys­tem and the start­ing of oth­ers altered sys­tems. I believe that all these symp­toms demon­strate this event. I m from Greece and I m liv­ing in Cyprus for the last 13 years. I believe also that this is an tran­si­tional period. It rep­re­sents the changes of the human con­sious­ness. I m ready to fol­low some­thing to improve the uvin­er­sal consiousness.

Friendly

Aris Noris

Ashok says

Dear Burt,
Greet­ings from Ger­many. Yes this was going to hap­pen any­way. Every Cri­sis car­ries it own Solu­tions too. Let us join hands and help raise the col­lec­tive consciousness.

The time is NOW!

Best Regards
Ashok Banerjee

Harold says

Burt, I have heard the sto­ries of CEO’s leav­ing with 60 mil. sev­er­ence pay and even just yes­ter­day, I guess one was hired back as a advi­sor for a mil. a month. What both­ers me the most if that we the tax­pay­ers are going to be pay­ing for this for a very long time. I say let wall street fig­ure it out on their own, We, the Amer­i­can peo­ple did not get them in this mess. I have a wife that is bedrid­den and the gov. didn’t help me. I had to learn how to do it alone and so can wall st. if they want to do it. Yes it is tough but it can be done. It not how much money you have but how you spend what you do have. I have finally learned how to make it on one income. Yes it is hard and slow but it can be done. I have a feel­ing that the prob­lems on Wall st was a good many years in the mak­ing, not over night. gotta go the work again cu later Harold

Max says

This is a cleans­ing process because the fun­da­men­tals under­pin­ning the invest­ment bank­ing sys­tem (not so much the main street bank­ing sys­tem) has totally gone awry with greedy bankers pay­ing them­selves ‘for­bid­ding’ salaries and bonuses based on ‘credit’ which means ‘future earnings’

All these credit swaps and deriv­a­tives are noth­ing more than fancy names for ‘futures’ — the ‘futures’ mar­ket — and these imbe­cilic bankers thought it was going to last forever !!!

Invest­ment bank­ing are geared towards ‘assum­ing’ that a par­tic­u­lar com­mod­ity (be it credit oblig­a­tion swaps or what­ever fancy stuff these morons came up with) being priced at today’s price will sus­tain that price in the future, so every­body was on eupho­ria until a small default became a domino..the House of Cards fell — Fun­da­men­tals were wrong!!!

Vesna says

Dear Burt,
I must say, all this is no laugh­ing mat­ter. But I live in a coun­try which was bombed nine years ago. Yes, Bel­grade, Ser­bia. So, from that per­spec­tive this is just another nui­sance and noth­ing ter­ri­bly impor­tant. You see, it is only the way you look at things that metters.Of course, I am all for col­lec­tive con­scious­ness and good will among peo­ple, so count me in for any work on that field.
The best of luck, with love
Vesna

Beryl says

Hi Burt,

I don’t under­stand too much about the finan­cial mar­kets, but I do know that this is a seri­ous sit­u­a­tion and that it is world­wide. We, here in Spain are feel­ing it greatly, with many peo­ple los­ing their homes etc. I am wait­ing to hear if I will be given a pen­sion, and I fear that, even if I am granted it, it will be far too small for me to live on, given the cur­rent sit­u­a­tion. How­ever, I do know a bit about global con­scious­ness and I do believe, with all my heart, that we can make a dif­fer­ence if we are using col­lec­tive con­scious­ness to bring about change. Please count me in to any exer­cises that you have in mind.

Best wishes,

Beryl

E MacInnis says

The Bush admin­is­tra­tion has spent eight years in greed and destruc­tion. It makes me sick.

Rob says

Hey Burt
I’m from Aus­tralia, but i’ve had a feel­ing for a num­ber of years that this was com­ing. The author­i­ties here think that we are shielded but i think they’re kid­ding them­selves. It has felt to me that a bub­ble has been con­stantly pumped up and it has finally come undone and any help to fix this prob­lem will only pro­long the prob­lem because the government’s solu­tions don’t fix the source. I per­son­ally think that this issue will change the world fina­cial sys­tem as we know it, but hope­fully im wrong. Most peo­ple around me seem to be in denial but hope­fully there right.
I like your idea i think that our col­lec­tive con­scious­ness is the only way to steer the world out of this mess. I mean money is really only a tool and as valu­able as we make it.
Bye
Rob

Ivan says

I feel help­less in these tur­bu­lent times. I try to find out how all the mea­sures to pro­tect the sav­ings of ordi­nary peo­ple over the whole world will com­pletely change our soci­ety. I can’t remem­ber such times in all my life. I’m now 61. I have no money prob­lems , was not invested in the stock­mar­ket but care a lot for other peo­ple who I know.

MsZoe says

I don’t feel like I’m being bailed out. I feel like I’m being fleeced. I hope those are not $gifts$, but loans. Jeez, and they worry that the cost of health insur­ance is too much. Something’s wrong with this picture.

Jayme Wills says

My hus­band and I cur­rently live in the Mid­dle East, but are sad­dened by what is hap­pen­ing to our friends and fam­ily in the U.S. We have plans to retire out­side the U.S. sim­ply because we feel our retire­ment funds will have more last­ing power.
We heard a report that one exec­u­tive of AIG was being paid one mil­lion dol­lars a month as a con­sult­ing fee! Liv­ing here, we see what hap­pens when peo­ple aren’t exactly free to do as they please, but we are now won­der­ing if some peo­ple know when enough is enough? Amer­i­cans have been con­vinced that home own­er­ship was the way to go and peo­ple have cashed in on that notion caus­ing the sys­tem to fall in on itself. Peo­ple are being affected through no fault of their own, other than try­ing to live the dream. My home­town area is num­ber two in the nation with the high­est per­cent­age of work­ing poor. (I believe I know all of them all).
I also know and believe the Uni­verse has no short­ages. That is of lit­tle com­fort to those who believe their fate lies in the hands of oth­ers, but I’m happy to see an effort to get peo­ple in pos­i­tive dia­logue as to solu­tions. We’ve seen much fin­ger point­ing and blame, but I believe Global con­sious­ness that all will work out for the high­est good of every­one involved is key at this point.
Sin­cerely,
Jayme Wills
Abu Dhabi, UAE

Manuela M says

Hi Burt,
I am not an Amer­i­can cit­i­zen, so I should not com­ment here I guess.
But if I may say some­thing… I am not sure any of these des­per­ate mea­sures will do much good. Depres­sion is more than sure to come every­where I am affraid. If you think there is a way to pre­vent it I am happy to join the effort. Oth­er­wise, I will start plant­ing toma­toes on my bal­cony, buy­ing bat­ter­ies and can­dles, build­ing an open fire­place in the liv­in­groom etc…
Hope though there is a way to pre­vent this…
Love,
Manuela
(Aus­tria, Europe)

Bill Gordon says

No ques­tion Bailout or the new nomen­cla­ture {res­cue} was all for the ben­e­fit of WALL STREET and cer­tainly not MAIN STREET. Trickle down theories,most often is bull shit.

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