“The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.”
~ Robespierre
Written by Bryan Lutz, Editor at Dollarcollapse.com:
In January 2020, the average American’s personal satisfaction peaked at 65% just before the pandemic.
Since then, American satisfaction has fallen drastically, leading some to wonder if it indicates a U.S. economic bubble.
Does it have anything to do with the money?
No one seems to know.
No one’s educated themselves on how they might be related until now.
This happened another time also…
Just before the Great Financial Crisis in 2007 when the stock market bubble peaked. The average American’s personal satisfaction had peaked at 59% during what many consider another U.S. economic bubble.
Now, personal satisfaction is down to 43%.
The truth is satisfaction seems to peak when all of a sudden everyone seems to know where the money has gone.
Reality hits hard.
So do the surveys…
Here are a few examples of where this is happening now:
Zelensky’s Ukraine was very happy with the United States two-to-three years ago.
Now he’s discovering where all the donations really went.
He doesn’t know, but we know. wink wink
Breitbart reports:
Zelensky Claims Ukraine Received Less Than Half of U.S. Aid, ‘Don’t Know Where All That Money Went’
“In an interview with the Associated Press published over the weekend, President Zelensky said he doesn’t know where most of the money the United States allocated under the Biden administration to Ukraine has gone.
“When I hear – both in the past and even now – from the U.S. that America has provided Ukraine with hundreds of billions, as the president of a nation at war, I can tell you – we’ve received more than $75 billion,” he said. “We’re talking about tangible things because this aid didn’t come as cash but rather as weapons, which amounted to about $70 billion.”
“But when it’s said that Ukraine received $200 billion to support the army during the war – that’s not true. I don’t know where all that money went,” Zelensky admitted.”
Others in the long-standing US bureaucracy are being weeded out as ignorant on where the money’s gone also.
This one is about the US Treasury, revealing signs of a potential U.S. economic bubble.
David A. Lebryk has made a career opening the money-printing damn at the US Treasury to anyone and everyone for decades.
According to Musk, even to known terrorist organizations.
In a recent tweet, Musk revealed:
“The @DOGE team discovered, among other things, that payment approval officers at Treasury were instructed always to approve payments, even to known fraudulent or terrorist groups…
They literally never denied a payment in their entire career.
Not even once.”
$6 Trillion in annual cashflow moves through Lebryk, and his then team’s hands every year, which includes Social Security, Medicare, Federal salaries, payments to government contractors, tax refunds, grant recipients, and more.
Now it’s all being revealed by the DOGE, hinting at a possible U.S. economic bubble.
Then, if you want to look at where the US economy’s money is going as a whole.
It hasn’t grown 2.8% as the statistic for GDP portrays.
You have to look deeper.
James Hickman at SchiffSovereign reports:
The Government Lost 36% of Your Money Last Year
“In a 2022 interview, then-Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg discussed how we was going to spend $1.2 trillion of taxpayer money from the recently passed infrastructure bill.
“The main thing I’m thinking about,” he said, “is how do we make sure we take all this money— you know it’s $1.2 trillion— and actually deliver $1.2 trillion dollars worth of value…”
…So let’s go back to Pete Buttigieg— who couldn’t manage to invest $1 trillion while delivering at least $1 trillion in value.
By increasing the debt, the federal government essentially “invested” an extra $2.2 trillion in the US economy last year.
At a minimum, $2.2 trillion in extra government spending should have at least generated $2.2 trillion in additional economic activity. But instead the economy only grew by $1.4 trillion.
In other words, the government lost $800 billion of its $2.2 trillion investment— a loss of 36%.”
Here’s what we know now:
Government investment and foreign spending is creating a loss.
Money is being sent out of the country. Even to known terrorist organizations.
And money is being spent internally is coming back without a positive return on investment, while the economy appears to grow, it is actually far behind what it appears to portray. These signs are often indicators of a U.S. economic bubble.
Now that “we know” how much money is going missing in various areas it makes me wonder if we’re about to see the bubble popping…
Like we saw in 2019, 2007, and 2000…
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