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Book SynopsisHow to profit from the events leading up to the likely collapse of the U.S. dollar Society is at a crossroads. Here at home and around the world, we are living in a manner that is absolutely, unconditionally, irrevocably unsustainable.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xiii
Introduction xv
Chapter 1 We are in Deep Trouble and We’re Not Alone 1
Today’s Reality 1
We are Not a Going Concern 3
We are a Society Dependent on Entitlements 5
Our Aging Population is Expensive 8
We are Digging a Hole to China with Unfunded Debt 12
We Export Our Consumer-Oriented Lifestyle to the Rest of the World 14
We Cannot Compete Globally Due to the Disparity in Wages 15
We Have Used Up Our Grace Period 19
We Produce Food That Impairs Our Health and Depletes Our Treasury 21
We are What We Eat, Breathe, and Drink—and It is Costing Us a Fortune 23
We are Jeopardizing Our Life Support Systems 24
Glenn Beck and Me, Talkin’ ’Bout a Revolution 27
We Can Be an Ostrich or a Hero 31
Chapter 2 We Need to End Our Dependent Lifestyle 33
We Need to End Our Dependence on Our Addictions 34
We Need to End Our Dependency on Our Credit Cards 37
We Need to End Our Dependence on Unsustainable Entitlements 39
We Need to Stop Depending on the Government to Tell Us What is Healthy 42
We Need to End Our Dependence on Imported Energy and Fuels 43
We Need to Reduce Our Dependent Prison Populations 44
Chapter 3 The Truth and Spin about the Pending Economic Meltdown 47
Why No One Wants to Talk About Why Our Deficit Cannot Be Repaid 48
The Truth about Tariffs and Jobs 52
Big Corporations Spin the Truth and Play Down the Problems They Cause 55
The American Dream Has Turned Nightmarish 58
Citizens of Other Countries Condemn Americans 59
What Religious Leaders Say about the Pending Economic Meltdown 60
Chapter 4 What People Fear about the New World Order 61
Entropy is Linear and Irrevocable 63
People are Fearful When Their Beliefs are Threatened 64
Governments Believe They’re Too Big to Fail 66
Don’t Worry, Be Happy 68
The Grab for Dollars from the Taxpayer’s Pocket 69
A Fearful Government Nationalizes Industries 72
Resistance to Change is the First Response 74
Chapter 5 How We Can Build and Prepare for the New World Order 77
Who is in Charge of Our Money? 78
Rethink the Importance of the Dollar 79
Do a Cost Analysis of Our Diminishing Returns 80
We Broke It and We Need to Fix It 82
Governments Must Return to What Works 83
Governments Must Support Innovation, Not Save Dying Industries 85
Vote on Character, Not by Party 86
We Need to Learn to Feed Ourselves 87
We Need to Reduce Our Sprawl 88
Where are the Bees? 89
We Can Move Mountains 89
Your Conscious Shift to Oneness 90
Think Globally and Act Locally 92
Be a Leader and Turn the Herd 94
Take It to the Street 94
Chapter 6 What to Expect the Day the Dollar Crashes . . . and Beyond 97
A Country is Like a Business 98
The Day the U.S. Dollar Crashes 99
New Game, New Rules 105
Could the U.S. Dollar Continue as the Reserve Currency? 108
What Can an Investor Do to Prepare for This Crash? 110
What Happens After the Day the Dollar Crashes? 114
Could the Next Bear Market Be Just Around the Corner? 116
How Bad Can the Next Bear Market Get? 118
Chapter 7 Shaping the New World Government Order 119
We Need to Limit the Growth of Governments 120
Individual Nationalism versus Global Citizenship 122
Maintaining National Identities within Global Citizenship 123
Protecting Cultures from Friendly Fire 125
Establishing Sustainable and Equitable Resource Management 127
We Can Expect a New Form of Exchange 129
The Double-Edged Sword of Debt and Unsustainable Promises 130
A Centralized Governing Body Could Coordinate Emergency Response 132
Chapter 8 Shaping the New World Social Order 135
Where Will Our New Leaders Come From? 138
The Global Communication Evolution 139
Flash Mobbing—A Social Networking Phenomenon 141
Ending Our Addiction to Stimulation 142
We Aren’t as Smart as We Think We are 142
The Role of Religion in Our Transformation to a New World Order 144
Connecting as One 145
Chapter 9 Consumers Will Decide How the Future Will Look 149
Consumers Will Drive the Next Big Thing 150
Focus on Creating Health and Alternative Treatments 152
Reduce Dependence on Drugs 153
Being Accountable for Our Well-Being or Opening Pandora’s Box? 154
Protect Our Water and Fishing Industries 155
The Health Care Industry is Due for an Overhaul 156
Overmedicating, Over-Testing, and Overcharging 157
The Basis of Geriatric Care is Kindness 159
Help Shape the Government’s Mandated Medical Program 160
Stand Up, Make Noise, and Demand a Transparent Public Process 161
Purge Fertilizers, Pesticides, and Toxins from Our Food 161
Purge Hormones and BPA from Our Food 162
Purge Sugars and Additives from Our Food 163
Kill Factory Farming 164
Refuse Genetically Altered Foods 165
Demand Changes to Fast Food 165
Chapter 10 Create and Profit from the Next Big Thing 167
Globally Sustainable Investing for Long-Term Profits 168
Socially Responsible Investing 168
The Positive and Negative Sides of Social Networking and Technology 169
Invest in Technologies That Expand Our Sustainable Energy Sources 170
Changes in the Auto and
Transportation Industry 171
Weaning Ourselves Off Oil 172
The Insidious Petrochemical Industry 173
The Wonderful World of Recycling, Reusing, and Repurposing 173
Our Costly Packaging Industry 176
Stop Natural Gas Companies from Destroying Our Aquifers 176
Mothball Some of Our Drug Companies 177
Putting Your Plan into Action 177
We are the Change We Want to See 178
About the Author 181
Index 183
