Regarding government help with the $8,000 tax refund deal, Gerald Celente told Max Keiser on his show On The Edge, “…what they actually did, Max, they suckered people in to buying into a falling market with a little bit of chump change tax breaks. There are 20 million vacant homes in the united States. The foreclosure rate keeps climbing. There is no recovery. Real estate has a lot more to drop.”

Max Keiser then said that a riot broke out in streets when the government was in the process of offering some low-cost housing. My thoughts about that? Think about it for a second…

If you own a home and are trying to downsize and sell because its just too expensive to pay your mortgage and you don’t want to be stuck with a $400,000 debt, and all of a sudden the government comes out and starts offering a few previously foreclosed homes in your neighborhood for, lets say, $100,000… what are you going to think?

I’d be pissed. First off, if anyone is going to buy a home in that neighborhood, they’re gonna consider the $100,000 homes before the $400,000 home. Secondly, if I wanted to buy one of those new homes, I’d still be stuck with the $400,000 home and have to make payments on it. Of course there would be civil and “social unrest”!

But what about someone who isn’t trying to sell, but just wants in on the homes? There were 30,000 people in Atlanta during that riot just to get an application to apply for public housing. Take a look at the video to the right and watch.

Gerald Celente then goes on to say to Max Keiser, “Max, we had forecast in October of 2009 the beginning of the 2nd American revolution. You’re gonna start seeing it. Its taking place in the streets, as you pointed out, in Atlanta a few days ago.”

Now, consider the “anti-austerity” riots in Greece earlier this year (May 2010). How big is Greece compared to the United States population-wise?

• In 2008 Greece had more than 11,237,000 citizens
• In July of 2009, the United States had more than 307,006,000 citizens

The United States has more than 27X the population of Greece. And how big were the riots in Greece? It is said that 100,000 people rioted. Someone that was there said, “They were not 100.000, I was there and they were at least 250.000 people”.

250,000 people is about 2.22% of Greece’s population. What if 2.22% of America’s population started rioting?

If an “anti-austerity” riot broke out in America, which included 2.22% of the population like it did in Greece, you would see more than 6,815,533 people!

Listen to Gerald Celente. America is in worse shape than Greece by far. The only reason we haven’t broke out in these huge riots (yet) is because the government keeps pacifying us with these “government bailouts”… these little handouts to keep our mouths shut. They’ll continue to do so with their free use of the Federal Reserve’s printing press.

The 2nd American revolution has begun. With the amount of foreclosures RISING, not dropping, not even plateauing… and with more of those foreclosures being taken over by government-owned Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, we’ve got a BIG problem.

Gerald Celente has repeatedly said that the people of America need to rip out their grass and start growing food. Not because its impossible to buy food at stores right now, but because people NEED to learn how to grow food WHEN you can’t buy it at stores.

Get survival vegetable seeds right now to have on hand for an emergency. I’ve got mine… Be prepared. God bless.

If you want to listen to more interviews with Gerald Celente in August 2010, click here.

What do you think… should the US government set up a legit government institution that is geared toward following current trends and making forecasts for the future of the nation? If there is one, why aren’t they coming out and telling us the truth? If there isn’t one, I think its because they want zero accountability for negative outcomes.

But the more that time goes on, the more you can see that the government lies to us. Obama himself has broken many promises he made before he was sworn in, and after. Don’t believe me? Watch The Obama Deception and tell me yourself that he’s an honest man.

Lets see what Gerald Celente has to say about it. An RT (Russia Today) reporter asked Gerald Celente this question: “Why didn’t the White House, the Federal Reserve and all the other institutes or institutions and agencies here in Washington predict this was going to happen back then?”

And in reply, Celente said, “Becasue they’re not very astute at forecasting trends. I ask you this question, With all of the cabinet positions in government, is there a cabinet position of the Future? Trend forecasting? They don’t exist. The whole nation is basically trend-ignorant. Go to any of the Universities – Harvard, Princeton, Yale… name them. They don’t look ahead. They look behind.”

“You look at all the people who are running the government. They’re experts in the Great Depression. That’s History. How about the Future? They’re not schooled in looking ahead. The future is off limits. And number two, if its bad for business, they don’t wanna talk about it.”

Think about it. Our government isn’t schooled in looking ahead. No, Gerald Celente doesn’t mean “looking ahead” with astrology or predictions based on tarot cards. He means looking at the facts of measurable recent and current trends and making a legit forecast based on those trends. If weathermen can do it for weather trends, surely the government could do it with applicable economic trends… but why aren’t they?

If they really cared, they would pursue this line of forecasting, stop beating around the bush, stop lying to us and stop thinking only of business.

Making a point that the government only cares about whats good for business, Gerald Celente goes on to say, “… I love the language, ‘pending homesales in US declined today more than expected’. More than expected by whom? Consumer spending and personal income stagnated. Well just yesterday, Fed Chairman Bernanke said, ‘Expect consumer spending to increase as personal income climbs’.”

“So its one big lie they’re saying day after day to keep the people quiet because revolt is ready to happen. You can see it in the Tea Parties.”

Isn’t it interesting… pacify the people with lies to keep them quiet. Pacify them with stimulus checks and tax cuts to keep them happy. Get deeper into debt to make it seem like progress is being made. PEOPLE, ITS LIE AFTER LIE. America is bankrupt, and the government knows it and doesn’t want to be accountable for it. A full-on economic collapse is coming, and Gerald Celente is spot on.

Be prepared. God bless.

If you want to listen to more interviews with Gerald Celente, click here.

Gerald Celente was interviewed by Tony Cruise on July 27, and was asked in effect, “What are some of the things the United States is looking at this year, economically?”

His reply gave an insight on how scared Ben Bernanke really is concerning the future. He said, “… Ben Bernanke, the Fed Chairman, came out this week and said, ‘Its unusually uncertain.’ How could you come out with a stupid statement like that?… What individual, if you’re talking to someone, is like, ‘Its unusually uncertain’? Only these white shoe boys get away with that kind of lingo. That means that things are gonna get really bad, and they know it. And they’re conning people in this whole real estate thing with this $8,000 tax break…. They con people into buying into a failing market by giving them a little bonus to do it, and it costs all the American tax payers.”

“This is not recovery. You look at the numbers, you look at the real estate numbers, you look at the unemployment numbers – the stimulus money is running out, and the economy is going to decline. By the end, by the time the clock hits 2011, we are saying the Crash of 2010 will have happened. Everyone will have recognized there was no recovery. It was a cover up of digital money printed out of thin air, backed by nothing and producing nothing.”

Those are some pretty bold statements by Gerald Celente, but you know what? He’s absolutely right. Think of all the attempts the government has made to “stimulate” the economy. One in particular was when they offered the $8,000 tax break for the whole real estate thing earlier this year and last year. Why did they do it? What did they accomplish? Sure, my brother-in-law bought a few guns and paid off a car with his $8,000, but as a whole, what did it accomplish? It screwed the tax payers, that’s what happened!

When you use government money, you use tax payer’s money. Whether it be stimulus checks, unemployment checks, tax break checks, etc etc… all those checks are essentially OUR money. If you trace exactly where our income taxes go, you find that part of it eventually goes to government stimulus efforts. And when they can’t afford their own stimulus efforts, they print up digital money and send it out to people in the form of a check.

Money just can’t be printed out of thin air, people. When it is, the value of the dollar decreases, and you can’t purchase anything at the same price you once could before. Your money loses its value. Everyone and everything is affected by it.

I heard just the other day of someone sending back their stimulus check. Why would they do that? Its free money, right? Wrong. I give a standing ovation to that person who sent it back. When the next set of checks get shipped out, my wife and I plan on sending ours back, too, because we don’t want to be a part of it. We don’t want to be educating people about how bad government bailouts are, and then use that money. We aren’t going to.

So I advise you, please, send back the stimulus check that you’re going to get in the mail. Why? Because if you do, you’re taking a stand and not playing their game. You’re saying to the government, “NO! I will not be conned. I will not be one who gives in and plays a part in inflation. I care about my children’s future. I care about my grandchildren’s future.”

Anyway, Tony Cruise went on to ask what all this stuff is going to lead to, according to his (Gerald Celente) research. Gerald said, “Well, you’re gonna see much higher unemployment. Crime unfortunately is going to increase. We’re looking at some very very serious, a very serious future. And they’re draining the treasury. This is perfect empire decline, even to the point where when you look at the last empire that declined, the former Soviet Union, the ‘super power’ that was the U.S. competitor – We’re even sipping from the same final Afgan straw.”

“You don’t spread your resources world-wide as you’re declining internally. Its written in the history books, chapter and verse. So we’re doing the same thing…. Bring back the manufacturing base. We have to make things. Whoever came up with this big lie that the United States can’t compete in the world market are the people that are raping it, that have sent production overseas to slave labor totalitarian regimes like China. And then mark the product up and bring it back!”

I completely agree. The United States CAN compete in the world market. We’ve just got to get the losers out of power, and out of our way. Unfortunately, the losers are addicts to power and don’t give a rat’s butt for those who could really make America great.

Concerning the United State Military, as it is right now, Gerald Celente put it in perspective by saying, “You want to put things into perspective? This is the United States Military that, you know, defeated the Germans at the Battle of the Bulge, planted the American flag through the heart of the Japanese at Iwo Jima, and we can’t beat a bunch of guys with no shoes on? Come on.”

“So the whole thing is a racket…. So we’re gonna keep draining the treasury. We’re gonna lose in Afghanistan. Things are gonna worsen in Pakistan. More terrorist probability in 2010, unless this direction is changed. The people that are going to lead us, as I said, they can’t win at anything. They can’t fix BP, they can’t fix Katrina, education.”

“The latest poll came out (confidence poll) in institutions by Gallup. Only 11 percent of the people have confidence in congress. And I said to myself, ‘That high? I guess those 11% that are working for congress were getting paid off by them’”

So much money being spent for a war we can’t win… sad on both parts, the financial part and the losing part. I loved how Gerald Celente elegantly described a few of our former military victories, and how now we can’t beat a bunch of guys with no shoes on. Come on!

If you want to listen to more interviews with Gerald Celente, click here.

As always, if you feel the need to prepare for the future, my highest recommendation is to buy a survival seed bank for yourself, your parents or loved ones. Don’t buy useless birthday or Christmas presents – get them something practical. Something they will be forever grateful for. Buy a survival seed bank.