THE WORLD DECLINE!!!!

I'm not shouting when I capitalize the title, but rather drawing attention to the fact that human society is declining all around us. Is anybody else reading the news lately? Europe's unified monetary system is crashing country by country while being offered bailouts from the (USA) 'International Monetary Fund'. I mean, who are these people? Where did they get enough money to buy up a country's debt and collect compounding interest payments for the next 1000 years? Why in this crisis did Taylor #1 only post once this year while I was having my midlife crisis breakdown? Doesn't having infinite investing knowledge and world economic degrees make him the man responsible for blowing the whistle on this decline? Does he care about the small guy, or is he hoarding his millions in a snow cave in northern Canada in the backyard of his investment property?

Of coarse, lets not forget the End Time prophesies:


Wars and rumors of wars
Cataclysmic events fortold: flooding, locusts, frogs, rising oceans
One world language and monetary system
The Mayan calendar ends Dec 21 2012 with


Are all these world events (physical, fiscal and natural) pointing to an unavoidable end? Should we rely on governments to handle debt crisis when they are voted in by people who can't even balance their cheque-books between paydays? Nobody wants to lose government services, or pay more taxes but if something isn't done soon then even us in Canada could be the next in line to accept a handout from the IMF. What happens in the end? Is the next era the one where societies are bank-run? Oh, but banks are bailed out by government with their own money on loan. Oh my, what a conundrum!



Here's the Stats:

Canada owes over 814 billion dollars to the Bank of Canada which equals to $25'000 per man woman and child. My immediate family owes $150'000.

In Zimbabwe, a baby is born into $36'000 debt with what chance to repay? 34% of working age adults are inflicted with AIDS. What chance do they ever have of paying off that debt?

Germany has a national debt of 1.8 trillion, meaning every citizen owes roughly $22'000 per citizen.

The Police States of America owes $25'000, roughly the same as Canada, only we're better looking.

The IMF loans money at the astonishingly low rate of 3.5%. That's fine if you're buying your first car or even house, but Canada, if bailed out would still owe $28b a year just in interest, roughly $863 per person. So basically the IMF is a debt consolidator on a global scale.

So as the world financial system collapses around us, what are we going to do?

Teachers are Salesmen and Salespeople

From a letter to a friend who is a teacher, but who said about himself "I'm not much of a salesperson." I just had to disagree as follows:

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Well, here's the cold hard facts: if you are planning to make any money other than 'job money' you have to learn sales skills. Thankfully, you already have them from teaching. I don't differentiate teaching and selling. With teaching, you are getting paid to 'sell information' to the students. You have to convince them that what you are teaching is correct and you're trying to get them to retain it. With selling, you're teaching them about a product or service and you are convincing them that it will fill a need. In either case it takes people skills, speaking skills. It's just that on one side (teaching) your salary is capped and you get more vacations (maybe) while selling can give you greater financial gain but involves usually a learning curve and other things. Catch my drift? So I think the main question that you need to answer is not whether you are to be teacher or salesperson but more what are your financial goals and what's the best way to get there. Also, I know lots of great teachers who also have businesses - no contradiction there. In fact, some of the best business owners and trainers are teachers, [because they have the ability to convey information so recipients 'get it'].