Source: US General Accountability Office

ADDING US INFLATION RATE + UNEMPLOYMENT RATE = MISERY INDEX. NOTICE THAT THE MISERY INDEX FOR 2001 TO 2007 IS RIGHT WHERE IT WAS IN 1948 TO 1952 (BOOM YEARS FOR THE US) AND 1993 TO 2000. CONCLUSION: ECONOMY IS HEALTHY & HASN’T CHANGED MUCH OVER THE PAST 14 YEARS, UNTIL CHINA & BAILOUT …

CONSIDER THE NUMBERS: GREAT DEPRESSION: 10,000 BANKS FAILED, PERSONAL INCOME DECLINED 25% , MANUFACTURING FELL 54% VS. FREDDIE MAC BAILOUT: 14 BANKS, 3 INVESTMENT FIRMS, INCLUDING SS, DOWN 5% SINCE ITS PEAK IN 5/2008, MANUFACTURING FELL 2% SINCE 1/2008 PEAK

Frequency Distribution Cells contain: IYEAR -Column percent -Weighted N 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1997 ROW TOTAL TYPE Arson 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 Assassination 10.4 22.1 48.6 33.7 28 25 24.5 15.3 17.5 20.8 30.2 22.5 15 13.3 12.5 10.3 13.8 14.8 22.7 21.7 22.4 15.8 21.4 23.2 28.9 15.1 13.9 19.4 29 77 225 161 150 178 217 200 268 573 839 607 378 378 437 298 390 462 831 937 880 749 1,128 854 1,145 523 491 13,405 Assault 0 0 0 1.7 1.3 0.6 0.9 0.2 0 0.1 0 0 0.1 0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2.4 2.8 1.5 1.1 0.5 0 0 0 8 7 4 8 2 0 2 1 0 2 0 2 2 3 0 0 0 1 1 0 88 112 51 39 333 Bombing 51.4 56.4 38.7 40 50.8 55.7 54.2 65.2 49.1 43.7 36.9 38.2 44.2 39.5 48.1 50.8 52.6 48.2 43.3 43.6 46.7 44.9 36.9 29.6 11.6 25.6 25.4 40.3 143 197 179 191 272 396 480 854 751 1,201 1,023 1,029 1,113 1,126 1,677 1,469 1,484 1,508 1,582 1,878 1,831 2,133 1,939 1,089 459 887 894 27,785 Facility Attack 24.5 15.5 8.4 13.2 13.3 13.9 13.9 11.7 24.6 29.2 27.8 35.1 36.6 43 37 34.6 30.7 34 30.9 31.2 26.6 34.5 37.7 38 52.2 52 50.7 35 68 54 39 63 71 99 123 153 376 802 772 945 921 1,226 1,290 1,000 865 1,062 1,130 1,346 1,044 1,640 1,984 1,400 2,071 1,797 1,786 24,127 Hijacking 0 0 0 0.4 0 0 0.1 0 0 0.2 0.5 0.6 0.2 0.1 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.5 0.5 1.1 0.9 0.8 0.5 0.4 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 5 14 15 4 3 14 9 5 2 8 12 9 25 27 40 35 27 18 275 Kidnapping 13.7 6 4.3 11.1 6.5 4.1 5.4 5.2 6.5 4.7 4.5 3.5 3.9 4.1 1.8 3.9 2.6 2.9 2.8 3.1 4 4.3 3.3 5.3 3.6 4.9 8.4 4.2 38 21 20 53 35 29 48 68 99 130 124 93 99 118 63 113 72 91 101 132 158 203 171 194 142 171 296 2,882 Maiming 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.9 2.3 1.9 1.4 0.1 0.2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.1 0 0.1 0.2 0.5 0 0.1 0 0.2 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 30 29 38 2 6 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 4 0 3 12 17 1 3 1 156 Mass Disruption 0 0 0 0 0 0.7 0.1 0.2 0.5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 1 3 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 16 COL TOTAL 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 278 349 463 478 535 711 886 1,310 1,530 2,751 2,775 2,695 2,517 2,851 3,484 2,891 2,819 3,126 3,653 4,309 3,923 4,754 5,261 3,682 3,965 3,459 3,525 68,980 Color coding: <-2.0 <-1.0 <0.0 >0.0 >1.0 >2.0 Z N in each cell: Smaller than expected Larger than expected THIS IS A COPY OF A FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION FROM UC BERKLEY FOR YEARS 1970 TO 1997. UNFORTUNATELY I COULD NOT GET ACCESS BEYOND 1997; HOWEVER, NOTICE THE COLORS. BLUE = LOW TERRORIST ACTIVITY. RED & PINK = HIGH TERRORIST ACTIVITY. NOTE: DO YOU SEE THE GREATER NUMBER OF BLUE AREAS DURING THE STRONG DEFENSE YEARS OF REAGAN? DO YOU SEE MORE RED AREAS DURING CLINTON’S YEARS OF DEFENSE REDUCTION? YOU CAN’T ARGUE TERRORISM IS NEW, BECAUSE WE HAD THE IRAN HOSTAGE SITUATION W/ CARTER IN THE 1970’S, ANOTHER TIME WHEN DEFENSE AND THE PRESIDENT WERE PERCEIVED BY THE WORLD AS WEAK.

AMERICA STAYS STRONG AS LONG AS IT’S PROTECTED (DEFENSE) & AS LONG AS IT ATTRACTS PEOPLE WHO CREATE TECHNOLOGY, ETC. THAT MAKE LIFE EASIER, I.E., INCREASE OUR STANDARD OF LIVING. FOR THIS TO HAPPEN, WE MUST PAY ATTENTION TO THE BLUE BUBBLES BECAUSE THEY DIRECTLY AFFECT THE YELLOW BUBBLES. ALSO, THE BLACK BUBBLES COMPETE WITH WORK, I.E., PRICE-INFLATION DISCOURAGES WORK. HIGH TAXES DISCOURAGE WORK. NATURAL RESOURCES MUST BE AVAILABLE . AND $$’S TO INVEST IN WORK MUST BE AVAILABLE (WHICH MEANS YOU DON’T WANT THE GOVERNMENT SPENDING A LOT OF THE $$’S, I.E., KEEP GOVERNMENT SMALL ). AND YOU WANT A POPULATION THAT IS GROWING & HAS SKILLS IT DESIRES TO CONTRIBUTE TO ITS COUNTRY, FAMILY & NEIGHBORS MORE THAN IT DESIRES GOVERNMENT ENTITLEMENTS OR NOT TO WORK. REMEMBER, NO WORK, NO GDP. KEEP THE BLACK BUBBLES SMALL!