*** United Nations is publicly calling for a world currency and none of the major news networks are even covering it.
*** For the first time in U.S. history, more than 40 million Americans are on food stamps, and that number will go up to 43 million Americans in 2011.
*** The bottom 40 percent of all income earners in the United States now collectively own less than 1 percent of the nation’s wealth.
*** Back in 1950 each retiree's Social Security benefit was paid for by 16 workers. Today, each retiree's Social Security benefit is paid for by 3.3 workers. By 2025 it is projected that there will be two workers for each retiree.
*** U.S. national debt will top $13.6 trillion this year and climb to an estimated $19.6 trillion by 2015.
*** During the first quarter of 2010, the total number of loans that are at least three months past due in the United States increased for the 16th consecutive quarter.
*** The cost of bailing out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could reach as high as $1 trillion.
*** In May, sales of new homes in the United States dropped to the lowest level ever recorded.
*** The six biggest banks in the United States now possess assets equivalent to 60 percent of America's gross national product.
*** Sales of foreclosed homes in Florida made up nearly 40 percent of all home purchases in the first part of this year.
*** The FDIC's deposit insurance fund now has negative 20.7 billion dollars in it.
*** The total of all government, corporate and consumer debt in the United States is now about 360 percent of GDP.
The world's strongest nation in deep shit.