[Angry_Chimp]

Stay tuned for "How to Profit From The Coming Death Camps"...

“If we consider the wealth of big banks, in comparison to the wealth of industrial corporations – or nations for that matter – we find a scenario much like that in a poker parlor. The corporations and nations are the players, and the banks are the house. Players go up and down; some get rich, some go into debt, and some go broke - and they all suffer when economies experience recession or depression. But the house never loses, always takes its share of every pot, always collects its debts – and can change the rules of the game whenever it sees fit.”
~Richard Moore, “Escaping the Matrix”



How to profit from a 'police state'

http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/In ... x?page=all

The booming security business now employs as many as one-fourth of American workers. Here are four companies poised to make a bundle from our penchant for protection.

By Jon Markman
In the midst of a six-year war on terrorism, widening income inequality and a growing fear of immigrants, America has become something of a police state, according to a new study, with as much as 25% of our entire labor force focused on protection rather than production.

The evidence is all around us, from the 47% increase in U.S. workers classified as security guards since 2002 to the sharp advance in the number of men and women under arms in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere.

And it's not just public police forces and shopping-mall rent-a-cops. During the raging brush fires in Southern California last month, it was revealed that many wealthy homeowners now hire private firefighters through their insurance companies.

Talk back: Discuss investing with Jon on the SuperModels message board
The study by noted Santa Fe Institute and University of Massachusetts economists Samuel Bowles and Arjun Jayadev, called "Garrison America," suggests that one in four Americans are now engaged in "guard labor," which means they either provide security for people and property or impose work discipline at factories, farms and retailers.

Similar calculations of guard labor for 18 other countries suggest that the United States is pretty much the leader in this category, slightly trailing Greece, a former military dictatorship, but well ahead of Western democracies such as Switzerland, which has just a 10th of its labor force devoted to guard labor.

Nations with the largest percentage of their work forces dedicated to security: Country Security workers as % of labor force
Greece 24%

United States 22.2%

United Kingdom 19.9%
Spain 19.8%
New Zealand 18.3%
Australia 18.2%
Belgium 18.1%
Canada 16.3%
Ireland 15.7%
Netherlands 14.3%
Source: Berkeley Electronic Press





Note: Police personnel are not included due to lack of comparable data.

The increasing focus on protecting the existing economic pie rather than making more pie has important implications going forward, especially as we head into a year in which something like $1 trillion in adjustable-rate-mortgage adjustments will hit low-income and middle-class homeowners like a pie in the face.

You don't need a Ph.D. in behavioral science to realize that a material number of household heads, faced with the loss of their homes and cars to foreclosure and repo men, will turn to theft, drugs and violence amid a sense of frustration with their deteriorating status, just as they have in past periods of economic dislocation.

[roccman]

Rich fucks (and I KNOW you read this site)...befuckingware!!!

At some point your paid death sqauds have to leave your walled compounds in search of mo' food and slaves...

YOU WILL BE SHOT ON SITE

Savvy?

[pup55]

Who is guarding us from the guards?

[I_Like_Plants]

When you see "banks" think "Jews".

Then you hear "bankers" think "Jews"

That is all.

[Denny]

Those percentages of people working in security seem bogus to me.

I suppose if you count each store clerk as a "security" person and each teacher likewise, as both have to deal with controlling the goods or people in their environment.

Outside of that, it would make sense the U.S. is the world leader in security as there are so many guns outstanding and of course, the U.S. wealth is so large. Leaps and bounds above other countries.

[Lighthouse]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('roccman', 'R')ich fucks (and I KNOW you read this site)...befuckingware!!!

At some point your paid death sqauds have to leave your walled compounds in search of mo' food and slaves...

YOU WILL BE SHOT ON SITE

Savvy?

[highlander]

Denny is right. There is no way over 1/5 of the workforce is "security"
even the whole government workforce is barely 1/5 of the total.
figures lie and liars figure......go figure

[roccman]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Lighthouse', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('roccman', 'R')ich fucks (and I KNOW you read this site)...befuckingware!!!

At some point your paid death sqauds have to leave your walled compounds in search of mo' food and slaves...

YOU WILL BE SHOT ON SITE

Savvy?

[xrotaryguy]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('I_Like_Plants', 'W')hen you see "banks" think "Jews".

Then you hear "bankers" think "Jews"

That is all.

[dukey]

freedom of speech ?
hes free to say all the retarded stuff he likes
and we are free to ignore him

[xrotaryguy]

So racism is cool on this board?

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('xrotaryguy', 'S')o racism is cool on this board?

[Novus]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Denny', 'T')hose percentages of people working in security seem bogus to me.

[Kylon]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('xrotaryguy', 'S')o racism is cool on this board?

[uNkNowN ElEmEnt]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('xrotaryguy', 'S')o racism is cool on this board?

[Gandalf_the_White]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('xrotaryguy', 'S')o racism is cool on this board?

[TheHorrorTheHorror]

One problem with persistent hate speech is that it can gradually legitimize more and more hateful action.

There’s a lot of great stuff on this forum, but the racism REALLY detracts.

[Micki]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'S')o racism is cool on this board?

[DomusAlbion]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('roccman', '[')b]YOU WILL BE SHOT ON SITE[sic]