
Six years ago when this picture was taken of my son and myself, I still held out hope that the Independent Media could rescue this country from the tyrants that have hijacked our government. I had this picture made into a poster where it is now displayed just outside my office where I write and broadcast. The picture formerly symbolized the hope that I held out for the next generation. Today, this picture represents what has been lost and will never be recovered. It also serves as a reminder of my parental responsibility to adequately prepare my son for what lies ahead as he prepares to become a citizen in the New World Order.
Paradise Lost
When I became a parent, I mistakenly thought that I would raise my son just like my parents raised me. My parents instilled in me a fundamental respect for authority, how to honor the great traditions of our country and how to work hard to get what I wanted out of life.
I grew up loving the ideals of our country, the freedom and the opportunity. As a result, I have lived a good and prosperous life. I give thanks to my parents and to God everyday for my good fortune. However, I have learned that I was not fully prepared to be a parent because I do not know how to teach my teenage son about how he should live in the New World Order.
The America we knew is dead and gone and is running solely on momentum. Are any of you asking the same question that I am about how we tell our teenage children that they live under a hopelessly corrupt government and they are making plans to fully enslave all of us under REX 84, FEMA Camps, NDAA, etc? Do we teach our children to never criticize the government because free speech has been criminalized as an act of terrorism? How do we provide our children hope that if they work hard and go to college, that they will have a good life? And even if our kids graduate from college, most won’t find jobs when they get out of school and even if they do find work in their field, they will be debt slaves because of the cost of higher education. How do we encourage our children to learn the lessons of civics when we fully know that our vote, on a national level, does not make a darn bit of difference and that the Pelosi’s, Reid’s, Clinton’s, Bush’s and Obama’s are bought and paid for? How do we teach our children that our brave men and women who serve in the military have been turned into pawns of corporate greed and subsequent imperialism? How do we prepare to raise our children in a decadent society which dishonors the Christian principles that our country was founded upon?
The Questions a Parent Cannot Answer
My son is showing signs of asking questions befitting an adult perspective of our present political and economic situation. I am not bashful about identifying the misdeeds of our government when I am writing or broadcasting. Also, I know that I have the intellectual capacity to explain to my son how bad things have become in terms he can understand. However, I have found that I am lacking the skill and knowledge to explain to my son just how bad things are and that his generation has no future. I know that there comes the day when all parents realize that we have to tell our children that there is no Santa Claus.
I grew up in an America which was a republic interspersed with some corruption. Today’s America is a corporate criminal enterprise where there are no rules for the elite and the republic concepts underlying our laws are on life support. Subsequently, my son is growing up in a far different America than I did and to hear him talk about his future hopes and fears reflects these fundamental changes that we have experienced as a country.
The Creation of Debt Slaves and the Increasingly Worthless College Degree
Save your money, go to college, get a good job, right? For the most part, that ship has sailed.
The rate of increase of a college education has increased eight times more than the cost of living. In my generation, college students could pay for their education with part time jobs. A part time job, today, will not even purchase the text books.
In order to obtain a college degree today, students must pay about three times as much for their degree as did someone graduating 30 years ago, even when accounting for inflation. And there is not one shred of evidence that the quality of the education today have received a degree three times as good. In fact, the existing data is suggests that our college students are paying far more than their parents did and receiving a less quality education.
According to the College Board, in 1983 a typical private American university managed to provide a bachelor’s degree education to young people just like you for $11,000 a year in tuition and fees, today, it costs almost $30,000 per year.
Thirty years ago, public universities have witnessed an even more dramatic increase. One used to be able to get a full four-year degree for $8,800. Today, one year’s worth of tuition will cost $8,700. In fact, today on an overcrowded college campus, it takes an average of six years to graduate because of the shortage of offered required classes, It can accurately be said that a good rule of thumb is that the bigger the college, the longer it takes to graduate. Further, when one factors in the time for degree completion, a college education at a public university is 6-8 times greater than it was in 1983. And if you think that these figures don’t sound that bad, please consider that the new tuition numbers do not account for room and board.
This Is the Job Market We Have Left Our Children
Today, nearly 25 million adults, or 57 percent of all young adults between 18 and 24 still live at home with their parents because they’re unemployed or underemployed. These adults are attempting to pay off student loans or save money to buy a home, save money for school or to save money for any number of other reasons. While having your parents as your roommates may make financial sense, it is devastating for a person’s self-esteem and it is the kiss of death for one’s marriage choices. Trulia’s survey found that only 5% of unmarried adults would consider dating someone who lived at home with their parents.
The majority of college graduates considered their college experience a waste of time as 70% of all surveyed college graduates wish that they had spent more time preparing for real jobs skills rather than the purely academic focus they pursued while in school.
It would appear that the regret expressed by so many college students is well-grounded in fact, as there are more than 100,000 janitors and 317,000 waiters and waitresses that have college degrees. In the year 2000, 80 percent of men in their late 20’s had a full-time job, by 2012, only 65 percent of this population had full-time work. And what will happen as Obamacare kicks in and employers continue the trend to reduce their workforce to part-time?
These statistics are only the tip of the iceberg, but the message here is clear. Be prepared my fellow parents to support your children well into their 30’s. There is an additional consideration, the Obama administration and friends are posturing to eliminate the generational transmission of wealth. Even though we have allowed the central bankers through such nefarious strategies as the blatant implementation of free trade agreements to export many of our jobs overseas, we could have still passed along our acquired wealth to our children. However, if our pensions and 401K funds are confiscated and placed into a national redistribution of wealth center, your child will see little, if anything, of your accumulated wealth. This is an obvious ploy to impoverish this new generation and make them totally dependent on government for everything. If Obama has his way, our welfare ranks will grow from one in two working age Americans to a 100% rate of dependency upon the government. After all, 75% of all Americans make less than $30,000 per year.
More Jobs Are Leaving the Country
For decades, our leaders in Washington pushed us towards “a global economy” and told us it would be so good for us. But there is a flip side. Now workers in the U.S. must compete with workers all over the world, and our greedy corporations are free to pursue the cheapest labor available anywhere on the globe. Millions of jobs have already been shipped out of the United States, and Princeton University economist Alan S. Blinder estimates that 22% to 29% of all current U.S. jobs will be offshorable within two decades. The days when blue collar workers could live the American Dream are gone and they are not going to come back.
There Is No Santa Claus
If you are awake as to what is going on and you have children, you will one day be forced to answer the questions that your children ask about the world that they live in. And for the life of me, I do not know how to tell my child how to live in the New World Order.



It was corrupt 100 years ago plus. We just didn’t care to notice, because the good times wee (allowed) to flow!
Could not agree more. Earned my bachelor’s in 2004, am 35 now and making about what I did in my part-time job during college. The work I do now is the result of a technical college degree earned a few years ago. I would trade the former four-year degree for 50 cents on the dollar spent in tuition, right now. Heck, I’d even trade it for just those fours years of my life back. At this point, based on the future of the country, guess it doesn’t really matter. Thankful I never took on debt (thanks Mom and Dad), and most thankful prior/future spiritual debt has been forgiven (thank you Jesus!).
Easy…Put your kids in public schools. The Common Core Curriculum is geared towards teaching them how to survive and thrive in the New World Order, by brainwashing them, removing all critical thinking, destroying any belief in God, and teaching them that government is their new Lord and master.
God Help us all….Supernatural intervention is our only way out!
I have long been baffled by the scores of millions who continue to bring children into this insufferable nightmare. What in the world do they think is down the road?!
And am I cuckoo or didn’t you post this exact very article months ago?
Teach your children to put their trust in Jesus. There is no fear for those who trust and follow the Lord!
Paradise Lost: Paradise thrown away, would be a better way to put it. Look at the lead off story on Fox sheeple news this morning. Refugees, as they call themselves, walking the ‘Arctic Route’ now because the European Route is too dangerous. The ‘refugees’ are clothed very warmly, none of them are skinny, and they are texting and talking on their cell phones. Refugees! When donkeys fly! These people are invaders in civilian clothes. Furthermore, for the last few days the msm has attempted with great success to bring the western world to repentance via the photos of the three year old boy who drowned in the Mediterranean. Repent: Of what. We did not kill the child. Why didn’t the parents stay in their own country and solve their own problems? And who is to say that if that child had lived he wouldn’t have become the next teenage suicide bomber. Why can’t anyone see these people for what they are: Invading terrorists, hellbent and determined to destroy Europe and America. And by the way, thanks again Veterans. Thanks be to all the Navy and Air Force Pilots who went in their and bombed the innocent Syrian people into the stone age and created this refugee problem in the first place. God help us, because without the American Military then there would be no refugee problem, no impending WW3, no deficit, and very little hatred around the world. Can anyone but me see what the hell is going on. We should change the verse in the song, “They tore down Paradise and put up a parking lot’, to “They bombed Paradise and put up a mushroom cloud”. That’s where we are headed if the ptb don’t recall this warmongering military of ours home and start doing things that are beneficial to society. Is that too much to ask? That our tax dollars be expended doing good. Is it? For the love of all things decent and holy, open your eyes people, to what is happening!
Dave, is there a source for the stat of 75% of Americans making less than $30,000/year? Please let me know what that is, because I like to quote stuff like this when I’m enlightening the sheep in the comment section of mainstream articles.
The Social Security stats on this matter that I’ve been using for the last few years are: 50% of Americans make $29,000/year or less. 66% of Americans make $42,000/year or less. Those stats are bad enough! Admittedly they probably are a few years old now and obviously the situation has become even more dire.
75% of Americans making less than $30,000/year tells me that the Middle Class is officially dead. There is no middle ground anymore. You’re either fairly well off or you’re poor.
This is indeed a depressing article, but worth the read. I’m hearing that are young people out there who have degrees, but are unable to get jobs in the field they desire or no jobs at all. The MSM would have you believe there are an abundance of jobs. I like to know from others about their job search and experiences.
I would tell the young generation that there is hope at the end of the dark tunnel. After the dark night comes the sunny day. As bad as it is here, there are other people around the world who are suffering worse. However, I believe that God will not change the situation of a people unless the people change themselves.
God bless you Dave for your love for your son.
I have had two talks with my 20 year old twins about what is coming. The spiritual war that was going on around us when I was trying to put a difficult subject into words, and be sensitive to their fears, was palpable. The enemy of our faith does not want us to share this topic with them. Evil hides in darkness and ignorance. As a parent we HAVE to tell them, and their age and maturity determines how much we can and should say. I thought my 20 year olds were mature enough to handle it, and I was sensitive to their fears, but it didn’t go as well as I had hoped. Later that day my son revealed to me that he had hoped of getting married and having a family someday, and what I told him made him think that was impossible. I can’t argue with that logic knowing what I know. I was deeply pained because I felt that I had not only failed, but squashed his dreams too. I also realized that if I truly love them, I had to tell them for their safety. Things are not the way they use to be and never will be. They will only get more difficult until Jesus comes for us. Many parents across this land are wrestling with these difficult decisions. There are no how to books on the subject, but I think we all can find some Bible verses for our kids if we look and pray for them.
Lastly, love always wins out and love is always good. Love your children no matter how old they are. Tell them and show them your love for them. Ask for forgiveness if you have hurt them in some way. And when you tell them these awful and difficult things about what is coming, tell them you are sharing it with them BECAUSE you love them.
I hope this helps someone.
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Sadly this is the case, my three are still doing OK better then most . One is a DVM with College Grad-School Debt that allows this 28 year old Dr. to keep $15 dollars an hour to live on before taxes and a high deductible medical for the next 25 years. My son at age 30, with-out a college degree makes $4 per hr moor as a self-taught IT director for a small company, with no debt. My third child has learning disabilities from (I think) child hood shots that were combined to enter public school? She at age 24 has her first job as a part-time cleaner at the YMCA for minimum wage and living at home.
It’s time for your son’s History lessons. Find as much as you can on “Resistance” movements. Start with the “Sons of Liberty” from before and during the American Revolution. Study the French and Jewish Resistance during WWII. Study the life and times of Yip Man, Bruce Lee’s Kung Fu instructor and the Chinese Resistance during the Japanese Occupation. “The Sun will come out tomorrow,” and it up to us to make sure we will be there to greet it…
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Living well under the NWO means defying God since all who take the Mark of the Beast are damned to hell eternally. However, God has a sovereign purpose for every age, including the NWO. In Luke 21, it says to pray that God would count us worthy to escape the judgment that will affect the entire world. If we can help our family members place God’s interests above our own, we will have done a great deal to help them to be prepared for whatever God allows to come. It won’t be easy, but it’s important. Start with yourself first and bathe it all in prayer.
Federal mandate to States to administer the jobs/works program and welfare guidelines under the Department of Labor. The State’s Counties then operate the welfare guidelines and jobs/works program.
One guideline is cooperation with governmental agencies and governmental partners.
Another one entails cooperating with medical expertise among others.
The jobs/works program by Federal mandate is attached to food stamps and cash aka EBT and EPPI that are made, monitored, and maintenances by several Too Big To Fail institutions. Household size and benefits determine the number of hours of assignment per week a participant short of strict exemptions must participate to remain within compliance.
Household of 1 is 20 hours per week
Household of 2 is 30 hours per week
Household of 3 or more is 35 hours per week
Note, this is just households not including the factor of benefits in hours of assignment per week.
Non-compliant? Your record that holds no statute of limitations or like Driving points ever comes off results in sanctions with progressive penalties per sanction.
1st sanction=1 month ineligibility of food and cash
2nd sanction=3 months ineligibility of food and cash
3rd sanction=6 months ineligibility of food and cash but may also include medical.
4th sanction=6 months ineligibility of food, cash, and medical.
Anyone completely dependent of governmental welfare to live will find themselves facing food, water, shelter, medical among others utilizing the Fabian Socialist definition of a contributor of society, and you must remain within compliance to be a contributor to society.
According to sustainable development and Agenda 21, the nation’s populace is property as capital and resource of that nation’s governmental regime. According to environmental accounting, this determines land-use. Land-use determines the accessible land areas for housing, energy, jobs/employment, and etc, and sustainable development includes the component of sustainable population. In short, if you don’t contribute or otherwise be non-compliant, you are defined as overpopulation.
Is America2050 population estimates make more sense? This is why overpopulation is complimented by man-made climate disruption under the basis China boosts preventing 300 million CO2 emitters through its 1 Child policies.
The Welfare guidelines can be located by either acquiring a copy by a welfare participant or upon signing onto the program.
Read the UN website and affiliates for Agenda 21.
Research the Fabian Society.
It can be changed- the question is do we have the balls to do what is necessary to make those changes? I think its gonna take alot more than voting the right person in, standing in front of city hall with a bull horn or having a “peaceful” march. The time for “peaceful” has long gone unfortunately, its going to take some major sacrifices in order to set things straight and we have to realize that its not for us that we would be doing this— its for our children.
Are you ready for what has to be? Can you give that much of yourself? Im ready, are you?
I hope so
Sobering article Dave. I was recently in my yard weeping at where we are as a nation,having 13 grand kids and sensing the judgement to come.
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Dave – I believe that your continued courage and leadership already speak much louder to your son than any words. Putting yourself on the line is the greatest act of love one can offer.
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Do you really want your son to be a free man when he reaches Age of Consent? Merely point out Useless Eater comments. I relentlessly and consistently offer up the true path to freedom – the only lawful path of expatriation to the state of his father’s birth – even though you have given it up yourself, Dave.
You should know by now that I am right. I am always right. Ignore me at your (and now your children’s) own demise.
And for everybody else within earshot who gives a shit about their own children, don’t let them contract with the state when they turn 18. No DL, no armed service registration, no voter’s registration and, for God’s sake, have them become a State National of the nation (state) of their father’s birth.
After watching them grab the world by the balls, then you can follow in THEIR footsteps. US citizens are already a dismal failure, placing a horrible burden on their children’s backs.
It is ssssick sick SICK!
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We need to introduce the word Entrepreneur back into the English language. We need to get our children trade skills or if they have a skill that can provide a service, we get them an apprenticeship. WE the parents need to be talking about CREATING jobs vs getting a job. This corporate take over we all know is coming to fruition so it’s up to us to commence this Entrepreneur system and teach it to all children. They can’t screw with a community full of skilled people offering exchange via product/service etc. My children are GONE. Their other parents are asleep at the wheel, along with my entire family and all are spiritually void…My children’s father will be one of the masters of the neo-feudalistic (but with high technology) NWO system. I can only pray in spirit that they remember my spirit and why we incarnated into this planet. I once did have that discussion with my oldest born with a 6th sense of intuition (now gone by him being allowed pure fluoride ..PROZAC). He told me (before the prozac) that he would go along with the plan, but secretly be plotting with others to free the people. He was 20 at the time so not some young baby. We have to also remember who the real controllers are. Alien Artificial Intelligence. Harald Kautz-Vella is a spiritual scientist. This is the end of the rabbit hole. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfTflw80t6g and this video is an even better scientific lecture and one of the BIGGEST WHYS for the chemtrails (there are many, but he explains the real danger): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j88BcgzzcTc
And THANK YOU Dave for writing this article. I will be sharing this website article on my FB page. This is a necessary read for ALL parents.