“Test results are back and the prognosis doesn’t look good…”

My wife’s Doctor was a nervous wreck after she reviewed her file. We have all taken tests from the Doctors office and stressed over the outcome of the results; usually everything checks out okay, what do you do when they don’t? Surprisingly her Doctor was stunned and frankly a nervous wreck while she was going over the test results with my wife, all the while my wife took the news ever so calmly. The Doctor was so stunned that she had to repeat that fact of my wifes calmness several times during the visit.

You can see the comedy in the statement above, the parallel of the Doctor being the wreck, while my beloved stays calm during the whole office visit. Yet as soon as my wife got home to tell me the disturbing news she started to unravel at the seams.

The Doctor’s reaction was rather unsettling for my gal. So this really got me thinking about the long term consequences of being financially unstable and the long term residual effects on your mind, your body and your spirit. We all know that eating the right foods seems more costly when you look at the up front costs. Have you ever considered what the back end long term costs on your wallet, not to mention your body and spirit. Living healthy is just as key to creating wealth and financial security in your life as managing your body.

Think about the state of our current health care system, the rising costs of medical coverage, insurance and medical treatment. Our state governed programs are maxed out with patients and stretched for funding at all levels. It’s not designed to handle the mass group of uninsured citizens of our great nation. The Doctors are taxed to the max with patients and many have no patience for people who neglect or defiantly treat their body with abuse.

Back to my topic neglect is abuse and I am sure that you have received a nudge or two from your primary care physician, possibly your dentist has mentioned a thing or two about your hygiene? Regardless avoiding the infection, symptom(s), infections whatever you are dealing with only leads to greater problems and increased risk of terminal illness.

Yes I said terminal illness, or you have the option to face the issue at hand and make a conscientious decision to address them at all costs no matter what lengths you have to go for. Otherwise you have made the choice to take on a life sentence of undesirable circumstances. The word is out on the street and you know exactly what you must do.

It’s entirely up to you on how to make a change, fortunately for you, your biggest challenge in front of you doesn’t have to depend upon just you alone. A simple team has been assembled for you, to provide you with support, advice, guidance and goal achievement. Making the transition doesn’t have to be difficult or painful.

Tackling any type of obstacle always starts with the end in mind, your outcome has to be clearly visualized and accepted before you will ever reach it. I know this now more than ever. Have you ever felt like a much needed change just wasn’t happening for you? Well ask yourself did you clearly see the end result, did you give the appropriate attention to the planning and organization of your required activities? Did you measure the results you were getting? How did they compare to your original projections, what could have been improved on?

I bring this up to you only because the news my wife’s Doctor gave her was shocking, now Teri has to make the same decision about her own condition that you have to make to take control, own her life with clarity, focus and vision. Funny thing was that the motivation factor wasn’t he news about test results it was the treatment. As soon as her Doctor said you have to take injections for life Teri looked up and firmly stated “what other options do I have?”

The fear of having to physically take insulin injections to control her diabetes was alarming, so her Doctor gave her a time line to make dramatic improvements or the only alternative was her injection recommendation. So in the end what does all of this have to say about you and your current circumstances?

Simply put you need to get involved in your financial affairs, it’s a proven fact that proper medical attention and monitoring are critical to your overall wellness factor, lack of money and reserves can become a problem if you don’t have the means to take care of your self. Your future retirement money not safe either. You didn’t just save money to pay for medical bills and Doctor visits. So in light of this profound idea and shift in thinking thanks to a good friend I recently connected with I have decided to make this exam painless to you and your pocketbook. Over the next two weeks I am setting up your diagnostic exam center fully equipped with the latest state of the art equipment.

Recent legislation has passed that will eliminate many of the unscrupulous characters currently posing as so called experts for financial hardships, loan modification consultants, credit repair services, debt settlement companies and all of the other take your money and provide you with no measurable results.

The office is open even during the construction phase I will have a general admission and registration page up by Saturday at the latest. Those of you who are seriously buried in debt, experiencing late payments, facing impending foreclosure or bankruptcy; those of you who have fallen victim to the crisis at hand with sudden job loss, diminishing pensions and retirement accounts there are solutions for you.

Solutions that can and will provide you with clearly outlined, manageable plans that are backed with legal advice and protection designed to give you the patient/client the ultimate experience in customer satisfaction. As the separate departments come on line you will be updated. Most people go through life with rose colored lenses on, ignoring the warning signs until it’s too late.

I know my wife doesn’t want to deal with the possible outcome of ignoring her situation, I also know you don’t want to deal with your health, your financial management, or your wealth creation choices without proper advice and input. Running down the road not looking for indications of measurement in improvement in your circumstances is like driving down the road with blinders on. You’re eventually going to crash.

Why not research, review and monitor your symptoms now and act on advice from trusted professionals to guide you in your healing process. You don’t need to do this alone.

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E Waste, mortgages, Wall Street, credit derivatives, rising credit deficit and the bet against America. I was watching 60 Minutes last night, it was very disturbing to learn exactly what has been going on both in the technology sector as well as the financial markets. Both topics showed me a sign of the moral ethics and behaviors behind many of the top financial companies and their destructive agendas.

Let’s start with E Waste, a group of journalists went to a waste re cycler in Colorado, the owner made a statement of how green and environmentally friendly their company was. He continued to describe how the difference of eco-conscious and environmentally different their operation was compared to the other recyclers in the business.

As the news reporters furthered their investigation they noticed a shipping container filled with CRT monitors which contain an enormous amount of lead and other environmentally hazardous chemical compounds that are literally being leached into our precious Earth.

The reporters followed the container(s) loaded with the Cathode Ray Tubes to a port in Hong Kong, China. After arrival the 60 minutes crew got into contact with the Mayor who showed them one and only one facility where dismantling of electronics were taking place. The Mayor soon returned the crew to his office and promptly had then escorted out of town.

As persistent as journalists can be they returned the very next day in a different car and out on a different path. This road led them to what can be describes at the cesspool of the world. Tons of Cathode Ray Tubes, monitors, electronic circuit boards, and various other hazardous materials were being broken down with archaic methods of disassembly.

The mortality, miscarriage and illness rates are astronomically high in this region. As the anchor stated we are living in the 21^st century and using medieval methods to recycle these parts and by doing so we are poisoning the Earth and ourselves at the same time. As the investigation revealed there were 42 other companies involved in the illegal exportation scheme.

Next we moved into the mortgage markets ,this directly relates to the toxicity I was just speaking about just purely in a different manner. You see if you haven’t been paying attention to the events that have unfolded over the last year you’re missing out on a critical piece of information. Our experts that have been watching all of the economic crisis take place are baffled. They have no clue on the extent of damage that will be caused by their actions.

You see this gigantic market implosion was all a plan, a scheme created by a piece of legislation; rather a removal of a law in legislation that allowed Wall Street to basically create a giant run away Ponzi scheme with the American public. These debts called credit derivatives “a form of legalized gambling” are basically illegal. It’s a bet against the American economics and mortgage markets. Wall street knew what was going on however these consumer credit defaults ran away to a scope of 52 Trillion dollars.

Failures of complicated mortgages securities, failure of credit default swaps (private insurance contracts that paid off if the mortgage went bad.) You could literally buy insurance against these mortgages if you thought these swaps were going to fail you basically bought protection from the projected failures without having to actually own the mortgage securities.

Basically a bucket shop operation, or commonly known as a bookie operation. This exemption to the legislation created an open market for these operations to take place. The commodities futures modernization act was the gateway to this crisis. Again we the people were duped by laws created for the elite, those few with their own agendas. Again we the people get the bad end of the stick, the short straw. The experiments of mad scientists who go against evolution with their mad scientist like behavior. Only this time a monster was created and it’s unstoppable.

The insolvency of Wall Street has effected wealth from all walks of life, personal observations have discovered that even those who took the time to prepare financially are not immune to this devastation. A sever case of “casino capitalism” is what the house of representatives is calling this deregulation.

The fact that no one knows the entire scope of damage is a B.S. A cop out lame excuse. Another dodging the bullet. You know Willie Nelson and Toby Keith had it right with the song called”Beer for my Horses”. Talking about vigilante justice. Why aren’t these members of Senate, Congress,Wall Street and Lending Institutions being hung up high on a Oak Tree with a Short Rope. We’ve all been hung out to dry for their negligence, isn’t it time that they pay for the high crimes of treason, terrorism of the financial markets, world wide destruction and economic chaos?

No one is leaping out trying to defend the little guy just more and more legislation. As I rolled out of bed this morning more and more disturbing news caught my attention. With the commercial mortgage market now under way with defaults we are going to see the domino effect. Our state of emergency is delicate and fragile. If the U.S Government pulls away too quickly we could have a relapse even worse than last October.

Financial markets we’re steadily declining this morning. The commercial markets are expected to default to the tune of seven billion dollars or more. The new estimated wave of foreclosure more than triples what has currently taken place. With the first wave of mortgages fitting into a bucket estimated at 1,500,000 foreclosure and the new waver has a bucket of 3,500,000 – 4,500,000 homes in default.

When this rug is pulled out from under us the free fall of our housing and commercial markets will set us into a tail spin of terror. I don’t mean to be the pessimist of the group here however reality has to take precedence. They say Obama’s Home Afford-ability Program hasn’t been wildly successful, not very many mortgage modifications have taken place and the confidence of a Nation has been stripped away from us.

Sure the Government has only had 1 year of influence with the whole crisis recovery but hey are the ones who let the whole mess happen in the first place. It’s no different than a parent having their children run wild and free without restraints and then after years of social conditioning without boundaries, the child does a really radical unacceptable behavioral trait that puts people in danger. Then the parent steps in to discipline the child and expects that those years of conditioning will suddenly go away.

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