Think about your food supplies!

I recently signed up (again) for emails from Jeffery Smith's group, IRT, Institute for Responsible Technology.  You can sign up for them at the main webpage, under SUBSCRIBE.  They come into your email titled, Live Well Be Healthy (.com) but I didn't find the website when I tried to.

He also created the documentary "Genetic Roulette" -- which was an earlier documentary about Monsanto and GMO's (Genetically Modified Organisms).  It was one of the first DVDs I purchased on food issues.  

I found my way to a list of foods we don't realize have GMO ingredients.  On the main page, look under "LEARN" to find "SHOP HEALTHY."

I was surprised by a video I found at the main page for "Shop Healthy."  There is more than one video available so I don't know if it shows up first every time you reach the page.  It's on their YouTube channel as well.  It's called HOW TO SHOP HEALTHY.  It startled me to hear that organic farmers spray their fields with Round-Up right before harvesting, and wine growers spray between their rows, and both of these actions put the main chemical in Round-Up in these foods.  We don't know about it because no testing is done to show what is happening to our food supplies.  

Another page I found that is important for you to see is under the SECRET INGREDIENTS square on the Shop Healthy page.

Secret Ingredients - Institute for Responsible Technology

SECRET INGREDIENTS is also the name of one of his books, but the page has a list of foods to think about when you are shopping.  Many are ingredients in foods we buy and make and eat, but we wouldn't notice them as GMO foods.  Some are ::  cornstarch, baking powder, tofu, soy flour, milk powder.  There are many more.  

I have already realized any food with corn could be suspect.  It looks like all the sugar made from sugar beets is included.  I was under the impression that wheat, soy, and more grains we use are already GMO, but I haven't found a good list to share yet.

I can't afford to buy all organic and non-GMO foods.  I do the best I can with my shopping budget each week/month.  It is easier as a single person, but if I still had my family and was on a government budget, I would not be able to buy what I already stretch my budget to get in organic foods at the store or local farm foods at a Farmer's Market.

The primary motivation for all these issues is money, at some level - whether business, government (legislation or taxes), or other financial issues.  

We, those who buy these foods, thinking they are safe for us and those we love, are the ones who suffer most.

I don't know where all this will lead, or how long it will take to become public, but this is how it seems to go in all of history.  It's different now because of the End Times and the Antichrist and the move to create digital currency the government can control.  Those who are poor or vulnerable always suffer most.  What GMOs will create in our bodies and lives is still not known or connected.

I hope we can find our way to providing the food we need for ourselves.

In Christ,

Deborah Martin

https://work2gather.us

Politics in America has changed too much!

I am sharing a speech I found on YouTube awhile back.  

It is one of Bobby Kennedy's speeches, but I don't know if he wrote his own speeches.  Whoever wrote this speech was an amazing person.  I keep listening to it and wonder what happened to our country.  When I am really in need of remembering what kind of world we need, I put it on repeat and listen to it until I need to go on to something else.  I think I had it on repeat for a couple days once.  It is so great to hear.

This is the channel and the speech I found.  I have seen others but I don't know if they are the same speech.  This is the one I have kept in my Liked videos as a back-up and have downloaded to my phone for listening to.

https://youtu.be/BeqY2oMiwx8

I hope you find it and listen to it more than once.

Our nation, and the world, is in trouble.  We don't have a lot of people who reflect this kind of world.  The Democrats are not like this anymore.  

We will never become this kind of nation again.

No matter what anyone tells us, Bible prophecy tells us different.  

I so wish we could be this kind of nation again.

In Christ,

Deborah Martin

https://work2gather.us

Can America really survive a big disaster?

I have been saving some of the better statements I hear along the way.  I am trying to be able to provide quotes and their sources when I post, here or elsewhere.  I also want to share I am not the only one worried about our global economy - and that includes America.

I tend to focus on financial topics when I can, or survival needs without money.  One quote, which I might have already share somewhere, is about our faith in the stock markets.  Many are counting on their income from stocks and bonds to support them in their retirement years.  Charities have annuity relationships with their supporters.  These are very vulnerable funds, and you can't count on them.  They could disappear in a moment.

The quote I found worthy of saving is from a prepping channel on YouTube called City Prepping.  I believe it was posted on 25 April 2023 and was titled "The Fuse Has Now Been Lit."  My notes say the post was about the real estate bubble bursting, but this line was somewhere in the video.

"Markets take the stairs up

and the elevator down."

I interpret this to mean stocks go up in value slowly but they drop fast.  If you think it means something else, let me know in the comments.

I am not against owning stocks.  Stocks are a way businesses fund their life, growth, and future.  We need healthy businesses in our nation, in our investment options, in our income opportunities.  My issue is whether they are secure.  Can you PLAN on them for retirement?  No.  They are extra money, not your economic foundation.

The DEBT we are building as a nation puts us at risk of bankruptcy, individually and nationally.  That will create a very terrible domino fall in so many areas of our lives.  Adding to the national debt means inflation rises.  That means our money has less value to buy what we need.  Extras go away.  Affording our daily survival needs gets harder.  Inflation means all the money we worked so hard to save won't buy what we thought it would.  Everyone in the world begins to suffer at the same time.  There's no one who can help get us out of this struggle.

The government is like a big family with a LOT of kids.  Taxpayers provide its income, and then the government spends it.  The government also has a credit card, which we call the National Debt.  I can't share where I read this, but somewhere on my research paths I thought it said our taxes are eaten up by the INTEREST payments on the National Debt already.  If not all, most of the government's income is spent before it is even collected.

All the people who depend on the government for their jobs, their survival, their retirement benefits, will be left with nothing unless the government continues to support them.  It is my understanding that all Social Security payments are already a credit transaction, and other government benefits/jobs/military payments also end when the economy falters.

We look to the government for disaster recovery too.   Natural disasters, terrorism, civil unrest, and any other kind of disaster.  We think the government will always be there to pay the costs of recovery.  We are at a point now that the government doesn't really have the ability to pay for anything.

In any economic disaster, there are paths we pass through...

• People lose jobs.
• People use up whatever they have saved.
• They sell their investments, probably at a loss.
• People lose housing.
• People lose whatever they have bought on credit.
• People have to declare bankruptcy.

It's not a pretty thing to even think about.

So, how can all this be prevented?  I don't know if it can.  We have dug a hole so big we can't see the top of the pit or any way to get out of it.

The only thing I could think of was to get the DEBT down to zero.  We would be able to weather the storms of the future if we do.  It is our safety net as a nation.  

The only way I thought this might happen is to create a collectible coin and sell it to pay down the debt... and ONLY THE DEBT, which includes the financial needs of Social Security Retirement Funds.

Awhile back, I heard/read about the plan to make a Platnium coin.  It seemed like the ideal solution to our debt issues.  I figured we would need to make ONE TRILLION collectible coins and sell them for at least $50.00 each - so ordinary people could afford to purchase them.

I suggested packaging them as collectibles and giving each one a number so that there is a priority value for those who care about that.  It would also be a recordkeeping option.

Since it would not have a monetary value (as currency), it would not add to the debt.  And now that the government is heading toward digital currency for the future, it might be the last coin created by our government. 

If we can sell all one trillion of them, it would provide enough money to eliminate the debt, provide for Social Security, and allow a small amount for a RESERVE account for the future.

I expect the government will want to take all the money and use it for anything they want to use it for, but this would need to be stipulated as funds for the National Debt only.  I have no idea how that can be achieved at this time in our history.

Maybe you do.

We have to do something!!!  

Let me know how you would try to get this done...

In Christ,

Deborah Martin

Founder, Owner, Volunteer

Working Together Inc

https://work2gather.us