Catherine Austin Fitts

You have retirement funds. If you won't fund them, and the political wheel made it very clear in 1995, we refuse to fund them. You only have another way to balance the budget, and that's to lower life expectancy.

Well, if you look at the charts... Literally, from when that budget deal busted, life expectancy started to fall. So here are the other 19 industrial countries, and here's the U.S., and it starts to go down, down, down. And then the pandemic, it drops off the cliff.

Well, if you look at the charts... Literally, from when that budget deal busted, life expectancy started to fall. So here are the other 19 industrial countries, and here's the U.S., and it starts to go down, down, down. And then the pandemic, it drops off the cliff.

Well, if you look at the charts... Literally, from when that budget deal busted, life expectancy started to fall. So here are the other 19 industrial countries, and here's the U.S., and it starts to go down, down, down. And then the pandemic, it drops off the cliff.

You know, it's a little bit more complex than that. But yes. And the latest reports from Social Security is it's working. You know, Social Security has improved. But here's the thing. I'm going to be a tough guy. This is a formula. So you either put the money in.

You know, it's a little bit more complex than that. But yes. And the latest reports from Social Security is it's working. You know, Social Security has improved. But here's the thing. I'm going to be a tough guy. This is a formula. So you either put the money in.

You know, it's a little bit more complex than that. But yes. And the latest reports from Social Security is it's working. You know, Social Security has improved. But here's the thing. I'm going to be a tough guy. This is a formula. So you either put the money in.

It's not a Ponzi scheme. But if you're not going to fully fund it, then you can lengthen retirement age or you can lower life expectancy. It's a formula. Right. And if the body politic refuses to do the financially responsible thing, then you've got two choices. And you can't get there by delaying the retirement age. That won't work politically. So you just put them on a slow kill.

It's not a Ponzi scheme. But if you're not going to fully fund it, then you can lengthen retirement age or you can lower life expectancy. It's a formula. Right. And if the body politic refuses to do the financially responsible thing, then you've got two choices. And you can't get there by delaying the retirement age. That won't work politically. So you just put them on a slow kill.

It's not a Ponzi scheme. But if you're not going to fully fund it, then you can lengthen retirement age or you can lower life expectancy. It's a formula. Right. And if the body politic refuses to do the financially responsible thing, then you've got two choices. And you can't get there by delaying the retirement age. That won't work politically. So you just put them on a slow kill.

And that's what's happened. And you can say, oh, the bankers are bad guys. But if you saw the confirmation hearings for Kennedy's appointment, I mean, what you saw were scores of senators.

And that's what's happened. And you can say, oh, the bankers are bad guys. But if you saw the confirmation hearings for Kennedy's appointment, I mean, what you saw were scores of senators.

And that's what's happened. And you can say, oh, the bankers are bad guys. But if you saw the confirmation hearings for Kennedy's appointment, I mean, what you saw were scores of senators.

Refusing to take responsibility for a chronic epidemic among our children, which is an extinction level event. That, you know, that was not the banker sitting in the city of London. That was Senator sitting in Washington, refusing to take responsibility. You know, it's one thing to say to Kennedy, we don't like your plan to end the chronic epidemic, you know, of illness among our children.

Refusing to take responsibility for a chronic epidemic among our children, which is an extinction level event. That, you know, that was not the banker sitting in the city of London. That was Senator sitting in Washington, refusing to take responsibility. You know, it's one thing to say to Kennedy, we don't like your plan to end the chronic epidemic, you know, of illness among our children.

Refusing to take responsibility for a chronic epidemic among our children, which is an extinction level event. That, you know, that was not the banker sitting in the city of London. That was Senator sitting in Washington, refusing to take responsibility. You know, it's one thing to say to Kennedy, we don't like your plan to end the chronic epidemic, you know, of illness among our children.

Here's a better plan, but they wouldn't own it. You know, they just want to say, no, it was, you know, that is, that is a society that will fail.

Here's a better plan, but they wouldn't own it. You know, they just want to say, no, it was, you know, that is, that is a society that will fail.

Here's a better plan, but they wouldn't own it. You know, they just want to say, no, it was, you know, that is, that is a society that will fail.

There are many plausible explanations, none of them good. So they could have control files. They could be bribed. They could be mind controlled. They could be not care. They could, you know, there are many possible reasons, none of which are good. But what they're not is they're not competent to be a U.S. senator.