1. Economic Stagnation and the Prospect of Continued Decline The Evidence for a Catastrophic Depression Occurring in the United States Edward J. Dodson, M.L.A. October 2011 / Updated March 2013

4. STRESS STRESS STRESS

6. “GDP is defined as the value of all goods and services produced within the geographic territory of an economy in a given interval, such as a year.”

13. Where We Are Today

14. Unemployment

17. Unemployed Without Benefits

18. Under-employment

19. Household Median Income

20. Elderly Poor

22. "Our rolls are swelling. There are more and more people on our rolls, there are more and more people in need of our services. The other side these numbers don't tell is the fact that seniors in this country are going hungry." Hunger in America Enid Borden, head of Meals on Wheels Association states:

23. Living Paycheck-to-Paycheck

24. Property Foreclosures Source: RealtyTrac – Foreclosure Market Report

25. Property Foreclosures

27. Is Social Security Secure?

28. The Big Question

29. Savings Deficit

30. Creditworthiness of Americans

31. Asset and Wealth Ownership

32. Child Poverty

33. Skyrocketing National Debt: Soon to Exceed our Ability to Service?

34. What ECONOMISTS are Telling Us Paul Krugman Joseph Stiglitz Mark Zandi

36. “Most tax expenditures are also inefficient and regressive. The mortgage interest deduction, for example, does nothing to improve housing affordability, its ostensible goal. Any tax benefit is simply capitalized into house prices, which rise as the deduction fuels demand. And the benefits go to owners of bigger homes with larger mortgages and higher incomes, who can itemize and thus claim the deduction.”

37. Paul Krugman

38. “[W]e shouldn't even be talking about spending cuts at all now. We have 9 percent unemployment. These spending cuts are going to worsen unemployment. That's even going to hurt the long-run fiscal picture because we have a situation where more and more people are becoming permanent long-term unemployed.”

39. Joseph Stiglitz

40. Repeal tax-cuts for rich Americans. End wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that cost trillions of dollars. Increase stimulus and programs that would get Americans back to work Within Medicare, allow the government to negotiate prices with the pharmaceuticals, which would save the U.S. trillions.

41. Chief Economist of the National Association of Realtors NAR Board Room

42. Chief Economist, National Association of Realtors -- 2007 “The steady improvement in [home] sales will support price appreciation... [despite] all the wild projections by academics, Wall Street analysts, and others in the media.”

43. Alan Greenspan

44. “I made a mistake in presuming that the self- interests of organisations, specifically banks and others, were such that they were best capable of protecting their own shareholders and their equity in the firms.”

45. How Can We Get Out of This Terrible Mess?

46. A Plan

47. Tax Woes

49. SIMPLIFIED BUT PROGRESSIVE TAX REFORM

50. All other deductions and exemptions would be eliminated

52. Fully amortizing

54. Public investment in infrastructure + population growth = rising land values

55. Fred Foldvary