The international bankers now control the whole "system" of banking, debt, private investment, currency, taxation, etc... As long as we've got assets tied into that
So far, I've invested a total of about $25,000 of my own money into a house that's about 20k upside down in debt. I was very careful to wait until the real estate market felt like it had bottomed out, as it does every 11 years. I am still paying through the nose on this, and I could have simply bought some plot of land in northern NH outright and started building a foundation around an RV or something. Granted, the house I have is very nice, and in a really nice area, but it was a poor investment on my part.
We really have to get independent of that whole system. There are still folks talking about building a silver based economy out here, and I think that that is the way to go over the long run.