Crashed: The Death Of The Dollar by William Cooper Read Free Book Online

revolved around the selling of goods made in other countries, or providing services. Not that sales and services are bad at all, but when the balance with production is lost, after a while, it becomes an economy that can't support itself anymore. That's what's happened.”
    “ Damn, this all sounds so complicated.”
     
    Mike laughed, knowing he was giving a simplified picture of how things worked. “It is. Our economy is probably the most complex man-made thing in history. There's a ton of other factors that have contributed to our total economic crash here too. Over-regulation of many industries certainly played a role. Allowing businesses to have too much influence through lobbyists in what government does to favor them. And our federal debt. We did that to ourselves, largely to cover the promises. I'd guess it's passed $20 trillion by now. That hurt us more than anything. And of course China basically declaring economic war on us like two decades ago, and us -”
    “ Wait, what?” Taylor interjected. “China declared war on us? I don't remember that war.”
    “ Economic war Taylor. Not bombs and battles. Back after the first Gulf War, before you were born, China saw just how fast we defeated Iraq. And at the time, Iraq had one of the more formidable armies. We beat them in a matter of weeks. China's People's Liberation Army published a book called 'Unrestricted Warfare.' It was a manual of sorts for using the economic path we were on, as well as other things, to ultimately defeat the U.S. and replace us as the world's superpower. And we pretty much played right into their hands. It's almost like we used the book as a guide for our policies to help them defeat us. It took time, but their culture is a lot more patient than our fast-food society.”
    “ So China put out a book about how they planned to defeat us, and we didn't do anything about it?”
    “ Not really. Like I said, we practically helped them. My fear is that they're not done trying to destroy us yet. We'll see. Anyways, knowing all this is part of why I built this ranch the way I did. I wanted to be alone and secluded, and to know that I'd be okay if any of this ever actually happened. Y'all kind of screwed up my 'alone and secluded' part of that,” he said with a smirk “but while everyone else is pretty much functioning as a government owned slave, we're sitting here free to grow what we want, hunt when we want, run this ranch how we want, and spend our time how we choose to spend it.”
    “ What do you mean they're not done trying to destroy us? What more could they do? They killed our currency and entire economic system,” Taylor said, sounding a bit angry.
    “ First off, they didn't kill our currency and economy. They just helped us in doing it to ourselves. As for what more they could do? Remember when I -”
     
    "Okay you two," Jessica called out to them. "Time for me to steal him away."
    "No, he's mine," Taylor responded jokingly.
    As Taylor and Mike stood up, she gave him another tight hug. "Good night, Mike. See you in the morning."
     
    Jessica grabbed Mike by the hand and started walking up to his place. "Where's Stacy?" he asked, feeling somewhat nervous about whatever it was they had planned.
    "She's been up at your house since we finished eating." They were quiet for a minute before she continued, "You've had one heck of a day huh?" Mike nodded, with a slight grin.
    "Well, I hope it was fun and relaxing for you, but the real fun is only just beginning,"she continued with a sly grin.
     
    She looked at him as they walked, not letting go of his hand. He could see her eyes and smile sparkling in the moonlight. He had a funny feeling in his stomach. The only other time he'd felt that was the first time she'd kissed him a few weeks ago. He wondered if he loved her. He'd never thought about love before. He knew he'd never felt love before. Did he love all of them? He was confused and excited. A whole host of emotions was running through