Pirate Capitalism : Saving Your Ship, Crew and Treasure in the Coming Financial Storm

IF YOU DON'T PROTECT YOUR FAMILY, WHO WILL? SELF-SUFFICIENCY HAS ALWAYS BEEN AND WILL ALWAYS BE THE LIGHTHOUSE IN THE FOG OF CHAOS. THE STORM IS COMING. BATTEN DOWN THE HATCHES! Published government data, statements from world leaders and expert economic analyses forecast an unavoidable financial storm. Mixing powerful nautical quotes, leadership examples from history's great ship captains, convenient preparedness lists, refreshingly blunt language and deeply personal stories, United States Merchant Marine Officer, Capt. Shaun Patrick Smith, presents a revealing societal assessment, concise leadership manual and practical action plan. Pirate Capitalism puts you in the Captain's seat to become the ultimate leader of your family. It is time to prepare your Ship (home), your Crew (family) and your Treasure (assets) before the storm hit You may have noticed the beginning of the Pirates' plan right in your own city or town. I bet you cannot walk a block without encountering their presence. Take a walk. Look up. Look around. Cameras, cameras, everywhere. The government, at the behest of the Pirates, has purchased and placed cameras everywhere. I know, personally, of cameras on the East Side of Buffalo, NY (a deadly part of the city) that capture drug deals, vandalism and theft on a daily basis. However, the eyes in the sky result in few, if any, arrests. These cameras have not been installed to protect the neighborhoods in which they are placed. They are strategically located to monitor civil unrest and riots for a specific time in the future. Is this the United States of America that we once knew? Being watched, monitored, videotaped, spied-upon and listened to no matter where you go is not the United States of America I once knew or that most of us knew. It makes me crave the America of the Andy Griffith Show. I can hear Opie whistling as he walks down that dirt road with his fishing pole on his shoulder. Better days. "I could not conceive of any vital disaster happening to this vessel?.modern ship-building has gone beyond that." Captain Edward J. Smith (1850-1912) RMS Titanic "The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default." Alan Greenspan (1926- ) U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman (1987-2006)