{"id":1470,"date":"2009-01-31T20:58:48","date_gmt":"2009-01-31T20:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=1470"},"modified":"2009-01-31T20:58:48","modified_gmt":"2009-01-31T20:58:48","slug":"how-to-profit-from-uncle-sams-stoopidity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/how-to-profit-from-uncle-sams-stoopidity\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Profit From Uncle Sam&#8217;s Stoopidity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Read something really interesting in the newz today.<\/p>\n<p>Something that, if you understand it, can make you more moolah&#8230; and give you a FAR more stable business.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the story:<\/p>\n<p>Basically, the gummint&#8217;s cooking up a <strong>&#8220;big bang financial cleanup&#8221;<\/strong> (their exact words) for the economy.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I don&#8217;t know about you.<\/p>\n<p>But I get very &#8220;uneasy&#8221; when the gummint plans to &#8220;fix&#8221; anything &#8212; especially the <em>economy<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Historically, this ALWAYS spells trouble.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I could be wrong here.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe this will be the one time in the history of the world where the gummint&#8217;s insane interference actually werks.<\/p>\n<p>But I doubt it.<\/p>\n<p>And I sure ain&#8217;t counting on it.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, what I (and every serious marketer I know) is doing is <em>preparing<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Preparing for a total depression-like meltdown.<\/p>\n<p>Preparing (believe it or not) to even PROFIT from Uncle Sam&#8217;s stoopidity.<\/p>\n<p>How?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Well, for one thing, we are aggressively building our lists.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Think about it:<\/p>\n<p>Even if the bottom drops out, people will still be buying and selling.<\/p>\n<p>75% of people were still employed even during the worst part of the LAST depression.<\/p>\n<p>And if everything goez to &#8220;hell in a hand basket&#8221;, smart businesses will not only survive&#8230; but <strong>THRIVE<\/strong>&#8230; because their customer lists are populated with those people who are still stable and spending money.<\/p>\n<p>Now, all this is leading to something.<\/p>\n<p>Something that can help you QUICKLY build a bigger list without spending a penny.<\/p>\n<p>Check this out:<\/p>\n<p>For two years, I&#8217;ve been in a very unique (and very powerful) mastermind group.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Unique<\/strong> because it&#8217;s so laid back and informal. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Powerful<\/strong> because my income has almost <em>tripled<\/em> since joining it.<\/p>\n<p>And on the last call, two of the members &#8212; <strong>Daniel Levis<\/strong> and<strong> John Angel<\/strong> &#8212; agreed to host a tele-seminar about growing your list as fast as possible using JUST the traffic you&#8217;re getting now.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Levis has worked side-by-side with some of the world&#8217;s savviest &#8220;list wizards.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And he gets paid big bux to teach his clients the <em>exact<\/em> same secrets he teaches on this call.<\/p>\n<p>BTW, before you even ask&#8230; there IS something for sale.<\/p>\n<p>But, the information is extremely valuable whether you buy anything or not.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, I have seen some marketers record these calls with Daniel and sell them on their own as stand-alone products.<\/p>\n<p>So this is hot stuff either way.<\/p>\n<p>You can grab the time and day details at:  <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.BenSettle.com\/interviews\/list\">www.BenSettle.com\/interviews\/list<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<p>Hope to see ya there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read something really interesting in the newz today. Something that, if you understand it, can make you more moolah&#8230; and give you a FAR more stable business. Here&#8217;s the story: Basically, the gummint&#8217;s cooking up a &#8220;big bang financial cleanup&#8221; (their exact words) for the economy. Now, I don&#8217;t know about you. But I get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-copywriting-and-sales-letters"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.9 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Read something really interesting in the newz today. Something that, if you understand it, can make you more moolah... and give you a FAR more stable business. Here&#039;s the story: Basically, the gummint&#039;s cooking up a &quot;big bang financial cleanup&quot; (their exact words) for the economy. Now, I don&#039;t know about you. But I get\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"max-image-preview:large\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Ben Settle\"\/>\n\t<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/how-to-profit-from-uncle-sams-stoopidity\/\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"generator\" content=\"All in One SEO (AIOSEO) 4.9.9\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Ben Settle -\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How To Profit From Uncle Sam\u2019s Stoopidity - Ben Settle\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Read something really interesting in the newz today. Something that, if you understand it, can make you more moolah... and give you a FAR more stable business. Here&#039;s the story: Basically, the gummint&#039;s cooking up a &quot;big bang financial cleanup&quot; (their exact words) for the economy. Now, I don&#039;t know about you. But I get\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/how-to-profit-from-uncle-sams-stoopidity\/\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2009-01-31T20:58:48+00:00\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2009-01-31T20:58:48+00:00\" \/>\n\t\t<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n\t\t<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"How To Profit From Uncle Sam\u2019s Stoopidity - Ben Settle\" \/>\n\t\t<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Read something really interesting in the newz today. Something that, if you understand it, can make you more moolah... and give you a FAR more stable business. Here&#039;s the story: Basically, the gummint&#039;s cooking up a &quot;big bang financial cleanup&quot; (their exact words) for the economy. Now, I don&#039;t know about you. But I get\" \/>\n\t\t<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"aioseo-schema\">\n\t\t\t{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"BlogPosting\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/bensettle.com\\\/blog\\\/how-to-profit-from-uncle-sams-stoopidity\\\/#blogposting\",\"name\":\"How To Profit From Uncle Sam\\u2019s Stoopidity - Ben Settle\",\"headline\":\"How To Profit From Uncle Sam&#8217;s Stoopidity\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/bensettle.com\\\/blog\\\/author\\\/ben-settle\\\/#author\"},\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/bensettle.com\\\/blog\\\/#organization\"},\"datePublished\":\"2009-01-31T20:58:48+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2009-01-31T20:58:48+00:00\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/bensettle.com\\\/blog\\\/how-to-profit-from-uncle-sams-stoopidity\\\/#webpage\"},\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/bensettle.com\\\/blog\\\/how-to-profit-from-uncle-sams-stoopidity\\\/#webpage\"},\"articleSection\":\"Copywriting\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/bensettle.com\\\/blog\\\/how-to-profit-from-uncle-sams-stoopidity\\\/#breadcrumblist\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/bensettle.com\\\/blog#listItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/bensettle.com\\\/blog\",\"nextItem\":{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/bensettle.com\\\/blog\\\/category\\\/copywriting-and-sales-letters\\\/#listItem\",\"name\":\"Copywriting\"}},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/bensettle.com\\\/blog\\\/category\\\/copywriting-and-sales-letters\\\/#listItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Copywriting\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/bensettle.com\\\/blog\\\/category\\\/copywriting-and-sales-letters\\\/\",\"nextItem\":{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/bensettle.com\\\/blog\\\/how-to-profit-from-uncle-sams-stoopidity\\\/#listItem\",\"name\":\"How To Profit From Uncle Sam&#8217;s Stoopidity\"},\"previousItem\":{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/bensettle.com\\\/blog#listItem\",\"name\":\"Home\"}},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/bensettle.com\\\/blog\\\/how-to-profit-from-uncle-sams-stoopidity\\\/#listItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"How To Profit From Uncle Sam&#8217;s Stoopidity\",\"previousItem\":{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/bensettle.com\\\/blog\\\/category\\\/copywriting-and-sales-letters\\\/#listItem\",\"name\":\"Copywriting\"}}]},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/bensettle.com\\\/blog\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Ben Settle\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/bensettle.com\\\/blog\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/bensettle.com\\\/blog\\\/author\\\/ben-settle\\\/#author\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/bensettle.com\\\/blog\\\/author\\\/ben-settle\\\/\",\"name\":\"Ben Settle\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/bensettle.com\\\/blog\\\/how-to-profit-from-uncle-sams-stoopidity\\\/#authorImage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/5b41e5a7b56ff3ef2863efb96b60feb917a13ead5504ea75e8cd43c818d75f7a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"width\":96,\"height\":96,\"caption\":\"Ben Settle\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/bensettle.com\\\/blog\\\/how-to-profit-from-uncle-sams-stoopidity\\\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/bensettle.com\\\/blog\\\/how-to-profit-from-uncle-sams-stoopidity\\\/\",\"name\":\"How To Profit From Uncle Sam\\u2019s Stoopidity - Ben Settle\",\"description\":\"Read something really interesting in the newz today. Something that, if you understand it, can make you more moolah... and give you a FAR more stable business. Here's the story: Basically, the gummint's cooking up a \\\"big bang financial cleanup\\\" (their exact words) for the economy. Now, I don't know about you. But I get\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/bensettle.com\\\/blog\\\/#website\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/bensettle.com\\\/blog\\\/how-to-profit-from-uncle-sams-stoopidity\\\/#breadcrumblist\"},\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/bensettle.com\\\/blog\\\/author\\\/ben-settle\\\/#author\"},\"creator\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/bensettle.com\\\/blog\\\/author\\\/ben-settle\\\/#author\"},\"datePublished\":\"2009-01-31T20:58:48+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2009-01-31T20:58:48+00:00\"},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/bensettle.com\\\/blog\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/bensettle.com\\\/blog\\\/\",\"name\":\"Ben Settle\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/bensettle.com\\\/blog\\\/#organization\"}}]}\n\t\t<\/script>\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO -->\n\n","aioseo_head_json":{"title":"How To Profit From Uncle Sam\u2019s Stoopidity - Ben Settle","description":"Read something really interesting in the newz today. Something that, if you understand it, can make you more moolah... and give you a FAR more stable business. Here's the story: Basically, the gummint's cooking up a \"big bang financial cleanup\" (their exact words) for the economy. Now, I don't know about you. But I get","canonical_url":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/how-to-profit-from-uncle-sams-stoopidity\/","robots":"max-image-preview:large","keywords":"","webmasterTools":{"miscellaneous":""},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"BlogPosting","@id":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/how-to-profit-from-uncle-sams-stoopidity\/#blogposting","name":"How To Profit From Uncle Sam\u2019s Stoopidity - Ben Settle","headline":"How To Profit From Uncle Sam&#8217;s Stoopidity","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/author\/ben-settle\/#author"},"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/#organization"},"datePublished":"2009-01-31T20:58:48+00:00","dateModified":"2009-01-31T20:58:48+00:00","inLanguage":"en-US","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/how-to-profit-from-uncle-sams-stoopidity\/#webpage"},"isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/how-to-profit-from-uncle-sams-stoopidity\/#webpage"},"articleSection":"Copywriting"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/how-to-profit-from-uncle-sams-stoopidity\/#breadcrumblist","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","@id":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog#listItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog","nextItem":{"@type":"ListItem","@id":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/category\/copywriting-and-sales-letters\/#listItem","name":"Copywriting"}},{"@type":"ListItem","@id":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/category\/copywriting-and-sales-letters\/#listItem","position":2,"name":"Copywriting","item":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/category\/copywriting-and-sales-letters\/","nextItem":{"@type":"ListItem","@id":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/how-to-profit-from-uncle-sams-stoopidity\/#listItem","name":"How To Profit From Uncle Sam&#8217;s Stoopidity"},"previousItem":{"@type":"ListItem","@id":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog#listItem","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","@id":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/how-to-profit-from-uncle-sams-stoopidity\/#listItem","position":3,"name":"How To Profit From Uncle Sam&#8217;s Stoopidity","previousItem":{"@type":"ListItem","@id":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/category\/copywriting-and-sales-letters\/#listItem","name":"Copywriting"}}]},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/#organization","name":"Ben Settle","url":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/author\/ben-settle\/#author","url":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/author\/ben-settle\/","name":"Ben Settle","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/how-to-profit-from-uncle-sams-stoopidity\/#authorImage","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5b41e5a7b56ff3ef2863efb96b60feb917a13ead5504ea75e8cd43c818d75f7a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","width":96,"height":96,"caption":"Ben Settle"}},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/how-to-profit-from-uncle-sams-stoopidity\/#webpage","url":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/how-to-profit-from-uncle-sams-stoopidity\/","name":"How To Profit From Uncle Sam\u2019s Stoopidity - Ben Settle","description":"Read something really interesting in the newz today. Something that, if you understand it, can make you more moolah... and give you a FAR more stable business. Here's the story: Basically, the gummint's cooking up a \"big bang financial cleanup\" (their exact words) for the economy. Now, I don't know about you. But I get","inLanguage":"en-US","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/#website"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/how-to-profit-from-uncle-sams-stoopidity\/#breadcrumblist"},"author":{"@id":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/author\/ben-settle\/#author"},"creator":{"@id":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/author\/ben-settle\/#author"},"datePublished":"2009-01-31T20:58:48+00:00","dateModified":"2009-01-31T20:58:48+00:00"},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/","name":"Ben Settle","inLanguage":"en-US","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/#organization"}}]},"og:locale":"en_US","og:site_name":"Ben Settle -","og:type":"article","og:title":"How To Profit From Uncle Sam\u2019s Stoopidity - Ben Settle","og:description":"Read something really interesting in the newz today. Something that, if you understand it, can make you more moolah... and give you a FAR more stable business. Here's the story: Basically, the gummint's cooking up a &quot;big bang financial cleanup&quot; (their exact words) for the economy. Now, I don't know about you. But I get","og:url":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/how-to-profit-from-uncle-sams-stoopidity\/","article:published_time":"2009-01-31T20:58:48+00:00","article:modified_time":"2009-01-31T20:58:48+00:00","twitter:card":"summary_large_image","twitter:title":"How To Profit From Uncle Sam\u2019s Stoopidity - Ben Settle","twitter:description":"Read something really interesting in the newz today. Something that, if you understand it, can make you more moolah... and give you a FAR more stable business. Here's the story: Basically, the gummint's cooking up a &quot;big bang financial cleanup&quot; (their exact words) for the economy. Now, I don't know about you. But I get"},"aioseo_meta_data":{"post_id":"1470","title":null,"description":null,"keywords":null,"keyphrases":null,"primary_term":null,"canonical_url":null,"og_title":null,"og_description":null,"og_object_type":"default","og_image_type":"default","og_image_url":null,"og_image_width":null,"og_image_height":null,"og_image_custom_url":null,"og_image_custom_fields":null,"og_video":null,"og_custom_url":null,"og_article_section":null,"og_article_tags":null,"twitter_use_og":false,"twitter_card":"default","twitter_image_type":"default","twitter_image_url":null,"twitter_image_custom_url":null,"twitter_image_custom_fields":null,"twitter_title":null,"twitter_description":null,"schema":{"blockGraphs":[],"customGraphs":[],"default":{"data":{"Article":[],"Course":[],"Dataset":[],"FAQPage":[],"Movie":[],"Person":[],"Product":[],"ProductReview":[],"Car":[],"Recipe":[],"Service":[],"SoftwareApplication":[],"WebPage":[]},"graphName":"","isEnabled":true},"graphs":[]},"schema_type":"default","schema_type_options":null,"pillar_content":false,"robots_default":true,"robots_noindex":false,"robots_noarchive":false,"robots_nosnippet":false,"robots_nofollow":false,"robots_noimageindex":false,"robots_noodp":false,"robots_notranslate":false,"robots_max_snippet":null,"robots_max_videopreview":null,"robots_max_imagepreview":"large","priority":null,"frequency":null,"local_seo":null,"breadcrumb_settings":null,"limit_modified_date":false,"ai":null,"created":"2023-09-10 11:38:09","updated":"2025-06-24 21:01:26","seo_analyzer_scan_date":null},"aioseo_breadcrumb":"<div class=\"aioseo-breadcrumbs\"><span class=\"aioseo-breadcrumb\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\" title=\"Home\">Home<\/a>\n\t\t<\/span><span class=\"aioseo-breadcrumb-separator\">&raquo;<\/span><span class=\"aioseo-breadcrumb\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/category\/copywriting-and-sales-letters\/\" title=\"Copywriting\">Copywriting<\/a>\n\t\t<\/span><span class=\"aioseo-breadcrumb-separator\">&raquo;<\/span><span class=\"aioseo-breadcrumb\">\n\t\t\tHow To Profit From Uncle Sam\u2019s Stoopidity\n\t\t<\/span><\/div>","aioseo_breadcrumb_json":[{"label":"Home","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog"},{"label":"Copywriting","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/category\/copywriting-and-sales-letters\/"},{"label":"How To Profit From Uncle Sam&#8217;s Stoopidity","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/how-to-profit-from-uncle-sams-stoopidity\/"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}