If you want to get more technical, 2012 started in earnest around 1980, peaked in 1998, and will be around till about 2016.   The whole 2012 date deals with Mayan calendar, and with a long cycle relating to our Winter Solstice Sun position aligning to the center or core of our Galaxy.  2012 December 21st is pointed out to more specifically by the Maya because it also correlates with the scheduled 11 or so year Solar Maximum, and also within that larger 36 or so year cycle.  I expect 2010 to 2020 to be very interesting and change filled times, but not so much in the way you are pointing to.


  Re: more specifically what you wrote: While i would like to think that things will become all rosy and constructive so quickly and easily, that's just not what guidance shows me of the major probability paths.  
 Challenge is ultimately a good process though, it helps to balance and cleanse the Soul, and more than anything America needs balancing/cleansing, and we are going to get one good and thorough collective Colonic and material fast before things really shine more brightly and clearly.  

 One doesn't need to believe me though, but if one listens to the likes of Monroe, Cayce, McKnight, quite a few NDE reports, many Native prophecies, and Yeshua in the N.T. then one might see more deeply what I am trying to convey.   This however is somewhat in flux as far as the severity, and exact timing due to collective freewill, and in some cases individual freewill also quite influencing along side of collective choice.

Of course though, the U.S. gov and some groups connected to and some aspects connected to same who do know more than they let on, don't really want us to know more fully and clearly what is coming.   They are masters at misleading, disinfo, manipulation, and false hopes and yet fostering fear about things we don't really need to be afraid about (like terrorism for one since its becoming pretty obvious to more open minded, detached, and intuitive people that 9-11 was an inside job).  
 They even have trained psychics to find people who do more so know and who are sensitive, and try to implant false info, etc.  This along with some meddlesome and immature once human nonphysical consciousnesses and even some E.T. groups who are not so well intentioned.  

Lies, lies everywhere and the drop of truth to perceive is buried within...    BUT, as the old saying goes, half truths are worse than whole lies for they deceive even the Soul.  There are many half truths floating around out there re: the changes and the probabilities around same.    One has to be very spiritually intune, balanced, self detached/non materialistic, and discriminating to see the more full and clear truths.
 These types are yet rare in the physical Earth.  Many more of the newer generation (the last 25 years or so, and of course many more years into the future) will be able to perceive more clearly because of their greater spiritual attunement and at the same time because of the heightened, collective spiritual vibration of the Earth as a whole.  

  An excellent point along this line is the documentary called "The Corporation".  Next and 2nd to the world banking system, Corporations seem to have more material power than any other groups out there and greatly influence all gov. structure both nationally, and world wide. 

  What is not so commonly known about this entity called a "corporation" is that they have the legal rights of a person (at least in America, i'm not sure about other countries)!  Really think about that for a moment and what that entails.  This really, really, really should be changed.

  This documentary then examines the psychological state of the average corporation...particularly the known history of many of the major players.   They are cross examined against a psychological "test" and checklist, which is the medical standard in psychiatry/psychology. 

   It is found that these have all the tendencies of a pathological psychopath or sociopath (i forget the exact term used).   Since many govs. in the world, particularly the American, are so intertwined with these groups and energies...well it would seem that perhaps our gov. might have some similar attributes and tendencies of same...

  Perhaps we need less "patching" change as Pres. Obama seems to be about, and more of a total overhaul and makeover?   Perhaps the hope and change that Pres. Obama is about is more of a distraction than anything?

Well I would agree that we need smaller Government but I am not so sure about if we are any where near a point where no government would work. Why if that were the case, who would pull us around by the nose? I believe there are big things to come. Many of them beyond the current comprehension of our western world. There are many countries able to withstand poverty and low food supplies but our nations are used to having our way with the worlds resources and in an effort to stay in power we have seen our governments going to war to provide then to us. Many in the west know nothing of growing a little food in their back yards. Or just where that meat comes from on the dinner table. As world food supplies become increasing lower and the true cost of putting dinner on the table becomes a reality, that's when its going to hit the fan. Government sponsored food subsidies have been the norm for years here in the west. With a bankrupt government soon these subsidies will come to an end and we will be required to pay  a good amount of our income just to eat. Just like the rest of the world does already. A large amount of the food we currently put in us is from China. That's reality. Shipped in bulk to the good old USA and packaged here. Many of those farmers who are feeding us here make but a pittance compared to what our farmers make. Capitalism at its finest. Keep everone else poor and hungry in an effort to keep us living high off the hog. Its time for the end of throwing away tens of thousands of eggs weekly and milk and wheat, and, and, and. All in an effort to keep prices artificial high to support corporate farms that no longer have an ability to properly feed us without poisoning us at the same time. Why cant or governments see fit to give that food to the needy instead of destroying it. Support small family farms. Crop rotation. Many countries world wide would be happy to have the food garbage we are throwing away. That's not even mentioning the energy problems being faced world wide. Obama has pledged working towards renewable energy sources. Reductions in green house gas could be a result if we can convince the rest of the world to follow the same path. There are many things that can change for the better with a new direction. Unless or until there are far less of us within the phyical and demand is lowered, government will be here for some time. We are told to protect us from "those who would do us harm". And like good little sheep we follow blindly behind them. Now we have an opportunity to follow a new president. One who is pushing "change". As I see it, we need change because the way we have been doing things has been all wrong. in the mean time, he will be receiving a whole lot of love from this direction and by many around the world. With the love energy currently being sent in his direction thing will work out just fine. And in the long run, things are going to happen just the way they are supposed to.

I haven't researched 2012 nor received any messages regarding 2012; however, I believe it is a mistake for people to wait around for 2012 and what Obama will do.

Going by the messages I received, what's really going to make the difference is for a limited number of people to get to the point where they can really live according to love, their vibration will effect others, and so on and so on.

I received a message recently that said: "We can end it (the learning vehicle of this World) anytime we want." It makes me wonder if we should change things for the better so such a need isn't required.

Edward Albee said in The Zoo Story, "sometimes it's necessary to go a very long distance out of the way in order to come back a very short distance correctly". I think it applies here.

Some of the work is being done by the shift in consciousness but it's up to us to take advantage of it and push it to the max...not zealously, but toward a healthy balance. I believe I will know that balance when I feel it. I put some stock in the 100th monkey concept too-- even if some find it not literally accurate, I know I have seen it at work in the world and we need all the help we can get.

2011 is the year given by Ken Carey and Raphael in Starseed Transmissions and since it was the first info I ever got on this whole thing it would suit me just fine to get this over with a little earlier, I must say.

I found Calleman pretty enlightening. I like his approach to the explanation of the Mayan Calendar better than any I've read so far. I find no fear in his explanation at all and that is very appealing. I'm not sure I'll buy his book but I did bookmark his web page. Thanks for the info.