This just in! Retail sales were the strongest they have been in months this September….the recovery has begun!
That is what all the financial pundits want you to believe but there is more to this story than the increase in sales thanx to Black Friday and Cyber Monday….really! There is more to it!
But now…for something completely different……..
The Middle Class will keep their tax cuts…..hooray! But so will the wealthy……..and the promise is that they will start creating jobs because now they know they can keep their money…..think about that logic for a moment……..(pause here for reflection)….but at least the unemployed will keep some of the benefits that come with that stigma…..
By the by…..the tax cuts for the wealthy will add about #4 trillion to the debt….which apparently is NOT that important to the GOP when it comes to aid for the wealthy…..but that is something that they will coat over with some sort of silver lining…..
The whole argument from the GOP was that if the wealthy kept their tax cuts they would start investing in the economy again and thus would start creating jobs….so the GOP held up the unemployment to get their buds more cash in their pockets….think about that for a minute……(another pause for reflection)……….
Another point and this one from the head doodah of the FED…….
The nation’s unemployment rate, which has been over 9 percent for a record 19 months, is not likely to return to “a more normal unemployment rate” of about 5 percent or 6 percent for four or five years, the Federal Reserve chairman said in an interview with the CBS News program “60 Minutes” broadcast on Sunday night.
And then there is this bit of news……
Most observers expect no signs of a turnaround anytime soon. The Federal Reserve has predicted that unemployment will be around 9 percent by the end of 2011, and around 8 percent by the end of 2012. As Dean Baker of the liberal Center for Economic and Policy Research wrote Friday:
Does not sound like he expects too many jobs to be created for an extended time…..and yet the idea has been sold that if the wealthy keep their cash they will start up and begin created jobs…..think about that, please…….(a pause for reflection…one more time)…..
The GOP is correct in their thinking….the jobs will start pouring in on or about 01 January 2011. Or could it be that they will just continue buying luxury items and say “screw the jobless”?
My money (both physically and literally) is on the latter!
And guess what….if the jobs do not magical appear, then it will somehow be all Obama’s fault…….well do not hold your breath…besides there is NO proof that tax cuts create jobs….only in the lying heart of a politician…….
Hey voters! You asked for it….you got it…..what? A good humping!
Allow me to be blunt here……IT IS ALL A LIE!
To quote a famous pitch man…….”can you hear me NOW!?”
Don’t forget that the deficit created by these tax cuts will be used as a reason to cut Social Security…
Never…and now there is one more bullet for the death of the SS system……
Yes, of course it’s a lie. You know it, I know it, many people know it, though few want to admit it – even to themselves.
The sad thing is that one of the very first jobs (possibly THE first job) I see as being the responsibility of central government, is to manage and maintain a healthy economy that provides that availability of near full employment. There should be little need for social security for most people if the government of a country actually manages that.
However, one of the things I think we should ask our politicians first of all is WHY there is a lack of jobs and therefore such a need for socoal security (as you know, I do NOT include pensions, basic medical provision and education as being any part of SS). Much of this situation existed BEFORE the 2008 crash – it has simply got worse since the the meltdown caused by the banksters.
But doesn’t the problem go much deeper than that? It was a fear back in the seventies and eighties that automation would lead to mass unemployment. That fear proved to be largely unfounded as people re-trained to cope with all the high tech opportunities that arose to replace all the reduction in manual, labouring and repetative jobs that automatic systems replaced.
So why the problems? Isn’t it actually a fact that the REAL cause is the move by countries like the UK and the US away from producing real goods, (however high tech and even including software and research) towards financial services (simply creating money from investments that often have no more that notional values), which we all now know frequently amount to no more than gambling at other people’s expense?
The deal struck between the two parties is just politics……with the GOP getting almost everything they have wanted…..and this sets the stage for the same battle min 13 months……
Trust me, it’s NOT the two party system that’s the problem. That, with occasional exceptions will always tend to occur naturally, even if it’s not designed into the system.
The REAL problem is the party system itself and that’s pretty much the only way to run a representative democracy.
Proportional representation as a voting system gets over the two party thing, but all the people end up with is fifteen parties arguing amongst themselves rather than two… if you can’t get two to agree, how the heck do you expect to get three, of our, or a dozen, to do so?????
I still like the possibility…
With IRV voters get one vote and one ballot, but get to rank candidates in order of preference. If no candidate wins with a first-choice majority, the candidate with the least votes is eliminated and their supporters’ second choices are distributed to the remaining candidates in an “instant runoff.” The process of elimination and redistribution continues until one candidate has a majority. That’s all there is to it! Read more about How IRV works.
http://www.fairvote.org/How-Instant-Runoff-Voting-Works
In case you missed the tweet…
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/ns/msnbc_tv-countdown_with_keith_olbermann/
Yes, I’m familiar with the voting system you quote and it does indeed have some merit – as a voting system. However, if what you’re voting for is ALL crap, it doesn’t really make much difference which bit of crap you finally choose, does it? One piece of crap smells pretty much as disgusting another to me…
First, fix the system and THEN, when it has quality and integrity, decide how to vote for it in order to protect that integrity!
Even if you claim to have SOME decent candidates (which I would on the whole dispute), they can do absolutely NOTHING to change things since they will ALWAYS split largely along party lines – and parties – all parties – refuse to agree on much at all – even in coalition as they are in many countries in Europe, which is why most of the EU is such a sh*t place to live – a bit like America, but less open about their greed…
Yes my friend it is all CRAP! I think the key is get the people more involved but then I ask if they are capable of more involvement…..especially on the intellectual level…..
Well, first shoot all lobbyists…….then make it illegal for a past Rep. to lobby Congress on any issue….then we take the money out of the campaigns….and then hope the voter is smart enough to make a rational decision….