Posted on 08/21/2009 9:42:42 AM PDT by Steelfish
You can certainly make the argument that liberalism causes unemployment if you only look at the five states with the highest unemployment rates. But if you look beyond the top five you will find a number of red states that are well above the national average, such as South Carolina (11.8%), Kentucky (11%), Tennessee (10.7%), Georgia (10.3%), Alabama (10.2%), and Mississippi (9.7%). In contrast, the Peoples Republics of Vermont(6.8%), New Hampshire (6.8%), Virgina (6.9%), Hawaii (7.0), New Mexico (7.0%), and Maryland (7.3%) are well below the national average.
Now the federal government has adopted the Cash for Clunkers program. Now I wonder what the illegal aliens and poor Americans will drive.
I failed to mention that one of the costs of doing business in California when I was there was I had a full time person on my staff at $55K per year to handle “Environmental Affairs”. The environmental lobby bears equal responsibility as Unions, Taxes and Tort Lawyers that drive businesses out of states and eventually the country.
haha...that’s a funny picture.
The national rate artificially declined....
California is a Democrat state, and this kind of economic turmoil is what Democrats strive for.
Bad economic news is always good news for Democrats.
When the economy tanks and people lose their jobs, homes, and savings, they become dependent on government handouts and eventually become addicted to government handouts (ie., money confiscated from their neighbors and “redistributed” to them). And, just as drug addicts keep going back to their dealers for a fix, government addicts likewise keep going back to THEIR dealers. That would be their Democrat politicians. A tanking economy means more government addicts and therefore more votes for Democrat politicians.
Sabotaging the economy is job #1.
This ain’t rocket surgery.....
Green Sprout # 101
And the best way to do that is to rack up unsustainable amounts of debt.
Like $2 Trillion ($2,000,000,000,000.00) in year one.
And yet somehow the economy is on the verge of recovery according to Ben Bernacke - and stocks soar:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Bernanke-says-US-economy-on-apf-3779458072.html?x=0&.v=8
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Anyone else sensing this extreme disconnect?
The definition of insanity is?
Now the federal government has adopted the Cash for Clunkers program. Now I wonder what the illegal aliens and poor Americans will drive.
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Used car prices have already risen 5% nationally. And what will happen to the new car demand in Jan./Feb. when the people that would have purchased then, have already done so under cash for clunkers?
All these sorts of programs have unintended consequences. It’s almost always better to let the markets operate naturally - with some logical monitoring and licensing, etc.
Agreed. All they have done is front loaded the sales and redistrubted $3 billion worth of taxpayer money that we don’t have, i.e., added that to the national debt. What’s next? Cash for ice boxes?
Brand new vehicles built overseas, paid for by U.S. taxpayers, funded by the Chinese, and promoted by an America hating Fascist.
“The rate jumped unexpectedly in July to 11.9% even as the national rate declined. “
I see the report has a little comedy in it too.
yep selling into the bear mkt rally.
Also, what is going to happen when the $8k incentive for 1st time home buyers expires 30NOV?
Unemployment is desired. It is the best way short of a massive earth quake to eliminate the surplus population.
Obviously not a coincidence.
Tom McClintock, one of the only California politicians whose worth a damn, gave a really good speech about what happened in California and how it's now happening to the entire country. You might find it of interest. It's posted here.
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