The US News and World Report having a moment of clarity?
Sorry, Mort. You’ll be fired or laid off soon. See, you actually did speak “truth to power.” Sadly, this nation has been so intentionally dumbed down that only us “wing nuts” will see it.
Things will be hunky dory again come the 2014 election.
How could Zuckerman support an African communist for president - - it had been well publicized that Ubama was THE most liberal member of the US Senate - - and then have an epiphany four years later? Sorry, but I truly believe there is such a thing as “malicious stupidity”, and if Zuckerman hasn’t put 2 + 2 together yet, I have no use for his “thoughts” on anything.
I was out of work for a year and underemployed now, even here in the jobs mecca of Austin, TX. I am over 55 and each month I see my debt increase and my savings decrease. Even with a full time job, I’m not keeping up despite cutbacks.
Zuckerman, a Democrat, analyzes the crisis well but I don’t agree with many of his solutions at the bottom of the page. Government doesn’t need to “take the lead”. Government just needs to get out of the way. Stop punishing the achievers and selecting the winners. Let competition grow and roll back all the government regulations and high taxes that keep outsiders from investing in the U.S.
Texas is as pro-business a state as anywhere yet governments always think solutions are all about them, not the people they allegedly serve.
As for me, I am just trusting in the Lord to get me through my remaining years whether they are five more years or 30. He is faithful. I’m counting on it.
Unemployment checks eventually run out and stop. Social Security disability checks continue for your lifetime.
The “smart” takers are converting their unemployment checks into Social Security disability checks.
They will be devastated in the coming storm.
“The government must take the lead and arrange the marriage of private and public capital to regenerate real growth.”
And true to form, he thinks more government is the solution. Just doesn’t get it. Government will take its fee for performing the marriage.
Get government the hell out of the way!
Good article, but far too little, way too late, Morty. Especially when you had to throw the nugget about high speed rail (to channel Bob Dole: “Grrr, we don’t want it!”)
I’d only add, things get even worse for folks when you factor in gas and food prices. It’s hard making it on part-time work. It’s a whole lot harder when gas is nearing 4 bucks a gallon (again), and folks are getting clobbered at the supermarket. Especially at the meat counter - I pay almost as much for pot roast now as I used to for sirloin steaks under Dubya. I’m lucky in that I’m a bachelor, and can afford (for now) my groceries. I honestly don’t know how some families are making it these days.
There are no good paying jobs.
On SNAP, you’re not charged taxes or credit card processing fees for buying food and drink.
People who get SSDI, SSI or unemployment benefits receive more than they would if they worked forty hours a week on a minimum wage job.
Add it all up, a lot of Americans get tax free income - essentially a sort of negative income support from the federal government.
What helps to perpetuate it is that an economic recovery doesn’t appear to be in sight any time soon.
I think Unemployment was worse in the 30’s because today the women often work which means at least one person in a household is working whereas in the 30’s when the man was out of work, there was no money coming in.
I also think it was worse in the 30s because in those days the unemployed would do a lot to get a job where now, if you want a job and are willing to do almost anything, you will have a job.
The lid is starting to come off the Obama box of lies, deceit, law breaking and outright bull-crap.
Once momentum swings against him, the media will jump on the bandwagon. They will act totally surprised that anything amiss was going on right before their eyes.
And they will be shocked that anyone could think they were part of the corruption that put Obama in office and covered up his misdeeds.
Wow!
There is so much to do to get America back to the powerhouse it was:
•Invest in the national electricity grid and in a high-speed internet grid; in bridges, roads, tunnels, airports, and high-speed rail; in fracking; in education for science, technology, engineering, and math; and in training programs tied to unemployment.
•Add thousands of annual visas for foreigners with science and technology skills to work here, while allowing international graduates to stay rather than return home or settle elsewhere to compete against us.
•Simplify or abolish the regulations that foreign companies cite as the principal impediment to investing and creating jobs here.
•Broaden our tax base and get rid of loopholes, deductions, and credits and the inherent corruption related to them so as to enable lower marginal tax rates.
The Republicans should agree to this, but they won't.
Boehner's feelings are hurt, dontchaknow.
I still don't understand the whole "Fiscal Cliff" negotiations. If the "President his is revenue" as Boehner says over, and over, and over again - and Obama has agreed to at least some Entitlement reform, then what is the problem? These two sides are talking past each other.
The Sequester is going to cost 2 million jobs, hundreds of thousands of layoffs, and will gut a loyal Defense Dept that is already reeling from a $487 Billion cut that began 2 years ago in 2011.
The public is sick of it all. Now we have yet ANOTHER "cliff" crisis coming in another 25 days!
Reform tax rates and get rid of ridiculous things such as carried interest that even Conservatives like Michael Medved say are ridiculous.
Obama is a wicked, narcissistic homosexual, Boehner is an manic-depressive drunk, Pelosi is a delusional Marxist mafia princess, and Reid is a corrupt megalomaniac.
But if God could get through to even King Nebuchadnezzar, He can crush the hearts of these morons to make them do the right thing. They might, however, not want to keep testing His patience and see how that turned out.
Zuckerman! You are guilty of counter-revolutionary activities. You will be re-educated.
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The difference between now and then is fraud.
Fraud is tolerated now. Then it was not.
Fraud is promoted for political power.
The fraudsters must be eliminated to right the wrong
Not to worry, American MSM.. Just when PRESIDENT! Obama!! finished cleaning up the Bush disaster a new Republican evil appeared and has stopped the robust recovery just as GDP reached a blistering +0.00001% . . . .
Republican Sequestration is the New Bush. Got it?
