Posted on 07/21/2010 4:51:38 AM PDT by Scanian
There is no evidence that Barack Obama willfully precipitated the Nashville floods, but almost all of the other gloomy, intractable quagmires that feed the country's pessimism are of his creation. But unlike crises of past administrations that seemed to get resolved in some fashion, his simply fester. Every day we read the same headlines, except that the crises deepen, become more insoluble, and grow less amenable to the standard cures of government policy.
Even with a corrupt, compliant liberal media in the role of constant Obama booster, 62% of the country senses we are headed in the wrong direction. The country has been driven to this opinion, by Obama's flagrant ideological radicalism which might have been forgiven had it not led to our most pernicious crisis, that of worsening joblessness. Only Obama and Joe Biden believe that the job trajectory is America is positive. Everyone else-those who actually look at data or look for work-are scared witless.
Each job opening has five to six applicants. The average unemployment period now extends to 35 weeks, the highest since the end of WWII. Last month more than 600 thousand Americans gave up looking for work. The same report revealed that average hourly earnings for those lucky enough to be working have fallen. Average hours worked also dropped. These figures simply get worse from month to month.
But somehow all of this deteriorating evidence leads the smartest man who ever held the office of president (according to historian Michael Beschloss) to proclaim that we're on the right track. Christine Romer and Jared Bernstein who form the bulwark of his crack economic team, assured us with almost mathematical certainty in 2009 that Obama's near-trillion dollar economic stimulus would guarantee unemployment rates that never rose above 7.3%. And since the stimulus has burdened us with trillion dollar deficits as far as we look, economic and job recoveries grow ever more distant and unlikely. As unemployment, debt, uncertainly and pessimism grow unabated so too does our sense of hopelessness and crisis. Israel might fear Obama because his middle name is Hussein, but many others fear him because his first name is president.
I've been out of work for months and one thing that I haven't seen written about is that a large percentage of the job openings that are listed are part time (no benefits) or contract positions.
Not surprisingly, companies are hedging their bets regarding the costs of employing people by positing to dump them as new regulations create unexpected costs.
In communist thought, a crisis is an opportunity for change.
Communism lives by dialectical materialism - “The Marxian interpretation of reality that views matter as the sole subject of change and all change as the product of a constant conflict between opposites arising from the internal contradictions inherent in all events, ideas, and movements.”
Precipitate crisis and conflict, take advantage of the situation and change things to a new, communist-friendly reality.
The marxists in power today understand this much better than me.
>>The marxists in power today understand this much better than me.
That’s because they study Marx the way I study the Bible...and for the same reasons.
“Contract positions” — the essence of employment in the 3rd World. Nothing is more insecure or miserable and I see us heading more and more in that direction thanks to Bonzo & Co.
They probably understand 19th Century economic conditions better than you or me also.
Sadly, they try to apply thought coming from Marx’s world to the 21st Century and we are seeing the results.
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