>>Real unemployment has been over 25% for some time now.<<
I am using the classic definition for brevity. If we were really at 75% employment we would be looking at dust bowl conditions.
It is bad but just not that bad yet. And I don’t see it coming to food riots or needing to use my zombie biker army.
Especially if we elect Herman Cain in 2012. Then this whole discussion becomes moot :)
“If we were really at 75% employment we would be looking at dust bowl conditions.”
Take away food stamps and that’s exactly where we are.
“It is bad but just not that bad yet.”
By the standards used to calculate unemployment during the Great Depression, it has been that bad for some time.
“And I don’t see it coming to food riots or needing to use my zombie biker army.”
You asked earlier why people were so brusque. Another poster mentioned that people are afraid, which is true. There is another thing, IMO: many of us are convinced that “something wicked this way comes,” and optimists appear pollyanna-ish. We’re not afraid you’re right; we’re afraid you’re wrong, and your refusal to take the worst-case scenarios seriously appears wrong-headed. That’s frustrating.
“Especially if we elect Herman Cain in 2012. Then this whole discussion becomes moot :)”
America-haters will attempt to capitalize on the Kenyan Commie’s defeat to incite prolonged riots. I wouldn’t be surprised if some of us burned off a thousand rounds in a couple of hours just keeping our families safe.
Barackolypse now.
The forces of evil might—likely would—try to capitalize on that kind of civil disorder in November and December 2012 by declaring martial law and “postponing” the inauguration of the president-elect.
That said, if a candidate doesn’t drive the leftards into a slavering, convulsing, howling, puking, chewing-their-own-lips-off, full-blown “Exorcist” seizure, that candidate is not morally fit for office.
By that standard, the *only* acceptable candidate is Governor Palin.