Posted on 06/06/2011 3:41:50 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
And you know who that helps? Er, nobody, really, but it certainly hurts Barack Obama. The Daily Caller provides a four-minute video from today’s Don Imus Show, in which Democratic political strategist James Carville warns that extended unemployment will have a destabilizing effect on American politics, which is hardly the kind of Hope and Change Obama was selling in 2008:
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“It is going to be very difficult,” Carville said. “But the country, if that is what we are doing, this is gruesome on people. This unemployment rate for this long is humanitarian crisis of the first magnitude. This financial crisis, people have studied this by the way, they know that the things take this long to work their way through. The aftermath of these things — kind of an academic book that is dry entitled ‘This Time is Different.’ What it concluded it is not different this time. They studied it, the aftermath of the financial crisis. What we are going through is imminently predictable. But this is a terrible thing that has happened to people’s lives. I think the president at one level understands that, you know. But he is limited in what he can do. So we’ll just have to see. But it’s going to be hard. If 54,000 jobs is the new norm – this is going to be very, very tough. Some people say it just might be one more thing. We don’t know.”
But Carville said the consequences aren’t limited to politics alone. He warned of heighten risk of civil unrest with the bleak economic picture.
“You know, look – this is a humanitarian — you know, you’re smart enough to see this,” Carville said. “People, you know, if it continues, we’re going to start to see civil unrest in this country. I hate to that, but I think it’s [eminently] possible.”
Will there be riots in the streets? Doubtful, not unless we see a total collapse of the economy. Right now it’s a toss-up whether we’ll drop into a mild recession, so the civil unrest is hardly imminent, the word the DC mistakenly used to transcribe Carville’s warning. But without a doubt, high and chronic unemployment has caused civil dissatisfaction with Obama and the Democrats; we saw that in the midterm elections, while the GDP numbers were still inching up.
Now that the Keynesian bubble has deflated, Obama is left with no progress at all, and handed his opponents a good argument that far from helping, Obamanomics got in the way of a normal recovery. At the very least, Republicans can ask whether a Democratic warning of impending civil unrest is a sign of success or failure, and ask voters to reach the obvious conclusion.
>>> James Carville: Unemployment’s about to cause “civil unrest”
Carville is no fool. He always understood “It’s the economy stupid”.
>>> Watch for the president to declare martial law and postpone the election as soon as the planned for riots begin in the summer of 2012, rather than allow Sarah Palin to win the election
We just finished 8 years of dems crying how Bush and Cheney would cancel the elections and rule as kings. And before that we had republicans hysterical over how under cover of Y2K Bill and Hillary would cancel elections and maintain rule forever. And before THAT we had the dorks going how how George H Bush would cancel the elections to hand over America to the New World Order and send all good patriots to the FEMA camps.
Maybe a switch to decaf might be in order ?
“Who is signing Carville’s checks these days?”
I’m guessing the same person who runs newsflavor.com.
Just speculatin’....
“But I was told right here, the millions of Americans out of work are lazy no goods...”
Rush’s tone sometimes gives that impression as well; it shows a real disconnect from what’s happening “on the ground”.
Carville was certainly smart enough to tell the Dems gun control is a losing issue. They didn’t back off from their agenda, but they just stopped talking about it while continuing to push it (quietly now) through the courts.
commieislamism grows like cancer...
Just in time for Coulter’s new book about liberal mobs.
“I could go on....”
.....and mention unchecked immigration.
Keynesian-ism is equivalent to trying to inflate a tire full of holes, as soon as you remove the pump the tire just deflates again, except instead of air it's $$$ that is lost. Yet every-time this happens the brilliant educated experts claim Keynesian-ism (spending and tax credits) is the well known accepted by 'everyone who knows economics' medicine.
I have heard varying excuses from Dems depending on the day :
1) The stimulus wasnt big enough or we need another one to create jobs to jumpstart economy by creating demand.
2) The stimulus was NEVER intended to jumpstart the economy just pick up the slack until the private sector decides to hire people, and they are sitting on tons of $$$ so we (government) need to hire people to build stuff and then charge the private sector for it in taxes $$$$ until they give in and hire those people themselves after we take all their money in taxes.
Stupid Tax cut dig : As I pointed out before, the FICA tax cut was the stupidist thing to do in the name of job creation, a good example of something very popular until it doesnt work much like raising the minimum wage. Who needs a FICA tax cut when they get a pink slip? A serious congress would have cut the employers FICA contribution instead. Good example of how the political system screws everything up to get short term political gain, it was very popular.
Agreed. That’s a big one. Any of us could spend all day listing the issues, but all it does is raise my blood pressure.
““It is going to be very difficult,” Carville said. “But the country, if that is what we are doing, this is gruesome on people. This unemployment rate for this long is humanitarian crisis of the first magnitude.”
Shall we send a flotilla? Give me a break. Unemployment has been worse. People get through it. Stop grandstanding.
They may very well and they may get their wish.
Dear Mr. Carville: Won’t be anything “civil” about it, buckethead...and YOUR party is fomenting it.
You know, Boots, I keep hoping that there are some honest democrats who are still American enough to care about what the marxist douchebags in their party are doing to the country. I keep trying to be optimistic that there are some patriots left in that party.
But so far, I haven’t seen it.
So far, all I’ve seen are diehard leftwing lunatics, frothing at the mouth at every willing lamestream media microphone thrust in their faces, perverted lunatic congressmen photographing their crankshafts and sending pix to women, then blatantly lying about it and having NO problem with it, and a whole cadre of Useful Idiot apparatchniks spouting the same old communist party slogans, doing nothing to help the country and everything to destroy it.
These are NOT my countrymen, nor are they my bretheren, nor are they ANYTHING resembling the Americans that I grew up with.
I just see them as a threat vector now.
So, yeah...we’re headed for “civil unrest” all right... the productive half of the country has had it with the parasite class.
The day the SNAP cards and welfare checks fail is the day the cities will BURN.
In order to avoid a societal “TSHTF” scenario, this current President must not be re-elected.
He’s just representin’ the folks on the street, basically saying to the white devils of the GOP, “you better send money or its gonna be a long hot summer.” We’ve been there done that.
For historical perspective to younger conservatives, the liberal fatwa of “long hot summer” has been played out before. My earliest recolection is of the summer of 93 when a truly ignorant mope in charge of the NAACP (at its lowest point) issued the fatwa to be backed up by George Mitchell senate majority leader over the Clinton stimulus.
Education is no longer the objective of public education.
Instead, it might be better called the Department of Indoctrination.
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