This is NOT good news for those of us who are Conservative and value Liberty.
Populations inevitably tend to radicalize when placed under this sort of stress over an extended period of time. After nearly a decade of the Great Depression a solid majority was ready to eat-up FDR’s New Deal Socialism.
Unacceptable.
Enforce the laws about employing illegal aliens. Instant 20 million low-medium paying jobs.
Unload restrictive government regulations on gas/oil/coal exploration and mining. Another 5 million high paying jobs and it has the effect of cheaper energy - which will allow employers to hire more people.
Kill Obamacare. Employers won’t be afraid to hire.
Do the above and we’d be back to full employment in 18 months.
Meanwhile the population grows and grows and the looters in DC and their friends elsewhere clean out the treasury. We will soon be like the old USSR only with slightly warmer winters.
This is nothing compared to what unemployment will be when Premier Hussein starts disassembling the Department of Defense in the name of budget cutting.
The fastest way to cut defense spending is to reduce the force. DOD can (and will) RIF thousands of troops, there is no severance pay and most of those former service members will go straight onto unemployment. My Son in law is in Iraq right now being shot at daily, and his biggest worry is what the Army will do with him once the withdrawal from Iraq is complete.
We’ll be fortunate if high unemployment lasts for only a decade....after the damage the current Regime has already done, and after the damage they will do before they are removed from office.
Why should we “expect” high unemployment to continue for a decade or more?
The way to short-circuit all this dysfunctional economic balderdash is to call off the anti-capitalists that have invaded and pervaded so many of our government and corporate structures, and allow Americans to be Americans.
Of course, since the “real” America is fast approaching the reality that they could be a minority, time is of the essence. The anti-capitalists are entrenched, but they are not invulnerable. A sleeping giant, the good sensible American people, has finally been proded into reacting to the repeated insults and provocations that have been thrust upon us in the name of “social justice”, an oxymoron if there ever were. Justice may only be dispensed to individuals, not whole social classes, as no groups of ANYBODY are homogeneous, and therefore are inherently unequally remunerated when the paternalistic “Big Brother” dispenses favors. “Big Brother” determines winners and losers, not the honest competition between rivals in the marketplace.
A lot of myths and outright fabrications have been raised in the name of “social justice”, yet not one child had been fed or educated, nor any elder has had an easier time, except at the expense of somebody else, more often than not, by one who would be considered a “peer” of any of these “disadvantaged” classes. And at a far greater cost than simple human caring one for another, apparently a human emotion that has repeatedly been maligned and ignored by the suave and astute “thinkers” of our time.
GREAT THREAD! THANK YOU!
One thing that nobody talks about, ESPECIALLY the “economists,” is that the reason for the September, 2008 Crash was the brankruptcy of the Federal Housing Authority, or FHA.
When it went belly-up so did Freddie and Fannie, or to be clever: “The bursting of the Fannie Bubble.”
The end result was that 30 % of the wealth in America was destroyed.
To the best of my knowledge, NOT ONE sorry Federal politician has stood up and said “The Crash of 2008 was my fault.” Until that happens, The US Federal Government will continue to cover their asses with punitive bills, laws and regulations.
All of these actions will continue to reduce the incentive to do work, and therefore decrease the number of jobs in our economy. Thus, the cycle will be made complete as The US Federal Government increases regulations and continues to destroy money to decrease even further the incentive to do work in America. The US Federal Government will then be Public Enemy Number One to America.
This is the Financial Death Spiral that we in America have been placed in by our sorry Federal politicians.
Since the Federal Housing Authority, (it even sounds like a cancerous Socialist unit), bankruptcy has destroyed 30 % of America’s wealth, financial equilibrium cannot be reached unless The US Federal Government downsizes by 30 %.
The US Federal Government has shown BEYOND ALL DOUBT that it is incapable of profitably managing ANYTHING that involves our money.
A good place to start is to Privatize all Welfare Programs that have lost money for two years in a row, or are projected to lose money in the next two years.
That gives the US House of Representatives plenty of time to do the work that we pay them to do, or we vote them out of their job.
I think the democrats are intentionally prolonging the poor economy as an excuse to change the country. They want the poor to rise up and demand socialism. They want to use the poor economy as an excuse to push green technology.
Bump for a “I told you so a long time ago.” reference. Ah, screw it. Almost no one in any position to do something constructive about all of the problems is listening.
IF a real CONSERVATIVE with some spine gets elected, the economy will come back quickly.
That said, the new REPUBLICAN/TEA PARTY President & Congress need to:
CLOSE the EPA—HUD—Dept of Education—and other departments which are the bottlenecks in getting business going again in this country.
REMOVE the 40 MILLION PLUS illegals in this country. Build the fence- use the returning military members to patrol & guard our own border. Until other countries take us seriously about our border, the problem will be worse, not better. After years of managing to eradicate diseases of both humans & plants in this country, there is a resurgance of both due to illegals coming in with illness & carrying fruits, etc, with agricultural problems. An entire California state campus is facing vaccinations for MUMPS right now because of a severe outbreak & last year, many children died of Whooping cough-which we long ago got under control in the USA.
GET SERIOUS about drug charges of all types. Expel the illegals involved & put the rest into camps like the jail camp that Sheriff Arpaio runs. The middle of Death Valley is a fine location for same. Tents-Peanut butter & jelly & oatmeal & pink underwear & clothing...Sheriff Joe knows how to make things cost effective.
REMOVE the blockades to patents & new products.
RE-EVALUATE EVERY SINGLE PERSON on food stamps—welfare—Section 8 housing—WIC- Disability—EVERY type of Federal/State handout. There are far too many who are sucking money from the taxpayers with bogus ‘disabilities’. If you cannot hold a job because you are a drug addict or you are ‘Too Fat” , you should NOT be getting welfare-food stamps-’disability’ payments.
REMOVE the UN people from New York. Use the building for high end offices. Let the UN build their new facilities in Somalia or Yemen or whatever.
REVIEW carefully the status of every single ‘student visa’ & verify that such ‘students’ are truly attending school. Too many have skipped & their whereabouts are unknown in this country. What are their intentions?
REMOVE the ‘minimum wage’ & ‘living wage’ requirements & let businesses hire who they want at the rate they want.
REMOVE the requirements that Federal, State, County, City jobs like streets, etc, MUST have UNION wages paid. That is a needless expense to the taxpayer & has NEVER assured a better job. As each year passes, it actually does just the opposite.
BAN ACORN & all of it’s affiliates & other like organizations. Their punishment for over 400,000 false voter registrations (which they caught) in Nevada was paltry & an embarrassment. But, then, the AG of Nevada is an Obama sycophant.
REQUIRE each & every registrar of voters in the entire country to purge their voters rolls annually. Dead, moved, missing people are shown on such voters rolls. It distorts the real number of voters who turn out for elections, since the media always reports “the percentage of registered voters who voted”. It opens the door to false votes.
BURY ‘CARD CHECK” once and for all. A secret ballot is the only way for any voting in this country.
DRILL for our own oil & other resources. Let the markets decide who wants to own an electric car. STOP spending taxpayer money on events like Solyndra. That is NOT the job of the FEDERAL government.
GET SERIOUS about making students repay their student loans. That money needs to be available for younger students in the future. There are way too many former students with unpaid loans who are living a high end life style & are not ever expecting to repay their loans. If you are making $61 dollars an hour, you can repay your student loans.—And, yes, I know such a person.
ICE needs to act like the law enforcement body they are supposed to be. Either respond to Sheriff’s calls to pick up an illegal or get out of the way & let the Sheriff’s do their jobs.
CLEAN OUT & FUMIGATE the stench from the current Justice Department. It is a total disgrace how ‘the law’ is being used in 2011. The Black Panthers need to be sentenced for their guilty verdicts in Pennsylvania for their activities at the 2008 voting locations.
END & DEFUND Obamacare. ALL of it. NOW.
CLARIFY the facts about who is eligible to run for President or VP or an office which COULD be in succession for same. Candidates should never be able to hide their past—birth-schools-grades-work history-medical history—nothing should be allowed to be hidden from the voters.
WRITE new Executive Orders, negating everything that Barry the Imposter has signed.
ELIMINATE the CZARS Barry the Imposter has installed & write legislation that prevents such a shadow government from every being put into place again. The public has a right to know who these people are-who is funding them & how much- what their duties are- whom they report to- what authority they have-who is on their staff-everything. The Congress has the duty & the right to properly vet such persons IF they are needed, & it should be done out in the open.
ELECTION donations must be more tightly controlled. Too much money is coming into America’s elections from other countries.
ELIMINATE & REVIEW for the future ALL Foreign Aid. It is beyond stupid to be funding countries who declare their desire for our demise on a daily basis. Politicians have no right to keep paying for the foxes who want to destroy my henhouse.