Posted on 02/18/2012 11:56:59 PM PST by OneVike
The Obama administration has released an economic report that claims everything is coming up roses, and it is making the rounds of the MSM's news outlets. Truth is, when you look into the numbers, it's rather easy to come to the conclusion that the economic reports are as screwy as the administration's employment numbers. In order to convince Americans that his economic measures are working, Obama is claiming there has been an increase in retail sales from December to January by a seasonally adjusted .4%. The administration goes on to explain that while the economy is moving in a positive direction, it is still slow. They also point out that the recently reported gains reduced unemployment to 8.3%, proving that Socialist economic policies are working. However, Obama's unemployment numbers have since been proven to be lies. Have I stated that we are in an election year and that Obama needs to get re-elected in order to continue transforming the greatest country in the history of mankind into a Soviet style basket case? To assist in the destruction, the MSM has been knowingly repeating this administration's lies.
Instead of reporting how America's real unemployment is actually up between 19 and 25%, they report that Obama has been able to get unemployment down to 8.3%. Instead of reporting that the government is spending more money than it is taking in, and that retail sales have dropped by almost $100 billion from December to January, we are told by the administration's propaganda machine that retail sales have increased by .4%. In an election year, the MSM will do everything in their power to convince Americans that Obama is even greater than Ronald Reagan.
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Monthly U.S. Total Gasoline Retail Deliveries By Refiners.
Note: the two low points are for October and November 2011, the most recent data.
Graphic: U.S. Energy Information Administration
By looking at the usage of gasoline by us citizens, you will notice that it really does back up my point that Americans are not going anywhere to buy anything. The refineries are not delivering gas to your local service station because neither you nor your neighbor are buying gas. We are staying home because our stagnant income does not allow us to put extra gas in our cars, let alone drive around to purchase things we cannot afford. Again, please notice the last two data points on the graph above. They point to a historic low amount of gas being used by Americans, which has a direct effect on the overall retail sales. Which in turn will affect the employment of Americans. So unless Americans begin buying more gas to go to the store, be prepared for the administration to offer up more bogus unemployment numbers like the ones I wrote about last week which Obama and the MSM do not want you to know exist.
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No thanks not necessary.
I really don't wish to embarrass you, but had you gone to the link and read what is there, you'd not have left the comment that you left.
The purpose of the Shemita as explained at C_O's link is NOT to give the land a break, it's ultimately to teach by long tradition of planning and experience how to withstand siege and to provide the knowledge of the terrain from which to fight back.
As is the nature of short explanations, you'd be foolish to think that that is all there is to it. Go to the link and you will see why hydroponics does nothing to solve the problem that is addressed by either C_O or Kartographer.
Cunnuckitard? Liberaltardian?
Whilst I ponder the conceptual freight of your witty rejoinders, I suggest that you reflect upon the distinction between history and literature.
I’m quite aware of the thesis presented in Shemita.
I still have the pre-release copy I reviewed for C_O.
I simply do not share his appreciation for the Mormon, and other, tribal collectivism implicit in the proposed “solution”.
Preferring instead a Reformation of American Ideals, where the purpose of governance is to secure the inalienable rights of the Individual, rather than subjugating them via tribal theocratic Shock and Awe.
Sorry, refining numbers depicted in graph are not accurate picture of total gasoline consumption. It is off a little, not a lot.
>>Cunnuckitard? Liberaltardian?
That’s right. If the pike fits, wear it.
Now, regarding your unsubstantiated assertion that “Idealism is a totalitarian virtue only.”:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2848554/posts?page=45#45
Please tell us how the American Declaration of Independance is Idealistic and Totalitarian?
Just did. Looks very interesting from a nitrogen cycle/water use perspective. I'd bet it would do really well with charcoal as a growing medium. Of course, without a Sabbath you're blowing off the tactical value of remote stocking, and the social value of integrating the poor.
LOL, those would be pagan ideals sonny, originating in the poetry of Titus Lucretius Carus (a fave of the philosophes of The Enlightenment).
>>I’d bet it would do really well with charcoal as a growing medium.
Yep.
http://aquaponicscommunity.com/forum/topics/charcoal-as-a-media
>>and the social value of integrating the poor.
There’s no Sabbath required to integrate the poor.
I think Aquaponics would be a viable replacement for the fishing economy that I observed being lost in Baja back in the 90’s. In 1995 they’d been pretty much reduced to scrounging for starfish and the like for animal food.
Replace the community owned pongas with a community owned aquaponic garden. At least that would be a sustainable alternative to making midnight cash-crop runs for the local Federali sanctioned thugs.
>>LOL, those would be pagan ideals sonny,
As opposed to the theocratic tyranny concocted by the stewards of Isis, Ishtar, and the Oster Bunny... you old Fart?
No, those would be the same people.
Yep.
Nice to have the FReedom to articulate that Truth without threat of temporal punishment from a state-established, tribally sanctioned, system of Royal dogmatism, isn’t it?
I clicked on your site and got a blank screen.
Date | Gas Retail Deliveries by Refiners [907] - Total Gasoline Retail Deliveries [16444] |
Notes | |
Nov-2011 | 30,934 |
Oct-2011 | 32,015 |
Sep-2011 | 41,972.6 |
Aug-2011 | 42,351.8 |
Jul-2011 | 42,448.3 |
Jun-2011 | 42,477.2 |
May-2011 | 41,172.9 |
Apr-2011 | 41,555 |
Mar-2011 | 41,608.1 |
Feb-2011 | 40,924.9 |
Jan-2011 | 40,331 |
Dec-2010 | 42,417.1 |
Nov-2010 | 42,857 |
Oct-2010 | 43,624.1 |
Sep-2010 | 43,876 |
Aug-2010 | 45,082.6 |
Jul-2010 | 45,755.3 |
Jun-2010 | 46,765.3 |
May-2010 | 46,016.2 |
Apr-2010 | 46,234.2 |
Mar-2010 | 45,482.4 |
Feb-2010 | 44,227.1 |
Jan-2010 | 44,012.3 |
Dec-2009 | 47,441.4 |
Nov-2009 | 47,454.3 |
Same thing happening here in Gwinnett county. Strip malls totally empty. Half finished retail building just rusting away. Restaurants closing up like crazy.
Go to www.dailyjobcuts.com
They post all layoffs, closings & biz bankruptcies large & small. Just amazing.
[Looks very interesting from a nitrogen cycle/water use perspective.]
And pretty simple to implement. You could easily remotely stock the requisite components, and then acquire the aquatics from a local source when needed.
Missionaries have already picked it up and are implementing it in various locals.
I think it’s a beautiful solution that our Creator has provided just in time.
I used to live in an area of East Cobb Georgia....very wealthy, very upbeat, and very conservative. Years ago after Newt resigned, I noticed a change in the demographics of the area. More and more tenants being moved in to occupy Section 8 housing of homes that had hit the 30 year old mark (mortgage paid, sold off to investors, etc.). Yet, the area still progressed and built more $500K-$1M homes....
Then the bubble burst. Section 8 tenants are more rampant. The high priced homes are still there, but not increasing in number.....Cobb county is taxing the hell out of anyone that lives there (haven’t reduced their budgets at all).
I drive by there today (I moved from there 7 years ago) and it’s like living in Fulton County inside the city limits of Atlanta.....Thanks Obama.
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