The Fall Will Probably Kill Us!
Good Morning all of you movers and shakers out there; your King of Simple News is on the air.
Sometimes I just have to vent to keep from exploding and this is the day. I heard Mr. Obama blathering away yesterday regarding green energy jobs. Mr. Obama blathers away every day, but yesterday he hit the last nerve that I have left.
In his practiced metered speech, he explained that there will be millions of green jobs created in the future, Obama stated, “More broadly, the kinds of jobs that are being created are ones that potentially pay very well and run the gamut from engineering jobs to construction jobs to labor jobs.”
Note the carefully selected phrase “potentially pay very well.” Here’s a flash from the King of Simple News room for Mr. Obama, we already had millions upon millions of good jobs in America that did pay very well, but those of your same ilk, low character, and pretended ignorance of basic economics sent those jobs to your foreign friends in order to increase the profits for your high level American friends.
At the same time that Mr. Obama is promising job growth, he is attempting to pass sweeping health care legislation that will require every employer to provide health insurance for every employee. Also at the same time, Mr. Obama is pushing his cap and trade bill with all of his bully pulpit might that will tax the life out of energy providers who will pass that cost on to you in the way of increasing utilities and rising fuel prices.
China on the other hand, loans daily money in order that we can exist in this sorry state of affairs and has no such plans as taxing energy and providing cradle to grave care for their citizenry. What they do plan is to take any existing manufacturing that America develops.
I’m so sick and tired of hearing, “The richest country in the world can provide…yada, yada, yada, for their citizens,” that I could puke. The U.S. is the largest DEBTOR NATION on earth! If rich is gauged as owing the most amount of money, then we are in fact rolling in wealth!
Obama’s articulated delusional grandeur of new jobs and manufacturing to replace the old jobs and manufacturing that we already had is beyond my capacity to stomach. Take a look at Detroit, Cleveland, Muncie Indiana; these cities were purposely gutted of their industrial might by politicians of the same ilk of Barrack Obama and George Bush. This mess was signed into law by Clinton (NAFTA and the WTO agreements), supported by Bush and continued by Obama. Where is the outrage?
Obama is using the “think of the children,” thing to pass this new crippling wave of legislation. If Mr. Obama gave a spit about “the children,” he wouldn’t be incurring the un-scalable mountain of debt to hand them for their graduation presents.
Mr. Obama is nothing more than another political science hack with a metered delivery of his misguided message aimed at fooling the American masses for four more years. Promise chicken even if you can only deliver feathers. The attitude remains the same, “That’s what the people want, so far be it from me not to promise the impossible.”
Yet, all that I have written above pales in comparison to the one single line that makes all of it mute. “Exponential growth in a finite world is physically and mathematically impossible.” There won’t be any skid marks when we reach the scene of the crash.
This entire political and corporate charade that works night and day to screen us from the truth regarding the limitations of our planet to support exponential growth of its human inhabitants and all of their trappings reminds me of a scene from “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.” [Paraphrased]
Butch and Sundance were hopelessly pinned down by a posse on a rock ledge high above a raging river when Butch (Paul Newman) said, “I know, we’ll jump.” Sundance (Robert Redford) said, “No, I’m going to shoot it out.” Butch said, “We haven’t got a chance, we have to jump.” Sundance replied, “I can’t swim!”
It was Butch’s reply that mimics our current insistence of pursuing a growth economy when he said, “Why you crazy…the fall will probably kill you.”
In the instance of America, “The politicians will probably kill us.”
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Yep, all that greed that is behind the transfer of the weath from the middle class to the super wealthy, today is a very nasty dose of medicine to swallow for me too.
The fact that it has been happening for at least 97 years and agressively for the past 39 years does not help all that much either.
But going broke and losing our retirement will not mark the end of it all. The end of jobs for 40%-60% of our population; the end of oil; the end of many valuable natural resources and the ever increasing population will mark the end of it all. Not the end of society. But definitely the end of an era; the end of a very familiar way of life will be felt by everyone, forever!!! 100 years ago many of our elected officials would have been prosecuted and hanged, legally. Today they are worshipped by the ignorant masses (both repubs and demos) -bb
BillyB,
You should take a look back 100 years. The politicians of that era set all of this in motion. The “Progressive” movement is the real culprit in setting us up for economic failure. Check it out.
I find it hard to blame the folks who are trying to be successful today.
History is only valuable if we use it to avoid repeating our missteps. We don’t.
The U.S. is broke, like the burnt out movie star, we view ourselves as what we used to be, not what we are today. We still see ourselves as King of the World due to our debt based consumption and massive military.
We used to be the largest creditor nation on earth; today we are the largest debtor nation on earth.
We used to be energy independent; today we are 60% dependent on foreign energy.
We used to have full employment; today we have real unemployment that is greater than 15%.
We used to be positive exporters of goods and services; today we run extraordinary trade deficits.
We used to have a balanced budget; today we have a $2 TRILLION budget shortfall.
America needs to see ourselves for what we are today and react accordingly; not rest on the laurels of what we were in the past.
‘We used to have full employment; today we have real unemployment that is greater than 15%.’ - Mike
Here’s a sobering look at unemployment.
30 states by the end of this year will have depleted their unemployment insurance funds and will have to borrow from the federal government. Isn’t that like like robbing Paul from the money that was already robbed from Peter?
Here’s a link to a very sobering article that in all honesty is only reporting a fraction of how bad it is getting:
A record 30 of the country’s 50 states are expected to have to borrow up to $17 billion by next year to cover the short fall in unemployment insurance.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/31565441
at the same time 15% to 20% of Americans are unemployed as you stated energy prices are going to double if not triple. Sounds like many people better invest in a 19th century ‘Pot Belly’ stove if they want to stay warm and have something to cook on this winter.
Mike? Haven’t you stated in prior blogs that 10% interest on a loan will kill you? What will 15% to 20% unemployment do?
I recently read a study of Spain’s recent experience pursuing “green” jobs (I don’t seem to have saved the study, nor can I recall its title) that was less than rosy. It basically said that pursuing “green” jobs resulted in a net loss of jobs!
Today I saw the cap-and-trade concept more correctly referred to as “cap-and-tax.”
George,
California alone is facing a $24 billion shortfall, much of it I assume will have to be borrowed. From whom, I don’t know…
We had a series of propositions on the ballot back in May that were characterized as “constraints on government.” Fortunately, most of the voters saw through the ploy and correctly saw the propositions as tax increases. This morning I heard a state senator casually declare that the voters soundly rejected the proposed tax increases in the May election, so the state was going to have to address its budget problems with spending cuts instead of tax increases. The senator unwittingly confirmed that the propositions were attempted tax increases, something two-thirds of the people suspected all along!
Dave - Erstwhile Urban Wanderer
George,
In some ways you have answered your own question of, “what will 15 to 20% unemployment do?” As you posted, “A record 30 of the country’s 50 states are expected to have to borrow up to $17 billion by next year to cover the short fall in unemployment insurance.”
About the time that we all get wood cook stoves, the pollution police will come and remove them and let us starve in the cold. I’ve never been more disgusted in my life.
Thanks for posting the REAL facts George!
Dave,
We have become so hardened to failures and the governments, “Too Big to Fail” print and bail attitude, that the word Billion seems like chicken feed, chump change, small potatoes.
Money has ceased to have meaning, as it is based on nothing more than a steady supply of paper and ink.
The actual fall will now have to materialize in a real world scenario involving the inability to provide a critical resource; At this point, I’m thinkin’ “jobs,” will represent that resource.
Hey, I made a good rhyme on that last one;
“Too big to fail? Print and bail.”
‘About the time that we all get wood cook stoves, the pollution police will come and remove them and let us starve in the cold. I’ve never been more disgusted in my life.’ -Mike
If the Pollution Police, Though Police, PC Police, or any other FED sets foot on my property to confiscate my wood stove or other personal and private property is the day I exercise my inalienable right protected from any and all governments as stated in the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Tyranny by any other name is still tyranny.
Your a poet, and now you know it!
To the point. County by County is the only way to take this Country back.
We can sit and cry but the end result will be fatal.
Or we can at least try and take this bull by the horns and elect county officials that eliminate any and all Political Parties, and we elect a Sheriff who abides and upholds the Constitution.
It may take one (you), or all of us, to run for those offices, but whatever it takes sitting back and thinking we will survive if we keep it simple is not going to work out well for the masses or the individuals that are in any way compromised.
Better to take action now before it is way too late. As we all know, its already late, but like the saying goes..”better late than never”!
For those of you rooted, the trick is like you already know, keep it simple. County by County.
For those of us blowin in the wind. County by County by County by County.
Spread the word…We the People… not we the Repubs or we the Dems or we the Dats.
We the People.
Our forefathers did not give us the tools to use for us to give up our collective fight.
Nobody scored talking about the play they were going to run. So lets pick -up the damn ball and execute.
Our citizens are waiting for leadership!!!
Sorry if this sounds harsh but “this ain’t no disco, this ain’t no party” and there is no more time for fooling around.
George45-70 (Sundance) said:
‘About the time that we all get wood cook stoves…
Butch laughs…”Feds passing laws limiting their use? Hell, with Three-hundred six million Americans chopping down trees for warmth, we will run out of trees and freeze to death before the courts can prosecute us.”
We simply have too many people living here relative to the resource base. And we all know what’s going to give.
For the past 7 years I’ve managed to heat my home without even cutting down a live tree. there’s so much dead wood out and about my neck of the woods. For those in my town and county to keep warm with. However, in a major city there aren’t many trees dead or alive to burn.
But Greg is right if to take into consideration the average household of 4, that would be over 75 million homes/apartments burning wood. Perhaps nuclear isn’t such a bad idea after all.
George, it sounds like you live in an area where the population is somewhat in line with local resources, at least in so far as forests go.
As long as you don’t get a lot of “gate crashers” inviting themselves into the neighborhood, you may be in good shape.
As for nuclear power, I’m not a big fan; however, without it, global warming may kill off those who aren’t already dead from resource shortages.
Of course, even a fast track approval would still take a decade or more to get the plant on-line. That said, we will need to retire more nuclear generation capacity than we can build as current plants come to the end of their life expectancy. That is unless we are willing to risk melt-down of aging plants just to keep the power on.
It seems the closer we look, the worse things get.