Good Morning all of you good Middle Class people; your King of Simple News is hot off the press.

I covered the fact yesterday that nearly all federally prepared employment numbers are nothing more than the illusions of the delusional government math experts. A new non-government report that I read yesterday predicted that hiring would not resume through next year. Now folks, that’s a problem, because the people that want to be hired will keep right on coming.

The inflow of new job seekers into the employment market, when we consider both the domestic numbers and legal foreign immigrants, marches on and builds up like water behind a dam. To ever make a positive dent in the unemployment rate would require hiring to reach a steady pace of 350,000 jobs created monthly. Even then, it would take approximately eight years (in round numbers) from the turnaround point to absorb those already lost in this recession.

Note that I said, “jobs created monthly.” Ya see, that’s the problem; we can certainly create people, of that fact, we have impressively demonstrated. What we can’t do is to create jobs; but we certainly try.

Our economy today has little to do with any form of necessity or reality and is instead simply an effort in futility aimed at circulating fiat money, reducing resources for the single purpose of growth, and maintaining the façade of viable employment which long ago ceased to exist. Today’s employment has all to do with temporary social engineering and none to do with the reality of a finite planet.

Robert Hickerson covered the above conundrum in one statement back in 1994, “We will never again be able to get sufficient growth of the economy to eliminate or even markedly reduce unemployment. NAFTA, GATT (WTO), and Clinton’s hope of growing the economy to solve unemployment is doomed to failure.”

Therefore, in mid 2008 I made the prediction that the U.S. will never again reach full employment. The world workforce is too large, the resources are too thin, and the world order that our leadership has placed us square in the middle of eliminates the physical possibility of returning to the point from which we once came.

So what to do? M. King Hubbert stated, “It is an aberration. For most of human history the population doubled only once every 32,000 years. Now it’s down to 35 years. That is dangerous. No biologic population can double more that a few times without getting seriously out of bounds. I think the world is seriously overpopulated right now. There can be no possible solutions to the world’s problems that do not involve stabilization of the world’s population.”

Hubbert’s warning has been echoed by rational men since Malthus introduced the subject of overpopulation in 1798. The animal kingdom has experienced the effects of overpopulation since time began. Animal populations swell to the point that resources will no longer support their numbers and then die the horrible deaths of disease and starvation. That’s how nature works ya know?

Population increases have another unwanted effect on our lives that few tend to recognize; as population increases, quality of life deteriorates in ways that are quite subtle.

The headlines in our local paper yesterday read, “Tension rises on Colorado as Campsite Conflicts Increase along River.” A picture was included to show a zillion people attempting to launch rafts into the Colorado River, but all of the camp spots down river were already spoken for and a wildlife officer was denying access. Too little river, too many people. The experience is gone forever.

As another small example; as my wife and I walked out from our little secret lake on Grand Mesa last week where have spent many tranquil days over the years catching and releasing wild cutthroat trout, we encountered what I can only describe as a “tribe” of Denver folks heading down the trail toward the lake.

They had arrived in four packed vehicles with kids, dogs, in-laws, and outlaws, and were all armed with fishing gear. I asked them if they had ever been into the lake and they said, “No, but we heard about it.” I explained that a small high mountain lake with a wild trout population could not stand much pressure and the fish should be released rather than taken to eat. They looked at me like my hair was on fire.

This large group indicated that they would be on the mountain for 10 days on a camping vacation. As I have passed the trail to the lake this week, their same vehicles are there each day, hammering away at the fragile ecosystem of that beautiful mountain pool. These folks will be surprised when the lake no longer holds any wild trout and I will personally be more than saddened.

So all of the above being said, do we as humans have the divine right to produce unlimited offspring in this finite world that we inhabit? Are the deteriorating conditions secondary to this right of reproduction? Is it our fellow man’s obligation to feed, clothe, shelter, educate and protect an ever increasing population? Is it fair that those who chose not to have children pay higher taxes to support the multiple children of others? Is it in fact the government’s obligation to attempt to create jobs for an obvious oversupply of labor?

These and others of the same vein will be the hard questions of tomorrow as the human race speedily, with great purpose, and methodically eliminates the resource base from which all life is dependent.