Last month employers across the country slashed more than a quarter-million jobs, sending the unemployment rate in America precariously close to ten percent.
So one-tenth of the domestic workforce is… out of work. Doesn’t sound like any recovering economy to me. Heck, that sounds an awful lot like depression....
Last week it was news of an elementary school in New Jersey that had forced its students to chant a song of praise about Barack Obama.
And now there’s this video, made at Sand Hill Elementary School in Asheville, North Carolina (one of my most very favorite places that I’ve lived, incidentally)…
What the heck is going on here?
Actually, that’s a very rhetorical question. Because I do know what’s going on here. I’ve watched it build and grow for the past seventeen years, at least. It’s not just a cult of one person. It’s a cult of executive power: worshiping the President of the United States as if he were the living seat of divine government. I saw the warning signs during the Clinton era and was utterly appalled at how too many Christians were eager to imbue the same qualities onto George W. Bush. What’s going on now ...
“Armageddon” is the word that Tiger Management founder and chairman Julian Robertson says the United States faces for its economy if countries like Japan and China stop purchasing American debt.
“If the Chinese and Japanese stop buying our bonds, we could easily see [inflation] go to 15 to 20 percent,” he said. “It’s not a question of the economy. It’s a question of who will lend us the money if they don’t. Imagine us getting ourselves in a situation where we’re totally dependent on those two countries. It’s crazy.”
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“We’re in for some real rough sledding,” he said. “I really do think the recession is at least temporarily over. But we haven’t addressed so many of our problems and we are borrowing so much money that we can’t possibly pay it back, unless the Chinese and Japanese buy our bonds.”
More and more, I’m finding that this “cult of Barack Obama” to be less laughable and more disturbing. No elected official in the United States should ever be the subject of a praise song. Not even the President. That position is merely the most important of a body of public servants.
But watching this video shot at B. Bernice Young Elementary School in Burlington, New Jersey this past June, I’m reminded too much of young Russian children who got instilled with the belief that Josef Stalin was a god on Earth to be adored and worshiped. Or Kim Jung Il’s cult of personality in North Korea…
And here are the lyrics…
...Hmm, hmm, hmm
Barack Hussein Obama
He said we must all lend a hand
To make this Country strong againHmm, hmm, hmm
Barack Hussein Obama
He said we must be fair today
Equal work means equal payHmm,
In this afternoon’s mail I received some correspondence from the federal government. It was a follow-up to something I had mailed to it previously.
Said original mailing being early last November.
It’s early September now. Ten months.
And we’re supposed to believe this same bunch of bureaucrats should be trusted to run our health care?
Feh!...
That’s what John Kanas of BankUnited is now saying. Kanas believes that a thousand banks – mostly small, privately-run institutions – will go belly-up during the next two years.
Ordinarily I’m automatically inclined to disregard this kind of statement as extreme alarmism (like how I never take any “climate experts” from the United Nations seriously). But given the number of banks and more than a few of those being larger ones that have gone down in just the past year, I do have to think this is something that merits serious credence.
But hey: if worse comes to worst, I guess the Federal Reserve only has to inject another five trillion dollars or so into the economy and thinks will be fixed. Right? Right?!?...
So the House Republican Conference has just started up a new website dedicated to helping “the public and the press keep track of the billions of taxpayer dollars spent each year on government projects”.
Who the hell do these people think they’re kidding?
WHERE was this kind of concern from the Republicans about “billions of taxpayer dollars” between the years 2001 and early 2009, when they had the White House and for most of that time control of the House and Senate?
George W. Bush and his allies misspent more money from the public treasury than any other presidential administration in modern American history. Thus far the fiscal practices of Barack Obama have not been intrinsically different or substantially more wasteful than those of his predecessor. And it could be readily argued that Bush and his Republican colleagues certainly paved the way for whatever Obama will be doing for the ...
…if the next American civil war might begin over, of all things, health care.
No, really.
I’ve openly mused on this blog before about what issue it would take for this country to begin tearing itself apart. Previously I thought it would be about illegal immigration (which is still a huge problem and one that very few elected officials seem inclined to address).
But now, having seen numerous videos coming from “town hall” meetings between members of Congress and their constituents, and seeing the very real disdain that too many politicians obviously have toward the people they have sworn an oath to serve…
No, I don’t think this is “partisan” very much at all now. I do however believe that the disconnect which has been growing for many years between regular citizens and their elected representatives – during times in which both major parties have been “in power”, it should ...
I got asked to state my political beliefs today. So here they are…
I’m damned disgusted that too many Americans don’t think for themselves with the minds that God gave them.
American politics is two cages of howler monkeys throwing handfuls of dung at each other. With the rest of us expected to choose between which dung is better than the rest.
Any other questions?...
That’s the speculation from Investor’s Business Daily. In recent days it has come to light that two Russian submarines have been found patrolling off the American coast. And now Russia is signing contracts with Cuba to develop the oil and natural gas fields in the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico… which have thus far gone untapped by United States-based industry because of legislation stifling such drilling.
It kinda boggles my mind that distant Russia would be going after petroleum reserves just a few hundred miles away from here. Anyway, it’s an intriguing enough read to bring to y’all’s attention....