November 18, 2009
604,871 FOLKS OUT OF WORK IN WA STATE!
I ran across this blog. Folks this is a major disaster:
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Posted by LeCerveau at November 18, 2009
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1. It IS a major Disaster! Wait until the unemployment benefits begin to run out. We can already see Government working every game they can to steal more revenue from the populace with their photo radar speed cameras, various speed patrols/traps, red light cameras, heighten fines, phony seat belt laws, etc. Yes, the economy will continue to degrade as those who are out of work and those who fear that they could be out of work will tighten their spending causing, a further collapse of the economic house of cards to a complete disaster. Perhaps, we should start thinking of digging up our yards this coming Spring and plant Survival Gardens.
2. And Obama really doesn't have a clue how to deal with this. All he knows he to do are one-offs, like the stupid Cash for (not-so-clunkery) Clunkers, where the nation went into more debt to help people buy shiny new cars, while the new car-owners will use more gasoline this year than they would have otherwise because studies show that people with new cars drive more because of the excitement of the new-car feeling they have. On top of that, as economists point out, the program requires destruction of capital, by destroying the engines of these older cars! Even my Leftwing auto mechanic brother-in-law says it's dumb because auto mechanics he knows are closing due to lack of business. These "Clunkers" could have been purchased by buyers who choose to spend less on a new car and be serviced by those mechanics.
Communists don't know a thing about healthy economies. They only understand how to put the hurt on others.
3. @1:
We can already see Government working every game they can to steal more revenue from the populace with their photo radar speed cameras, various speed patrols/traps, red light cameras, heighten fines, phony seat belt laws, etc.
You mean, you know... enforcing the law? Please.
@2: "Communists" don't know about healthy economies? Apparently Bush was fiddling while Rome fell... this is just damage control after the fact.
4. Yeah...Right...demo LIAR! The Government just, wants us all to be safe that's why, they are enforcing so-called safety laws with Draconian attacks on our Wallets and Freedoms Isn't there an old refrain, that Government will Steal your Wallet and your Freedoms under the Guise of doing what is necessary for the good of Society? Yeah...Government is above shaking down the Citizenry. Like that town in Florida that is so hungry for the earnings of its Citizens that it is thinking of raising the fine to a $1,000 dollars a day if your grass is too long.
Your Right...Bush continued to push us into debt, a Serious Disservice to the economic Health of the Nation. But, Obama more that Double our Nation's debt in his first six months in office. Such a Deal!
5. michele, are you saying the capitalists and their republican co-conspirators that destroyed the economy
do know something about healthy economies?
typical failed neocon ideology: i know... let's cut more taxes instead of actually owning up to and fixing the problems!
maybe if repukes had actually tried to fix problems instead of ignoring them the last 8 years, the economy wouldn't be where it is right now. idiots.
6. Facts are inconvenient things...
Last GOP Deficit: $162 billion. Last Slavery Party Deficit: $1.4 trillion (8.6 times larger).
Unemployment in January, 2007 (when the Slavery Party took over Congress): 4.6%. Unemployment now: 10.2%.
DJIA in January, 2007 (when the Slavery Party took over Congress): 12,600. DJIA now: 10,300.
USD/EUR conversion rate in January 2007 (when the Slavery Party took over Congress): $1.31. USD/EUR conversion rate now: $1.49.
Housing default rates in January 2007 (when the Slavery Party took over Congress): 4.4%. Housing default rates now: 10%.
7. Mike, you're right---let's just become another Cuba or like the Old USSR, like Obama wants us to be. It's worked so well for THEM.