Greetings good citizen,
As might seem obvious, ‘happy talk’ in not one of my mandates…that said, I don’t go ‘out of my way’ to trash talk our badly mismanaged economy either…
(Well, not too far out of my way.)
…Okay, I trash talk the economy all of the friggin’ time, every chance I get.
Left to your imagination is whether or not I am being ‘too critical’, that, good citizen, is for you to decide.
Although I would be the first to admit that I have my, er, ‘biases’.
Naturally, by now some of you are wondering what set me down this trail this morning and the answer is The NY Times:
So what does it say when he has to resort to frivolous comparisons to distract you from the train wreck that will surely engulf the entire world?
He knows it’s coming. He’d be a fool to deny it. We can only wonder why he uses this space to go ‘rah, rah, sis-boom-bah!’ rather than to warn you of the inevitable collapse of the Euro-Zone. (Followed closely by the ‘mathematical collapse’ of the rest of the global economy. Understand, good citizen, as long as ‘the greater fool exists’ it will be ‘game on’ no matter how ‘bad’ (ridiculous) things get.)
YOU, the average individual, will literally start giving out ‘dope slaps’ to people who cling to outmoded realities.
(Understandably, you’ll be handing out these dope slaps with your pistol in your other hand…in case chucklehead takes offense.)
You think things are strange now? You ain’t seen nothin’ yet.
But, naturally, I digress…moving on:
But pointing to the dwindling number of births in advanced nations has no bearing on our current unemployment crisis.
Bonehead is pointing to a drop in demand that is NOT (as is obvious by our rapidly rising population figures) due to a lack of customers but due rather to a lack of PAYING CUSTOMERS thanks to the GLOBAL RACE TO THE BOTTOM!
Which, naturally, arose from the ascendancy of global capitalism.
This should provide ample proof of how ‘toxic’ capitalism is yet the slavers among us still need to be convinced.
Don’t be hoodwinked, good citizen, there is an ample ‘customer base’ out there, the problem is capitalism has no use for them, capitalism has labeled them ‘surplus’!
So what about it good citizen, has capitalism made YOU ‘redundant’?
If you’re anywhere near ‘average’, it has several times already…and every time you’ve had to scramble to find a new way to ‘make yourself useful’ to worthless employer.
Ironically, half of these jokers didn’t even have a viable business model, they created ‘nothing jobs’ in order to mask the wholesale cannibalization of our economy!
A process that continues to this day…
Okay, so we have two well known and respected NY Times economists, neither of whom has felt the need to warn us of the pending collapse of the Euro-Zone and what that means for the rest of the global economy.
Do you think perhaps they will get ‘blindsided’ by the collapse, like the financial crisis snuck up and caught both of them unawares?
Yes good citizen, any ‘old time Yankee’ like me remembers when ‘snuck’ was a word…a word that disappeared when the FUCKING RABID CAPITALISTS AT MICROSOFT ‘farmed out’ the dictionary in word to India!
For all I know ‘snuck’ is a bad word in Hindi…so they ‘erased’ it.
Along with dove, the ‘past tense’ of dive. Maybe ‘Doves’ are sacred?
It is also a damning testament to our weak educational system that apparently NONE of the English Majors out there took MicroSoft to task for cavalierly altering our native tongue.
Or perhaps the blame lies with our badly broken justice system which seems totally incapable of punishing a corporate felon no matter what they do.
Just a few tidbits remain:
A strong Canadian dollar weighs on the auto industry as contract talks start
This, like the Euro, boggles the mind. How the fuck does the currency of a nation with only 27 million people trump the almighty US Dollar…probably the same way the flipping Euro does, fraud!
This is just another example of how capitalism perverts value!
Often to a disturbing degree:
The Kalashnikov factory in Russia is humming thanks to American buyers
Why do you suppose people are snapping up Kalashnikov’s here in the US? Are they fearful the turban wearing people of our society are gonna suicide bomb them when they least expect it?
That’s what the corporate owned media would like you to think…but you’re supposed to leave the killing to ‘Homeland Security’.
Or, more accurately as may be the case, are people arming up because they increasingly sense that our ‘internal security apparatus’ has adopted an ‘us vs. them’ mentality?
Probably being downplayed elsewhere but lately, in this neck of the woods, there has been quite a string of incidents involving men in uniform behaving badly.
The incidents often involve ‘officer brutality’…which once again calls into question the effectiveness of the ‘screening process’ these gun-toting apes are subjected to.
And like rape, for every incident that makes the news there are a hundred you never hear about.
But my, that ‘blue wall’ is effective.
Um, probably just me. I think police serve to protect the interests of the public although it would seem today’s police are selected for their ‘attack dog’ like obedience.
Which is to opine their willingness to attack on command is more desirable than their ability to deal calmly with the public.
I will once again state that I am NOT ‘anti-cop’ but I am definitely anti- the people who run and set policy for our law enforcement services…mostly lawyers and their ‘ilk’.
Lastly:
Amtrak’s Acela train service is dominating travel in the Washington-New York-Boston corridor.
And once again this story needs little explanation from me; the price of fuel combined with the increasing belligerence of Homeland Security makes this story completely ‘self explanitory…
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
As might seem obvious, ‘happy talk’ in not one of my mandates…that said, I don’t go ‘out of my way’ to trash talk our badly mismanaged economy either…
(Well, not too far out of my way.)
…Okay, I trash talk the economy all of the friggin’ time, every chance I get.
Left to your imagination is whether or not I am being ‘too critical’, that, good citizen, is for you to decide.
Although I would be the first to admit that I have my, er, ‘biases’.
Naturally, by now some of you are wondering what set me down this trail this morning and the answer is The NY Times:
Off the ChartsNow Mr. Norris is well known in the world of economic commentary as one of the ‘serious people’, a proverbial ‘voice of reason’.
Recovery in U.S., Though Lackluster, Trumps Europe’s
By FLOYD NORRIS
Economic recovery in the United States may be slow, but it is steady, while several European economies are either shrinking or stalling.
Graphic: Measuring Recoveries
Euro Watch: Merkel Sides With E.C.B. on Spain and Italy
So what does it say when he has to resort to frivolous comparisons to distract you from the train wreck that will surely engulf the entire world?
He knows it’s coming. He’d be a fool to deny it. We can only wonder why he uses this space to go ‘rah, rah, sis-boom-bah!’ rather than to warn you of the inevitable collapse of the Euro-Zone. (Followed closely by the ‘mathematical collapse’ of the rest of the global economy. Understand, good citizen, as long as ‘the greater fool exists’ it will be ‘game on’ no matter how ‘bad’ (ridiculous) things get.)
YOU, the average individual, will literally start giving out ‘dope slaps’ to people who cling to outmoded realities.
(Understandably, you’ll be handing out these dope slaps with your pistol in your other hand…in case chucklehead takes offense.)
You think things are strange now? You ain’t seen nothin’ yet.
But, naturally, I digress…moving on:
Economix BlogThroughout the Western world, as life expectancy increased, the number of children the ‘average’ family produced has decreased.
Is Simple Demography Behind Weak Economy?
By DAVID LEONHARDT
How important are demographic trends to the great growth slowdown of the last 12 years?
But pointing to the dwindling number of births in advanced nations has no bearing on our current unemployment crisis.
Bonehead is pointing to a drop in demand that is NOT (as is obvious by our rapidly rising population figures) due to a lack of customers but due rather to a lack of PAYING CUSTOMERS thanks to the GLOBAL RACE TO THE BOTTOM!
Which, naturally, arose from the ascendancy of global capitalism.
This should provide ample proof of how ‘toxic’ capitalism is yet the slavers among us still need to be convinced.
Don’t be hoodwinked, good citizen, there is an ample ‘customer base’ out there, the problem is capitalism has no use for them, capitalism has labeled them ‘surplus’!
So what about it good citizen, has capitalism made YOU ‘redundant’?
If you’re anywhere near ‘average’, it has several times already…and every time you’ve had to scramble to find a new way to ‘make yourself useful’ to worthless employer.
Ironically, half of these jokers didn’t even have a viable business model, they created ‘nothing jobs’ in order to mask the wholesale cannibalization of our economy!
A process that continues to this day…
Okay, so we have two well known and respected NY Times economists, neither of whom has felt the need to warn us of the pending collapse of the Euro-Zone and what that means for the rest of the global economy.
Do you think perhaps they will get ‘blindsided’ by the collapse, like the financial crisis snuck up and caught both of them unawares?
Yes good citizen, any ‘old time Yankee’ like me remembers when ‘snuck’ was a word…a word that disappeared when the FUCKING RABID CAPITALISTS AT MICROSOFT ‘farmed out’ the dictionary in word to India!
For all I know ‘snuck’ is a bad word in Hindi…so they ‘erased’ it.
Along with dove, the ‘past tense’ of dive. Maybe ‘Doves’ are sacred?
It is also a damning testament to our weak educational system that apparently NONE of the English Majors out there took MicroSoft to task for cavalierly altering our native tongue.
Or perhaps the blame lies with our badly broken justice system which seems totally incapable of punishing a corporate felon no matter what they do.
Just a few tidbits remain:
A strong Canadian dollar weighs on the auto industry as contract talks start
This, like the Euro, boggles the mind. How the fuck does the currency of a nation with only 27 million people trump the almighty US Dollar…probably the same way the flipping Euro does, fraud!
This is just another example of how capitalism perverts value!
Often to a disturbing degree:
The Kalashnikov factory in Russia is humming thanks to American buyers
Why do you suppose people are snapping up Kalashnikov’s here in the US? Are they fearful the turban wearing people of our society are gonna suicide bomb them when they least expect it?
That’s what the corporate owned media would like you to think…but you’re supposed to leave the killing to ‘Homeland Security’.
Or, more accurately as may be the case, are people arming up because they increasingly sense that our ‘internal security apparatus’ has adopted an ‘us vs. them’ mentality?
Probably being downplayed elsewhere but lately, in this neck of the woods, there has been quite a string of incidents involving men in uniform behaving badly.
The incidents often involve ‘officer brutality’…which once again calls into question the effectiveness of the ‘screening process’ these gun-toting apes are subjected to.
And like rape, for every incident that makes the news there are a hundred you never hear about.
But my, that ‘blue wall’ is effective.
Um, probably just me. I think police serve to protect the interests of the public although it would seem today’s police are selected for their ‘attack dog’ like obedience.
Which is to opine their willingness to attack on command is more desirable than their ability to deal calmly with the public.
I will once again state that I am NOT ‘anti-cop’ but I am definitely anti- the people who run and set policy for our law enforcement services…mostly lawyers and their ‘ilk’.
Lastly:
Amtrak’s Acela train service is dominating travel in the Washington-New York-Boston corridor.
And once again this story needs little explanation from me; the price of fuel combined with the increasing belligerence of Homeland Security makes this story completely ‘self explanitory…
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
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