Greetings good citizen,
Watched Doomsday Preppers on National Geographic last night, contemplating the whole time how much of this (nonsense) was due to the channel being owned by Newscorp?
More interestingly, the preppers themselves were revealed to be conservo-whackos (by dint of their bumperstickers, never mind being STUPID enough to go on national TV with their so-called ‘secret stashes’ of weapons, food and cash.)
And these people did the term ‘conservo-loonie’ proud! They were doing it all wrong and were being praised for their efforts by the show’s ‘independent judges’.
Actually, I am personally thankful for the preppers efforts, they will become the supermarkets that will provide temporary relief from eating whatever you can chase down with a stick and beat to death after the collapse.
For people obsessed with cop shows they appear to be completely ignorant of just how easy it is to get ‘the drop’ on somebody.
And after they tear that gun out of your surprised hands you only have moments left to live…and those will be the moments it takes for you to give up the location and how to disable the booby traps protecting your stash.
And you WILL tell them because YOU want to live.
Heck, comply quickly enough and they just might decide to spare your life…if only to have you take some of the risk out of hunting down future supplies.
Not all ‘hoarders’ will be ‘pushovers’ and as time goes on the job will only get more difficult.
But that is not the topic of today’s post.
Like the headline says, it’s still about the economy…
This slightly longer than generally permissible snippet was taken from the tail end of the article.
Funny to see all of the ‘hands in motion' here as they examine the public sector side by side with the private.
The Feds can ‘shazaam’ money and hire as many people as they want…below this and government is totally dependent on tax revenue and ‘grants’ for specific purposes.
City and states are laying off because their tax base has been gutted by the global race to the bottom.
No employers means no employees living in their once prosperous communities.
You’d think politicians would want to avoid that sort of thing but apparently we have a new breed running for office…
A breed that knows there is a lot to be had for those willing to do as their told without asking any questions.
Sadly, this new breed thinks their new masters will protect them from having their necks stretched for treason…and this is totally untrue!
If it suits these masters purposes, they will have them strung up themselves! (if only to buy themselves a few more precious minutes of ‘run time’.)
But I digress…it’s not about being ‘sold out’ (although in the end it is ALL about that!) It is about the badly broken economy the massive unemployment problem the idiot capitalists have created!
Here’s a simple proposition I’m sure everybody can understand. When your commerce system excludes ‘too many’ people, your civilization collapses.
For all of this 8%, 12%, hell, 5% unemployment, the REAL rate is closer to 50%!
Worse, you can’t tolerate a 50% unemployment rate and expect your society to remain cohesive.
For too long the working have been taught to despise the unemployed as lazy freeloaders despite being the victims of predatory capitalism.
So when non-workers achieve parity with workers a conflict erupts.
And guess what else has been bubbling right under the surface of this cauldron? The ‘I can get any one of those people out there to do YOUR job!’ threat.
Coupled with the other famous taunt: Be happy YOU even HAVE a job!
Now the unthinking conservo-whacko worker doesn’t realize the guy in the street doesn’t want HIS job…well, I think you can see where this whole thing is headed.
[He wants something that doesn’t exist, a job of his own!]
They don’t say ‘blood in the streets’ for nothing…although, supposedly, we have a robust ‘justice system’ to prevent things like this from ‘getting out of hand’.
Boy, are they gonna be surprised!
As I have stated repeatedly, we don’t have a ‘money problem’ (because money is fiction, albeit a very dangerous one) we have one pisser of a legal problem! (with criminals in charge of the justice system.)
Thanks for letting me inside our head,
Gegner
Watched Doomsday Preppers on National Geographic last night, contemplating the whole time how much of this (nonsense) was due to the channel being owned by Newscorp?
More interestingly, the preppers themselves were revealed to be conservo-whackos (by dint of their bumperstickers, never mind being STUPID enough to go on national TV with their so-called ‘secret stashes’ of weapons, food and cash.)
And these people did the term ‘conservo-loonie’ proud! They were doing it all wrong and were being praised for their efforts by the show’s ‘independent judges’.
Actually, I am personally thankful for the preppers efforts, they will become the supermarkets that will provide temporary relief from eating whatever you can chase down with a stick and beat to death after the collapse.
For people obsessed with cop shows they appear to be completely ignorant of just how easy it is to get ‘the drop’ on somebody.
And after they tear that gun out of your surprised hands you only have moments left to live…and those will be the moments it takes for you to give up the location and how to disable the booby traps protecting your stash.
And you WILL tell them because YOU want to live.
Heck, comply quickly enough and they just might decide to spare your life…if only to have you take some of the risk out of hunting down future supplies.
Not all ‘hoarders’ will be ‘pushovers’ and as time goes on the job will only get more difficult.
But that is not the topic of today’s post.
Like the headline says, it’s still about the economy…
“This is one of the reasons wages haven’t been growing,” he said. “People are taking jobs they didn’t take in the past, moving from sectors like construction into jobs at lower-paying, big-box retailers.”
There were a few slivers of encouragement in Friday’s report. Using the broadest measure of unemployment, which includes part-time workers who want to work full time as well as individuals who are not looking for jobs but indicate they want to work, the unemployment rate fell to 14.7 percent from 15 percent.
The pace of government layoffs seems to be slowing, said Peter Cappelli, a professor of management at the Wharton School and director of the school’s Center for Human Resources. As the private sector added 103,000 jobs in August, governments cut just 7,000. That is down from 21,000 in July, and well below the average of 16,000 reductions a month since March. Federal employment actually increased by 3,000 in August, to 2.8 million, the first monthly increase since February 2011.
There was only slight relief for the long-term unemployed, defined as workers out of a job for at least 27 weeks. Their ranks fell by 152,000 to just over five million in August, and they account for 40 percent of all unemployed people. Among workers with less than a high school education, the unemployment rate fell to 12 percent from 12.7 percent, but that remains far above the 4.1 percent unemployment level for workers with a college degree or more.
Still, there were plenty of other signs the economy was still treading water. Average hourly earnings paid by private employers ticked downward by 1 cent in August, to $23.52, while the length of the typical private sector workweek remained flat at 34.4 hours. Both measures have barely budged from where they were six months ago.
This slightly longer than generally permissible snippet was taken from the tail end of the article.
Funny to see all of the ‘hands in motion' here as they examine the public sector side by side with the private.
The Feds can ‘shazaam’ money and hire as many people as they want…below this and government is totally dependent on tax revenue and ‘grants’ for specific purposes.
City and states are laying off because their tax base has been gutted by the global race to the bottom.
No employers means no employees living in their once prosperous communities.
You’d think politicians would want to avoid that sort of thing but apparently we have a new breed running for office…
A breed that knows there is a lot to be had for those willing to do as their told without asking any questions.
Sadly, this new breed thinks their new masters will protect them from having their necks stretched for treason…and this is totally untrue!
If it suits these masters purposes, they will have them strung up themselves! (if only to buy themselves a few more precious minutes of ‘run time’.)
But I digress…it’s not about being ‘sold out’ (although in the end it is ALL about that!) It is about the badly broken economy the massive unemployment problem the idiot capitalists have created!
Here’s a simple proposition I’m sure everybody can understand. When your commerce system excludes ‘too many’ people, your civilization collapses.
For all of this 8%, 12%, hell, 5% unemployment, the REAL rate is closer to 50%!
Worse, you can’t tolerate a 50% unemployment rate and expect your society to remain cohesive.
For too long the working have been taught to despise the unemployed as lazy freeloaders despite being the victims of predatory capitalism.
So when non-workers achieve parity with workers a conflict erupts.
And guess what else has been bubbling right under the surface of this cauldron? The ‘I can get any one of those people out there to do YOUR job!’ threat.
Coupled with the other famous taunt: Be happy YOU even HAVE a job!
Now the unthinking conservo-whacko worker doesn’t realize the guy in the street doesn’t want HIS job…well, I think you can see where this whole thing is headed.
[He wants something that doesn’t exist, a job of his own!]
They don’t say ‘blood in the streets’ for nothing…although, supposedly, we have a robust ‘justice system’ to prevent things like this from ‘getting out of hand’.
Boy, are they gonna be surprised!
As I have stated repeatedly, we don’t have a ‘money problem’ (because money is fiction, albeit a very dangerous one) we have one pisser of a legal problem! (with criminals in charge of the justice system.)
Thanks for letting me inside our head,
Gegner
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