Greetings good citizen,
As the snow flies outside (first serious storm of the season) the stock markets of Fantasyland have resumed their relentless upward march.
Besides someone sneezing, it appears those who cook our nation’s economic books have outdone themselves:
I guess it makes sense if you flip it over and ignore the first part.
Which is to point out that the Chinese are NOT back on track for double digit growth, which drove them into the number two spot globally a couple of years ago.
The part that, er, puzzles me is how stupid the corporate owned media thinks the rest of us are? (We know it’s pretty dang stupid but the average clown on the street knows China’s double-digit growth was due to the capitalists of this country ‘exporting’ our jobs to the world’s most populous labor pool.
Once that stopped, the ‘growth’ disappeared’…so today’s decidedly false claim is once again a matter of ‘context’…
So no good citizen, it is just plain foolishness to claim the ‘economy’ (anywhere on the planet) is ‘booming’.
The Chinese economy may be doing ‘better than expected’ but you need to temper that with ‘expectations’ barely exceeded ‘death warmed over’.
Which brings us to our second offering of this snowy Friday
The continuing saga of American Exceptionalism!
On and on it goes, good citizen.
The whole article makes rather disturbing reading although it isn’t particularly ‘shocking’. I am far from being the sole ‘voice in the wilderness’ decrying the downfall of our hijacked and badly mismanaged civilization…
And you won’t ever see the criminals stepping aside and offering up the controls with a sarcastic ‘think you can do better?’ They know they’ve got it wrong…but they’re getting filthy rich doing it.
Which is why they’re disinclined to stop…until they break something important or we make them stop (and it will probably take a combination of both. Because once the machine stops giving milk the new ‘top priority’ will be ‘covering their tracks’.)
Considering they’re being none too careful about how they loot, the obvious solution will be to ‘destroy’ the record keeping equipment.
Now how would you go about a monumental task like that?
Let me give you a hint, it also produces a flash that is said to be ‘brighter than a thousand suns’.
Put a few of those puppies into the hands of the criminals who kill with drones and let me know what you come up with…
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
PS: We need a ‘hero’ who can put a few megaton ‘frag’ on Washington DC AND Wall Street.
If not, the senseless deaths worldwide will continue.
As the snow flies outside (first serious storm of the season) the stock markets of Fantasyland have resumed their relentless upward march.
Besides someone sneezing, it appears those who cook our nation’s economic books have outdone themselves:
U.S. Trade Deficit ShrinksI’m guessing the intention is to confuse the average reader but the headline tells us our trade deficit is shrinking while the footnote tells us our trade partner is going gangbusters…
By REUTERS 8:58 AM ET
The trade gap shrank in December to its narrowest in nearly three years, the government said, suggesting that the economy did better in the fourth quarter than initially estimated.
Chinese Imports and Exports Soar in January 6:11 AM ET
I guess it makes sense if you flip it over and ignore the first part.
Which is to point out that the Chinese are NOT back on track for double digit growth, which drove them into the number two spot globally a couple of years ago.
The part that, er, puzzles me is how stupid the corporate owned media thinks the rest of us are? (We know it’s pretty dang stupid but the average clown on the street knows China’s double-digit growth was due to the capitalists of this country ‘exporting’ our jobs to the world’s most populous labor pool.
Once that stopped, the ‘growth’ disappeared’…so today’s decidedly false claim is once again a matter of ‘context’…
So no good citizen, it is just plain foolishness to claim the ‘economy’ (anywhere on the planet) is ‘booming’.
The Chinese economy may be doing ‘better than expected’ but you need to temper that with ‘expectations’ barely exceeded ‘death warmed over’.
Which brings us to our second offering of this snowy Friday
The continuing saga of American Exceptionalism!
America Is Far from #1
The latest Global Competitiveness Report comparing 144 countries shows the sorry state of our country's development.
February 7, 2013 |
"The Global Competitiveness Report 2012-2013,” by the World Economic Forum, is the latest annual ranking of 144 countries, on a wide range of factors related to global economic competitiveness .
On each of their many rankings, #1 represents the best nation, and #144 represents the worst nation.
Gross Domestic Product is the only factor where the U.S. ranks as #1, which we do both on "GDP” and on “GDP as a Share of World GDP.”
Health Care has the U.S. ranking #34 on “Life Expectancy,” and #41 on “Infant Mortality.”
Education in the U.S. is also mediocre. On “Quality of Primary Education,” we are #38. On “Primary Education Enrollment Rate,” we are #58. On “Quality of the Educational System,” we are #28. On “Quality of Math and Science Education,” we are #47. On “Quality of Scientific Research Institutions,” we are #6. On “PCT [Patent Cooperation Treaty] Patent Applications [per-capita],” we are #12. On “Firm-Level Technology Absorption” (which is an indicator of business-acceptance of inventions), we are #14.
Trust is likewise only moderately high in the U.S. We rank #10 on “Willingness to Delegate Authority,” #42 on “Cooperation in Labor-Management Relations,” and #18 in “Degree of Customer Orientation” of firms.
Corruption is apparently a rather pervasive problem in the U.S.
On “Diversion of Public Funds [due to corruption],” the U.S. ranks #34. On “Public Trust in Politicians,” we are #54. On “Irregular Payments and Bribes,” we are #42. On “Judicial Independence,” we are #38. On “Favoritism in Decisions of Government Officials” (otherwise known as governmental cronyism), we are #59.
On and on it goes, good citizen.
The whole article makes rather disturbing reading although it isn’t particularly ‘shocking’. I am far from being the sole ‘voice in the wilderness’ decrying the downfall of our hijacked and badly mismanaged civilization…
And you won’t ever see the criminals stepping aside and offering up the controls with a sarcastic ‘think you can do better?’ They know they’ve got it wrong…but they’re getting filthy rich doing it.
Which is why they’re disinclined to stop…until they break something important or we make them stop (and it will probably take a combination of both. Because once the machine stops giving milk the new ‘top priority’ will be ‘covering their tracks’.)
Considering they’re being none too careful about how they loot, the obvious solution will be to ‘destroy’ the record keeping equipment.
Now how would you go about a monumental task like that?
Let me give you a hint, it also produces a flash that is said to be ‘brighter than a thousand suns’.
Put a few of those puppies into the hands of the criminals who kill with drones and let me know what you come up with…
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
PS: We need a ‘hero’ who can put a few megaton ‘frag’ on Washington DC AND Wall Street.
If not, the senseless deaths worldwide will continue.
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