I am fed up with President Obama.  I voted for this guy and he has been a great disappointment.  He continues to betray the people who voted for him and I look forward to his concession speech.  I suspect it will be the only speech of his I will ever listen to.

This leaves me with a problem — who will I vote for?

If voting was today, I would vote for Ron Paul.  First, I think his ideas of libertarianism are nuts.  However, he firmly believes in it and has the track record of a true libertarian.  Mostly, Ron Paul has integrity.  Plus, corporate Republicans hate Ron Paul and are more afraid of him being elected than anybody else.  This is why he gets my vote.

The next years are going to be a disaster.  Obama brings a certain disaster to the table … he is a Republican pretending to be a Democrat.  This actually sets back progressive ideas because even if Obama is re-elected, most Americans will blame the Democrats. Most Americans are just plain stupid — many even think that they shouldn’t even think about politics.  Well, politics is wrecking America and they better start paying attention. These Americans, for example, cannot see that Obama is a long way from being a Democrat and wouldn’t recognize a progressive idea if it bit him in the butt.

So, let’s take our medicine and pull the bandage off quickly by electing Ron Paul.  There is nobody any more conservative than him.  Yet, he will end wars and corporate giveaways, assuming he does what he says.  This libertarian idea has to be discredited and Ron Paul is the perfect person to do it.  After Paul, maybe just maybe, America will be ready for a true progressive — Democratic Socialism.  It is the only solution.  Sadly …

America is Doomed.

There is no physical law that says there has to be enough jobs for all the people who need them even though there have been for centuries.

The idea that the current economic slowdown is some sort of temporary situation and jobs will come roaring back — because they always have — is idiot calculus these days.

The industrial revolution must have been scary for the people who manually weaved cloth, now there was a machine to do their job.  And the machine didn’t need any breaks and could work, more of less, tirelessly.  I guess the scribes who copied books prior to the printing press might have been concerned about their job security as well.  And these were gigantic technologies for their times — they were game changers for everybody.  This is the argument people make who think jobs will come roaring back.

But they are wrong … this is very different … and it is a transition to an entirely new economics.  If we could just get to the democratic socialism we need quickly.  But this is not going to happen.

Another billionaire has come out to declare he needs to pay higher taxes.  Why do you think they are doing this?  First, it isn’t because they feel they have enough money.  Billionaires’ lives are based on greed and it is insatiable — if it wasn’t they would have retired to some wonderful island and enjoy life.  No, Billionaires love their greed.  But they are concerned that they cannot be successful in a world with constantly shrinking demand.  And as AD has said many times, this is all about DEMAND.  Take away demand and the economic house of cards collapses.  This is what is going on right now.   It is collapsing, right before our eyes.

Sure, many people with jobs still think they are smart and everybody else is lazy.  I really love the people who work for government — teachers, police, firefighters — who are firmly committed to capitalism.  I wish anybody who was against socialism could not hold a government job.  First, it seems so hypocritical that they believe in capitalism and it is socialism that pays them each week.  Second, they need an education just how much of an idiot they are.

As the drip, drip continues of economic doom, more and more people will be educated that there is no physical law that there will be enough jobs.  Eventually — and that is the painful part — people will realize this is either one big community and everybody survives … no nobody does.

America is Doomed.

Many people already know there is no point in being optimistic about the state of America.  However, there are still lots of people who just don’t understand — yet.  The main reason for this is the problems are so severe that the solution is something brand new — it is not going to be fixed with lowering interest rates (been 0 for years) or another stimulus program that gives out money to corporate America.  Everybody who thinks this is just another recession or even depression, are totally wrong — they are the biggest reason the solution is a long ways away.

Among the people who think this way are the President, the Congress, and practically everybody else in elected office.  In a way, they have to think these crazy ideas because the solution — even if it would ever occur to them — is even crazier.  It doesn’t fit or even co-exist well enough with the status quo.  And these people are all about the status quo because they are doing just fine … thank you very much — “so sorry to hear the rest of you are fucked”.  Like Herman Cain recently said — paragraphed — “if you are not rich it is because you are just too lazy or stupid”.  This is from a guy who thinks another pizza joint is what cures all ills.

For the people in America not doing fine … like the unemployed, the underemployed, the homeless, the foreclosed upon, most of the 99% … there is a harsh reality.  Let’s exclude the 99% that still have jobs and feel like everything is fine for them and they will never lose their job.  They are delusional but there is little we can do to help them until they come to reality .. and most of them will.

So, for the people not doing fine …

What is happening has never happened before — technology has changed everything.  If you tell somebody that they will say, well — what about the printing press, Industrial Revolution, Trains or typewriters — you get the idea.   These were great advances for the time.  In fact,  you can go back and find quotes of how the world was going to end because of <fill in the blank>.  Technology has always been scary to people — because change is scary, generally.  But what happens, when the technology is a net reducer of jobs for people?

Today’s technology is unlike anything we have seen before.  The reason is this.  We now have technology that can replace people permanently.  Before somebody mentions it — yes, people are needed to build the new technology.  But here is the difference — not as many people as it displaces.  Our current technology has pushed us over the top of the hill when a technology developer can replace lots more people than it takes to create it.  The only reason as many people are employed today as they are is because the technology to displace them hasn’t yet been deployed — but it will be!  This type of technology has never happened before.  When we had railroads, it expanded labor needs.  Most of the technologies in the past have done this.  In fact, computers in the 1960s caused a huge expansion of labor for decades.  But that has changed forever.

But, there is still plenty of work for people to do, using the new technology.  But here is the second problem.  Much of this work cannot be monetized.  Thus, capitalism and the corporate world is just not interested.  So, they stockpile their money as if the money was actually worth something long term.    It is not only funny but about the only silver lining for the poor.

Meanwhile, the spiral keeps going down.  As more and more people lose jobs, and demand dries up.  It will ripple to the next batch of people who are not using, as technology eliminates even more.

The truth is in the long term we are all dead and if this problem ever gets resolved, this what I am talking about just got even worse.  But America is going to be dead long before many of the people reading this are.

America is Doomed.

People are now in the streets … around the world.  Sure, as a percentage of the population or even the people that should be out there totally pissed off, it is a small crowd.  But a significant one nonetheless.  And one that will continue to grow — no matter what the governments do.

It has been obvious for a long time, perhaps even multiple decades, that America was going down the drain.  Perhaps, from the moment that Actor Ronald Reagan fired those air traffic controllers in 1980s and declared war on unions and working class people.  Perhaps, it was Citizens United decision from the Nazi Supremes that was the final straw.  Or maybe it was banksters getting bailed out as corporations stockpiles $BILLIONS, if not $TRILLIONS, throughout the world as they campaign for yet another tax holiday.

Now that the people are in the streets, the more interesting thing will now occur.  What to do about this mess.  My guess is that politicians, and the rich will not really understand what the problem is.

Obama, for starter, will try and seize on the happenings to get elected again.  But this Bozo is ill equipped to actually get us out of this mess, or even start the process.  Obama is so busy bending over for Republicans that he has literally lost any progressive ideas he ever had.  Sure, the Repugs might put up somebody so despicable that Obama gets elected.  But the sad truth is, he is not going to solve this problem.

The Repugs will ridicule the “thugs” in the street and want to build more privatized prisons to continue to protect their oversized piece of the pie.  They will fail to understand that the country is only as strong as the collective wage earners.  Taking away the ability for people to support themselves is the ultimate reason this society will fail.   No doubt these clowns are trying to manufacture some huge crisis to refocus the attention away from the increase poverty and working poor.

No … don’t expect any solutions from our elected clowns.

But, here is not just a solution … here is the ONLY solution.

The government should declare that every person will receive a job and/or sufficient income to support him/herself and their dependents. About that time, the financial system will collapse and the government needs to let it happen.  Create a new method of conducting commerce, perhaps purchase cards that let every citizens buy food and get housing — eliminate all other forms of money.  Basically, usher in full fledge democratic socialism.  Every citizen will be required to work and jobs will be created as necessary. People will be trained as needs arise.  Banks will be nationalized, along with all other basic necessities, e.g. food, transportation, and health care.  In doing this, the government will destroy the rich and all the money and things they have worked long hours to achieve.  Because, in the process of raping the citizenry, the rich destroyed the country.

That’s it … in just a few sentences … what needs to be done.  Yet, we know this is not going to happen.  It never really happens this way.  The more likely scenario is things will continue to get worse and eventually there will be class war between the rich and everybody else.   We can call it the war of the 99%, or even the 99.9%.

America is Doomed.

Yes, indeed, America is Doomed but in the process it has turned into one fucked up place.

We have a totally clueless President … one who keeps clamoring about this “JOBS” plan which will create no jobs.  He is “getting tough” with the Repugs, saying they are hurting the economy.  Yet, neither the President nor Congress will do what is really required to get start the very long process of creating jobs — create Demand.  Guarantee every person income and jobs.  Let the government pay to put people back to work, whether that be in non-profits or working for the government.  Stop allowing corporations and rich people to pay little taxes while exporting jobs out of the country.

We now have the Occupy movement, started as Occupy Wall St.  Of course, the power went in and arrested 700 of them making it clear who was really in charge of this country.  If this is not starting to feel like Nazis coming to power in 1930s Germany, you need to wake up.  This country is going down the drain and killing lots of people along the way — whether it be wars or just because we don’t like what somebody believes.

Meanwhile, bankers continue to cause havoc for ordinary Americans while ranking in vast amounts of money for the few at the top.   The banks need to be nationalized and eliminated.  Wall St needs to be shut down, completely.  Both of these stop preforming any useful function a long time ago.

The crazy 2012 who gives a shit who wins election is underway.  Some stupid little state decides they must control when the first primary is.  Meanwhile, Repugs are running around the country trying to make it harder for people to vote. Citizens United says give as much money as you want to buy your very own politician.  Seriously, is this fucked up or what?  These are the same son of a bitches who pretend to believe in all things good and right.  What a bunch of shit.  They are trying to re-segregate the schools in North Carolina.  And Alabama has such a harsh immigration law that even legal Latinos are leaving the state — to the delight of the bigoted white assholes who stay.

Health care is a disaster in the country.  College is a joke with much of the funding going to for-profit colleges who are not offering any real education anyway.  But, given that jobs are not coming back with current policies, just the mere idea of educating oneself for anything is a joke.  Public education is hardly that will collapsing schools and teaching to the test mentality.

Meanwhile, the country keeps going through the motions as people get arrested for pointing out just how fucked up America is.  Seriously, try and find any area at all that isn’t fucked up.   Food?  Destroyed in the name of greed.  Transportation?  Based on burning more and more polluting fossil fuels.

America is Doomed.