America Doomed

There is no majority rule in the THE US HOUSE of LORDS — aka THE US SENATE — the long time home of corruption, greed, and power gone so amuck that it is destroying America.  No major social legislation in FOUR DECADES — thanks to the US SENATE — no wonder this county is going down the toilet.

Sure, there is MAJORITY RULE in the SUPREME COURT and the US HOUSE.   No matter that the SUPREME COURT has wrecked havoc on the country with these 5-4 decisions.  But that is still better than the US SENATE where NOTHING GETS DONE.  NOTHING.  At least we know that if enough good Justices are appointed, it will change someday in the Supreme Court.  But — not true in the US Senate.  These old farts serve — that’s a joke — for 6 years and spend their entire time making backroom deals to get elected.  Rarely, does one of the Senate farts get defeated. Frequently, Senators hand down their seat to their son — just like the HOUSE of LORDS. Again, nobody has to look very far why this country is screwed up.

Lots of blah, blah that the US SENATE is going to change its cloture rule to simple majority — aka democracy — which means 50-50 plus the VICE PRESIDENT vote — whoever is in power.  But I doubt they will do that.  Just more blah, blah as America is detracted from the fact that NOTHING GETS DONE in the US Senate.

America is doomed.

Apart from giving better speeches and a few minor policy items, Obama is Bush — a corporation pretending to be a person. He has turned his back on campaign promises. No health care. No ending wars. No closing Gitmo. No financial reform. Obama is Bush.

America is doomed.

Sarah Pakin never ceases to make me laugh. She mocks Obama for using a Teleprompter while reading notes written on her hand like a high schooler might do. Oh yes. Imagine a President Palin. She is an idiot and makes perfect sense for a country going down.

America is doomed.

A long time ago I believed that America could pull itself out of the quagmire we are in — no more. At one point I believed — sadly — that President Obama could make a difference — no more.

The LA Times has an excellent piece how the Congress has not passed a major piece of social legislation in FOUR DECADES. They admit there will be no health care reform this session — I would say not this generation. It is the U.S. Senate that can and will stop everything based on this 60 vote rule. Now the U.S. Supreme Court has made it even harder to have a fair election in America. Not that election results matter that much anymore.

Four decades is just about how long the decline in America has been proceeding. During those decades Republicans have controlled the government. There has been a couple of interruptions with Carter and Clinton but they accomplished almost nothing. Clinton likes to talk about the economic prosperity but he was complicit in the demise of America as he turned all Republican — just like Obama has.

Yes. Millions of us are disillusioned with BOTH PARTIES. Thinking people HATE Republicans because they are the greediest bastards on the planet. They are happy to destroy this country with their greed and corruption. One Senator, Senator Richard Selby, has no problem shutting down the U.S. Senate in order to fund a pork project in Alabama — the cesspool of the country. This guy is an evil bastard and somebody the Republicans admire.

Meanwhile, Democrats are equally screwed up. There are a few people that want to improve things — government for the people — but the Democrats are loaded with greedy bastards who could easily call themselves Republicans.

There are few people who actually understand that this is the final time for America and it is going down the toilet at a very fast pace. Look at the financial corruption. The food system. The health care. Unemployment. Wars. Climate change. But there will be no solutions from Congress or this President.

Look at people like Justice Thomas who said it wasn’t a good idea to criticize the Supreme Court — but Thomas did not understand the irony in his statement — he wants to let Corporations do anything that people can but now he doesn’t want people to talk — but it is fine with Thomas for corporations to give bags full of money to influence elections. Thomas is a tool of the Republicans and has been for a long time. He is an embarrassment to his race and heritage — he is an idiot and I have to assume he doesn’t realize it or he would change.

Look at people like Sarah Palin whose claim to fame was her figure and legs — she is an idiot and is an embarrassment to millions of smart, intelligent women. Like Thomas, Palin figured out how to take advantage of her opportunities to make lots of money. People like Palin are so completely clueless about the damage they are doing — she is so stupid we can’t even blame her.

How about Glenn Beck ? — this man is pathological — he acts nuts all the time. He goes on his crazed black board talks that make no sense — he is irrational. Yet, there are plenty of people who think he is a good guy. That is probably the saddest thing — millions are not even capable of understanding that Beck is a crazy idiot. What chance does America have? — about as much chance as Germany had in the 1930s.

So, Thomas, Palin, and Beck — this is the future of America. Throw in an Obama whose Presidency is over after just a single year — and he probably thinks he can make a difference — sad is he.

See you at the Revolution.

America is doomed.

Headlines abound today — unemployment rate unexpectedly drops — this was even after more people lost their jobs in January.

This is only UNEXPECTEDLY if you are just ignorant and don’t understand the political calculations in the index.

The unemployment rate is designed to drop even if people don’t get jobs.  Every unemployed person will automatically be considered employed if one of a number of things happens: he doesn’t apply for benefits, his benefits run out — they always in 6-18 months, he takes part time work, etc. etc.  That is, he will no longer be considered unemployed for a variety of reason and EVERYBODY will be dropped in a relatively short amount of time WITHOUT getting a job.  The only reason the unemployment rate is high now is because the rate of people losing their jobs is FASTER than the automatic drop from the list.

Think of it this way.  If NOBODY got another job the rate would drop because eventually less and less people would  be employed and losing jobs.  It would be much better to measure employment — a little hard to be deceptive since employed people are much easier to count than the unemployed who fade into the background are are forgotten.  Yes, FORGOTTEN.  That is the entire point of computing unemployment the was America does.

Here’s the bottom line –

1. A lower unemployment rate doesn’t mean less people are unemployed, more people are unemployed, or even that the jobs picture is getting better.
2. The statistic is politically engineered to mislead people and it will be widely reported in the media.
3. The government does not care about the real unemployment rate — the only changes to the index by both Republicans and Democrats have been to make it more deceptive.
4. A much better statistic is to count the total number of people EMPLOYED in different categories, part time, full time, etc. Another good statistic is the total tax revenues paid by the employed.

When America started to deliberately mislead with fake statistics like this, it started on its road to destruction and it is very far down that road and heading for the cliff.

America is doomed.

Let’s be clear — unemployment is roughly 25-45% in the U.S. — give or take.  It depends on what you consider an unemployed person to be.  My definition is simple — an unemployed person is any person seeking a job because he cannot make a living wage.   The government will count a college graduate who lost their high tech job once he goes to work at a minimum wage job EMPLOYED — ha, ha — even though this person will lose his home and cannot support his family.

It is amazing — if it wasn’t gravely sad — to hear people complain about not enough jobs.  This is not a problem that is just appearing.   It has been going on a long time and will continue.  America makes it very easy for companies to downsize, move jobs to impoverished countries, and otherwise exploit their employees.  In America this is known as “good business” — immoral, yes — unethical, yes — legal, yes.  If you want to demand an employee work 80 hours per week, you can do that in the U.S.  If the employee doesn’t like it he can quite — no problem — there are plenty of other people willing to do the 80 hours.  Could Congress restrict the number of hours an employee can work to 35-40?  Of course, much of Europe has such laws.  Could Congress demand that all employees get 4-6 weeks of vacation to year.  Sure, much of the world does that.  Yet, never any pro-employee action from Congress.  No — employees — you can unionize to get a little power over the employers.  Well, companies — enjoy your decreased sales because people have no money.  Meanwhile, technology is replacing lots of jobs as well with fewer and fewer people needed to provide the technology.  This has been a trend for a long while and will continue for a long while as well.

I don’t JUST hold Obama or Congress responsible for not creating jobs.  I hold them responsible for letting companies act in ways that eliminate jobs.  I hold Obama and Congress responsible for not passing laws where there are no humane minimums — minimum wages, health care, etc.  The argument always goes — if we give our employees more then we can hire less of them.  The fact is companies are hiring less of them anyway in order to maintain outrageous profits.  There are examples every day of companies making large profits, laying off people.  Verizon just announced a 10,000 person layoff.

Until America wakes up that there will be no America without jobs for its citizen it will continue to go down.  Or there will be a revolution which I believe is inevitable because real change never happens until the citizens rise up and take back their country.

Yesterday, there was a big blah, blah about another terrorist attack.  I could care less. — why? — Because every day America is attacked by the terrorism for corporatism, greed, corruption, and lack of empathy.  Whatever little damage some foreign terrorist can do, is nothing compare to the terrorism present in America every single day.

America is doomed.

Many of my readers do not know that this site is bombarded with spam comments.  These are stupid comments from people who attempt to post comments with links to sale products.  They will frequently say “Great post” or “I will be reading your site regularly.” etc.  But the main reason for their comment is to include and get posted a link for their commerce.  I have a really good spam blocker and few spam comments ever get passed it, but it tracks the spam comments and counts them day by day.

Like email, spammers make it difficult for all of us.  In an attempt to thwart spammers, we can even miss a legitimate email or comment.  Such is the way of capitalists — they always want to succeed no matter how much pain they inflect on other people.

I mention these spam comments to illustrate just how evil capitalism is.  Capitalists will do anything to succeed.  Sure, spamming is a pretty mild form of evil compared with printing false labels or making misleading claims about products.  Or, using pesticides on food and selling it as organic or even selling it at all.   Or, the million other fraudulent things that capitalists do all justified with perhaps the most evil phrase ever — “IT’S JUST BUSINESS”.  Frequently, it isn’t just business — it is about the health and welfare of the consumer.  It is about being dishonest and stealing from another person.  It is the reason that companies will lay off people and hire the cheapest labor in the world — regardless on the living conditions of the person.  It is the reason there is no hope for America because capitalism has taken over and money is the only god in America.

America is doomed.

President Obama’ State of Doomed Speech indicates he is even more clueless and out of touch with America than I could have imagined.  Truly, he has no idea what truly went wrong in his first year and, worse, no idea how to fix things going ahead.

1. The Middle Class is destroyed in America and more and more of the wealth is in the hands of fewer people — likewise the power.
2. The ranks of the poor and the jobless are increasing — job programs that give money to corporations who send jobs overseas and pay below living wage salaries do not help ordinary Americas.
3. Obama does not realize that technology is destroying jobs and these jobs — and many like them to come — are gone forever.  The only saving America is an entirely new economic system.
4. Obama remains a War President.
5. Obama wants to pass the crap Health Care bill and call it a victory — what a tool he is.
6. Obama will continue to go along with Wall Street and the bankers while acting like he wants something to change.  Mr. Bullshit, for sure.
7. Future elections have been taken over by corporations — thanks to the idiots on the Supreme Court — both foreign and domestic corporations.  If elections are about money, there will be no more elections in America.  There is no need to invade America with troops — just give the money to politicians with the appropriate strings attached.
8. Obama still clueless about climate change and the environment — pesticides, unsafe food production, water safety, air quality, etc.
9. No mention of the concentrated power in every major industry among just a few cooperating corporations.  There are only 3-5 companies that control food, media, energy, banking, pharmaceuticals, etc.

We did get the usual rhetoric from the guy from Illinois.

America is doomed and

No more capitalism.

Never watch ads.

Use ad blockers.

Get out of big banks.

Consume as little as possible.

Get the best deals.

Tell every capitalist he is a greedy whore.

Never vote for a capitalist.

Consume and aquire things for free.

Never compromise.

America is doomed.

Reuters is out with information documenting that Geithner was up to his elbows in cover-up and scandal related to AIG.  He used National Security to cover up  emails which are now surfacing.  It was a backdoor bailout of 16 large financial institutions.   It amazing me the corruption and greed that is America and how people continue to perputrate extreme behavior and nearly always get away with it.  Sure, they send Martha to prison for virtually nothing compared to what real crooks pull on Wall Street every single day — if she only had a penis she would probably have gotten off.

Also today the White House continues to defend Bernanke for a new Federal Reserve term.  Honestly, the White House has lost their fucking minds.

The people in charge of America’s financial system ARE ALL CROOKS — Bernanke, Geithner, Summers, Obama, virtually every large financial institution, Wall Street, etc.  Once upon a time in America people went to jail for crap like this — now they just get another term and a bonus.  Some days when all of this is documented, historians will refer to this period as the dark day for America.  Of course, America won’t exist at that point.

America is doomed.