cannibalization continues
2011-Nov-06, Sunday 08:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mellowtiggerThieves stole a church bell, funeral plaques and vases, copper wiring from a police radio tower, copper wiring at baseball parks, and even an entire bridge during the last month in America. I keep warning my readers that infrastructure cannibalization precedes economic collapse. Do you see the same trends that I do?
When you look at the right indicators, you never make the mistake of thinking that we exited the Great Recession. Two weeks ago, a local thrift store held a one-day sale. I went and bought some more clothes for myself, and the aisles were PACKED with shoppers. The recession is still here, and it's getting worse. Consider the 9-year-old boy who murders for hire. It's already that bad for some people.
It doesn't help that some people are determined to make it worse. We already had companies manipulating the market of securities trading, which is blamed as the main cause of the 2008 economic woes. We also have companies manipulating the market of substantive goods like aluminum by artificially creating shortages simply by warehousing the product away from buyers. While corporate misbehavior continues, Republicans keep insisting that deregulation is needed. Bruce Bartlett (who served in the administrations of Reagan and Bush) writes a denial of this agenda.
It seems that other people are reaching the same conclusion. Even 24% of Republicans questioned in Florida agree that the GOP is intent upon destroying the economy just to make Obama look bad.
We are one year away from the next election. Please don't vote Republocrat! Vote for a 3rd-party candidate that you can support. Write in your own name for every position which offers only Republocrat options. Just don't participate in the mental trickery that drives people to support the same old government that we've had.
It's a national emergency. It's time for change.
When you look at the right indicators, you never make the mistake of thinking that we exited the Great Recession. Two weeks ago, a local thrift store held a one-day sale. I went and bought some more clothes for myself, and the aisles were PACKED with shoppers. The recession is still here, and it's getting worse. Consider the 9-year-old boy who murders for hire. It's already that bad for some people.
It doesn't help that some people are determined to make it worse. We already had companies manipulating the market of securities trading, which is blamed as the main cause of the 2008 economic woes. We also have companies manipulating the market of substantive goods like aluminum by artificially creating shortages simply by warehousing the product away from buyers. While corporate misbehavior continues, Republicans keep insisting that deregulation is needed. Bruce Bartlett (who served in the administrations of Reagan and Bush) writes a denial of this agenda.
Republicans favor tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations, but these had no stimulative effect during the George W. Bush administration and there is no reason to believe that more of them will have any today. And the Republicans’ oft-stated concern for the deficit makes tax cuts a hard sell.
These constraints have led Republicans to embrace the idea that government regulation is the principal factor holding back employment. They assert that Barack Obama has unleashed a tidal wave of new regulations, which has created uncertainty among businesses and prevents them from investing and hiring.
No hard evidence is offered for this claim; it is simply asserted as self-evident and repeated endlessly throughout the conservative echo chamber.
- http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/04/regulation-and-unemployment/
These constraints have led Republicans to embrace the idea that government regulation is the principal factor holding back employment. They assert that Barack Obama has unleashed a tidal wave of new regulations, which has created uncertainty among businesses and prevents them from investing and hiring.No hard evidence is offered for this claim; it is simply asserted as self-evident and repeated endlessly throughout the conservative echo chamber.
- http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/04/regulation-and-unemployment/
It seems that other people are reaching the same conclusion. Even 24% of Republicans questioned in Florida agree that the GOP is intent upon destroying the economy just to make Obama look bad.
We are one year away from the next election. Please don't vote Republocrat! Vote for a 3rd-party candidate that you can support. Write in your own name for every position which offers only Republocrat options. Just don't participate in the mental trickery that drives people to support the same old government that we've had.
It's a national emergency. It's time for change.