Mish Shedlock provides this antidote to Monday's NBER declaration that the recession ended in June, 2009.John Williams' Shadow Government Statistics provides the real unemployment stats, for additional corroboration.
Don't fall for the hype.
Observe and think for yourself.
Lee County, southwest Florida, WVZN TV: "It was easy to see just how tough the economy is as our cameras caught people at a local McDonald's looking for jobs. Hundreds of people applied Tuesday, and just two-dozen jobs are available. ...
ReplyDelete"You are seeing applicants that you may not have seen before - people that were used to being in the real estate industry or construction industry or things of that nature," Tim Frederic, with McDonald's.
Obama's aunt Zeituni has been living here illegally for a long time. This video will irk you mightily.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBzjLnO-e3o
The Big Zero is asked specifically whether she should be deported. "If she breaks a law," he says. Meaning ANOTHER one.
Yeah I got a laugh off that annoucement too.
ReplyDeleteThe jobs ain't coming back and given how wage jobs are effectively slavery perhaps the silver lining lies in self-employment in an free(underground)economy, under the beast's radar.
Just have to find a way to get enough people to agree on a monetary standard and we could issue our own currency, trade it amongst ourselves and we'd be free of the enemy's hyperinflation/depression economic weapon.
To prevent seizure of our homes and to shield all the above activities from law enforcement it will be mandatory to-yes-gain actual ground. Start now with recall elections in a community you and yours can mass your efforts and actually be effective. The GI's of Athens TN in 1946 showed us how!
"By an eight-to-one margin, small business owners say that Washington’s policies and regulations these days are more likely to hurt than help. This view is consistent across-the-board. Democrats, independents, women and minority small business owners all agree with this assessment of Congress.
ReplyDeleteSimilarly, when asked whether government is doing too many things better left to businesses and individuals, or whether government should do more to help solve problems, by two-to-one, business said government is trying to do too many things better left to the private sector rather than too few things.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0910/42597.html#ixzz10MNLBpwg