Graphical Track on Unemployment Data

Click on this: The Geography of a Recession

The thing is we're not really in a recession per se. The more billionaires we have, the smaller the middle class becomes. The middle class puts a higher percentage of their income back into the economy. So, the bigger the middle class, the more the economy grows. Last year, the number of millionaires in America increase by 16% and the number of billionaires increased by 30%. This is what is causing unemployment.

What financial crisis? Number of billionaires hits new high

Worth a read:

"for the planet's super-rich, things are looking very perky once again."

Times UK

Nancy Elliot Anal Republican Creampie caught on Tape!

Now for something completely different. Let's try to start a meme:

Nancy Elliot Anal Republican Creampie caught on Tape!

Link to video!

RE: GEORGE “W” BUSH: THE LEGACY OF AN AMERICAN “CALIGULA”

Well worth a read:

We turned a two week war into a 6 year civil war, decades of civil unrest and the utter destruction of a nation. Was it all an accident? Will anyone be checking the “net worth” of Tony Blair, before the war and after? How can America be jobless, broke yet filled with new billionaires?

Dear Citizen

Due to the current financial situation caused by the slowdown in the economy, Congress has decided to implement a scheme to put workers of 50 years of age and above on early retirement.

This scheme will be known as RAPE (Retire Aged People Early).

Persons selected to be RAPED can apply to Congress to be considered for the SHAFT program (Special Help After Forced Termination).

Persons who have been RAPED and SHAFTED will be reviewed under the SCREW program (Scheme Covering Retired-Early Workers).

A person may be RAPED once, SHAFTED twice and SCREWED as many times as Congress deems appropriate.

Persons who have been RAPED could get AIDS (Additional Income for Dependants & Spouse) or HERPES (Half Earnings for Retired Personnel Early Severance).

Obviously persons who have AIDS or HERPES will not be SHAFTED or SCREWED any further by Congress.

Persons who are not RAPED and are staying on will receive as much SHIT (Special High Intensity Training) as possible. Congress has always prided themselves on the amount of SHIT they give our citizens.

Should you feel that you do not receive enough SHIT, please bring this to the attention of your Congressman, who has been trained to give you all the SHIT you can handle.

Sincerely,
The Committee for Economic Value of Individual Lives (E.V.I.L.)

PS - - Due to recent budget cuts and the rising cost of electricity, gas and oil, as well as current market conditions, the Light at the End of the Tunnel has been turned off.

Some levels of wealth are just obscene

I'm not for some draconian socialism, but no one should make a thousand times minimum wage. People do not generate wealth. They just get a bigger piece of the limited resource that is planet Earth. That is why it is especially disturbing that the kind of freewheeling payouts that preceded the current scam are occurring again.

We cannot tolerate intolerance, but how do we avoid the trap of Liberalism?

It seems in some way the discourse has caught up with this blog. Major media outlets are speaking about these issues. Is two years too late? Don't know yet.

What I do know is we need some serious change.

More and more people are voicing that the dominant paradigm is broken. The two party system is one party with two heads. You are hearing talking heads on CNN saying the things we've been writing about for years.

We cannot tolerate intolerance, but how do we avoid the trap of Liberalism?

I've been standing out in Left field for a long time. Watching the game. The infield dominated by the Dems and Repubs. Watching them throw the ball back and forth. The Dems just are trying to keep the game alive while the Repubs just want to keep the ball.

Me?

Sitting here with the Outfield - Cynthia McKinney, Ralph Nader, Noam Chomsky, and Lenora Fulani among others. Lenora got my vote for my first Presidential election. Why? In 1988 it seemed overdue for a black woman to be President. It just seemed right. Others have wandered into the Outfield. I met Kucinich before his own party filleted him.

Mostly we watch the game going on in the infield.

The fans don't really see us in the Outfield. They are busy rooting for their teams in the infield. To do our job we have to cover much, much, much more ground and at a much faster pace when the ball comes in our direction. The frenetic energy at that time is intense and we come off as maniacs doing voodoo.

To succeed in the Outfield, you need to be much, much better than the infield. Quicker on your feet. Better at judging when the ball might come your way and damn sure your not going to drop it and not shy about fumbling it a bit if you can't hold on because most of the time you can't. The fans just want to see you throw it back into the infield. Makes you think "Why the fuck am I all the way out here?" The old timers tell you - 'You can see the whole field. Every part of the game. It is really the only place you are meant to be.'

So that is our dilemma.

Stupid is as stupid does

This is way off topic for my blog, but I had to put it down for posterity.

The rail project on O'ahu is the biggest waste of money in the history of the State of Hawai‘i. $5.5 BILLION for steel on steel rail system.

There is no proof that anyone will ride this system and given the costs, it is pretty sure that no one will pay to ride on this system.

Let's look at a solution that cost less than 10% of the above project which includes free ridership for the first 5 years (to get people used to using it)

1. Buy 1,000 Solar Electric buses @ $120,000 each = $120,000,000
Buses can be more flexible as far as routes go which increases the likelihood of commuters using the service.

2. Build a 300MW Solar Power station to charge the buses = $300,000,000
This way we not only green the island with free public transport, but green the power system

3. New Bus Stations with solar powered cooling fans = $5,000,000
Another enticement to the commuters

4. Free public transportation for 5 years $50,000,000
That is a lot of money, but when you are thinking of spending billions, it becomes quite attractive.

Total cost $475 million

Why is O'ahu digging itself such a deep hole? A $5000 hole for every man woman and child on the island.

Banks are gutting the country for record profits

Every still thinking American should watch



If you're wondering where your money has gone?

Goldman Sachs set aside about $16.7 billion for compensation so far this year.

"When CEOs of corporations make 400 times what their workers make- this is not what America is supposed to be."



I can't agree with you more fully.

Remembering 9/11

I don't think revenge is ever a good plan and 3,000 people dying in an act of terrorism, though truly horrible, is dwarfed by the casualties of the wars in Africa and those that sprung from that one attack.

Never forget where the hijackers were from:

Mohamed Atta al Sayed (Egyptian)
Waleed al-Shehri (Saudi Arabian)
Wail al-Shehri (Saudi Arabian)
Abdulaziz al-Omari (Saudi Arabian)
Satam al-Suqami (Saudi Arabian)
Marwan al-Shehhi (from the United Arab Emirates),
Fayez Banihammad (from the United Arab Emirates)
Mohand al-Shehri (Saudi Arabian)
Hamza al-Ghamdi (Saudi Arabian)
Ahmed al-Ghamdi (Saudi Arabian)
Hani Hanjour (Saudi Arabian)
Khalid al-Mihdhar (Saudi Arabian)
Majed Moqed (Saudi Arabian)
Nawaf al-Hazmi (Saudi Arabian)
Salem al-Hazmi (Saudi Arabian)
Ziad Jarrah (Lebanese)
Ahmed al-Haznawi (Saudi Arabian)
Ahmed al-Nami (Saudi Arabian)
Saeed al-Ghamdi (Saudi Arabian).

Not a single Afghani among them. Not a single Iraqi. 'Nuf said.