Our pResident, our Dear Reader, has assured us that the economy is turning around. This despite the fact that the unemployment rate has been stuck at 9.7% for three straight months, while the total number of unemployed, underemployed and discouraged job seekers has remained near 17% for more than a year.
With all the other issues added to the mix, the unrestrained spend and tax administration, the continued problems with mortgage defaults, the pending commercial real estate crisis and the further intrusion of government into private enterprise, I remain skeptical of an economic recovery anytime soon. Especially a ‘jobless recovery.’
The lapdog media hails any word from Dear Reader as words supernal, and whatever he says must be repeated and spread across the land with exaltation.
Keeping that in mind, I will stand tall and scan the horizon in search of the ‘jobless recovery.’
Or I can stand down and adopt a more rational approach.
Now you can understand why we’re in a jobless recovery: Some of the politicians we’ve elected have no idea that creating and maintaining an environment in which entrepreneurs will thrive is what they’re supposed to do. Others we’ve elected have a vague notion that this is what they’re supposed to do, but no idea how to do it. And too many of the politicians we’ve elected actually want those entrepreneurs to fail so public support will grow for replacing our free-market economy with a command economy — one in which the government really calls the shots.
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Haven’t stopped by this site in a long, long time (been busy). Thanks for the laugh you gave me by posting the video of the standing cat. My gray tabby cat, Pepper, used to stand as well, though not of her own accord (my husband bribed her with a milk-soaked spoon). And, she never stood for quite that long of a duration. I’d completely forgotten that she used to do this. I’m totally stealing this video to share on my Facebook wall to pass on the smiles to my cat-loving friends.
Hope you had a great ride in the MS fund-raising event. Thank you for participating in such a wonderful cause. I have a cousin with MS and my dream specialty is neurology.
Howdy Tracy.
It was I who posted this, and that was me in the video, scanning the horizon for that jobless recovery.
Oops! Sorry about that N2L. I owe you the thanks for the video and the laugh then. (But my thanks to Robbie for the MS ride still stands, of course.)
Hopefully you won’t be standing there for an eternity, straining in search of that job recovery somewhere over the horizon . . .
That’s okay.
Nah, I gave up looking, in the end.