It’s rare that I invoke the name of the Holy High Radio Host, Glenn Beck. But ironic times call for ironic measures, and this is such a time. I’m astounded that I’m first one to think of this, maybe even the only one. It’s hard to believe that Glenn Beck didn’t see this before I did, but I’ll give him a pass, since he’s been so busy, lately. In fact, I’ll pick up the mantel of paranoia and fear for him, if just for a while. I’m serious, dead serious.

It all begins with the color red. I can’t believe I didn’t see it before, but maybe that’s because I relied on Beck too much. Maybe all that fear-mongering band wagoneering softened my senses, clouded my judgment, and blinded me to the truth. Still, am I the only one who has seen this?

We just received the worst economic news of the year, all the Mainstream media can talk about is a mosque and Dr. Laura?

No wonder Americans hate the mainstream media. They are as fickle as cats. Let’s just call them the CatMedia from now on. Ω

The thirty year old Conservative plan for the economy is known by many names; Supply Side, Reaganomics, but my favorite name for it is Trickle-Down economics. In case you don’t follow economic theories, Trickle-Down is the practice of giving advantage to the supply side of our economics system, the corporations, wealthy, and small businesses who create jobs, through tax breaks and incentives. The idea is that wealthy people flush with cash save that cash, and those savings are invested, through some means, back into the economy, which then through various ways, trickles down even to the poorest of Americans, either through innovations and efficiencies that make consumer goods less expensive to own, or through job creation due to increased demand.

Historically, this has been accomplished through tax breaks, especially for corporate America. In fact, about the only solution available to Supply-Siders is reducing taxes.

Thankfully, that’s as complicated as Republicans have made it, which makes my job much simpler. The idea of cutting taxes for corporate America and small businesses is that they will then use that money to create jobs in their own businesses. Only we’ve been using Bush’ Trickle-Down tax cuts for nine years, and we’re bleeding jobs. The best that can be said about Bush’ job creation record was that it was a positive record during his two terms. He averaged 49,000 jobs created per month. Economists say we need at least 150,000 to keep up with population growth. So Bush only fell about 101,000 jobs short per month with his Trickle-Down plan.

So much for tax cuts creating jobs.

The geniuses in the White House and the so-called economists are calling it “Structural Unemployment”. That’s their moniker for the record number of people (6.55 Million ) who have been unemployed for twenty-seven weeks or longer as of July, 2010,according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics. And that number doesn’t even include the number of people (8.5 Million) who have been forced to work part-time because their hours were cut or they can’t find full-time employment.

I succumbed to Twitter, but already I’m thinking about un-succumbing. I wanted to see what all the fuss is about and now I see that it is about nothing. My first follower wanted to show me her naked pictures, but not on her Twitter site…

I ask you.

Do I really need this?

In other news, They’re just predicting this now? A double dip recession? Oh noes! Whoever could have predicted that?

Listen, when your top “economists” are making apologies to the 40% of the unemployed who will remain unemployed because their skills are “unwanted” in America, continual recession into depression is what you end up with. But the Mainstream Media is going to act like this is new…BREAKING NEWS! ECONOMY ISN’T RECOVERING! I’ve been warning you for a year now. This is just the tip of the iceberg. But when it’s done, hopefully we’ll have learned our lesson about Free Trade and Trickle Down.

I’ll be following that thought up with a new post about the new permanently “unemployables” soon. Ω

Points of Concern about Jeffrey Goldberg’s “Point of No Return”

I sent the following email to Charlie Sykes, Talk Radio Host at WTMJ in Milwaukee, WI. I’d explain the reason for it, but I think the email does a pretty good job of filling you in. Anyway, here it is. Let’s see what his response will be, if any.

It’s called Free Trade, it ends up in the outsourcing of American jobs to places where seventy-five cents an hour is the wage. In Conservative speak, it’s called keeping American companies globally competitive. From The Heritage Foundation:

In an increasingly global marketplace, U.S. businesses compete against companies from around the world in U.S. and foreign markets. They compete through quality, service, and price–all of which depend on the companies’ ability to operate as efficiently as possible. Rather than exporting their products from the United States, American businesses often choose to operate in foreign countries to gain local market exposure and tap into local market expertise and existing sales channels. In other instances, companies pursue cost efficiencies. Sometimes this can best be accomplished from the United States; often it requires major investments abroad that also synergistically make U.S. operations more competitive.

U.S. businesses operate internationally to maximize their competitiveness against rival firms. And in so doing, they make their U.S. operations and workers more competitive, thus supporting domestic jobs and wages, while building profitability for their shareholders. For every worker employed by a U.S. subsidiary in a foreign country, 2.3 Americans are employed in the U.S

That last sentence is scary, isn’t it? For those companies that used to hire only American workers, one-third of their labor force is now in Foreign Countries. And we wonder why we have a jobs shortage? Here is a supposedly “smart”, educated, elite think-tank-like Foundation complaining over taxes when the real issues of the economy are staring it right in the face. The ignorance of the job losses is so blatant that it’s hard to believe it’s not willful. They go on to say:

Several commenters here and at Firedoglake have stated that a Repeal of the 14th Amendment isn’t necessary, only a change to that amendment is needed, in response to my previous post, If 14th Amendment Is Repealed, What Makes Any Of Us Citizens. I answered that statement a bit in my comments section on my blog, but it’s an important enough issue to write a new post about it.

So you want to change the 14th Amendment, do you? You want to insert language in it which states that children of any “illegal” immigrant are not automatically afforded citizenship and the rights that come with that? I heard that argument before I wrote the first post, and I’ve also heard that some of you want it to be retroactive. Of course, because after all, here in America, there is no Statute of Limitations on burying the evidence of our ignorance. I’m not calling my commenters ignorant; I hope they understand this. I respect them. Allow me to explain.

When considering the recent uproar over the Fourteenth Amendment of our U.S. Constitution, this is the section that is under fire by many Republicans:

Section. 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Okay, here is where I ask the obvious question. If being born here doesn’t make you a citizen, what does?