Despite at least $3 trillion in government spending aimed at stimulating the economy, a multitude of economic indicators now show that the economy is poised to slip into a double dip recession. In order to stave off another dip into further recession Congress and the Obama Administration need to direct federal funds to small businesses.

The Small Business Administration released its Procurement Scorecard late Friday afternoon, showing that once again, the government did not achieve its mandated 23 percent small business procurement goal. Several weeks ago, I made several predictions about this, lets see how accurate I was.

Perhaps you’ll understand my personal frustration and anger with the Obama administration – it’s not just about the failure to stop the gusher and clean up the Gulf. Given the number of institutions in the U.S. with the capability to teach aquaculture, given proximity and access to the ocean, given the wealth of knowledge of these fishers and shrimpers, why is our government not hustling to develop an aquaculture program to replace these jobs?

In January, the press trumpeted the news that the Obama administration and the Democrats in Congress were finally going to deal with the raging epidemic of joblessness that is crippling our economy. They’re falling far short of their professed goals because job creation is just not a very high priority in DC these days.

The state of the union is tomorrow, and I have a list of ideal messages that I’d like to hear him say.

Climate change legislation should not be put off. We need new jobs and solutions now.

TRNN Senior Editor Paul Jay and University of Massachusetts-Amherst Professor Jame Crotty get to the the heart of the recent financial collapse by examining not just the data points of executive compensation, but far more importantly, the mythology that makes us believe that the prophets of everlasting profit are our proper masters of the universe.

The power of myth is to shape the cosmos in which we believe ourselves to be enacting this absurd theater of life. What myths have we, and how are they shaping our world even before we act in it? Is the cosmos (and ourselves along with it) just a god-forsaken mechanism, the behavior of which ever and always is determined by outside forces? Or is their more to being human than can be explained in APA-style?

As John Pilger wrote recently in New Statesman, “The new “ism” was Americanism, an ideology whose distinction is its denial that it is an ideology.” That is, America has a state religion: faith in force as measured in dollars. In this new video from The Real News Network, Senior Editor Paul Jay and professor of economics Robert Pollin bust the myth of the dollar-powered military machine as the best of all possible economic engines.

On Friday, we learned that the U.S. unemployment rate officially broke 10% for the first time since the early Reagan years.