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What does the unemployment rate really mean? How is it that after careful re-calculations that there were about 900,000 more jobs lost last year, yet that
doesn’t seem to be calculated into the jobless report? They say those numbers probably will have to be re-tallied again for recent months. And then we hear about another 20,000 jobs lost last month, which may or may not be an accurate number. It does look like the economy is improving ever so slightly, but at the same time how do you continue to lose jobs, find out there were close to another million jobs lost you didn’t calculate last year and then suddenly the unemployment rate goes down 3 percentage points? It just sounds like one big Obama bullshit ploy. Hey I voted for the guy, but at this point I’m just assuming these politicians are full of shit. And he hasn’t done a damn thing but waste more money for no reason at all. Great the banks got big bonuses yet haven’t done a damn thing for anybody. It seems all the data they are pushing seems to be wrong. Blatantly and corruptly wrong.

Do any of these new numbers count for anything? You lose an additional 900,000 jobs last year and the unemployment rate goes unchanged from those months? How is it that in a 9 month time frame, you lose an additional 100,000 jobs per month on average and none of this changes the data? So instead of say 10.3 percent, maybe it should have been 11.3 percent unemployment rate. Which brings us to the current month and no new jobs gained and yet the unemployment rate goes down.

Maybe there should be a massive cut in politicians. Companies have been cutting for the past few years. Well the Governments are broke, we don’t need most of these people who do nothing but lobby for more money. At least then they’d actually show they understood the American working class citizens. Slash say 25 percent of the politicians in the US. 99 percent of them are useless wastes of space anyway. Look at California. San Diego still gives out bonuses yet we’re broke. If you slash 25 percent of the Politician’s from Federal, State, and Local you’d cut a lot of wasted spending. Do we really need most of these con artists? No. We’d save a hell of a lot of money though.

It seems our president (Mr. Obama) wants to spend another trillion dollars( Yes $$$$1 TRILLION) on saving the US Medical/Health industry. Or more like he wants to provide some kind of medical coverage/insurance for those who might be uninsured or under insured. I haven’t dug deep into his overall plan but I’ve heard some reports and read some data to know $$$$ 1 TRILLION bucks is a hell of a lot just to cover those who don’t have medical coverage now. I’m not too happy about his last billion dollar bailouts where it seems the people who screwed everybody over are the ones benefiting.

Please Explain to me how Citigroup is going to pay back the ‘taxpayers’ when they were removed from the stock market? I doubt they are going to hand me and everybody else a few bucks. And what about the extra refund check we got in 2008? Yeah the same check that I had to pay back in taxes this year on. Oh thanks for the helping hand Mr. Bush last year and Mr. Obama this year. But now I’m getting off topic, which I seem to do often. It’s that ADHD or ADD or whatever.

If every single person in the US would be covered under some universal health plan, I’d consider it. If it meant higher taxes but excellent medical coverage where I either don’t pay for crap or have to pay some small co-pay like 50 bucks, I’d consider it. But this plan seems to only favor those without insurance. Hey I’m all for helping less fortunate people than I but when taxes and other living expenses are rising but salaries and income seem to be increasing only by about 3-4 percent, if you’re lucky, something doesn’t add up. Those kind of raises won’t even keep up with inflation, yet alone tax increases. And as far as inflation….it seems we might be heading for some scary numbers if oil keeps going up and we keep printing meaningless money to bail everybody out but the taxpayers who need to foot the bill for generations to come. Capitalist society my behind. Obama seems intent on building some kind of socialist/communist country.

Government owned auto manufacturers, government owned banks, government owned this and that really seems like we’re heading that route. So who really won the cold war? Moscow right now has more billionaires than NYC. How can that even be close to the truth, but it seems to be the news. Where are we heading? You can’t just keep bailing everybody out and not provide jobs for people in the US. Oh I forgot about the Green and Environmental jobs Obama proposes. From all the reports and stats it seems like a hell of a lot of $10-12 an hour jobs. Great if you can get it but if our taxes rise because of trillions and trillions of dollars in bailouts, food and gas keep going up, etc probably means those kind of jobs aren’t exactly jobs that will help people survive. Not in the long run. Or maybe it is true what a few people who were mostly shunned over the years said. The big corporations and executives and the elitist wealthy want the US to compete with the rest of the world. And that’s a world where over half the population in some countries live on less than a dollar per day. We’ve already heard Microsoft make claims that they might have to offshore and outsource more jobs if new tax regulations go into effect. We can’t compete with that reality. If a company wants to go cheap, how the hell can anybody in the US compete with somebody in a country where over half their population live off of $1 a day? We can’t.

Or maybe I’m wrong and this is all for the better good. But at this point Obama doesn’t look any different than Bush except half the lemmings worship Obama like he’s Elvis or the Beatles or some celebrity. Hell, I bet half these people look at him as some ‘savior’, some kind of Jesus or Moses or Mohammad or Confucius or the Dali Lama. People are lemmings, plain and simple. They search for somebody to answer their prayers because half the time they are too lazy, too immature, or too desperate to fight for hope themselves. Or maybe most people just are followers. They hope somebody else can save their day. Or maybe people are hopeless and need somebody else who will save them. The reality is if you can’t save yourself nobody else will be able to save you. But nobody ever wants to hear that. They just want to assume some magic pie in the sky or some ‘savior’ politician, celebrity, religious fanatic, or whatever will be the answer to all their prayers. Sorry but it doesn’t work like that. Even if Obama or somebody else came along and had all the answers to your prayers, do you really think they’d help you if you’re just somebody who comes off as a desperate leech? Everybody needs a helping hand now and again. Some more so than others. But if you don’t want to work for anything and expect everything to be handed to you by some magic formula, don’t be disappointed and blame your presumed savior when it doesn’t turn out like you hoped.

And this Trillion dollar Medical insurance bailout will just be another taxpayer nightmare that seems to favor those who shouldn’t get any favors at this point. These bailouts have done what for who? Given money to those who scammed everybody. Given money to an industry that is more full of crap than based on facts. Now we want to give money to an industry(insurance) that is based on (as Chris Rock once said) ‘In case shit happens.’ The insurance industry is another big scam. And the government run Medical Insurance industry would be what exactly? Another industry run by the government. No I guess that’s not how the Communists did things. Government controlling everything.