650,000 Strawdogs Bark at the Moon. The Obama ‘Recovery’ is a Numerical Monkey Circus

Abstract: Most of the people who work for our government must be imbeciles. Some of the imbeciles are now known as such and publicly identified  from their own words transcribed here for proof. They reach into the future to make calculations and sift through mountains of anecdotes and error-ridden reports for some numbers that will tell the citizens what they are doing with our money.   One of their chief stooges, using the future as a crutch, reports that the taxpayer cost per “new or saved” job is now $92,000. I am so relieved!

In a two previous blogs, just a day ago, I summarized the woeful mumblings and hokum-chucking follies that posed as ‘predictions’ from those lackeys who stooge for Obama.[1][2] I waited, for nothing—even past 4:00 PM , to view the creepy recovery.gov site to show me something other than a single number being changed and they did just that: one lousy number. This is so pitiful it is no wonder the stock market is crashing again. Touted as a success, as any leftist program always is, Joe Biden [Plugs[3] the Buffoon[4]] boasted to us of all the good jobs being created and we wonder how he knows. Well, some people are calculating a few costs:

Here is the ABC calculations:

“Posting its results late this afternoon at Recovery.gov, the White House claimed 640,329 jobs have been created or saved because of the $159 billion in stimulus funds allocated as of Sept. 30.” [Emphasis is mine in all quotes.]

“Brian Schmidt, director of planning and programming for the commission said that his staff originally reported to the Obama administration that the stimulus money saved 250 jobs. Then, realizing they had mistakenly double credited, they later changed that to 125 jobs. Tuesday, they updated it again to 74 jobs.

Ed DeSeve, senior advisor to the president for Recovery Act implementation, said he'd been "scrubbing" the job estimates so much since they came it at the beginning of the month that he now has "dishpan hands and my fingers are worn to the nub."[5]-- $160,000 Per Stimulus Job? White House Calls That 'Calculator Abuse' October 30, 2009 7:12 PM  

My calculator seems to show this folly: 640,329 jobs at a cost of $159 billion in stimulus funds works out to $248,309.85 per job. I did fail to add on the 30 years of interest on this money nor did I add in the costs from inflationary pressures that will debase our currency[6]. So, that won’t be so bad if our dollar becomes worth a nickel or so. We can save all the interest! As Paul Krugman sings” “Yes, we have a long-run budget problem, and we need to start laying the groundwork for a long-run solution. But when it comes to inflation, the only thing we have to fear is inflation fear itself.”[7] [Emphasis is mine in all quotes]

Using a Biden-style system of convoluted and monkey putz logic we read that this is what they are doing:

“White House officials heralded the unparalleled transparency in reporting job numbers to the public, but acknowledged there is no consistent standard across states or localities, or among federal agencies giving out stimulus funds, in differentiating between a “saved” job and a “created” job.”-- $160,000 Per Stimulus Job?

Some leftist number monkey popped up and unscrolled for us, probably from a dark place, a better number using this logic:

“Jared Bernstein, chief economist and senior economic advisor to the vice president, called that "calculator abuse."

He said the cost per job was actually $92,000 -- but acknowledged that estimate is for the whole stimulus package as of the end of 2010.”-- $160,000 Per Stimulus Job?

How can you say ‘is” for the current ‘was’ and note that “was’ appears to be in the future tense? We don’t know how many real jobs will be created so how can we make this calculation? Does this depend, critically or mathematically, on the definition of what “was” is? So, this is a forecast assembled with rubber numbers and nobody told Biden? What political tense is this written in: “…White House claimed 640,329 jobs have been created or saved…” Do some of these people even have a G.E.D.?

We are going to get back to some kind of ‘recovery’ using borrowed or printed monies and spend $92,000 dollars per new job? Are we insane?

Our government is populated by imbeciles, throbbing stupids, zombies and racist parasites and other assorted cognitively disnimble beings that honk and wheeze at numbers like a monkey in a candy store while they try to fulfill their phony political predictions and the outrageous promises of our elected officials with phony numbers and absurd calculations not to mention  injecting time travel into the calculations. They swim in slime.

All lies? Looks like that. Where is the meat??

I told you so. rycK a 5^th generation 49er in exile.

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Background on the last two posts:

Stimulus Act of Jan 2009

“An Act: Making supplemental appropriations for job preservation and creation, infrastructure investment, energy efficiency and science, assistance to the unemployed, and State and local fiscal stabilization, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2009, and for other purposes.”[8] [Emphasis is mine in all quotes.]

The Christine Romer Prophecy:

“…, even with the large prototypical package, the unemployment rate in 2010Q4 is predicted to be approximately 7.0%, which is well below the approximately 8.8% that would result in the absence of a plan.”

 Crystal Ball Follies

"None of us had a crystal ball back in December and January. I think almost every private forecaster realized that there were other things going on in the economy. It was worse than we anticipated. " [9]

Biden[10] also acknowledged the discrepancies in a July 5 interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos.

"The truth is, we and everyone else misread the economy," Biden said. "The figures we worked off of in January were the consensus figures in most of the blue chip indexes out there. ... And so the truth is, there was a misreading of just how bad an economy we inherited. Now, that doesn't — I'm not laying — it's now our responsibility. So the second question becomes, did the economic package we put in place, including the Recovery Act, is it the right package given the circumstances we're in? And we believe it is the right package given the circumstances we're in."

Romer sandbags the Biden follies:

“Most analysts predict that the fiscal stimulus will have its greatest impact on growth in the second and third quarters of 2009,” Romer said. “By mid-2010, fiscal stimulus will likely be contributing little to growth.”[11]— Christine Romer Oct. 22

A few hours ago:

“WASHINGTON — About 650,000 jobs have been saved or created under President Barack Obama's economic stimulus plan, the White House said Friday, saying it is on track to reach the president's goal of 3.5 million jobs by the end of next year”[12]-- Gov't says stimulus saved or created 650,000 jobs By Matt Apuzzo And Brett J. Blackledge

Now, we learn all about how the administration calculates these 650,000.  We must put forth a few caveats on our beliefs and acceptance of the new ‘proofs’ that are bestowed upon us by Obama and his number doodlers. But, they have an ‘independent’ group to filter out the hooey or so they say:

“The Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board is the independent group which oversees the tracking of all of the data in regard to spending from The American Recover and Reinvestment Act, aka the stimulus package. Their mission statement according to Recovery.gov is “To promote accountability by coordinating and conducting oversight of Recovery funds to prevent fraud, waste, and abuse and to foster transparency on Recovery spending by providing the public with accurate, user-friendly information.”[13]-- White House releases data on stimulus jobs; 1 million jobs created or saved

Here is their pitch:

“JOBS CREATED/SAVED AS REPORTED BY RECIPIENTS

640,329 10/30/2009”[14]

Then crap like this:

Where is the count?

Look at this:

“Here is what you should know:

Governors, mayors, county executives, private businesses and community organizations across the country submit reports to Recovery.gov so that you can get an unprecedented look at how your taxpayer dollars are being spent creating jobs and boosting the economy through the Recovery Act. These reports are not from the federal government – but from the very people putting Recovery funds to work.”

 “The government has overstated by thousands the number of jobs it has created or saved with federal contracts under the president’s $787 billion recovery program, according to an Associated Press review of data released in the program’s first progress report.”[15]-- http://thegovmonitor.com/world_news/united_states/white-house-reports-ap-misleads-on-recovery-act-job-reporting-13025.html

All lies? Looks like that. Where is the meat??

RycK

650,000 Strawdogs Bark at the Moon. The Obama ‘Recovery’ is an Hallucination

 In a previous blog, just a few hours ago, I summarized the woeful mumblings and hokum that posed as ‘predictions’ from those lackeys who stooge for Obama.[1]

Stimulus Act of Jan 2009

“An Act: Making supplemental appropriations for job preservation and creation, infrastructure investment, energy efficiency and science, assistance to the unemployed, and State and local fiscal stabilization, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2009, and for other purposes.”[2] [Emphasis is mine in all quotes.]

The Christine Romer Prophecy:

“…, even with the large prototypical package, the unemployment rate in 2010Q4 is predicted to be approximately 7.0%, which is well below the approximately 8.8% that would result in the absence of a plan.”

 Crystal Ball Follies

"None of us had a crystal ball back in December and January. I think almost every private forecaster realized that there were other things going on in the economy. It was worse than we anticipated. " [3]

Biden[4] also acknowledged the discrepancies in a July 5 interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos.

"The truth is, we and everyone else misread the economy," Biden said. "The figures we worked off of in January were the consensus figures in most of the blue chip indexes out there. ... And so the truth is, there was a misreading of just how bad an economy we inherited. Now, that doesn't — I'm not laying — it's now our responsibility. So the second question becomes, did the economic package we put in place, including the Recovery Act, is it the right package given the circumstances we're in? And we believe it is the right package given the circumstances we're in."

Romer sandbags the Biden follies:

“Most analysts predict that the fiscal stimulus will have its greatest impact on growth in the second and third quarters of 2009,” Romer said. “By mid-2010, fiscal stimulus will likely be contributing little to growth.”[5]— Christine Romer Oct. 22

A few hours ago:

“WASHINGTON — About 650,000 jobs have been saved or created under President Barack Obama's economic stimulus plan, the White House said Friday, saying it is on track to reach the president's goal of 3.5 million jobs by the end of next year”[6]-- Gov't says stimulus saved or created 650,000 jobs By Matt Apuzzo And Brett J. Blackledge

Now, we learn all about how the administration calculates these 650,000.  We must put forth a few caveats on our beliefs and acceptance of the new ‘proofs’ that are bestowed upon us by Obama and his number doodlers. But, they have an ‘independent’ group to filter out the hooey or so they say:

“The Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board is the independent group which oversees the tracking of all of the data in regard to spending from The American Recover and Reinvestment Act, aka the stimulus package. Their mission statement according to Recovery.gov is “To promote accountability by coordinating and conducting oversight of Recovery funds to prevent fraud, waste, and abuse and to foster transparency on Recovery spending by providing the public with accurate, user-friendly information.”[7]-- White House releases data on stimulus jobs; 1 million jobs created or saved

Here is their pitch:

“JOBS CREATED/SAVED AS REPORTED BY RECIPIENTS

640,329 10/30/2009”[8]

Then crap like this:

Where is the count?

Look at this:

“Here is what you should know:

Governors, mayors, county executives, private businesses and community organizations across the country submit reports to Recovery.gov so that you can get an unprecedented look at how your taxpayer dollars are being spent creating jobs and boosting the economy through the Recovery Act. These reports are not from the federal government – but from the very people putting Recovery funds to work.”

 “The government has overstated by thousands the number of jobs it has created or saved with federal contracts under the president’s $787 billion recovery program, according to an Associated Press review of data released in the program’s first progress report.”[9]-- http://thegovmonitor.com/world_news/united_states/white-house-reports-ap-misleads-on-recovery-act-job-reporting-13025.html

All lies? Looks like that. Where is the meat??

Ryc<b>K

Imaginary Numbers in the Starry Skies and the Quest for a Crystal Ball: Our Government Announces Job Creation Success with their Stimulus Program!

Abstract: We have had a 787 billon dollar ‘stimulus’ package in Jan 2009 that had certain goals, one of which, was to reduce unemployment, and the outcome of this effort is  now questionable. The original ‘promise’ was that the unemployment would be 7% by the 4^th quarter of 2010 and that without this stimulus it would be 8.8%. In July of this year Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers Chairperson Christina Romer then told us “…None of us had a crystal ball..” and from Joe Biden: “ … The truth is we and everyone else misread the economy…”  Then Romer told us on October 22 that “…fiscal stimulus will likely be contributing little to growth.” A small spike in the GDP, probably stemming from some phony clunker[1] and house stimuli[2], now prompts the Obama Administration to claim that they were responsible for 650,000 jobs. It is clear that these parasites in Washington have no crystal balls or other forms of cojones and act like drug-whacked losers. They only thing they can do are waffle, abuse the economy and claim the glory for anything that even resembles a positive effect on the economy. The unemployment will hit 10% soon so what will they do? Another stimulus? These communist freak-show buffoons now want to spend another 1 trillion dollars on healthcare? Where is the crystal ball that predicts that outcome? We are being bankrupted by idiots in Washington.

One of the most challenging tasks that confront the citizens of various countries is to force them selves to believe what their governments tell them about any and all matters. Firing squads and gulags have frequently been tenderly employed to facilitate the citizens in their beliefs. We are exposed to ‘promises,’ mostly made just before elections, to sooth and cajole the people to believe and endorse and select their candidates based on these promises. This is all accomplished with song and dance and glittery banners and kazoo honkings in various keys. How many of these promises are kept? Since the economy was the primary concern last election, we were offered a stimulus program with a cost of 787 billion dollars and now we hear that this will not have much effect on growth? What happened to the priming of the pump clichés so popular in past decades?

We were promised that our economy would be fixed and that it would improve and that unemployment, among other metrics, would be held below 8%.  Now, onto the facts:

We can conveniently monitor the promises by collating sound bites and announcements on government websites and from the comments and testimonies from government bureaucrats on television and radio and make lists. There is no way for a promise to escape attention under such documentation standards, but the fulfillment of such promises and the conditions imposed upon such promises corrupt the process and spreads fog and hokum over the results in many cases. Although the promises are sullied by caveats and the existence of new information that was not incorporated into the original forecasts we learn.  Thus, mumbling is still the best way to proffer false promises and guesses to the voters and we investigate that today as the government celebrates the creation or saving of 650,000 jobs.

Ancient History and the Promises: Here is the stimulus act of Jan 2009

“An Act: Making supplemental appropriations for job preservation and creation, infrastructure investment, energy efficiency and science, assistance to the unemployed, and State and local fiscal stabilization, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2009, and for other purposes.”[3] [Emphasis is mine in all quotes.]

This act, costing 787 billion dollars, was supposed to do what? Be for job preservation and creation?

Now, we hear that somebody promised to keep unemployment at 8 % or so and the rate has increased to nearly 10%. Who said this?

Here is what Christine Romer published:

“First, the likely scale of employment loss is extremely large. The U.S. economy has already lost

nearly 2.6 million jobs since the business cycle peak in December 2007. In the absence of stimulus, the economy could lose another 3 to 4 million more. Thus, we are working to counter a potential total job loss of at least 5 million. As Figure 1 shows, even with the large prototypical package, the unemployment rate in 2010Q4 is predicted to be approximately 7.0%, which is well below the approximately 8.8% that would result in the absence of a plan.”

Okay, so we ‘projected’ some numbers with a mere trillion or so of our borrowed tax dollars but the caveats spill over the table as we read this:

“Here's what Romer herself said in a July 2 interview on Fox: "None of us had a crystal ball back in December and January. I think almost every private forecaster realized that there were other things going on in the economy. It was worse than we anticipated. What the private forecasters are saying now is that they do anticipate that the economy will start growing again in the second half of the year, and that usually, then, employment and unemployment start to respond shortly after that. So I think that is a realistic expectation." [4]

Biden[5] also acknowledged the discrepancies in a July 5 interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos.

"The truth is, we and everyone else misread the economy," Biden said. "The figures we worked off of in January were the consensus figures in most of the blue chip indexes out there. ... And so the truth is, there was a misreading of just how bad an economy we inherited. Now, that doesn't — I'm not laying — it's now our responsibility. So the second question becomes, did the economic package we put in place, including the Recovery Act, is it the right package given the circumstances we're in? And we believe it is the right package given the circumstances we're in."

Then Romer sandbags the Biden follies:

“Most analysts predict that the fiscal stimulus will have its greatest impact on growth in the second and third quarters of 2009,” Romer said. “By mid-2010, fiscal stimulus will likely be contributing little to growth.”[6]— Christine Romer Oct. 22

Today, we read:

“WASHINGTON — About 650,000 jobs have been saved or created under President Barack Obama's economic stimulus plan, the White House said Friday, saying it is on track to reach the president's goal of 3.5 million jobs by the end of next year”[7]-- Gov't says stimulus saved or created 650,000 jobs By Matt Apuzzo And Brett J. Blackledge – 18 minutes ago

So, they guessed and misguessed and spent some money and admitted it was not based on realty but now were on the right track and frantically search for a crystal ball and then admitted it won’t work and then they claimed victory for a small bump in GDP. That makes sense to some liberal we presume.

The sad facts here are that our government spends with no notion of how much this will change the economy and are impenitent when pressed for positive results. Their phony predictions are cloaked with caveats and more promises as excuses when they are show to be false. The politicians in charge are like tumors on a dog’s behind: they just cause perpetual and escalating physical and emotional agony and will eventually kill the host. The best guess was that unemployment might hit 8.8% in the absence of this massive spending program and now it is nearly 10%. Shall we guess again and spend another trillion dollars?

We have to let these people know at what level of regard we hold them.  They are both incompetent[8] and crooked. Stay tuned for more unemployment, debasement of our currency[9][10] and much more.[11]

rycK [a 5^th generation Californian in exile]

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Belligerent Ignorance, Phony Economics and the Clunker Crusaders: Washington Wastes our Money Again.

 We seem to have the left-liberals now fully in charge of government-meddled social programs and given their sorry record of the past we can only expect new failures unless they blunder into the chaos and make some frantic guess that turns out right for a change. Don’t bet on this.  With the market up today they might just claim this to be a Democratic victory.

The stimulus program [porkulus[1][2] or bardus sus munia[3]] is a joke in that it does nothing to create new jobs, provide financial and economic stability to the markets and, most importantly create new sources of capital so as to create new jobs. The job market continues to descend to ugly depths despite the honking of liberal kazoos, celebrations in the streets, Santeria séances in the White House and other follies and wispy songs about ‘shovel-ready’ projects. The shovel is more appropriately reserved for shoveling away the manure from the facts. The idiots in Washington have failed again.

A phony idea, but one that appeals to the mentally disnimble[4] and those with other mental problems, was to just subsidize purchases of homes and cars and that would ‘stimulate’ the market. This failed for obvious reasons. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are two examples of government meddling in the economy. They are both zombies and quite dead. Their rot, however, still requires periodic bailouts from the tax payers with borrowed or printed monies.

The current outrage is the Clunkers Calamity where our government went out to ‘stimulate’ car sales and spent $24,000 per car on an average car cost of about the same price as that number. [5][6][7] Extending this insanity to the housing problem we learn that “…the Brookings institute estimates that the $8,000 credit equates to a cost to the taxpayer of $43,000 per home.”[8] This is money wasted for political reasons. We must search for reasons why our government is so stupid and how they arrive at these ‘programs’ and what mentally tortuous paths they traverse as they concoct such wonders. And we do not think we have idiots in our government?

Our idiot government has shoveled trillions into our ‘economy,’ mostly to bloat our Fascist[9][10][11]-Marxist[12] and increase the bureaucracy with worthless hirelings. To think that their ‘stimulus’ has contributed to 3% of the increase in our GDP [0.03 x 14 trillion] is only 0.42 trillion and they have spent some 5 trillion in TARP, TALP, deficits, and other worthless programs.  If we have to print a few trillion dollars in paper every year to ‘stimulate’ the economy to the tune of only a half trillion then we are broke and lost.

The answer is very simple in leftist terms: our government wants to ‘spread around the wealth’ so everybody gets some ‘skin in the game.’ The ‘skin,’ or course, is debt that is NOT spread around among the most dedicated believers in the Obama Administration—it will be paid for by taxpayers or it will actually be ‘spread’ around in the ultimate tax: inflation. As such, political parasites like Nancy Pelosi [The Reptile[13][14] or frequently  known as  Spartacus [15] in honor of the Marxist heroine Rosa Luxemburg--the former chair of the Marxist Progressive Caucus[16]] and her squeaking little familiar Steny Hoyer[17], a probable long-term stooge of the old crooked Mafia D’Alessandro Political machine[18][19][20] of Baltimore who caged with The Reptile for some Senator Daniel Brewster, openly and belligerently spends money we don’t have while telling us that they are ‘transparent’ and doing things in the open. Steny dootifully[21] obeys his master. Their respective  financial futures depend on how much tax money they can spend on getting votes and a tacking up IOUs for later as Clinton taught us and as such Hoyer has to lie about “transparency[22]’ to the public so he can keep the doors shut and violate our freedoms and raid our treasury. He can not be successful if he tells the truth so he lies.  The Reptile then, keeping the public from this phantasm as long as possible, presents for us this blatant lie in this video:”Pelosi Denies Public Access To Public Space For Public Plan Announcement.[23] This new ‘bill’ is nearly 2000 pages long. [Emphasis is mine in all quotes.]

So, for even a middle-level stooge of the Marxist system, we can see that these parasites must shovel out as much cash to their victims and homies as they can before [1] next election and [2] the unemployment soars beyond reason, which it is going to do as the ‘stimulus’ is NOT creating new jobs. We can undo anything when we get back the House and halt spending on this crap, but that will take some time so the race is on.

So, we have to acknowledge that this Pelosi/Reid/Hoyer/Obama team is successfully trotting down the well-known pathways braved for us by Joe Stalin, Adolph Hitler and Fidel Castro and saluted by Barrack Obama and his advisor and mentor Jeremiah Wright. They will do anything necessary to muzzle the opposition and steal our money and future. Let’s give them at least a 98 on that score. It will be 100, or higher, when they can muzzle the press or the blogs and put most of us in jail for sedition or for any other convenient reason.

This is a mockery of the democratic process and justice and law, but that describes the liberals—does it not?

rycK [a 5^th generation Californian in exile]

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The Flight from Tax Maggotry and Other Leftist Diseases: NYC Crashes but Federal Funds are On the Way!

High taxes[1][2][3] and the government-sponsored social programs[4][5] that promote sloth, phony education projects, crime[6] and drug addiction seem to be the only solution to addressing the evils of our society. Rather than enforce the Rule of Law in an objective and impartial manner, now merely a euphemism for letting left-wing constituents merrily do their drugs and crimes and such, the Rule is applied only to those who are capitalists or that have committed crimes too heinous to hide from the public. The tax basis is adjusted accordingly so that the felons escape and the successful ‘pay their fair share’ for the mayhem and social diseases to the benefit of Democrats in city governments. What a great scheme.

But, there is a temporary tax revenue problem:

“New Yorkers are fleeing the state and city in alarming numbers -- and costing a fortune in lost tax dollars, a new study shows.

More than 1.5 million state residents left for other parts of the United States from 2000 to 2008, according to the report from the Empire Center for New York State Policy. It was the biggest out-of-state migration in the country.

The vast majority of the migrants, 1.1 million, were former residents of New York City -- meaning one out of seven city taxpayers moved out. “[7]--Tax refugees staging escape from New York By Andy Soltis Last Updated: 6:08 AM, October 27, 2009 [Emphasis is mine in all quotes.]

The philosophy is clear here: inner cities cannot cope with the burdens of crime, phony education[8] expenses, public housing and unemployment with normal taxation because they have no way to rehabilitate or reform their constituents. In fact, many of their constituents are ‘poverty imports[9]’ for the most part or self-styled welfare recipients who will not or cannot pay for their own upkeep and thus are essentially parasites upon the working classes who do pay excessive taxes. This is great politics!

This all works out very well in the political sense as major cities have overwhelming populations of persons who are wholly dependent upon their local liberal Democratic elected officials for money, food and drugs along with free housing and medical care and cast their votes accordingly. As a corollary, the city administration must look the other way on most crime and blame their problems on capitalism or others and beg for alms from the state government or the fed to keep the machine well greased.

Thus, the bigger cities are crime magnets and generate the bulk of the murders and other crimes in our nation. Not to ignore the political benefits of this situation, we can see that crime is a great benefit to the cities as it provides jobs for police, narcotics enforcement, and emergency room care.

For an investigational view of what the left offers many citizens in terms of business, education, crime and community we have only to study the top 10 cities in the US and inspect the crime statistics.[10] There is no question that liberals [and all are black left-liberals with the exception of NYC where Bloomberg is at risk now] are fully in charge in these places. They control the ‘education’ and politics of these cities. A review of those who takes drugs is also instructive. [11] Clearly, crime and drug ingestion are not exactly proper attributes for success in the halls of capitalism and employers are still, amazingly, allowed to screen job applicants for drugs. This is a missed opportunity for the far left: forcing business to employ 100% of their citizens by outlawing drug tests. But, now, in a progressive new vector, California wants to legalize pot in its frantic effort to grunt money from any source to pay for their warped progressive lifestyle. It is interesting to compare NYC, California and Washington DC to see who has the poorest educational system in the US. The same people who want to transform our society to be more egalitarian are the very  same people who have shaped the 10 worse cities in the US [9 counting Washington D. C.] in terms of debt, drug addiction, murder and taxes.

But, where, can we ask, is the political blunder here?

“The average Manhattan taxpayer who left the state earned $93,264 a year. The average newcomer to Manhattan earned only $72,726. [Emphasis is mine in all quotes.]

That's a difference of $20,538, the highest for any county in the state. Staten Island was second, with a $20,066 difference.”

Why not just raise taxes?? Does NYC really need whites in office?[12]

Taxes will continue to soar in destitute cities like New York  as this is the ONLY mechanism available to the city fathers of places like this and mirror-image cities like San Francisco, Oakland, Chicago and Baltimore.  What is the penalty? If the city or state goes broke, then what happens? Will the left-liberals in office lose their jobs or will the drug rehabilitation shops close down? Will the welfare checks stop spurting out as a heartfelt payment for the votes?

The proper plan for liberals is to push taxes to unreasonable limits and force a catastrophe so that federal funds can be connected to their city coffers by some umbilical cord wired into the Fed balance sheet if possible. NYC is ‘too big to fail.’ Those who wantonly and egregiously flee from NYC’s taxes and crime may be confidently ‘caught’ and ‘repatriated’ to the yawning tax pits if federal funds are used to replace their tax returns in the cities.  Thus the big salaries and big business profits can be returned to the city fathers of New York City and all is well. Then, spending is the limit! Double welfare payments! Double salaries for unions, teachers, police and everybody else!

Obama is going to be their sugar daddy and they know it.

Raise taxes and we will all be rich as I learned all this from listening to my rain stick.[13] Or, maybe, just maybe, it is time for some undocumented capitalism[14].

rycK [a 5^th generation Californian in exile]

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Anita Dances the Dunnciad as The Ghost of Goebbels Looks on with Approval from the Grave.

Anita Dunn, a political unknown but probably either an escapee from some commune or someone who whined loud enough about the glass ceilings that had previously  fortunately insulated us from such spectacles, has informed the world that: “Fox News was “a wing of the Republican Party,” adding “let’s not pretend they’re a news organization like CNN is.”[1]  [Emphasis is mine in all quotes.]

And, how would she know that? Is this a little recital piece?

Her credentials, as we find them, apparently stem for some early Carter works and then she joined some Democratic consulting firm known as Squier Knapp Dunn [her??]. Her clients have included House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and former Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle.[footnote below.] Working for the loony leftists like Pelosi [The Reptile[2][3]] and Tom Daschle are more than enough to place her with purple robes and silver sandals in the top spot in the White House as the Grand Designator of True Journalism.  Let us pretend she is sane.

So, in her new shiny job as Reichpropagandafurher she works behind the scenes with this kind of people, all very objective and political neutral:

Eugene Robinson, E.J. Dionne, Ron Brownstein, John Dickerson, Rachel Maddow, Frank Rich, Jerry Seib, Maureen Dowd, Keith Olbermann, Bob Herbert, Gloria Borger, and Gwen Ifill.

Gee, no political bias here. Transparency in action. Let us pretend she is transparent.

One of her proclamations:

 “The reality of it is that FOX News often operates almost as the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party."[4]-- Anita Dunn, White House Communications Director

We can wonder if there is any hint of any vetting process or even any casual loony bin detectors that might identify persons with foam on their lips or drool encrusted on their shoes that wander near the White House. But, as we have seen, beings like this, Van Jones and Plugs[5] the Buffoon[6] seem to ramble in and out of the East Wing in some kind of mental haze oblivious to precedence, history, manners or logic.

Of course she looks like a fool and is now fodder for political cannons who wish to squeeze out some mirth from her Marxist phantasms:

“CNN just can’t abide people telling anyone the truth about how Obama’s cronies are either admitted Communists, like the disgraced Van Jones, or just think Commies are awesome, like Anita Dunn. Comrade Dunn is the White House Communication Director who gave what appeared to be a commencement speech wherein she clearly states that Mao Tse-tung is one of her political heroes. She goes on a long, serious discussion explaining exactly why Chairman Mao was so wise and how his wisdom could guide her audience in their future endeavors. We talked about this on the podcast yesterday. Here is the clip from Beck, with the video of Dunn.”[7]-— CNN’s hilariously lame defense of Mao-Loving White House Advisor Anita Dunn

“The issue isn’t whether Lee Atwater ever quoted Mao. A simpleton knows you don’t adopt somebody’s philosophy as your own simply by quoting them. But when you quote them and then explicitly say the person is one of your biggest influences, then you make it your own. So Dunn’s lame attempt to source the quote back to Atwater and have that somehow serve as an explanation for what she said is patently ridiculous.”-- CNN’s hilariously lame defense

As Anita dances the Dunnciad[8][9] [likened to: ”The poem celebrates the goddess Dulness and the progress of her chosen agents as they bring decay, imbecility, and tastelessness to the kingdom of Great Britain.”] she seems to portray, in her own little way, the kind of ‘change’ and ‘transparency’ we have been accustomed to seeing from the White House to date.

Can she be for real? Did Newt Gingrich plant her in the WH like some think he did with Monica to perforate the entrails of the Obama Administration and let it all ooze out in front of the cameras?  We haven’t seen an unbridled Froot-Loop like this thing squirrel around the hallways let alone approach the microphone since the Clinton and Carter Eras, particularly like Jimmy’s wild praise for the Ayatollah Khomeini [who would bring stability to Iran] and now his loose cannon advisor Brzezinski [United States National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter] thinks the U.S. should attack Israel to save Iran![10] Maybe Anita thinks we should have a freshly baked SALT III treaty with Georgia Peanuts and give the codes for our nuclear weapons to Zimbabwe or other responsible group.

I suppose all this makes sense in some dope den surrounded by lotus fumes or in the ER rescue unit in some psychiatric ward but for many it just looks stupid. Let us pretend her job is temporary.

Perhaps this is what Affirmative Action and the Broken Glass Ceiling has brought us at great cost.

rycK

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The Crusade to Lower Carbon Emissions at any Cost and the Political Rejection of Fiscal Rationale

The Persistent Decline in Home Prices, Current Facts and Options for the Distressed and Some Warnings and Caution on New Bubbles

Today, I incorporate in my blog a contribution from a reader who has extensive expertise in mortgages and forecasting. Robert Schorell has contributed this piece for publication on this blog and my comments are intercalated in blue for contrast. He supplies us with sound financial advice and warns us of the improper use of credit to avoid another housing bubble. The economic problem, as I see it, as do others, is that the deflationary debt spiral[1][2] is not even yet reaching a minimum [asymptote] on the downward-sloping curve and that our government might even be exacerbating the problem[3] by synthesizing false credit for political reasons. If the government acts improperly, they might just force another housing bubble.

The article:

Title:  Continually Falling Home Prices

Home prices have yet to hit bottom, despite a growing belief among some financial analysts that the housing market was beginning to stabilize.

In fact, some sobering figures are starting to chip away at the once-optimistic projections regarding recovery and return. Some experts worry that another wave of bust and market collapse is on the horizon.

This is a major worry and one that we must avoid. The deflationary debt spiral we are fighting was caused by wealth being lost in real estate prices and the concomitant collapse of credit derived from equity loans and related factors. The abridged inability to borrow is difficult enough for many Americans but when the spiral starts to cut away jobs to the extent that mortgages cannot be maintained then spending is reduced and the GDP falls. This creates a nasty cycle. --rycK

Forecasters at financial firm Fiserv[4] expect home prices to fall 11.3 percent by next summer. In some parts of the country, like Florida and California, prices are expected to fall upward of 30 percent by next June. In all, Fiserv experts predict that all but 39 of the nation’s 381 housing markets will experience falling home values.

This can only lead to more unemployment. This also hampers the recovery and pushes us further into deflation, a topic that is unpopular to think about even though, in my view, it is happening. The proof for this bold statement is the zero government interest rates, bank bailouts with federal balance sheet monies and massive government spending.

Compounding the situation is a dangerous return to the same lax lending standards that helped create the subprime collapse. Foreclosures are surging nationwide, and there’s a rapidly growing glut of homes in default nationwide that are likely headed for foreclosure.

I must agree 100% with this comment. I blame, in part, the government nostrum of ‘affordable housing’ as delineated in the CRA [Community Reinvestment Act][5][6] that mandated that banks must loan money to the credit unworthy, deadbeats, criminals and illegal aliens and that Fannie Mae was the final resting place for the  worse examples of the resultant bad mortgage debt and toxic securitized asset bundles. Since the problem is world wide and was observed in Japan 20 years ago [and still is], and in Europe, this is just an icon for the improper use of credit. We cannot repeat this.

Let us be very clear here: Those toxic assets [to be fixed by TARP!?] are still in our banks and other financial institutions and they grow more toxic—not less—and we risk adding to this mess if we grant loans that will again end in default and foreclosure. According to analyst Ambrose Evans-Prichard of the Telegraph (London) subprime mortgages are becoming even more toxic as time passes with even the AAA mortgages of 2007 are falling to 28 cents on the dollar and AA at only 4 cents.[7] No wonder several big banks are essentially zombie banks.

We are in big trouble if our government tries to buy votes with printed mortgage monies.

About 8 percent of FHA loans were either delinquent or in foreclosure at the end of June up from about 5 percent in 2006, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association. The agency’s loan loss reserves are on the brink of falling below mandated levels. [Click here for some information on FHA loans: http://fha.mortgageloanplace.com/FHA-Guide.html]

Government loans continue to grab market share, with almost two-thirds of new homes now the product of government-insured loans, according to a recent survey by a California real estate firm. But many of these loans feature low down payments and higher debt-to-income ratios[8] than most.

We have had government FHA type loans for decades and they did not independently encourage a bubble so, in principle, they are still an excellent place to get housing funding. The difficulty and major threat is that our ‘government’ will try to replace the absent fraction of our GDP by taxing or borrowing money and just giving it to citizens [or not] as a wealth transfer to spend. All this accomplishes is two fold if the recipients of these political gifts are not creditworthy: [1] more national debt, currently at 12 trillions and [2] a false demand stimulus to housing prices driven by the economic demand function.

Some buyers with spotty credit are qualifying for loans that require half their net income to go toward their mortgage payment.

This is dangerous as the 50% level is too high to maintain a satisfactory living standard for those in the $30,000 to 60,000 income bracket. They would be ‘house poor.’ What is risked here is a mass disaffection with the very high relative cost of housing and the propensity to sell or default.  ANY mortgage scheme that even approximates the disasters of zero-down or subprime rates WILL launch another bubble and we cannot afford that.

I think we just have to get back to the mandatory 10% down on all mortgages and that will [1] filter out the dead beats and [2] give home owners some equity to work with.  This works even though housing prices continue to fall but we have no other choice.

The net result is a recipe for continued disaster. Another housing bubble looms on the horizon. And this one might prove more destructive than the last.

By Robert Schorell [robert@fharesearchcenter.com]

We have some serious problems here, many of which are government instigated, and we need to journey back to a stable economy, a somewhat balanced budget, spending reductions and paying off some of our massive 12 trillion dollar debt. If we do not, we will certainly crash in a blizzard of inflation and swarms of worthless dollars blowing in the streets and major social unrest.

rycK

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As the Head-Banger Gains Experience and Knowledge from the Pain California Seeks to Bury itself in Dope and Debt.

There is no hope for the less-than-Golden State now as it  dives headlong with glittering tinsel and honking kazoos into the deepest financial latrines. The head bangers are in control. The sickening chronicle of the far left, now aided and abetted by drugs, sorties into hilarious Marxian economics and what few brain cells not currently being cooked in the hot sun in the marijuana fields, expands into something resembling the demise of Frankenstein at first light. The rot is now everywhere.

It seems that after only 10 weeks passed the duly elected Assembly and their wonderful governor ‘agreed’ on a ‘path forward’ to ‘compromise on the budget.[1]’ California[2]descends into oblivion.[3] No amount of warning or even the dire, debilitating threat of calamitous reason has slowed the pace of these drug-whacked loony balloons to pop. They need money. Here they were going to ‘cut’ 15 bln in spending while they stare into the marijuana fumes and publicly spirit away a few shekels away from the bankrupt cities and then  ‘borrow’ the rest along with some accounting sleight of hand. Let us postpone the debt. This was the ‘compromise.’ Of course only a California Democrat or an imbecile might believe in these deliriums, but it was ‘passed’ and then fell apart from the internal rot. Who would have known such a grand plan was a preconditioned joke?

Oh, gee, revenues are down! Who would have guessed that fewer people can now even profitably employ workers in some business other than sex workers or massage parlors and make a profit in that gulag?

The blame is now placed on the innocent:

“The culprit here appears to be estimated quarterly personal income tax statements,” H.D. Palmer, the governor’s budget spokesman, said yesterday. “The numbers are cause for concern, but the issue now for us is to determine if this is a one-time event or whether it has more long-term implications.”-- California Budget Is Already in the Red 10 Weeks After Passage  By William Selway and Michael B. Marois [Emphasis is mine in all quotes.]

Translated for normal persons, this means that they do not know what they are doing when they ‘forecast’ budgets and financial matters. For the far left, keep banging your head on the wall and some of this will crystallize for you.

Here is an example of their clever accounting:

“California, a state that’s been among the hardest hit by the recession, had already issued $22 billion of debt since March, including $8.8 billion of notes that provided the state with an advance on taxes collected next year.”-- California Budget

Oh! Let’s just borrow from the future and grunt some cash from the ailing cities and make the forecasts glow like some Hollywood Success Story and all will be well. They have a plan. Where was the revenue from the 30% taxes on marijuana? Why can’t the whole state run financially by only taxing pot, Asian massage parlors and steam baths in San Francisco?

I have been covering this outrage for a while [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20] and my conclusion was, originally, that there was never—ever—any h0pe for this place.  I think things are getting worse if that is possible.

And, of course, they plant to borrow more money!!!

“If the market is inhospitable, we won’t go,” Lockyer said in an interview yesterday. “We’ll just have to wait and see how the feelings are when we get ready to think about it again.” —California Budget

The ultimate head banger’s conclusion--insanity and despair. A much needed translation is offered here: We MUST barrow and hope that the suckers lend us chum monies at low rates even though our credit rating is approaching that of Zimbabwe.  A corollary to this is that ‘we will pay anything any time to anybody for some more money.’ Or, would you like a joint or a snort or maybe some quality time in the next alley?

This is all so much frantic and Vaseline-scented Bay Area Semi-Think claptrap as everybody knows that CA’s bond rating is at the bottom of the 50 states and revenues are shrinking--so how do you pay back your creditors? Why, you borrow to pay the borrowers to pay the borrowers and so on and so forth!  That is like saying that no matter how ugly the rats, panhandlers and cops will become in North Beach we can always find fresh food and acceptable shelter in the bottom of the dumpsters if we can figger out the removal schedules and there are no garbage strikes.

What they want are [your] federal funds. This is known as being progressive. This is parasitism.

Get ready to subsidize these drug-whacked loons. Bang your head a few times and share the vision—then get your wallet or purse or poke.

rycK [a 5^th generation Californian in exile]

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Is it Time for Some Undocumented Capitalism Yet? Lots of ‘Persons’ Practice that in the US Now with Favors from Our Government.

Governments prostrate themselves and dive into crime and worse when their survival depends on culturing and supporting degeneracy, crime and sloth.  All their wonderful promises and speechifying tend to evaporate when they realize they might lose power. California is the latest example. The ‘glorious’ October Revolution in Russia  produced only chaos and a frantic search for a stable food supply and seemed to fail to association of  splendor and glory with  the rule of the proletariat; cheap thugs ran the government. The kulaks[1], frequently wealthy but not of the aristocracy and closely identified with the bourgeoisie[or more accurately petite bourgeoisie[2] in this case],  were summarily murdered when they refused to just give their land, food and animals to the Bolsheviks so Lenin was forced to conjure some plan to placate these ‘peasants’ and produced his New Economic Policy (NEP).[3] They were depicted as ruffians with silk top hats in the 1919 Bolshevik posters[4] plastered everywhere in public. This failed movement, of course, as most far leftist plans do, and when food was scarce capitalism flourished in the very faces of the Marxists when peasants were encouraged to sell their food and wares openly in the market place thus defeating the very principle of socialism. Liberals tend to try to perform a similar trick with ‘education’…‘ejukashon’?? We eventually witnessed how the USSR system of a command economy failed to produce even one quarter of the food necessary and those who would ‘manage’ the economy and pick the correct time to dig potatoes finally just ignored the kiosks that were providing most of the food.  Lenin would rather have shot these people, but needed the food and other products. Duranty Papers[5] would have sanctioned their holocaust as a necessary step to advance socialism ["…liquidated or melted in the hot fire of exile and labor into the proletarian mass]. Such poetic flair! Maureen Dowd should study this example.

In our country Poncho the Parasite has a cozy arrangement with the liberal whereby he can enter the country illegally, work where he wants, supply false Social Security numbers to employers (who are looking the other way any way) and then just not submit state and federal tax returns because that would cause an interferences at the federal and state levels anyway. But, registering to vote in states where ID checking is as passé as virginity, Poncho can make money tax free by working or hustling drugs and send back as much as he wants without interference from our federal government.

But, our government is stuck at this time as they cannot exactly raise taxes on the working stooges who believe in their hokum and fluff so we just print money and tax whomever at the highest rates possible. This doesn’t work well in either the long or short terms for several reasons:

[1] Higher taxes increase business costs and results in lower tax revenues.

[2] Government rules and regulations do the same thing and discourage job creation by small businesses.

[3] Big businesses have more flexibility and if they are ‘too big to fail’ then they can ask for a bailout with some consideration stuffed into the pockets of the politicians. 

So, the squeeze is on and what is left are those who can run efficient business operations and keep people employed and pay their inordinate share of taxes to support the habits of the politicians and their clients. That group is not responding well to the Obama Fascism we hear all about on CBS and other in-the-tank state news services.

One of the reasons proffered to not go after Poncho and his jolly friends is that it would cost too much to deport 10-20 million souls and they are needed to scrub the toilets and pick berries anyway. Their obvious crimes are thus ignored and we can then wonder what the equal protection clause[6] actually means.  What happened to the Rule of Law? The 14^th Amendment has limitations so we might look at the enumerated commerce clause [7] listed directly but vaguely in the United States Constitution (Article 1, Section 8, and Clause 3). These two angles let the federal government sneak around the 9^th and 10^th Amendments that would give states the basis to decide to accept [or not] all unnumerated laws not reserved to the federal government. All this is complicated but the words ‘regulation’ and ‘commerce’ have been so distorted that several opportunities in the law exist for both the left and right to continue to blowtorch the Constitution.

One then wonders if some others  are borrowing some of the tactics of the California marijuana growers and wantonly  flouting the narcotics laws and avoiding taxes but serving the politicians all at the same time with dope and gifts. These Mary Jane types successfully beat the federal law in Mexifornia, [8] and now make big profits even thought they are supposed to be non profit and such baloney and operate in cooperatives and, we might suspect, be subject to taxation and extensive record keeping. There eventually comes an encounter with a knife-edge decision where the risk of being sent to jail for some ‘crime’ is balanced by the risk of losing your possessions and career because of confiscatory taxes of the income, fee and inheritance classes—particularly old white folks.[9]  What we might expect would be a growing trend where professionals would trade their respective services in a barter system devoid of paper and 1099 forms.  We have seen recently that USB [Swiss Bank] has yielded only about 4500 names and account numbers to the IRS of those felons would hide tax-avoidance monies and make good profits with no tax burdens.  Can I offer a bet that no Democrat member of Congress is on that list? Out of a country of 310 million it seems that this number is inordinately small although it only covers a bank in the original Dirty Money Country and avoids such places as Luxemburg and the Cayman Islands and a few other spots. And, if California wants to tax pot at 30% to save their budget and credit ratings we can wonder why former criminals who are adept in evading such fates might want to pay such a high tax and just break a few more laws as California may have to furlough many of their drug enforcement yoyos anyway. The feds are busy hunting down white terrorists anyway.

It is not clear how much of a problem this is now or what it might be in the near future but when unemployment is high and rising and the number of people who might be forced to practice some ‘undocumented capitalism’ might ascend to several million while our jails are already stuffed to the rafters with violent criminals now so where would be put all these errant entrepreneurs? Or what do the federal and state tax collectors do if people refuse to pay their fines? Seize their property and bank accounts? What if they refused like Gandhi?

An oppressive and tax hungry government might compel a societal change in the average citizen’s behaviour in this country and force people to conduct commerce underground like they did in the USSR for 74 years until that wreckage rotted away in a blizzard of worthless rubles. Then, like magic, the economy flourished and a thousand new millionaires were created in Moscow alone all financed with US 100 dollar bills. Their mattresses must have bulged as dollars were illegal in the good old USSR.  Are some of our more clever entrepreneurs hiding gold bullion in safe places? If our currency crashed who would have liquid assets? Certainly not  the bank account holders in frozen or defunct banks.

What would our government do if modern ‘peasants’ just refused to ship their food and produce to the cities and set up kiosks along the highways? Tear them down? Burn the crops? What if the food supply was scarce? Seize farms and let government officials perform honest work in the fields to produce milk and lettuce and corn for the city crowd?

Big government is a big failure on this planet so we wonder just how far the average citizen can be pushed before he or she becomes interested in ‘undocumented capitalism’ because the illegal aliens seem to be making this work very well and are the darlings of the far left and they are certainly not being deported in great numbers and are not fined and are not rotting in jails for 5 years. The current leftist treatment of the Rule of Law is a joke.

If our economy crashes we may get instant answers to many of these questions. Our society will scarcely tolerate the notion that the government should own everything and just give orders like they did in the old USSR.  Only half of us are that stupid.

rycK

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A. Goebbels Dunn and Finger Bang Rhamba [The Ballerina] Lead the Ministry of Propaganda for Obama.

Every political organization requires that its members be given proper instruction in the particular set of political beliefs that materialize the foundation of the political goals of that party. It is necessary to herd the mindless into compartments and to corral the restless in political parties particularly if certain members stray from the narrow party line and unwittingly commit political violence to the movement. As such, history has give us a wide array of  propaganda chiefs and hallowed soothsayers to peruse for ideas and personality comparisons that have stood in the Forum or one some potato crate and successfully preached the hallowed lines of their party preambles. Their job is the keep the cage doors shut. The Obama Administration is struggling with this mandate even now.

Hitler probably had the most talented propaganda minister of all time as he was pure and precise when he dealt with party matters and that was Doctor Paul Joseph Goebbels. Others were star-struck advocates of Soviet Propaganda such as the French novelist and devoted Communist Henri Barbusse.[1] But, only when the media was fully launched on television did dedicated propagandists like Noam Chomsky, Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather[2] excel and gather their deserved acclaim from the drooling left. Modern day apologists such as Paul Krugman[3], Frank Rich[4], Cornel West, the late Susan Sontag, Noam Chomsky[5] and others with lesser wit and even fewer cognitive skill points translate the lust and hatred for entrepreneurial power and financial success into convenient social ‘equality’ elements that propose crude excuses to grab power and exclude capitalists wherever possible. All they have is the tax money of honest citizens. Chomsky, like Walter Duranty[6], tried to apologize for the Khmer Rouge massacres of probably a million Cambodians with mindless hokum that still inspired the far left even when it was devoid of substance. There exists a expansive and noisy carnival of apologists who are willing to place Obama’s image in halls of greatness despite any notable successes other than winning a phony Noble Prize for ‘Peace.’[7]

Anita Dunn, the bizarre White House Communications Director, gives us a performance[8] that approaches but does not match that of Dr. Goebbels.[9] She has a touching but rambling oratory style probably derived from a confluence of some mediocre cognitive norms, a little attention deficit disorder and some defective genes from some inbreeding, but she can grapple in public with the rudimentary essentials of her self-directed and scripted beliefs. However, she cannot serve president Obama with the apposite image of a revered Reichsminister of Propaganda because she mumbles and apes the persona of a buffoon in public. She would be better matched with Joe Biden[10] [Plugs the Buffoon[11]] in some official governmental capacity such as the Czar of the Ministry of Hilarious Historical Redactions as they have much in common. They could be CoBozos[12] in concert. Biden, whose buffoonery is established in the record beyond any serious doubt, gives us a certain throttle setting for facts in a humorous but non threatening manner. He truly is as dumb as a box of rocks. She clumsily chucks out the party message in a disjointed way (estruso in piccole goccioline[13]) such as this example where she is apparently coupling political and religions personages in some kind of conundrum like this:

“The third lesson, and tip actually come from two of my favorite political philosophers: Mao Tse Tung and Mother Theresa. Not often coupled with each other!”

We don’t couple gasoline margaritas with pumpkin pie very often either. Nobody remembers her first two lessons after this moment. This must be some new form of communications.

With comments like: “You fight your war and I’ll fight mine” we can wonder if she is a ‘player’ in the narrowly-defined left-liberal[14]-Neo Marxist[15]-Ideological Racist[16]-Fascist[17] game or just a loose canon. How about if somebody said: “I’ll pay my taxes and you pay yours?” or “I am coming over to roost your chickens?” Some of us can communicate too.

But, when paired with Rahm Emanuel Barack Obama's self-styled and swashbuckling Chief of Staff[18] ["(Republicans) can go f--- themselves!"[19]] we can envisage a dynamic duo that could actually structure a proper Kristallnacht for their political enemies. Like Goebbels, Rahm has suffered through a torturous career punctuated with numerous misadventures that may have already culminated with his famous mediaeval joust with a defiant meat slicer at Arby’s[20]where he deftly sawed off part of his bird finger[21]and then loitered defiantly in some pond until the rest of it rotted off. He advanced to bigger games when he mailed a dead fish[22] to political enemy with a  Hollywood flair probably derived from the Luca Brasi episode[23] in the God Father  and became known as Dead Fish Immanuel ever after.[24] Rahm carries the typical genetic protosimian lack of remorse and jungle-level judgment necessary to lead an effort to best the earlier Kristallnacht performance at Fox News if his remaining fingers hold out.

But, we cannot treat president Obama too critically given the salient observation that he has to work with what he has and that is not much in intellectual terms after some considered respect granted to George Bush and his Idiot Father. His staff looks much like they just staggered out of various drug rehabilitation facilities and accidentally converged at some esteemed Democratic Party think tank meeting and were instantly acclaimed as prophets and sages for with weight and force of the spittle spray associated with their incoherent babble. More fitting for Obama’s future success would be if they were required to wear funny hats and honk kazoos before turning corners in the White House. They could also spend a lot of time involved in EcoNazism[25][26] by enforcing the Sheryl Crow Rules for single sheets of toilet paper in the West Wing.[27] Those efforts would reduce the carbon footprint of the White House and save the oceans from boiling.

We remain astonished at the gaping void of intellect and prowess in the Obama Administration and wonder what this will turn into. With massive problems in our society and financial networks it is difficult, at least for me, to wonder how A. Goebbels Dunn can be an asset to ‘communications’ anywhere in North America let alone the White  House. But, stranger people have haunted the White House for periods of time. I am sure they will become stranger with time. It could have been worse: Obama could have culled them all from California.[28]

rycK

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