The Economy is Tanking – I have a job, does it matter?

The most recent economic data clearly shows that the United States’ economy is in a serious contraction and yet inflation remains a worry. At the same time most of our mass media supports the Administration’s vision that everything is fine, that jobs are plentiful and we need to forge on with additional tax cuts, subsidies for Corporate America to produce goods offshore and to flood the US labor pool with illegal aliens. Notwithstanding our worldwide allies of Russia and China doing just the opposite.

We continue to spend money spreading a false democracy and trying to forcefully convince the rest of the world that our way is the only way. I even read one of my wine blogging buddies today pimping the idea that, in the name of free market, Europe should eliminate the strict legislation regarding the production of wines. Primarily this legislation says that the to place a quality control insignia on a label, the producer must use certain types of grapes, grown in the region, and processed by methods that prohibit pumping the wine with sugars or alcohol additives.

Why waste the time writing about this stuff. Who cares how the Administration sees economy? Well, I believe Joe Citizen is intelligent. Joe Citizen is capable of reasoning and together we can come to a reasonable solution. We can do this if we have sufficient and valid information. So while the President tells Americans to spend, spend, spend over the holiday season, perhaps heads of household would hold back a bit if they were provided information indicating that their jobs are in jeopardy, that prices are rising and that our government, sooner or later, will increase taxes or reduce services because of the $47 trillion and growing debt.

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