The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) today issued the most recent unemployment figures. You might rejoice or shudder depending on whether you are working or not. Take a look at http://www.bls.com/. Remember, however, that these figures represent the folks who are on the unemployment benefit rolls, not those who are no longer eligible, who haven't made application for the government dole, and are on other forms of government "assistance." The Administration says things are looking up as claims for unemployment were down in November compared to October.
According to the BLS, total unemployment in the United States increased from twenty four million five hundred thirty two thousand (24,532,000) people in October 2009, to twenty four million five hundred forty two thousand (24,542,000) in November 2009. The way I was taught math, an increase of ten thousand unemployed is still an increase. What Washington does not tell us is that the number of unemployed people who have been out of work for more than 25 weeks has continued to rise until it now stands at 6o% of those who have lost their jobs. This is not an indicator that things are getting better.
What can be done to stop this economic chaos? A look at past history, which evidently isn't taught in schools anymore, makes one thing very clear. Socialism, Communism, Fascism, any type of government which has control of the economy just doesn't work. The Obama administration is using socialistic principles, and is winning in its efforts, to destroy capitalism and free enterprise in the United States.
You don't believe it? What happened to General Motors and Chrysler, two privately owned corporations? They were overburdened with excessive costs, mostly labor, which is always the highest cost of doing business. In the normal scheme of things, they would have declared bankruptcy, reorganized, rewritten contracts, and gotten back to the job of producing automobiles and trucks. If they couldn't make it and did go bankrupt, history shows that another company would have been formed to take their place. The government says they did us a favor by taking these companies over. Did us a favor? What gave the government the right to steal money and income from the stockholder's who owned both companies? And who is going to pay the debt caused by the government's refinancing those companies? The taxpayer. And remember this, if the government can take over these two huge corporations without a constitutional precedent, it can just as easily take your house, your finances, and your liberty with equal ease.
Can't afford to buy a home? Who cares? By government mandate, housing lenders were forced to loan money to home buyers who couldn't make the mortgage payments and eventually went to foreclosure. Who ate the debt? The banks, which, if you remember, were grabbed by the government as were the automotive companies. And who is going to pay those losses? The taxpayer.
And cash for clunkers. Really got the automotive industry moving. Car sales jumped. But after the program ended and the free money went away, went down again. How many of those cars are going to be repossessed? If the buyer couldn't find the money to make a down payment, how is he going to pay the monthly payment? And who is going to pay the loss of repossessed cars? The taxpayer.
It goes on and on and on. And it will continue because the economic crisis we are in, the one that won't go away, is not caused by some fluke in the system. It is the direct result of a plan by Obama to grab the power to rule, not administer, the United States. Obama, Clinton, Pelosi, Reed, the whole gaggle of Administration, Senate, House of Representatives, have remembered their history lessons on how to take over a country and are successfully destroying our Constitution. And what is it we have to lose? Our liberty. Our freedom. Our property. Our way of life.
Future generations will never know what they missed. To them tyranny will be a way of life. They won't know any better. Freedom will be something not even discussed in schools, the same way that Christianity is barred today. Human rights will be a memory. Instead of free choice, it will be direction from the top and whose who disagree will disappear in the dark of night. If you think I lie, read about Germany under Hitler, Russia under Stalin, China under Mao, Italy under Mussolini. Check out other countries which are run by dictators of a similar ilk, like North Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and others. Communism just doesn't work. A dictatorship destroys everything, including its own people. If the current trend continues in the United States, we will lose our country to totalitarian dictatorship.
We must get the government out of our lives if our country is to survive. Get involved. Let the market place do its thing. Stand up and be counted, take action, or the life we have today will be but a memory in five years.
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