Reflections From a Murky Pond

A lot of talk keeps going around about fears that America is going to experience a double-dip recession.

Yes, We’re In A Double-Dip Recession

This seems pretty damn obvious to me. With the two dips, Obama and Biden, filling the top two positions in the Executive America, is, and has been, in a double-dip recession.

Of course, this fear is just the fantasy of economists. Whether the recession slowly “ends” or double-dips is largely irrelevant as it is based upon the GDP. Insofar as the bulk of the American people are concerned, we’ve never come out of the first recession.

It is often said that Britain and America are two nations divided by a common language.

Divided By A Common Language

Yeah, I can believe that and sometimes the division caused by the difference of our respective language and idiom can be downright dangerous for the poor traveler. 😆

The jobless rate has dropped approximately 50% faster and further in states that elected Republican leadership in the 2010 elections than the national average. In the 17 states that elected fiscally-conservative, tea party-supported GOP Governors unemployment dropped 1.35% vs. the 0.9% national average.

• Alabama – 9.3% to 7.4% (-1.9%)
• Florida – 10.9% to 8.6% (-2.3%)
• Georgia – 10.1% to 8.9% (-1.2%)
• Iowa – 6.1% to 5.1% (-1.0%)
• Kansas – 6.9% to 6.1% (-0.8%)
• Maine – 8.0% to 7.4%  (-0.6%)
• Michigan – 10.9% to 8.5% (-2.4%)
• Nevada – 13.8% to 11.6% (-2.2%)
• New Mexico – 7.7% to 6.7% (-1.0%)
• Ohio – 9.0% to 7.3% (-1.7%)
• Oklahoma – 6.2% to 4.8% = (-1.4%)
• Pennsylvania – 8.0% to 7.4% (-0.6%)
• South Carolina – 10.6% to 9.1% (-1.5%)
• South Dakota – 5.0% to 4.3% (-0.7%)
• Tennessee – 9.5% to 7.9% (-1.6%)
• Wisconsin – 7.7% to 6.8% (-0.9%)
• Wyoming – 6.3% to 5.2% (-1.1%)

On thing to bear in mind, however, is that this represent correlation; it does not, at face value, represent causation. Many factors play into unemployment statistics and this is only evidence – strong evidence, admittedly – that Republican leadership is better at fixing America’s number one problem, unemployment, than the profligate spenders of the Democratic Party. It is not proof per se.

Also, these figures are based upon official unemployment numbers and those are more political fiction than reality. For all we know from this analysis it may be that a larger than average number of the jobless may have just fallen off the roles into uncounted limbo, just as a large percentage of the official average nation drop of 0.9% is made up of these poor, lost souls.

It deserves serious thought though as we go into the 2012 elections. Prima facie evidence from these 17 states certainly suggests that the GOP is the right choice for anyone wanting the economy to turn around in a reasonable time-frame.

Friday, June 5, 2012 Obama signed a bill into law continuing and furthering the government’s college subsidies by artificial keeping the student loan interests low.

Make no mistake about this. This bill was designed to subsidize colleges and university, not students. It’s sole purpose is to allow these bastions of Liberalism to continue to charge outrageous tuitions.

Some will say that this is acceptable and that it does no harm. They see an overwhelming benefit in encouraging people to get a college degree. This is because they do not understand the great harm in making a college degree de rigueur.

Some government subsidies have an empirical benefit to the people and the nation. Others, such as subsidizing colleges do not and, in point of fact, do vast amounts of harm over the course of years and decades.

It certainly seem that American healthcare is set to go significantly retrograde thanks to ObamaCare. Frankly, it really looks like America’s healthcare is going all medieval since Obama and the cabal of Liberals who wrote the law called for a course of leeches as part of it.

More Leeches! Commence The Bloodletting!

Really! I don’t know of any other way to describe a “plan” for “curing” America’s healthcare woes that adds 6,500 IRS agents and not one single doctor, nurse, or orderly.

Then again, the enemies of America ensconced in what was supposed to be our government approached this as a political problem and bloodletting is a tried and true means of effecting political change. They’d just better hope and pray that the bloodletting they’re going to personally experience is merely the metaphorical one of the 2012 elections. 😉