Reflections From a Murky Pond

Americans’ greatest fear is not Muslim Terrorism. The Muslim terrorists, even when – it’s not an “if” – either Pakistan, North Korea, or Iran arms them with nuclear weapons, cannot do as much lasting harm to America as our government’s failed and/or misguided policies can do.

No; American’s greatest fear is that we and our progeny, and perhaps their progeny as well, will be saddled with a collapsed and overburdened economy that results in generational unemployment.

And really, how bad could it possibly be? The urban Black population has had several generations in which a large number of their families had no family members who had ever been consistently employed and look how well they’re doing…Oh wait!

On the bright side, once well-established families families having to move back in with their parents will bolster the employment of divorce lawyers once the In-Law Factor takes hold.

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America is still, despite supposed economic gains, dealing with an unemployment rate hovering around 9%. It’s only a matter of time before this becomes truly untenable and society adjusts and becomes willing to entertain more drastic and reactionary measures to improve those deplorable employment figures.

Hie Yourself Back To Yon Kitchen, Wench

Forget the race-baiting by Liberal proponents by illegal immigration; it’s not the immigrant population, illegal or otherwise, that will bear the brunt of these “corrective” measures. It will be American women.

Women comprise 46.8% of the total US labor force – 13.46% above the global average of 40.5%. Therefor, if they can convince or coerce 19.23% of those women to leave the workforce America’s official unemployment numbers would be 0%, though a more realistic goal of getting 12.8% of the currently working women out of the workforce would net America an approximate 3% unemployment which is considered far healthier than 0% and would be easier to achieve.

Even just culling enough female workers to bring America down to the current global average would drop our nation’s unemployment figures down to around 6 – 7%, which is not too far above the the US average (5.65%) since 1948.

What makes this prediction most likely and most dire is that it can be actualized without the conscious effort or machinations of any individual or group. It only requires that people do not actively work against various economic and societal pressures that will achieve this resulting reduction of women in the workforce.

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I’d like to take a moment – and a post – to offer my condolences to Sen. Barack Obama and his family. Sen. Obama’s grandmother, Madelyn Dunham who the Senator called “Toot” died Sunday, November 2nd, 2008.

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I’m happy that Sen. Obama put family ahead of ambition and returned to Hawaii to see her last month. He did not manage to make it time to see his mother before she died and to have that happen again would be more than I would wish on any but a very few.

My condolences and my prayers, Senator.

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