Positive Economic News Comes Too Late

Well, yesterday’s news on employment was not altogether unanticipated. It was announced that for the first time that we knew of, 150,000 jobs were actually added to this economy even though the unemployment rate itself remained at 9.6% Furthermore they raised the figures of previous months to indicate that for the last four months we have been adding a hundred thousand new jobs each month. Where was this news before the elections? Now the Republicans when they get into power can trot out these new economic statistics and say “Look, America is already back. Just the mere anticipation of our rule has turned this economy around”. Of course their chief complaint is that the taxes would be going up on January first. They have retroactively blamed every economic shortfall of the past three years on the fact that NEXT YEAR taxes will be going up. They have spoken of “uncertainty” in corporations hiring new workers. But as I have already said, jobs come not from the generosity of rich people, despite what Larry Elder says. Jobs come from increased demand as the common people have money in their pockets to spend on product which in turn creates a need for corporations to expand their work force. Democrats are still mad at Obama for being too conciliatory in his press conference a few days ago. Clearly Republicans do not want to compromise on anything but are proud obstructionists all the way. Harry Truman was not like this in 1948 when he ran for reelection. He did not point to his “going along with Republicans” as reason for his reelection. It cannot be over stressed that it was Obama’s left wing constituency that did not turn out to vote for him this past cycle. This was the difference in the election. It’s the president’s own fault that convress went to the Republicans. It wouldn’t have happened if the people who put Obama in office had come out to vote on Tuesday. Here’s another thought for you all. The person most responsible for the financial crisis of the past few years is none other than democrat Bill Clinton for bills he signed into law ten years ago. Dr. Levy doesn’t like Brown or Boxer or Obama, but calls himself a democrat because he liked Clinton. Personally I would think twice before making an idiotic statement like that. It’s true that this Oriental takeover of the economy was begun under Ronald Reagan. But Clinton passed N A F T A and later abolished Glass-Stiegal, which set up the whole financial crisis of the previous decade. Get off your meds long enough to let this one thought sink in before you go back to your prozac and your usual mental fog.

Of all the cop shooting of unarmed suspect cases that have happened I’m a little surprised at this Oscar Grant case in Oakland right now. It seems a white transit worker shot an unarmed Black man named Oscar Grant and how there are people protesting because the courts only gave the officer involved two years in prison. Usually officers get NO years in prison. Often the case is scarcely investigated at all. In this case there actually was a trial. Oscar Grant’s family says the subject was not resisting arrest. The officer says he was. He says he reached for his Tazer gun but instead got his service revolver and shot the man dead. Most officers don’t even have the Choice of a Tazer gun to use. Maybe if people protest more cases then consciousness will be raised. We know how little the media likes to cover protests nowadays. Hopefully this is in green italic font.

Keith Oberman was fired by CNBC last week for making a donation to a political campaign. The people at KNX radio spared no invective to describe how other stupid and thoughtless this act was and how a man like Oberman ought to know better. But I am puzzled. The people at KNX said “Of course you can’t compare NBC to Fox because Fox has a whole different set of standards. They allow people to be as overtly political in their off time as they please. Sean Hannity has given several thousand dollars to candidates of his choice and nobody says a word. But they are now saying if Keith had just had higher ratings he would not have been suspended. I guess that’s an object lesson to have high ratings. Of course that didn’t help Dan Rather at CBS. Rather was working on a basically factual story about George Bush’s draft dodging carrier and there was one questionable document involved and Rather was fired over it, ending a carrier of some fifty years. So high ratings are no guarantee.

This year has been pretty free of references to turning back the clock this weekend. I had wondered about it. It seems that the first reference to it definitely happening was this morning when Dana and Paul confirmed it. I did not hear it in the media till KNX radio had it on about 6:45 this morning. It seems that in Tijuana that up until this year they were already on standard time and their workers who crossed the border into San Diego every morning had to get up an hour earlier. Now nine cities along the border are allowed to stay on Daylight Savings time till this weekend.

I was just listening again to that “Purity” company advertisement info-mercial about their product with Co Q 10 and Resveritrol, which sounds like Resperidal, which is the drug I take. It seems resveritral is found in red wine and is the substance which “turns on” metabolism genes of the body that otherwise don’t get turned on unless you diet or fast or something and these genes promote good matabilism. They also put B 12 in their product that increases mental alertness and energy and clarity. As I have said I think I had a B 12 deficienty my senior year in high school because I did so bad in math and science that years. Perhaps it was the Stelezine but perhaps it was the lack of B 12. You know I’d only have a bowl of cereal in the mornings and junk food all day, and we had cheap dinners in those days like macaroni and cheese or tuna casseroles. As such I was lacking protein in my diet which contains B 12. Anyhow I’d use this product. Co Q 10 is not a gasoline additive. It is the secret energy substance that increases the body’s ability to make A T P, which is essential in energy. Co Q 10 is thee substance you have in abundance when you are younger but lose throughout life. So that’s it.