U.S. Election 2012

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Get the sheet off my face?

Dude, did you just call me a f*****g klansman?

Where did you even get the idea that any issue I have with Obama is based on skin color? It's based on the fact that he's not only an incompetent leader, but also a blatant progressive socialist. The only thing I'm guilty of here is properly labeling him. Of course, if you want to get into the whole skin color issue, you can talk about how the Democratic party demonizes white males, like you just did, and how they use race/gender/homophobia baiting to push fiscal policies that fly in the face of common sense. Like spending over $2,000,000,000 on companies that design solar panels even though they function at 1% of the efficiency of tradition fuels. Then they wonder why they go belly up. Then at the same time they use an unelected govt agency to fight a war on those same fossil fuels, keeping us dependent on imports from countries that only export two things, oil and suicide bombers.

Moral of that story: Social policy and Fiscal Policy are about as compatible as francium and water.

Look it up.

Oh, BTW. As a white male, I'm broke and so are a lot of other white males. Being a white male is not guarantee of success, it's just a guarantee of being demonized by everyone who isn't a white male.

Now who's wearing the sheet?

I wasn't particularly excited about Obama, but I think he's a better option than Romney.
The main thing I'm taking away from this election is the realization that one of my Facebook friends from high school has gone bat-shyte crazy. As in, this person went on a rant that included Bible quotes and suggestions that the end of the world is nigh. Quite the eye-opener.

Yeah, he's a lame duck, alright.

So ... the corporate culture now has 3 years to find a new candidate.

They'd better get started, and they'd better find someone worth voting for this time.

The bad news is the meaning of words,

Post Industrial, it does not mean going back to farming, it means jobs that lasted twenty and even fifty years, no longer exist.

Globalization, means the low labor costs and cheap shipping make jobs go to the lowest cost areas.

We complain about China, but for the last few decades the British have been complaining about us.

Technology is the means of doing the same job with less people. The computer killed more jobs than anything.

Lights out factories are the future, and the Chinese will complain about robots.

Retailing and marketing have been done in by mass production, every day low prices.

Universities and Libraries used to produce and store knowledge in books. At the best they were ten years behind, now Goggle is almost real time.

Newspapers, News Week, withstood TV, but lost to computers.

Print ads are gone with printed material.

Medical services are holding up, computer programers, Engineers, but most fields have more people than work.

Everything I have ever done has become obsolete in a few years.

The only things that have kept us going were bubbles.

Now we have to face long term unemployment, declining values, in real estate, just as we accepted every day low prices at Walmart.

In our ever upward concept of progress, we have priced ourselves out of the market.

Also the demographic shift, people live a lot longer, there are less young people, and they get stuck in extended childhoods.

Besides that the War Babies are just hitting retirement, where they become a major cost for the next twenty five years.

It is not politics or government that has produced this problem, nor will they produce an answer.

One cannot blame business, technology, egghead professors, or all the people who think their politics, religion, or sexuality are the defining issues of the time.

It is the result of actions taken long ago, not planned, that seemed like a good idea at the time.

Now each worker will be supporting half a retired person, plus paying for their own. Costs continue to rise, real wages decline, and then there are the bread lines, support for the unemployed, which come before support for your family.

There is not enough to make it.

We thought the pill and abortion reduced the young, now record low births year after year. That means those born will have to support a larger group of retired.

We have been getting by on debt, war, the artifical economy, but that is not supportable.

First it was credit card debt, funding a consumer economy, then education debt which has passed that, put on a generation that has never worked, and will never be able to go in debt to consume. Past debts like housing, now are greater than the value of the house, and prices continue to decline, as the smaller student debt unemployed generation cannot get a mortgage.

Valuing the stock market in Oil, up 700%, Gold, up 500%, since the Bush decline, when the market hit 10,000, and the dollar was worth something, the current market in equal dollars would be between 2,000 and 3,000. That was the stored wealth for pension plans.

Having bread lines and a government to pick up the dead to bury in trenchs would be one of the better outcomes.

It could get real ugly.

Well that was fun.

Gains in the Senate and House too. And "Obamacare" is here to stay.