Obama Addresses Job Creation For Election Year (Video) and GOP ect..

Obama Addresses Job Creation For Election Year

“President Barack Obama’s “billion-dollar war chest”"

 

We are proud of it.

Still things seem to be going all right, toward reasonable directions. And there is an “INTRIGUING,“ “HILLARIOUS“  title of  Yahoo news.:

 

“The evangelical dilemma in South Carolina: adulterer or Mormon?” 

 

“For South Carolina conservatives, especially evangelical Christians, the 2012 campaign season is the year of magical rethinking. Look at the frontrunners:

If you want a president with a legacy of marital fidelity, you’re going to have to work around Newt Gingrich’s adultery.

If you believe that Mormons don’t really qualify as Christian, you may find yourself struggling with Mitt Romney.“

 

“almost-dead.bz.cm” you are none of my concern. you are too stupid, trivial, meaningless, filthy, same with your Russian whore and her stupid husband. YOU THINK I”M ALMOST DEAD?; your life has been useless, full of dirts with your dirty heart/eyes, even messing up churches with your filthy, dirty eyes. The LORD will deal with you, what you have done. not me. Despite all cruel/brutal things you’ve done to make me disappear, why do you think i’m still here?

“In your righteousness, bring me out of trouble. In your unfailing love, silence my enemies; destroy all my foes, for I am your servant.” “The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight. To the faithful you show yourself faithful, to the blameless you show yourself blameless, to the pure you show yourself pure, but to the crooked you show yourself shred. You saved the humble but bring low those whose eyes are haughty. You, O LORD, keep my lamp burning; my God turns my darkness into light…..You broaden the path beneath me, so that my ankles do not turn. I pursued my enemies and overtook them; I did not turn back till they were destroyed. I crushed them so that they could not rise; they fell beneath my feet. You armed me with strength for battle; you made my adversaries bow at my feet. You made my enemies turn their backs in flight, and I destroyed my foes. They cried for help, but there was no one to save them – to the LORD, but he did not answer. I beat them as fine as dust borne on the wind…“ “Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.”;  Psalms 18″ Thank G-.

“The Real News on Jobs”: Who’s Blame for Job Losses and Gains?

There is good news that US job situation and economy. Private sector created 222,000 new jobs in Feb 2011 and the unemployment rate decreased to the lowest point of 8.9% since April 2009. These new jobs were dominantly created in the sectors of “factories, trucking companies, health care providers, construction firms, hotels and restaurants”. Economists say that the US economy needs 125,000 new jobs per month to maintain steady unemployment rate account for population growth, and 300,000 new jobs per month to get serious decrease in unemployment rate.(http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_economy)

On the other hand, increasing oil prices, which is expected to continue through this summer, due to the political crises in Middle East and recent firing of public workers from state local governments are expected to be counteracting forces against this recovery of job-economy-condition.

Professor Robert Reich points out the problem of wage gap regarding the recent job growth (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-reich/the-real-news-on-jobs_b_831493.html):

“New jobs created since February 2010 (about 1.26 million) pay significantly lower wages than the jobs lost (8.4 million) between January 2008 and February 2010. While the biggest losses were higher-wage jobs paying an average of $19.05 to $31.40 an hour, the biggest gains have been lower-wage jobs paying an average of $9.03 to $12.91 an hour. In other words, the big news isn’t jobs. It’s wages.”

This deteriorating wage gap is understandable if we considered that the most recently job creating sectors have been “factories, trucking companies, health care providers, construction firms, hotels and restaurants” as mentioned above.

He points out:

Regarding Prof. Reich’s statement, “Conservative economists have it wrong. The underlying problem isn’t that so many Americans have priced themselves out of the global/high-tech labor market. It’s that they’re getting a smaller and smaller share of the pie.”

If we look into the detailed view of this “smaller smaller share of American worker’s pies, there are multi-layers of problems:

-The American Pie piece in Global Manufacturing Market is shrinking smaller and smaller.

-Inefficiences and bureacracies in most of US political, industrial entities and even labor unions have collectively contributed to the “dwindling American pies.” Loose government regulations on industries/business allowed these entities to take slices from workers’ pays and benefits, as seen in healthcare, housing/financial market messes, to bloat the wealth of high income groups while dwindling middle classes. But some part of labor also have their portion of blame for their shrinking pies: instead of focusing on working hard and increasing productivity to cut production costs and their global competitiveness, some of them (I am not talking about hard working workers. I praise them) has taken lazy approach of taking unheardly high paid vacation/sick days of almost one month out of twelve months while demanding high pays/benefits and protection of workers’ right, which seems to be inappropriate abuse of their right to protect their jobs. All these inefficiencies, bureaucracies from every entities sum up to “Slashed American Pie.” Everybody demand their right but don’t meet their performance requirements.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

always been waiting.

“The Left Edge of the Possible?”: “Actually Beyond Right and Left”

Respectable Mr. Robert Kuttner depicts the current national situation pretty well. As he points out in his blog, “The Left Edge of the Possible” (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-kuttner/the-left-edge-of-the-poss_b_828907.html), the real serious national political/economic issues are economic recovery and the budget, the health system, the banking/housing mess, American economic competitiveness in the world, rising gas price and global climate change.

Current national and global economic situation seems to become increasingly beyond the capacity of left and right of US politics. In other words, the right and left of US politics are increasingly limiting their abilityto smaller issues while being oblivious to eminent, bigger issues.  For example, Wisconsin Governor Walker’s attempt to rip of public workers’ right to organize that caused the consequent labor movement against it seems to be a complete sidetrack from what need to be done for the sake of solving current national issues of recession and joblessness, making things worse. Like there are not enough problems now.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Llord anoints Kking;”rainforest waterfalls”.

Current Recession: Isn’t It Rather the Problem of Malfunctioning Public than Incompetent Leader(s)?

A commentator,  jeanrenoire, made a comment of this country’s problems in response to Dr. Robert Reich’s blog, “What’s Ahead for the Economy and Politics in 2010” at Huffington Post.  Although the language is too rough for my ears, his/her comment contains  some truth regarding the core problems of this society, which have driven this country into wrong, self-destructive direction and led to current recession and historical unemployment. The comment is as below:

“No, the real “irony” is that the American masses are so stupid that the Republicans can get away with their economics for the rich, as they have ever since Reagan seduced the dumb mob of workers into believing that it was “morning in America” for them, when it was only “morning” for the fat cats he fronted for. Now, with Fox, Rush, and Palin fronting for these same fat cats with 24/7 spin-control, the stupid white American mob is more hypnotized and dumber than ever. The dolts have neither an attention span, a memory, or the rational capacity to do anything other than be dittoheads. Hence they can hardly wait to vote the Republicans into power, to reward them for the glorious eight years under Bush, in which the economy was bubbling, New Orleans was obliterated, and we wasted thousands of the mob’s kids’ lives in Iraq, along with a couple of trillion dollars of debt any of their kids who survived will be paying for for the rest of their lives. We spent MUCH more on nothing in Iraq than Obama’s stimulus plan and all his other efforts (wildly successful, by the way) to keep us out of an economic abyss of unique proportions, all caused by Bushonomics and benign neglect of Wall St. and everything else on earth, including the rebuilding Taliban and Al Qaeda, “left behind” in Afghanistan/Pakistan. White lower-class, uneducated voters are America’s tragedy. They’ve voted for disaster, and they’ve gotten it.”

There’s little hope for “CHANGE” without clearly communicating and educating the facts of current economic /social problems with the mass public, especially those who live in isolated regions, such as farming, mountain, or remote areas where people less or seldom communicate with neighbors, receive less internet service, less TV channels and less current information, and more cling to old ideas and believes. Changes come faster, more easily in urban areas, cities because people keep talking, communicating with each other and information/news travel fast among people. Sure, there must have been some misjudgments and mistakes on the administration’s part in dealing with the details of reform efforts. But, when the bulk of public (and politicians) don’t understand facts well, are thinking wrongly, block every reform efforts, and claim it’s all the reformer(s) falts, does it make sense?”

Without solving these communication/education problems with the mass public, there would be few real solutions to dig this country out of current chronic structural diseases.

Dr. Robert Reich’s blog, “What’s Ahead for the Economy and Politics in 2010”, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-reich/whats-ahead-for-the-econo_b_411640.html

US Self-Sufficiency, No Trade, Global Isolation / Protectionism, and Collective Sliding into Poorer US.

The night before Thanksgiving, there was one person’s comment to my Huffpost comment that insisted on the isolation of US economy from the world, protectionism, and the lie of globalization.  As there must be a lot of people who share the same opinion as this person’s, I want to clarify their misunderstanding as much as possible. The contents of the comment is listed as below:

danarothrock replied on Nov 25, 2009 at 16:55:50

“Tarrifs were not the main cause of the 1930s depression. The cause was the exact same financial casino gambling that brought us down this time. Hence, the Glass-Steagall Act, which was repealed in 1999.

America grew strong in isolation and protectionism. We produced almost everything we needed, except rum, coffee and bananas.

Globalization – “Flat Earth” – has been the theory that has destroyed the economy of this country and several other countries. We are on the losing end of every “Free Trade” agreement. We are trading jobs for foreign workers. The Ex-Im Bank and Overseas Private Investment Corporation (two agencies of the US Treasury) are funding $billions every year for American companies to move overseas. 67% of American corporations have plans to increase offshore operations. Do some research on “protectionism”. “Globalization is a LIE.”

My Response was:

Although I am tired, sleepy now. I am still almost sure that “tariffs, protectionism” were the causes of Great Depression. That’s why, since then, there were  international multilateral negotiations to reduce tariffs worldwide and not to repeat the same bad experience of tariff imposition / protection. If you were not sleepy, please check the fact and let me know !

Regarding “America grew strong in isolation and protectionism,” this is the most “RIDICULOUS” statement that I have ever heard! You want to put this country in economic, political exile away from the rest of world and cut off its position of economic and political superpower in the world to degrade into poorer and poorer country? Let me guess. You must have never left your block of town to travel around and see the reality of the world.

What do we trade off by engaging in world trade?

LOSS :

Some labor-intensive manufacturing jobs as imports of those goods gain domestic market sales.

GAIN:

A. Gaining of export-related jobs (this is one reason of why the White House wish China to save US economy and unemployment problem through their purchase of US goods);

B. Cheaper imported goods make us be able to buy more goods, more foods, clothings, electronics, etc with same income. We feel richer when we can consume cheaper import goods; we feel poorer when cheap imports are not available and we have to buy more expensive domestically produced goods (please compare the numbers of grocery items that, with $100, we can buy from Wal-Mart (many of them cheap imports) and from a rather expensive grocery store. You will feel the difference of how much we can consume more or less with same income depending on whether cheaper imports are available to us or not.

Without cheap imports, we may save some jobs of ours or our fellow workers, but we altogether/collectively have to eat less food, wear less clothings and shoes, buy less toy…overall we will feel poorer without trade than when we have imports.

It would be a choice of what we prefer.

Unemployment: Blaming it on Wrong Causes? Why don’t we Blame it on Wrong Industrial Structure?

There was a comment to a blog about unemployment disaster by Adrianna Huffington. A person, nicknamed as Gatormouth, commented as below:

“ This obsession with pushing job creation as the central problem by pundits and politicians is a possibly deliberate distraction. The problem has been with retention of domestic investment capital and the exportation of existing and newly created jobs. Fair and reciprocal trade has been slandered as “Protectionism”. But “Free Trade” as practiced amounts to the equivalent of unilateral disarmament, a form of National suicide.”

My answer to this person is as below:

“Your comment is interfering with my Thanksgiving meal preparation and doing other fundamental living/bear- necessities.

This obsession with “Caring only for reducing Budget Deficits and Costs of doing whatever,” and “Having Nothing To Do /Doing Nothing” for “Recovering Economy and Helping with Unemployed People” as the central problem by “Misguided” politicians and people is a “Deliberate distraction for this country”.

The problem has “NOT” been with retention of domestic capital investment and the exportation of existing and newly created jobs. It has been the wrongly structured Economic Activities / Industrial Structure of this country, in which the major economic activities and growth have occurred in trading money in financial sector and having people enjoy good lifestyles via service and retailing sectors while US competitiveness in marketing and production of manufacturing goods have been staggeringly, delusively deteriorated by continuously producing goods that less and less people get interested in buying. Keep investing on businesses, production capacities or financial services, in which the executives keep producing products that nobody wants to buy, or legally robe investors’ money, does it help?

As far as I remember, the US government’s imposing “Tariffs” on international trade around the 1930s was one of the main causes of “Great Depression” !!! (apology if I were mistaken; there’s a saying that dog trainers don’t train female dogs because they forget their learned tricks after delivering puppies)

(Reference: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/will-the-unemployment-dis_b_368329.html?page=2&show_comment_id=35184189)

Job Creation: Do we need the Second Recover Package and Other Measures?: Comment to Adrianna Huffington’s Blog

In her blog, “Will the Unemployment Disaster be Obama’s Katrina?” published on November 23, 2009 at Huffington Post blog, Ms. Adrianna Huffington talks about the need of 2^nd Economic Recovery Package for the goal of creating jobs. In the blog, she presents four prevalent ideas of alleviating the current unemployment situations as below:

1.  Use Wall Street bailout funds left in the TARP program to bail out Main Street (using money for small businesses, public services).

2.  Enact a one-year payroll tax holiday (creating a moratorium on Social Security, Medicare, and FICA taxes will encourage businesses to hire new workers).

3. Expand the Small Business Association’s lending programs (45 percent of all job losses have been at small businesses).

4. Offer businesses a tax credit for every new job created over the next 12 months, or have the government pay a portion of the salary of new workers hired over the same period.

From my perspective, I agree Suggestion #1. I think that the government should even require the refund of some portion of the bailout money from “Big Banks” and the return of those banks’ bonuses to their Executives, which were overpaid unjustifiably or through loopholes. These executives failed in their jobs and don’t deserve to be rewarded for their failures; they should not be even called as “Talents” when they actually drove their companies into bankruptcies. What kind of strange definition of “Talents”?

Suggestion #2 sounds good, but with side effect. The government needs money to support states or public projects or in case of further need of another recovery package in future, in addition to current huge budget deficits. If the government enacts payroll tax holiday, where the government will make up for its huge (I guess) income loss? As Dr. Krugman suggested, borrow money from other countries at low interest rates?

Suggestions #3 and #4 sound good. But the focal point at this point seems to be “how to stimulate consumer spending / consumption”, which is predicted to be continuously sluggish even in 2010. Without consumer spending starting to resume at their normal rate, helping out with supply, business side alone may have limited effect on job creation.

(Reference: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/will-the-unemployment-dis_b_368329.html?show_comment_id=35184189#comment_35184189).

Coin Conspiracy, Penny Conspiracy, and Ms. Palin

In the morning of hearing Ms. Palin’s coin conspiracy, my 5 yrs old Kindergartner and I practiced “Kindergarten Math” using coins. The kind of addition and deduction thingy. We called it “Penny Conspiracy.”

I read that Ms. Sarah Palin is going to wage a “War against “New Class” of intellectuals, government bureaucrats…and parasitic elites.” (Reference: Jacob Heilbrunn, “Sarah palin’s Slap Shot,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jacob-heilbrunn/sarah-palins-slap-shot_b_357178.html)

My first response was a sigh…. Holly s…….sheep (goat or cow, by the way, God bless Ms. Palin! If she is meant to be).

In respect to the official, surfacial bipartisan standpoint of Gop and Dem, I’d respect any presidential candidates from any political parties, as far as they are qualified for the JOB and have sincere mind, political talents, and put up hard work on themselves to qualify for.

If Ms. Palin is serious about running for Presidency, I would expect her to do her best to equip, surround herself with qualified advisors, experts, and educate/train herself to get ready for the next bid !

Instead, I am hearing that she is planning to wage a “Class War” against people who went colleges, read about issues more than usual folks, educated themselves more than usual, and raise their voices on social, political issues more than usual. I hear that she is planning this war in the midst of recession, along with endless numbers of insurmountable international and domestic conflicts. She wants to do it like there are few problems in this country, so it’s necessary to create one to energize it?

After the disastrous former presidency, even simple-minded folks, who voted for beer-buddy-looking candidate, said that they don’t want President who acts like them and stammers in middle sentences. They declare that they want President who doesn’t look like them, a non-stammer, “the one” who is able to handle the complicate JOB of being President, wanting not to be pushed into another  “RECESSION” !

Even when ordinary folks changed their mind and prefer non-stammering President, Ms. Palin talks about waging a war against non-stammering politician folks (in professional terms, are they called “new class” intellectuals?)?

Instead of working hard on training and teaching herself for the BIG JOB, are we expected to see Ms. Palin waste her time on this kind of MISSION? Isn’t she expected to be a “Uniter” of the country, instead of being a “Divider.”Also, arn”t there enough serious international and domestic problems that U.S. is facing now?

Instead of solving them, Ms. Palin wants to create, add one more problem?