I’m sick of all these sky-is-falling doomsayers wringing their hands and gnashing their teeth over today’s unemployment figures. The recovery is under way, Obama’s stimulus and jobs programs are gaining traction, the national mood is brighter, and – after the historic passage of the healthcare reform bill by President Obama, with its billions of dollars in savings - a great weight has been lifted off the American worker. You can see it in their step and hear it in their whistle as they head off each morning.
The conservative media is determined to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory because they want Obama to fail. Here’s how it works: the economic "forecasters" – a gussied-up name for a bunch of ex-Wall St flunkies who can’t do real work – pull a number out of their asses that they know will never be hit. The only aim is to goose the expectations so high that the data will never meet them. When the numbers come out, instead of celebrating that nonfarm payrolls dropped by only 23,000, we are moaning over not hitting a bogus number pulled out of the asses of Wall Street shylocks to embarrass President Obama.
Want the REAL jobs number? Look around. Everywhere, there are signs of recovery. Wal-Mart and Target are more crowded than ever; kids still have cellphones pressed to their heads 24/7 (and now they’re on even more expensive data plans!); movies are mobbed at $15 a ticket, and the mobs last for weeks even to see diarrhea like Alice in Wonderland and Avatar; Americans are willing to pay for gimmicks – 3D flatscreens are flying off the shelves only months after Americans dropped a couple g’s on their current flatscreens; you STILL don’t see any cars older than 8 years in parking lots; women still pour billions into professional hair coloring, waxing their va-ja-jas, and the latest useless fashion (and some men do too - most of these guys end up in the Progressive Insurance ads); kids are still fat and getting fatter, not the sign of a country on the decline); people still shell out upwards of $100 clams a month to get cable channels that are half ads (and the other half CSI and Law & Order reruns); there are no food riots or protests in the street like in Europe; and the nation eagerly awaits the latest Apple toy – a useless oversized iTouch that will fly off the shelves this weekend and will be obsolete in two months. Tell me, would people in a declining economy throw money away like that? Of course not.
We are in the recovery now, things are getting brighter by the day, and President Obama is guiding this great nation with steady hand and keen eye toward its greatest days.