Thank You Massachusetts!

In previous posts I had lambasted the American “sheeple” for not taking any interest in their government, politics, and for taking at face value whatever the “lamestream” media feeds them whether it be FOX, CNN, MSNBC, ABC, NBC, or CBS.

Apparently I was wrong as the two million strong voting public of the great state of Massachusetts proved yesterday in electing Republican Scott Brown over Democrat Martha Coakley by an overwhelming majority. This in a state where a Democrat has held on to the senate seat for more than 45 years and where Democrats outnumber Republicans by a margin of 3 to 1, and in a state where President Obama won by more than 25 points! If this isn’t a clear and resounding message to President Obama and the royal elite in the controlling democrat congress that even their own constituents are rebelling then I don’t know what is and they better sit up, get off their high horses and take notice for all their jobs are on the line from today forward, both republican and democrat!

How ironic that it comes exactly one year from President Obama’s inauguration! Is this a message or what!

Does this mean that Massachusetts has turned republican? No it doesn’t. Not in the least. It means that the Average Joe, who is overwhelming Independent today regardless of party affiliation, has finally gone to the window, opened it, and said,”I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore!” And they showed that yesterday in a die-hard democratic state with their overwhelming vote against a democratic congress and a democratic president who is hellbent on taking America into Socalism!

The holier-than-thou ruling elite thought they had Massachusetts in the bag and paid no heed to the election. “This is Ted Kennedy’s seat”, they said and were so sure of keeping it. After all, Coakley had a 21 point lead just a few weeks ago, and Massachusetts had always been democrat so why pay attention? The “sheeple” have always voted democrat and they will do so again, or so they thought. What an embarrassing slap in the face to Nancy Pelosi, President Obama, Harry Reid and everyone in congress.

Republicans have already started jumping on Scott Brown and embracing him as one of their own and see his victory as their key to victory over a democratic congress later this year.The truth is Scott Brown is more of an independent than a die hard conservative Republican and is just what the country needs right now. In fact we need more of his type! He never said he was a republican nor did he tout it in his campaign and the republican party, thinking he could never win, never supported him so he beholden to no one!

We need more people like Scott Brown who will not hold true to the “party line” and will vote for what is right and not because they have been arm twisted by the party to vote one way or another or who received massive campaign contributions from their party or from special interest groups or from big corporations. If Scott Brown keeps his word, and I hope he will and not succumb to the greed that is Washington, he will be more of a maverick that Senator John McCain could ever hope to be.

One word of caution to the Republicans: Don’t you for one second think this election means that the people prefer you over democrats as your job is just as much in jeopardy as the democrats’. This is not business as usual anymore. The Average Joe is wise to your ways and is beginning to realize, albeit a little late, that you are both two sides of the same coin and will say anything to get elected.

President Obama said what the people wanted to hear, got elected, failed to keep his promise of “the most open government in history”, among others, and he is now paying the price as will many other democrats and probably republicans as the Average Joe realizes we need more Scott Browns than the same old tired people over and over and over again and get nothing but the samo samo corrupt politicians who care not what Average Joe thinks, but does whatever he/she can to line their own pockets.

One must understand that this election was not a referendum against President Obama, it was a referendum against politics as usual. With unemployment at record highs, factories closing and moving offshore at the behest of an approving, rich congress who approved their closing with tax credits, the dollar in the toilet and a national debt reaching into the trillions, the Average Joe finally realizes how crooked both democrats and republicans are. This was a referendum against big government, against politics as usual, against forced socialism, against big pharma and big corporations, against democrats AND republicans, against big bailouts for Wall Street and Goldman Sachs, et al, etc, etc.

The sad part is that poor Martha Coakly will be made the scapegoat when she received no help whatsoever from the democratic party until the very last weekend when they realized they lost their 21 point lead. They were so sure of winning that they felt they need not waste any money on a “done deal”. After panic set in,  it was too little too late. President Obama has now failed four times. He failed in Virginia, he failed in New Jersey, he failed in Copenhagen, and now he has failed in Massachusetts.

Will President Obama get the message? I fear not as he feels he is worshiped by the American people as they elected him, but he should note that it was the Independents that elected him and not the democrats and now the Independents are pissed at “politics as usual” with deals being made behind closed doors, bribes being given to states like Nebraska, unions being bought off with tax breaks for their “Cadillac health programs”, closed door meetings with the big pharmaceutical companies, etc, etc, etc. Blah, blah blah. Failure to heed this message Mr. President will mean your downfall and those of your  party and don’t try and spin it please as the Average Joe is now awake and will not take it anymore. This is not your fathers congress anymore! Get it?

The only we are going to get true change is if we vote all the old, tired bastards out and elect all independents or those that think the way the Average Joe does. It worked yesterday and it can work again. We CAN turn this country around. If Scott Brown stays true to his beliefs and does what he promised it will be a message to all that they can succeed if they campaign on what they truly believe. Only the next nine months will tell.

And those seeking office in congress this year better take heed that the majority of voters today are independent like myself. I may be  a registered Republican, but I have voted against party lines many times and even voted for independents and libertarians. I vote for those I believe think the way I do and everyone should vote that way. The hell with party. They have an agenda and it does not include you! Get that through your head, understand it, and vote for anyone who believes what you believe in. If they don’t live upo to what they promise, vote them out next time.

Keep your word Scott Brown, keep to your principles, do not succumb to the party or greed or bribes or international corporations, and you will, you can, change the face of American politics for your children, our children, your grandchildren and for generations to come. We will truly revert back to a representative republic and not a democracy as Sarah Palin, among others, love to point out and say. Democracy is “mob rule” and that was never more evident than what we have seen with a democratic majority in congress and a democratic president, much as we seen in the 90′s with a republican majority in congress and a republican congress. It doesn’t work. We need checks and balances.

America is a representative republic and you, Scott Brown, can truly epitomize that by being a representative of the people as you promised. You were elected by the people. Now it’s up to you to to prove that we are a government by the people and for the people. Good luck!

Jobs Are NOT Coming Back! Period!

The front page headline in this past Saturdays paper screamed, “Recovery Hopes Sag As More Jobs Lost”.

In a story from Tribune Washington Bureau it started, “The U.S. economy ended the worst year of employment losses since the Great Depression with an unexpectedly large new drop of 85,000 jobs in December – dimming hopes of a quick upswing in hiring and intensifying Washington’s partisan fight over how to create more opportunities for workers.

“The unemployment rate for the month was unchanged from November at 10 percent, the government said Friday, but that was only because droves of people – including many discouraged about the prospects of finding work – dropped out of the labor force and were no longer counted as unemployed.” (emphasis added)

Excuse me? Not counted as unemployed? Droves of people dropping out and they are not included and we are told that the unemployment rate remains “unchanged from November at 10 percent”! How stupid does the US government think the average Joe is? Apparently they think he is pretty stupid and will take at face value that things must be getting better since the unemployment remains unchanged. Give me a freaking break!

The government is afraid of telling the true unemployment rate, which is probably more around 17 – 18 percent, if these “discouraged workers” were included. Instead they mask the truth with what they call the “official unemployment rate” and the sucker average Joe takes it a face value. When a person’s unemployment benefits run out they are no longer included in the ranks of the unemployed. The same holds true for people who take much lesser paying jobs or work 2-3 part-time jobs in order to make ends meet while looking for better employment. Only people collecting unemployment benefits are included and this gives a false, misleading number to the average Joe.

This is along the lines of when the government tells us the inflation rate for the previous month. They tell us “core inflation” remains low or unchanged, or up a bit, but what they refuse to tell us is that this BS “core inflation” does not include gasoline or food prices. Again, what a freaking crock of BS because gasoline and food prices are what Americans spend most of their money on. Incorporate these numbers into the “official inflation” rate and they would be way higher and congress would be hearing it from their constituents.

All the average Joe hears is “unemployment” and “inflation” and and has no idea what is omitted from these numbers. Yes, they honestly believe we are that naive, uninformed, and dumb and sadly they are right and the lamestream media goes along with it perpetuating they myth of “official” numbers from the government.

The unemployment story goes on to say that, “administration officials cautioned that the overall unemployment numbers might get worse before the hoped-for turnaround. Obama, speaking Friday at the White House, said overall job trends were still promising. When he took office in the first quarter of last year, the nation lost an average of 691,000 jobs a month. That fell to 69,000 monthly jobs in the fourth quarter.”

So, does this mean that losing 69,000 monthly jobs mean things are getting better? Does it not mean that there are fewer jobs to lose as most companies have already cut to the bone and moved most of their manufacturing overseas and that there will probably be more losses coming as they continue to cut costs? I believe it does. And trust me, unemployment numbers will get worse before they get better and a so-called turnaround will not come for a long, long time. Also, what do they mean by “overall job trends are still promising”? I see nothing promising except the promise that more jobs will be lost, albeit if in fewer numbers.

The story goes on to say that, according to President Obama, the latest unemployment numbers “are a reminder that the road to recovery is never straight and that we have to continue to work every single day to get our economy moving again. For most Americans, and for me, that means jobs.”

Uh, excuse me Mr. President, please tell the average Joe how you plan to get the economy moving again when virtually nothing of any value is made in the USA anymore and that more and more manufacturing and engineering/white collar jobs are moving to China and India respectively on a daily basis while you and the congress do nothing to stem the tide but instead encourage it. Pray tell Mr. President how you are working “every single day” to get our economy moving again for, when one takes a hard look, there is nothing being done. Nothing!

Do you even know Mr. President that raw lumber is being shipped to China from Oregon and Washington state for processing and then shipped back to the US because it is cheaper to ship it there and then ship it back than process it here in the US? Of course you do and you and congress encourage it with tax incentives for these corporations.

The truth is that, for this average Joe and for most average Joe’s for that matter, jobs are not coming back for many years. And when they do we’ll be manufacturing products at low wages for the Chinese!

The US stock market may look good and seem to be rising to the average Joe, who falsely believes that this means that the economy is getting better, when the real truth is that these international conglomerates are making their profits on the backs of cheap Chinese and Indian labor with no EPA, OSHA, and other governmental restrictions and safeguards in place and are parking their profits offshore and not paying taxes. Of course they are making profits. How can they not make huge profits? But it is not because things are getting better here in the US, it’s because things are getting better in China to the tune of thousands of jobs a month. Why pay a worker in the US $15/hr and all the expensive restrictions in place when you can make the same product in China for $1/hr and still charge the sucker average Joe in the US the same retail price as if the product were made in the USA? It’s genius and the average Joe sheeple/sucker just goes along with it because he is uninformed and ignorant and unwilling to have a backbone and do something about it.

Also, if one thinks that if we get rid of a Democrat congress and elect a Republican one that things will get better trust me, they will not. Both Republicans and Democrats are on the payroll of big business and nothing will change. The only thing that will bring change is when Independents are given access to the ballot box. But that is a long uphill climb as restrictions were put in place some years back that make it virtually impossible for Independents to get on the ballot or be allowed into the presidential debates.

Until the average Joe finally awakens to the scam government we have and finally realizes that they do not, never have, and never will have, the wishes of their constituents in mind or do what’s best for their constituents, things will only get worse.

Face it, jobs are gone for a long, long time and will not come back, if ever, regardless of what you read in the paper or hear on the news or what your president says or what your congressman/woman says because they are beholden to big business and not you! Get that through your head and do something about it and maybe, maybe, things will change. Based on past experience, I doubt very much the average Joe will awaken and do what is necessary to get what was once a great country back on its feet again.

Things in the US will get way worse before they get better, if ever. Unemployment will continue to soar, more jobs will be off-shored, the US dollar will get weaker, national debt, at an all time high, will continue to increase, and the average Joe will continue to beg the government for help and suckle at the teat of government welfare while, in return, giving away more and more of the freedoms that made this country great rather than do what needs to be done and that is to stand up and vote the bastards out of office, both Republican and Democrat. Sadly, I believe it may be too late as too many of our so-called representatives have been bought out by big business lobbyists who now control our government.

As an oft used quote says, due to ignorance and apathy, “People get the government they deserve”, and like sheep led to the slaughter house they will just follow the sheep in front and will get what they deserve because they can’t, and refuse to, think for themselves and will take at face value what they hear on the news and from the people that are supposed to be representing them when it is all just a lie.