Sign at the Indianapolis Tea Party yesterday: "I am not your ATM." Sums it up pretty well, I think.

Oh, and Bill Whittle was our main speaker. He was awesome. *enjoys your seething jealousy*

So this is what Barry's laser like focus on the economy gets you.

Lasers blow up shit.

Just sayin'....

Posted by: joncelli at April 16, 2010 12:25 PM (RD7QR)

give him time

Racist cracker.

I'm curious, I know I am definately a cracker, however, my husband is of all italian descent. I don't think he makes it to craker status. What about my children? Are they crackers? How cracker do you have to be to be a cracker? One of them is lighter skined than the other, could he be a cracker or not? This problem is also an issue in their guido-ness? Are they Cuidos or Grackers? or do they just pick one like Obama did?

Posted by: Nice Deb at April 16, 2010 12:29 PM (Xo/IU)

works for me, I don't have my glasses on

Posted by: geoff at April 16, 2010 12:30 PM (/Rlkr)

Are you he?  If so, let me make a suggestion: more snark.

Is that a graph? Or a chart? Or maybe a visual stimulus package.

Someone's playing fast and loose with the language here.

Unemployment traditionally fluctuates due to Halloween and the attendent after-Halloween candy overstock sales.

Do not discount the effects of Columbus Day.

Right into the abyss, I tell you.

That graph looks like a neo-Nazi flag.  I see how you racist teabaggers have just separated the parts of the swastika.  Your tricks won't work on me.  You're all banned from the internets in perpetuity.

I bid you adieu.

P.S.  Don't forget to pre-order the 2011 calender.  Supplies go quickly!

Holy expanding blog, Batman!  Is it about to capsize and join the fate of beloved Guam?

Nice work by Geoff as usual.

Say, the unemployment trend after The Won spoke is remarkedly similar to a hockey stick..

Posted by: Barry O. at April 16, 2010 12:32 PM (1fanL)

Tell that to your census form

Posted by: geoff at April 16, 2010 12:37 PM (/Rlkr)

Just saying.  It's a snarket-rich environment.

Handbasket futures way up.

Goldman Sachs has a hedge fund that thinks otherwise.

65 jimmy

if you crack corn, i don't care

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If you look closely it's about to resonate out of control. 

No, closer.    Somewhere around, say, cinco de cuatro.

they are going to implement another stimulus.........top wage earners will see taxes increased 12k to cover it....mid wage earners will see theirs go up $1,200.00 low earners will see theirs go up $4.

Something bothers me there.  If I could just put my finger on it.

Posted by: Jimmy at April 16, 2010 12:42 PM (7VvJB)

That's doubtful.  Whoever is observing you crack corn doesn't care because his (her?) master has died.  If you were a cracker, you wouldn't have been cracking corn.

Posted by: dagny at April 16, 2010 12:44 PM (UaoUM)

Depends on who you ask.  I've been told that crackers are white supremacists.  Rednecks are just good honest folk who work bent over all day and get sunburn on their necks.

Posted by: Mjim at April 16, 2010 12:46 PM (V8B//)

I thought it came from slaveowners cracking their whips.  And the rednecks only beat their wifes when they done sumpin' to deserve it.

I've heard a lot of the old wise heads saying that the GOP shouldn't make too much hay out of the down economy, on the theory that if and when it ticks back up the "defeatism" will hurt the GOP at the polls. I don't think that's necessarily true, mainly because I don't see the economy improving enough by the midterms to give the Democrats anything to crow about. But even on a more fundamental level, I think it's both wise and truthful to point out that there is a lot of real damage in the economy that an up stock market won't (and can't) fix.

The first and most glaring problem is obviously the looming catastrophe of under-funded (or unfunded) public-sector entitlements: mainly pensions and health-care. This is a $3 trillion burden that rests mainly on the states right now, but everyone knows that the Feds will step in before the states default on their GO bonds (California, New York, and Michigan will be interesting tests of their resolve). But no one is declaring the full value of these burdens on the public books, so the (very real) costs stay hidden. But not for much longer.

The second problem is public *spending*. As Milton Friedman said, I'd rather have a $1 trillion government with $1 trillion in debt than a $2 trillion government with no debt at all. Remember: a government is not a creator of wealth. It only eats, and the bigger it gets the more it eats.

The final problem is demography, both in the US and the rest of the world. By 2050 I suspect that the world will have a surfeit of old people being supported by an ever-shrinking class of younger workers. Japan is the bellwether here, but China is not far behind. This could have some really calamitous and unforseen consequences: social upheavals, wars, famines, all kinds of bad shit. (Instead of a Malthusian cruch of too many people, it looks like we're instead going to have a world full of grey-haired unproductive people being tended by an ever-shrinking pool of young 'uns. Who'd 'a thunk it?)

Posted by: phoenixgirl at April 16, 2010 12:41 PM (OqTsN) 

Why do I rob banks?  Because that's where the money is.  Pretty much the same idea.

Aha...so my family and I are just plain ol' white trash.

Pfft. I grew up in rural Wyoming. In a trailer. In a single parent home. At least 30% of my relatives have a felony arrest record. Up to 60% have misdemeanor arrests. Mother, sister, and all aunts and uncles were heavy smokers at one time or another, and a substantial fraction are aficionados of the fermented brew. Our lineage comes from Georgia and Texas, via Ye Olde World Scots-Irish-English (ruffians, n'e'r-do-wells, vagabonds, thieves, cut-throats, and riff-raff generally).

I yield to no one regarding my white-trash redneck ancestry. They's my peoples and I luvs 'em.

Unemployment just reached 11% in Ohio.

Of course the Dems would rather discuss why Hannity bailed on the Tea Party last night.

Priorities, dontcha know.

You just know that some kind of insane, effective-short-term-only, utterly unsustainable, economic 'stimulus' thing is coming between now and November, to create an effect that can be parlayed into an illusion of recovery.

What will it be? I can't figure it out, since as far as I know, they've already shot every wad available.

Hell, maybe it will just be an empty propaganda offensive with no new actions to back it up.

Yea, but everyone knows Ohio is racist.

So I've been told. So I've been told...

The problem with the trend is that it appears it's going to be stretched out over a long period of time.

I think a lot of it is the economic equivalent of Brownian motion. There is a mean around which the value oscillates, but the ups and downs are unconnected to any real external reality.

My ancestry mirrors the one Jim Webb describes in his book. Then he turned lib and put us to shame.

PA?  Long time lurker, occasional commenter.  I can show ya where to "query" option volume if you're interested.  It won't show you who traded, just what was traded.  It's a pretty handy web site.

Something

I yield to no one regarding my white-trash redneck ancestry. They's my peoples and I luvs 'em.

Directions to my mom's house used to include "turn off the paved road."  When I first joined the Army, my emergency notification directions to her place included "stop at local store and ask for directions."  She was a coal miner, now retired.