Take a good look at the graph above. This is from the St. Louis Federal Reserve. Yesterday, and last night, I heard about an economy currently, “firing on all cylinders,”. What the above graph shows is the percentage of Americans who actually have jobs as compared to the entire population. This is called the labor force participation rate. The more astute among you might notice that the graph shows bad news irrespective of the reported unemployment rate coming down over the last couple of years. This shows that the percentage of Americans with jobs had not only declined sharply during the 2008 and 2009 time period, but never recovered in the slightest. This my fellow gentle snow flakes is what those of us who live here call reality. In the land of reality, we don’t have Unicorns to ride, and the Green Fairy has not provided the jobs of the future as promised by a man child President wielding a magic wand. In the land of reality, a record number of Americans now need federal assistance in order to feed their families. In that land, 1 in 5 among us are on food stamps, a percentage that matches the reality of the Great Depression which occurred during the 1930’s. In the land of reality, nearly one half of all Americans are not working. That is what 5 years of Obamanomics have done for us. We may be destined to experience 3 more years, with the ability to mitigate the final two of them, but there is no reason why we should subjugate ourselves further beyond that point. (Here’s my shout out to the impeach him now crowd. Even if we impeach this pock on our nation, that would give us a President Biden, which would in no way be different.)
Unfortunately for our friends who live in that Unicorn infested Universe, reality has some very real consequences that tend to intrude themselves upon both the believers and non-believers alike. When the President and his minions use accounting tricks to obfuscate the unemployment rate, and more specifically the labor statistics which drive that headline, it will produce not one steak more for the tables of Americans sitting down to enjoy their meals. People know the difference between actual groceries, and those wonderful food pellets that are doubtless on our horizon should we continue down this Socialist path. When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1989, the citizenry who lived under that oppressive system invited the world in to see an entire nation which resembled Detroit of today. The Soviet leadership also had a track record of publishing glowing economic reports and forecasts for its citizens. That tactic didn’t work there either.
As bad as all of this is, it pales in comparison with what’s coming next. As the November deadline for the employer mandate of the Affordable Care Act nears, businesses with employees greater than 50 will begin taking the necessary measures to insure that they survive the coming storm. At that time, our President who has taken to unilateral decision making in terms of which pieces of any law he deems fit to enforce, and which pieces he deems fit to let slide, and has even gone to the lengths of enforcing some laws for certain citizens while allowing political allies to be granted immunity, will be faced with a decision. He will have to decide if he wants to allow the monstrosity that he authored to destroy any hope he has of maintaining some semblance of an alliance with the Legislative Branch, or whether he wants to, yet again, take the measure of forcing the little people that he cares so much about to subsidize another delay of big business’ share of the massive expense concerning this behemoth. Either way, many or most of those who still have their health insurance supplied through an employer sponsored plan will find themselves kicked off. Greedy Executives and an obstructionist GOP will of course be blamed, but I’m sure by now, even the dumbest among us know that the greedy executives and the GOP had nothing to do with the passage and implementation of this law. (By the bye, the fine this year for noncompliance is $95. Next year’s kick in the pants is scheduled to be $395. It of course will go up from there.)
It might be possible to completely fool enough people in a populace for a short period of time, but ultimately, reality will always shine through. Sunlight really is a great disinfectant. Those families on food stamps, one out of five people in our nation, all know that they are on food stamps. Those who belong to the 20 Million demographic, the ones who did not need food stamps prior to Barack Obama’s inauguration and do now, they realize their reality as well. Maybe the folks who are part of the generational ward of the state demographic are willing to accept their circumstances and are content with their absence of opportunity, but those who have recently moved among that strata of society, not so much. America knows it’s not raining, but the other thing entirely. We’re going to see a wave election come November. I know it, and based on that bit of Kabuki Theater that I saw last night masquerading as a Joint Session Address to Congress, Barack Obama knows it as well.
Every aspect of Liberalism, or Progressivism, or what ever they’ll call themselves and their philosophy next has failed. That failure has been laid bare, and no amount of lipstick will make this pig any prettier. November of 2013 was the turning point. When historians look back on these dark days a hundred years from now and proclaim Barack Obama to be the single worst President in our nation’s history, his epitaph will begin with that point in time. They’ll also note that it was him getting everything that he wanted which ultimately did him in.
