Posted on 08/16/2010 3:30:59 AM PDT by Puzzleman
The current government employment report is just the most recent example of bad news for the economy expressed in depressing unemployment figures that the wizards in the Washington constantly find either "surprising" or "unexpected."
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They're all surprised by how their theories fail in the real world because few of them have ever worked in the private economy, and they have no clue how government intrusion in the marketplace burdens the entrepreneur...
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Anyone run across a list of the “unexpected” headlines from the last 18 months? I tried searching google, but it’s a hard phrase to word correctly.
That would be a nice piece of info to share with my liberal buddies.
It means like, a woman is inconceivable when she's insurmountable and impregnable.
Try searching a more narrow database, such as the newspaper headlines at paperboy.com - that should get you closer to the list that you seek. Once you compile that list, post it here. I’m sure many would find it to be an effective weapon.
Envelope No. 1: Blame it (no matter what "it" is) on the prior administration. Score double points if that was Shrub.
Envelope No. 2: Appoint a commission to study issues. For example, there is an on-going study, now several decades old, looking into hyper-long term joblessness in OH. So far, after those decades dithering, "training" has been concluded as the key as elections have shown. Re-organize to bring focus and clarity.
Envelope No. 3: Seek re-election early and often. The need to "double down" is self-evident to all and the way of the truth and the light. Or, so we are told.
When month after month the “economic experts” fail in their predictions, the only reasonable conclusion is that they don’t know what they are talking about.
I love the audacity of those who publish those economic reports...it is the equal of trying to locate an airplane by sound rather than by sight. My advice is use your powers of observation and make your own conclusions. Don’t rely on some dope sitting behind a desk trying to gleen some detail from someone else’s study based on what is being reported to them. If you pass by many strip malls and note all the stores are leasing, that is a clue there is a problem. If you note a bunch of homes for sale seemingly forever in your community, there is a problem. If you pass by a truck terminal and note many idle containers (I did this for years traveling to work to give me a hint on the economy) there is problem. If your children and you cannot find gainful employment, there is a problem. You don’t need to rely upon some guy in a pin stripe suit to provide his oracle like wisdom on how things are going. When we use our powers of observation and analysis, we never fall victim to the word “unexpected” attached to an economic report in the “news”, especially today, where the press is a syncophant cheerleader of the programs of the dope in charge.
Christina Romer?
Course of Economy Hinges on Fight Over Stimulus
http://online.wsj.com/article/NA_WSJ_PUB:SB10001424052748704720004575376923163437134.html
...Economists who say Mr. Obama should have relied more on tax cuts cite research of an unlikely source: Ms. Romer, his adviser. In a study she and her husband, David Romer, conducted before she joined the administration, Ms. Romer found large multipliers from tax cuts, which she concluded “have very large and persistent positive output effects.” Tax increases, she also found, hurt growth.
Course of Economy Hinges on Fight Over Stimulus
http://online.wsj.com/article/NA_WSJ_PUB:SB10001424052748704720004575376923163437134.html
...A study of 91 fiscal stimulus programs in 21 developed economies between 1970 and 2007 by Harvard’s Alberto Alesina found tax cuts were more stimulative than government spending.
Good comments on practical observation.
On a recent 1600 mile road trip, I notice that a lot of interstate billboards are still “available”.
This started in 08 and has continued. Don’t remember it previously.
Same article
Ms. Romer argued last year that this “multiplier” for government meant every dollar spent created about $1.50 worth of demand.
Good reports are unexpected.
Bad reports are expected.
When will these people learn?
If you went through Missouri. There was a move to ban billboards on interstates and the advertising companies built thousands and thousands of new billboards to get them grandfathered in before the law was enacted.
The law didn’t pass, and the busybodies made the situation 10 times worse trying to use the government hammer to create their utopia.
Good one and one that I had not thought of before. Others I watch are the local help wanted ads, not so much for the number as the type positions available and what people are buying at the botique bottle stores...if they are passing on the high end wines and spirits in favor of something “less expensive”.
You have been repeatedly lied to, misinformed about the actual condition of the economy and spoon fed information designed to manipulate your outlook of the MaObama Administration.
This way, they can still blame Bush for why they cannot “fix” this thing. They also make it sound like their Socialist methods are so superior, that some other force is defying and defeating them for no good reason. Surprising, Unexpected, Puzzling, has been the lead phrase every time they issue a report.
Unless that is, if the statistics appear to favor their agenda, then it comes out as “Exactly as we have planned!, CBO estimates PROVE that the bill (Worth over a Trillion Dollars.) will be “Deficit neutral”. (cute little buzz word.) Or, “My economic stimulus program HAS saved the economy from the “BRINK” of dire depression and destruction.” Or, that; “The economy will improve over the Summer months, and be back on track by this Fall. Unemployment numbers will also go down as we predicted.”
“Unless that sneaky evil Bush doesn't Unexpectedly Surprise us or ruin our plans again!”
Instead, it’s probably closer to 10¢ on the $1. Romer should be declined a private sector job till she does the math and tells the truth
University of Berkeley has her covered. They don’t need no steenkin private sector.
Good post, great thread. Two can play the economic war game the progressives/totalitarians have foisted upon free people. Defund their economy.
“It’s the economy, stupid.”
After the 2010 & 2012 elections defund their collectives.
That's exactly the point I was going to make. All of these 'surprises' are proof of how idiotic and inexperienced these people are.
Obama and Carter need to become the poster children for why we should NEVER allow inexperienced people to run for pres_ent. They are just too dangerous and naive.
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