Posted on 06/06/2011 3:41:50 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
And you know who that helps? Er, nobody, really, but it certainly hurts Barack Obama. The Daily Caller provides a four-minute video from today’s Don Imus Show, in which Democratic political strategist James Carville warns that extended unemployment will have a destabilizing effect on American politics, which is hardly the kind of Hope and Change Obama was selling in 2008:
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“It is going to be very difficult,” Carville said. “But the country, if that is what we are doing, this is gruesome on people. This unemployment rate for this long is humanitarian crisis of the first magnitude. This financial crisis, people have studied this by the way, they know that the things take this long to work their way through. The aftermath of these things — kind of an academic book that is dry entitled ‘This Time is Different.’ What it concluded it is not different this time. They studied it, the aftermath of the financial crisis. What we are going through is imminently predictable. But this is a terrible thing that has happened to people’s lives. I think the president at one level understands that, you know. But he is limited in what he can do. So we’ll just have to see. But it’s going to be hard. If 54,000 jobs is the new norm – this is going to be very, very tough. Some people say it just might be one more thing. We don’t know.”
But Carville said the consequences aren’t limited to politics alone. He warned of heighten risk of civil unrest with the bleak economic picture.
“You know, look – this is a humanitarian — you know, you’re smart enough to see this,” Carville said. “People, you know, if it continues, we’re going to start to see civil unrest in this country. I hate to that, but I think it’s [eminently] possible.”
Will there be riots in the streets? Doubtful, not unless we see a total collapse of the economy. Right now it’s a toss-up whether we’ll drop into a mild recession, so the civil unrest is hardly imminent, the word the DC mistakenly used to transcribe Carville’s warning. But without a doubt, high and chronic unemployment has caused civil dissatisfaction with Obama and the Democrats; we saw that in the midterm elections, while the GDP numbers were still inching up.
Now that the Keynesian bubble has deflated, Obama is left with no progress at all, and handed his opponents a good argument that far from helping, Obamanomics got in the way of a normal recovery. At the very least, Republicans can ask whether a Democratic warning of impending civil unrest is a sign of success or failure, and ask voters to reach the obvious conclusion.
Snakeheads comrades in WI have already shown what can happen.....
“All it takes is another one of his bald faced lies!”
That is all but impossible for mac daddy since whenever his lips move he is unable to ever tell the truth, ever
Good post. The malaise and fear in the country is far greater than it ever was during the Carter era.
I was shocked to hear of the mayhem in public beaches over Memorial Day.
And Miami Beach had it very bad, because it was “urban beach weekend”, if I recall correctly, something of a spring break event for African-American college age youth.
But what is also shocking is that the politicos and MSM downplayed the violence. Mayor Emmanuel in Chicago said the beach there was closed because of hot weather, not due to mayhem or civil disorder. Does anybody really believe that?
I agree brother. It’s gonna get bad. Beans, bullets, and band aids. And the most precious metal.....is lead.
Hey James, gonna be a LONG HOT summer, you wanted it
now you’re gonna get it.
Hows that “Hope and Change” working out...
Gee, Jimbo, ya THINK!!???
What will happen during the long hot dog days of August in the Blue Cities?
BO wants to be able to declare martial law so he will have complete control. He and Janet Neopolitan icecream.
Uh...because half the country don't want no stinkin' jobs!
I believe Lizard Head is correct. This may be a long hot summer in Detroit, Cleveland, Chicago etc....
What about all those “Green Jobs” Al Gore and company keep talking about..
My wife and I had this conversation a couple of days ago.
We are in the process of reducing our financial "footprint" to prepare for the eventual calamity.
We are going to sell our house which is still above water (not much) Buy as much land ( 5 to 10 acres) as possible out in the middle of nowhere, probably put a small modular home on it, basically use all our saving to do that to become be debt free, stock up reasonably, put in a large garden, raise some chickens and pigs, keep our jobs, dump the large mortgage, HD cable, internet phones, pool, large electric bill, raising property tax burden and basically hunker down with as few monthly bills as possible and sock away as much money as possible
“eminent” and “imminent”; everyone’s favorite homophone! (Alright, I had to look it up.)
I cringe every time they call Carville a Cajun.
I usually tell them, go into any south Louisiana oilfield or shipyard bar and say "Look at all the Carville's and see what it'll get ya" and it'll get ya kind of quick :^)
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