The Mandate: Savage Austerity While Inflation Skyrockets

I think it is pretty obvious what is about to occur in this country. The unconscious American public is about to embark on massive changes to their social structure and welfare. We have basically fallen into the prescribed “sides” of the issues they want us divided into and have swallowed the bait and the hook is set.

Us “lefties” and you “righties” (or vice versa, whichever side you think we belong will suffice, for in reality it all means nothing) will go to the polls next Tuesday and we will vote for the lesser of two evils (AGAIN). The Republicans have hijacked the Tea Party making it nothing more than the Corporate Republican scalawags and you people have totally dumped the ideology that made you attractive to real patriots who are trying to change the system. How you could allow it is beyond me, but you did it. You let those fools co-opt you into becoming the same old Corporately fed, Zionist fawning, Imperial backing Republican Party that Dr Paul speaks AGAINST (but sadly won’t leave, making him moot, as well).

Then we have that other side of “Socialists” (yeah, right) that back a Kenyan infiltrator (lol) who is nothing but an extension of the last asshole that held that position. You forgot all your bitches about illegal wars, about torture, about loss of liberty and have swallowed the Dem Party storyline of “at least we aren’t Bush” (even tho nothing of any substance has changed).

You people keep us in the never-ending ping-pong game of  lesser evils, all-the-while never figuring out that evil is evil. Period. I live amongst the most gullible lot of nincompoops, if this is the best you can do.

As for me, if and when I go into any voting booth, I will write in…

NONE OF THE ABOVE

…if confronted with an R or D choice.

Of course, the sycophants from the left will say, “But that is a vote for the Republicans” and the righty sycophants will say, “You are voting for a Democrat.” But that is what ignorant sycophants do. They conveniently forget how we got to where we are and that these fools they follow and idolize are simply two sides of the same tainted coin.

I haven’t forgotten:

I remember it vividly, whereas the sycophantic rightys can’t seem to muster two brain cells together to recall the 8 years previous to the latest disaster POTUS administration. For God’s sakes, you are flirting with that idiot, Newt. WTF? Have you no shame?

I am not endorsing the D’s by putting up that video. Like I said, I’ll not vote for either, ever again.

You see, I haven’t forgotten the lies the D’s told us all to get control of Congress and the POTUS-ship. I haven’t forgotten all the outrage of the wars from “the left” which mysteriously disappeared after electing your favorite PARTY CLOWNs. I haven’t forgotten how angry you were with illegal wars, but how quickly you embraced them when the Savior was elected. I haven’t forgotten your idols that bitched and moaned about our military forays in the ME, just to have them rally for the sanity of MORE war and murder.

You see, we are too far gone. There really is nothing more that someone like me can do to spread any sanity… to try to educate you as to what the hell you are getting US in to.

But I do want to make a prediction. I will predict that by your playing their games by their rules, you will give the Republicans a massive victory next week. Enough to change the majority makeup of the House. Not by much, but enough. Enough for what, you ask?

Enough for them to claim they have a mandate from the people of America.

This mandate will entail savage austerity, according to Zerohedge:

And, it is coming soon to America.

In the US, the intensity of the Austerity-For-Workers program will depend partially on the size of Republican gains in the November 2 mid-term elections. More seats going Republican—particularly the loss of the House—means more momentum for attacking working families’ social safety net.

What does this mean to poor rednecks, like myself? It means that IF you think you will get any Unemployment benefit extensions, forget it. Those 99%ers you have read about are about to become 24%ers or a bit more. How about that pension you acquired via hard work? How would you feel if the Gubment took it and reallocated it in Gubment (worthless) Bonds and “promised” you that you will get your money, but on their timeline? What if this austerity includes remaking the Social Security System, radically cutting benefits that are already far underfunded for normal life in America? What if that Medicare that you count on to keep you alive is stripped down to nothing? What if this austerity causes even more job losses in America and that we will NEVER recover the ones already lost?

We are about to embark upon the hardest times of your life (unless you are the mega-wealthy). Our elected officials are about to strip us of social programs that we count on and we will be left to fend for ourselves or die.

Charlie McGrath has one of the best run-downs of what is about to happen that I have seen. Well worth the watch, if you haven’t seen it yet:

Simultaneously, we are about to see inflation jump like never before. It is already happening, as I write this, but the real storm is a month or so away. As one example, College Tuition is going up again. But everything else will, as well. Especially food.

From CNBC:

Food Prices Expected To Rise Sharply

Corn is up 45 percent the last three months. We haven’t seen cotton prices this high since after the Civil War. Soybeans are up. Oil is up. Metals are up. So are coffee and cocoa.In this era of massive liquidity, everything is up, except for food prices—specifically processed food (made from many of the same commodities and other ingredients whose prices have risen).

According to the USDA, that is going to change. In its most recent CPI report for food, the USDA reported that prices are expected to rise in 2011.

For all food, prices are expected to rise two to three percent, which is double the levels of 2010. Meat prices are expected to rise up to 3.5 percent, and dairy 5.5 percent.

And it is a global phenomena (h/t Guardian UK):

Global food crisis forecast as prices reach record highs

Another warning is that crime is on the rise in America and will continue to do so as people get hungry. The Economic Collapse Blog has a list of 12 Statistics That Make You Wonder What Is Happening In America

#1 The murder rate in New York City has increased more than 15 percent in 2010, and the number of rapes has shot up from 943 in 2009 to 1075 so far this year.

#2 In the city of Detroit, crime has gotten so bad and the citizens are so frustrated by the lack of police assistance that they have resorted to forming their own organizations to fight back.  One group, known as “Detroit 300″, was formed after a 90-year-old woman on Detroit’s northwest side was brutally raped in August.

#3 Crime in Miami Beach was up almost 11 percent during the first half of 2010.

#4 The murder rate in Tempe, Arizona is now the highest it has been in 10 years.

#5 Shoplifting is completely and totally out of control.  According to the National Association of Shoplifting Prevention, every single day Americans steal more than $35 million worth of goods from retail stores.

#6 Today, there are approximately 400,00 registered sex offenders in the United States.

#7 U.S. authorities claim that there are now over 1 million members of criminal gangs operating inside the United States. According to federal statistics, these 1 million gang members are responsible for up to 80% of the violent crimes committed in the U.S. each year.

#8 The median age of the victims of imprisoned sex offenders in the United States is 13 years old.

#9 The crime rate in the San Diego school system is escalating out of control. The following is what San Diego School Police Chief Don Braun recently told the press about the current situation….

“Violent crime in schools has risen 31 percent. Property crime has risen 12 percent. Weapons violations (have gone up) almost 8 percent.”

#1053 percent of all investigated burglaries in the states of California, New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona and Texas are perpetrated by illegal aliens.

#11 Law enforcement officials estimate that about 600,000 Americans and 65,000 Canadians are trading dirty child pictures online.  They also say that the total profit from creating and trading these images is approximately two to three billion dollars every year.

#12 Each year, one out of every five people in the U.S. is victimized by crime.  No other nation on the planet has a rate that is higher.

I also read from my home town weekly paper that a very small town in my home county has a Chief of police who is apologizing to residents over the weekly road blocks that they set up in town every Sunday (now becoming renowned for it). As I read thru the list of “arrests” it couldn’t be more clear what they are going after… weed smokers. The vast majority of the arrests were drug related and the biggest proportion, by far, was for marijuana. The fine for less than 1 ounce (1st offense in MS) is about $1,000. After everything is said, done and paid for, it might cost a person $1800 to handle it in court. Fine and dandy, except for the fact that it costs the country $2800 per case.

Not only are these people arresting young folks (ruining their lives) over a weed, they are losing money EVERY time they do it. And the tax payer yawns and scratches his hinder parts and turns on American Idol while sipping his illegal beer in that dry county.

Of course, nothing new on all the break ins and thefts. But never mind that. We stopped those hippies from smoking a little weed.

WTF?

Look. I know I am experiencing my own hardships (no job, no prospect for a job), but I can’t bury my head. No matter how hard it gets, I believe I will be able to take care of my family utilizing my network I have been setting up for a couple of years (you know who you are). I am not totally prepared, but I have most of what we need to survive. So, I am not just some crazy person freaked out over my own circumstances. This shit is real, people. It is happening right before our eyes and we better be ready for it when it comes… for IT IS COMING.

Let me share with you this list of 30 Reasons Why People Should Be Getting Really Nervous About The State of The U.S. Economy (again from the Economic Collapse blog):

#1 Corporate insiders are selling off stock at a blinding pace and are looking for the exits.  Alan Newman, the editor of the Crosscurrents newsletter, examined a number of the top performing stocks in the market including Google, Apple and Target and found that the ratio of corporate insider stock sold to corporate insider stock purchased over the last six months for those companies was 3,177 to 1.  At the group of firms that Newman looked at, corporate insiders had purchased 38,000 shares of stock over the last six months and yet had sold off over 120 million shares.

#2 Analysts at both Bank of America and Goldman Sachs both believe that the U.S. Federal Reserve is going to initiate a new round of quantitative easing in November.  It does not take a genius to figure out that this is very likely to push up inflation and have very serious consequences for the U.S. dollar.

#3 Economists at Goldman Sachs are projecting that the Fed will have to purchase at least $4 trillion in assets during this next round of quantitative easing to get the U.S. economy moving in a positive direction once again.

#4 In the United States today, there are 5,057 janitors with Ph.D.’s, other doctorates, or professional degrees.

#5 Investors have very little faith in the U.S. dollar (and in paper currencies in general) at this point.  Precious metals are soaring to obscene heights.  The price of gold has increased more than 20 percent in 2010.  The price of silver has skyrocketed about 40 percent this year.  These are not signs that indicate that the U.S. financial system is stable.

#6 Robin Griffiths, a technical strategist at Cazenove Capital, told CNBC on Monday that the U.S. dollar is in danger of becoming “toxic waste”.

#7 In the United States today, 317,000 waiters and waitresses have college degrees.

#8 U.S. lending institutions repossessed an all-time record total of 102,134 homes in the month of September.  That was the first time that home repossessions in the U.S. had ever exceeded the 100,000 mark during a single month.

#9 According to a Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller home price report that was released on Tuesday, single family home prices in the United States declined  for a second straight month in August.

#10 In the United States today, over 18,000 parking lot attendants have college degrees.

#11 During the months of August and September, the state of Nevada had an unemployment rate of 14.4 percent, which was the highest in the history of the state.  Not that the rest of the country is doing any better.  The state of California has become a complete and total economic disaster zone, and the city of Detroit, Michigan is literally dying.

#12 The “official” unemployment rate in the United States has been at nine and a half percent or above for 14 consecutive months.

#13 The number of people unemployed in the state of California is approximately equivalent to the populations of Nevada, New Hampshire and Vermont combined.

#14 According to the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, there are approximately 3 million more vacant housing units than usual in the United States.

#15 China has reduced the export quota on rare earth elements for the second half of 2010 by 72%, thus strengthening their position in the world economy even more.  Rare earth elements are absolutely crucial to the manufacture of a vast array of high technology products, and now even more of them will have to be made in China.

#16 In 1985, the U.S. trade deficit with China was 6 million dollarsfor the entire year.  In the month of August alone, the U.S. trade deficit with China was over 28 billion dollars.

#17 Wheat, corn and other staples are absolutely soaring in price on world markets.  These higher food prices are going to hit U.S. consumers hard.

#18 In 2007, 3 U.S. banks failed.  In 2008, 25 U.S. banks failed.  In 2009, 140 U.S. banks failed.  Last Friday, it was announced that 139 U.S. banks have failed so far this year and it is not even the end of October yet.

#19 Total student loan debt in the United States is climbing at a rate of approximately $2,853.88 per second.

#20 Back in 1980, the United States imported approximately 37 percent of  the oil that we use.  Now we import nearly 60 percent of the oil that we use.

#21 According to an analysis by the Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation, the health care reform legislation that Congress didn’t read but passed into law anyway will generate $409.2 billion in additional taxes on the American people by the year 2019.

#22 Median household income in the U.S. declined from $51,726 in 2008 to $50,221 in 2009.  That was the second yearly decline in a row.

#23 One out of every six Americans is now enrolled in a government anti-poverty program, and yet the number of Americans signing up for food stamps and other social programs just continues to set new all-time records month after month after month.

#24 The number of Americans working part-time jobs “for economic reasons” is now the highest it has been in at least five decades.

#25 American 15-year-olds do not even rank in the top half of all advanced nations when it comes to math or science literacy.

#26 According to a recent poll conducted by CNBC, 92 percent of Americans believe that the performance of the U.S. economy is either “fair” or “poor”.

#27 After analyzing Congressional Budget Office data, Boston University economics professor Laurence J. Kotlikoff came to the conclusion that the U.S. government is now facing a “fiscal gap” of $202 trillion dollars.

#28 A trillion $10 bills, if they were taped end to end, would wrap around the earth more than 380 times.  That amount of money would still not be enough to pay off the U.S. national debt.

#29 According to the U.S. Treasury Department, the U.S. national debt is rapidly closing in on 14 trillion dollars and and will climb to an estimated $19.6 trillion by 2015.

#30 At our current pace, the Congressional Budget Office is projecting that U.S. government public debt will hit 716 percent of GDP by the year 2080.

You want to know what doesn’t stop? Military Spending and the expansion of the Empire. We got all the money in the world for murder and mayhem.

You May Not Have a Job, But We’re Getting a $12.6 Billion Military Base on Guam That Nobody Wants

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Deadly Coincidences

There once was a man named Wendell Dawson who was married and had three sons. He was an intelligent man who became a Pharmacist and eventually owned his own drug store.

One day this man got in an airplane with two or three men at the Iuka, MS airport and promptly crash landed very near the airport, killing everyone on board.

Not long afterwards, another man named Tommy Buse was fresh from a divorce and new marriage (taking in three step kids). He, too, was a Pharmacist, but had lost everything in the previous divorce. He decided to make a clean break, move to a new town and simply fill prescriptions and take care of his new family.

Somehow, he hooked up with Peggy, Wendell’s widow, and started running her store for her. It wasn’t long before he decided to ask her to sell out (and she did).

Tommy Buse was now again a drug store owner.

So, is it a coincidence that Tommy Buse, in 1982, went to that very same airport, climbed in with two other people, took off and crashed at that very same place?

Or is it possible that there are nefarious folk who wanted these people dead?

Here is the reason I want to know. This is my little brother. He died that day. He was just 5, for God’s sake.

I miss him.

B’Man’s Hometown Update: Tishomingo State Park Wins 2 National Awards

I always loved this place and knew it held a secret that others are just now beginning to understand. From ‘The Tishomingo County News’:

Tishomingo State Park Wins 2 National Awards

At the September meeting of the Commission on Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks held in Jackson, Tishomingo State Park was presented with two national outdoor recreation awards. Bill Brekeen, Park Manager, accepted the awards for Top 25 Canoeing Spots and Top 25 Unique Cabins. Approximately 4,000 state parks, national parks, and campgrounds were reviewed before ReserveAmerica, North America’s leading camping, reservation, and campground management solutions provider, made its selection.

“To be selected in this nationwide contest is a great honor,” said Bill Brekeen, Park Manager, Tishomingo State Park, “We have a unique and special resource here at the park.”

Brekeen encourages all to visit the park to experience the natural beauty and the variety of recreational opportunity that is available.

As another bonus, you can read here how Chuckles almost tore his balls off swinging on the rope at the park.

Hey, Man! It’s Super!

B’Man: I wrote this in June of 1998 and was the first thing actually ever published in a newspaper (accidentally, at that). I was thinking about Super today and thought this little dedication to him would be a good way to introduce this crazy bastard to the Blog.

Hey, Man!

How many times did Super say hello this way? Countless times- almost never failed. Over the years all the “Tree Gang” picked up the salutation and have used it many times ourselves. To this day, it is a common ‘hello’ from me.

You could alway count on Super coming up with some “off the wall” comment or nickname. You could always count on Super coming out to see you at the “Tree”. He would walk over and say, “Hey, Man!” and then it would begin- some story about the lake; or, the latest gossip spread around town (darn, if he didn’t know everything before it became ‘public’); or, Lord knows what he might dazzle you with next.

You could count on things from Super that would amaze many people. Super would do anything he could for you when you needed help. Super suffered many trials and tribulations in life, but always had a kind word for you, no matter how tough life had been for him that day. During some of the toughest times of my life, Super was there for me.

A mutual friend told me last night, Super was one of the few people that ask about his children, every time he saw him. He genuinely cared about his friends and their families.

As a teen (Super was 6 years older than I), I used to wonder what made this guy “Super”. I thought he was “trying to be cool”. Over the years, the “Tree Gang” began and I was welcomed as a member. Although I had been an acquaintance of Super’s for a while, I never truly knew him. Over time, Super had “Hey, Man’d” me enough to warm up to me. This is when I became his friend and started understanding him.

You see, “Trying to be cool” was not the issue. Super was being Super! Anybody that knows Super (and there are many that knew Super better than I) knows that Super was himself- there will and can never be another one like him. This is what Super taught me: Cool is just being yourself. No airs are necessary, no lies, and no misunderstandings. If you like someone, enjoy his or her company, if you don’t, don’t associate with them.

Super opened his home to friends. Super opened his grand old oak tree to the “Tree Gang”, furnishing a meeting place; a place to get a good laugh; and a place to ‘rest’ from the gruel of cruising “The Strip” (back then the Strip went all the way to the Spur station). You could always find folks to socialize with at the “Tree”. If you were down and out, you could find solace at the “Tree”.

Many of the “Tree Gang” met under the “Tree” the night Super died- we were all sort of drawn to it. Several members were not there physically, but we felt them there nonetheless. We talked about Super washing a car, us pulling up and Super walking over and saying “Hey, Man!”. We remembered when Super put the picnic table underneath the “Tree” so Dog, Elmo, L.P., and all the rest of the “Tree Gang” would have a place to sit and eat lunch. We sat there and told story after story of the “Tree” and the Spur parking lot happenings late at night.

Super truly gave us a home away from home with that “Tree”. It will always be a source of comfort, laughs and stories of the Good Ole Days. There have been several generations of the “Tree Gang”, a few frequent it today. That night was a gathering of representatives from all these genrations and the common thread is that we all loved Super and his “Tree”. He was a good friend and I will miss him dearly. All the “Tree Gang” will.

Hey, Man! We love you!

B’Man: Super was 45 years old when he died. I knew him at least 20 years and became pretty close the last two after a mutual friend died of cancer (Dog, in my memorial: I intend to write about him, too… I great friend and human being).

We lived in a small town close to Pickwick Lake (TN) and on this lake is a waterfall that we had grown up jumping and, if brave enough, diving from. It was multi-leveled (approximately 20′, 28′ & 35′ with the bravest climbing trees and diving from the very top (50′, maybe). We had grown up diving from the lower levels, but “Super” thought he was still Super Man at 45, dove off from 35′ and wasn’t seen again, until divers found him a few hours later.

The Waterfalls are located in a cove that is over run with boats during the summer. Hundreds of boats tied together having a blast… one huge party.

That day there was the usual party and Dog’s wife was with Supe’ (that’s what I called him) and Lessie (Supe’s wife). When he dove and didn’t come up, there were many friends and onlookers freaking out and kept diving for him for 2 hours, but couldn’t find him. None of us could believe it. I swear he had gone off that same place 100′s of times.

He had a rep in town, which, if you knew him, you knew it was a joke. I’ll share some stories about Super some day. He was a crazy character. I miss him.

By God: You Rednecks ARE Paying Attention to Me

B’Man: This district is my home district (move from there less than a year ago). I only live thirty minutes away now and spent a good bit of time talking about this race with friends and associates I know for the past 6 months (I still spend a good bit of time there). From what I was hearing, it seemed that Travis actually had a shot, so I went on a rampage of discussing his merits, as opposed to Greg Davis and the reTHUGlican beast that was pouring money into a county that had hardly ever received a nickel from the reTHUGlican party at any other point in history.

In other words, as long as they felt that they had the poor southern rednecks brainwashed enough, they didn’t need to spend money or send Dick Cheney (which was a stupid assed move, to begin with). Cheney is so tainted, even in Mississippi that his presence may have been the catalyst to turn the tables.

I just hope that my efforts made some sort of difference and that the assholes reTHUGlicans are learning what a total ass whipping they are going to get this fall. Serves you right, you sorry pieces of Bushie shit. You brought this on yourself and deserve every loss you acquire. Especially in the Southeast.

 

Mississippi Democrat wrests House seat from Republicans

Associated Press May 14, 2008

JACKSON, Miss. —Mississippi Democrat Travis Childers won a special election to Congress on Tuesday, helping his party to a third victory in recent months for seats long in Republican hands.

Childers defeated Republican Greg Davis by 4 percentage points in a special election to fill the final few months of a two-year term in Congress. The seat was vacated when Roger Wicker was appointed to the U.S. Senate after Trent Lott resigned.

The race had attracted national attention, with Vice President Dick Cheney campaigning for Davis on Monday, and Davis running ads trying to tie Childers to Democratic presidential contender Sen. Barack Obama.

Childers, a socially conservative county official, has brushed aside those comparisons, countering that — with his own support of gun rights and opposition to abortion — his social values match those of most voters in the district. The seat has been held by Republicans since 1994.

The win Tuesday allows Democrats to add to their 235-199 majority in Congress — if only for a few months until November’s general elections.

Childers, Davis and two other candidates are expected to face off again in the November election.

B’Man’s Hometown Update

Reading this week’s weekly subscription to my hometown paper from Iuka, MS (The Tishomingo County Vidette) I find that The Tish County Braves are heading to the state baseball playoffs (ranked 11th in the state). The coach is a highschool classmate (about 3 years older). He always has an awesome team.

Secondly, A.T. Marlar, Jr (Burnsville Alderman) was arrested and arraigned last week after being indicted for prescription fraud. Hypocrite.

Also, a buddy of mine had his house broken in to by a nephew of his third wife’s (boy’s a crack head). Old Wallinski was a crazy man in high school. He got tore up on ludes one night, left a party and was found a couple miles down the street (by the cops) just sitting there on the side of the road… UPSIDE DOWN, strapped into the driver’s seat. He had lost control, flipped her and simply sat there and slept for a bit.

When he realized the cops were knocking on the window, he started frantically turning the key so he could drive away. Hot pursuit, as it were.

Swear to God that’s true. He is a Nice ‘Un, as we say.