Friday, September 9, 2011

BloggeRhythms 9/9/2011

Things began looking up again last night when the new NFL season kicked off. And I was happy to see that Green Bay won. However, I had the same problem I always do when games are played at night. I fall asleep right around half-time.

What makes it worse for me is that the game was broadcast on NBC. And even though I haven't turned the sound on since Howard Cossell caused me to turn it off an eon ago, even I know that you couldn't find a more boring, inept, and unqualified group of talking heads then the ones they use. In fact, I don't know what that Costas shrimp has anything to do with any sport at all. I'm sure my dog knows more about professional football than he does, and she's been dead for over five years.

And speaking of dead, this morning I watched some of the recaps of the so-called jobs speech last night and am, as usual, quite confused. Because according to business folks responsible for managing huge sums of funds and investing in our economy, they saw nothing really new introduced except another four hundred billion added to the already choking debt. What's more, they feel that while infrastructure spending is truly needed, to replace or refurbish outdated and damaged bridges, highways and roads, by the time all the planning, bickering and bureaucratic tape gets done, it'll take another ten years before any real construction can begin.

But, when all that's said and done, here's what I really find disgusting. The consensus is that much of what was proposed last night wasn't done to actually bolster a flagging economy, but was mentioned because the expectation is that the rival party will object to the solutions. And in that way, fingers can be pointed at them as obstructionists and nay-saying evil doer's who are anti-growth, anti-labor and likely, anti-American. So, the whole thing's a masquerade about posturing for the next election.

In the meantime, though, the real stumbling blocks to economic growth were never mentioned. The need to back off the EPA, NLRB and the whole alphabet soup of governmental agencies interfering in commerce, repeal of health care legislation and fixing Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae so home construction can start again. And it would certainly help if we could once again tap our resources of oil, which by itself would put billions back into our own economy daily where they belong. Then there's
revision of tax law and incenting big business to reinvest again right here at home along with the riddance of long, long lists of political inanities that just goes on and on and on.

But, in the end, none of the preceding really matters because it's likely very little will actually get done. The big correction's still down the road aways. And that will be the coming election when the public enacts its own solutions by voting practically all incumbents out of office, starting at the very top.

That's it for today folks.

Adios

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