Labor Day: Welcome to the New Face of America

We've been told in Fornicalia that everything is changing, and that our forte now is as a "service economy."

With one major exception: service economies don't grow the national economy, and they don't stabilize a nation, and they don't place or keep a nation strong.

A strong nation actually builds and produces things that other economies -- and nations -- need, such as aircraft, steel, cars, clothing, ships, trucks, fabrication, food, appliances, electronics, etc.

Many of these things we simply do not manufacture or create any more in the United States. But that's deserving of a blogpost for another time, is it not?

The AP writes:

Whenever companies start hiring freely again, job-seekers with specialized skills and education will have plenty of good opportunities. Others will face a choice: Take a job with low pay — or none at all.

Job creation will likely remain weak for months or even years. But once employers do step up hiring, some economists expect job openings to fall mainly into two categories of roughly equal numbers:

• Professional fields with higher pay. Think lawyers, research scientists and software engineers.

• Lower-skill and lower-paying jobs, like home health care aides and store clerks.

And those in between? Their outlook is bleaker. Economists foresee fewer moderately paid factory supervisors, postal workers and office administrators.

To this point, as having been the "recipients" of Wonder Solutions such as TARP, various stimulus packages and ObakaKare -- to the tune of, now, vast billions and billions of dollars that we do not possess [with the national debt at $13 trillion -- and growing] -- the US is still in the grip of a struggling economy, larger unemployment figures and the largest tax hike in history coming January 1st of 2011.

As if that will help the economy . . . so let's just kill spending altogether, shall we?

Fornicalia is already in the fiscal tank.

Remember what Mr Obama said during his campaign for president:

The Bush tax cuts – people didn’t need them, and they weren’t even asking for them, and that’s why they need to be less, so that we can pay for universal health care and other initiatives."

2007 Democratic Primary Debate at Howard University Jun 28, 2007.

"Government does not have a revenue problem; government has a spending problem." -Marsha Blackburn

Click here for at least 60 links to Obama's views on the economy and the budget.

But there's a portion of the working sector that AP has missed, jobs that will always need to exist:

- Doctors, nurses, skilled nursing staff, welders, fabricators, mechanics, carpenters, electricians, plumbers, HVAC technicians -- in other words, skilled people who know how to keep what we have operating.

Never forget, though, that politics are involved:

At stake nationally is the balance of power in Washington, the tone for the remainder of Obama's first term and his likely 2012 re-election bid. All 435 House seats as well as 37 Senate seats are on the ballot. The country also will elect 37 governors in races that will determine who oversees the once-a-decade redrawing of political districts.

And let us not forget Demorat Labor's Card Check:



Nothing like pressure, eh workers?

Welcome to your New Paradigm, Labor.

Mr Obama and his Socialists have already sold your asses down the river. He's making you a Wimpy Promise:

I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today."

He wants your vote up front.

After that, you can all go to Hell.

Welcome to Labor Day.

BZ