My picture for the day: the historical marker on the sidewalk in front of the North Park Theater in San Diego. Most of the time I don't even try to make the photograph fit the writing. Today this one seems appropriate after the final presidential debate.
So basically it comes down to this... In the final presidential debate Mitt Romney agreed with President Obama on many foreign policy issues saying the President’s actions had been right at critical times like the response to Egypt’s implosion and the fall of Mubarak. Oh, he made several feeble attempts to prove he likes Israel more than the President does, and he muddled through a try at explaining the social, religious, and political chaos in Pakistan. Romney offered lists of foreign countries to show he can at least pronounce them. I’m guessing that he hoped the American people would notice that he is whiter and richer than the President and, therefore, surely blessed by God more than the President who had only a Black African atheist for a father and a mother who strayed from the white breeding stock pen with the African and an Indonesian.
It’s probably time to use that old adage we drag out at decision-making time, “You pays your money and takes your choice.” The difference this time is that it’s the Koch Brothers and other super-rich Republicans, helped along by a conservative majority in the Supreme Court, who “pays the money” and urge us to accept their choice.
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I'm not sure which is more shocking, tbe lack of knowledge of most Americans, including our leaders and members of the media, concerning what has happened to the U.S. occupation structure and labor market in the past decade or more), or the failure of the media (or anyonme else) to seriously address it in the public arena.
While GHW Bush's mantra as a candidate was the accusation of "Tax and spend, tax and spend" regarding his predecessor, the Bush administration's actual behavior was "Spend and spend," creating a crushing budget deficit nar its tipping point that the Obama administration inherited. Little could be done in the first two Obama years, and a Republican House blocked any attempts to address the issue for the past two, apparently in hopes that the whole thing would come tumbling down on Obama's watch. As it is now, we are hanging on the edge of the cliff, with much to be done between now and the automatic activation of even greater restrictions on addressing these issues on the first day of 2013.
The decline of the labor market has been a long term process of outsourcing increasingly higher level jobs to nations where labor costs are lower, often because of limitations on the operation of basic market forces, e.g., China.
The bottom of the labor market went first, and the erosion is creeping higher and higher since the turn of the century. One of the many financial firms that greatly influenced the movement of such jobs was Bain Capital during Mr. Romney's tenure as chief. Further, his touted labor force successes as the governor of Massachusetts involved using tax dollars to fund major economic incentives to lure businesses with higher level occupational profiles, e.g., higher percentages of jobs requiring those with college degrees or high levels of technical skills. This helped the top end of the Massachusetts labor force at the expense of other states, chiefly in the south, from which companies relocated to Massachusetts. This "labor market success" helped Massachusetts at the expense of other states; its national impact balanced out to zero, and did nothing for the workers most highly impacted by foreign outsourcing overall, those with high school diplomas or less. It is activity such as this that constitute the "successes" to which our future hopes are apparently tied.
Someone once said that in a democracy, the electorate always get the government that they deserve. It is a sad truth, and will probably come true once again in our case (although Pogo probably put it a lot better).
RB
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