A short column to remind us that the economy is STILL bad, no matter what lies the government is telling us and no matter what lies Wall Street is telling itself.

Crash of 2009 – Stupid government – Stupid people (Three stories)
More ‘Discouraged Workers’ in April, Says Labor Dept.

Government Unemployment Rate Improved Again in April

9.5 Million People Have Left the Workforce Under Obama
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: Three stories all related to the fact that once again, the government is lying, but unable to hide the real numbers.  Sadly, the  markets (at least as I write this on Friday morning) are so stupid that they believe the government. (And the media, who crow about the “reduced unemployment” without explaining why.)

Mama’s Note: If just one mainstream media entity reported the real “employment” numbers – MINUS all government paid/subsidized and mandated positions, including every kind of government “grant” and tax supported institution… the small number of actual “jobs” left in the country would stagger all but the most dedicated statists. The fact is that the true state of business, especially small business, is artfully hidden from almost everyone. The miracle is that such theft and fraud has gone on so long, relatively unnoticed.

Crash of 2009 – Stupid government
Feds Dish Out $4 Million to Increase Food Stamp Usage at Farmers Markets
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: Of course, most farmers (and the other vendors) will cheerfully take them:  they want entitlements just as much as the ones WITH the food stamps, because it lines their pockets.  Just like school lunch programs are financed because the vendors get the money.  I am sure that restaurants are next (fast-food places need not apply, of course: the nanny state usually overrides the “papa-pays” state.)

Mama’s Note: Just talked to someone who has a “convenience store” and he was monumentally pissed that he had to take the welfare “debit card” whether he liked it or not. But he was especially upset that those who use the cards buy soda and all manner of fast food with them now. Finally convinced him that the real problem was the theft from taxpayers, not what was bought with the loot.

Abominable Act – Congress in action
Obamacare Already ‘Hurting Jobs and Paychecks,’ Republican Senator Says
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: Sorry, Senator, it has already been happening: people CAN read the handwriting on the wall and have taken the actions they need to, in order to avoid this fiasco.

Mama’s Note: Well, some have and many have not. Many have little choice but to pay for Obummercare. The bottom line will be fewer jobs, less real health care, fewer and fewer competent health care providers – and the great disaster that was actually planned all along. People will riot to have government institute “national,” single payer socialist medicine, simply because Obummercare was intended to fail in order to facilitate exactly that. The wise will find alternative medicine and establish healthy lifestyles now instead.

Congress in action – Faux conservatives
Rep. Paul Ryan Now Backs Adoption of Children by Homosexuals
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: Ah, a “conservative,” eh? Ryan is a scheming and opportunistic and very ambitious man, with no real principles, but then, that means he is like most of the rest of the Senate.

Theft by government – Stupid government
$7.9 Billion in Improper Social Security Payments in FY 2012
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: More theft?  Or just corruption?

Stupid government – Guvmint-ruined, theft-funded schools
Education Dept. Awards $48,000 to Help Vermont School Recover From a Teen Suicide
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: Well!  If the US DOE gives this kind of money to an Anglo school, then why aren’t they paying out millions to schools with majority AmerInd students and their sickening suicide rate?

Mama’s Note: Because the AmerInd schools don’t have an effective legislator in their pockets. Or enough of them.