Re: [MOPO] Completely off topic: any of you think the government may be lying to us?

2010-03-07 Thread James Richard
This idea that unemployment is a lagging indicator is the biggest (and 
longest-running) prevarication of all the myriad lies being pushed by 
the government with the cheer-leading assistance of the news media.


Since consumers drive sales (at any level you care to name), if there 
are more and more consumers out of work and, more important, unable to 
find new work, then sales at all levels go down and stay down. The 
economy simply cannot recover if real average-consumer sales don't at 
least start creeping up. Any other hopeful indicators the supposed 
experts -- you know them, all those geniuses who missed the obvious 
signs of the impending real estate and banking collapse two years ago -- 
well, those hopeful signs just so much wishful thinking -- and the 
masking effect of those few who still have money to burn picking up 
recession-priced bargains.


In other words, a few people/companies going around snapping up 
foreclosed or near-foreclosure properties/businesses/inventories at 40 
cents on the dollar is not really an increase in sales and hardly what 
any sensible person would call a hopeful sign.


At the very least, the widespread layoffs have to stop and then a few 
companies/projects have to start hiring *before* you can even think 
about the economy *really* starting to recover. We may begin to see some 
of that by the end of this year as the $500 billion unfunded dollars 
they have been printing up and dumping into infrastructure projects all 
across the nation really starts cranking up this summer once the snows melt.


But that's why we're now seeing all this propaganda (and the $15 billion 
jobs package they are trying to pass). If you can convince employers 
that the economy is recovering you can get them to step 1): stop 
firing any more people and maybe even step 2): get them to hire a couple 
of people at much reduced wages than they would have had to pay those 
people 4 years ago.


No real point in us debating this here, however, since it is being 
debated/discussed/screamed about just about everywhere else but here.


-- JR

wise1...@aol.com wrote:

Bruce...I totally agree.
I see people unemployed,  losing their homes, going bankrupt, etc.
But then again..employment is a lagging indicator.
The businesses that caused and felt the pain are the first to heal.
Then the common folk.
I dunno either.

On Mar 5, 2010, at 4:25 PM, Bruce Hershenson wrote:

  

This has nothing to do with movie posters, but I was wondering if any of you 
are wondering (as I am) if the government may be lying to us. I mean, in 
totalitarian countries, the governments used to endlessly broadcast good news, 
and record harvests, and increased production, in the hopes that people would  
swallow it.

Lately, the government has been telling us that economic conditions are getting better, 
and that the recovery is under way, and I am thinking, Who I am to believe, the 
government, or my own lying eyes?.

What say you?

Bruce
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Re: [MOPO] Completely off topic: any of you think the government may be lying to us?

2010-03-07 Thread Kirby McDaniel
All this is very tiresome.  I can hear all this on CNN, FoxNews (no!) and MSNBC.
Let's get back to film posters before I chime in with my two cents worth and 
bore you
all fucking to death.

Kirby


On Mar 7, 2010, at 2:47 PM, James Richard wrote:

 This idea that unemployment is a lagging indicator is the biggest (and 
 longest-running) prevarication of all the myriad lies being pushed by the 
 government with the cheer-leading assistance of the news media.
 
 Since consumers drive sales (at any level you care to name), if there are 
 more and more consumers out of work and, more important, unable to find new 
 work, then sales at all levels go down and stay down. The economy simply 
 cannot recover if real average-consumer sales don't at least start creeping 
 up. Any other hopeful indicators the supposed experts -- you know them, all 
 those geniuses who missed the obvious signs of the impending real estate and 
 banking collapse two years ago -- well, those hopeful signs just so much 
 wishful thinking -- and the masking effect of those few who still have money 
 to burn picking up recession-priced bargains. 
 
 In other words, a few people/companies going around snapping up foreclosed or 
 near-foreclosure properties/businesses/inventories at 40 cents on the dollar 
 is not really an increase in sales and hardly what any sensible person 
 would call a hopeful sign.
 
 At the very least, the widespread layoffs have to stop and then a few 
 companies/projects have to start hiring *before* you can even think about the 
 economy *really* starting to recover. We may begin to see some of that by the 
 end of this year as the $500 billion unfunded dollars they have been printing 
 up and dumping into infrastructure projects all across the nation really 
 starts cranking up this summer once the snows melt.
 
 But that's why we're now seeing all this propaganda (and the $15 billion jobs 
 package they are trying to pass). If you can convince employers that the 
 economy is recovering you can get them to step 1): stop firing any more 
 people and maybe even step 2): get them to hire a couple of people at much 
 reduced wages than they would have had to pay those people 4 years ago.
 
 No real point in us debating this here, however, since it is being 
 debated/discussed/screamed about just about everywhere else but here.
 
 -- JR
 
 wise1...@aol.com wrote:
 
 Bruce...I totally agree.
 I see people unemployed,  losing their homes, going bankrupt, etc.
 But then again..employment is a lagging indicator.
 The businesses that caused and felt the pain are the first to heal.
 Then the common folk.
 I dunno either.
 
 On Mar 5, 2010, at 4:25 PM, Bruce Hershenson wrote:
 
   
 This has nothing to do with movie posters, but I was wondering if any of 
 you are wondering (as I am) if the government may be lying to us. I mean, 
 in totalitarian countries, the governments used to endlessly broadcast good 
 news, and record harvests, and increased production, in the hopes that 
 people would  swallow it.
 
 Lately, the government has been telling us that economic conditions are 
 getting better, and that the recovery is under way, and I am thinking, Who 
 I am to believe, the government, or my own lying eyes?.
 
 What say you?
 
 Bruce
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Re: [MOPO] Completely off topic: any of you think the government may be lying to us?

2010-03-07 Thread Jeff Potokar

I agree with you, kirby.

It was tiresome from the get go, especially in a forum like this.

the political discussions should be kept out.







On Mar 7, 2010, at 3:07 PM, Kirby McDaniel wrote:

All this is very tiresome.  I can hear all this on CNN, FoxNews  
(no!) and MSNBC.
Let's get back to film posters before I chime in with my two cents  
worth and bore you

all fucking to death.

Kirby


On Mar 7, 2010, at 2:47 PM, James Richard wrote:

This idea that unemployment is a lagging indicator is the  
biggest (and longest-running) prevarication of all the myriad lies  
being pushed by the government with the cheer-leading assistance  
of the news media.


Since consumers drive sales (at any level you care to name), if  
there are more and more consumers out of work and, more important,  
unable to find new work, then sales at all levels go down and stay  
down. The economy simply cannot recover if real average-consumer  
sales don't at least start creeping up. Any other hopeful  
indicators the supposed experts -- you know them, all those  
geniuses who missed the obvious signs of the impending real estate  
and banking collapse two years ago -- well, those hopeful signs  
just so much wishful thinking -- and the masking effect of those  
few who still have money to burn picking up recession-priced  
bargains.


In other words, a few people/companies going around snapping up  
foreclosed or near-foreclosure properties/businesses/inventories  
at 40 cents on the dollar is not really an increase in sales and  
hardly what any sensible person would call a hopeful sign.


At the very least, the widespread layoffs have to stop and then a  
few companies/projects have to start hiring *before* you can even  
think about the economy *really* starting to recover. We may begin  
to see some of that by the end of this year as the $500 billion  
unfunded dollars they have been printing up and dumping into  
infrastructure projects all across the nation really starts  
cranking up this summer once the snows melt.


But that's why we're now seeing all this propaganda (and the $15  
billion jobs package they are trying to pass). If you can convince  
employers that the economy is recovering you can get them to  
step 1): stop firing any more people and maybe even step 2): get  
them to hire a couple of people at much reduced wages than they  
would have had to pay those people 4 years ago.


No real point in us debating this here, however, since it is being  
debated/discussed/screamed about just about everywhere else but here.


-- JR

wise1...@aol.com wrote:


Bruce...I totally agree.
I see people unemployed,  losing their homes, going bankrupt, etc.
But then again..employment is a lagging indicator.
The businesses that caused and felt the pain are the first to heal.
Then the common folk.
I dunno either.

On Mar 5, 2010, at 4:25 PM, Bruce Hershenson wrote:


This has nothing to do with movie posters, but I was wondering  
if any of you are wondering (as I am) if the government may be  
lying to us. I mean, in totalitarian countries, the governments  
used to endlessly broadcast good news, and record harvests, and  
increased production, in the hopes that people would  swallow it.


Lately, the government has been telling us that economic  
conditions are getting better, and that the recovery is under  
way, and I am thinking, Who I am to believe, the government, or  
my own lying eyes?.


What say you?

Bruce
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Re: [MOPO] Completely off topic: any of you think the government may be lying to us?

2010-03-06 Thread jim episale
For the past two years when we were being told that the economy was in the
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First quarter of this year we've had a slight downturn which may be
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may be lying to us?

 

What's interesting about this question is the disconnect between what people
see around them and what is happening in the economy. Our economy is too
large and diverse for any one person's experience to really encompass it.
How do we know what is happening in Silcon Valley, or  the Texas oil fields.
We can't - but we trust what we experience ourselves even though we know its
not a complete sample. WE just can't help thinking our small slice of the
world is the whole world.  

  Its not an intellectually sound argument - but it is an emotionally
powerful one. The really interesting question is why is distrust of our
basic institutions is so high right now? We all should have a healthy
skepticism of the what our institutions are telling us- but in some quarters
its reached an extremely high level. This is NOT healthy. 

It causes people to do irrational things like buy gold and stock up on guns
and can goods. I don't understand this thinking at all.

 

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Sent: Fri, Mar 5, 2010 6:25 pm
Subject: [MOPO] Completely off topic: any of you think the government may be
lying to us?

This has nothing to do with movie posters, but I was wondering if any of you
are wondering (as I am) if the government may be lying to us. I mean, in
totalitarian countries, the governments used to endlessly broadcast good
news, and record harvests, and increased production, in the hopes that
people would  swallow it.

Lately, the government has been telling us that economic conditions are
getting better, and that the recovery is under way, and I am thinking, Who
I am to believe, the government, or my own lying eyes?.

What say you?

Bruce

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Re: [MOPO] Completely off topic: any of you think the government may be lying to us?

2010-03-05 Thread Andy Neal

Certain Trades/Business's are starting to come out of the recession the 
building/constuction industry being one of them.

Most Trades/Business's follow after the building/constuction and is a good 
indication that things are getting better,

I do believe things are getting better but it might take a few years to get it 
back to where it was 3 years ago.


Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 18:25:19 -0600
From: brucehershen...@gmail.com
Subject: [MOPO] Completely off topic: any of you think the government may be 
lying to us?
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU

This has nothing to do with movie posters, but I was wondering if any of you 
are wondering (as I am) if the government may be lying to us. I mean, in 
totalitarian countries, the governments used to endlessly broadcast good news, 
and record harvests, and increased production, in the hopes that people would  
swallow it.


Lately, the government has been telling us that economic conditions are getting 
better, and that the recovery is under way, and I am thinking, Who I am to 
believe, the government, or my own lying eyes?.


What say you?

Bruce

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Re: [MOPO] Completely off topic: any of you think the government may be lying to us?

2010-03-05 Thread Richard Halegua Comic Art
recovery is clearly underway, however the game is changed, and the 
generations are going to be suffering in different ways


the baby boomers who thought they were setting up their retirements 
by buying anything they could possibly spend their money on until 
finally making that incredibly stupid bet of buying real estate when 
the quickly rising prices made them think it was becoming a better 
deal (ignorance on display) are now going to be one of the brokest 
generations in recent history and will be drag on the economy for 2-3 decades


the younger generations who will be paying down the debt that was 
fueled by the lower my taxes and increase my benefits mindset of 
the last twenty years will suffer tremendously  will probably never 
experience the economic growth many of us born in the 40s-50s have 
resulting in a lowered quality of life for them


a third factor is that the jobs that were lost are never coming back 
and what jobs do come back will be lower wage jobs adding to the 
burdens of these generations


economic growth as we experienced from 1945-2000 is a thing of the past


At 04:25 PM 3/5/2010, Bruce Hershenson wrote:
This has nothing to do with movie posters, but I was wondering if 
any of you are wondering (as I am) if the government may be lying to 
us. I mean, in totalitarian countries, the governments used to 
endlessly broadcast good news, and record harvests, and increased 
production, in the hopes that people would  swallow it.


Lately, the government has been telling us that economic conditions 
are getting better, and that the recovery is under way, and I am 
thinking, Who I am to believe, the government, or my own lying eyes?.


What say you?

Bruce
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Re: [MOPO] Completely off topic: any of you think the government may be lying to us?

2010-03-05 Thread wise1...@aol.com
Bruce...I totally agree.
I see people unemployed,  losing their homes, going bankrupt, etc.
But then again..employment is a lagging indicator.
The businesses that caused and felt the pain are the first to heal.
Then the common folk.
I dunno either.

On Mar 5, 2010, at 4:25 PM, Bruce Hershenson wrote:

 This has nothing to do with movie posters, but I was wondering if any of you 
 are wondering (as I am) if the government may be lying to us. I mean, in 
 totalitarian countries, the governments used to endlessly broadcast good 
 news, and record harvests, and increased production, in the hopes that people 
 would  swallow it.
 
 Lately, the government has been telling us that economic conditions are 
 getting better, and that the recovery is under way, and I am thinking, Who I 
 am to believe, the government, or my own lying eyes?.
 
 What say you?
 
 Bruce
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Re: [MOPO] Completely off topic: any of you think the government may be lying to us?

2010-03-05 Thread Franc
I don't think the government is lying. Things are slowly improving. I
guess it depends a lot on what state you live in. I notice that
restaurants in New York are becoming crowded again. In January 2009,
they were empty. Tourists have begun coming back to the city in droves
and the legit theaters are selling out again. There also seems to be a
lot more part-time and contract employment opportunities and several
friends have reported being hired recently. FRANC

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Bruce...I totally agree.
I see people unemployed,  losing their homes, going bankrupt, etc. But
then again..employment is a lagging indicator. The businesses that
caused and felt the pain are the first to heal. Then the common folk. I
dunno either.

On Mar 5, 2010, at 4:25 PM, Bruce Hershenson wrote:

 This has nothing to do with movie posters, but I was wondering if any 
 of you are wondering (as I am) if the government may be lying to us. I

 mean, in totalitarian countries, the governments used to endlessly 
 broadcast good news, and record harvests, and increased production, in

 the hopes that people would  swallow it.
 
 Lately, the government has been telling us that economic conditions 
 are getting better, and that the recovery is under way, and I am 
 thinking, Who I am to believe, the government, or my own lying 
 eyes?.
 
 What say you?
 
 Bruce
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Re: [MOPO] Completely off topic: any of you think the government may be lying to us?

2010-03-05 Thread Toochis Morin
I think as a nation we're lying to ourselves.  We kept running up debt and 
buying items that we didn't need and houses we couldn't afford.  We also bought 
Hummers as if the oil was going to get cheaper and more would just materialize. 
   Our economy is changing in big ways because we as a society didn't want to 
face the truth about its limits.

Toochis






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recovery is clearly underway, however the game is changed, and the
generations are going to be suffering in different ways

the baby boomers who thought they were setting up their retirements by
buying anything they could possibly spend their money on until finally
making that incredibly stupid bet of buying real estate when the quickly
rising prices made them think it was becoming a better deal (ignorance on
display) are now going to be one of the brokest generations in recent
history and will be drag on the economy for 2-3 decades

the younger generations who will be paying down the debt that was fueled
by the lower my taxes and increase my benefits mindset of the
last twenty years will suffer tremendously  will probably never
experience the economic growth many of us born in the 40s-50s have
resulting in a lowered quality of life for them

a third factor is that the jobs that were lost are never coming back and
what jobs do come back will be lower wage jobs adding to the burdens of
these generations

economic growth as we experienced from 1945-2000 is a thing of the
past


At 04:25 PM 3/5/2010, Bruce Hershenson wrote:

This has nothing to do with
movie posters, but I was wondering if any of you are wondering (as I am)
if the government may be lying to us. I mean, in totalitarian countries,
the governments used to endlessly broadcast good news, and record
harvests, and increased production, in the hopes that people would 
swallow it.

Lately, the government has been telling us that economic conditions are
getting better, and that the recovery is under way, and I am thinking,
Who I am to believe, the government, or my own lying
eyes?.

What say you?

Bruce

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Re: [MOPO] Completely off topic: any of you think the government may be lying to us?

2010-03-05 Thread Cory Glaberson
What's interesting about this question is the disconnect between what people 
see around them and what is happening in the economy. Our economy is too large 
and diverse for any one person's experience to really encompass it. How do we 
know what is happening in Silcon Valley, or  the Texas oil fields. We can't - 
but we trust what we experience ourselves even though we know its not a 
complete sample. WE just can't help thinking our small slice of the world is 
the whole world. 
  Its not an intellectually sound argument - but it is an emotionally powerful 
one. The really interesting question is why is distrust of our basic 
institutions is so high right now? We all should have a healthy skepticism of 
the what our institutions are telling us- but in some quarters its reached an 
extremely high level. This is NOT healthy. 
It causes people to do irrational things like buy gold and stock up on guns and 
can goods. I don't understand this thinking at all.





-Original Message-
From: Bruce Hershenson brucehershen...@gmail.com
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Sent: Fri, Mar 5, 2010 6:25 pm
Subject: [MOPO] Completely off topic: any of you think the government may be 
lying to us?


This has nothing to do with movie posters, but I was wondering if any of you 
are wondering (as I am) if the government may be lying to us. I mean, in 
totalitarian countries, the governments used to endlessly broadcast good news, 
and record harvests, and increased production, in the hopes that people would  
swallow it.

Lately, the government has been telling us that economic conditions are getting 
better, and that the recovery is under way, and I am thinking, Who I am to 
believe, the government, or my own lying eyes?.

What say you?

Bruce

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