"But, it being my intention to write a thing which shall be useful to him who apprehends it, it appears to me more appropriate to follow up the real truth of a matter than the imagination of it; for many have pictured republics and principalities which in fact have never been known or seen, because how one lives is so far distant from how one ought to live, that he who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation; for a man who wishes to act entirely up to his professions of virtue soon meets with what destroys him among so much that is evil."Â Machiavelli
The government is living in a perpetual state of denial, Democrats pretending to be kings of the mountain and protectors of the working class. The Republican's grubbing for more golden coins while ignoring the rapidly forming January storm. The crisis we face is real, while their solutions are pure fantasy. The economy has lost 430,000 more jobs than it added from November 2009 to November 2010. Millions of Americans are being cycled through the system until their benefits are exhausted. The bureau of labor statistics has started a new category, counting those unemployed for two years. For a nation that once criticized George W. Bush's handling of hurricane Katrina there is a mighty silence on Obama's handling of the economic Katrina.
Last September when the Robo-signing scandal broke it was feared by the banks that a legal log jam might slow home foreclosures. In September the number of homes foreclosed fell by 9,000 to 93,000 per month. 90,000 more in October and another 90,000 in November. It is safe to assume that another 90,000 American families will spend Christmas filling boxes instead of emptying them.
Of course that is two years away or another two million home foreclosures down the road, or another million or so job losses. It is going to be a damn cold Christmas.
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