The Roots of Anger
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The anger of our
times is born of unrequited frustrations; when goals, hopes and needs are
simultaneously frustrated, and one cannot process the reasons that they persist,
this causes the latent anger to bloom and flourish.
Welcome to the fourth
quarter of 2013 in what is mockingly known as our national period of economic
“recovery.”
The very wordsmithing
and semantics of the Orwellian political-correctness itself engenders the anger.
It seethes and breeds upon itself as it languishes and loiters.
Americans trust not
in polls, statistics and factoids, or White House press conferences; be they
from the Congressional Budget Office, an amiable press secretary, the Census,
ABC News/Washington Post, or
Gallup. The body of direct evidence for the deceit, misdirection, obfuscation,
spin, slant, and cover up reeks of systemic collusion.
Those, who seek to
control, influence the message...sometimes horribly!
Passionate bloggers
and activists populate Facebook
with dedicated pages now that are brimming with revelations that provide
line-item proof of the “propagandizement” of America.
[ My own humble sphincter muscle on this subject is https://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/314485498638683/ which I titled "Anger Management Needed - Report directly to HR." ]
The biggest offenders
are the bold-faced lie, the lie, the unintended spoken word, and the
mis-represented comment. Ah, the Bushisms live!
Speaking off-truth
has been practiced and demonstrated for many administrations, and behind closed doors
is explained thusly: “We know best, and with all good intentions understand that
some can’t handle the truth, and some would take the plain truth and run in the
wrong direction with it, which would work against our national
objectives.”
So, the ends justify
the lies and hypocrisy, and it remains unchallenged and repeated until it
eventually becomes a folk-truth. Yes, it’s the repetitions….the
repetitions!
Unemployment is going
down, unemployment is lessening, we are recovering from unemployment, the
unemployment picture is improving, how ’bout that unemployment
number!
Of course, what they
meant to say is that the record number of men and women of job seeking age, many
of whom support families, have quit looking for work, have dropped out of the
game, and turned to the dole. We could also speak of those working outside of
their field of specialty, or who are underemployed with part-time wages
only.
These people are not
counted, but are now chronically angry…Where is the help?
President Barack
Obama promised more road work...so we have congested and dangerous work zones
with speed cameras taking our pictures and sending us fines in the mail...makes
me angry; but what percent of our population does this relieve?
Is that it?
"Quantitative Easing" [QE2, 3, etc] has only eased for bankers and Wall Street….not you and me.
Angry I be.
But, thank God that
the inflation rate at least is under control. Not.
We simply remove new
car sales, or government workers under forced sabbaticals, or volatile items
like food and gasoline, or the price of your heating oil and gas. Can’t have
inconvenient data-sets mucking up the feeling better of the recovery. Yes,
attitude puts people to work….feelin’ fine now…well, not really.
In fairness, there is
a certain market psychology that will sway border line business investment
decisions, so I do get some of the tweaking of facts. But we are out of control
now.
We are not adding
jobs via higher education as so much of the liberal arts curriculum does not
translate into the workforce strength. We are not adding jobs by encouraging
investment or making new skills programs available (outside of the fakey “green
energy thing”). We still maintain foreign trade practices and monetary policy
that hold back the blue collar and roughneck jobs. The middle ground for the
middle class is evaporating and being replaced by low paying part-time
work.
Blame directly
aspects of Obamacare among others, discouraging full-time employment, and
forcing up the costs of doing business. People who would otherwise expand and/or
start new businesses are sitting on the sidelines as a result. There is no
plan!
The money itself is
sitting on the sidelines, as developers do not develop, or worse, because they
can’t develop any new income streams to replace old business efforts. How to
cover that gentrified shopping mall investment?
Blame the
Environmental Protection Agency cabal. Saving the planet is most exaggerated,
and we seem to be hurting the people by saving the planet. Regulations detract
from investment most directly.
Corporations need to
learn to work making best decisions NOT just to the end of the fiscal quarter.
Regulate them accordingly! Governments need to make hard and smart decisions
that span whole administrations. Politicians need to risk their careers making
best practices happen in a head-wind of lobbyists. The people must expect better
and vote with their feet and their dollars. Corruption cannot become an expected
norm, and be ignored by an institutional press disorder!
But, just don’t lie
about it. The truth helps, because it’s about the knowing. This becomes
confidence, eventually...it’s about the trust. It’s about a willingness to
believe that the problems are acknowledged so that they may be fairly analyzed,
worked on and resolved systematically over time.
Soon, I
hope.
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