What Is Now Growing As Popular In America...

We should begin with the rapidly changing face of small business in the growing world of franchises. As we work harder, faster and longer each day to work our way out of the ever widening American economic recession, we hear the happy thoughts of the Washington wobble heads, and their media minions at NBC and the other alphabet networks of the Main Stream Media telling us "its over", and we should appreciate the new prosperity. So I thought today I would focus on what is prospering and succeeding in this new decay.

For instance, two of Americas fastest growing franchises are popping up on every street corner with ever larger shiny new signs, evidently competing with each other, and growing for the last several years at an unprecedented pace. You may not be the kind that goes to these places, but hopefully the day is coming when you can afford them like we all used to be able to afford Starbucks Coffee.

The first two franchise groups appear to be real estate related. They are the "Available" Group and the "For Lease" places. Geez, I must see an average of at least three to five new locations a day in our city. We point them out to each other as we drive by them - like we used to call Volkswagen Beetles when we were kids - its a game.

Another next two franchise groups that have been growing like crazy are "Title Loans" and "Pawn Shops". Whoever is selling these franchises has to be making a killing at the rate their growing. (And I guess if its not a killing, they must at least be breaking a leg or two...) Kinda reminds me of the nostalgic pictures of communist countries, back when our country was free from it all.

The next fastest growing franchise group must be the portable roadside donut shops of some sort. I am not sure what it is called, or what its about yet, because every time I go by, you can't get near for all the traffic, but the next time I go past the same place, the whole group is gone. In fact the only way I know it has to be a donut shop is that there are always at least 2-4 police cars with their lights flashing and only 1 usually, or a maximum of 2 other cars there. Sometimes I have seen as many as 6-7 police cars all with their lights flashing - can be day or night, so you can mistake it for a traffic stop or traffic accident - but why the heck would you need that many police for ....

Come to think of it, I think the next fastest growing enterprise in America must be 'Policing'. It turns out now that if someone so much as litters a cigarette butt out their car window, they are not only pulled over to be charged with littering, but are given everything up to and/or including a cavity search, while the hero arresting officer invites all of his shift buddies, and those off duty - all driving a tax bought Police car to witness his or her heroics on the side of the road. This is where I believe these roadside portable donut shops must show up because it always seems to take up to 2 hours to write up the littering charge, and complete the rest of the perpetrators bio, and ever growing police record.

Which leads to another massively growing franchise: "Jails". These publicly supported enterprises are one of the fastest growing franchises in America - run by Sheriffs on a profitable basis - funded from State coffers, the only thing these new bastions of technology are missing is new perps to put in their cells. New jails are on average more than twice the size of their predecessors, and while old statistics demonstrate that America incarcerates (puts in jail) seven times as many people as the next leading "civilized" country in the world, I am betting that the profits these jails are making for their Sheriff entrepreneurs at approximately $ 200./perp for an average 6 hour stay - makes this enterprise far more profitable than a high priced hooker - some of their favorite friends. As such I bet we can make it to 10 times as many average inmates as any other first world country within the next few short years. And the bonus is that while their innocent and abused residents are made criminals by their system for unpaid child support, vagrancy, and other unpaid debts (traditionally known as 'debtors prison' in third world nations), and are therefore unemployable and generally incapable of maintaining a credit score, or worthy of managing credit, the good news is that an ever growing portion of America can now have 3 square meals and a bed at the public expense, and no longer show up on the unemployment roles, helping the President of this illustrious nation brag on a declining percentage of people that are 'out of work'. You gotta love our growing "just us" system under the leadership of its "Holder".

Luckily, in our community, the ever growing policing franchise is able to get out a lot more to help their visibility, discourage the people, and grow their crime rate. In the last week alone in our community - I have observed the forces of policing spending hours running fundraisers by serving in uniform in restaurants, and blocking up the streets as they hold a 'Run for Law Enforcement' extravaganza with police men and women (and both of their friends) running through the streets, accompanied for blocks with light flashing police cars, and cops on motorcycles riding along to stop productive traffic, and overriding traffic lights at every intersection. How can you miss a sight like that? And with all the funds going to: The Police!

I only wish I had found the time to accompany them to the end of the run - with all those police car lights, and hundreds of new police officers all gathered around what must have been several of those portable roadside donut shops...


Well I hardly think we should go on much further. Any more fast growing franchises like these will make us a third world nation as well, and we hardly want to encourage this kind of growth. I think I will vote for some hope and change this fall; What about you?

Why You Didn’t Have A Clue, And Why You Probably Still Don’t.

Because you are not meant to. The American governance structure has no interest in keeping you in the loop. You are useful idiots as long as you are walking in circles wondering “what in the world is happening?” all while hitched to an economy. You are the new mule that is grinding the grain, to be fed to your children, to fatten them for the slaughter, so the elites can feed off both you and your children. Think that is dire?

What had you heard of the coming “Baby Bust” throughout the early 2000’s? Or were your ears just overrun with Britney Spears and Paris Hilton “Bimbo Eruptions”? It is my contention that a lack of leadership in dealing with what were clearly known cliff edge predictions were never planned for, communicated clearly to the masses, or dealt with in any responsible or reasonable fashion by the leadership of the world’s leading economic engine, its media partners, or the business world that supports them – simply because it was not in their interest to do so, and they were protecting themselves at your expense.

You see as early as the mid-1990’s, and to a lesser extent as early as the mid-1980’s the trended effects of the Baby Bust generation had been forecasted by economists of the coming deflation of the years after the baby boom when parents slowed the rate of birthing of children dramatically. This period which began in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s were caused by both demographically observable and economically understandable data.

The net result was going to be that the basis of the American and world economic engine which has always been building more to accommodate the growth, was now going to be building less to accommodate the decline in demand. This includes everything that HAD been the basis of young couples forming households as they left the family nest and formed their own family home – buying a house, and new cars - and furnishing it, all on credit and mortgages, etc. With the inevitable dramatic drop off in the demand for housing and furnishings predicted to begin around the year 2010 and to remain in sharp crisis for at least 5 years, we find ourselves in 2012 well into this cycle, and only a political debate happening as to why housing won’t come out of its price falling depths, and why the Dow continues to hover in a range level it has been at for almost 15 years.

The reality is that while Wall Street has been vilified in the public’s eye, and on the world stage for killing housing and the economy by bundling and selling the rest of the world our bad mortgages, the truth is that they were simply unloading toxic waste that they knew would have a decreasing value in a few short years because when you understand markets, you also understand that declining demand means declining values for the homes that these mortgages were attached to.

Armed with this knowledge in the early 2000’s the responsible thing for Wall Street and Congress to do would have been to come together, and start anticipating the effects on their business and making the purchasing of homes, and qualifying for mortgages more difficult while housing prices were still relatively reasonable, with the goal of easing credit requirements later to offset the otherwise certain slipping of demand for housing by getting more of the population into the market when the market began to show its anticipated glut of housing.

But no - the greed of the banks, combined with the idiotic agenda of a social engineering lobbied Congress took the approach to the cliff with the Thelma and Louise approach, and simply gunned it. The engine of housing roared right up until the tank went empty and the traction beneath it disappeared, and then the great careen began toward the new low – all kamikaze style. Then conveniently, Congress did its final work and bailed out their buddies at the banks at the expense of the people that keep voting for them, and conveniently all went off to retire with the most cushy pensions and retirement benefits on earth securely in place for the rest of Chris Dodd and Barney Frank’s likely natural lives.

Add to this a sensationalism driven irresponsible media feeding an ignorant and increasingly uneducated American population their chosen diet of Twinkies over meals, and it is little wonder you don’t have a clue, and probably never will.

The reality is that there is a new normal to be defined in the next few years and we are not yet there. It is nothing like it was, and is a whole lot more like the rest of the world is and has been – because our new normal will be on the same level as the rest of the worlds.

You want to dream about a better future? America will likely not recover from the adjustment to its new normal for decades. So unless your future includes a plan to ride it out and start enjoying life after about 2025-2030, I would suggest that much of the rest of the world has not put itself into the mess America, and Europe have, and are in a much better position to provide future opportunity for development, stable economies, and the benefits of an interconnected internet world that had been the basis of the American experience for generations prior to the last 30 years.

So if you want a clue, do your homework and plan accordingly! And good luck.

Why I Love Obama As My President…

His "Leadership" sets a new standard of freedom based on his challenges to every kind of law.

No other President in the history of America has so fully abandoned the constitution, the rule of law, respect for their constituents, and their religion. And no other President has so obviously lied like a rug, and so eagerly supported an Attorney General that did the same.

The good news for all of us is that laws no longer are limits, and you are more than welcome to do whatever you damn well please because lawlessness is the new norm of the land.

As such, here are the things you are now free to get away with without concern for the laws and constitution of our land. Here are just a few examples of the hundreds:

1. Tax filings are now optional, and should be filed only when you are offered a government job – see Timothy Geithner.

2. Political Correctness is no longer a reasonable expectation, and as such you should feel free to protect your race and religion as more important considerations than the freedoms or respect otherwise owed to the people you work with, disagree with, or find despicable in any way you disagree with – see Eric Holder’s approach to… well pretty much anything.

3. Religious restrictions are irrelevant as Government rules do not recognize religious rights, or special status – See Kathryn Sebelius with HHS on contraception.

4. States rights are disputable at any level – see Lawsuit against Arizona for attempts to enforce Federal Immigration laws at the state level.

5. Business hiring practices are no longer governed by State Laws – see Federal attack by Obama’s NLRB against Boeing in South Carolina.

6. Your independent opinions don’t matter because when you are certain that Obama is a Muslim in every way he celebrates religion while pissing on Christianity, he insults your opinion by telling you and the rest of the world you’re wrong – he’s a Christian like you.

7. And regardless of what America wanted for health care, Obama and Nancy Pelosi were happy to shove their grossly irresponsible and incompetently defined legislation down the throats of America by lying to a Michigan Congressman “Bart” about promises to serve to simply steal his Congressional vote.

So why would you consider any law of America worthy of credible consideration when these fools are running the nation, and responsible for enforcing these laws?

That’s why I love Obama as my President – I am now freed of all legal and tax obligations, and am just as ready to tell the next Government fool that shows up trying to collect or enforce any American law, that I am now on the Obama plan, and they can just kiss my ass. Hope you enjoy the new program as well!