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July 04, 2009
Job Hunting?
Good Luck!
With unemployment at 16%, and maybe even at 20%, we are in a lot of trouble. Once rising taxes start having more of an impact on the business, unemployment will go even higher. We are about to see once and for all exactly what an unchecked liberal agenda will do the economy and this Country. It ain't gonna be pretty.
The video report spends a bit of time talking about the difficulties that convicts are having in the job market. Yeah well, surprise, surprise. There are consequences, and in this job market, with millions of people unemployed, why hire a convict to stock your shelves or sweep out your store or serve your customers when you can hire an over qualified college graduate to do it? The way things are going, you could probably hire an ex-policeman to do it.
I know, it's hard to get worked up about criminals who can't find a job, especially since some of us are looking ourselves and most of us know at lease one person who is now looking. But if you don't care about all those criminals, you should, but not for the reasons they're talking about in the report.
Just the other day my very good friend Rodg had a post up about a group of self proclaimed anarchists who are planning what they call "the Coming Insurrection." The post prompted an interesting discussion that did not necessarily stay on topic, as sometimes happens, and I'm going to duplicate my contribution to the discussion here:
Earlier this week here in Miami, we had a guy pulled over by a couple of trolls with a phony police light on their dash. They robbed him, beat him, and left him on the side of the road.
With actual unemployment numbers up at around 16%, crime is going to go right throught the roof. All states are laying off police and court personnel. LEO response time is going to be worse then ever and only the really bad stuff is going to be prosecuted anyways. We're gonna have to protect ourselves as best we can in the coming shit storm.
If these insurrectionists wanna gang up and go after the 0bama army of community organizers, well, I'd be tempted to pop some popcorn and turn on the TV.
I believe the real problem is, that 0bama will label anything they do as right wing extremism, and use it to take our guns and our rights away, just I believe as he'll use any moslem terrorist attack on US soil to do the same thing.
Call me paranoid.
The insanity of the crime wave going on here in South Florida is unbelievable. Home invasions are becoming pretty much a daily thing. Grocery shopping is putting your life on the line. They follow you home and get you when you're carrying your groceries into the house. At the end of May, a man was shot several times while he was mowing his lawn, two guys tried to rob him, he put up a fight and they shot him.
Very early this past Easter, I think I narrowly escaped a mugging myself outside of the local 7-11. I was coming out, a little after 8am. I had 2 bottles of coffee (starbucks mocha frap) in one hand and my wallet and keys in the other. As I came up on my truck, reflected in the window, I saw this black guy running right at me with one hand in the air, and something in his hand, it could have been anything. I didn't think, I just dropped the coffee, snatched the door open and jumped in the truck as quick as I could. Pulled the door shut and locked it. I looked out and he had turned around, was running the other way. I think the bastard was gonna hit my head with what was in his hand, a sap or a coosh or whatever, and snatch my wallet except I got lucky and saw him, got in the truck too quick for him.
And you know what? If he had hit me in the back of the head, he likely would have collapsed my skull. I just can't absorb a blow to the back of my head, not since I had brain surgery. My skull would simply cave in and I would probably die.
At the time, I was very calm about it. I just put the key in the ignition and drove away. I went down the road to the gas station and bought myself some more coffee, went home. But the thought kept coming back to me, I think I could very well have died right there in that 7-11 parking lot. Later that day, it caught up to me, I got the shakes and I actually cried for a bit.
I suppose he might have been lost, maybe he just needed directions and tried to catch me before I got in my truck. Maybe I overreacted and imagined the danger. Could be, but I don't think so and can't bring myself to go anywhere near that 7-11 again.
Anyways, the point is, crime is on the rise, and cities and states are laying off law enforcement and court personnel. The prosecution of criminals is happening less and less, and according to the report in that video up there, the next cost saving step is to reduce the number of prisoners presently incarcerated. To empty the prisons. This way, the city and state doesn't have to feed, clothe and house thousands and thousands of criminals.
The report in that video talks about prisons being emptied and how those thousands and thousands of criminals in that one state are going to swell the ranks of the unemployed, as if that's the only thing that matters. As if those criminals are all perfectly rehabilitated and are going to spend their time looking for a job. Yeah. Right.
What that report doesn't talk about is the fact that those thousands and thousands of criminals in that one state translates to millions of criminals across the country.
What that report doesn't talk about is that prisons are going to be emptied and millions of criminals are going to swell the ranks of criminals already on our streets. Because that's the reality of what's going to happen.
What that report doesn't talk about is how the prisons are going to be emptied, and milliions of criminals are going to swell the ranks of criminals already on our streets at a time when we have less and less police officers on the streets to catch them.
What that report doesn't talk about is that millions of criminals are going to swell the ranks of criminals already on our streets at a time when we have less and less police officers to catch them and less and less court personnel to prosecute them.
What that report doesn't talk about is that millions of criminals are going to swell the ranks of already criminals on our streets at a time when we have less and less police officers to catch them, less and less court personnel to prosecute them, at a time when we are not locking them up anyway because the cities and the states are emptying the prisons because they claim they can't afford to keep criminals locked up in the first place.
If your house is burglarized, if you're mugged, or raped, or otherwise the victim of crime, do you think anyone is going to care? Do you think your local police force is going to have the manpower to investigate? And if they do investigate, and if they actually catch the troll that did it, do you think they're gonna lock your troll up at a time when they're emptying the prisons of every other troll who was convicted of doing the same thing last year or the year before or even last month?
Bernie Madoff they'll keep in prison until he croaks. But the troll who raped your neighbor's daughter when he robbed their house? They're letting him out early.
It's a cold hard world out there, and it's getting colder and harder by the minute. I'm armed, but the cold, hard reality of life is, on Easter morning, my weapon would not have done me the slightest bit of good. I could not have gotten it into my hand and into a position to protect me in time to save my life. I got lucky, that's the plain and simple truth.
If your ass needs saving, you're gonna have to save it yourself, as best you can, because your government is too busy saving polar bears to worry about you. That's what the liberal agenda calls for and that's what this government is spending your money on, squandering away your future and putting your personal safety on the chopping block.
Posted by LindaSoG at July 4, 2009 09:32 AM
Comments
Happy 4th Linda.
So glad you are safe. What you are saying is what I see all too often, call the police for anything and they'll show up to make the incident report, that is why the phrase "I carry a gun because a cop is too heavy" is so true. After being held up twice in business, the police in that fair city said to give them anything they wanted, instructed me to write the police call numbers and my phone number backward on the glass of the front window??? I dunno the logic behind that, they frowned on the hogleg I put under the cash tray in the register. luckily I never had to use it. A storekeeper on the South side of town stopped two of them dead in their tracks at his cash register and ended their spree, he never cleaned the stain from the floor, it's a graphic waxed over reminder for all to see. We have our own Barney Fife, out here, I called some 6 years back for one and he hasn't shown up yet, but this one dutifully sets in the tavern parking lot where he can bust a drinker and pinch someone doing 50 in a 45. It's not that deputy sheriff's fault, it's the system, the transition from peace keeper to law enforcement brings with it a creation of victimless crimes for city, county, state and federal revenue, 'ordinances'(enforcement taxes), to be enforced. "C'est La Vie" :)
Posted by: Jack at July 4, 2009 03:33 PM
One thing that we can count on with the liberal agenda is its self-correcting agenda. The libs will fuck up the economy so bad that anyone with a brain and a vote will toss them at the first chance, and we'll get another Reagan to sort out the economy.
You'd think we'd have learned from Jimmy Carter. Think again.
Obama will send the economy into the toilet, then we'll toss him into the toilet and the pendulum will swing back and forth, as it always has.
Stupidity - Conservatism - Stupidity - Conservatism - etc.........
Posted by: Kevin M at July 4, 2009 05:43 PM
May your luck hold Linda - don't want to lose you.
Kevin - hope you're right. But recent events seem to indicate that people with functioning brains are not as common as one might hope. And, where is our next Reagan?
Posted by: B....... at July 5, 2009 09:50 AM
I had no idea about the near mugging. Nicely done piece Linda. Sell it.
Posted by: Le vrai roi de la France at July 5, 2009 11:03 AM