$10+ dollars an hour sounds like a great Election Campaign sales pitch… if you don’t know how to look at the big picture that is.

Granted everyone needs to survive but the last time I checked, minimum wage jobs were never suppose to the kind of job one would use to “support a family?”  It’s supposed to incentive that encourages people to become something greater than they are and not intended to create a system that encourages people to just get by.

After all, that is what America is supposed to stand for isn’t it?

Lately I’ve notice some very popular Internet dictionaries even changing the definition of the word, “Minimum Wage” and add the term “Livable Wage” to the description of the word.  For as long as I can remember, no one has ever been able to support themselves, or their entire family for that matter, on minimum wage.  Now, because of the complete and utter failure of our government as they refuse to keep a leash on greedy corporation while helping to maintain the value of the American dollar, millions upon millions of people have become minimum wage slaves… and their best answer/solution is, raise the minimum wage?

Seriously, what kind of crap is this?  It’s the ultimate pass the buck routine!  After all, they are the reason our nations education has been in a steady decline in the past 30 years and have made it so impossibly hard for pretty much anyone to start a business or get ahead…

The Great Dumb Down of America

U.S. Education has been in a slow and steady decline for decades regardless of what some number crunchers tell you!  After all, if you know what numbers to use you can make any pile of poop smell like roses.  All the proof you need can easily be is found if you look in a few20 or 30 year old text books or simply compare the required reading lists from the past to the ones in the present and you’ll clearly see this is true no matter who’s tries to tell you different!

In a world where college tuition’s prices have skyrocketed, the gap in the income inequality has expanded farther than its been in decades and there are not jobs available because these same jack knockers keep sending jobs overseas instead of finding ways to keep them here.  And the only answer they have to solve the problems they created, while helping to create a smoke screen to cover up the fact that our current leaders are complete and utter failure, is raise the minimum wage… Wow, just wow!

The sad truth is there is only one type of society that requires minimum wage is capable of supporting a family regardless of one’s education or ability… it’s called a communist society.  Of which, has proven to fail no matter who is in charge because when a group of people start consolidating power it creates tyranny which perpetuates a pattern of greed that eventually collapses on top of itself.  Always has and probably always will until we evolve as a society and learn to become more enlightened, civic minded and compassionate people.  Now don’t get me wrong back then, about 30 years ago, you could get by on relatively low wage but that was because the cost of survival was so low.  Now, even families where both parents work while earning a decent income are struggling… and in many cases they make more than the $10 an hour!

It makes you wonder though… how the hell did this happen?

But for now, this hype is just another distraction designed to take our minds off the fact that minimum wages jobs are pretty much all that is available to everyone without the proper training and education, hell even those who have both of these are scrambling now!  The reality is, when you don’t have a quality education or a passion for learning, you’ll pretty much fall for any distraction that makes sense.  Once you’ve been dumbed down enough, you become lazy and when that happens even really smart people will begin to do stupid things.  You know, like forget to find the truth out for yourself and fail to realize that you need to verify all the facts before you come to a conclusion…

Don’t Believe the Hype!

So, although it does make a great campaign speech the main thing jacking up the minimum wage will do is incentives the larger corporations to eliminate millions of these low paying positions anyways via automation, and, it’s already begun.  Just look at all the self-service checkout counters in super markets.  Even Mc Donald’s plans to install 7,000 self-service kiosks in their restaurants which will eliminate twice as many jobs, and what do you think will happen to millions of jobs if they roll these out in every chain across the world?  Did you ever stop to think what this pay increase will do to small businesses barely getting by?  You know, the backbone of America that are the only real decent paying job providers that are producing more jobs than these major companies who have no problem shedding thousands of jobs so their CEO and other executives can get their bonuses.

Ironically, these people usually pay a couple of dollars above the minimum (but often below the famed $10 or $15 figure) and they barely make enough to stay in business already, especially in today’s sluggish economy.

Whether you realize it or not, this little push will pretty much push most of these people over the cliff which brings me to why the minimum wage push is a big joke.  THE TIMING REALLY SUCKS!!!

Seriously, why did you hear a peep about this “problem” when our economy was booming?

You simply just don’t do things like this to small and medium size businesses when you are in the middle of a recession!

And, when thousands upon thousands of large companies are closing thousands of stores with plans to shutter even more.  Millions of more people are going to lose their jobs!

Now, on what planet does implementing such a policy make sense when the economy is suffering?  Especially when no policies are put in place by our leaders to stop jobs from being shipped overseas and no programs are put in place to really offer anyone the opportunity to make more than the minimum wage?  I think you’re talking from planet Uranus if you believe that this idea ever sounds like a good idea worthy of implementing until we get our nation back on track.  Squeezing blood from a stone is just none sense no matter how you slice it!

In Reality… It’s Not Really A Bad Idea!!!

The joke is, this idea would actually work if you had regulations in place that prohibited CEO’s from making huge bonuses from outsourcing American jobs and raising the cost of goods during tough economic times.  Pretty much what President FDR did to help pull us out of the depression of the 1930’s!  Many people don’t even know that one of the main things he did, which was key to helping get our nation back on track so fast, was to put a freeze on the cost of goods.  Now, the cost of food alone has skyrocketed while the ability to pay for them has diminished…wtf!

So you see, believing that one simple policy like alone will help our economy is just foolish.  Yet, we are only getting lip service on what should be done, while nothing gets done.

As anyone with any sense knows, these companies will always find a way to make sure they can get around a singular issue or regulation and simply pass the buck onto to the consumer if you let them.  They will always eliminate a position/job all together if you let them and the reality is, they are already planning to do so anyways.  And, with a nation of leaders who clearly don’t represent the will of the people as they cater more to the whims of big business pretty much all these companies will come together and simply decide to stick it to us all.

So, although it’s really sounds like a great idea to raise the minimum wage.  It simply is not a practical solution to our shrinking middle class as it makes a really good excuse to push everyone to the lower-class because now, you can get by on minimum wage.  That is, until the cost of food and surviving begins to creep up once again like it is right now regardless of how much those in charge retool the data to give the false impression that our economy is in a recovery…

The simple fact is, raising the minimum wage is a joke that will only provide a temporary solution that will lead to an even bigger problem down the road.  Pretty much what our leaders have been doing for 30 years…lol   And ,we need to wake up and realize that we real leaders who know how to solve the problems they created.  As Albert Einstein once said,

“No problem can be solved from the same consciousness that created it.”

So if you have any bright ideas on how to create jobs and fix our economy let’s here it in the comment section or go to the “I Have A Great Idea!” form on this blog website.  If you want to see some of my own, check out my blog post, “How To Create A Million American Jobs“

Hey!  Somebodies go to do something because these clowns in control of our nation are just killing!

Every year Americas politicians and economist seems to use an ever growing clever bag of political tricks to make the American people believe everything is rosy in our economy.  And the best tool in their bag of tricks is the Unemployment Index (UI).

Many, if not most Americans are not even aware that there are really six different UI indexes to choose from when talking about the latest unemployment figures.  With even few people being aware that nearly every media outlet, major economist and politician regularly intentionally chose the one index (U3) that represents the lowest level of unemployment.

In all actuality the honest rate of unemployment is usually much higher than all of these indexes as they have even conveniently made changes to the most accurate index that represents true unemployment (E6).

Yes… They All Know They Are Lying

It really makes one question the integrity of any institution that would provide so many different ways to interpret such valuable information and not really tell anyone about how the whole system even works.  The mere fact that everyone who really knows anything about the economy would chose to ignore the real, more accurate figures should be criminal.  But its not?!?!

Never mind the fact that all of these people are complicit and know that they are really never giving the American people a truly accurate assessment of how the job market really is doing.  The harsh reality is, this would quite simply be called “Lying” and “Committing Fraud” if any private citizen tried to use this same methodology to try and convince people that their business was doing great.  When in fact the truth is quit the opposite.

Yet, for those in charge of the largest organization in the world that is responsible for the lives of hundred of million, if not billions of people… it’s just find?

Seriously…What the hell is going on?  And, the scary part is, this is just the beginning of how many of our current leaders use tactics very much like these to deceive the masses.  If we knew how often they used just a few “truths” to cover up gigantic lies many politicians and once revered intellects would be swinging from the tree’s.

Yet, every year most politicians use these figures and tactics as weapons and they all play by the same rules of “never disclosing to the public the method behind how they really created these figures” as long as they can twist them to support a position that favors them.  Who the hell cares if it leads millions of people to fall into harms way… I don’t know about you but that kinds of sounds like a crime doesn’t it?

How These Unemployment Indexes Kinda Work

So to give you a snapshot that will allow you to see how these numbers work I’d like to direct you to this website that pretty much sums up the how these 6 indexes are determined and which one you need to look at too more easily understand them, go to: Unemploymentdata.com. This webpage was the best explanation I could find that summarizes how these number are used to manipulate reality and do a much better job of explaining the system than I can.

The scary part about all of this data is that everyone seems cool with the outright intentional deception.  From the media parroting the misleading figures to the government creating the system the produces them all the way down to the many well-known, respected institutions and economist.  It’s like everyone in charge of creating the laws and systems to keep the American people are cool with lying I guess, well, that is until you lie to them of course.  Even recently with every media outlet screaming, “look at the unemployment rate shrink” when a little over 6 months ago these same people were calling for blood because a bunch of politician let the unemployment benefits expire for millions of people which was the main reason this number dropped so much.  The reality is, the number dropped not because millions of people found jobs, it dropper because millions of people were either forced or dropped off the unemployment rolls and simply gave up looking for work.  Both of which actions were the only real cause for the unemployment number to go down.

The scariest part about all of this is, even the U6 (The most accurate unemployment index anyone has ) seems to be factually inaccurate.  You see the biggest problem is that many leaders keep readjusting the systems and the very programs they use to tell us whats going on so they can paint a better picture.

All it take is for the to pass a law or adjust a policy to make a couple of quick changes to the formula, remove or add a number or program and presto!  You have completely different fact available for you to use.  Pretty much allowing you to tell a lie while by using newly minted facts to support your position.  It’s actually pretty clever if you think about it.  After all, it makes it look like those in charge are actually doing a great job, and in fact, they are.  Well, that’s if you consider doing a great job of creating a new formula to make it look like you are doing your job when you’re not.

To give you an idea of how they did this with the UI just check out Shadow Government Statistics to see how they even changed the U6 index back in 1994 to help get that unemployment rate number ever lower than the true rate of unemployment… what a bunch of assholes!

The sad part is, this type of methodology and deception is applied pretty much everywhere across the various agencies that are usually failing in government.  They overspend and waste money, let’s create new regulation, taxes and fee’s to find more money which is insane considering that if they just kept better track of the money they had and made better buying decision.  They’d have more than enough money to do their job with plenty left after they were done.

It seems as if the only thing they’ve become successful at is creating a false impression of success when their failures are a clear as day.  All you have to do is look it up yourself and stop relying on people who have everything to lose if you know the truth.  Because the reality is the great unemployment deception has most people believing that less than 7% of Americans are out of a job when the rate of unemployment is just under 25% according to April 2014 actual figures.

So wake the hell up people!

It’s not a hard stretch to believe that if a certain group of people are willing to lie right to face while knowing that they are intentionally manipulating the numbers to lie to you.  They are pretty willing to do just about anything to make you believe other lies as well.

Yup, were pretty much screwed!

Well, we are if we keep electing those people who have proven to support lies like these all along…. And that is pretty much all of them so think about that when you go to cast your ballot and you see the same person whose been sitting in one of those U.S. Office for all those years.

Let that stew boil your brain a bit  as we’ll discuss possible solutions to this problem and others in the Political Evolution section of this blog site.

Understand Economy it a blog series that strives to open your eyes and help you better understand how political policies, major events, etc. really effect our economic reality.

Helping to try an add a valuable perspective that will help you understand or make sense out of those issues splashed across Main Stream Media (MSM).  Giving you the power to hopefully understand a decipher what those “experts” are really trying to sell you when they attempt to convince you that their economic position is valid.  Whether they’re trying to get elected or increase their ratings or readership.  The reality is almost every once trusted source has turned in masters of spin who tell half truths to support big lies.

Here we try to cut through the bullshit to give you the facts you need to so you can make an informed decision for yourself.   Here we try to give you the knowledge you need instead of just falling into line and believing whatever they tell you to believe!

As we break down what these issues form a common sense perspective.  We’ll try to describe how these policies, reports and issues really affect the majority of Americans in an easy to understand format while trying to make you laugh at things that very well may piss you off a little bit.  But hey!  Maybe you should be more PO’d at the fact that no one is really being straight with you or telling you the real consequences of the policies our leaders are pitching.  In a world where there are simply no 100% honest unbiased resources that look to inform you of the truth, we need to work together and start relying on one another to find it!

How Can I (YOU!) Help?

I’ve spent over two decade researching hundreds of economic policies and ideas.  From those based of crazy theories like “Trickle Down” (That clearly doesn’t work) and several other interesting ideas shared over various forums and comment sections of many articles about economics.

Sadly, many of these theories push by politician and leading academics never seem to pan out and rarely benefit the majority.  When you take those facts into consideration you don’t need to be a genius to see that way to many people with a lot of fancy tittle and letters behind their names seem to get it wrong more often then get it right.   As much as these fancy titles once made us feel comfortable with their logic, we no longer have faith in much of what these people say anymore.  I guess what pisses me if is that I find my assessments and predictions in matters of economy more accurate than some of those self-proclaimed leading economists… and I only studied Finance & Investment for a few years in college.  And, that’s not something I enjoy bragging about… 🙁

The difference is all of these leaders and scholars refuse to apply common sense logic and forget to understand basic human psychology.  They are so busy trying to sell their perspective that they refuse to tell what happens if they get it wrong.  After all, we almost always find out the hard way now don’t we.

The biggest problem is they have all gotten very good at making it sound like they know what to do and that their theories/idea will work when all they seem to do is make the problems worse.  Manipulating the system and using creative language to help to paint a picture that is anything but accurate or factual, they have successfully covered up their failures for decades.  Maybe it’s because many people want to believe them, who really know.  But, after decades of economic failure(s) how can any expect these same people we looked to for answers so any problem.  Especially when it was these same people whose approach caused all our problems to begin with?

The Harsh Reality

Yes, people.  Many American politicians, scholars and once revered intellectuals have perfected the are mass deception using a little truthful spin to tell a big mean old lie.  At one time we felt as if we could really trust those individual, who are paid very well, to tell us the truth.  What should have people really pissed off is the fact that the only thing those in charge of telling us “how it is” have done is created a system that allows them to use twisted facts.  Apparently they’re better at using shady economic formulas, creating custom surveys and research programs to help them hide the reality of how bad of a job they are doing or how bad things really are in American!

Now, if you want to know the real story behind the media blips or carefully crafted puff piece you have to fact check every article, know the details and history of every economy theory/formula, etc. and spend countless hours, days and weeks researching.  Once you do, you’ll quickly see for yourself that the supposedly well researched and factually accurate information piece isn’t worth SQUAT!  The harsh reality is, the truth will depresses you.  But at least it can prepare you!

When you don’t, you still get depressed because because for most people the stories they tell in the media clearly don’t represent reality for most people.  But, at least its better than being blindsided by the reality when the truth is when these bubbles burst our government is clearly more concerned with giving the people who caused all our worlds problems a bailout while caring very little about the people they destroyed in the first place.  What a huge pain in the ass that is huh.

Are we always right, absolutely not!  We are however willing to discuss these topics and share with you our findings and together, I’m sure we can come to a more accurate assessment of our nations current state of economic affairs.  You know, the real truth to those things the political spin masters and media puppets are selling or simply refuse to talk about.

Helping to create a virtual community that encourages all of us work together to come to terms with the economic realities of our generation while looking for the solutions that work for everyone.

The simple truth is most of  us don’t want to know the truth.  And neither do those who created the mess our nation is currently in.  Because if we did, it would simply blow all their BS out of the water no one would get re-elected as their house of cards would collapse and the once revered trust in the factual accuracy we once all had in the institutions pushing this garbage would be gone.  When less than half our nation doesn’t believe network news reports fact and ever since Akre v. Fox 2003 when a Florida Court of Appeals unanimously agreed with an assertion by FOX News that there is no rule against distorting or falsifying the news in the United States” we really need to learn to find the truth for ourselves now more than ever.

For more information, please go here.

The Bottom Line

One of the primal realities of life is we all need to understand how each of these matters of economy really impact each and everyone of us.

We need to have an outlet where we can find people who can really help us figure out the hidden details behind all of those clever talking points and discover the real motivation behind these talking heads of society.  All anyone has to do is do just a little research to discover who regularly uses carefully spun data and selective information to manipulate the masses into believing up is down, left is right and that the leaders we elected are doing right by us when the exact opposite is true.

Without knowing all the fact as we just sit back as they choose to only share with us the facts that only support their position or agenda and rarely give us all the details we need to make an informed decision as to whether or not these ideas, policies or law will help/hurt us.  Our faith in some of our nations most prominent intellectuals and leaders who we all believe have the tools the deliver our us to salvation.  Have in fact sold our nations future out while making ton of money by hanging us out to dry in the process.

The only way we can stop this is by getting informed, learning the whole truth and helping each other find out what exactly that really is!

It all starts with you and there is no better time to start than now!