We’ve been told in Fornicalia that everything is changing, and that our forte now is as a “service economy.”

With one major exception: service economies don’t grow the national economy, and they don’t stabilize a nation, and they don’t place or keep a nation strong.

A strong nation actually builds and produces things that other economies — and nations — need, such as aircraft, steel, cars, clothing, ships, trucks, fabrication, food, appliances, electronics, etc.

Many of these things we simply do not manufacture or create any more in the United States. But that’s deserving of a blogpost for another time, is it not?

The AP writes:

Whenever companies start hiring freely again, job-seekers with specialized skills and education will have plenty of good opportunities. Others will face a choice: Take a job with low pay — or none at all.

Job creation will likely remain weak for months or even years. But once employers do step up hiring, some economists expect job openings to fall mainly into two categories of roughly equal numbers:

• Professional fields with higher pay. Think lawyers, research scientists and software engineers.

• Lower-skill and lower-paying jobs, like home health care aides and store clerks.

And those in between? Their outlook is bleaker. Economists foresee fewer moderately paid factory supervisors, postal workers and office administrators.

To this point, as having been the “recipients” of Wonder Solutions such as TARP, various stimulus packages and ObakaKare — to the tune of, now, vast billions and billions of dollars that we do not possess [with the national debt at $13 trillion — and growing] — the US is still in the grip of a struggling economy, larger unemployment figures and the largest tax hike in history coming January 1st of 2011.

As if that will help the economy . . . so let’s just kill spending altogether, shall we?

Fornicalia is already in the fiscal tank.

Remember what Mr Obama said during his campaign for president:

The Bush tax cuts – people didn’t need them, and they weren’t even asking for them, and that’s why they need to be less, so that we can pay for universal health care and other initiatives.”

2007 Democratic Primary Debate at Howard University Jun 28, 2007.

“Government does not have a revenue problem; government has a spending problem.“ -Marsha Blackburn

Click here for at least 60 links to Obama’s views on the economy and the budget.

But there’s a portion of the working sector that AP has missed, jobs that will always need to exist:

– Doctors, nurses, skilled nursing staff, welders, fabricators, mechanics, carpenters, electricians, plumbers, HVAC technicians — in other words, skilled people who know how to keep what we have operating.

Never forget, though, that politics are involved:

At stake nationally is the balance of power in Washington, the tone for the remainder of Obama’s first term and his likely 2012 re-election bid. All 435 House seats as well as 37 Senate seats are on the ballot. The country also will elect 37 governors in races that will determine who oversees the once-a-decade redrawing of political districts.

And let us not forget Demorat Labor’s Card Check:

Nothing like pressure, eh workers?

Welcome to your New Paradigm, Labor.

Mr Obama and his Socialists have already sold your asses down the river. He’s making you a Wimpy Promise:

I’ll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.”

He wants your vote up front.

After that, you can all go to Hell.

Welcome to Labor Day.

BZ

Next year in 2011, a decade will have passed since Islam attacked the United States.

No one quite frames it that way, but I do.

For next year, I want to portray the Real Cost of 9/11.

I want to show what actually occurred.

You know and I know that there are photos of Americans who jumped from the twin WTC towers and then were crushed by gravity by their impact with the concrete.

There is not ONE photo, however, of which I am aware, portraying this.

Again, both you know and I know that those photographs exist. They were never revealed. Precisely because someone, somewhere, decided that it was best not to inflame Americans.

I will pay $500 dollars to the first person that will send to me, digitally, one photograph depicting the reality that occurred, on the ground, around the World Trade Center on 9/11 of 2001. Of the Americans that decided to jump to their deaths instead of facing burning, or worse, in the WTC towers.

I don’t need to know your name, your background, your history. I will credit or not credit you if you wish. I must, however, be able to verify your photograph in some fashion.

I want to see an American’s literal, actual, impact on concrete or steel. It pains me to write this, but the more graphic, the better.

Americans, in my opinion, need desperately to see this.

Nationally, we have a brain-glazingly short memory. Sometimes this is good; most times this is bad.

Please contact me, Bloviating Zeppelin, at: milepost154@yahoo.com.

Let me be blunt: I am soliciting a jpeg image of an American having impacted the ground around the World Trade Centers. It must be in focus. It must be graphic. I must accept it.

If I receive your image, you must understand that my sole and specific point is to publish your image on my blog. I shall give you credit or shield your name, however you wish.

I will respect your determination.

I merely seek to make this point: there was a Cost, on 9/11, that most Americans still do not recognize or understand.

BZ

1. Coke / Diet Coke — or Pepsi / Diet Pepsi?

BZ

Could the pandering of the Demorats for votes get any worse? Could they possibly be any more such abject apologists for Mexicans?

Did you even remotely envision YOUR country like this?

From the Washington Times:

By Jerry Seper and Matthew Cella

The Washington Times

8:58 p.m., Tuesday, August 31, 2010

The federal government has posted signs along a major interstate highway in Arizona, more than 100 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border, warning travelers the area is unsafe because of drug and alien smugglers, and a local sheriff says Mexican drug cartels now control some parts of the state.

The signs were posted by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) along a 60-mile stretch of Interstate 8 between Casa Grande and Gila Bend, a major east-west corridor linking Tucson and Phoenix with San Diego.

They warn travelers that they are entering an “active drug and human smuggling area” and they may encounter “armed criminals and smuggling vehicles traveling at high rates of speed.” Beginning less than 50 miles south of Phoenix, the signs encourage travelers to “use public lands north of Interstate 8” and to call 911 if they “see suspicious activity.”

Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu, whose county lies at the center of major drug and alien smuggling routes to Phoenix and cities east and west, attests to the violence. He said his deputies are outmanned and outgunned by drug traffickers in the rough-hewn desert stretches of his own county.

“Mexican drug cartels literally do control parts of Arizona,” he said. “They literally have scouts on the high points in the mountains and in the hills and they literally control movement. They have radios, they have optics, they have night-vision goggles as good as anything law enforcement has.

“This is going on here in Arizona,” he said. “This is 70 to 80 miles from the border – 30 miles from the fifth-largest city in the United States.”

He said he asked the Obama administration for 3,000 National Guard soldiers to patrol the border, but what he got were 15 signs.

Your country is already turning portions of the United States over to Mexico.

This is not because we lack the technology or the personnel or the money.

It is solely because we lack the political DETERMINATION and the political WILL.

Thank you, Mr Obama. YOU are responsible.

BZ