Forecast: Partly scary with intermittent periods of sheer terror thrown in for good measure!

Okay. It is Wednesday, and it is June 16, and the year is 2010. So far, so good. I've been trying to figure out those who attempt to predict things like the economy and I may have to remove the weather forecasters from the top of my list of worst predictors of all time. The current crop of economic forecasters tend to do it this way: ready, go, set, and they have found a brand new word to report on their missed guesses: SURPRISE. "Last month economic forecasters projected a continued strengthening of the economy but to their surprise it tanked instead." Man, where do you go to school to get this kind of result within a 30 day window, no less? I'm also beginning to believe they can't even observe the scene of the crash and get the facts straight. It's like the twenty folks riding on the city bus when it hit the car. Suddenly they have forty eight passengers claiming injuries. I mean they can't even agree when a blip is a bump or a swag is a slump. Mothers don't let your children grow up to be economic or weather forecasters might make a better Willie Nelson song than the one about cowboys. You expect the hired guns to say whatever it is that the person paying them wants them to say. This is why it is hard to take anything seriously involving the economy when it is being explained by those who work for the current administration. Take for instance the other day when the stock market tanked because we had a huge number of jobs added to payrolls for the last period. The administration liked those numbers so well the President went on the road to promote them. Why then did the stock market collapse? How about the fact that the overwhelming majority of the jobs created were government jobs and not only that, the overwhelming majority of those created government jobs were Census related jobs that are already beginning to phase out of the system? The private sector did not show up with job gains that amounted to much which sent a signal to the stock market that things were not good like the economic team at the White House was saying and the rest, as they say, is history.

I am not in the business of making the type of predictions these folks are trying to make. Many of them carry that vaunted PhD after their names but that along with their endless resumes seem not to bring much to the table in terms of accuracy. In fact, we have taken to seeking out the lone strangers that actually came closer than others in guessing the outcomes that occurred. Many of these are not thought of as being at the top of the food chain but I suppose they know the difference between an economy stimulated by companies hiring people versus adding more and more jobs and their subsequent overhead to the governmental bureaucracy. I think the one thing we have learned thus far is that a room full of the self acclaimed to be the smartest people in the world cannot always be counted on to be able to know much, and based on what I have seen thus far, to know much about anything that really counts. Some of you might think I'm saying these things only because I am one of those 'just say no' renegade Republicans. While there might be a little of this involved, I would suggest the facts are the facts and it's high time we had someone willing to speak the truth and from my way of seeing it, never before have we had a situation where in this case: The emperor is as naked as a jay bird.

I will give full credit to the fact that much if not all of what happened to get this ball rolling was not President Obama's doing. However, he and his team are 100% responsible for the actions they have taken to either make things better or see them continue to deteriorate and the results are the results, period, end of story. So far it seems the blame starts here is a better slogan than the one he recently said he owned now, the buck stops here. I thought all the commentary to be laughable about how that we white people are responsible for why it is that President Obama can't show anger. They say it's our fault because we have a problem with the image of an angry black man. Give me a break, already! I would love to see him get angry over things that matter like those who are plotting every single day to destroy of country in the name of their religion. I would love to see him angry enough about the economy to ditch his misguided philosophical wealth redistribution mentality and get on a pro growth and pro American worker track. I would love to see him angry about many things but alas, we have to hear this array of racially charged elitist complaints every single time someone uses another really hurtful term: ACCOUNTABILITY. That's what I call dodging and we deserve better from our leaders, past, and present. I pray for those who bear the burden of governmental authority and May God help them to see their need of Him and His direction as they seek to serve. Amen. .....More later.