Name:   MAJ USA RET - Subject:   The String between Hope and Change Date:   12/29/2014 8:03:34 PM (updated 12/29/2014 8:05:41 PM)

I conjure that liberals do not comprehend the string which connects us and events together. For example, some say the unemployment rate is improving… but, have no idea how energy prices and unemployment influence each other.  Some liberals tout the rising Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) yet, have no feel for the drastic drop of price at the gas pump.  Liberals will acclaim the rise in the DJIA and yet disparage the disparity between the rich and the poor (where IS that money going?) If I had $3,400 should I… based on ten years of history… invest that in a block of GM shares?  If I have a million dollars in cash… what should I do with it?  If I have a million dollars in cash… how do I best place it to benefit my employees (the ones I have left)? What do the executive actions of Obama have to do with my decision?

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If I consider the value of my work?  Does it mean more that I support my family or that I just “have a job.” If I have a job…. but cannot provide QUALITY and appropriate medical care for my family… even considering federal subsidies for my premiums… how should  I feel about my self-worth. If I used to be a financial advisor… but now, I am a 32 hour-per-week night manager at a convenience store… am I employed… or not?

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One of the jokes about geophysicists and data ends with “What do you want it to be?”  In graduate school we were imbued with the concept that the truth of data is NOT improved by processing.  The truth about the economy, jobs, wealth, retirement, racism, (usw) is in the morale of the people... not in the spin of the government directed, mainstream media.

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On that note… I agree we have had the promised “change.”  But, I submit… it has been at the cost of “Hope.”

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LMF Curmudgeon