http://www.prisonplanet.com/good-economic-numbers-don%e2%80%99t-be-fooled-by-the-financial-sugar-high.htmlGood Economic Numbers? Don’t Be Fooled By The Financial Sugar High The Economic CollapseApril 2, 2011
The U.S. financial system is like a junkie that needs continually increasing amounts of “junk” to get the same “buzz”. So what is the U.S. financial system addicted to? It is addicted to money and debt. For many years, whenever the Federal Reserve would lower interest rates or the U.S government would borrow and spend more money, the U.S. economy would respond positively. But just like with any other kind of artificial stimulation, over time it has taken greater and greater amounts of debt and cheap money to get a response from our economic system. So yes, the fact that the official unemployment rate went down 0.1% last month is good news, but considering the massive amount of spending that the U.S. government is doing and considering the gigantic quantity of money that the Federal Reserve is injecting into the financial system, the truth is that the unemployment rate should be falling much faster than that. So don’t be fooled by the good economic numbers and don’t be fooled by the financial “sugar rush”. The U.S. government and the Federal Reserve have been pulling out all the stops to stimulate the economy, and the fact that all of their efforts are barely moving the unemployment rate at all is an indication of just how far our economic situation has degenerated.
Many in the mainstream media were extremely excited when the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that the U.S. unemployment rate declined to 8.8% in March. U.S. stocks soared as investors enthusiastically welcomed the news. But should we all really be jumping up and down over this?
The truth is that some other measures show that the unemployment situation in the United States is becoming worse.
According to Gallup, the number of Americans that are either unemployed or working part-time but desiring full-time work actually rose from 19.8 percent in February to 20.3 percent in March.
So let us not get too excited about the employment situation. Yes, unemployment is not spinning wildly out of control at the moment and that is good news.
However, when you look at the larger picture things look rather grim.
What the U.S. government and the Federal Reserve have been doing is that they have been mortgaging our future big time for short-term economic gain.
This year alone, the U.S. government is going to run an all-time record budget deficit
of approximately 1.6 trillion dollars. By borrowing 1.6 trillion dollars that we do not have and spending it into the system, it does stimulate the economy.
There are some members of Congress that would like to implement substantial budget cuts, but most members of Congress fear doing too much budget cutting right now because it would “harm the economy”.
And you know what? They are right – budget cuts would harm our economy in the short-term.
But continuing to pile up all of this debt is setting the stage for an absolute economic nightmare in the mid to long term.
We have lived far, far beyond our means for decades, and most of our politicians are acting like this can go forever.
But tell me, does anyone out there actually believe that we can keep expanding the national debt like this indefinitely?….
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