Labor statistics without political spin

 

The Presidential tenure in the USA is four years.  Since the beginning of the labor statistics the average tenure has created 6 million new jobs.  That is the target for each President in the USA to meet.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Since 1939 we have created 105 million new jobs. This 105 million tells that the existing jobs tend to disappear fairly quickly while new ones are created.  So, don’t count on working the same job through your life as this change is even accelerating.  

During this recorded time we have had huge changes in jobs with largest monthly job losses reaching almost 2 million e.g. in September 1945 when the WW II ended.  This loss was followed by 0.9 million new jobs already in the following March alone. 

With 310 million population growing at 0.88% per year the USA should generate between 125,000 – 145,000 new jobs each month.  Since 1939 we have actually averaged some 125,000 new jobs per month.  

Unfortunately, during the current administration’s first tenure the new job creation has been the lowest recorded being as close to a statistical zero as one can get.  During the second tenure it appears to be clear that about 50,000 new jobs per month will be the final tally.  This grim as cruel for the ordinary people as it can get.  The country has lost about 7-8 million jobs during these two tenures and many of them deliberately.

What happened?   

 

 

Wars are supposed to create jobs as so much material and labor gets wasted and soldiers need plenty of support personnel to keep them doing their duties. 

The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were simply too small to counter the deliberate export of the so called simplistic jobs overseas by our corporations.  The most naive ideological theory of the “neocons” was to create almost overnight new consumers to places like China and India that would buy our high value added products and with that support our living standards.  They still do not comprehend that the people everywhere are much smarter than that. 

This whole effort was camouflaged and sold to American people under the mantra of helping the people by spreading democracy and all the related nonsense while we actually were reaching for supremacy on all energy resources around the globe.  Of course everybody out there knew what we were after including perhaps even  90% of all Americans.  The official policy just did not admit to any of simple observations that all painted a crystal clear picture to everybody else outside the “denial circle” and more so outside the borders of the USA.  Those outside just played the game as the big guns have had always a destructive power.

 

 

Liquid Coal is off the Table – Big Oil has Won!

Did somebody forget that our airplanes need fuel in the future?  Today the kerosene that we use contains all kinds of chemicals that will not burn fully in a jet engine.  With decades of flying this stuff is now present in every corner of the planet and all of it’s oceans.  

Perhaps none of you have ever talked someone living and having a garden next to a busy airport (take your Bose with you if you plan to go and check).   

If we are honest with our talk about clean air we should use only sythetic fuels in our airplanes until we figure out how to control the gravity (we have some ideas).   The liquid coal or natural gas are the cleanest synthetic fuels we can have.  When correctly done these fuels have a precise chemical composition, no impurities at all and the jet engine emits only CO2 and water vapor, see  www.syntroleum.com/Video/AF%20B52%20Fuel%20Test.wmv.

It is time for all involved and serious about global warming to realize that liquid fuels made of organic materials like coal are a necessity for us.  There is much more to this as you can find out if you follow the link shown later below.   The cheap demagogy against liquid coal that is used in this context is a disgrace.  While this demagogy is effective in getting votes from the least educated it will backfire on due time (Hitler was better in all demagogy anyhow).  

The recently promoted and established Ethanol insustry in the USA is a scam that is starting to show some stress signs.  For more go and check the price of a gallon of milk, a loaf of bread and a pound of meat in your grocery store - and do not forget the commodity prices either.

How come, ethanol is OK but liquid coal is not?  The commonly held claims do not hold water.   The ferocity of the fight against liquid coal in the political theatre including MoveOn and many other organizations indicate that somewhere real money pouring in.  The most obvious party supporting this “kill the liquid coal” movement is the Big Oil and it’s two brainchildren: Detroit and this new Ethanol industry.   We have been drinking ethanol in one form or the other for thousands of years and we have known equally long that this drink can support burning at elevated cocentrations.   A good drink and the same time one of the best selling tools to create a false promise that ethanol could solve our fuel problems.  

Unfortunately, we do not have the required excess arable land to take us to this mirage of never never land.   The 15% target as fuel for automobiles is BS and will die within a decade or two depending on how long the tax payers are willing to chip in.   

The Big Oil understands this all better than anybody else.  This would in any case fit perfectly into their long term strategy.   For them “helping” the Ethanol Industry is a perfect  delay tactic as they need all the time against liquid coal they can get.  This Ethanol nonsense was anyhow free for them as the tax payers picked the tab.   

In the real world Ethanol is not to be taken seriously as a solution to our energy problems. The Big Oil knew this from the beginning - for them the days of the Ethanol fuel ndustry were numbered before it was even born.  Fuel Ethanol will create a huge moral problem and solving that will keep our government busy for a long time.   

The Big Oil may not be the guilty here,  provided that they did not participate in plans that converted our high schools to subsidized day care centers for our teenagers.   When they graduate most of them can not read, write nor do math at sufficient level to study in a college or university without remedial courses. 

Perhaps you still wonder why during the past few decades oil companies have not built new oil refineries in the USA.   The Big Oil recognized the inevitable the arrival of an electric car already decades ago.   The last hurdle was the battery but that hurdle is now finally in history.   Detroit faught valiantly all the way against this electric thing but it’s over and they lost.   Detroit would never have built an electric car – it is too simple, too durable and especially too cheap when mass produced in less than a few years from now!   It does not use gas either and here Detroit and the Big Oil had a love affair.   For more, see http://www.galacticwind.com/eternity/Future.htm

In reality the Big Oil will not loose anything.   We still need all the oil they can find as is explained in details on the above referred galacticwind web site.  

Unfortunately the meantime, the highly frustrated Congress appears not to understand large numbers any more, as someone there figured out that we must tax Big Oil for their recent totslly unjustified, huge profits.   Relatively speaking there is nothing big in these profits but that seem to be too complex issue today.   This is insane, counterproductive and we will pay a price for this stupidity - this also will be discussed soon more in another Blog by the Surfer from Terrastan, stay tuned.

NOTE 1:  The Big Oil does not own any of the liquid coal nor closely related technologies.   These belong to tiny enterprises that have been fighting for decades to survive against the Big Oil and the enormous odds.   The Big Oil has kept the price of oil low “for us” and of course that is what we want.   But they had no goodwill in their mind, one of their targets was these small enterprises working on liquid fuel technologioes.  They wanted them out and dead to pick what they wanted from their ashes – like ripe plums.   As indicated above the Big Oil has attracted some of the smartest people on the planet to their ranks now for over 100 years and they still have their final strategy intact and in place.