The (Un)employment Chronicles: Voices Of The Degreed And Jobless

Belief-based conservatives have no recognition of reality. They think an economy magically provides a job for everyone who needs one, while promoting the ideology that dictates unemployment to drive down the price of unearned wealth for the rich.

Unemployment drives down labor costs and thus increases the value of wealth (produced by labor) purchased by investors in a capitalist system.

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Obama SLAMS Republicans For Obstructing Economic Progress In Weekly Address (VIDEO)

R's like 5 workers competing for every 1 opening, because it keeps down the cost of free wealth (more workers competing for jobs equals cheaper labor, and thus cheaper prices for those rich enough to be simply purchasing wealth via capitalism).

Then again there's the Tool Partiers who probably can't even grok the 5-to-1 math...

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If You're A Conservative, Please Don't Participate In Any Socialist Activities Like Voting

Conservatives--especially the Tea Partiers--are chomping at the bit to kick out the Democrats and put Republicans back in power in November. But since any interference in the free market represents socialism/marxism, they shouldn't be participating in socialist activities--like voting in elections--in November. Democracy constitutes direct control by people (one-person-one-vote) rather than control via money (according to how much wealth and thus leverage one can bring to bear), and constitutes a governmental interference in the free market.

It will be very difficult for the free-marketers to win in November without becoming socialists in the process. We'll see.

Conservatives try to change the word democratic to democrat, as they do in this infamous banner. They refer to the Democratic Party as the Democrat Party in their rhetoric. (Also note the billboard warns "radical leaders prey on the fearful and naive," while banking on historic illiteracy regarding nazism, capitalism, socialism, and communism.) Apparently conservatism is not an ideology that can be promoted honestly.

The Creativity Crisis In America: Newsweek

Bashing unionization and the fact schools are a successful public entity comprise the extent of rightwing influence in education. The "accountability movement" arose in response to their demonization, and thus the standardized testing obsession, as a means of having something to measure teaching effectiveness by, despite its engendering low-level thinking activity detrimental to children's development. In the meantime competing countries are pushing creative real-world problem solving in their unionized education systems rather than obsessing about teachers making their profession more attractive to the best-and-brightest through collective bargaining in the market. Just another gift from spiteful and illiterate rightwing ideology.
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Another Inefficiency of Free Market Capitalism

Today conservatives are defending auto dealerships having just carved out exemption to oversight by Obama's financial regulatory overhaul. Here's an example posted on Huffington Post:

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stop whining about this stuff. read more, learn more. expand your mind man. stop feeling like you are the victim all the time.

libs act like children who cant be held responsible for their actions. if you learn and read, you wont be duped by a freaking car dealer.

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Well here's some reading for our wonderfully typical conservative poster:

What makes this inefficient of course is the duplication of work. If everyone has to do the same research themselves, it's far less efficient than having one government agency do it once. People have better things to do to advance their lives than research each and every food item they buy, every lawn care pesticide, the safety of every toy or car seat they buy, the build quality of every detail of every home or automobile, etc., etc. Efficient consumer protection in turn thus aids market efficiency.

Of course it's a problem if corporate money determines, influences, or controls government agencies--another reason the influence of money (a conflict of interest) should be severed from what would otherwise constitute a democratic government, via public-only financing of campaigns and elections and influence (campaign ads, etc.). Then government agencies can be judged by their efficacy rather than how much they benefit rich corporate shareholders by sacrificing people's wellbeing, the environment, and so on.

It's also more efficient for taxpayers because they don't have to pay profits to shareholders on top of funding the service.