Signs of a Financial Recovery
I’ve seen signs like this posted online all the time, and they are usually photoshopped to put some vulgar or antagonizing statement up to elicit an emotional response from a group of people. If you are willing to put in the time to look hard enough you can usually find the original sign that said something else entirely.
Well this pic is completely 100% legit. The only photoshopping I did was to crop out the name of the Church and any identifying markers.
Every once in a while life gives an author precious material like this sign for inspiration. I saw it out of the corner of my eye as I was being driven over to my mechanic’s shop to pick up my car. When I first saw it I said, “There’s no way that sign said what I think it said.” So I went out of my way to drive back past it on my way home to double check. I stopped at a Chick-fil-a down the street for lunch, and decided I had to go back and get a keepsake snapshot with my iPhone.
Those hacks that work in DC, who claim to “represent” us, like to throw statistics around to make it seem like they are actually doing the job they got elected to perform. My favorite is when one of those tailored suit frauds claims that unemployment is some absurdly low number like 7% and declining. The interesting thing about statistics is that if you understand them then you also know how to manipulate them to portray whatever delusional story pops into your head.
I lived in Paris for nearly half my life, and it is a beautiful city. France is an amazing country to visit, but it has one major drawback if you’re a French National; it’s historical unemployment rates float in the high teens to mid twenties. That’s the problem with bloated social based government that wants to micromanage your life; it’s so inefficient that it’s impossible for businesses to prosper, so growth is usually stagnant and the population becomes addicted to government handouts. Does any of this sound familiar?
Well if you ignore the bullet points, like 7% unemployment, that the bureaucratic boneheads want you to believe are true just because they’re plastered across lamestream media, and you look at the raw data that politicians manipulate to distort reality, then you’d probably see that our true unemployment rate is likely in the low to mid 20s, and has been there for some time. The excessive unemployment exists because we no longer have that picture of efficiency that our founding fathers granted us when they risked their lives to tell King George to kick rocks in 1776, limited government. We got lazy! Some modern day elitists that are no better than the British nobles we rid ourselves of 239 years ago, whom would have seen us all as serfs had we not told them to pound sand, found a way to usurp a Constitutional Federal Republic while we were asleep at the wheel and instal a bureaucratic leviathan….shame on us!
But who knows. Maybe you’re buying the B.S. they’re selling. If you are then I guess we really are in a financial recovery and I can point you to a church that is apparently having an open house for the mob this Sunday, if you’re part of the 7% unemployed. However, if like me you’re not eating the crap they’re serving, then I hope you’re an active participant in the game of life. We need more active players to fix this debacle those clowns have left us with. We need to become much more active much quicker, before we cross a point of no return where we no longer have the means to right the ship, and the greatest experiment in liberty is lost at sea forever.
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