Uncertainty - The New Drinking Game

I'm going to propose a drinking game. Everyone should take a shot every time the word "uncertainty" is used to explain away the fact that no one appears willing to hire due to the rather insane policies of the Obama administration.

Uncertainty is one of those nice words the pundit class uses when they want to passively address the problem without just outright calling the Obama administration a massive job killing machine. Much like how people won't say politicians are lying, merely that they are being disingenuous, we are going to be fed the line that it isn't the fact that Obama extorts money from certain companies or cheats bondholders in another that kills jobs outright, rather it merely creates "uncertainty" and thus companies aren't hiring.

Obama is suing his states claiming they are infringing on federal obligations while at the same time warning citizens of the dangers associated with the fact that the federal government has forsaken their obligation.


Make sure you when you see that suspicious activity and call 911, that they don't ask for the parties reported for any paperwork or else you and the authorities called are of course racists.

Obama's agenda is so radical that the only bipartisan support has been in opposition to it and members of his own party are so worried about losses both of votes and fiscal support that they haven't been able to pursue additional tenants of it besides massive spending, and health care. This has lead to new "uncertainty" created by Obama executive orders and these orders are increasingly being overturned by federal judges.

Democrats lose Wall Street Big Donors


Judge Blocks Obama Order at Yucca Mountain


Judge halts Obama drilling ban.


Add to this the 20 states suing the Federal government over health care matters and we grow to understand that hope+change= I'll see you in court.


People are even catching on to the "uncertainty" in labor participation rate numbers that show quite the interesting trend.



See people who don't participate in the labor market can't be unemployed. They are just choosing not to seek work and under Obama's policies, apparently more people are choosing not to work than ever before.

If they were choosing to participate, well then the unemployment rate would be up around 12%.

Just remember though, it isn't really 12%. Instead it is only 9.5% because of "uncertainty" and how it is affecting the markets. Uncertainty means that some people are simply choosing not to work nor even seek work. Other businesses are not hiring due to "uncertainty" but if you were to not the uncertainty is the Obama administration changing the rules and rates at any point, then you might just be a racist per the made up polls of Research 2000 which would show that only southern white males and their dog whistles think this way.

In the meantime, we can find every instance where a judge has overturned an arbitrary Obama administration action or a report that blames bad news on uncertainty and can drink so hard we forget the national debt hitting a new historic high.


Here's to you!

Drink mother fucker drink.


See there is a debate between what the money is being spent on and the fact that what was claimed would happen has completely failed to materialize. The debate is testy because people don't like being called names when they notice the claims about what would happen with the spending haven't actually materialized.

Remember the word for this.... it is UNCERTAINTY. When you declare that spending $787+ billion dollars will improve the economy and it doesn't improve the economy it doesn't mean the spending was wrong, it just means there is.... UNCERTAINTY.


The highest level of debt to GDP ever is normally might be cause for alarm but in this case it isn't because...highest level in history is just such an.... UNCERTAIN term. We can't really understand or know what that means apparently because highest level in history just isn't well defined or understood as a term.

Likewise the fact that the federal government has massive obligations for Social Security and Medicare at levels that any private enterprise would be declared bankrupt for owing and also the fact that they aren't funding their pensions leads to issues that are UNCERTAIN and that we can't understand.

Most people would say they really can understand them and that when government takes money to pay for things but instead steals it and redistributes it to buy votes that this is theft and wrong this is a bad thing. However we now know that these folks really DON'T understand are really just greedy, racist, ignorant liars. Also per Paul Krugman they are asinine for thinking such things.

Remember not funding pensions and not having the money to pay them can't be declared a bad thing. It is only an uncertain thing because we can't really know the IMPACT of not funding or paying these things. Again many of you might say that you can know the impact of not funding or paying pensions but just remember, when you think that, you are asinine, greedy, racist, ignorant liars.


Everyone knows... well then it must be a consensus, unless of course you are are AGRIL. (asinine, greedy, racist, ignorant liars.) Some of these AGRILs might even think they remember those stimulus and bailout measures were the solutions but clearly they are just remembering wrong and are making up stuff because they like their dog whistles and are worried about where Obama was born. The stimulus and bailouts were not the answers or solutions. If you thought that then you are remembering wrong.


The corporations out there have money they could hire people with and yet they aren't doing so. We could ask if the environment changed if that they are doing with the money might change. We could ask that but why do that when the answers would merely be so.... UNCERTAIN.

You could declare that you aren't uncertain and in fact are certain about what would bring about this change, but you are mistaken. You must be UNCERTAIN because the only certain people are AGRILS.

Here is a pretty picture.




The better line is one in which the government takes all the remaining money of these AGRILS and uses it to make things better. The worse line is the one in which the continue to spend but don't steal the money and that is very bad of course.

There is no line where the spending is cut or does more than be somewhat constrained. We aren't certain of much in this age of uncertainty, but we are certain such a choice cannot be made. The only people who would think about such a choice are those damn AGRILS.



DRINK, DRINK, DRINK!!!

I suggest that you feel free to use that and also note any other wonderful spin words here. The more the merrier.

Time for the daily dose of.... UNCERTAINTY.

Today's dose and double shot rationale comes from the Dallas Federal Reserve president.


Of course we are talking about a Congress that rather than engage in the budget process that uses a five year timeline, decided they would "deem" the spending for the year passed. This bit summarizes the matter nicely.


The politics of this is laid bare right there. You can't be condemned or on record for votes that didn't happen. The country has no budget and presidential double-speak while shaking down companies and labeling anyone who disagrees as an AGRIL isn't leadership. All of this lack of leadership and lying creates a lot of ......wait for it.... uncertainty.

People should call the uncertainty what it reflects, lack of leadership and lack of proper governing. Until that changes though we can still....DRINK.

How come it is never the dedicated spenders who leave the nation in a bad spot?

Nope. Uncertainy is the word being used to ignore BHO and the Congress.

Another day, another round of UNCERTAINTY. Wouldn't it be nice if people just stopped using this word, and started being forthright about what this Congress and this administration is doing to our country? With millions too discouraged to even look for work anymore, isn't it time to stop being polite? The left will destroy cars, shops and engage in outright theft at the G20 and will riot when they don't like a court verdict but of course it is the right they always point their finger out as the ominous and scary ones for doing things like... having grandma hold a placard calling Obama a socialist.

Enough of that though because it is time to note the daily destruction hidden with the politeness.


People need to stop being polite. They need to say to the looters that they are indeed shrugging and won't stop shrugging until the random threats and arbitrary changes of laws, rates and rhetoric that declares that they must be the movers of society while also being greedy and evil for moving it all come to an end.

Until then, we will have....UNCERTAINTY.

So drink mf drink!

Of course it was and also too much debt so of course the answer to that solution is... much more debt to try to generate consumption.

Another day, another article about that wonderful word... UNCERTAINTY.

Businessweek.com

Lots of great news and great figures, but what is holding the economy and the U.S. back? The answer lies in the last paragraph and as usual, they name the symptoms but not the cause.


Taxes, health care, stimulus, claims to generate jobs... I wonder who we could associate with all those UNCERTAIN issues?

Isn't it amazingly ironic that the white elephant in the room that one will discuss is our first black president?

There is no uncertainty. A law has been passed against it.

Now much like unemployement, and too big to fail, all our troubles are over gone and solved!

I guess this one requires a double-shot.

The uncertainty of our economic uncertainty.

If you could link to where I said it was relevant, then you might have a little bit of merit to your claim.

If I mentioned he was the 44th president would I now me a numberist?

Citing irony shows it is a joke. Large white elephant. Thin black Democrat. Irony.

It's amazing how that works. It's almost like I'm trying to be funny by weaving together existing idioms and playing with them in new ways. Hard for you to imagine such things I know, especially in a thread called "Uncertainty - The New Drinking Game" whereby the entire point is noting word use and substitution.


Good point, and better still, get back to the drinking because there hasn't yet been any discussion of pink elephants which would be the Recovery Summer.