Turnout US presidential election 2012

Turnout dropped by 7.9 million voters, falling to 123.6 million this year from 131.5 million in 2008. This is the first decline in a presidential election in 16 years. Only 51.3% of the voting-age population went to the polls.

They're basically just looking for a steady job as their own boss.

Less than a quarter of America's 27 million small businesses have employees. An even smaller portion grow beyond 20 employees. And many of them don't want to. New research from the University of Chicago finds that 75% of small-business owners aren't aiming for growth at all. They're basically just looking for a steady job as their own boss.

The 2012 presidential election results in the highest income counties in the United States:

The 2012 presidential election results in the highest income counties in the United States:

Loudoun County - Virginia
Mitt Romney/Paul Ryan - 47%		R
Barack Obama/Joe Biden - 52%		D

Fairfax County - Virginia
Mitt Romney/Paul Ryan - 40%		R
Barack Obama/Joe Biden - 59%		D

Arlington County - Virginia
Mitt Romney/Paul Ryan - 29%		R
Barack Obama/Joe Biden - 69%		D

Societies that herd livestock in rugged terrain tend to develop a “culture of honor.”

Anthropologists have long noted that societies that herd livestock in rugged terrain tend to develop a “culture of honor.” Since their wealth has feet and can be stolen in an eye blink, they are forced to deter rustlers by cultivating a hair-trigger for violent retaliation against any trespass or insult that probes their resolve. Farmers can afford to be less belligerent because it is harder to steal their land out from under them, particularly in territories within the reach of law enforcement.

Jobs Shortage and Retired Shortage

Jobs Shortage and Retired Shortage

There is a Jobs Shortage in nasty jobs.

Characteristics of nasty jobs:

Three-Week Shifts of 12 hours a day

Temporary jobs

Hardworking jobs

Commodity business

There is a Retired Shortage in fancy people

Characteristics of retired fancy people:

Their financial adviser sends them about

$6,000 a month, generated from their investments.

They also collect Social Security and small pensions.

An example of the logical conundrum between quality service and free service:

Some European businesses prefer to use U.S. forecasts

because they are free, while some U.S. businesses

spend large sums for European forecasts because they

are better.

The artificial money

The artificial money, prompting low interest rates, is not being utilized because people are still in the process of repairing their balance sheets. The artificial excesses are simply being circulated through loans from institution to institution to produce artificial gains that amount to more money with nothing to back it up.

At the same time the government is running trillion-dollar annual deficits

When the Fed must, in Chairman Ben Bernanke's words, begin "removing liquidity," by selling bonds, the external debt of the federal government will rise and the Treasury will then have to pay interest on that debt to the public. Selling a trillion dollars of Treasury bonds on the market—at the same time the government is running trillion-dollar annual deficits—will drive up interest rates, crowd out private-sector borrowers and impede the recovery. Debt-service costs to the Treasury will spiral as every 1% increase in federal borrowing costs add $100 billion to the annual budget deficit.