I like Nic. Cage that is.

“I am not a demon. I am a lizard, a shark, a heat-seeking panther. I want to be Bob Denver on acid playing the accordion”. Nick Cage.


Dear sports, here's a request of the week from Wednesday 16 April 2008.


I’ll never forget what Nicholas Cage said to me. “Who are you?”

Actually, he said nothing and by some incredible and uncanny coincidence, nothing accurately reflects my acting career so far. But hey man, I liked Nick. For two days over a weekend in April 2008, I was one of many extras on Cage’s latest film, Knowing.

I was gonna be a featured extra, then nothin'. Featured extra is a little bit more important than a fold away chair.

Then as is my charming way, I stood out enough to find myself right at the front of a major scene, not far from Cage too. A few weeks later I went back for another six days to where they had a mock-up of Lafeyette Station. I finally got featured a bit too. In one little scene I'm pushing a group of people through a train carriage as another screaming train is heading towards us. Right next to Cage I yelled "Move it you fucks!" Cage laughed. Well, they did ask for conviction.

He also gave me some sage advice.

“If you step on my foot again, I’ll beat you to death!”

Nick Cage. "I grew up watching adventure movies. Charles Bronson was a hero, Bruce Lee, Clint Eastwood, and I would fantasize that I was in those movies when I was a boy. Then as I got older I discovered James Dean and De Niro and I wanted to be that kind of an actor, so I tried to find my way".

Only time will tell if a parking metre gets more screen time than I do. No, but really, I was the man who staggers angrily around as hundreds of people stream out of a subway exit out onto the plaza in front of a skyscraper. I rather intensely survey the appalling scene that is the result of a subway terrorist attack!

Well, as ya do, eh? Everyone was great. And I tell you, it brought a lot of emotion to people. Hey, it’s just a movie! But no...it really grabs ya.

Nick Cage."I think everything I've experienced has left its imprint on my mind and my soul, and it comes out in the work, whether I want it to or not".

What was Cage like? He was great but what do I know? He can really swing and has that intensity that makes the most naff material believable if you um, believe it. Just like Chuck Heston used to burn up the scenery, he believes it and therefore so does the audience. That's focus for ya.

"Don’t talk to Nick!"

Seriously. Well, what have I got to say that he'd want to hear? Coincidently, I have little desire to meet most celebrities unless for some curious reason, they really wanted to meet me, so it works out fine for everybody.

And yep there was a bit of er, deference to Nick's Hollywood thang. Cage came on mostly for his bit only, then would dissappear, going off stage more times than James Brown in his stage cape at the endless end of a Sex Machine/Brand New Bag medley.

Someone else noted during a previous production, that Nick would turn up in a limo with his assistants, get out, do a great job and then leave. I can't help thinking of some kind of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore routine.

Dudley: "I'm here with the famous Hollywood star and stamp collector, Jim Planet. First of all, welcome to England, Mr Planet!"

Peter: Silence.

Assistant: "Mr Planet will not answer any questions that contain any words. He believes that they are a major source of increasing levels".

Dudley: "Er, levels? Of what exactly?"

Assistant: "Just levels".

Dudley: Makes endless fart sounds.

Hey, in the end we're all here cos' of Nick Cage...and er, Alex Proyas the Aussie Director, the great Oz crews, that Melbourne can pass pretty well for parts of New York and N.Y state, and that you can make a cool film for less than half of the cost of the US. Cage was straight forward and was very prepared. Thus the millions of bucks. There was an air of ah, getting on with a slightly testy and unpredictable employer, dig? But that's showbiz.

But then the employment of thousands and the investment of millions of dollars, ride more than a little on Cage's efforts, and on whether people give a damn about what he does right now on set and in any particual scene. Thinking about such pressure is kinda nightmarish, but we all have a cross to bear. I should be so lucky.

From my tiny and very limited nobody window, it looked like Cage was there to do serious work. Those involved were enjoying having him around a lot. It sure beats sittin' at home...bloggin!

"I'm singin' those Hollywood Blues! I got so disgusted I threw my Martini across the manicured lawn, and it almost scratched my Lamborghini!" The Hee Bee Gee Bees.

Up on the Wardrobe Department warehouse walls was the wide angle, high definition location shots. They looked incredible. It made me want to check out Melbourne. Looks like a swingin' place!

There's something about Australia and Australians that makes the idea laughable of taking stars and the often postured illusions of stardom seriously. I don't think it can be done here so easily, especially on any scale. It always seems...funny.

It's a real conundrum. Showbiz glamour. They may be illusions, but they're the only ones we've got...

I've seen a few stars around locally and they always look er, reduced somehow in our rather harsh Australian sun and landscape. Walking down inner-city Chapel Street, Lenny Kravitz appeared just like an Arts Major from Prahran Campus whose parents have money.

Thus we have no real local stars per se. It's as they say, a kind of joke. Stardom can only happen apparently, by leaving Australia permanently and you still don't believe it. Now I like talented people and even movie stars sometimes, but the centre often doesn't hold...It's a drag too, cos' there are some very, very talented people here and that haven't left permanently yet.

But I can dig the work, recognition and cash. When it's a right on performance, which Cage strives to do rather intensely, well, you bought your ticket, didn't you? Somebody on set said of Cage, "I thought he'd look healthier". And they're right. I thought I'd be more successful by now, but no. Where did I go wrong? Most places, I'd say.

"One more thing, if anybody is listening, that is. Nothing scientific, it’s purely personal. But seen from out here, everything seems different.

Time bends. Space is boundless. It squashes a man's ego. I feel lonely". Chuck as Taylor in Planet of the Apes.

Nick Cage.“I guess a lot of people have thought of my work as odd and yet they meet me and they say, "Well, this is a normal conversation we're having, why is the work so odd?" In reality, I'm actually downright boring. Hollywood didn't know if I was an actor or a nut or if I was this crazy character I was playing. I had developed an image of being a little bit unusual, different and wild".

What do I know about Nick? Bugger all, but the whole groovy experience gave me an urge to know a bit more. He’s said some intriguing things, done a lot of terrific acting, seems like an interesting guy and is married like I am, to an Asian broad. And dig this. She was a waitress and not the freakish and doomed celebrity pairings as per usual.

Yep, I dig Cage, the self-confessed Bob Denver impressionist. And yes, I have noticed his incredible success, especially when compared to my er, failure.

I asked for a discrete briefcase of cash but he said in that classic odd Cage way, “No, I will not provide a briefcase of cash, discrete or otherwise, and you’re standing on my foot”.

Colonel Neville: “Well, then what about a bit part? I’ve got something and I pick up fast!”

Cage: “How about I run you over with my Mustang?”

Nick Cage.“To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new. I welcomed the idea of bad reviews because that would mean I was doing something that challenged the critics. I thought I could change acting, which isn’t really my goal anymore. But at that time I was headstrong”.

I must see the film and not just for my minuscule appearance that may or may not make it to the lower right hand corner behind your popcorn. But it looks like fun and a neato drama as well, and Cage seems hip in it. Plus it’s end of the world stuff. My favourite.

So we’re all lined up on the steps of the subway mock-up waiting for the smoke to build. We’re all in torn, dusted, and bloodied New York business precinct attire. Looks great and Nick is standing there, as he would.

Colonel Neville: “So Nick, what’s it like to finally meet me?”

Then it's "Action!" and Cage heads out past the streaming crowd who are screaming, coughing and mixed in with New York Police, Fire and Ambulance officers. It’s tremendous and kinda authentic. Cage goes walking off calmly through the mayhem and down the sidewalk. He tried to warn ‘em, but did they listen? No! The fools!

What I liked was how he did his walk with his head slightly back and distinctive shoulders with that resigned hang dog thing he does. A little Chuck Heston for presence too, say while leaving behind some apocalyptic scene.

Nick Cage."I've always wanted to do work that's stimulating and exciting on an escapist level, but also to do movies that are a bit more thoughtful and thought-provoking and poetic. I used to have this thing I called my Sunshine Trilogy, and now I'm in my Midnight Trilogy”.

Which reminds me. Cage would have been a better last man alive in I Am Legend I reckon. He has that complex, misunderstood sadness, loneliness and unstable thing, that the main character needs to be able to show.

He has a real tone you give a damn about. Get rid of the jelly baby CGI mutants in Legend and improve the depth of the script, and it would have been something sharper, more ambiguous, elegiac and just damn better, no? Will Smith was pretty good, but he was maybe given little to work with of substance, eh? I mean attack of the Gummi Bears...

Instead of Chuck saying “If I can just find the nest!”, it was Will saying “If I can just find the Family Pack of Gummi Zombies!” Frankly, I’m unruffled by marauding candy.

Nick Cage. "Billy Roth's story truly spoke to my heart; despite the darkness and intense despair, an unlikely and flawed character is able to find and provide hope to others”.

Being in a simulated terrorist attack that's merely a rehearsal for the inevitable in Australia, had an effect on me. Must have been the screaming. Yep, it’s gonna be a real laugh. And like a true frustrated er, creative type, I thought what the Hell am I doing with my life? A whole lot a nuttin’, that’s what! If I’m not talented, then nobody is or I must be mad, not that they’re mutually exclusive.

Nick Cage."I've been allowed to surround myself with creative people even when I'm not acting. I get stimulated by exciting people who are passionate about their crafts, passionate about film making, have ideas and are free thinkers".

The mostly Aussie crew were professional and thoughtful and damn, I didn’t want to leave. I always get embarrassed when everyone cheers at the end of the days shooting. I could be quite content to spend three months on location. I’d take notes and film everything. And while actors are a curiously gullible lot, everybody was very nice. The lunch was kinda weird though, and reminded me of when I was twelve. It was as if the ghost of my Mother had packed 200 of her curiously disappointing bag lady lunches. Hey, but quit show business?

Nick Cage."When I was six, I wanted to get 'into' the TV set, but I was very shy, and very much an outsider in high school. My real inspiration came when I saw James Dean in East of Eden at 15. I never got over it. I identified with his need to impress his father. I never want to get comfortable with what I'm doing. I don't think I can grow if I'm comfortable. So I want to push myself a little bit further”.

I found the set beautiful, Alex Proyas the director and his AD's hip and smart. Seeing an actual star do his thang up close was neat. To be a good extra, bit part player, actor and bum or whatever, I try to stay with the positive energy. No, really.

One tries to concentrate, listen, learn, prepare, co-operate and just take it all in. Follow instructions and go with the very uniquely groovy flow of a movie set. I dig any chance to experience any of this crazy movie scene and I’m just glad to be there. It's important to keep focused and spirits up, to take notes and any opportunity to achieve something without being a creep. Also I bathe regularly.

Which is amazing as my parent's were both English! Go figure.

Yep, I really like Nick, but what do I know? I was an extra and extra's are just like parsley.

Islam, the Left, Obama, Rudd, Brown, Clinton, Gore and Conservatives in Name Only Suck More Shit than the ShitSucker4000.

I have not been able to clearly identify as yet, this Jewish man and woman who were targeted, tortured, sexually mutilated over hours and then murdered by MUSLIMS in Mumbai. [Are they the Holtzbergs?] The 2 year old son of the Holtzbergs, [the much loved couple are shown below] escaped the same fate through the help of his courageous Nanny, though he was beaten by the MUSLIM terrorists and now only speaks to his Nanny. Link to jihadwatch org.

Doctors shocked at torture. Hey, I bet the Abu Ghraib protesters will be upset. Er, no. The funeral and other terrible insights.











The 28-year-old rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his pregnant wife Rivka Holtzberg, used to look like this. Ain't it freaking amazing what millions of "not real Muslim's" get up to? The nihilist details regards the Islamic from zimbio com.


Mark Steyn via Via Atlasshrugs. "...when Muslim terrorists capture Jews, it's not a hostage situation, it's a mass murder-in-waiting. The sole surviving "militant" revealed that the Jewish center had been targeted a year in advance. The 28-year-old rabbi was Gavriel Holtzberg. His pregnant wife was Rivka Holtzberg. Their orphaned son is Moshe Holtzberg, and his brave nanny is Sandra Samuels.

Remember their names, not because they're any more important than the Indians, Britons and Americans targeted in the attack, but because they are an especially revealing glimpse into the pathologies of the perpetrators".

The ever greater Mark Steyn of course, on the denial of the left media government axis of evil et al, regards the harsh and hideous facts of Mumbai, Islam, Jihad, Mohammad, the Krazy Koran and gee, millions of Muslims worldwide. Er, why ain't any Muslims ever fucking loudly "reaching out" to the Jews, the Infidel West and everywhere else that millions of Muslims relentlessly infiltrate, lie to, parasite off, use, abuse, assault and murder as they have over decades, centuries and millenia? Why don't they reach out as loudly over bheading videsos, bombed girls schools, pet markets and 911 etc, etc, as they do over cartoons and teddy bears? Because mostly they don't want to or they would, wouldn't they? Thus the deafening silence cliche.

From Kathy Shaidle at Fivefeetoffury. : "They were murdered by zealots for purely political and bloody purposes. Here is a question for anyone who still denies that Caliphate Islamism is a problem: If they could do this to the Holtzbergs, if they could do this to all the other innocents people in Mumbai and Madrid and Beslan and New York and Jerusalem, how long will it be before they do it to you or someone you love? When will you stop trying to minimize and even excuse what they are doing by denigrating their victims?"

And now for something entirely different?

Barack Obama on January 28 2009: “In the end, the answer to our economic troubles rests less in my hands or in the hands of our legislators than it does with America's workers and the businesses that employ them. They are the ones whose efforts and ideas will determine our economic destiny just as they always have, for in the end it's businesses -- large and small -- that generate the jobs, provide the salaries, and serve as the foundation on which the American people's lives and dreams depend. All we can do, those of us here in Washington, is to help create a favorable climate in which workers can prosper, businesses can thrive, and our economy can grow”.

Rush: “Keep that in mind. Let's go back to January 8th, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, Barack Obama”.

Barack Obama on January 08 2009 : “Only government can provide the short-term boost necessary to lift us from a recession this deep and severe. Only government can break the cycle that are (sic -- is) crippling our economy. That's why we need to act boldly and act now, to reverse these cycles. That's why we need to restart the flow of credit and restore the rules of the road that will ensure a crisis like this never happens again”.

Rush: "Stop the tape! Blunt-force comment: He doesn't believe a word of what he said there, because his plan has none of this in it. Folks, there's a game going on here, a giant con game right out of Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals. It is clear that he is in trouble. He thinks he's in trouble in getting what he wants here. He's using conservative language to a conservative group of people to promote a socialist, leftist agenda.

It's all intentional. It is all contrived. The key here is perception. He is creating perceptions. He's a likable guy. He speaks well. But he conceals his real politics with his language. So you've heard two Barack Obamas separated by 20 days. You might say, "Well, how do we know which one's real?" Go look at the stimulus plan and tell me if you can find anything in there that does anything to strengthen business, to get government out of people's way. You will not. So what we just heard at the White House today was smoke and mirrors, a 100% show”. Via Rush Limbaugh.


Wall Street Journal on You won’t Believe What’s In the Stimulus Package.

“We've looked it over, and even we can't quite believe it. There's $1 billion for Amtrak, the federal railroad that hasn't turned a profit in 40 years; $2 billion for child-care subsidies; $50 million for that great engine of job creation, the National Endowment for the Arts; $400 million for global-warming research and another $2.4 billion for carbon-capture demonstration projects.

There's even $650 million on top of the billions already doled out to pay for digital TV conversion coupons… This is supposed to be a new era of bipartisanship, but this bill was written based on the wish list of every living -- or dead -- Democratic interest group. As Speaker Nancy Pelosi put it, "We won the election. We wrote the bill." So they did. Republicans should let them take all of the credit”.

American Spectator on Good Morning Suckers.

“The congressional report accompanying the stimulus bill states, "Up to $750 million may be used for a competition for nonprofit entities to enhance the funding included under this heading through capitalization of the funds." Reportedly, this funding is intended to be siphoned off to ACORN, the far-left, rogue, lawbreaking organization prosecuted across the country in the past couple of years for voter fraud. ACORN has also used violent intimidation tactics in the past to pursue its goals, and was heavily involved in housing programs in the past that led to widespread bad loans”.

Colonel Neville: Obama is still an enthusiastic member of ACORN and was their lawyer. “As for the promise of accountability, some $54 billion will go to federal programs that the Office of Management and Budget or the Government Accountability Office have already criticized as “ineffective” or unable to pass basic financial audits. These include the Economic Development Administration, the Small Business Administration, the 10 federal job training programs, and many more”. Via Hotair.

Yes and smoke gets in your eyes. I must confess that I have almost lost the inclination to blog anymore. I mean, why bother? There are plenty of great blogs and sites out there. Hey, don’t get me wrong. I love the people who dig what I do. God bless you all. But seriously, I may just stop. Just like that. And it won’t matter a bit. It's just seems to have gone. You see, we went for a lovely coastal holiday for a few days in an actual resort, with a pool and air conditioning. Ah, I love capitalist democracy and I can't wait to be part of it! To paraphrase P.J O'Rourke, Ferrari, swimming pools, Marvin Gaye and dentistry alone, prove the superiority of the free West.

The resort was a swingin’ place near to where I used to go as a child for Christmas holidays. Sadly, the true memory of those long ago days was not so great. It was nearly all in my lonely head and the landscape and being away from the profoundly dreary and empty suburb I grew up or was it down in? But I digress. Even the words "swimming pool" are a beautiful and inspiring thing. While swimming in said fantastic elevated and roofed over pool, with it’s glassed over doors swung wide open, I thought how I want a better level of life, much like that one. This requires me to get successful at something, and what I do naturally is think, create, speak, analyse and perform etc, etc. Or as someone said or “die trying”.

Interviewer: “Do the girls still scream when you perform on stage, Keef?”
Keef Richards: “Yes, but not on stage”.

Thus I do have to go rather all out on concentrating on my er, performance, for what it's worth. Even those who say they believe in you, don’t really. Not until you make it. Meaning everyone else says you have made it and gives you money. Lots of it. Crazy but true. I did my first humorist act such as it was, a week ago today. It was 45 degrees Celsius, apparently the hottest night on record and I later collapsed with heat exhaustion. I give the material an A, but the act a C. Too much sounding out and caring whether people might be disturbed etc. Well that’s my excuse for inexperience. Ah, but I know what to do next time, and there will be many next times. No time left for not exploding on stage, you see.

As for being just another stand up comedian, I get bored thinking about it. I want to expound, uproar, play guitar and entertain and so on. One could be controversial by the simple technique of saying the opposite of allegedly “controversial” comics who are not controversial or rebellious in the slightest. Unless you count be completely safe in your controversy, controversial. Ah la the entirely predictable. A joke headline I made up goes 'left comic see’s performing Left comedy before a Left audience as “a challenge”. Quite true and sadly, this is the dominant paradigm over and over again. Thus I don’t care what such people say, because they are misinformed, essentially conformist, mediocre and spineless. I may be wrong but I’m not.

So while we’re on holiday, the first consistently hot weather crushes Melbourne as the power grid and more collapses and people go peculiar and much more. Funny how many of the same people who say how terrible the experience of a heatwave is, expect the Israeli’s to tolerate over 8,000 rockets and mortars fired into their cities, and over 100 attempted homicide/suicide bombing a day while the Jews are surrounded by 23 Muslim shit piles bent on murdering and annihilating them all.

It is to laugh. It is an avalanche of fucked up non-thinking, sports. I feel overwhelmed sometimes by it all. I would say more than half of the indoctrinated and brainwashed lazy drones you meet seem as if they cannot think straight on even a basic mental exercise. They are slaves. No, really. And I have my own problems. And man, it amazes me that not a single figure with authority outside of Vaclav Havel, has said that hey, in the end global mass Leftard conformity ain’t healthy for anyone but nihilist’s, scam artists and madmen. Think left, Gore and Islam.

You should see how out of their depth our faux action man PM and our toy Treasurer are, as they both make up ludicrous contradictions and bullshit as they go. In 14 months, they turn a $22 billion dollar surplus into a literal double AND nothing affair. Rudd and his government are clearly largely surfing on the legacy of Howard and Costello. I can’t stand the glaring beyond belief fraud, stupidity and posture of it all, but obviously many do indeed dig it for those same reasons. Rudd runs Australia with more random bad choices than if the Three Stooges lived a thousand years. Or me. Gee, so that’s why didn’t I ask to be PM?

Our government has not built a dam for over twenty years, preferring to let the inevitable floods go out to the sea, while endlessly nagging and enforcing the idiot view of water as a pizza slice-like zero sum game. Our government IS rather obviously going to wait until we actually do run out of water! We are at 33% average capacity. Recent rains had the potential to have doubled that. The mentality is also at 33% average. They are dumb fucks, but this is rather reflective of a seemingly vast Mother load of non-thinking in our culture.

Cognitive dissonance for the stripe-assed baboons and parroting mass-mind of the left. I feel surrounded by the deluded and dangerous but as I live in the inner-city, I can’t gauge the exact country-wide figure. A third or half of the people are incurious and or nuts? You be the judge. Obama the bastard smiles knowing that “Hey, being inexperienced in anything substantial but a Junior Senator with 144 days, a Marxist activist of Marxist loon parents, speaking in a halting B grade downward cadence, a overt fraudster and a Master of political corruption freak techniques, really does work!”

Clinton gets blow jobs and not just via his startling serial rape hobby, earnestly supported and apologised for by his hordes of fans. He lied on oath and now makes $6 million dollars in just the last year, shooting his peculiar load of bullshit around the world in “speaking engagements”. Think wads of Saudi and other scumbag treasonous ca$h. Clinton is more of a cunt than any cunt he ever inserted a cigar into.

“Come in here, Monica, have a cigar, I’m gonna blow far.
The hand is just fantastic, that is really how I think, and by the way, which ones the pink?”

Really, I’m frustrated myself at being well, a nobody and terribly under paid! What does a fucking creep like Bill C have to say worth a damn? Well, exactly what other creeps want to hear. “We are not rich criminal creeps but heroes of the common people!” Hey, even if they don’t say it, plenty will. Bill is a rotten to the core, empty, frivolous and incompetent ex-Prez, who has consistently lied, cheated and done everything and anything and entirely for Clinton Inc, and nothing and no-one else. Thus he is rich, powerful and untouchable with a limitless public platform. And I don’t mean the Oval office desk as Mr Plow Central.

“I’ll just leave this load of white stuff over to the side”.

For an example of his phony talent, try reading Clinton’s absurd inauguration speech without laughing. It was as creamy and drool filled as Monica’s clam. Thus Obama, Hillary and Bill and Ted and Alice are all such great bedfellows. Oh yes, and the political transvestite scam artist of the century and major face of enviro-freakism bullshit and easy gravy, big fat-assed Al Gore and his Pop, were recipients of Commie creep Armand Hammer's Soviet largess up to his death in 1990. Or see my previous post.

Yep, apparently Gore Snr and naturally Gore’s Jnr tub o’ blow hard lard, have both been nicely bankrolled from day one by a major Soviet shit bag and one-time personal pal of Lenin. No, really. Well, old Soros, the major elitist funder of global Leftardism, is a traitorous shit bag too. So hardly surprising really.

Ha, ha. My own son comes home screaming that and I quote, “Climate Change is real!” while hitting me with his teddy bear! I kid you not. He’s six years old. All cos some "well meaning" bint who neither of us know anything about, came into the class and indoctrinated the kiddies with the current phony Marxist truth of conformity $cam and fraud. Yes, I was very, very angry. I asked them to inform me of anything outside the curriculum, but to no avail. Thus you get my drift. I gotta get out of this crap and earn a Himalaya of money and freedom by speaking a mountain of laughs and fun facts, however unlikely that may be, especially in the sleepy little closed market Australia.

My good friend Prodos, the only ancient Greek I know, said that what we are for, is more important than what we are against. I can dig it. And I’m all for a breakthrough to recognition and money! I can’t just work for the dull and for wages. Can you? I mean without the resentment, frustration and a head full of boredom...As you see, I have only my enormously humble potential as yet not fully realised. And as much the potential to succeed as fail, so we shall see. The er, motivational quote I’m thinking of is “When all is hopeless, take the next step”. Hey, then I’m definitely ready! He’s gonna step on you again.


"FDR's policies prolonged Depression by 7 years, UCLA economists calculate. By Meg Sullivan 8/10/2004 12:23:12 PM.

Two UCLA economists say they have figured out why the Great Depression dragged on for almost 15 years, and they blame a suspect previously thought to be beyond reproach: President Franklin D. Roosevelt. After scrutinizing Roosevelt's record for four years, Harold L. Cole and Lee E. Ohanian conclude in a new study that New Deal policies signed into law 71 years ago thwarted economic recovery for seven long years.

"Why the Great Depression lasted so long has always been a great mystery, and because we never really knew the reason, we have always worried whether we would have another 10- to 15-year economic slump," said Ohanian, vice chair of UCLA's Department of Economics. "We found that a relapse isn't likely unless lawmakers gum up a recovery with ill-conceived stimulus policies." In an article in the August issue of the Journal of Political Economy, Ohanian and Cole blame specific anti-competition and pro-labor measures that Roosevelt promoted and signed into law June 16, 1933.

"President Roosevelt believed that excessive competition was responsible for the Depression by reducing prices and wages, and by extension reducing employment and demand for goods and services," said Cole, also a UCLA professor of economics.

"So he came up with a recovery package that would be unimaginable today, allowing businesses in every industry to collude without the threat of antitrust prosecution and workers to demand salaries about 25 percent above where they ought to have been, given market forces. The economy was poised for a beautiful recovery, but that recovery was stalled by these misguided policies." Continue reading all about the shocking truth of Obama’s Socialist Mussolini admiring hero and FDR as the blueprint for B.O’s economic fantasy...

Baxter Greene via Hotair.

“Tax and spend didn’t work then and it won’t work now. This corrupt “Pay to Play” ripoff of the American people may be the liberals idea of “hope and change”, but people in touch with reality know this will only make our situation worse and usher in INFLATION like a tidal wave. You can’t call this an infrastructure bill when only 5% if is dedicated to it".

5%? Obviously Obama has a good agent or two...