Monday, September 5, 2011

A Thank You Blog....


THE BANK opened December of 2008 and right from the start YOU embraced us. We wanted to take this opportunity to look back at a some of what we have accomplished together and to thank you for all YOU have done.

You have made THE BANK one of only a small handful of places to spend your nights and we could not be more appreciative.

We gambled on the premise that you wanted a little bit more from your “nights out”…and boy did YOU!!

Together we have change nightlife in Barrie and in the process added some much needed words to the Barrie vernacular.

Guest Lists: Since our opening, multiple bars have finally woken to the fact that our nights are special and important. That we actually like to “plan” these nights in advance and there is a better way than lining and stacking us like bewildered cattle roaming Dunlop.

Bottle Service: We were told this would never work in Barrie. That Barrie wasn’t Toronto. That Barrie wasn’t “sophisticated” enough. Together we proved the naysayers dead wrong. “Line by-pass” and “FREE Cover” are the spoils of this victory and Barrie is absolutely “sophisticated” enough. Did they think north of Toronto was rural Alabama?

Rooftop Patio: We were told this wasn’t feasible. That “walls of glass” and “ipe wood” was too costly and impractical. That Barrie was fine with pressure treated wood boxes and free plastic furniture provided by Beer Sponsors.Well you made SKYBANK the best Patio in Barrie as voted two years in a row (Barrie Advance). Next time you go to another patio that is a little nicer nowadays, pat yourself on the back. What we did here made everyone sit up and take notice. Love getting noticed.

Dignity: Remember the vomit and urine drenched floors of the bathrooms other places used to subject us to as if we were caged in a shoddy Animal Shelter? Well no more. Look around at the bars downtown and most (if not all) have proper facilities finally affording us some dignity. In most cases we have overturned decades of neglect, abuse and being taken for granted. Pant cuffs have never been happier.

Courtesy: When we first provided an awning to cover our valued customers waiting in line because we didn’t want them standing in a downpour, other bars took notice and now provide this simple accommodation. “Bar Hair” has been saved!

Style Code: For as long as we can remember we would see our nights out being degraded by those who didn’t have the decency to put even the tiniest of efforts into appearance. Together we have shown Barrie that is not how we wish to spend our nights. The Jersey Shore look is a whole other problem ;)

Photo Albums: Together we have created over 32,000 pictures capturing YOU and your special night out! Now you’ll find a photographer in most bars. We did that. Together we surely did…of course we are partial to our B Click ;)

Today we would like to thank all of YOU for ALL we have done together. On behalf of all of us at THE BANK and including each and every one of our fantastic staff we wanted to take this opportunity to let you know how humble and most grateful we are to YOU.

THANK YOU!

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

We're With Stupid, Unfortunately


“When the US sneezes, Canada gets a cold”. This cautionary adage is all too true and why we are going to visit the problems to our Southern Border once again.

The US raised its debt ceiling for the 75th time in 50 years, however this statement would lead you to believe it is business as usual, so why all the fuss??

The problem is not “how many”, the problem is “how much”.

Before getting started we must state we care nothing about Democrat vs Republican. Both parties are to blame as well as the Media and the American public. No one is absolved and everyone is complicit. They all had their roles in “Charlie Sheen and the Cocaine Factory”.

Here we go!

The cumulative budget deficits of the US reached $1T by 1980. That is all their annual budget shortfalls combined. Btw $1Trillion is enough money to give every household in American $15,000.

From 1980 to 1995 it had climbed to $5T, an average gain of $0.25T per year.

From 1995 to 2005, it had increased another $3T, an average gain of $0.3T per year.

However in the past 6 years it has increased $6.5T, an average gain of $1.1T per year! Furthermore last year they dug a ditch to the tune of $1.6T and this year the smart money is saying $2T.

Meaning the average American household will go into debt another $8.5T in 7 years! When the movie “Wedding Crashers” came out they owed $120,000 and come this Xmas they will owe $250,000.

Hallmark should be printing cards that say “How did you possibly think you could pay for all this shit?! Merry Christmas -You’re Fucked”

The average American household only earns $50,000 per year before taxes. Do you think they can square a bill that is climbing by $30,000 per year?

How fucked are the Americans? Their “10 year Forecast” (that is 10 years in a row of making up shit like GDP and Inflation to suit their needs) shows the deficit will balloon to $30T ($450,000 per household).

They can’t even fake getting out of this debacle in a decade when they are making the shit up! These are the same people that didn’t see the crash in 2008 coming so let's not pretend they can prognosticate like Nostrodamus.

You can bet the reality would be much, much worse than $30T, luckily the end will come sooner than their forecast.

Politicians to the rescue! Did I say “to the rescue”? I meant “to the TV’s to lie”!

Bringing us to the deal reached to raise the debt ceiling: Cut $2.1T over the next 10 years.

Funny how they say “cut”. They continue to rack up huge deficits every year of the forecast. The “cut” is only a disgustingly lame attempt to lessen how huge.

And how much did these preening monkeys “cut” in the next year (the only time period this Congress and President are assured of being at the helm)?

$0.028T or $28B.

To put that another way…They agreed to a 0.8% “cut” to the budget ($3.9T) in 2012. Not even a single percentage point! That is a “Need a Penny” Cup territory. So instead of spending $3,900,000,000,000, they are going to try and spend..... $3,872,000,000,000. Which is still an INCREASE over this year btw. Please tell us this is a joke.

Unfortunately…no. No, they are not joking.

This deal doesn’t even get to the meat of their feeble so-called cuts until 2016 when 70% of the $2.1T kicks in.

This is officially insanity.

But what the hell, the US has $60T+ in unfunded liabilities thanks to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, what’s another few Trillion more added to the grotesque debt pile.

You know how Americans accept that the 30 year olds of today that are paying into Social Security won’t be getting it? Well guess what…neither will the Baby Boomers. That’s right. The real shocker is this Ponzi scheme won’t even last long enough for them.

The inevitable downgrade of the US Credit Rating by Standard’s and Poors is not surprising, unless you are surprised by how long it has taken and how minimal it is. This is only the “tip of the Iceberg” and the “USS America” is going down.

The US is unsustainable. All levels of Governments are nearing the end. The curtain hiding the mighty Wizard of Oz still has not been fully pulled back by the world to reveal the feeble old man with the shameful levers and pulleys.

The Emperor is wearing no clothes and we are nearing the time his frost bitten ass will affirm this fact.

And so the decline continues….SNAFU

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Sex and The Numbers


What is the average number of sexual partners for a 25 year old? Well that depends on who you are asking of course.

I was sitting around with a large group of guys in their 20’s and this question popped up. Before gleaning the proper estimate, they added the wrinkle that this “average” person was of the somewhat good looking and popular nature to create a stable sampling. No bookish types messing the numbers up.

After a bit of back and forth they came up with this: Guys 20-25. Girls 4-7.

I asked “Since the numbers aren’t balanced then are these guys sleeping with their parent’s friends or other guys?”

This started a melee that I will save you the tedium of but essentially what we have on display is hubris, or to put it another way...the male ego. Guys want their numbers high and they want to believe a girl’s are low.

What I tried to explain, mostly in vain, was the numbers have to be the same for both genders. The ledger has to balance. The only way to skew guys so much higher would be if the vast majority of his sex was with girls that were 26+ years old “at the time of the encounter”.

The average good looking 25 year old guy has been having sex for roughly a decade and chances are most of that sex has been with girls well under the age of 26 at that time. If he lost his virginity at 16, chances are she was 16. If he got laid at Prom, he probably wasn’t taking a 27 year old.

Every time a guy has sex, it counts for him and her. “Tick” on his side of the ledger. “Tick” on her side of the ledger.

At this point most of my twenty-something friends were looking at me as if they had paws and I was wailing on a Dog Whistle.

Finally one proffered this nugget. “A minority of slutty girls are putting up big numbers and affecting the average.”

Really?

Let’s say there were two girls called “Rosie Rotten-Crotch” and “Suzy Nice-n-Tight” and they were banging the world and cranked up numbers of 100+ each. A guy can bang them both all he wants but it still only counts for 2 on his side of the ledger. He still has to go out and bang another 20 freshies to get in the proposed range. And those 20 “hits”, if they are roughly his age, will have to count on all those “nice girl” ledgers.

Averages are averages and the math doesn’t lie.

So where does this leave us and what is the truth? My guess is there is a little fibbing going on, on both sides.

To bring the guys numbers down or a girls up, you would have to rule on “Just the Tip”. Guys count it and girls usually don’t. Guys also have a tendency toward “Fish Stories”. You don’t see women in a bar regaling people with a story that has the line “It was 10 feet long if it was a foot”.

Now when it comes to malfeasance girls have us guys licked. For they know most guys covet a virginal girl so they fight like hell to keep that number down. They accomplish this by playing the "It Doesn't Count Game".

For example; “It was on vacation”, “I was drunk”, “He was drunk”, “It wasn’t long enough” (that can be used two different ways of course). “I don’t remember”, “It was hate sex”, “It was pity sex”, “My bf pissed me off that day”, "I didn't get off", "He didn't get off", "Justin Timberlake promised it'd be our secret" and the list goes on and on.

The end result is guys count everything and then some, while girls have a more selective memory.

So instead of worrying about the fact that girls are having exactly as much sex as you fellas, try and enjoy the sex you are having ;)

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Manifest Destiny?


Stephen Harper won a majority and Osama Bin Laden was killed, now which is the bigger story? I suppose that seems too easy given the media hype over the latter but I am here to say the real answer is the former.

The closest thing to a dictatorship in a democracy is a Parliamentary Majority.

Harper doesn’t need to ask his 167 MP’s how to govern. He can decide, hand them their marching orders and pass swift legislation. This is not a Conservative reality, this is a Parliamentary reality. We are about to see someone with the ability to make virtually any decision in the face of an economically crumbling world without the need to pacify public opinion.

This is a key point, as most people couldn’t run a corner store so polling them on how they “feel” is not always an effective way to govern an entire Country.

Bin Laden on the other hand was shot point blank surrounded by 24 highly trained Navy Seals, none of which suffered so much as a scratch in a “fire fight”. Was there no value to asking terrorist Number One a question or two? Was he so inconsequential it was more important to move his body posthumously for an impromptu Sea Burial?

The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are still churning as I write this and will continue in the foreseeable future.

American’s are still paranoid, distracted and broke.

Interestingly Americans took this news as if they were a Nation of Forest Gumps whose team had just won the big game and began celebrating in the streets. A reaction I found distasteful and juvenile. I watched like a curious dog with a crooked neck. Had these people lost the plot? Are these ruffians really the manifest destiny they think they are?

I can see this was an accomplishment worthy of some relief and vaguely connective pride but where was the perspective? American death toll in “The War on Terror” approaches 10,000 and you can add many more 10’s of thousands on the other side.

People wrongly compared this death to that of Hitler because everything in America still gets compared to Hitler. That death however ended a World War. Bin Laden’s death is a trophy mount, a gold sticker, “a fucking tee shirt. At best”, to quote Brad Pitt.

The perspective is this: America killed a Boogeyman.

In the last 9+ years Bin Laden was unable to pull off another attack. He failed to harm a single person out of 300,000,000 obese Americans trundling about the third largest country on planet earth. Herbert from Family Guy had more teeth.

For Chrissake lighting picked off 400 Americans in 9 years and it wasn’t even trying.

If you’ve been reading this blog, one thing you know for sure is that America is in horrific financial trouble. These Yanks are going bust quicker than Bill Maher sold his Libertarian beliefs and we Canadians need to prepare for the worst.

I hope Harper will know what to do when the shit hits the fan because America seems happy to shoot first, ask questions later and party like they’ve won something.

Sunday, April 17, 2011

Here Lies the USA Economy. RIP


In a nutshell the USA is starting to realize how utterly and hopelessly screwed they are. Unfortunately none of these wet-noodled leaders are going to do a damn thing about it. Perhaps they know the truth. They can’t.


The Republican's and the Democrats have released plans to reduce the deficit ($4.4 Trillion over 10 years and $4 Trillion over 12 years respectively). Sounds like progress right?


Not even close.


Neither actually reduces the deficit. These make-believe plans are only attempts to reduce the amount they will be going into debt each year.


These plans are like telling your alcoholic Uncle that he needs to stop drinking or he’ll die…if he was deaf… and your were wearing oven mitts…and your lips were crazy glued shut….while you drove him to the LCBO…and bought him booze.


These plans are so stubbornly useless that even with grotesquely fabricated “Inflation” and “GDP” estimates blended into the mix, they still can’t show themselves not running massive annual deficits in a decade!


Might as well buy your Uncle barrels of his favorite booze, place him in Depends undergarments and cheer on the inevitable.


Also it’s worth noting none of these “law makers” will even be in power in 10 years to account for how pathetically wrong they were. It’s a cute trick.


Oh and how much of the cutting in these plans will take place over the next 2 years when they are actually "in power”?


2.5%.


That's right. 2.5% of these plans affect the next 2 years. The other 97.5% kicks-in during the last 8-10 years. That's how cute these buggers are.


Doing virtually nothing is a plan I suppose. Eventually your drunkie Uncle will die and he will no longer be drinking, so problem solved.


Obama even had the audacity (and not the Hope kind) to give a speech about what kind of America they should be. Broke I'm guessing.


And before you think raising taxes on the rich is the solution here is the truth:


Every person who made over $100,000 in 2008 ($100,000 is not rich btw) had a total combined taxable income of $1.582 Trillion (Wall Street Journal).


The Government is already getting $650B of that with current Federal and State taxes leaving the "rich" with roughly $900B of net earnings.


Now if you taxed the "rich" at 100%. That’s right. Take every dime they make and left them with nothing…the Government would still be running a deficit of $700B.


Of course the deficit will only be $700B if projections are spot on. Last year they estimated they’d go in the ditch $1.2 Trillion but ended up at $1.6 Trillion. That is a miss of $400B or 33%. Nice going fellas.


Putting aside everyone who used to make over $100,000 is now making $0 and the economy is dead. We still have to find another $700B to balance this budget!


One slight problem... the remaining citizens (all those that make under $100,000 per year) don’t have $700B left in their pockets after paying their existing taxes.


That's right. If you take 100% of EVERY citizen's income...every last dime of every American’s earnings for the entire year...you still can't balance one single year of the budget.


Now that is a colossal clusterfuck.


In 2000 the cumulative budget deficits of the USA was $4T.

By 2008 it climbed another $4T to a new total of $8T

In the last 3 years it has grown another $6T to a total of $14T.


Americans are now amassing more debt in 3 years then they did in the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s and 90’s…combined!


Not bad enough for you?


The low interest rates of the past 10 years, coupled with American’s ability to write off mortgage payments against their income, has incentivized it’s citizenry to borrow against any equity they once had... and spend it.


That’s right. Private debt doubled in the last 10 years as people borrowed and spent their future.


Hard to let a temporarily low interest rate suck you into squandering your future but those plucky Yanks sure did.


To add insult to injury all that spending didn’t help the economy all that much in America. That’s because they don’t manufacture anything. Ask the now 14,000,000 millionaires in China how well all that American spending worked out.


Ok now your Uncle has no food in the cupboards and is strictly living on booze could it be any worse?


Oh yes it can.


We are all familiar with the looming worry over aging Baby Boomers and the $50+ Trillon Entitlement Programs (Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security). What is less known is how fortunate the USA has been for decades.


You see in the Dirty 30’s there was a depression going on and in the early 40’s a World War. Baby production was in a lull for 15 years and it is those “Lull Babies” who have been utilizing Entitlement Programs for the last 15 years.


Amazingly the Government has been going bust taking care of the “Lull Babies” with the aid of the massive Boomer Demo in the workforce and paying the bills.


Over the next 5 years those Boomers are going to push off of payrolls and onto the Dole and then instead of a “lull” at the public trough…you’ll have Ka-“Boom”.


All bets are off after that.


The invincibility cloak of America will finally fall and lay bare for all the world to see…that in the end the greatest economy that ever was...got gutted.


And all anybody could do...was watch.

Sunday, April 3, 2011

Bars, Sex and Facebook


Facebook has become competition for the bar.

Prior to fb the bar was THE place for sexual interactions. Nothing else came close. All you needed was a wingman or two, a decent outfit and a bar that your type attended. As an added bonus the booze gave you liquid courage and forgiving “eyewear”.

Time and money also helped because not every night will “Mr. or Miss Right” be out, so there was a statistical advantage in going out often and making a scene. You can’t score if you aren’t shooting.

Facebook has lessened the necessity of the “Bar Star” approach. It’s become “Coles Notes” for the bar. Rather than sporadically scrutinizing an object of affection amongst ever present competition you can now follow up while couch surfing and eating Doritos with the innocuous “Friend Request”.

So once the friend request is accepted, what’s first?

Photos. Most people go right for bathing suit pictures and I’m pretty sure I don’t need to explain why. “Cancun 2011” it is then.

After that mild invasion, the “picture creep” may continue. Of course it can also end as quickly as a blind date. People know what they like and these pics are the “first impression”.

A good rule of thumb with pictures is “Don’t bore the shit out of people”.

Photo albums max at 200 pics. Please don’t “max-out”. People are not interested in 15 pictures of the same piece of blurry coral or a wonky sunset! Do some editing for the audience. I wouldn’t go through 200 pictures from the Japan Tsunami so an all-inclusive vacay doesn’t need to be documented better than an epic disaster. Tighten it up.

Curtail the number of albums. Here girls are generally the culprits as they treat every night as an “Event”. Multiple pictures of the “hand on the hip” group shots in every album is overkill. Pick the best and shelve the rest. We aren’t documenting human history. You know those amazing nature programs that catch animals in astonishing action? Well those are the result of 100’s of hours of effort for a 10 second segment. They know “Money Shots” are what the people want...and so should we.

For guys it is “Profile Pictures” with reams of their favorite sports logos and their view of “the game” from the nosebleeds. We can watch the game in HD so one pic is enough to let everyone know you got out of the house. And six Maple Leaf logos is too much. Even if you are in the NHL and play for the Leafs, it is too much. We get it. You really really really like a particular hockey team, or soccer team, or Nascar driver. Throw it under your likes and let’s consider it covered. Oh and fellas…. 1 or 2 pics of your whip suffices, this isn’t autotrader.

Feel Free to untag. If someone else is committing the major sin of boring us on your behalf do not lose a wink of sleep over untagging the 8 shots in a row of you making a “funny” face or eating dinner at that badly lit restaurant where you’re at the end of the table and are getting mercy tagged to death.

Now if the creeping has moved to “info” then they like what they’ve seen so now let’s reward them with something illuminating… “who” you are.

Take some time and give a fair cross-section of your likes.

We used to ask “what music do you like” but unless searching for a jazz aficionado this is usually pointless as most people like “all kinds of music”. So don’t waste a lot of time here. Around five artists should cover it, you are not making a mixed CD. Now a “Dislike” would be a nice touch (are you listening fb?!), one click on “Dislike Country” and bye bye Daisy Duke.

Movies are the new “Book”. Your favorite movies give a strong indication of where you live and breathe and what moves you as a person. Ladies, we get that Notebook will probably be in there and Fellas… Scarface but put in a little more effort here. 10 movies should be your goal just so we can by-pass the ubiquitous.

There is no use “pretending” who you are. Let your freak flag fly if that’s what floats your boat. If one person loves Adam Sandler flics and anything with the word “Saw”, while the other likes “Casablanca” and “Annie Hall” then lets save everybody some time. Even though they looked hot in Cancun…this is one night stand territory.

Finally we move to the wall. Here can be seen not only who they interact with (pics gave us that already) but as importantly is the “way” they interact. Are you a chivalrous Momma’s boy? Then take note if her and her friends casually refer to each other as “whores” and “sluts” and save some Xmas Dinner unpleasantness.

Are they putting up reams of boring YouTube music videos? They are either too fond of run-of-the-mill videography or attention starved with nothing interesting to say. Oh and if those are love sick songs…check back again in 6 months.

What are their statuses like?

If they are a constant complainer then you’ll be joining the ice hut brigade on Kempenfelt Bay every year to get away from the harping.

If they are ecstatic one day, then a “FML’er” the next because of a missed appointment, then you’ve got yourself a manic and you better love rollercoasters and talking to yourself (because “they have their own damn problems or haven’t you been listening!”)

If they only update when they have something to brag about then their “look at me” is going to need a lot of “Yep look at you! You are incredible…*insecure mind you*…but incredible!” from you.

Facebook has gone far beyond a fancy way of catching up with family and friends. It is giving people an actual sense of community and belonging. It quenches that anxious human thirst of “Am I missing anything?” And most amazingly, it is creating bonds without uttering a single word.

Facebook has become dating. Perhaps even better, it is a 3D resume for paramours that they can request and review at their leisure. So look sharp!

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

All The Time in The World


A tremendous amount can be gained through perspective. A steak in cellophane, for example, does not tell the story of the slaughter house nor the wistful days spent chewing cud nor the evolution of the cow as a species.

For some perspective on the Human Experience let us first construct a large scale "timeline". One so large we could drive it. Highway 400 it is.

The 400 Highway from Barrie to the 401 in T.O. is 74kms long and at an average speed of 100 kms/hr you could traverse the entire length of this (our representative timeline) in 44.5 minutes. About 2 Family Guy episodes if you took out all the commercials.

This will represent the “Known Universe” and the basis for a little perspective.

Therefore:

Known Universe- 13.6B (13,600,000,000) years = 74kms and 44.5 mins. Our entire drive to T.O.

Now for some fun!

Earth - 4.5B years old = 24.5 kms and 14.7 mins. Roughly 1/3 of the trip is how long our beloved blue dot has existed.

Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth - 160M (160,000,000) years = 0.87kms and 30 seconds. That’s right you would cover what would seem a very large time frame in a mere half minute.

Homo sapiens – 200,000 years and counting = 92cm and 0.0375 seconds. Our entire walking upright existence is roughly the length of 1/3 of one white dash on the 400 (yes those are 10’ long) and you would drive by it faster than a blink of an eye. Actually 3X faster than the blink of an eye!

Human Civilization – 15,000 years (this is when we moved out of the caves and started bowing to Moon and Sun Gods) = 6.9cm or about the length of your pointing finger. At this point time has become absurd as it is already doubtful at 100 kms/hr you would even notice something by the road as long as your finger.

The Bible – First draft 1685 years ago = 7mm. Now this distance is half the width of a thumb nail and would be absolutely unnoticeable from our car. To call this a blip would be a remarkable affront to the word "blip".

How Long Ago Did Mankind’s Population Reach 1B – 200 years ago = less than 1mm or a single grain of salt. Also meaning if you live a full life you would be represented by less than half a grain of salt by the side of the 74 km Highway

Rate Mankind Currently Adds 1B to our Population – 12 years…about the width of a human hair.

In conclusion, on our journey to T.O. we of course noticed the time Earth has stood and we absolutely would take notice of the 30 second streak that was the tenure of the Dinos. However, by contrast Homo sapiens existence (less than a meter) would've been missed if we blinked. And our own lives (1/2 mm)...could be categorized under the unfortunate title of "Infinitesimal".

Also, annoyingly, you will have gotten that our population is out of control. It took homo sapiens 200,000 years (3 feet) to get to a number we now add in a scant 12 years (human hair thickness). Whoa.

And finally, for 99.99999990% of this timeline there was no Christianity, no Islam and no Judaism. Meaning most people today use the perception of 7mm to explain all 74 kms. Embarrassingly this perception was conceived well before books even existed (Gutenberg didn't changed that until 1439)

Of course if you are a Creationist then your perspective is the whole thing is 6000 years old...in which case please dismiss everything you just read :)

Sunday, February 27, 2011

Obama - FAIL


Obama put forth his 2012 budget and the dream of “Change” is officially dead. It didn’t happen. He wasn’t what was hoped for. Sorry but that is the hard truth.

Now before Obama-ites who are still too swooned to see the big picture let’s have the disclosures. ALL politicians are terrible generally speaking, Republican and Democrats, no exceptions. Secondly he did inherit a shit storm but that meant Americans more desperately needed drastic change.

The shape of the American Economy is horrific. Gag inducingly horrific. And Obama’s inexplicably lame attempt has been to affix one of those crappy extendable umbrellas to the railing of the Titanic. It’s been useless, useless and ugly.

How horrific is the State of the Union? Their trade imbalance is history making bad, as bad as every debtor nation in the world…combined. The Fed has no room to lower the rate to stimulate. They have to print money to buy their own bonds because no other country will buy them. They lie about their inflation. Their education system is failing. They are dependent on other nations for life sustaining oil AND water. And if you taxed every American 100% they would still have a deficit.

It's Joan of Arc tied to a pillar bad.

The budget for 2012 is $3.7 Trillion. The forecast shortfall is $1.65 Trillion. That is yet another record, third consecutive record shortfall for both the nation and for Obama. Meanwhile underemployment is still near 20% for 2 years running meaning all this spending hasn’t translated to any “jobs” for the masses. How much is a $1.6 Trillion shortfall? Enough to give every American family $30,000... staggering.

Yet here we have Obama doing the rounds telling Americans enough is enough and that they are slashing spending. Is he a bloody comedian now?! He is “forecasting” $1.1 Trillion in “savings” over 10 Years. In 10 Years?! Is he serious? He doesn’t know what’ll be going on in 1 year let alone 5 or the absurd 10. His term could be up after this year. What can he know about the actions of future Presidents and Congresses?

In this year’s budget, the only one that he does have control over, the only budget that actually matters for him…he isn’t going to do a God Damned thing. Actually that isn’t fair. He’s going to make it worse. Now it’s fair. He’s going to make it worse and hide behind offensive claims on the future.

Think I’m being too harsh on Obama’s “forecasts”? Last year he forecasted a shortfall of $1.2 Trillion. It was $1.6 Trillion. He was off by $400B! That is a 33% miss in just 1 year! Hell $400B is a huge chunk of his 10 year fictitious dream.

Other Administrations are no better, Bush couldn’t even see the greatest recession since the depression coming in 2008…in 2007. These guys know nothing about the future. They only know how to lie about the future, doing nothing in the present…while everything is careening off the rails.

There are no “cuts” this year. It’s business as usual. Cook the books down the road. Lie about GDP growth, inflation and interest rates to your advantage and show a rosey future. There! We’re fixing it!

The end result is undeniable. Obama when faced with an inherited shit storm…did nothing. When the big fight was needed over entitlements and defense (more than half the budget) he did nothing. He failed. He didn’t even show up. He was a taller Bush. And the US’s economy and reality became more and more catastrophically unavoidable.