One my favorite pictures of all time. I first saw this photo while still in school about 178 years ago and fell in love with it. The lady's name is Jerome and she's pushing a load of buffler turdies across the prarie. She was not a rich woman but she had a job.

Jerome called Rush. Jerome is an over 50 kind of guy who has agreed with Rush for over 20 years, who worked down at the warehouse driving a forklift for over 30 years. Jerome finally connected with Rush to disagree with him.

Jerome, who worked one job for most of his life, finds himself unemployed these days when his beloved company went poofs.

Jerome is a smart guy, but not very imaginative. He was the ideal employee for the warehouse…going in every day, being happy to drive his forklift, and not dreaming about much else. The salt of the earth.

Then the trap door flew out from under his feet and there he was, dangling over a dark, dank pit.

In the meantime, Rush, like every other talking head has loudly decried the current unemployment system, and the much hated 13 month extension in particular.

Jerome explained to Rush that normally he would agree with him about that too, except that now he is unemployed and has seen the other side of the coin personally.

Lest you wonder where this is going, let me assure you that normally I would agree with Rush, but in this case I’m with Jerome.

Jerome is over 50, and thus taboo for many companies who seek 30 somethings with college degrees. It’s the old old story.

More…Jerome hit the nail on the head when he reminded Rush that mathematically, the books don’t balance these days. If Rush could snap his fingers, and everyone who is unemployed could instantly have one of those jobs out there, only about 2 out of 10 would be working. Mathematically, there are way more unemployed than jobs waiting.

Unfortunately Rush can’t make it all go away, and everybody isn’t in a position to pull up roots and all and move, and in any case, there are a lot more job seekers than jobs. What’s the use of moving to Buffler, Pennsylvania when there aren’t any damn jobs there, Rush??

What sets this job problem apart from those of the past (Excepting during Jimmuh Cahtuh’s term) is that improvement is years into the future.  Back in the days Of President Carter, there were NO jobs. Likewise, these days there are NO jobs, unless you happen to be a truck driving nurse, or someone seeking commission sales of some kind. The same old ads that ALWAYS run. There must be some reason the same ads run all the time leading to post office boxes or voice mail only, and you never know who you’re dealing with…

There are especially no jobs if you are approaching or over the age of 50. Worse, if you are like Jerome, who thought he’d be at his one job forever, and never made any plans for eventualities, you’re truly screwed.

In my way of thinking, if a man has a 50-50 chance of employment, that’s fair enough. However, going in for an interview, if he has anywhere from zero to twenty percent chance to be the one hired, that’s something again. And especially if he really didn’t want to be a truck driving nurse to begin with.

Rush is absolutely correctomundo when he says that this is a man-made disaster, and the blame lays squarely with Obama, first and foremost. The unemployed are paying the price for his socialist experiments.  And it’s no big deal. You always have to break a few eggs during a full fledged revolution to help the people.

Where Rush and I part company is when he says to just go ahead and dump the unemployed off the relief roles. My question, is… THEN WHAT, Rush?? Since the jobs are not out there, through no fault of theirs, then what? The folks got to eat. Do we move them off the unemployed roles straight into welfare?

WHAT IS your immediate solution Rush??

I see that it is patently obvious that the country must support the unemployed until the environment changes. This can only begin after January 1, 2011 when the Tea Party candidates assume the position.

It’s either support them or deliver them straight to the welfare roles. Jerome was right when he says it’s a mathematical certainty.

I say support the unemployed and double, triple and fourple down on flushing every remnant of Obama’s wicked socialist plans down the toilet so that the ones who want to work can work. Create the environment that forces business to expand and hire because it’s such a great deal.

As for the slackers and users in the unemployment system. They are always with us, and they eventually take care of themselves, one way or the other.

But for the rest. The rest of the people on unemployment that hate it every hour of the day, who have no mathematical chance for employment in the system that Obama and the democrats have delivered to us starting from the first day the regime took office in 2009….. These people will go back to work if given the chance and do their part to rebuild this country.

But, in the meantime, just like we can’t just ship all the Mexicans back to where they came from, (There aren’t that many boxcars.) we can no longer think and say that we can just end unemployment for the millions and they’ll then run out and get a job. In both cases the situation has gone far beyond that. Thank you, feckless, reckless gubment. Thank you very much!

The first order of business is to do the political things that will allow business to do the business things to put people back to work.

Not so very long ago, much of the country was poor. Every rural town or wide place in the road had de rich folk living up on the hill, but the rest didn’t have so very much. And it didn’t matter. Everybody was poor. That’s just the way it was. There was only one step below poor, and that was dead. So, poor wasn’t so bad.

Today in America, even the poor are rich beyond even the dreams of the truly poor elsewhere.

So when push come to shove, and poor folks are made even poorer, I expect it just hurts more. They have more to lose. And worse, they don’t have a community they can draw on for support, like those poor folks in the rural communities who were surrounded by poor folks who never had much, really.

What is happening today is happening by design. The only way out of this mess is to break the back of the rotten communists infesting our government, and the only way to do that is to hold the Republican’s feet, and noses directly to the fire come January 1. There is a clock running…by design. According to Glenn Beck, there is also a fuse burning.

There may come a day again when nobody is going to look down their nose at you for being poor, because everybody will be poor. Shared misery. That’s Obama’s plan. It takes a village you know… Hut sweet hut.

If you can get somewhere that is quiet…and you sit there getting in touch with your feelings like a good Jedi, you’ll get the creeping feeling that something is wrong with the force. Something is coming…

This sort of photographic malfeasance is beneath the dignity of the MOST Conservative Website in America However, we found the image below while doing our diligent research into important matters of state. We do not know who actually crafted the grisly visage.

However, one must admit, if one is entirely truthful, that the photo lends itself to clever balloon titles. The photo is entitled, “ShutUpBarack.”

It is a sad fact of public life that when one is photographed as often as these two celebs, the planets must align in perfect synchronicity every once in awhile.  When that happens, the results are always better than ham handed Photoshop manipulations, like fake boogers hanging from the nose, etc.

ShutupBarack caught our eye… Originally Barack says tearfully, ” Michelle, I can’t take this. I can’t keep pretending I know what I’m doing!”

Michelle fires back, “You shut the he** up Barack! You are NOT going to ruin this for me!”

Well, we modified the caption boxes, as you see. We took out the text, leaving them pristine clean so that you can write in your own material.  You can use Photoshop, or even print out the photo so you can get to work with your pencil or crayon. It’s fun, and you learn a lot! It’s the first step to becoming a graphic artist or a comedy writer. Show off your personal design work to your workmates and boss or teacher.

Submit your best effort somewhere, and you most likely will win a prize!

Regarding our recent “If I Were Obama” contest…  We probably won’t do another contest any time soon because of our bad experience with this one. We just received this snitty mail from the grand prize winner Harold Lauder of Ogunquit Maine…

Dear ATP,

I am in receipt of your grand prize… A brand new Hybrid car. The pamflet that came with it says that its top speed is 47 miles per hour, but it has not moved from my driveway. You sent me the car alright – but you didn’t send the electric cord. I checked and a 40 mile long extension cord to make this dang car run is $39,999.00. I ain’t got that kind of money. I want my money back!
Yours Sincerely,
Harold Lauder

We replied…

Dear Mr. Lauder,

Your brand new car was a GIFT! You did not pay any money to us for us to send you. We suggest you consult with the nearest Hybrid car dealer for assistance.

Frankly, we don’t have time for this foolishness, so we’re officially out of the free prize business! We’ll just stick to most conservative business.

Road change you can believe in.

It takes a cool hand to fool the American people, and we know just the man to do it. Introducing Cool Hand Barack…

What we’ve got here is… failure to communicate. Check this out…

Obama Signs Border Bill to Increase Surveillance
President Obama signed into law a $600 million bill on Friday August 13th to pay for 1,500 new border agents, additional unmanned surveillance drones and new Border Patrol stations along the southwest border.

Sounds pretty nifty, huh? Folks finally getting what they want, and passed by congress on their vacation. Serious change and all of that.

When I heard this, the old 60 watt light bulb clicked on about six inches above my noggin. So why would Obama eagerly snap up legislation that he has shown a reluctance to address, what with his pressing vacation schedule and all? I have the answer, but first let me tell you a little about a strange phenomenon in Alabama.

In Alabama, our roads aren’t too bad most days. It could be because of the comparatively mild winters. You won’t find ice scrapers or tire chains in Alabama, and the roads rarely, if ever freeze down to the dirt.

Even so, roads do wear out, and when that happens, we expect a new coat of pavement. However, in Alabama, our roads only get paved every four years or so in the last couple of months leading up to ‘lection day.

It’s an old southern tradition. Perhaps it is done by incumbent politicians to aid the voting folk to be able to get to the polls without having to dodge potholes. How thoughtful! And while the voting folks (volksvoter) are voting, maybe they will appreciate their shiny new roads so much that they’ll vote for the incumbent what brung em to the voting booth.

At least that is the theory, and it has been practiced for as long as I can remember. Even back in the day, the pols would see to it that the chain gangs would lay down a fresh new layer of tar gravel.

I make a prediction. I will predict that between now and ‘lection day, our dear President Obama, may he be blessed 72 times, will more and more do things you like. Why, were it up to him, even your newborn babies would be born fully clothed!

You watch carefully. You’ll see your roads, whatever they may be, abundantly laid with a new mane of tar gravel so magnificent that you’ll jes naturally want to thank the incumbents what brung it to you.

At least, that’s the theory. Don’t be fooled. Even de man wid no eyes can see through that. He’s a tough old boy.

Thus, the AlabamaTeaParty.org website, the Most Conservative Website in America asks this question…

What would YOU do if you were President Obama?

An example would be….

Dear ATP,

If I were President Obama, I would get rid of all the spiders. Except maybe I would keep let live the garden spider, which I kind of like. And the Writing Spider which never bit anyone that I ever heard of. And my wife likes the Wolf Spider. I don’t know why. But I would let that one alone too. My address is included. Please send my prize there!

Send your comment. Also, don’t be greedy. Send the link to this page to ALL your friends. Liberals too.

Everybody LOVES contests! The winner will receive a deluxe noprize. Think about what you can do with it. But you can’t win if you don’t send in your comment!

Please don’t think this is just some lame internet ploy to increase our readership by 1000% overnight. Your noprize awaits! Be the one!