Melissa Harris-Perry Must be Flushed on Flush 'em Friday 4 12 13

Happy Flush 'em Friday! Today is an easy choice for me. 

I must flush:

• Melissa Harris-Perry - she needs a collective flush for even hinting at the idea that children should belong to the state! Just that she uses such blatant socialist language should set off alarms like a fat kid ordering an extra large slurpee in New York. 
• The University of Tulane - that they propagate and allow this stupidity to be taught warrants the removal of their accreditation. This is precisely what is wrong with the entire academic community.  
• MSNBC - for having such a leftist, anti-American anchor. When the media has become nothing more than the propaganda arm of the socialist party (I can't even called them Democrats anymore!), you of course will end up with hypocritical propagandists speaking lies as if they were truth.

America needs to flush these people out!

Which came first, the chicken or the house?

Image by river seal via Flickr

I've been seeing these annoying commercials about, of all things, the housing market. The apparent point is that the housing market creates jobs. OK, so I should now go buy a recently built home? This is almost a classic which came first, the chicken or the egg question. But, not really. 

First of all,  I don't think that building new homes creates jobs. On the other hand, I do believe that jobs provide the funds for people to purchase homes, even newly built homes. So, unless the housing market is being subsidized, which would be a really stupid idea, there needs to be a need for new homes and capital to purchase the homes in  order for them to be built. There may be a need, but, without jobs to provide funds for people to make the payments on the mortgages it is just another financial disaster waiting to happen.  Speculators may build homes in the hopes (speculation) that people will buy them. True, a few carpenters will work to build them, but those are temporary jobs, not sustainable stay in one place jobs. 

Now, why are these "commercials" being broadcast on a daily basis? Is it because I need to be convinced that housing creates jobs? It sounds a bit like propaganda to me. That makes me very leery of the people who are putting these adds out. Now, if the beef council puts out an add about "Beef, it's whats for dinner." I know it is because people in the beef industry want me to buy more beef. But I am not going to buy a house unless I need one (I do) and the price of homes in my area are right (they are not, they are still over valued). So, why do we have these "adds"? I hope we don't see another "stimulus" package on the horizon.