Jobs Report just came out. Big surprise: not as many jobs were added.

The employers of the world are pointing the finger at The 44^th President of The United States, an American citizen who was born in the State of Hawaii, Barack Hussein Obama. This is 100% his fault, they’re saying.

Can we cut the shit? What we are currently experiencing, I named this entity The Recession® back in August of 2011.

The day that Standard & Poor’s downgraded the United States’ credit rating, I knew that The Great Recession was over. We were now in The Recession®. A group of people wanted to manufacture a bad situation for others in order to create an argument that proves their point of view. (Though artificially.)

The Recession®.

I don’t know about anybody else, but The Great Recession sucked horribly and when there were signs of pulling out of it, I wasn’t complaining one bit.

The people behind the S&P downgrade would NEVER have considered this move if Barack Obama weren’t in office. If a Republican—let’s go further—if we had another Democrat in office and the same toilet-level economy, S&P would have kept the rating at AAA. I guarantee you that.

I called bullshit on the downgrade and The Recession® back then.

And I call bullshit on the weak hiring numbers.

Way to go, Job Creators. You are doing your part to keep The Recession® going.

I know what will fix The Recession®, too, because those behind The Recession® have told me. There is a 100% correlation between the end of The Recession® and the election of Mitt Romney.

That’s the difference between organic, market-created recessions and manufactured horseshit like The Recession®: real recessions don’t have easy solutions.

Real recessions are the natural reaction to a system that can’t sustain itself. And when The Great Recession hit, I don’t know about you, but I looked long and hard at those forces in my life that played a part in my financial stress and thought about how to fix them. How to live better. Cutting waste, living in a way that fit my income level, looking at what was important in life. In an off-handed way, I thanked The Great Recession for these things.

The Recession®, on the other hand, is now officially old. I’m tired of the narrow-minded agendas behind The Recession®. I’m tired of watching them play their game which is

1)            Rig the system to deliver the outcome that fits our narrow-minded agenda.

2)            Use this outcome to—SURPRISE—lay out a case-by-case basis that, on paper, looks like it proves your agenda is correct.

On paper, The Recession® looks real.

But you and I have been through The Great Recession. And now that it’s getting close to the election, we’re still in The Recession®.

If you tell me you don’t know the difference, you’re lying.

P.S. A certain book about the job market during the years 2000–2010 is on sale.