Why is the media celebrating 8.3 percent unemployment? Why are we accepting this as good news even if the numbers weren't absolutely bogus? Why are we accepting this at all?
8.3 percent unemployment? Sure. If you don't bother even counting 1.2 million people that have given up looking totally. Because the economy is so bad, and said 1.2 million people (including myself) have not been able to find stable, FULL-time employment for what's going on four years now, we just don't exist. How convenient for the government and this administration, isn't it? Yet if somehow, miraculously, I get a full time job tomorrow, I will be counted as employed in these propaganda styled statistics. Again, how convenient.
The real number of unemployed is estimated around 11.5 percent when you actually count living, breathing, people who can't find a job. And when you count the people who are settling for part time work when they want and need full time work, the real number is well over twenty percent. Yes, that's right. One out of every five working age people in the nation. Living breathing people. With families, and need to eat, and clothe themselves and feed themselves. People that don't want a handout and be enslaved to government programs, but want to provide for themselves. Not a static to be toyed with to see how good it can make you and your buddies look.
People.
I really can't say it any betterthan here.
So we have the water carriers cheering this, and the presumptive Republican nominee Romney accepting this but saying Obama deserves no credit for it. Instead of breaking down the lie that these numbers represent and then giving Obama (and all his big government lackeys and comrades past and present) credit for that which he deserves. The big mess the big lie is covering up.
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Sunday, February 5, 2012
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Who are the REAL Hostage Takers?
We've been listening to propaganda for months now about how grass root TEA Party conservatives are "hostage takers", "terrorists", and violent. As usual, this is a classic case of projection by the leftists. See here:
Union Members take guards hostage and damage property in rampage
Not only do these union members take hostages, they damage property that doesn't belong to them because they're aren't getting everything they want. While millions of people have no jobs, and millions more are working part time when they want to be working full time, these fools walk off their jobs, then get violent because the company goes and hires other (union) people to do the work that needs doing. So now they're going to cause the price of grain to rise even more than it already has by wasting this food, and damaging the means of transporting it to people that need it.
On top of that the damage that will need to be repaired and cost the companies more money -- money they won't have to give any raises or bonuses to their employees or hire more people this year and perhaps beyond.
I guess the one good thing is they didn't listen to Hoffa and "take out" the "SOB" hostages while they were at it.
Union Members take guards hostage and damage property in rampage
Not only do these union members take hostages, they damage property that doesn't belong to them because they're aren't getting everything they want. While millions of people have no jobs, and millions more are working part time when they want to be working full time, these fools walk off their jobs, then get violent because the company goes and hires other (union) people to do the work that needs doing. So now they're going to cause the price of grain to rise even more than it already has by wasting this food, and damaging the means of transporting it to people that need it.
On top of that the damage that will need to be repaired and cost the companies more money -- money they won't have to give any raises or bonuses to their employees or hire more people this year and perhaps beyond.
I guess the one good thing is they didn't listen to Hoffa and "take out" the "SOB" hostages while they were at it.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
On the Public Sector and Taxes
I live in the State of New Jersey. It's well known by the people of this State, and outside of it as well, that we pay the highest property taxes as a percentage of income. And the #2 state is not even remotely close. Before I bother to give out my own anecdotal information, you can look at this map showing the figures from the year 2008 and compare for yourself. And that was 2008 before salaries stopped going up, house values went down, and taxes by golly kept going up. And oddly enough, those assessed property values that they use to determine your tax bill just never comes close to matching up with what you would actually get for your house if you sold it.
The annual cost to keep me from being thrown out on the street and the government taking ownership of the house that I live in is over $4,000. That was well over 10% of my income. (And that was before I lost my full-time job. Now it's even worse). Tack that on to my federal and state income taxes and well, I was working close to 40% of the time for the government just in the form of income and property taxes. That's not counting sales taxes, excise taxes, and other taxes. It's really no wonder I struggle from week to week to make sure all the bills are paid on time. Yet if I were to listen to the Left, all my woes are to be blamed on Big Oil, Big Pharma, or Big This, That or the Other. No, my eyes are quite open, I live in reality, not Propagandaville, and the problem is Big Government. Government grows in good times and bad. And even when you say NO to more property taxes as you struggle through losing your job and working three part time jobs, elected officials over turn your vote and raise taxes anyway in deferment to the public sector unions. In good times we're told it's our patriotic duty to pay our taxes. In bad times it's "Oh you're going to lose your house? Suck it up. The government employees are still underpaid." If I only sleep five hours a night instead of six, maybe I can cram another seven hours of work in...
I'm sick of it, and so are many other people. Not just in this state, but other places where hard working, tax paying citizens are being abused as well. People voting with their feet and moving to more tax payer friendly States is resulting in places like NJ and California having a shrinking tax payer base which further results in more people sucking money out of the system than paying in. It's a death spiral all the way down, and now the Leftists want to impose it upon us at a national level as well. Checkmate. No escape.
Now be a good little boy/girl and go work very hard so you can pay your taxes to fund government excess and waste.
The annual cost to keep me from being thrown out on the street and the government taking ownership of the house that I live in is over $4,000. That was well over 10% of my income. (And that was before I lost my full-time job. Now it's even worse). Tack that on to my federal and state income taxes and well, I was working close to 40% of the time for the government just in the form of income and property taxes. That's not counting sales taxes, excise taxes, and other taxes. It's really no wonder I struggle from week to week to make sure all the bills are paid on time. Yet if I were to listen to the Left, all my woes are to be blamed on Big Oil, Big Pharma, or Big This, That or the Other. No, my eyes are quite open, I live in reality, not Propagandaville, and the problem is Big Government. Government grows in good times and bad. And even when you say NO to more property taxes as you struggle through losing your job and working three part time jobs, elected officials over turn your vote and raise taxes anyway in deferment to the public sector unions. In good times we're told it's our patriotic duty to pay our taxes. In bad times it's "Oh you're going to lose your house? Suck it up. The government employees are still underpaid." If I only sleep five hours a night instead of six, maybe I can cram another seven hours of work in...
I'm sick of it, and so are many other people. Not just in this state, but other places where hard working, tax paying citizens are being abused as well. People voting with their feet and moving to more tax payer friendly States is resulting in places like NJ and California having a shrinking tax payer base which further results in more people sucking money out of the system than paying in. It's a death spiral all the way down, and now the Leftists want to impose it upon us at a national level as well. Checkmate. No escape.
Now be a good little boy/girl and go work very hard so you can pay your taxes to fund government excess and waste.
Friday, March 5, 2010
Good News!
Good news! Only another 36,000 people lost their jobs today! Harry Reid says so, so it must be great!
Oh, and just when you thought it couldn't get any BETTER, last month's job losses were revised up another 6,000. So I guess we better make that 42,000 more total. I think I'm going to go have some ice cream with lunch today because it's such a GREAT day. Thanks for letting me know Harry!
Oh, and just when you thought it couldn't get any BETTER, last month's job losses were revised up another 6,000. So I guess we better make that 42,000 more total. I think I'm going to go have some ice cream with lunch today because it's such a GREAT day. Thanks for letting me know Harry!
Friday, February 5, 2010
Employment Rate Declines; 20,000 More Lose Job
That headline, taken from one of the major propaganda outlets says it all. Most places just trumpet in their headline "Unemployment drops to 9.7%" To give the former headline some credit, it at least offers the hint of some truth.
Many people do not read more than the headline of a news article. Propagandists know this. So they only include what they want the most people to see and believe in headlines. Oh, and buried in those headlines somewhere is also the fact that the count of people who couldn't find a job for the year 2009 was off by just a little bit. But only by about 1.2 million. No big deal, right? No need for a big headline on that.
So the real question is, how does the unemployment rate decline when there was another net loss of 20,000 jobs? Any free-thinking person with half a brain will come to one of two conclusions. Neither of them very good. Either someone is fudging the numbers, or the way the unemployment rate is calculated is severely flawed. This is a case however where both conclusions are correct. The reasons are numerous of how and where they fudge the numbers (one being already counting temporary census workers as employed even though they aren't) , but no more obvious is this "correction" of 1.2 million more discouraged people than they thought. It's either total incompetence or on purpose. And while I'm quite secure in the knowledge that there are a lot of stupid people out there, even I have a hard time believing incompetence on that scale.
Many people do not read more than the headline of a news article. Propagandists know this. So they only include what they want the most people to see and believe in headlines. Oh, and buried in those headlines somewhere is also the fact that the count of people who couldn't find a job for the year 2009 was off by just a little bit. But only by about 1.2 million. No big deal, right? No need for a big headline on that.
So the real question is, how does the unemployment rate decline when there was another net loss of 20,000 jobs? Any free-thinking person with half a brain will come to one of two conclusions. Neither of them very good. Either someone is fudging the numbers, or the way the unemployment rate is calculated is severely flawed. This is a case however where both conclusions are correct. The reasons are numerous of how and where they fudge the numbers (one being already counting temporary census workers as employed even though they aren't) , but no more obvious is this "correction" of 1.2 million more discouraged people than they thought. It's either total incompetence or on purpose. And while I'm quite secure in the knowledge that there are a lot of stupid people out there, even I have a hard time believing incompetence on that scale.
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