1 It's ma stimulus

2 Timely post!
I start a part time job Monday.
Electronic Software/Hardware support engineering -- not even a Home Depot job.

3 Shame about Ted Danson's accident.  I mean, I know he was a lefty, but I loved his work in Cheers.

4 OT but they charged the woman in WI for sending death threats.
http://tinyurl.com/3m8jkvl

What a shock, she is an early education teacher and member of the Wisconsin Teachers union.  _{By the way she is also 5'4" and a svelte 180 lbs.}

5 Hell, I'm a part-time president!

6 "It's almost like the job market is following its own natural recovery trajectory, regardless of the stimulus money spent in such a pointless and profligate fashion."

It is following its own natural recovery trajectory.

And, from Obama's point of view, the "stimulus" wasn't pointless- after all he's a Chicago politician and you just can't expect a Chicago politician to function without a considerable slush fund for miscellaneous payoffs, bribery, or whatever now can you?

7 ...you mean his relationship with whoopie?

8 My entire career has been an accident!

9 Shame about Ted Danson's accident.  I mean, I know he was a lefty, but I loved his work in Cheers.

Posted by: Truman North at April 01, 2011 10:31 AM (8ay4x)

Huh?

10 Posted by: Hedgehog at April 01, 2011 10:32 AM (Rn2kl)

Heh- another inch taller and she'd probably be perfectly spherical.

11 Friggin old sock!

12 ZOMG! Obama is such a genious! As a 26 year old progressive republican I just want to say that... um, what was I saying?  Check out this pic of my ZEXY toes!  Fuck the H8ers!  Peace out!

13

Posted by: Meghan McCain's veiny tits

 

I wouldn't lick you with John's tongue!

14 Better than a sharp stick in the eye.

15 Well, duh, part timers don't have to be given health insurance.

16 9 Shame about Ted Danson's accident.  I mean, I know he was a lefty, but I loved his work in Cheers.

Posted by: Truman North at April 01, 2011 10:31 AM (8ay4x)

 

Did he shit his pants AGAIN?  Just clean it up with the inside of his toupee, it works better than tape to hold that dead rat in place.

 

17 Ted Danson will surely be missed by the entertainment world.  Remember him in Gulliver's Travels?  He wasn't bad.

18

Remember him in Gulliver's Travels?  He wasn't bad.

 

 

But his toupee was atrocious!

19 Ted Danson will surely be missed by the entertainment world.  Remember him in Gulliver's Travels?  He wasn't bad.

Posted by: Truman North at April 01, 2011 10:45 AM (8ay4x)

I loved him in 'Gone With The Wind'.

20

I loved him in 'Gone With The Wind'.

 

Pretty good in "Damages."

21 Anyway, Ted Danson, dead at age 64.  RIP

22 They manipulate the labor force and the rate looks lower. It is a well known trick to professionals, except the media of course.

23 I posted this at the end of the DOOM! thread, so I figured I'd inflict it on you morons again. Because I'm a giver:

What happens when you only need 65% or so of the available workforce to create everything your country needs? What do you do with the superfluous workers - many of whom may be talented, and wiling to work, but just not needed, here or anywhere else on earth?

Right now, we're in this situation because workers elsewhere will work for less. So is working for Chinese or Indonesian or Korean wages the answer? Their wages sure aren't going to rise to our levels any time soon, if ever.

So what do we do with our excess workers? No new technology to change the world (the way the personal computer did) seems to be on the horizon. Do we invade Canada or Mexico for Lebensraum, and open up land for small farms, in a sort of modern-day Land Rush? Mass sterilization of non-workers? Every answer seems to smack of a bad science fiction novel or the rantings of a Hitler or Mussolini or Japanese expansionist.

So what's the answer?

24 From today, only the English have to pay for prescriptions (and no, that's not an April Fool's joke!)

Scottish patients can collect free prescriptions from today – leaving England as the only country in the UK still charging for them.

English patients will be charged £7.40 for every item prescribed by a doctor – an increase of 20p – but Scotland today joins Wales and Northern Ireland in abolishing the charges.

The move means that English patients are effectively subsiding free drugs for those living elsewhere in the UK.

25 21 Anyway, Ted Danson, dead at age 64.  RIP

Posted by: Truman North at April 01, 2011 10:48 AM (8ay4x)

 

Really?  Now I feel bad about the shit/toupee joke.  Kinda.

26 April Fools day.

27 22: I'm also thinking the graph should not say actual for the bs BLS #s.

28 So what's the answer?

If you're expecting a good one, you're in the wrong place.

We have excess population.  Nations with excess population...tend to misbehave.

I'm looking south for ours.  It's just a matter of time.  And it will be ugly.

29 So freaking cute!

30 Ah shit- I was april fooled.  Now I'm going to go beat him to death anyway for scaring me like that.

31 Yeah, when I bing 'Ted Danson Accident' and the top result is two posts above me, yeah...

32 Someone tell Ace I'm 'late'.

33 It's almost like the job market is following its own natural recovery trajectory, regardless of the stimulus money spent in such a pointless and profligate fashion.

You forgot to add "unexpectedly."

34 Sad part?  Obama is better at running the economy than running a war.  On the bright side, as a community organizer, he once almost provided the impetus to get insulation put into an apartment complex.

Meanwhile, Bush is stoopid.

35 A certain shiftless community organizer is looking at U3 inch downward, and thinks a potential rate of seven or seven and a half in November next year will help him keep his part-time job in Pennsylvania Avenue. Could be.

36 How's Jeff Goldblum?

37

What is striking to me (as I mentioned last month) is how the data is following the shape of the "no recovery plan" curve

Yes, and several economics and other websites I go to have talked about that for a while.  The initial estimates used unemployment figures from several months before the report was released.  If you correct their initial month for massive increase in unemloyment over the months earlier, the "no stimulus" numbers track very well with reality.

 

Posted by: Josef K. at April 01, 2011 10:50 AM (7+pP9)

Hey now, Gov. Moonbeam got roundly ridiculed in parts such as this for admittedly inarticulately mentioning the same thing.

38 23, Part of the answer can be to unlock our energy potential. That in itself will create tons of jobs. It will also give us more security, keep money in America instead of sending it overseas, lower costs for businesses which would help keep prices lower for consumers etc. We could have an energy revolution in America with Oil/oil shale, and natural gas that powers our long haul trucks. Too many possibilities for me to mention in a short comment. We would create a ton of jobs and save tons of money if we converted the semi trucks of America to natural gas. The technology already exists. It does not have to be invented by a goofball government program. We have incredible amounts of natural gas in America, but it has to be tapped into. Once we do, all we need are strategic placed filling stations. This will be easier than most think because we know where the trucks drive. For the most part their routes are the same along the interstate highways, and state highways. In a few years, a whole network could easily be built with a few incentives. This would mean alot less crude oil imported from foreign countries since most of our gas guzzling semi trucks that deliver our food to the grocery store (among other things) would be running on natural gas. Oh, and for the green movement, natural gas is clean burning too! Of course, none of this can happen with Obama in office.

39

Ahem.

Over here.

As politely as I can--IT'S TWO EFFING YEARS AFTER THE CRAPULUS AND SOME ARE TREATING AN IMAGINARY, MANIPULATED UNEMPLOYMENT RATE OF 8.8% THAT ONLY EXISITS IN THE MALARIA SWAMP OF PAUL KRUGMAN'S DREAMS ANY WAY LIKE IT'S RELATIVELY GOOD NEWS.

Up next, a once proud country that included phrases like "manifest destiny" in its lexicon begins to drool the drool of low expectations.

40 Posted by: Havedash at April 01, 2011 11:00 AM (sFD5n)

Who cares? All I wanna know is that Abe Vigoda still lives!

41 While Libya is burning, BO is:

Obama Turns Car Salesman, Showcasing Fuel-Efficient Vehicles on Friday

42 It could get below 8% by October 2012. That means we could get 4 more years of President Golfsalot. Which means lots and lots of statistical shenanigans with the unemployment number from here on out.

43

Unicorns and Rainbows

I especially liked the inclusion of the NCAA bracket picks.

44 Employment grew solidly in March; jobless rate declined
The U.S. economy posted a second straight month of solid gains in March as the nationÂ’s jobless rate fell to a two-year low of 8.8 percent, marking a decisive shift in the labor market that should help to underpin the economic recovery.

45 Only the GOP can save Ebola in 2012. They are tanned, rested, and ready. 2nd Place, Baby!

46 Who cares? All I wanna know is that Abe Vigoda still lives!
Posted by: the guy who used to be MrScribbler© before Ace got mad at him at April 01, 2011 11:03 AM

Sure, he's alive, but Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.

47 42 It could get below 8% by October 2012. That means we could get 4 more years of President Golfsalot. Which means lots and lots of statistical shenanigans with the unemployment number from here on out.

Here's the rub with unemployment.  If unemployment does *truly* decrease over the next 20 months, the uptick in inflation will be cataclysmic for everybody.  You think food and gas prices are high now?    The Carter years may look like the Reagan years in comparison after we're through with Teh Won. 

48 Electronic Software/Hardware support engineering -- not even a Home Depot job.

Posted by: jwb7605 at April 01, 2011 10:28 AM (Qxe/p)

Feel ya.... 4 years ago, two friends and I were working full time, all making well north of 100K a year (IT folks).

Now? after all of us being unemployed awhile, we started our won IT support company, where we will be lucky to pull 35-40K this year while we get things rolling...

Its not just the jobs newly created... its that the SALARIES of those new jobs are consistantly lower...

Oh... and notice, H1B programs still continue, so Tech industry wages can get driven even lower.

49 I put this in the THC, but it fits here with the deceptiveness of the BO Admin:

Investigators for the House Energy and Commerce Committee have discovered that a little-known provision in the national health care law has allowed the federal government to pay nearly $2 billion to unions, state public employee systems, and big corporations to subsidize health coverage costs for early retirees.

50

I especially liked the inclusion of the NCAA bracket picks.

The NRSC made a half-way decent ad?  Surely it's an April Fools joke! 

51

You know what we need?

We need more government jobs, more tax hikes to pay for government unions, more death to private industry, more free health care, more GE tax breaks, more AARP money laundering corruption, and more crony kapitalism from our socialist betters -- all while that idiot Rachel Maddow mocks us.

 

 

52 From the Department of "Um, say what?"

US Ending Its Air Combat Role in Libya-- http://preview.tinyurl.com/3wbd7tt

53 Alright! It's funderemployment, dudes!

54 Here's the rub with unemployment.  If unemployment does *truly* decrease over the next 20 months, the uptick in inflation will be cataclysmic for everybody.  You think food and gas prices are high now?    The Carter years may look like the Reagan years in comparison after we're through with Teh Won. 

Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at April 01, 2011 11:09 AM (9hSKh)

I find your lack of faith in the Bernanke disturbing.

Yeah, basically right.

55 The Carter years may look like the Reagan years in comparison after we're through with Teh Won. 

Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at April 01, 2011 11:09 AM (9hSKh)

Shouldn't you be the giddy schoolgirl in all these DOOM! threads? 

56

But once more... how can you trust the Media, and Government, when there are NOT full time jobs being created (10K is not significant), yet they LOWER the unemployment stat?

Are more people actualy working? orrrr... as usual... did they just decrease the number of people they count?

57 You can't fight in here, gentlemen, this is the Kinetic Military Action Room!

58 Here's the rub with unemployment.  If unemployment does *truly* decrease over the next 20 months, the uptick in inflation will be cataclysmic for everybody.  You think food and gas prices are high now?    The Carter years may look like the Reagan years in comparison after we're through with Teh Won. 

Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at April 01, 2011 11:09 AM (9hSKh)

Yep.  Our local economist has been shouting from the rooftops:  Don't go on vacation, don't even spend $$$ on a staycation.  Take that money and buy toilet paper, tampons, soap, bleach, buckets, deodorant, tooth paste, over counter meds.

Anything that you buy weekly/bi-monthly (coffee) you must stock up on now.

59 Are more people actualy working? orrrr... as usual... did they just decrease the number of people they count?

Gold star for the honor student!

60 52 - Libya ran out of planes?

61 From the Department of "Um, say what?"

US Ending Its Air Combat Role in Libya-- http://preview.tinyurl.com/3wbd7tt

Posted by: joncelli at April 01, 2011 11:12 AM

NATO took over.  It's still us, it's just not us-us.

62

Are more people actualy working? orrrr... as usual... did they just decrease the number of people they count?

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 01, 2011 11:13 AM (NtXW4)

In Ohio, the summer places that higher every April actually hired in end of Feb./Beg. of March this year. The zoos, water parks, amuesment parks, etc. (A couple might not have, but most did).

I thought it was weird at the time, but it actually makes sense.  Wonder if a 'tax credit was given to anyone that hired last month, and we just never heard about it.

63

49 I put this in the THC, but it fits here with the deceptiveness of the BO Admin:

Investigators for the House Energy and Commerce Committee have discovered that a little-knownprovision in the national health care law has allowed the federal government to pay nearly $2 billion to unions, state public employee systems, and big corporations to subsidize health coverage costs for early retirees.

I think the sum total and purpose of the hidden slush funds within ObamaCare are going to be surprising once they discover them all.

64 C'mon guys, what are you smoking? The economy is not improving. Take away all the monetary and fiscal stimulus and you are left with nothing. This news sent commodities down but barely. Oil is still up over 106 gpb which shows it is stuck on the next rung. Walmart ceo has even been calling for more inflation for food and clothes. The labor force has not improved in months, thats why it 8.8. I swear id the bs statistics do this to 2012 we will need a canidate who will bravely call them bs numbers. Palin has been doin that.

65

I remember during the Bush days when unemployment was 4% the left would say 'yeah, but they are all burger flippers.' I wonder if they count the burger flippers now?

66 OT:  Sarah Palin sent a tweet endorsing Prosser for WI Supreme Court seat

LINK

67 I always knew I'd outlive Ted Danson.

_{(I am alive, right?)}

68 Posted by: Flapjackmaka at April 01, 2011 11:18 AM

Flap flap flap, clearly things are getting better and we must bow to President Obama's superior presidenting skills.  Even I, a concerned Christian conservative, must admit when I'm wrong.

69

NATO took over.  It's still us, it's just not us-us.

Posted by: huerfano at April 01, 2011 11:17 AM (2pEj7)

The story seems to imply differently:

"The Pentagon is about to pull its attack planes out of the international air campaign in Libya, hoping NATO partners can take up the slack.

The announcement Thursday drew incredulous reactions from some in Congress who wondered aloud why the Obama administration would bow out of a key element of the strategy for protecting Libyan civilians and crippling Moammar Gadhafi's army."

70

I remember during the Bush days when unemployment was 4% the left would say 'yeah, but they are all burger flippers.' I wonder if they count the burger flippers now?

Posted by: Schwalbe : The © at April 01, 2011 11:19 AM

We count them twice!

71 How's Jeff Goldblum?


He's dead, Jim.

72 I just spent the last 2 mins trying to figure out why I couldn't find any news on T. Danson.

Piss off all you April Fool's assholes!!!

73 OT - Here are practitioners of the RoP (MA) acting all peaceful and serene in the face of antagonism towards their peaceful religion:

At Least Seven Killed During Koran Burning Protest at UN Office in Afghanistan.

74

I have a non-rhetorical question that popped into my head just now that you'all might be able to get my arms around:

If the half of the muslim world that is imploding is so important to the west, why isn't it just as important to the other half of the muslim world that is not imploding? (or even the U.N. - which now-adays is pretty much the muslim world and buttlicker scandi- and euro-sychophants).

Freaking baffles the shit outta me.

75 I wonder if they count the burger flippers now?

Only the ones with a masters or Doctorate.

76 Maybe there are so many part-timers due to the overhead of hiring someone under Obamacare. Better to hire 2 part-time employees and not deal with the Fed.

77

OT: Maybe Obama Should Address This Type of Bullying (Jonah Goldberg)

So parents in Philadelphia are gung-ho about combatting bad eating habits but not crime and drug use.

78 A lot of us predicted the work force would all become part time and/or 1099 contractors.

79

OT: Maybe Obama Should Address This Type of Bullying (Jonah Goldberg)

So parents in Philadelphia are gung-ho about combatting bad eating habits but not crime and drug use.

Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at April 01, 2011 11:31 AM (UO6+e)

They obviously want their gang-banger kids to look good in the coffins.  Makes sense.

80 Investigators for the House Energy and Commerce Committee have discovered that a little-known provision in the national health care law has allowed the federal government to pay nearly $2 billion to unions, state public employee systems, and big corporations to subsidize health coverage costs for early retirees.

Posted by: momma at April 01, 2011 11:11 AM (penCf)

On Hannity the other day that insufferable prick Juan Williams let the mask slip a bit.  When Hannity asked him where the jobs are since we spent all the TARP and other bailout money Williams said something to the effect of "Tell that to state governments, they needed that bailout money to keep from laying off workers."

So, in effect, each and every one of us bailed out the states, their irresponsible spending, and the unions.  My 9 and 10 year old will spend their lives paying the Chinese back for their loans to payoff fat lazy unionized state workers.  Fucking great!! FUCK YOU BARRY O!

81 So parents in Philadelphia are gung-ho about combatting bad eating habits but not crime and drug use.

Little fat kids are less likely to bust a cap in your ass than a criminal.

So it's just an extension of the don't criticize the Muslims just the Joos and Christians pussy policy they also follow.

82 So parents in Philadelphia are gung-ho about combatting bad eating habits but not crime and drug use.

This world is upside down and the denizens of Philly have their priorities all screwed up.  WTF? 

That quote about C.S. Lewis and "moral busybodies" comes to mind.  Or Milton Freeman's quote - "There's nothing that does so much harm as good intentions."

83 82 So parents in Philadelphia are gung-ho about combatting bad eating habits but not crime and drug use.

Little fat kids are less likely to bust a cap in your ass than a criminal.

So it's just an extension of the don't criticize the Muslims just the Joos and Christians pussy policy they also follow.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at April 01, 2011 11:36 AM (tf9Ne)

Heyz now.... don you get between me and my twinkey!  I'll bust a cap in ya!

84 As I've said before;  Employment and job creation are organic.

85 85 As I've said before;  Employment and job creation are organic.

Posted by: President Barry McSpinner at April 01, 2011 11:42 AM (GwPRU)

And that's why I shop at Whole Foods

86 I'm tired and bored. Somebody just throw the god damn DOOM switch and let's get this party started.

87 Betty White, dead at 89

88 As I've said before;  Employment and job creation are organic.
Posted by: President Barry McSpinner

Well at least this makes some sense of all the BS your spreading.

You're just fertilizing the economy right.

89 i have a theory about why we are stopping the air support in Africa. The bad guys and the badder guys all the the same. the regulars adopted the toyota spray painted like the rebels and mounted with guns and manned by guys out of uniform. from the air we cant tell them apart.

this has been on the news.
we have been shooting at the right people and the wrong people alike since this started. mostly cuz its hard to tell them apart.

90 OT - (American Spectator) LINK

PBS Hires Ann Coulter: Levin and Lohan to Co-Host Series

91

this has been on the news.
we have been shooting at the right people and the wrong people alike since this started. mostly cuz its hard to tell them apart.

Don't matter.  Obama looks like a smart military leader.

Or... well... nevermind

92

Hey anyone out there whose ChartFu is strong?

I'd LUV to see a chart of Actual Number of people working FULL TIME in America, juxtaposed with their stated Unemployment rate...

93 we have been shooting at the right people and the wrong people alike since this started. mostly cuz its hard to tell them apart.
Posted by: Gushka at April 01, 2011 11:49 AM

They are all the right people.

^{Consider me denounced.}

94 Or, maybe Gates threatened to resign if things went any further. He has seemed to be very reluctant to get involved in this (to his credit).

95 All right which one of you morons just posted about "jugears mcfuckstick" on youtube vidio of the NRC ad? The phrase is so familiar....

96 95 I agree. Some guy called the radio this morning and said we should try to get the unrest to last as long as possible. Can't say he's wrong.

97 "jugears mcfuckstick"

Yeah! That's insulting!

98 95 we have been shooting at the right people and the wrong people alike since this started. mostly cuz its hard to tell them apart.
Posted by: Gushka at April 01, 2011 11:49 AM

They are all the right people.

^{Consider me denounced.}

Posted by: huerfano at April 01, 2011 11:52 AM (2pEj7)

i think thats pretty much generally agreed upon by everyone stuck there. My friend keeps chekin in with me to let me know hes ok. This is the first time i have ever seen him sound concerned for his safety. Its not cuz they are badass. Its because he says he has not met a single person he'd trust to sit the right way on a toilet since he got there. ANYONE.

my friend is scared he will be killed by incompetence lies and stupidity. Nobody knows what goin on there.

99 Microsoft, NPR to form strategic partnership

Redmond, Wash. (AP). Hoping to survive in an era of potential budget cuts, NPR announced today that it had completed negotiations with Microsoft for a strategic partnership with Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) for a new radio network tentatively name MSNPR.

"We foresee considerable synergies from this arrangement" said Microsoft Chairman Steve Ballmer, "Chief among which is the ability to say anything we want without having to produce any of those pesky facts."

100 gushka -- Why don't we just go in there and take the Libyan oil provinces - AQIM gets nothing, Quedaffy gets nothing, and we can ream the euros for that light, sweet crude. WIN - WIN - WIN

101 101 Microsoft, NPR to form strategic partnership

Posted by: joncelli at April 01, 2011 11:59 AM (Nvw83)

Does this mean you'll have to turn the radio off, then on again every 20 minutes to listen?

102

Posted by: Jean at April 01, 2011 12:02 PM (WkuV6)

You also need to take the Ports so you can ship that oil.... and thats where all the people are...

103

Many "part-time" workers get nearly a full workweek--usually just an hour or two shy of whatever is (locally) considered "full-time"... for example: schedule is 8-5 Mon-Fri, but they deduct .5 hour for lunch every day = 37.5 hours/week = no bennies.  These jobs are usually in restaurants, retail stores, smaller employers, etc.  (It's been this way for decades.)

Also, since these employers want to keep the few good workers they have, they make it next to impossible to find another job, for example: schedule is 6 days a week at 6 hours a day, or even 7 days a week at 5 hours a day...and, of course, some overtime during the holidays or 'sales events' but it's temporary, so still no bennies....

Boned, doom, etc.

104 102 gushka -- Why don't we just go in there and take the Libyan oil provinces - AQIM gets nothing, Quedaffy gets nothing, and we can ream the euros for that light, sweet crude. WIN - WIN - WIN

Posted by: Jean at April 01, 2011 12:02 PM (WkuV6)

youre asking ME?

I think the reason we dont is we are ill led with no clear idea of what we want, hobbled by the notion we want to be "not too bad" and not seen as leading anything or be accused of having ideas.

good lord. i have no clue why this admin does ANYTHING it does. I know somone in DC who has a theory "water in washington DC is poisoned and rots your brain and makes you stupid, but you dont know it."

Guess its as good a reason as any.

105 Romeo13 - well, my uncle has a farm where the Cherokee used to hunt, a modern solution - build a new port.  One of those offshore pipeline terminus would work well.

106 Guess this Libya stuff belongs on the next thread.

107

I wonder if a quick perusal of the individual states' unemployment numbers would result in a number much higher than the Feds' figure? As reported yesterday, Florida's UE # is 11.2%. We're the fourth largest state.

Geoff, go figure. It's Friday, and I usually take this day off, along with all the other days, too. Funemployment, it's what's for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

108

Definitions:

Funemployment--no job, with unemployment benefit checks coming in.

Unenjoyment--no job, without said checks.

109 Does this mean you'll have to turn the radio off, then on again every 20 minutes to listen?

You mean like pledge drives?

110 It's worse than that.  ObamaCare requires employer coverage for employees working 30 hours or more per week.

111 The more I read about all of this, the more it scares me.

We've got Precedent Jugears McFuckstick at the helm, who is so underqualified -- playing so far over his head his nose would be bleedng if it weren't plugged with a clot of Kal Penn's semi-hardened manchowder -- that we're well and truly boned on all fronts economic, foreign and domestic.

112  MSNPR, a subsidiary of ITAR-TASS....

113

ObamaCare requires employer coverage for employees working 30 hours or more per week.

Helllllloooooo 29-hour workweek!

114

6 hours a day, 5 days a week, with a 15min unpaid break once a day...

Profit!

115 Uh-uh  Hellllllllllllllooooooooo  3 8-hour shifts per week - max.

116

In any case, mrp, employees (WE) are screwed. 

117 Here's my deal.  I was laid off in '09 for most of the year.  I have been employed for over a year now but I had to take a $30,000/yr. pay cut.  Meanwhile the cost of food, gas, electricity and pretty much everything is going up.

The only thing  the stimulus did was keep housing prices artificially high by bailing out the banks so they could survive without auctioning off all of those foreclosures.

118 I've thanked God every day that I'm no longer in the restaurant/retail/small employer arena.  Now, I'll be thanking Him more often.  So far, ZeroCare has had little direct impact on my household--other than (dramatic) premium and copay increases--I'm sure it'll get worse, given time.

119 Yep.

120 ObamaCare requires employer coverage for employees working 30 hours or more per week.

Fridays off, 9-5, with an hour off for lunch -- almost like France.

121 The only thing  the stimulus did was keep housing prices artificially high by bailing out the banks so they could survive without auctioning off all of those foreclosures.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at April 01, 2011 12:41 PM (pdRb1)

Lemmi, you are confusing "stimulus" with TARP and the Fed. The banks were kept alive by TARP and the Fed which pumped in 3.3 Trillion to them. Stimulus pumped about 1.2 Trillion into social welfare programs, unions, green holes in the ground, and other useless fraud.

122 What Obama doesn't tell you is they are mostly part-time, low wage shit jobs. His numbers are also manipulated by stating that those who dropped out of the job market don't count and he says their are less jobs available...So do the math and we get 8.9% when in fact it is over 10%... Got to love our boy President !!!!

123 Anyway, Ted Danson, dead at age 64. RIP Posted by: Truman North at April 01, 2011 10:48 AM (8ay4x) But is he dead dead?

124 I have come here to chew bubblegum and burn Korans... and I am all out of bubblegum.Äþ²¨Ã×ÄÈ»éÉ´£¬Äþ²¨»éÉ´£¬Äþ²¨»éÉ´³ö×⣬Äþ²¨»éÉ´¶¨ÖÆ

125 Does anyone with more than half a brain (thereby excluding liberal democrats) not believe that Obama's Labor Department is not falsifying the jobs numbers? Especially when Gallup has been fairly consistent that the actual unemployed is at 10 percent and when the reports were that the DOL changed their metrics in January, and suddenly unemployment decreased more than half a percent? We need a thorough vetting of DOL's fabricated numbers.

126 I searched for something completely different, but found your website! And have to say thanks. Nice read. Will come back.