JAY LENO: Well, according to the Labor Department, unemployment fell from 8.3 to 8.1 percent last month. But that was because only, that’s because, rather, 368,000 Americans gave up looking for work. And today, President Obama said that’s a step in the right direction, and he is encouraging more Americans to give up looking for work so the numbers will come down a little bit.
It would be funny if there wasn’t so much truth in it!
Fire ants cause millions of dollars in damage and need to be eradicated.
Lets put food stamp people out there 10 hours a week spreading poison across the whole southern U.S. They could work in groups of 10 or so and cover the entire area in 1 year.
The same system could be used on Feral hogs, only there we could use people with hunting talents.
Here’s an idea, all government contracts, state and federal, should include 15% welfare receiving workers.
If they are building a road, dam, rocket or what ever they must hire 15% of their workforce from the unemployed roles. They can use this labor as skilled labor, clean up, road guards, physical labor, floor sweepers or their other talents. They can pay them the difference between what they get from the Government and $12. per hour.
This way they are not sitting at home collecting money for nothing. Plus, some of these jobs could turn permanent, maybe the government could incentivize their hiring with tax credits.
Your in a fast food restaurant, you buy a burger and fries and the guy behind you asks you and insists on, you giving him 1/3 of your burger and fries.
That is what is happening right now, 1/3 of the individual taxes paid in, goes to welfare.
The Government is actually advertising to get more people on hand outs, rather than suggesting they cut grass, wash windows or cars or join the military.
Why does it look like our God and constitution based freedom of speech seem to be going down the toilet?
Political correctness, Muslims, laws are all slowly stripping us of our right to say, print or film our beliefs.
Yet, no one is defending our rights, that this is AMERICA!
Embassies are considered sovereign ground of the country that occupies them.
Which means even foreign police or military can not enter them without permission from the embassy. In fact they are expected to defend any foreign embassy from their citizens.
When a foreign Government is complicit in an attack on a embassy it is an act of war.
Why did it take 3 days for Egypt 3 days to do something about the attack?
If your tired of all those polling telephone calls or just want to mess with them, try this;
Answer their questions with the reverse answer that you would normally answer.
Then at the polls vote your conviction.
Polls distort, detract, abuse and infringe on us, and only help the candidates on where to spend their campaign ad money.
Has anyone sat down and thought about what is happening financially to America?
We are out of money. We borrow over 20% of what we bring in.
Our debt rating has been lowered and a second lowering is around the corner. This will push up the costs of the money we borrow.
The interest on the money we owe is more than 35% of what we bring in, in taxes.
We are being threatened/attacked by 5 or 6 countries in the Mideast.
Somewhere between 24 million and 50 million people are living on Government handouts.
Our leaders have ignored the budget, debt and the problem in general for the sake of their jobs.
Idiots in Washington have added almost a million government jobs in the last 5 years thinking it solves the unemployment problem, never thinking they will need more money to pay those people.
Guess what? The money is about to run out and there will be tens of millions of people that will need food and shelter.
Desperate people will do anything to keep from starving.
In the meantime the interest rate for the USA to borrow money will go up to 9% escalating the whole mess.
Guarding U. S. embassies with no live ammo, its the American way.
Why do we train our military to kill the enemy and give them empty guns to guard our embassies and U. S. civilians this makes us look like a joke to other countries.
What, Me Worry?
Who is equipped to be President?
A preacher? A business man or woman?
A tree hugger? A political science major?
Someone who spent their life in politics?
An actor? An accountant?
A teacher? A lawyer?
Some one with a good brain, personality, negotiating skills and not afraid is my choice.
Religion and all Gods are an individuals right to believe or not.
Not agreeing with another ones belief is a God given right and shall not be abridged.
When anyone physically attacks another’s belief, it is a crime!
When any one or group of people call for the death or destruction of a particular group of religious believers, its is a crime against all society.
When we chastise a particular group for crimes against society, we must apply it to all religions uniformly. When a group calls for the death of Christians or Jews we must condemn them.
This where our double standard has developed, we defend Muslims when Mohamed is attack and we never damn Iran, Palestine, Egypt, Libya and many other countries in the Middle East calling for the death of Jews and Christians.
Islam, Muslims or who ever needs to learn to respect all Religions and its time for the USA to get a set of b_lls and order everyone to stop such threats.
When the leaders of a Country calls for the death of a group of people that is an act of war! Here’s the odds:
Shoot first= a 90% of sucess, 10% chance of faiular.
Shoot second= a 20% of sucess, 80% chance of faiular.
Time to quit pussyfooting arou
You can replace your cracked laptop screen for under $100. in 15 minutes.
Go to youtube and put your model#+ replace sreen and there is a video on how to there.
The video will show you step by step how to remove the bad screen, The # on the back of the screen is what you put on Ebay to find a replacement. Remember to search the lowest price, look for new only and check the sellers feed back records
When news agencies claim they are not politically biased and yet they only report good news about a political group and avoid the negative, says bias.
Avoidance is BIAS!
Roughly 117,000 Americans double-dipped by cashing unemployment and Social Security disability checks during the height of the jobs crisis, costing taxpayers a combined $856 million in fiscal 2010 according to a government watchdog agency. The additional strain on the system will make the SSDI trust fund insolvent in four short years. With most eyes fixed on the election battle between President Obama and Republican Mitt Romney, it was easy to miss the alarming report by the Government Accountability Office that was initially released this summer. Read more at http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Articles/2012/09/12/117000-Americans-Get-Jobless-and-Disability-Benefits.aspx#5HxTPx4b544zjygK.99
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Why does’nt anyone seem to care that 8 major cities have declared bankruptcy?
Another 40 are teetering on the same destiny, but no one seems to care.
These cities will have court ordered tax increases, cuts in all city branches and Union contracts opened for reduction of benefits.
Are the residents just going to move after the court rules or is Obama going to bail them out, at least the democratic ones?
I lost all the archived articles, so this is day one of the future.
I will try to add insight to big news as well as helpful articles.
Have you ever wondered why Unions go to extremes to keep their members from being evaluated on their job performance?
They demand over market value for wages!
They bargin for ridiculas retirement benefits!
They get the best medical plans!
Do they have the dumbest workers?
Why did’nt the Embassy guards shoot the attackers, did someone order not to?
Will she fly to Egypt tomorrow and have a heart to heart with Egypt’s president?
Is she scared?
With control of the House and the Senate the President is helpless. Spending money anywhere else other than taking over the Senate is flushing it down the drain.
“If we all work together, hopefully we can get millions of people to wake up and realize that ‘business as usual’ will result in a national economic apocalypse,” writes TEC.
Here are the 50 economic numbers from 2011 that will shock you (via The Economic Collapse):
1. A staggering 48 percent of all Americans are either considered to be “low income” or are living in poverty.
2. Approximately 57 percent of all children in the United States are living in homes that are either considered to be “low income” or impoverished.
3. If the number of Americans that “wanted jobs” was the same today as it was back in 2007, the “official” unemployment rate put out by the U.S. government would be up to 11 percent.
4. The average amount of time that a worker stays unemployed in the United States is now over 40 weeks.
5. One recent survey found that 77 percent of all U.S. small businesses do not plan to hire any more workers.
6. There are fewer payroll jobs in the United States today than there were back in 2000 even though we have added 30 million extra people to the population since then.
7. Since December 2007, median household income in the United States has declined by a total of 6.8 percent once you account for inflation.
8. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 16.6 million Americans were self-employed back in December 2006. Today, that number has shrunk to 14.5 million.
9. A Gallup poll from earlier this year found that approximately one out of every five Americans that do have a job consider themselves to be underemployed.
10. According to author Paul Osterman, about 20 percent of all U.S. adults are currently working jobs that pay poverty-level wages.
11. Back in 1980, less than 30 percent of all jobs in the United States were low income jobs. Today, more than 40 percent of all jobs in the United States are low income jobs.
12. Back in 1969, 95 percent of all men between the ages of 25 and 54 had a job. In July, only 81.2 percent of men in that age group had a job.
13. One recent survey found that one out of every three Americans would not be able to make a mortgage or rent payment next month if they suddenly lost their current job.
14. The Federal Reserve recently announced that the total net worth of U.S. households declined by 4.1 percent in the 3rd quarter of 2011 alone.
15. According to a recent study conducted by the BlackRock Investment Institute, the ratio of household debt to personal income in the United States is now 154 percent.
16. As the economy has slowed down, so has the number of marriages. According to a Pew Research Center analysis, only 51 percent of all Americans that are at least 18 years old are currently married. Back in 1960, 72 percent of all U.S. adults were married.
17. The U.S. Postal Service has lost more than 5 billion dollars over the past year.
18. In Stockton, California home prices have declined 64 percent from where they were at when the housing market peaked.
19. Nevada has had the highest foreclosure rate in the nation for 59 months in a row.
20. If you can believe it, the median price of a home in Detroit is now just $6000.
21. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 18 percent of all homes in the state of Florida are sitting vacant. That figure is 63 percent larger than it was just ten years ago.
22. New home construction in the United States is on pace to set a brand new all-time record low in 2011.
23. 19 percent of all American men between the ages of 25 and 34 are now living with their parents.
24. Electricity bills in the United States have risen faster than the overall rate of inflation for five years in a row.
25. According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, health care costs accounted for just 9.5 percent of all personal consumption back in 1980. Today they account for approximately 16.3 percent.
26. One study found that approximately 41 percent of all working age Americans either have medical bill problems or are currently paying off medical debt.
27. If you can believe it, one out of every seven Americans has at least 10 credit cards.
28. The United States spends about 4 dollars on goods and services from China for every one dollar that China spends on goods and services from the United States.
29. It is being projected that the U.S. trade deficit for 2011 will be 558.2 billion dollars.
30. The retirement crisis in the United States just continues to get worse. According to the Employee Benefit Research Institute, 46 percent of all American workers have less than $10,000 saved for retirement, and 29 percent of all American workers have less than $1,000 saved for retirement.
31. Today, one out of every six elderly Americans lives below the federal poverty line.
32. According to a study that was just released, CEO pay at America’s biggest companies rose by 36.5 percent in just one recent 12 month period.
33. Today, the “too big to fail” banks are larger than ever. The total assets of the six largest U.S. banks increased by 39 percent between September 30, 2006 and September 30, 2011.
34. The six heirs of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton have a net worth that is roughly equal to the bottom 30 percent of all Americans combined.
35. According to an analysis of Census Bureau data done by the Pew Research Center, the median net worth for households led by someone 65 years of age or older is 47 times greater than the median net worth for households led by someone under the age of 35.
36. If you can believe it, 37 percent of all U.S. households that are led by someone under the age of 35 have a net worth of zero or less than zero.
37. A higher percentage of Americans is living in extreme poverty (6.7 percent) than has ever been measured before.
38. Child homelessness in the United States is now 33 percent higher than it was back in 2007.
39. Since 2007, the number of children living in poverty in the state of California has increased by 30 percent.
40. Sadly, child poverty is absolutely exploding all over America. According to the National Center for Children in Poverty, 36.4 percent of all children that live in Philadelphia are living in poverty, 40.1 percent of all children that live in Atlanta are living in poverty, 52.6 percent of all children that live in Cleveland are living in poverty and 53.6 percent of all children that live in Detroit are living in poverty.
41. Today, one out of every seven Americans is on food stamps and one out of every four American children is on food stamps.
42. In 1980, government transfer payments accounted for just 11.7 percent of all income. Today, government transfer payments account for more than 18 percent of all income.
43. A staggering 48.5 percent of all Americans live in a household that receives some form of government benefits. Back in 1983, that number was below 30 percent.
44. Right now, spending by the federal government accounts for about 24 percent of GDP. Back in 2001, it accounted for just 18 percent.
45. For fiscal year 2011, the U.S. federal government had a budget deficit of nearly 1.3 trillion dollars. That was the third year in a row that our budget deficit has topped one trillion dollars.
46. If Bill Gates gave every single penny of his fortune to the U.S. government, it would only cover the U.S. budget deficit for about 15 days.
47. Amazingly, the U.S. government has now accumulated a total debt of 15 trillion dollars. When Barack Obama first took office the national debt was just 10.6 trillion dollars.
48. If the federal government began right at this moment to repay the U.S. national debt at a rate of one dollar per second, it would take over 440,000 years to pay off the national debt.
49. The U.S. national debt has been increasing by an average of more than 4 billion dollars per day since the beginning of the Obama administration.
50. During the Obama administration, the U.S. government has accumulated more debt than it did from the time that George Washington took office to the time that Bill Clinton took office.
Of course, after going through all these numbers, the obvious question is, “how has it come to this?” The Economic Collapse has a simple answer:
. . . the heart of our economic problems is the Federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve is a perpetual debt machine, it has almost completely destroyed the value of the U.S. dollar and it has an absolutely nightmarish track record of incompetence. If the Federal Reserve system had never been created, the U.S. economy would be in far better shape. The federal government needs to shut down the Federal Reserve and start issuing currency that is not debt-based.
But who among America’s leaders has the will and determination to do this? Judging by how the Obama administration has conducted itself thus far, it probably won’t consider (let alone implement) any of the suggestions mentioned in the above. Therefore, that leaves only the GOP candidates.
Who among them has the best chance to restore economic stability? Who is the most likely to return the U.S. to prosperity?
“Hopefully next year more Americans than ever will wake up, because 2012 is going to represent a huge turning point for this country,” TEC writes.
Indeed, 2012 may be one of the biggest turning points this country has ever seen.
Why does it not surprise me that New Yorkers would profiteer from 9-11—Sleep tight SCUM
Schoolchildren thought their penny jars and bake-sale proceeds would go toward building a 9/11 memorial at Ground Zero — not the six-figure salaries of nonprofit execs.
But 11 staffers at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum each pulled down more than $170,000 in total compensation in 2009, according to the most recent filings. Four execs took home more than $320,000.
Foundation President Joseph Daniels, 38, pocketed $371,307 after receiving hefty raises three years in a row — 28 percent in 2006, when he was promoted from acting president, followed by 12 percent and 6 percent.
These girls each donated $1 to the 9/11 foundation, while its president, Joseph Daniels (above), was paid $371,307
Museum director Alice Greenwald made $351,000, and capital planning Vice President Joan Gerner soaked up $337,143 before leaving last spring. Development director Cathy Blaney raked in $322,292. The full-time foundation employee also worked last year as a fund-raiser for Gov. Cuomo’s election campaign.
The money to pay the $5.3 million in compensation for the foundation’s 87 staffers in 2009 came from private donations — $220 million raised in a Herculean grass-roots effort to honor the 2,974 victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and $150 million from blue-ribbon board members. More than 60,000 individuals in all 50 states and 31 countries donated to the cause.< The rest of the foundation's money -- about $330 million in tax funds from the state and the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. -- is earmarked for construction of the $610 million project. Donors ranged from Ohio high-school students who raised $14,000 by completing a 650-mile trek from their Toledo suburb to Ground Zero, to pupils at Bethpage HS in New Jersey who collected $746 in pennies. Teacher Shawn Clincy of the Mary Volz School in Runnemede, NJ, whose middle-school students raised $1,000 knocking on doors, was shocked by the salaries. "They're taking money from 13-year-olds who went out and collected donations. That doesn't sit right with me," he said. Michael Burke, whose firefighter brother, William, was killed in the attacks, questioned the generous pay: "These guys are making a fortune -- it seems extravagant." Sandra Miniutti, a spokeswoman for the nonprofit watchdog Charity Navigator, said the salaries were "on the high side for a comparable-sized organization." The average base salary for a CEO of a mid-size foundation like the memorial is about $160,000, and second-tier managers usually make much less, she said. The memorial and museum is being built on 10 acres at Ground Zero, featuring two large reflecting pools with manmade waterfalls set within the footprints of the Twin Towers. Originally scheduled to open in 2009, the memorial designed by Michael Arad and Peter Walker will be unveiled two years late, on the 10th anniversary of the attacks. The museum is expected to open in 2012, also two years late. The underground 100,000 square-foot museum will exhibit the iconic "survivor stairs" and "last column" and donated artifacts from the site and victims' families. The foundation defended the salaries disclosed in IRS tax filings reviewed by The Post. "We're setting up a venue that will be the highest drawing venue in New York City," said board member Tom Roger, who lost his daughter on 9/11. "You don't bring in your typical, well-meaning nonprofit person off the street to get that done. Once it's opened and operational, the salary structure will . . . come back down." Foundation officials pointed to the compensation package of $456,558 earned by the head of the American Cancer Society's Eastern Division, which has similar annual revenue of $96 million. Mayor Bloomberg, board chairman, said, "They're paid only a fraction of what they're worth, but at a level similar to people at comparable nonprofits." Highest price earners: Highest earners at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum (2009 total compensation): Joe Daniels, President:$371,307 Alice Greenwald, Executive VP for Programs: $351,100 Joan Gerner, Executive VP, Capital Planning (Left in Spring 2010): $337,143 Cathy Blaney, Executive VP, Development: $322,292 David Langford, CFO: $224,113 Luis Mendes, VP Design and Construction: $221,429 Lynn Rasic, Senior VP, Public Affairs: $214,270 Noelle Lillien, General Counsel: $193,316 Suany Chough, Senior Adviser, Design Construction and Planning: $190,831 Allison Bailey, Chief of Staff to President: $171,417
With 32 States and 68% of the American people wanting to get rid of Obama’s Health Care Bill , you would think a peoples President would yield.
Only an idiot, egotistical moron,________ or simpleton would think he is doing the peoples bidding. The blank space above is for someone to write in a reason in case I’m wrong.
Health care is a monopoly, the services the medical community provides, does so without competition. They are governed, educated and operate under a system controlled by their peers.
By controlling the quantity of doctors in the market, they control the prices they can charge.
The term ” HEALTH CARE REFORM ” is being translated by our government into protectionism for the medical and insurance community.
REFORM is not rationing medical services or mandating insurance policies purchases, they only drive costs up. True REFORM is getting the cost down on a 6 hour heart bypass surgery from $225,000. to $35,000.
REFORM is a 3 day hospital stay for $5,000 not $30,000.
The Government can REFORM healthcare and reduce the costs to everybody by 25% in 4 years and stabilize the costs for the future.
The cost to Government would only be $6 billion a year, not $Trillions.
$6 bil. a year, for 4 yrs, would pay for the education of 20,000 new medical doctors and an ongoing 5,000 doctors a year thereafter
8 years into this program ($48bil.) we would have 800 additional doctors available for each state.
An alternate to this program could be to build medical colleges ($1bil. each) in every state and operate them for 8 years.
PUT UP WARNING SIGNS ALL ALONG THE BORDER
I.C.E. Can’t carry guns in Mexico. OK lets issue orders to Border Patrol to shoot to kill any anyone illegally entering the country carrying drugs. Don’t chase them just, shot if they are visually carrying drugs. It is legal to post private property that violators will be shot. Within one year they will be out of mules to carry their drugs over the border. Going after the one guy that killed our agent does shit.
Pass this on to everyone,
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The lawyers are acting as middlemen and skimming 30% off for themselves
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All the money sent in (donated) goes to Hormel and they provide a special canned turkey product called Spammy at cost to Food For The Poor to distribute directly to poor families.
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