Friday, October 28, 2011

sec & bankers -- MONEY TALKS !

Normal American citizens would be in jail for robbery -but if you know how to play the system you only pay a small percentage of money you steal !
http://www.foxbusiness.com/industries/2011/10/28/judge-asks-sec-citigroup-to-defend-fraud-settlement/

Love Union statements!

Got a chuckle reading this article Note the union fellows statement -instead of denying charges he admits the wrong doing & even goes on to admitting it goes on all the time with most all the officers. Corruption is so common to him that he does not even get what was done wrong !!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/28/nypd-officers-surrender-i_n_1063515.html

Thursday, October 20, 2011

Steve Jobs

After reading this, I have a greater respect for Steve Jobs

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/20/steve-jobs-biography-obama_n_1022786.html?ncid=webmail1

Politicians do not even try to hide- Voter are to stupid to notice the truth !

Harry Reid carries a heavy burden these days, blocking and tackling for an unpopular President's unpopular agenda while trying to hold onto a Senate majority in 2012. So perhaps we should be forgiving when the Majority Leader says what he did yesterday on the Senate floor:

"It's very clear that private-sector jobs have been doing just fine; it's the public-sector jobs where we've lost huge numbers, and that's what this legislation is all about."

Then again, he really said that.

Mr. Reid was trying to defend a new Democratic proposal to spend another $35 billion that the government doesn't have to help states hire teachers and other public workers. He seems to be under the impression that private job creation is doing well, and that happy days would be here again if we could only gin up more government jobs.

So let's go to the videotape. According to the White House budget office, the federal executive branch had 1.875 million civilian full-time equivalent employees when the financial crisis hit in 2008. Two years later, that number had risen by 253,000 jobs to 2.128 million, a 13.5% increase.

The budget office predicted earlier this year that the number would fall slightly to 2.101 million in fiscal 2011, which ended on September 30, but then rise again in 2012 to 2.116 million. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported in September that overall federal government employment had fallen by 30,000 jobs from September 2010, but that's after the rapid rise under President Obama. There's been no jobs recession in the Beltway.

So perhaps Mr. Reid is referring to state and local government jobs? Well, the Labor Department report for September shows that state governments have cut payrolls by all of 49,000 since September 2010, to 5.089 million. Local governments have reduced employment at a somewhat faster pace—by 210,000 workers in the last year, to 14.076 million.

The pace of these state and local cuts have picked up this year, as the federal stimulus spending has declined. But Democrats promised in 2009 that the stimulus would be temporary—to help states get through the recession. State and local governments now have no choice but to cut workers, as they adjust to a new and reduced level of tax revenue thanks to the slow economic recovery.

As for the private jobs market, it's hard to see what Mr. Reid could possibly mean when he says it is "doing just fine." Private nonfarm employers added only 137,000 new jobs in September and 352,000 in the last three months. That's why the overall jobless rate remains an unprecedented 9.1% two years into an ostensible economic recovery.

Going back to 2008, the Labor Department reported 111.822 million employed private workers at the end of 2008. The number plunged during the recession, and as of September of this year overall private employment had climbed back to 109.349 million. But that's still some 2.5 million fewer jobs than in 2008. If this is doing fine, we'd hate to see Mr. Reid's definition of lousy.

What these numbers show is that, contrary to Mr. Reid, the real U.S. jobs problem continues to be in the private economy. If private employers were hiring at the pace they normally do in an economic recovery, we might be doing fine.

In any case, Mr. Reid's latest stimulus proposal isn't intended to help private employers. Its goal is to help state and local government workers, especially teachers, most of whom are unionized and pay dues that can finance Democratic Senate campaigns. The $35 billion would operate as a campaign-finance pass-through account, from Senate Democrats to unions and back to Senate Democrats.

Mr. Reid knows his proposal can't pass the House, and perhaps not even the Senate, so his real agenda is to stage a vote that Republicans will oppose so President Obama can claim on the stump that Democrats are doing something to help create jobs and that Republicans stopped them.

Instead, Mr. Reid's comments yesterday reveal that he and his fellow Democrats inhabit an economic universe in which government is the main engine of job creation. That's how you get a jobs crisis.



http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204485304576641324142710998.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Thursday, October 13, 2011

economics !!

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/587616/201110101854/A-Pair-Of-Nobel-Aces.htm

regardless of what politicians think -we do have world winning knowledge that exist -If we would just listen

Unions & pensions -- Good for those receiving I suppose

I despise reading articles of excessive greed & corruption
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44872639/ns/us_news-life/#.TpX1r97iGU8
In some cases I think it is out right criminal --Just my 2 cents worth !
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44626194/ns/us_news-life/t/report-ex-labor-chiefs--day-rehire-nets-city-pension/
Fully funded pension plans & retirement plans are good !-Corrupt government tinkering with funds & pensions is wrong for everyone ! Mark my words  -there will be a train wreck on the current tracks !!!!
Got to love it !
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-pensions-gannon-20110922,0,913026.story

Thursday, October 6, 2011

"Occupy Wall Street" protest

This article is in support of the protest "Occupy Wall Street"
http://www.alternet.org/economy/152621/if_top_1_hadn't_ripped_off_trillions,_you'd_likely_be_making_thousands_of_dollars_more_right_now/?page=1
 I still think every American can make his or her own destiny & that social services only create an atmosphere laziness-In MOST situations
This aricle gives a case for redistribution of wealth advocates

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Racial ?

I find it odd Perry is catching Hell from liberal media for Niggerhead painted on a rock at some hunting lodge Decades ago which was painted over.
Yet Obama can march with the Black Panthers & that is acceptable ? guess racism is OK for some but not for others ----typical .
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=351545