Archive of entries posted on 4th September 2009

Job losses

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The job numbers for August are out. And they don’t look good.

Unemployment is now at 9.7% — the highest it’s been since 1983.

The “underemployment rate” — the unemployed rate plus part-time workers who prefer a full-time position plus people who want work but have given up looking for a job — is at 16.8 percent, a record.

What does all this mean?

Obviously, nearly 1 in 10 Americans are out of work. But what else does it mean?

It means that the wrong people are losing their jobs.

We need to fire some elected officials. I’m thinking the entire Obama administration would be a good place to start. But then, I said don’t hire those rascals to begin with. But did America listen to me? No. 52% of American voters went and did something stupid.

Oh, sure. They were frustrated. They didn’t like how things were. But not putting any thought into a solution is a bad solution.

So, we have unemployment near 10%.

I think we ought to give Congress a 10% unemployment rate. That would mean 10 Senators losing their jobs. And 43 or 44 Representatives being sent packing.

Some say to throw them all out. But, as a Representative said yesterday, there are downsides to doing that. Remember, that’s basically what happened to put Obama in office: a desire to get rid of who was there. They seemed to forget that Bush wasn’t running for a third term. Stupid Obama voters.

So, which 10% of Congress should be unemployed?

Oh, I have some ideas.

Senators who are up for reelection in 2010:
Harry Reid (D-NV)
Boxer, Barbara (D-CA)
Dodd, Christopher J. (D-CT)
Daniel Inouye (D-HI)
Barbara Mikulski (D-MD)
Patty Murray (D-WA)
Schumer, Charles E. (D-NY)
Specter, Arlen (D-PA)
Leahy, Patrick J. (D-VT)
Lincoln, Blanche L. (D-AR)

Representatives:
Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)
Barney Frank (D-MA)
Steve Cohen (D-TN)
Corrine Brown (D-FL)
Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-FL)
Alcee Hastings (D-FL)
Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX)
Maxine Waters (D-CA)
Charles Rangel (D-NY)
Jim Moran (D-VA)
…Oh heck, I could go on and on with Representatives. But I’d start with this group.

If 10% of Congress lost their jobs … the most useless 10% … then unemployment might not be a bad thing after all.

Imagine this group having to work for a living. Or even trying to find a job.

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Frank Advice for Life

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Never refuse an offer of a free cup of coffee.

At Boise Game Last Night…

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…there were fisticuffs!

I missed it at first and it seemed like everyone was booing our team for winning the game. But no, there were booing punching which was wrong. Remember: Good sportsmanship means no punching unless it’s boxing in which punching is expected.

Cuckoo! Cuckoo!

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Colonel Mo’ammar Mohammar Muammar Qaddafi Khadaffi Gaddafi (Good, God, is there any consensus on how you spell this psycho’s name???) is in the news yet again this week.

Anyway, it seems that before he goes off camping in New Jersey, the Libyan dictator has plans to stop by the UN and ask them to dissolve Switzerland.

No, I’m not kidding about any of that, and those are not links to The Onion!

It seems that the UK government’s favorite oil-for-terrorists trading partner has his panties in a twist because his son Hannibal Lecter? and his wife were arrested there for assaulting a hotel maid in Geneva about a year ago.

So, of course, they now deserve to have their country carved up and have the pieces given to the surrounding nations.

I knew there had to be more to the story, however, and did some digging. Here’s what I found out:

Other Things Gaddafi Has Against the Swiss:

  • He ate too much chocolate as a child and got a really bad tummy ache.
  • Could never quite figure out how to tell time on his Swatch.
  • Went skiing there once, but they wouldn’t let him off the bunny slope.
  • Burned himself so badly on a really hot cup of cocoa that he had one of those stringy things dangling from the roof of his mouth for weeks.
  • Due to weapons embargo, could never get them to send him that super cool Swiss Army knife he ordered out of the back of a Spider-Man comic book.
  • A neighbor’s St. Bernard drooled all over his best pair of Italian loafers.
  • Their cheese is obviously defective, it has holes!
  • Those damned Bernoulli kids who kept throwing off the curve in his high school math class.
  • That whole neutrality thing really gets his hackles up… pick a side already!
  • Never understood the knock-knock joke about “Yo-the-lady who?”.
  • Opened a bank account — never got the toaster!
  • Believes cuckoo clocks are mocking him.

    • h/t Ace of Spades left sidebar headlines