Archive for the ‘Jobs’ Category
ACTION ALERT: 5,000 SIGNATURES for “Green Jobs Tomorrow Fast and Cheap”.
ACTION ALERT The White House announced on September 1st that they “will consider any petition that gets 5,000 signatures”. So I dashed off the following petition: Green jobs TOMORROW, fast & cheap. Here’s how. The fiction that “tax cuts create jobs” needs to be put to bed once and for all. After ten years of […]
September 2, 2011
Posted in: Economy, Energy Independence, Environment, Global Warming, Jobs
Are you better off now than you were just six months ago?
Six moths ago, the Tea Party was heralding their sweeping gains in the 2010 election, taking control of the House and gaining seats in the Senate. Republicans ran on a platform of “Jobs, Jobs, Jobs!”, the Right-of-Right Tea Party caucus promised to “cut out-of-control Federal Spending.” Ronald Reagan was the first to ask the question: “Are […]
August 8, 2011
Posted in: Economy, Election, Jobs, Politics
Are they realy THAT stupid, or just evil?
I don’t like to talk about my personal life here, but my father, whom I love dearly despite his being a staunch Conservative Dittohead, said something yesterday that had me shaking my head with no acceptable response: “…President Obama wants to cut Medicare.” Of course, it’s the GOP that wants to cut Social Security & […]
July 18, 2011
Posted in: Economy, Infrastructure, Jobs, Money, Politics, Taxes
Can I stop shaking my head now? A return to GOP Bizarroland
After the week we’ve just had, if I shake my head anymore, I fear it might fall off. The Rick Perry Myth-a-palooza continued for another week as Sunday-show after Sunday-show continued to repeat the “37%” jobs-claim as “fact”, Congressman Weiner… who committed no crime other than being a Douchebag… was hounded out of office by […]
June 20, 2011
Posted in: Economy, Election, Jobs, Money, myth busting, Politics, Taxes
The New “Texas Miracle”? GOP pushing questionable Perry job-creation meme (UPDATED)
(Authors Note: I need to recompute these numbers using data going back to January of 2009 and not just April of 2010, so please do not reference my estimates for 2009 until I’ve done so in a later post. Also, please check the bottom of this post for UPDATES. In the meantime, here are some […]
June 13, 2011
Posted in: Economy, Election, Jobs, myth busting, Politics
It’s the price of gas, Stupid! – plus, Where is the Republican job legislation?
On Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that unemployment was “up” for the month of May, that a paltry 54,000 jobs were created, and unemployment rose to 9.1%. Republicans raced to the microphones to condemn President Obama’s economic policies as an abject failure. Mitt Romney said President Obama inherited a Recession (a surprising admission) “and […]
June 6, 2011
Posted in: Economy, Election, Jobs, Money, Politics, Taxes
Obama says “Get serious” about oil with energy plan that’s anything but.
On Wednesday, President Obama delivered his much anticipated Energy Policy speech, telling listeners that it was time to ‘get serious’ about our dependence on foreign oil. So, just what is the Obama Administration’s idea of “getting serious”? Reducing our current “11 million barrels a day” of oil imports “by one-third” by 2025. I don’t know about […]
April 4, 2011
Posted in: Economy, Energy Independence, Environment, Global Warming, Jobs, Money, Politics, Seems Obvious to Me, Taxes
Republicans in charge, unemployments falls. Were they right?
Everyone has been obsessed this past week watching the slow-moving train wreck that is Charlie Sheen. I bring this up for one reason and one reason only. If you’ve ever watched his show, you might have noticed these white screens of text that appear just for a split second immediately following the credits. If you […]
March 7, 2011
Posted in: Economy, Jobs, Money, myth busting, Politics, Taxes
Quick vid: Teabagger morons bussed in to counter protest in Wisconsin
Last Sunday, ABC World News Tonight covered the Union Protests in Wisconsin, and followed it up with… what I’m certain they believed was… a “balanced” comparison of two people on either side of the protest. The first, a teabagger being bussed in from 110 miles away (by whom, ABC never says), the second, a teacher who […]
February 23, 2011
Posted in: Economy, Jobs, Money, Politics, Rants, Right-Wing Insanity, Taxes