07.02.09

Nothing that another porkulus package wouldn’t cure

Posted in Multiculturalism and diversity, Public opinion at 3:56 pm by Administrator

Unemployment clocks in at 9.5 percent, a 26-year high.

Dandy economic climate for enacting cap-and-trade and socialist health care, wouldn’t you say?

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  1. Mr. Dings said,

    July 3, 2009 at 11:15 am

    These people need to get up off their fat asses and get a job!

  2. Mr. Dings said,

    July 3, 2009 at 11:24 am

    In another thread the great wise conservative (or neo, or whatever, freedom lover) said: “Affordable” is about the most relative term there is. It depends on what kind of insurance – or what kind of health care – you want, and what kinds of trade-offs you’re willing to make in your life.”

    http://www.healthreformwatch.com/2009/01/11/cobra-costs-prohibitive-for-many-unemployed/

    “…the Kaiser Foundation has devised a “metric on unemployment: an increase of 1% unemployment leads to 1.1 million uninsured, and 1 million more people added to Medicaid.” That metric, however, is thought by some to be somewhat understated for a current analysis as it does not take into account the various state cuts to Medicaid already enacted since the metric was designed– nor does it take into account those further cuts which are anticipated for the new year.”

  3. Bentnotesmanhisself said,

    July 3, 2009 at 11:34 am

    Don’t you think you’ve just made a rather compelling argument for lower taxes across the board (on income, capital gains, inventory, property and eeverything else), a loosening of the grip of regulation (as in letting car companies make whatever they want to, etc.) so that people can be employed again?

  4. Mr. Dings said,

    July 3, 2009 at 12:37 pm

    No, but I will always take lower taxes. Who wouldn’t? It’s a matter of who bears the equitable burden of same. I certainly don’t trust the big guys. Oops, I may be accused of impossibility thinking here, that I can’t be one of them. Is that what you call class envy? My ambitions lie elsewhere.

  5. Bentnotesmanhisself said,

    July 3, 2009 at 1:14 pm

    It sure is called class envy. In a free society, no one is stopping you from taking your visions and ambitions as far as you can.

  6. Mr.Dings said,

    July 3, 2009 at 3:05 pm

    Thanks for that bit of conventional wisdom. I’m happy too!

  7. Mr.Dings said,

    July 3, 2009 at 4:48 pm

    Yeppers, sure do envy liars and cheats, and, according to this breaking news, there’s much more to come. It didn’t stop with World Con and Encon

    http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Business/Corporate-Fraud-Losses-Rocket-To-960-Million-Pounds-White-Collar-Crime-Rate-Doubles-Says-BDO/Article/200907115327840?lpos=Business_First_Buisness_Article_Teaser_Region_2&lid=ARTICLE_15327840_Corporate_Fraud_Losses_Rocket_To_960_Million_Pounds%3A_White_Collar_Crime_Rate_Doubles_Says_BDO
    Corporate Fraud Losses Rocket To £960m
    11:56am UK, Thursday July 02, 2009

    Corporate fraud has rocketed to almost double the rate seen last year, but experts warn that things will get a lot worse.

  8. Mr.Dings said,

    July 3, 2009 at 9:53 pm

    The recession is now 18 months old. Count how many of these were under the Obama Administration.

  9. Mr. Dings said,

    July 4, 2009 at 1:47 pm

    Methland. It’s what we’ve become.

    Think globally, suffer locally. This could be the moral of “Methland,” Nick Reding’s unnerving investigative account of two gruesome years in the life of Oelwein, Iowa, a railroad and meatpacking town of several thousand whipped by a methamphetamine-laced panic whose origins lie outside the place itself, in forces almost too great to comprehend and too pitiless to bear. The ravages of meth, or “crank,” on Oelwein and countless forsaken locales much like it are shown to be merely superficial symptoms of a vaster social dementia caused by, among other things, the iron dominion of corporate agriculture and the slow melting of villages and families into the worldwide financial stew.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/05/books/review/Kirn-t.html?ref=books

    Reding, a loyal native of the Midwest who’s frankly sentimental about its past and starkly lucid about its likely future, invites his rushing readers to gaze down at the “flyover country” of America and see not a grid of farms and county roads but a patchwork of failed institutions and aspirations. There’s the hospital, groaning under a load of uninsured patients with ­minimum-wage jobs and maxed-out household budgets. There’s the school, imperiled by dwindling tax receipts and students with ever more grown-up problems. And there, on a street in a district of drab houses not far from the faltering central business district, is a passel of latter-day Tom Sawyers on bikes, riding along not for the summertime heck of it but to shake up batches of low-grade speed contained in plastic soda jugs lashed to their back fenders.

  10. Mr. Dings said,

    July 4, 2009 at 1:48 pm

    I want this stopped. Now!!! Some Drug War…

  11. Bentnotesmanhisself said,

    July 4, 2009 at 3:22 pm

    Oh, please. Is this town indicative of midwestern small-town life in general? I get to a few small midwestern communities on a daily basis and I don’t see meth zombies stumbling the streets en masse.
    And that’s quite a leap from this “iron dominion of corporate farming” being somehow connected to a meth problem.
    Plus, how does this Reding character think we became such an astoundingly reliable supplier of cheap and plentiful food, with supermarkets brimming with aisle after aisle of seemingly infinite brands of every kind of foodstuff?
    Is anybody stopping anyone from going into subsistence farming? Seems to me there are plenty of little hippie operations and outlets for the sales thereof. Think the farmers markets that have become a Saturday morning institution in communities across the nation.
    No, sorry, this is a pretty lame attempt to advocate socialism and influence the public to hate the free market. Big corporations producing most of our food is a beneficial thing.
    As for the plethora of minimum wage jobs in this town he profiles, it sounds like some tax relief and entrepreneurialism is needed there.

  12. Mr.Dings said,

    July 4, 2009 at 5:20 pm

    Evidently the Chinese workers were more deserving of corporate largess.

  13. Bentnotesmanhisself said,

    July 4, 2009 at 5:55 pm

    Well, the price must have been right.

  14. Mr. Dings said,

    July 6, 2009 at 12:12 pm

    I am not advocating socialism, nor am I trying to influence the public to hate the free market.

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