“This is an unnecessary self-inflicted wound on the United States economy. Congress should come back to Washington to fix the problem,” said Rep. Rob Andrews (D-N.J.), whose district is home to several government contracting firms.
Dude, by staying away from Washington, they are solving the problem.
“The workers were stopping me — members of the United Auto Workers — were asking me, what’s going to happen with their jobs, and what are we doing about the sequester? And I was dumbfounded, because the House isn’t doing anything, we’re on vacation this week,” he said.
Sorry you couldn't guarantee their employment so they couldn't guarantee your reelection.
“Air-traffic controllers will be laid off. This again will have devastating affects on the economy,” she said. “Planes will be slowed down, fewer planes will be able to fly.”
Nothing has decimated or slowed down air travel more than the TSA. Go fuck yourself because you know you voted those jackbooted low-lives in.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
"Happy slaves are the worst enemies of freedom." - Marie Von Ebner
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
Cutting $1 billion from the Transportation Department would affect dozens of programs, LaHood said. For instance, the vast majority of the FAA's nearly 47,000 employees will face furloughs, he said -- and the largest number of FAA employees are air traffic controllers.
Good. I want to watch your bloated bullshit burn to the ground and smoulder while I sip a glass of scotch.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
With less than a week to go until a wide-ranging package of across-the-board budget cuts is set to kick in, President Obama today entreated the nation's governors to help him convince Congress to compromise on a deal to avert the so-called "sequestration," predicating his plea on the fact that as governors, "you know that compromise is essential to getting things done."
Compromise, noun: What happens when multiple parties reach a consensus on a topic and synthesize several half-assed solutions into one that is almost invariably worse than the sum of its parts or any one plan in particular.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Health Care Work Force panel, created in 2010 hasn't met yet due to lack of funding. But I'm sure it'll all be ready in time.
Roger J. Moncarz, an economist at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, said that employment in health care occupations was expected to grow by 29 percent, with the addition of 3.5 million new jobs from 2010 to 2020. Federal officials expect 712,000 new jobs for registered nurses — more than for any other occupation in the country — and a total of 1.3 million new jobs for home health and personal care aides, he said.
Edward S. Salsberg, the director of the National Center for Health Workforce Analysis at the Health and Human Services Department, said 57 million people were living in areas with shortages of primary care practitioners.
Yep, no work force gap here. You'll be getting your checkups done by folks with a "trainee" badge.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Heard a funny one today:
"It's ironic that the president is pushing for universal background checks considering he wouldn't pass one."
"Happy slaves are the worst enemies of freedom." - Marie Von Ebner
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
The fact that Maxine Walters is in the position she is in, is all you need to know about the state of American politics.
"Happy slaves are the worst enemies of freedom." - Marie Von Ebner
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
Reminds me, they going to let the hammer fall on this sequester thing?
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Asked why leaders did not negotiate more vigorously to get a deal before sequestration deadline day, Obama said that his ability to negotiate is limited by Congress's unwillingness.
"I'm not a dictator," he said. "I'm the president. So ultimately if Mitch McConnell or John Boehner say 'I need to go to catch a plane,' I can't have Secret Service block the doorway, right?"
Make up your own punchline. Oddly enough, I'm pretty sure Obama could have a drone track both their movements and not be held accountable.
EDIT: Wait, the public DOES care what the prez says ... oops. They're actually just pissed he mixed up a Star Wars reference with Star Trek material.
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Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
When this country collapses, I guarantee no one in Washington will think they did anything incorrectly.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Unfortunately, there's nothing about your statement that is false Malcolm.
"Happy slaves are the worst enemies of freedom." - Marie Von Ebner
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
TPRJones wrote:Well, I didn't mean to imply that Republicans take responsibility for their mistakes. But at least they are aware what the word means.
I'll believe that when I see them take responsibility for unsuckifying their party and presenting a legitimate alternative come voting time.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
I read this blog post today that has a good take on their problem. I don't see them overcoming that as a collective group until the current leadership is gone and has been replaced by people who are currently barely old enough to drink.
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I think the dude's reaching when he starts talking about the modern limiting factor.
...the shortage is not good ideas – it's minds capable of executing good ideas.
...
The problem is that bringing even one of his ideas to fruition takes years of effort. …and not just years of anyone's effort, but years of effort by one or more people with
high intelligence
high executive function
strong self discipline
That's true of any time whatsoever. He's describing the "right" people to run shit. If only we could find the elusive "right" people. He's got a bit of a point in the way he divides up eras, though, because the era in which you live defines who is "right."
Back in the day, you wanted someone to govern you who could talk to the mysterious Rain God so he'd mercifully piss on your crops and make them grow, or the Tiger God so he'd tell the tigers not to maul you. Because famine and random death by animal both really get in the way of living. Then it became someone who could protect you from the other rampaging assholes that lived outside your community, as well as the ones in it. Once those pricks are out of the way or all think like you, you can get back to dealing with the nature of existence and other cosmic bullshit. It's gradually evolved to "dude that can maximize my spending power." Fuck praying to god when you can pray to the almighty dollar. You can use it to help you deal with the people that are stopping you from getting to know the universe and really enjoy life.
The means of generating currency and getting along is no longer the domain of war or communing with the gods (although douchebags like Pat Robertson would have you believe otherwise on that second one). It's no mistake that most world leaders today are either: (i) military dudes (still worried about invaders), (ii) religious nutjobs (still worried about supernatural beings), (iii) business owners (worried about money), (iv) lawyers (worried about maintaining society itself)
The plight of the governed has changed as well, which is always what forces the revolution. They used to poke things with sharp sticks, then moved on to farming, then the manufacturing or service world, and now it's getting to be more electronics and digital goods. When the plugged in generation finally comes of age in the voting and consumer world, they'll want other people in power. The problem is that the up and coming generation is continuously fucked with by the status quo seeking to maintain it's increasingly mummified grip on things and prevent the new crowd from coming to their own conclusions.
But revolution always comes, that's just math.
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Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
I agree overall. I do think our limiting factor will be people, but I think he's going a little far with it in his requirements. Really it's probably better to say that our limiting factor will be initiative. Anyone with the gumption to get off their ass and do something with some persistence will have a reasonable chance of being successful - provided of course they are actually working with the modern era instead of against it and aren't too stupid to spit. You can hire smart people to figure out your problems and you can hire leaders to manage and inspire your people, but the big boss is the one that has to have some motivation to work and succeed and push or it will never get off the ground.
Initiative has always been a limiting factor, of course, just in the past it wasn't the primary one. And we still do have some technological and resource limitations, but they are nothing compared to past eras and those limits get pushed further out every year. They aren't going to be the main limiting factor like initiative will be. Like it already is for the new industries firmly rooted in the information age.
But the reason I brought it up here is mainly because I liked his analysis of Republicans and Democrats, which I will go ahead and quote here:
The Republicans want to bring back small towns and white-painted churches, because when those things were ascendant all was right in the world.
The Democrats want to bring big cities and big industry, because when those things were ascendant all was right in the world.
And so the Republicans shovel money at farmers, endorse prayer in school, and tell us to worship our heroes fighting for manifest destiny, and the Democrats shovel money at unionized teachers, endorse government run mass transit, and tell us to worship dense urban living.
Both are behind the times, so neither can provide any workable solutions to modern problems.
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