Out of Work, Out of Hope

Here's a news flash: If you work in the IT field and you lost your job, it's never coming back. The number of people needed to operate increasingly automated and more stable client server and peer to peer networks will continue to diminish, because even though Windows is a piece of crap and all that, the simple fact is that XP and later based machines do not go down with nearly the frequency of NT systems. Netware is practically if not completely gone, (I'm guessing completely because my spell checker flagged the word), and hardware and software on the desktop have radically slowed in the introduction of USEFUL new features or performance. This is one entire sector that will continue to shrink, no matter what happens. Added to that the outsourcing of help desk jobs overseas, and the whole industry, as far as jobs are concerned, seems to have been just a fad. Prepackaged database solutions have obliterated the programming arena, and that throws the ball back int the court of the jobs that are of an actual value, manufacturing, and the trades. Colleges today strip families bare of their savings and for what? to waste time and money of students who would be better served learning to cook, or weld, while turning out graduates who've nothing better to do than to figure out ways to get piles of money for nothing while trashing our economy. Has our life, collectively been nothing more than slaving away to pay taxes, pay for college, pay for the theft currently being perpetrated on us by those who have seized power in Washington, only to give up whats left, as we finish out our days dying in some high priced hospital bed? Why does anybody put up with this?

The stimulus plan was not a job creation plan it was a pay back to democratic supporters plan. Unemployment will hit 10% far exceeding the 8% level Obama said it would stop at with the stimulus package. The dems also let the lid off their tax plan somewhat during a Q & A before congress:
Income Taxes are going up
SS Taxes are going up
Medicare Taxes are going up
Cap and Trade will skyrocket energy costs, move thousands of jobs overseas, close coal plants, coal mines, refineries, cost transportation jobs, durabkle goods will go up in price, food prices will rise dramatically due to increased shipping costs, your utility bills will double, manufacturing jobs will flee the U.S. and the supposed reduction in greenhouse gases will not occur because no other countries will engage in Cap and Trade. In fact current estimates indicate that greenhouse gas production globally will double for every ton of greenhouse gas the U.S. stops producing countries like China, India and others with emerging economies will create two tons because we have pollutioon control equipment and filters in place to reduce our emissions they do not. Net result of Cap and Trade: Massive tax increase (Largest tax increase in global history) hundreds of thousands of jobs lost, plants idled and more jobs moving overseas likely including whole corporations to avoid these taxes.
Democrat or GOPer write your senators and light up their phone lines this bill is a nation killer and will destroy our standard of living. Maybe we will have to sneak into Mexico illegally for jobs. Get congress back to the GOP before it is too late,. The dems are in a mad rush to pass all this crap because they know it is unpopular and is going to be a job killing monster that will actually create more pollution. They along with Obama are trying to cram all this socialist junk in now fearing they will lose congress in 2010 and rightly so. They must also believe the GOP will not be able to undo it once it is all passed. TERM LIMITS are needed for congress let's get them out.before they destroy our nation as we know it.

The stimulus has failed. Spending more money we don't have is insane. Now Obama wants to socialize medicine. Is anybody ready to say enough?

Well Boka, I suppose some of us do live under a rock. Has nobody in your family lost a job in this economy yet? Oh wait your a Rockefeller or an oil fortune heir aren't you? Speaking of lazy punks. You have time to make inflammatory comments now go get a job yourself.

True unemployment will exceed 25% nation wide. The bogus government U3 numbers will show about 15% as we suffer thru the worse economic depression in history. Bama thinks he can lie his way out of the mess he is creating.

Republican: Sotomayor had ties to extreme group




WASHINGTON (AP) - The top Republican on the Senate committee that will consider Sonia Sotomayor's Supreme Court nomination says a Puerto Rican civil rights group's papers could shed light on her judicial approach, particularly her view of racial preferences in hiring.
White House Counsel Greg Craig, however, told Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., in a letter that board meeting minutes and other papers detailing the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund's activities while Sotomayor was an outside adviser shouldn't impact her nomination because she had no role in writing or approving them.
"During her time there, the organization took extreme positions on legal issues ranging from the death penalty to abortion to racial quotas," Sessions said in a statement. He said it was "absurd" for the White House to call the documents irrelevant.
The battle over the papers isn't likely to damage Sotomayor's chances of confirmation, since Democrats have more than enough votes in favor of President Barack Obama's first high court nominee, and Republicans have shown little appetite for trying to block her.
Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which will begin confirmation hearings July 13, shrugged off the GOP concerns being raised about Sotomayor, saying some in the GOP were going to oppose any Obama pick - "even if the president had nominated Moses."
Republicans "were going to object no matter who it was. And several of them have told me that privately," Leahy told The Associated Press in an interview at his Vermont farmhouse.
Republicans did not respond to requests for comment about Leahy's remarks.
Sotomayor early last month gave the Judiciary panel documents she contributed to or helped write while she was a board member of the group from 1980 to 1992, but Leahy joined Sessions recently in asking for more information about the group's activities and policy positions while she was involved.

Dear American liberals, leftists, social progressives, socialists,Marxists and Obama supporters, et al: We have stuck together since the late 1950's, but the whole of this latest election process has made me realize that I want a divorce.
I know we tolerated each other for many years for the sake of future generations, but sadly, this relationship has run its course. Our two ideological sides of America cannot and will not ever agree on what is right so let's just end it on friendly terms. We can smile and chalk it up to irreconcilable differences and go our own way.
Here is a model separation agreement: Our two groups can equitably divide up the country by landmass each taking a portion. That will be the difficult part, but I am sure our two sides can come to a friendly agreement. After that, it should be relatively easy! Our respective representatives can effortlessly divide other assets since both sides have such distinct and disparate tastes. We don't like redistributive taxes so you can keep them.
You are welcome to the liberal judges and the ACLU. Since you hate guns and war, we'll take our firearms, the cops, the NRA and the military. You can keep Oprah, Michael Moore and Rosie O'Donnell (You are, however, responsible for finding a bio-diesel vehicle big enough to move all three of them). We'll keep the capitalism, greedy corporations, pharmaceutical companies, Wal-Mart and Wall Street.
You can have your beloved homeless, homeboys, hippies and illegal aliens. We'll keep the hot Alaskan hockey moms, greedy CEO's and rednecks. We'll keep the Bibles and give you NBC and Hollywood. You can make nice with Iran and Palestine and we'll retain the right to invade and hammer places that threaten us.
You can have the peaceniks and war protesters. When our allies or our way of life are u nder assault, we'll help provide them
security. We'll keep our Judeo-Christian values.. You are welcome to Islam, Scientology, Humanism and Shirley McClain. You can also have the U. N.. but we will no longer be paying the bill.
We'll keep the SUVs, pickup trucks and oversized luxury cars. You can take every Subaru station wagon you can find. You can give everyone healthcare if you can find any practicing doctors. We'll continue to believe healthcare is a luxury and not a right.
We'll keep The Battle Hymn of the Republic and the National Anthem. I'm sure you'll be happy to substitute Imagine, I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing, Kum Ba Ya or We Are the World.
We'll practice trickle down economics and you can give trickle up poverty your best shot.
Since it often so offends you, we'll keep our history, our name and our flag.
I'll bet you ANY WAR which one of us will need whose help in 15 years.

still free in the usa.

Can you please tell me what gives you the idea that your right win opinions hold any credibility outside your small, and getting smaller circle of fellow nuts?

Can't be the mounting losses in the polls.

Can't be the mounting losses in your representatives (Senate, and Congress).

Can't be in the image that you have in your own Republican party.

Can't be what the statistics tell you about the future, or I should say lack of future you guys have.

So please pal, all rants aside...... Exactly what is it that you guys don't understand when Americans tell you repeatedly to go fly a kite ????

Reason I am asking is because when I tried to read some of the opinions to this article, all I could find is rant, after rant of incoherances from you.... About Obama and Iran, Venezuela, the economy, health care, social security..... Pal please take some tranquilizer, and go to sleep, no offense but you might be loosing it.

still free in the usa.

Let me get this straight. You think that this economy is Obamas fault after inheriting the biggest economic-financial mess from the Bush administration..... Were you "still free in the USA " in 2008, or were you living in Mars, and had no news papers, or tv available to you?

OH, my mistake , I get it.... You are not much for reality are you? Apparently you believe that Obama is supposed to fix the economy in a grand total of 5 months, or else is all his fault. It makes me wander why is it that you people that had such incrediblly high expectations of Obama, did not vote for him in the first place. The only explanation possible has to be that your expectations for the Republican candidate were even higher, and logically that has to translate then in you expecting a full economic recovery in 2 months, return to surpluses, and McCain walking on water, while dancing like Mikel Jackson to keep you happy correct? Of course the other possibility is that you are nothing more than a raving partisan with nothing to add to discurse, or reason than wherever you can parrot from Limbaugh radio "shows" .

Now if we go back to reality here pal.... You might want to live the adult stuff to Obama, while you guys in the Right WIng try to at least get a leader that does not make the rest of us Americans laugh, or puke. After all I do have a very, very, very hard problem taking seriously any one that believes evolution is B.S. global warming is a hox from Scientists, and Sadam was responsible for 9-11 , now trying to give us "opinions" about the economy, and Obama's 5 month old presidency.

So in conclusion is not that you expect so much from Obama, or you expected even more from McCain .... You are simply a Right Wing partisan raving hack looking for some one to blame for your mistakes. That's OK pal, we Americansd understand your kind..... Would like to send you to "live free" in Mongolia, but can't because as an American you have the right to act , and talk ....... Right WIng like. That is to say, take no responsability for your mistakes, and blame the Democrats for everything, while pretending that this kind of behavior can be taken seriously by any one other than your friends in the Right.

In a small town in the United States, the place looks almost totally deserted. It is tough times, everybody is in debt, and everybody lives on credit.
Suddenly, a rich tourist comes to town.

He enters the towns only hotel, lays a 100 Dollar Bill on the reception counter as a deposit, and goes to inspect the rooms upstairs in order to pick one.

The hotel proprietor takes the 100 Dollar Bill and runs to pay his debt to the butcher.

The Butcher takes the 100 Dollar Bill, and runs to pay his debt to the pig farmer.

The pig farmer runs to pay his debt to the supplier of his feed and fuel.

The supplier of feed and fuel takes the 100 Dollar Bill and runs to pay his debt to the town's prostitute that in these hard times, gave her ???services" on credit.

The hooker runs to the hotel, and pays off her debt with the 100 Dollar Bill to the hotel proprietor to pay for the rooms that she rented when she brought her clients here.

The hotel proprietor then lays the 100 Dollar Bill back on the
counter so that the rich tourist will not suspect anything.

At that moment, the tourist comes down after inspecting the rooms, and takes the 100 Dollar Bill, saying that he did not like any of the rooms, and leaves town.

No one earned anything.......... However, the whole town is now
without debt, and looks to the future with a lot of optimism..

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how the United States Government
and the State of California are doing business today.

When I look at the news everyday, I wonder if it's even possible for us to unplug from common sense any more than we already have.
The one thing is that when you step back and look at the big picture, it's obvious that our politicians are either completely incompetent or dangerously evil.
Let's start in California, which, as of Wednesday, will be issuing IOUs to everyone from state contractors to college students to the disabled; $3 billion in July alone. That may work for Schwarzenegger or the weasels in Sacramento, but can construction workers or college students eat an IOU?
At least half a dozen other states face similar troubles, including Arizona, which faces a shortfall equal to almost a third of its budget.
But instead of doing the common sense thing (bringing expenses in line with revenues), the Obama administration wants these states to expand their services, particularly when it comes to health care.
You say, "But, aren't many states pushing to scale back or kill proposals to expand Medicaid?"
Maybe, but do you really think that's going to happen? Here in New York City, a third of all residents are enrolled in the program, a number that's gone way up in recent years. What politician has the spine to eliminate entitlements? And have you asked yourself if it makes any sense to push for the greatest expansion in history, even as Medicare runs out of money in eight years?
Similarly, how does it make sense when you're out of money to go to the Fed for help? It's just a giant, privately run-corporation that causes bubbles, can flood the market with money and collapse our dollar while answering to no one. How does it make common sense to not see the Fed's books? Ron Paul's "audit the Fed" bill has a majority in the House, yet Barney Frank is sitting on the bill in the House Financial Services Committee. Why? What kind of power is Barney Frank going to amass if he can enable and protect the seven most powerful people on the Federal Reserve board?
Then there's the drastically different ways our president handled two anti-American presidents. First, Iran, where we've been trying to get the ayatollah and his cronies out of there since 1979.
They rig an election, where protesters are beaten and killed in broad daylight, and Obama says nothing for two weeks. Why?
Then in Honduras, where the president tries to shred the Constitution and hijack the Republic, President Obama jumps in with Hugo Chavez, Daniel Ortega and the Castro regime in demanding that the Honduras president be restored to power. Doesn't that constitute the exact meddling he said we shouldn't engage in when it comes to Iran?
And finally there's cap-and-trade, a complete reshaping of America. It's a $4 trillion, 1,300-page bill that hardly anyone has read that's supposed to stop the polar bears from drowning. Few seem to even be considering the life-changing ramifications, if any dissenting opinion inside the government is silenced.