Voice of Reason wrote:
It is absolutely not a valid assumption. Everybody who works and earns less than 130% of the poverty limit is eligible for food stamps (SNAP) and most who are eligible are collecting. For examle, a single mother of 2 earning less than $25K is eligible.
Having said that, I agree that the employment situation is at least as bad as it was during the depression. There was a story on Drudge today about a McDonalds in MA that has an opening for a cashier and the requirement is 2 years experience plus a bachelors degree! For McDonalds!!
It is absolutely not a valid assumption. Everybody... (
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At least we can agree that unemployment is exceptionally high. I did not realize that you could make as much money and still get food stamps as people do.
Voice of Reason wrote:
I don't quite understand your statement about people over 40. I agree the situation is bad for them but it seems to me it's bad for everybody. In fact, if you need to be employed already in NY to get another job, wouldn't it be worse for those just entering the job market?
If you are over forty and looking for non-executive position, about the only job you can find is as a Walmart greeter or some other such low paying low responsibility job.
Voice of Reason wrote:
Meanwhile, of course, Obama is doing everything he can to prevent new private-sector jobs and eliminate existing ones. Obamacare alone is responsible for millions of job losses (and it would be worse if everybody that supported it hadn't received a waiver from it) and the EPA is shutting down entire industries. What I'd like to see is every coal-fired power plant in the country shut down for about a week - let the public see the results of what Obama and the greenies want.
This is an instance where we should not let a nasty man made crisis go to waste. The public should at least learn something from it. Now, what will the Republicans do with their opportunity? Will they blow it the way they did the last time? It
is the way to bet, you know.
Voice of Reason wrote:
Other agencies are also involved, NOAA recently implemented new commercial fishing regulations for New England which will bankrupt all the smaller commercial fishing concerns. Of course, that's just the Obama way, I'm sure some large corporation that donated heavily to Obama lobbied for these new regs so that they will be the only ones who can afford to comply. Why compete on a level playing field when you can use Chicago thuggery to eliminate all the competition?
Well, let's see. Put yourself in the position of a large cannery that owns a fleet. You know that harsh regulations are on the way. What would you do as the CEO of such a cannery? The nasty thing about rampant thuggery is that it is difficult to separate the goats from the sheep. I am surprised that we do not have some sort of Wyatt's Torch to look at. President Obama is certainly doing his best to behead the oil industry, isn't he?
Voice of Reason wrote:
And what's Obama doing? He's diverting attention to gun control and immigration. Did you see today that the AP has banned the use of the term "i*****l i*******t"? Leno suggested they should now be called "undocumented Democrats".
I believe that President Obama is as serious as a heart attack about gun control. Letting him get away with something like that would be our worst possible mistake and I think that he knows it. I did notice that the AP has changed its style book and is forbidding their writers and reporters to use the term i*****l i*******t. They are doing their absolute best to make it difficult to address the issue and hamper communications concerning immigration with the public.
President Obama means business with immigration as well. He is not joking about it. He is one of those tyrants that tells you exactly what he is going to do to you. One need merely to pay attention to what he says. He lays it out in a speech well prior to acting on it. He has done this from day one. Remember what he did during his first run for the presidency? He invoked the legendary status of Cesar Chavez with,
Si se puede! Chavez of course led many demonstrations against i*****l i*********n. The i******s were taking all the farm jobs away from his union. I can still remember the kerfluffle over the La Casita Farms incident.