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In the last 20 years, Unemployment has never been below 3.9%.  I have a solution. Make it illegal for any company, especially government agencies, to have automated systems during the hours of 8am and 8pm (taking into account PST).  I would have to believe almost every company affected would run smoother and unemployment would drop significantly.


The primaries last too long and election/re-election process is too long. We now live in a society where more people vote for the least annoying of the two candidates than the one they think will do the best job.


If the writers of the constitution were around today, they would be part of the 1%, let's not forget that.


I'm starting to think there should be a general knowledge test before one can vote.  I'm amazed how over the last year of campaigning how few people know what Romney's stance on anything is.  These people are loudly campaigning for a man, who three years ago was more similar to Obama than anyone he campaigned against in the primaries, yet nobody knows that.  Nobody knows his state ranked 47th out of 50 in jobs created, but that is the platform he is running on.  Nobody knows that he cost the companies Bain bought 120,000 jobs and shipped them all overseas or to Mexico, but that is the other platform he is running on.  Nobody knows he has admitted he does not have a health plan, an immigration plan or a military strategy, yet, he has openly said "vote for me and I'll get one."  Come to think of it, maybe it's not the voters that need a test, it's the candidates.


I'm amazed that republicans in Eastchester blame Obama for their taxes going up.  Eastchester's taxes have gone up because of legislation passed by local government, which is republican.


If you take the name and face away from Cal Ripken and just go by his stats, you would say he was an average player.  He happens to be a hall of famer.  If you take the name and face away from Obama, he's an average president. He happens to have slowed (not stopped) the single greatest avalanche of economic strife in our nations history.


I find it funny how everyone whose family immigrated here "worked to get where they are," but these are the people who want immigrants the least.  I've lived her my whole life, so have my parents and grandparents.  My father's family has been traced back to the Pilgrims and my mother's family were Russian immigrants who had to change their names upon arrival to avoid prejudice.  So apparently, in many ways nothing has changed.  We've always been a country that says we want your tired and week and huddled masses, but the reality is, we don't.  As someone who has heritage that dates back further than the constitution, you'd think I'd have the right to be the most upset. Do I think we need stricter laws?  Yes, but we can't blame one person or on state, when it's been done this way for over 100 years.  We're all immigrants.  We need to remember that.


Despite what some might think, I actually took the time to do the math on this one. Fucking Scary.
Whenever anyone talks about the deficit they talk about the total , which suits the GOP just fine, but let's reverse the discussion and look at it that way.  For arguments sake, we'll start with Carter (The GOP whipping boy). Let's say Carter inherited 1000 cats to take care of when he took office. Let's also say each president inherited 1000 cats when they took office in addition to what was left. When Carter left, there were a lowly 680 cats left.  420 had died.  Reagan came in and took over 1680 cats. When he left, he not only let all the cats die, but he also made 495 of Bush Sr's cats die.  So Bush Sr. only took over with 505 cats.  When he left there were 222 cats left.  So Clinton inherited 1222 cats. He left "W" with 904.  So "W" inherited 1904. To put it in perspective, if all that cats had lived, there would be 5000 now.  So Bush took his 1904 cats and took care of them. As he left office there were only 209 left.  That's almost as many cats that died as under Reagan. So Obama takes office with cats dying at a record pace.  I mean, of the nearly 1700 cats that died under Bush, almost 300 died his final year.  So Obama has Bush's 209 and his 1000 for 1209.  He's got a few more months to go, but went into this year with just over 700 left. Sounds terrible that he let 500+ cats die, but it pales in comparison to 2375 that Reagan or the 1700 that Bush let die.  We always see the deficit as a growing number, but what if we look at it for what it really is, the slow death of America.  If you're finding my analogy silly, exchange the cats for children dying because they don't have enough to eat.  Imagine it's people's jobs.  Imagine it's dollars you should have, compared to what you actually do.  It's serious, but it's even more serious we stop constantly blaming the wrong people and acknowledge the efforts of those who stop the bleeding.  Remember this is now an untreatable wound.


I'm sure there are some that will say my thoughts are one sided, but they aren't really.  They are thoughts based on facts and factual numbers.  Check the records if you don't believe me.  Not online blogs, but government records.





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