Employment

It’s simple economics.  Government money comes from taxpayers.  The more government spends the more it relies on taxpayers to pay for its spending.  The less money taxpayers have the smaller the economy will be the fewer jobs there are, which means less income, less taxes, more debt. 

The Hillsborough County delegation may be prepared to hand out a 3% rate increase to county employees and I'm trying to decide when it's a good idea to ask taxpayers who are potentially unemployed, may not have seen a raise in two years themsleves or have had to take a cut to pay or hours, to fork over a 3% increase to government employees in this economy?

So far I'm not finding one.

Obama has apparently banned deep water drilling in the Gulf.  Well c'mon, what did you expect.  Millions of barrels spewing into the water and oil went down in price?  Who cares if thousands more people are now out of work.  This is about the agenda damn it.  Besides they are probably all a bunch of God fearing, gun clinging republicans anyway.  Oh, and then there's this.

“I don’t sit around just talking to experts because this is a college seminar. We talk to these folks because they potentially have the best answers so I know whose ass to kick.”

-President Obama (About the oil spill)

Erick Erickson noticed it first.

I’m struggling to find a Press Release from even one elected New Hampshire democrat in DC on the expiration of unemployment benefits after the entire congress went home for the holiday weekend without passing one.  By all accounts no one was blocking, stopping, or stalling, it just didn’t get done.  But what of the earth shattering consequences?

Back in March Paul Hodes had this to say about failing to pass an extension.

Something you won't find in your daily broadsheet, or on any of the more fashionable cable news channels, is a paper presented by a prominent geologist at the 4th international conference on Climate Change in Chicago.  In it Dr. Don Easterbrook warns of us imminent global cooling. (oh boy)

I'll see your warming, and raise you cooling.

This months Bureau of labor statistics (BLS)report issued every month on the first Friday (at about 8:30 am), reads like there is a positive trend afoot, except that 15.3 million Americans (and some unidentified number of illegal immigrants) are not employed.  They make no mention of unemployed illegals.  I just tossed that in because it will piss off liberals.