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When it comes down to it, guys like Joe are going to make the difference one way or the other and we are not doing our job if we ignore what he has to say.
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Voices of the voters: Joe in Washtington
Posted: September 14, 2010 by datechguy in blogs, employment, internet/free speech, short films/interviews, special eventsTags: have fedora will travel, short interviews, voices of the voters
That unemployment extension that was passed…
Posted: July 28, 2010 by datechguy in employment, opinion/newsTags: unemployment extension
…is not going to be in people’s hands anytime soon.
I was down at the Unemployment office today (the long wait explains the long pause in posting today) the crowd was overflowing and the big question on almost everyone’s lips was, when when the finds start flowing again?
It will apparently take at least two to three weeks before the retroactive benefits are paid. This is going to mean weeks of hardship for people, but it also means that you will see some short term loan sharking from companies anxious to cash in on the delay.
On MSNBC Tina Brown and Mika argue for “Diversity of Thought” on Wall Street
Posted: July 28, 2010 by datechguy in employment, internet/free speech, media, opinion/newsTags: banking bill, don't be drinking when you read this, economy, irony, morning joe, MSNBC, scott brown, wall street
The Gods of Irony head’s are now exploding.
Update: This comes from a discussion of hiring quotas that were included in the bank bill. Brown and Mika both came down on “White Men” and maintained that if there were more women in charge in Wall Street than the bank meltdown wouldn’t have happened. After all we know that women are not greedy and could never run a company into the ground or lie or steal or cheat.
Are we actually hearing people saying this in the year 2010? I was waiting for them to call for Wall Street to be run by a “Wise Latina”.
The details:
Four members of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights have signed a letter complaining that Section 324 of the conference report titled the “Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act” “includes a section on race and gender that even those who pride themselves on keeping up with national affairs may have failed to notice.” This provision, which can be found on page 172 of the conference report, may lead to unconstitutional racial and gender preferences being forced on financial institutions covered by the new law.
There’s more:
The Commissioners further argue that these new bureaucrats will be empowered to shall “’develop standards’ for ‘assessing the diversity policies and practices of entities regulated by the agency’ and ‘develop and implement standards and procedures to ensure, to the maximum extent possible, the fair inclusion and utilization of minorities, women, and minority-owned and women-owned businesses in all businesses and activities of the agency.” According to the letter, this new mandate will cover “financial institutions, investment banking firms, mortgage banking firms, asset management firms, brokers, dealers, financial services entities, underwriters, accountants, investment consultants and providers of legal services.” If these institutions are doing business with the government, newly minted bureaucrats will be allowed to study the racial and gender composition of these covered entities work forces to search for companies with not enough minorities and women in a decision making capacity.
If I’m Scott Brown, and the senators from Maine, I’m feeling pretty foolish right now, and you should be.
Update 2: Newsbusters wasted no time jumping on this. They miss the irony part.
I should be happy about this
Posted: July 20, 2010 by datechguy in employment, opinion/news, personalTags: deficit, democratic party, economy, republicans, taxes, unemployment, unemployment extension
since it will mean 17 weeks grace and at least 2 months more of bills being paid before the hole begins why am I worried about this?
Democrats have stripped the unemployment insurance measure down to the bare essentials for Tuesday’s vote, which is a do-over of a tally taken late last month.
With West Virginia Democrat Carte Goodwin poised to claim the seat of the late Robert Byrd, two Republicans will be needed to vault the measure over the filibuster hurdle. Maine GOP moderates Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins are expected to provide the key votes to create a filibuster-breaking tally on a key procedural test.
Sweetness and light points out the GOP position:
As we have repeatedly said, the Republican opposition was on two points. One, that the benefits should be paid for, as is required by Mr. Obama’s imposed ‘PAYGO’ rules. Such as using some of the unspent ‘stimulus’ money in Mr. Obama’s ‘stash,’ which was indeed supposed to go for such things as unemployment benefits.
I won’t deny the money will be very helpful but there is nothing wrong with paying for this, after all every one of you who is working or running a business is paying for those benefits I will receive.
At the Huffington Post the very idea shocks them as evidenced by the headline:
Unemployment Extension: The GOP’s Unprecedented Deficit Demands
They are right about the history, but the scandal here is that the demands are unprecedented. Perhaps if they had been made decades before there would be more money available for relief.
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