A Not-So Stimulating Encore
A PREVIEW OF WHAT BARACK OBAMA’S SECOND TERM HOLDS FOR THE U.S. ECONOMY By Howard Rich || In BYou must Subscribe or log in to read the rest of this content.
A PREVIEW OF WHAT BARACK OBAMA’S SECOND TERM HOLDS FOR THE U.S. ECONOMY By Howard Rich || In BYou must Subscribe or log in to read the rest of this content.
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And speaking of Thanksgiving and TURKEYS, along comes good old Howard Rich . . .
And Thank the Good Lord that the American people had sense enough to re-elect President Obama!!
Hear, hear. Howie told us McCain was going to win and told us Sarah Palin needed to be listened to. Howie told us President Obama couldn’t bring us back from BushNomics. Howie is never right, thankfully….
I’d like to see Howard Rich and Paul Krugman fight it out in the thunderdome.
A Bob Murphy/Krugman fight would be more interesting, with Bill Anderson refereing.
You can thank Obama for the death tax. If you can manage to scrape together and bank a million to leave behind for your kids, the gubment’s gonna take 55% of it. If you leave that in land then the heirs will most likely be forced to sell it off.
What assholes like Obama fail to explain to their supporters (the takers) is that what actually happens is the gubment will take this newfound tax money and blow it while the extremely wealthy will step up at the liquidation of said property, purchase it at a bargain and continue to widen the gap between the rich and the poor.
The Dems and Pubs are playing by the same book – widen the gap and divide the spoils among the elite. Small farmers, i.e less than 1000 acre operations will continue to disappear.
“Scrape” together a million?
Yes yes
Pity the Millionaires!
Actually if you are married its 2 million for a couple and the tax does not kick in until you are above that number. So no tax on the first two million you managed to scrap together.
We will see whether it actually goes back to that level from the current 10 million per couple exemption the Republicans complain is outrageous and must be repealed at all costs because it effects small businesses and small family farms.
P.S. if you are really worried about it go ahead and give it to your kids before the end of the year. You can still give away 5 million to you kids without tax this year and if you are married, thats ten million.
….slurp slurp.
Capitalism in the 21st century: Pay the absolute lowest wage possible while providing the absolute least amounts of benefits in order to maximize profits. Employees are now considered expendable and easily replaceable.
Walmart has actually taught their employees how to apply for medicaid as their average wage/hours puts the majority of their employees below the poverty line.
Welcome to the third world.
Healthy/viable markets make for a competitive situation for labor…
You really believe that shit of mine eh?
“This month Kroger — the grocer that employs 350,000 people — announced that existing part-time workers and new hires would be limited to working 28 hours per week.”
That’s what all (smart)business owners are doing…
Businessman=A crook that hasn’t been caught yet
What’s amazing about your comment to me is how many people really feel that way.
It shows how inhospitable the U.S. has become to business.(mostly small)
Let the Olive Garden, The Red Lobster, and The Longhorn Steak House cut back on employees hours.
I don’t eat at any of those places anyway. But when their shitty food gets shitier and their shitty service gets shittier they will have no one else to blame but themselves when they drive their business in to the dirt. If they do not care to invest in quality employees why would anyone want to go there to eat? You get what you pay for…
When you think about it having those handling our food supply without healthcare is a recipe for disaster. Just a matter of time until one of the poors start an epidemic.
We need to get legislation so that food and healthcare workers are required to have health insurance provided by the company regardless of the number of hours worked.
If they decide to close up shop GOOD!! Better for us all in the long run.
scmajor
Really?? REALLY?? Just exactly how does having health insurance impact the safety of the food supply.
My Lord, Please PLEASE PLEASE!! forgive my thoughts. I can’t help but think that nearly every post on this fracking forum is from a libtard scum sucking Obutthead loving Socialist Commie PINKO PIG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Have a Great Day!! There won’t be many left with Obonehead in charge.
Frank Pytel :)
Really?? REALLY?? Just exactly how does having health insurance impact the safety of the food supply.
When you don’t have health insurance and make shit wages, you don’t tend to want to go to the doctor unless absolutely necessary. When you don’t have sick days, you don’t want to miss work unless absolutely necessary.
Sick person – sick days – health insurance = sick person + handling your food/product = sick people.
Of course, the owner of the business doesn’t want that kind of liability, say, for instance, some old guy catching the flu this way and dying. Nope. It would be much more hospitable to the owner if the employee just had cancer or some other disease that equates to you being fucking dead for not having insurance. Better to have to look for a new employee than to have to watch thousands go out the door via a lawsuit of some sort.
God bless America!
Oh, and:
I can’t help but think that nearly every post on this fracking forum is from a libtard scum sucking Obutthead loving Socialist Commie PINKO PIG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Good job channeling Big(o)T on that one.
“Sick person – sick days – health insurance = sick person + handling your food/product = sick people.”
Stay home when your sick. Health insurance has nothing to do with food safety. Illness at the workplace, particularly when your in the food industry, is what causes transmission of disease and illness.
Oh, by the by (with my nose 10′ in the air), good job channeling Jan.
Anticipating some other moronic response, I didn’t tell you to take a job that doesn’t offer sick time. Get some skills and you might warrant it. But any monkey can wrap a piece of paper around a burger and drop it into a bag.
Don’t like monkeys, fine. Search automatic burger wrapping machiens. Cheap at $2000 to $5000 per. Then the food supply is safer and the food is cheaper (or doesn’t go up in price as much.)
http://www.alibaba.com/showroom/automatic-burger-machine.html
Have a Great Day!! There won’t be many left with Obonehead in charge.
Frank Pytel :)
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Hey Howie! You and your money lost. Now get down on your knees and suck it.
Nice. At least I will never encounter you socially.
That photo would be a lot more appropriate if it was of the Air Force One steward taking coffee on board for the pilots.
So an employee works 40hrs a week for 50 weeks per year(let’s give them 2 weeks unpaid vacation) because I’m such a nice guy. That’s 40×50=2,000 hrs a year. The fine for not having health care is $2,000 per employee if you employ over 50 employees……one dollar a hour per employee. These people are going to cut their own throats over $1 a hour?
They’re Republicans
This is about freedom
Did I say that right boys?
FORWARD, comrades!
A good audit of Howies tax returns
And he won’t have time to write this tripe!
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In other words ObamaCare’s “employer mandate” will wind up hurting the very people Obama claims to be fighting for — reducing their take-home pay at a time when loose monetary policy is already whittling away at the value of every dollar they earn.
The impact of all this lost income on our consumer economy — and on our soaring taxpayer tab — isn’t hard to predict. When people make less money, they spend less money — slowing economic activity. They also become more dependent on government handouts — further inflating a welfare tab that exceeded $1 trillion during the last fiscal year.
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Unintended consequences, baby. They’ll bite you in the ass every time.
But were these consequences unintended? Only George Soros knows for sure.
You found it – you have found where that swamp gas stench is emanating from – you know the kind where you detect an odor for jus a split-second and then it is gone – but turn your head and you can smell it for a minute – but you really can’t tell exactly where it comes from or what it is –
— but you are smelling it now, so keep following the trail and keep us posted
PS: — it is all about control and putting people down and dependent upon “Sugar Daddy”.