Posted by
Harvey Cedar on Sunday, December 20, 2009 10:41:15 PM
ERROR, FACTUAL Monday, Aug. 03rd, 11:51 a.m. R.L. commenting on woman who sued college after graduating ‘cause she can’t find a job in I.T.
My response; can’t sue the government, but what about ex-presidents? I’d sue the Horny Hound Dog of Hot Springs for ramming through N.A.F.T.A. (just a day or so before Mexico had a major economic meltdown) and the What, Me Worry? Kid (Bush 43) for expanding the concept, allowing our technical jobs including I.T. to be exported. Note this letter a friend of mine wrote to his senators and representative just a few days before this story broke:
“Yesterday, I received my issue of Computerworld, a trade publication for members of the information technology industry and workforce. I am a programmer with more than thirty years of experience and have been reading this periodical for many, many years.
“There were a couple interesting statistics in this most recent issue. First, the information technology sector, in the first quarter of 2009, experienced 84,214 job losses. I was one being laid off in February. This was on top of 66,312 job losses in the fourth quarter of 2008, up 27%.
“The second interesting statistic is that there have been, thus far, about 65,000 H1-B visa applications for the fiscal year 2010 which begins October 1, 2009. There are 85,000 H1-B visa openings in the coming fiscal year plus an unknown number of other visa types which are used, interchangeably, with the H1-B to accomplish the same result: the importation of additional labor into an already highly depressed labor market.
“How many American citizens, like myself, in our own country are going to be rendered unemployed before the door to this toxic program is finally shut, permanently?...”
The above lists more detail behind the scene on the woman’s situation. American companies are dropping Americans and bringing cheaper labor to replace them. But the important thing is that their profits and hence their stock prices stay high.
Thank YOU, What, Me Worry? Kid! You allowed the doors to be thrown wide open to allow the cheapskate “suits” and C.P.A.’s to save money, and in the process betrayed our country’s technological future!
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Errors, analytical, Tuesday, Aug. 04th, 11:10 a.m. R.L. read a French news item about off-shored American jobs which has doubled in the past three years, 53% of American companies considering off-shoring, of those off-shoring 60% expect to increase the amount of work off-shored…R.L. attempted to blame the Anointed One for this and for those jobs not coming back.
My response: Do the math. Go back three years from August, 2009 and it’s August, 2006. The D’s haven’t retaken Congress yet, it’s an R show under the misrule of the What, Me Worry? Kid (Bush 43). The What, Me Worry? Kid expanded the international policies started by the Horny Hound Dog of Hot Springs that resulted in the exodus of jobs.
11:14 a.m. - R.L. said again, having said this several times in my hearing in the past, that Americans like the insurance that they have.
My response: limit that “survey” to those stuck with the “Blues” and see what sort of response you get, particularly if they’ve experienced something else in the past and are now stuck with the “Blues.”
12:58 p.m., R.L. railed against Durban’s comments on insurance companies ripping people off.
My response: I’ll let those who have filed claims after an auto accident comment on whether they were ripped off or not.
1:30 p.m. - R.L. said about the recession,”…now we’re in one, they’ve given us one…”
My response: Right, Rush. We didn’t enter a recession ‘til the very day that the What, Me Worry? Kid left office. You were denying that we were in one as long as your pal was in the Oval Office. "Uncle Jerry" (Ford) pulled this same trick in 1974, denying that we were in a recession 'til the day after the Congressional elections. My, what a difference one single day can make!
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HYPOCRISY, August 05th, 1:35 p.m., R.L. accused the Anointed One and his friends of preserving the status quo.
My response: preserving the status quo? Run the (audio) tapes when someone calls in suggesting that we change the way that we vote. R.L. habitually defends the status quo at all cost against all comers, voting technique being a particularly good example of such.
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HYPOCRISY, August 06th, 12:25 p.m., R.L. accused Nancy Pelosi and others of wasting money on the purchase of 3 additional “G5-50” Gulfstream jets.
My response: in the past, R.L. has justified his personal jet travel vs. commercial flights, and during the week of May 11th of this year tried to make sob-story out of Cessna cutting jobs because the wealthy were cutting back their jet purchases. Why isn’t R.L. leaping to his feet and vigorously applauding Nancy Pelosi for thinking like he does? Why is he not enthusiastically applauding this infusion keeping the private jet industry in business whose distress he bewailed earlier?
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BLATANT LIE, Aug. 07th, 11:20 a.m. R.L. said that “ever since you came into office” the economy has been a mess….
My response: yeah, housing and the stock market collapsed on the very day that the Anointed One took office. R.L. has been saying this for weeks now and I used to think it was due to his protecting his buddy the What, Me Worry? Kid (Bush 43) and/or his way of looking at things, but this is an outright lie, it's been a month for years starting with and thanks to your pal's mismanagement. We can find enough to go after the Anointed One for without being dishonest.
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Error, analytical, Aug. 10th 11:50 a.m. and 12:07 p.m., R.L. wanted to know by what authority a pay czar could review the salaries of the top 25 earners at 7 companies that took T.A.R.P. money.
My response: The answer to your question is in the details - they took taxpayer money. They expected to continue playing the game as usual but didn’t grasp that there were strings attached, and we are right to demand such strings. Actually, they’re getting off easy compared to those who wanted to behead ‘em for the mess that they created.
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ERROR, FACTUAL , Aug. 10th, 12:08 p.m. - term Nazi and Adolf Hitler
My response: R.L. did not articulate that the term “National Socialist” and the shortened form of “Nazi” predated the arrival of Adolf Hitler. They were going strong when a former army corporal was dispatched to keep an eye on them.
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Misstatement, Aug. 11th, 1:14 p.m. - R.L. asked if was supposed to “forget everything I heard 2008, 2003?”
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ERROR, FACTUAL , Aug. 20th, 11:09 a.m. - R.L. said that after summer “…seasonal jobs will end, unemployment will go up..”
My response: Before I left the state in 1985, N.J. realized that seasonal workers going on unemployment for the rest of the year was an annual scam and blocked them from being eligible. Hopefully, other states have done the same.