Petri got rather wealthy while "representing" Wisconsin--and doesn't even know for certain where he actually lives.
But he sure likes those fraudulent tax breaks!!
Great.
Thursday, February 27, 2014
Rubio Jams It Right Up Harkin's Rectum
When Rubio wants to, he can be a fire-breathing conservative.
And here he rips Tom the Commie Harkin (senator from Corn-A-Holers) a new orifice.
Watch the whole thing b/c Rubio knows rhetoric. It builds to the finale.
Incidentally, Rubio also goes a little cryptic to not-quite-name the US-based Big Business which has a monetary interest in Harkin's crap-shoveling exercise. Reminds me of the evening I told an Allis-Chalmers executive exactly where to shove his Vietnam War-mongering--which benefitted Allis-Chalmers, but none of the 50,000 dead US soldiers.
And here he rips Tom the Commie Harkin (senator from Corn-A-Holers) a new orifice.
Watch the whole thing b/c Rubio knows rhetoric. It builds to the finale.
Incidentally, Rubio also goes a little cryptic to not-quite-name the US-based Big Business which has a monetary interest in Harkin's crap-shoveling exercise. Reminds me of the evening I told an Allis-Chalmers executive exactly where to shove his Vietnam War-mongering--which benefitted Allis-Chalmers, but none of the 50,000 dead US soldiers.
Monday, February 24, 2014
We're Not Rubes, Mitch!
A fine essay in which the oleaginous Mitch McConnell is called out for what he is: a Statist who thinks that he's pulled one over on the rubes of the TEA Party.
He did not, of course. He shoved another several $Zillion in debt up the a** of the taxpayer class.
We will remember that, Mitch, you slimebucket.
He did not, of course. He shoved another several $Zillion in debt up the a** of the taxpayer class.
We will remember that, Mitch, you slimebucket.
Sunday, February 23, 2014
Kirk, the Liberal?
Long-ish essay which points out the fact that "choice" is not merely code for "abortion" or homosex "marriage." It also shines a light on Kirk's liberalism as a descendant of Bacon's. That isn't really good, because Bacon (and his secretary Hobbes) separated man from nature. That was a radical departure from the Aristotelian/Thomistic concept.
Hobbes went on to enshrine 'choice', albeit within bounds established by the State; but that led to the explosion of positive law. In other words, the more 'choices' one has, the more laws the State must create. And since Kirk agrees with both propositions, the "liberal/conservative" arguments we hear today are really "liberal/liberal" arguments.
Don't believe me? Read the essay--from Deneen, of course.
Added: Grim takes up the discussion.
Hobbes went on to enshrine 'choice', albeit within bounds established by the State; but that led to the explosion of positive law. In other words, the more 'choices' one has, the more laws the State must create. And since Kirk agrees with both propositions, the "liberal/conservative" arguments we hear today are really "liberal/liberal" arguments.
Don't believe me? Read the essay--from Deneen, of course.
Added: Grim takes up the discussion.
IRS, Obozo's Storm Troopers in Wisconsin
Our little President recently declared to O'Reilly that the IRS targeting of TEA Party groups was a 'bonehead move'. Since the IRS slimeball (Lerner) took the Fifth, we can safely assume that it was more than a 'bonehead move.' The Fifth privilege is reserved for criminal activity.
Our little President also wants you to believe that the TEA Party audits were the first and only time that IRS acted as his personal storm-troopers.
He lies.
Back in 2010, Napolitano famously issued a document declaring that (among others) pro-lifers were 'threats' to the Republic. (no small irony there). One of those "threats" was Pro-Life Wisconsin.
After Pro-Life Wisconsin forced Napolitano to rescind her slander, the IRS moved in.
They audited Pro-Life Wisconsin, one of its Board members, and two of its major contributors.
Don't bother with FOIA to get the documentation which led Napolitano to her slander. That documentation has mysteriously disappeared.
And don't think for one minute that storm-troopers have to be armed.
But YOU should be....
Our little President also wants you to believe that the TEA Party audits were the first and only time that IRS acted as his personal storm-troopers.
He lies.
Back in 2010, Napolitano famously issued a document declaring that (among others) pro-lifers were 'threats' to the Republic. (no small irony there). One of those "threats" was Pro-Life Wisconsin.
After Pro-Life Wisconsin forced Napolitano to rescind her slander, the IRS moved in.
They audited Pro-Life Wisconsin, one of its Board members, and two of its major contributors.
Don't bother with FOIA to get the documentation which led Napolitano to her slander. That documentation has mysteriously disappeared.
And don't think for one minute that storm-troopers have to be armed.
But YOU should be....
Obozo, Diagnosed
Interesting. Seems that the psychologists knew all about Obozo for quite some time.
The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which unskilled individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly rating their ability much higher than is accurate. This bias is attributed to a metacognitive inability of the unskilled to recognize their ineptitude...
As we know, it's a helluvalot worse when the individual is also a narcissist extraordinaire.
The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which unskilled individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly rating their ability much higher than is accurate. This bias is attributed to a metacognitive inability of the unskilled to recognize their ineptitude...
As we know, it's a helluvalot worse when the individual is also a narcissist extraordinaire.
Saturday, February 22, 2014
Meantime, Venezuela Goes Full-Bore Stalinist
The natural path of all Progressive governments plays out in Venezuela.
...Throughout last night, panicked people told their stories of state-sponsored paramilitaries on motorcycles roaming middle class neighborhoods, shooting at people and storming into apartment buildings, shooting at anyone who seemed like he might be protesting.
People continue to be arrested merely for protesting, and a long established local Human Rights NGO makes an urgent plea for an investigation into widespread reports of torture of detainees.--quoted at Mish's place.
Let's not forget Obozo's BFF from Chicago!
...In 2006, Obama's mentor Bill Ayers traveled to Venezuela to help Chavez celebrate "Socialism of the 21st Century."...
When Obozo finishes his round of golf, there may be a comment.
...Throughout last night, panicked people told their stories of state-sponsored paramilitaries on motorcycles roaming middle class neighborhoods, shooting at people and storming into apartment buildings, shooting at anyone who seemed like he might be protesting.
People continue to be arrested merely for protesting, and a long established local Human Rights NGO makes an urgent plea for an investigation into widespread reports of torture of detainees.--quoted at Mish's place.
Let's not forget Obozo's BFF from Chicago!
...In 2006, Obama's mentor Bill Ayers traveled to Venezuela to help Chavez celebrate "Socialism of the 21st Century."...
When Obozo finishes his round of golf, there may be a comment.
The Rotting Fish: Government
Seems like IRS muckety-mucks are very quick with the Fifth Amendment. That'll come in handy--because somebody's lying about something here.
...the IRS has been complaining about a lack of resources.
The Obama administration sought $13 billion for the 2014 IRS budget, but Congress slashed it to $11.3 billion.
The number of audits, which generate revenue, has dropped, with less than 1% now facing extra scrutiny....
Oh, really?
There's plenty of money available to audit non-profit TEA Party groups--and none of those audits "generated revenue." And there was plenty of money to pay Ms. Fifth Amendment during her conniving, dishonest, slimy employment and suspension, and for that matter, her health insurance and pension.
Offhand, I think the IRS is waaaayyyyyyy over-funded.
...the IRS has been complaining about a lack of resources.
The Obama administration sought $13 billion for the 2014 IRS budget, but Congress slashed it to $11.3 billion.
The number of audits, which generate revenue, has dropped, with less than 1% now facing extra scrutiny....
Oh, really?
There's plenty of money available to audit non-profit TEA Party groups--and none of those audits "generated revenue." And there was plenty of money to pay Ms. Fifth Amendment during her conniving, dishonest, slimy employment and suspension, and for that matter, her health insurance and pension.
Offhand, I think the IRS is waaaayyyyyyy over-funded.
Friday, February 21, 2014
Gee. Abp. Listecki Didn't Mention This!
Fr. Joe Shimek spoke for Abp. Listecki recently, defending the "standards" of Common Core. There will be no debate, of course, if your chilluns are in an Archdiocesan school.
But for some reason or other, Fr. Joe didn't mention this:
...Assessing Common Core is inextricably tied to the big business of data collection and data mining. States that took the Race to the Top bribes in exchange for adopting Common Core must now comply with the edutech requirements of two private testing conglomerates, the Partnership for the Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers or the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium. Common Core states also agreed to expand existing statewide longitudinal database systems that contain sensitive student data from pre-kindergarten through postsecondary education.
... “Before our eyes,” Estrada and Tipton warn, “a ‘national database’ is being created in which every public school student’s personal information and academic history will be stored.” It’s no laughing matter.
It's not just the Feds who will have all sorts of info on the kiddies!!
Just this week, SafeGov.org, a computer privacy watchdog group, reported that Google has admitted in recent court filings that “it data mines student emails for ad-targeting purposes outside of school, even when ad serving in school is turned off.” The newly exposed documents explicitly “confirm in a sworn public court declaration that even when ad serving is turned off in Google Apps for Education (GAFE), the contents of users’ emails are still being scanned by Google in order to target ads at those same users when they use the web outside of Google Apps (for example, when watching a YouTube video, conducting a Google search, or viewing a web page that contains a Google+ or DoubleClick cookie).”
S'pose that Archdiocesan students will have a "K" for Katholische next to their names?
But for some reason or other, Fr. Joe didn't mention this:
...Assessing Common Core is inextricably tied to the big business of data collection and data mining. States that took the Race to the Top bribes in exchange for adopting Common Core must now comply with the edutech requirements of two private testing conglomerates, the Partnership for the Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers or the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium. Common Core states also agreed to expand existing statewide longitudinal database systems that contain sensitive student data from pre-kindergarten through postsecondary education.
... “Before our eyes,” Estrada and Tipton warn, “a ‘national database’ is being created in which every public school student’s personal information and academic history will be stored.” It’s no laughing matter.
It's not just the Feds who will have all sorts of info on the kiddies!!
Just this week, SafeGov.org, a computer privacy watchdog group, reported that Google has admitted in recent court filings that “it data mines student emails for ad-targeting purposes outside of school, even when ad serving in school is turned off.” The newly exposed documents explicitly “confirm in a sworn public court declaration that even when ad serving is turned off in Google Apps for Education (GAFE), the contents of users’ emails are still being scanned by Google in order to target ads at those same users when they use the web outside of Google Apps (for example, when watching a YouTube video, conducting a Google search, or viewing a web page that contains a Google+ or DoubleClick cookie).”
S'pose that Archdiocesan students will have a "K" for Katholische next to their names?
Krispy Kreme: Back to His Roots
Chris Christie has never been a 2A kinda guy. And that hasn't changed.
Word came late this afternoon that a backroom deal has been arranged between both houses of the NJ Legislature to reduce by a completely arbitrary amount the maximum capacity of ammunition magazines from the current 15 rounds, to no more then 10.
... Details are scarce thus far. But what we do know is that the terms of the deal, as reported by two sources close to the negotiations have stated, seem to center on accepting the ten round magazine capacity limit in exchange for tweaks to the wording of the current firearms transportation laws....
No deal "is cut" in NJ without the knowledge and consent of the Governor.
Now we'll see if the Connecticut experience is re-lived. Should be fun to watch!
Word came late this afternoon that a backroom deal has been arranged between both houses of the NJ Legislature to reduce by a completely arbitrary amount the maximum capacity of ammunition magazines from the current 15 rounds, to no more then 10.
... Details are scarce thus far. But what we do know is that the terms of the deal, as reported by two sources close to the negotiations have stated, seem to center on accepting the ten round magazine capacity limit in exchange for tweaks to the wording of the current firearms transportation laws....
No deal "is cut" in NJ without the knowledge and consent of the Governor.
Now we'll see if the Connecticut experience is re-lived. Should be fun to watch!
Thursday, February 20, 2014
Another View on the Ukraine Mess
According to this author, the Ukraine Problem is another GWB/Obozo Fail.
...Any doubts about the Obama administration’s real intentions in Ukraine should have been dispelled by the recently revealed taped conversation between a top State Department official, Victoria Nuland, and the US ambassador in Kiev. The media predictably focused on the source of the “leak” and on Nuland’s verbal “gaffe”—“F–k the EU.” But the essential revelation was that high-level US officials were plotting to “midwife” a new, anti-Russian Ukrainian government by ousting or neutralizing its democratically elected president—that is, a coup....--quoted at TAC
One may or may not prefer the dissolution of the old USSR; one may or may not like Putin's position (also somewhat mis-reported).
But the US' "implant democracy" policy, a brainchild of GWB and the NeoConservatives, has its drawbacks--mostly, a lot of dead bodies all over the globe.
...Any doubts about the Obama administration’s real intentions in Ukraine should have been dispelled by the recently revealed taped conversation between a top State Department official, Victoria Nuland, and the US ambassador in Kiev. The media predictably focused on the source of the “leak” and on Nuland’s verbal “gaffe”—“F–k the EU.” But the essential revelation was that high-level US officials were plotting to “midwife” a new, anti-Russian Ukrainian government by ousting or neutralizing its democratically elected president—that is, a coup....--quoted at TAC
One may or may not prefer the dissolution of the old USSR; one may or may not like Putin's position (also somewhat mis-reported).
But the US' "implant democracy" policy, a brainchild of GWB and the NeoConservatives, has its drawbacks--mostly, a lot of dead bodies all over the globe.
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Leftism: The Great Atomizer
Deneen again!!
In his most recent diagnosis of the state of America’s political soul, the journalist and political thinker E.J. Dionne begins with a simple thesis. In the opening pages of Our Divided Political Heart, he asserts that “American history is defined by an irrepressible and ongoing tension between two core values: our love of individualism and our reverence for community.” The inevitable “creative tension” between these two commitments, he argues, is the source of ongoing American debate as well as American strength. We need to hold firmly to both values, as difficult as that can be in practice.
Dionne, predictably, argues that the political Right is beholden to individualism (not wholly un-true) and that the political Left is the Party of Community.
Deneen dismantles--actually, nukes-- his argument.
...There is no mention in Dionne’s 300-page book, for instance, of the campaign commercial that launched President Obama’s re-election campaign, “The Life of Julia.” Julia is portrayed over the course of her life as the beneficiary of a bevy of government programs; notably, with the exception of one slide, she is constantly pictured alone. She appears to be especially reliant upon the government because there is no evidence of any support of family, community, church, or friends in her life. In her middle age, she (on her own accord, apparently) “decides” to have a child, and in one scene is shown sending young “Zachary” off to school; he is never to be seen again for the rest of her life. It is the very picture of the Leviathan—in this world, there are only individuals and the state....
Not to worry. Deneen criticizes the (R) brand, too.
...Dionne is correct on two main points: a major element of the Republican Party today is dominated by individualistic tendencies...
One hears "rugged individualism" (seemingly) 1000X/week on Limbaugh's program. But Ron Reagan was no "rugged individualist"-promoter. That phrase came from the pen of Teddy Roosevelt, the Progressive. No surprise that TR begat Wilson, (etc.), begat Roosevelt, (etc.) begat Obama.
Final shot at Dionne:
...You will search in vain for the health of our actual communities in the pages of this book—written by one of America’s most celebrated communitarian thinkers—unless you unreflectively accept that “government” and “community” are the same thing. But that view is finally nothing more than the “quest for community” gone awry, something Dionne, more than anyone, should realize.
Indeed.
In his most recent diagnosis of the state of America’s political soul, the journalist and political thinker E.J. Dionne begins with a simple thesis. In the opening pages of Our Divided Political Heart, he asserts that “American history is defined by an irrepressible and ongoing tension between two core values: our love of individualism and our reverence for community.” The inevitable “creative tension” between these two commitments, he argues, is the source of ongoing American debate as well as American strength. We need to hold firmly to both values, as difficult as that can be in practice.
Dionne, predictably, argues that the political Right is beholden to individualism (not wholly un-true) and that the political Left is the Party of Community.
Deneen dismantles--actually, nukes-- his argument.
...There is no mention in Dionne’s 300-page book, for instance, of the campaign commercial that launched President Obama’s re-election campaign, “The Life of Julia.” Julia is portrayed over the course of her life as the beneficiary of a bevy of government programs; notably, with the exception of one slide, she is constantly pictured alone. She appears to be especially reliant upon the government because there is no evidence of any support of family, community, church, or friends in her life. In her middle age, she (on her own accord, apparently) “decides” to have a child, and in one scene is shown sending young “Zachary” off to school; he is never to be seen again for the rest of her life. It is the very picture of the Leviathan—in this world, there are only individuals and the state....
Not to worry. Deneen criticizes the (R) brand, too.
...Dionne is correct on two main points: a major element of the Republican Party today is dominated by individualistic tendencies...
One hears "rugged individualism" (seemingly) 1000X/week on Limbaugh's program. But Ron Reagan was no "rugged individualist"-promoter. That phrase came from the pen of Teddy Roosevelt, the Progressive. No surprise that TR begat Wilson, (etc.), begat Roosevelt, (etc.) begat Obama.
Final shot at Dionne:
...You will search in vain for the health of our actual communities in the pages of this book—written by one of America’s most celebrated communitarian thinkers—unless you unreflectively accept that “government” and “community” are the same thing. But that view is finally nothing more than the “quest for community” gone awry, something Dionne, more than anyone, should realize.
Indeed.
Rigging "Unemployment"?
Hilda Solis rigged the 'unemployment' numbers just before the '12 election?
You mean to say that SCOAMF, The Golfer, cheated? Or was this just another "low-level employee who was confused by all those rules...."?
Solis left DOL and has engaged some high-priced lawyers recently. No reason given for the lawyer thing.
Yet.
You mean to say that SCOAMF, The Golfer, cheated? Or was this just another "low-level employee who was confused by all those rules...."?
Solis left DOL and has engaged some high-priced lawyers recently. No reason given for the lawyer thing.
Yet.
When PRC Crashes....
The Beeb is putting forth a 2-part documentary which reveals a problem.
...with encouragement from the US government (we interviewed the then US Treasury Secretary, Hank Paulson), the Chinese government unleashed a stimulus programme of mammoth scale: £400bn of direct government spending, and an instruction to the state-owned banks to "open their wallets" and lend as if there were no tomorrow.
Which, in one sense, worked. While the economies of much of the rich West and Japan stagnated, boom times returned to China - growth accelerated back to the remarkable 10% annual rate that the country had enjoyed for 30 years....quoted at Mish's place
Ain't that good?
Not necessarily.
...what makes much of the spending and investment toxic is the way it was financed: there has been an explosion of lending. China's debts as a share of GDP have been rising at a very rapid rate of around 15% of GDP, or national output, annually and have increased since 2008 from around 125% of GDP to 200%.
"Most people are aware we've had a credit boom in China but they don't know the scale. At the beginning of all of this in 2008, the Chinese banking sector was roughly $10 trillion in size. Right now it's in the order of $24 to $25 trillion.
"That incremental increase of $14 to $15 trillion is the equivalent of the entire size of the US commercial banking sector, which took more than a century to build....
That merry-go-round is stopping. We've already seen some of the effects: Cat/Bucyrus is cutting its workforce and P&H/Joy will be next, as will Manitowoc Cranes. That's just here in Wisconsin.
When debtors stop repaying the banks, banks stop lending (and depositors are threatened.) All that spending in PRC on cars--many of them American--will slow, if not stop, too.
...with encouragement from the US government (we interviewed the then US Treasury Secretary, Hank Paulson), the Chinese government unleashed a stimulus programme of mammoth scale: £400bn of direct government spending, and an instruction to the state-owned banks to "open their wallets" and lend as if there were no tomorrow.
Which, in one sense, worked. While the economies of much of the rich West and Japan stagnated, boom times returned to China - growth accelerated back to the remarkable 10% annual rate that the country had enjoyed for 30 years....quoted at Mish's place
Ain't that good?
Not necessarily.
...what makes much of the spending and investment toxic is the way it was financed: there has been an explosion of lending. China's debts as a share of GDP have been rising at a very rapid rate of around 15% of GDP, or national output, annually and have increased since 2008 from around 125% of GDP to 200%.
"Most people are aware we've had a credit boom in China but they don't know the scale. At the beginning of all of this in 2008, the Chinese banking sector was roughly $10 trillion in size. Right now it's in the order of $24 to $25 trillion.
"That incremental increase of $14 to $15 trillion is the equivalent of the entire size of the US commercial banking sector, which took more than a century to build....
That merry-go-round is stopping. We've already seen some of the effects: Cat/Bucyrus is cutting its workforce and P&H/Joy will be next, as will Manitowoc Cranes. That's just here in Wisconsin.
When debtors stop repaying the banks, banks stop lending (and depositors are threatened.) All that spending in PRC on cars--many of them American--will slow, if not stop, too.
Monday, February 17, 2014
So Which Is It?
Cold Fury allows two possibilities for Nancy Pelosi's recent statement about ObozoCare.
This can only be one of two things: stupidity powerful enough to shatter atomic nuclei, or brazen chicanery noxious enough to peel paint.
He answers the question at the link.
But he did not explain why it couldn't be both.
This can only be one of two things: stupidity powerful enough to shatter atomic nuclei, or brazen chicanery noxious enough to peel paint.
He answers the question at the link.
But he did not explain why it couldn't be both.
Hennessey Missed the Point
Hennessey--a good man and true--slaps Sen Ted Cruz for Cruz' minibuster over the debt ceiling.
...Senator Cruz skips over why the others wanted this outcome: the only other legislative alternative was not increasing the debt limit. At that point no one, including Senator Cruz, had an alternative strategy to pass a debt limit bill that cut spending, or repealed or modified ObamaCare, or made any other good policy change. If you want to defeat a bad bill you need both a better policy and a viable legislative strategy to achieve it. In some cases that legislative strategy could be blocking enactment of any bill, but that would not have worked here. ...
No, Keith.
Cruz does have a strategy. It's a long-term strategy. It's called "throw ALL the bums out," including the bowls of unflavored porridge like Boehner and McConnell.
(One hopes that the strategy also includes zeroing out EPA and DOE and reducing IRS by about 50%.)
IOW, Keith, it's not really about the "debt ceiling", nor about the Massive Failure Stimulus, nor about the Commie-in-Chief, although they are all very good targets.
It's about the Bill of Rights--specifically, the 9th and 10th Amendments.
...Senator Cruz skips over why the others wanted this outcome: the only other legislative alternative was not increasing the debt limit. At that point no one, including Senator Cruz, had an alternative strategy to pass a debt limit bill that cut spending, or repealed or modified ObamaCare, or made any other good policy change. If you want to defeat a bad bill you need both a better policy and a viable legislative strategy to achieve it. In some cases that legislative strategy could be blocking enactment of any bill, but that would not have worked here. ...
No, Keith.
Cruz does have a strategy. It's a long-term strategy. It's called "throw ALL the bums out," including the bowls of unflavored porridge like Boehner and McConnell.
(One hopes that the strategy also includes zeroing out EPA and DOE and reducing IRS by about 50%.)
IOW, Keith, it's not really about the "debt ceiling", nor about the Massive Failure Stimulus, nor about the Commie-in-Chief, although they are all very good targets.
It's about the Bill of Rights--specifically, the 9th and 10th Amendments.
Saturday, February 15, 2014
Get Your Popcorn!
This should be fun to watch.
On the one hand, we have the Hartford Courant, filled with huffed-up sniveling-twit editorialists:
....the bottom line is that the state must try to enforce the law. Authorities should use the background check database as a way to find assault weapon purchasers who might not have registered those guns in compliance with the new law.... --quoted at Sipsey Street
A law that about 80% of the gun-owners simply ignored.
On the other hand, we have that 80%. All are armed. Obviously, all think (correctly) that the law is stupid and un-constitutional to boot.
But the law is the law, right?
Well, Mike reminds the editors of another law: the Law of Unintended Consequences.
Which of the Connecticut State Police will be chosen to lead the charge?
On the one hand, we have the Hartford Courant, filled with huffed-up sniveling-twit editorialists:
....the bottom line is that the state must try to enforce the law. Authorities should use the background check database as a way to find assault weapon purchasers who might not have registered those guns in compliance with the new law.... --quoted at Sipsey Street
A law that about 80% of the gun-owners simply ignored.
On the other hand, we have that 80%. All are armed. Obviously, all think (correctly) that the law is stupid and un-constitutional to boot.
But the law is the law, right?
Well, Mike reminds the editors of another law: the Law of Unintended Consequences.
Which of the Connecticut State Police will be chosen to lead the charge?
Friday, February 14, 2014
Whaddya Know!! No Kids, No Prosperity!!
The second in a series.
Wisconsin has a population problem, and officials with the Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce are calling the employee outlook over the next 10 years "a crisis."
...The group plans to tackle issues such as migration in keeping talent, but they are equally as concerned about the impending shortage of workers.
"...the work force shortage is going to become a crisis in the very near future."
The number of people over the age of 85 is expected to grow by 141 percent by the year 2040 compared with the number reported in 2010. The number of baby boomers, those between the ages of 65 and 84, is also expected to grow by 91 percent in that same time frame.
[However], The number of people between the ages of 18 to 64 is only supposed to grow by about 0.4 percent.
So what does that mean in plain English?
This:
...for Wisconsin, that means a shortage of workers is on the horizon since the number of additional jobs is expected to grow by 317,130 over the next 10 years and the number of additional workers in the next 30 years is expected to grow by 15,150.
So, ya' mean that 2.1 kids/family doesn't hack it?
The WMC folks should report on how many children THEY have in their families. That might produce a very telling answer to the "crisis", eh?
Wisconsin has a population problem, and officials with the Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce are calling the employee outlook over the next 10 years "a crisis."
...The group plans to tackle issues such as migration in keeping talent, but they are equally as concerned about the impending shortage of workers.
"...the work force shortage is going to become a crisis in the very near future."
The number of people over the age of 85 is expected to grow by 141 percent by the year 2040 compared with the number reported in 2010. The number of baby boomers, those between the ages of 65 and 84, is also expected to grow by 91 percent in that same time frame.
[However], The number of people between the ages of 18 to 64 is only supposed to grow by about 0.4 percent.
So what does that mean in plain English?
This:
...for Wisconsin, that means a shortage of workers is on the horizon since the number of additional jobs is expected to grow by 317,130 over the next 10 years and the number of additional workers in the next 30 years is expected to grow by 15,150.
So, ya' mean that 2.1 kids/family doesn't hack it?
The WMC folks should report on how many children THEY have in their families. That might produce a very telling answer to the "crisis", eh?
Thursday, February 13, 2014
Sixteen Tons, Whaddya Get?
Another day older, and...
...The debt ceiling will become a quiet formality in which the minimum number of Republicans necessary, mostly those hailing from states that lean Democrat, will be asked to stand at attention and salute as the Leviathan State goes another $2 trillion into debt. The less public attention paid to these little funereal ceremonies for liberty, the better...
Note to Boehner: Obozo won't respect you in the morning, either.
...The debt ceiling will become a quiet formality in which the minimum number of Republicans necessary, mostly those hailing from states that lean Democrat, will be asked to stand at attention and salute as the Leviathan State goes another $2 trillion into debt. The less public attention paid to these little funereal ceremonies for liberty, the better...
Note to Boehner: Obozo won't respect you in the morning, either.
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