"WHEEL IN THE SKY' journey
My granddaughter has a pet hamster named Winston. Now hamsters for the most part are nocturnal, meaning whatever they do what they like to do in the dark.
Now Winston has all the latests hamster gadgets for a comforable standard of living. Houses, ladders, wheel. Now the wheel which he will get on at around 10 p.m. and run on it all night long. I often wonder if he realizes that he's not getting anywhere. Now for the reason for this Winston story?
Last week the Labor Department released that only 80,000 jobs were created last month. Democrats tried to put a positive spin on the story but that's pretty hard to do with a country with over 8% unemployment and a country with over 300 million souls living in it.
Republicans claimed again it was the failure of the Obama administration to entice businesses to invest in new jobs.
My point? Why bother? Why should anyone creating jobs. Along with what does any of this have to do with Winston and his wheel?
Well in a story a few weeks back about a company named Sensata Technologies in Illinois that makes sensors for aircraft, automobiles, and electric motors. This company was recently purchased from Texas Instruments by Bain Capital.
Bain informed the approximately 170 employee's some of which have been employed by Sensata for over thirty years that by the end of the year their jobs would be phased out and moved to China. Lets add those jobs to the over 4 million jobs lost to China since 2001.
My question is our economy on a wheel that no matter what we create, we just run and run and won't get anywhere, pretty much like Winston?
Along with investment companies as well as industrial giants who like to operate in the dark?
posted by terminator1 @ 12:03 PM
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And for those who need to read the connection between Romney and Bain Capital here is the Cliff's notes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bain_Capital
Romney claims he's going to get tuff on China? He can't even keep his former company straight until after the election.
Fact: The jobs are gone and they won't be back.
It's not anyones fault but our own.
Bain is just useing good investment practice.
The United States Air Force is being sued by a Conservative group called Judicial Watch over Michelle Obama's trip to Spain in 2010. Read our article on the Obama's 16 vacations: here.
Judicial Watch wants to know the passengers that went along with the Obamas to Spain. And they want to know the travel costs.
The Whitehouse's response:
"The first lady is on a private trip," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said at the time. "She is a private citizen and is the mother of a daughter on a private trip. And I think I'd leave it at that."
And Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch:
"That this lavish trip may be a source of embarrassment for the Obamas is not a sufficient reason to stonewall the release of records.
Evidently, American taxpayers were stuck with a sizable bill so Mrs. Obama could tour around Spain with her family and friends.
This administration, as a supposed steward of taxpayer dollars, has an obligation to disclose the full costs of the Obama family's luxury trip."
Liberals defend the health care of teachers, unions, and illegal immigrants. But when it comes to the troops, they want to cut.
A proposal by the Obama administration would save $12.9 Billion by 2017 from the Tricare system.
The proposed increases in health care payments by service members, which must be approved by Congress, are part of the Pentagon's $487 billion cut in spending. It seeks to save $1.8 billion from the Tricare medical system in the fiscal 2013 budget, and $12.9 billion by 2017.
"We shouldn't ask our military to pay our bills when we aren't willing to impose a similar hardship on the rest of the population," Rep. Howard "Buck" McKeon, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee and a Republican from California, said in a statement to the Washington Free Beacon. "We can't keep asking those who have given so much to give that much more."
5:17 I would be happy to see the tax records of everyone running for
President for the last ten years? It will happen because so much misinformation will be presented Romney will have to release all of his records. And that will be the end of his run.
Birthers, now we will have Showtaxers, what comes around goes around.
This man has been caught for what he is a fraud.
Lets check how many trips Bush, Clinton, Reagan took while we're at it. O.K.
Since Romney left Bain over 10 years ago, it has about as much a connection as your hamster. How much taxpayer money was lost along with jobs for the failed green energy companies like Solyndra. What about the positive success stories from Bain, such as Staples and Domino's Pizza among others.
Bain with Romney was over ten years ago and Bush has been out of office for three and a half years now. When are you going to stop playing the blame game and tell YOUR party to take some responsibility?
One thing for sure, you're no Paul Harvey with the rest of the story. Might as well be watching political ads full of half truths and misleading claims.
Nothing wrong with different political views but in my opinion it is better to promote positives of your candidate rather than claim negative things about your opponent. In other words, show the connection between Romney and Sensata Technologies. Show me the signature or the tape. I wonder if you are to blame for Convenient Food Marts for leaving the area?
? 9:43 Did I mention Romney in this post? No, I left his name out for a reason. Even though he has been gone for ten years Bain has been a pioneer in this venture capitalist field that moves businesses offshore. I guess the connection between the two has started to stick?
Please show me what "positives" has Romney shown in his ads?
He in one ad claims he will get rid of regulations? Could he please tell us how and which ones?
Obamacare was set to make huge cuts to Medicare Advantage a few weeks before the election. Knowing this would be political suicide to occur before the election, Obama postponed it to a few weeks after the election.
As many as 12 million seniors use Medicare Advantage.
Obama wants to fool a bunch of seniors in allowing them to go to the polls in 2012 not realizing that they will be receiving a letter indicating cuts to their plans a few weeks after the Election.
Dick Morris:
"One of the most cynical, dirty, reprehensible political moves was made by Barack Obama just a few days ago. When he passed Obamacare, he included $500 Bn of cuts in Medicare. Jammed it through ... But the cut would come three weeks before Election day. So Obama has passed an $8.3 Bn appropriation to extend that program for 4 or 5 weeks to get it passed Election day so the notices don't go out until after the Senior Citizens have voted and then they'll be cut. Isn't that unbelievably cynical?
Dick Morris? The guy Clinton fired for letting a prostitue listen in on conversations? That Dick Morris, who now is a prostitue for FOXNEWS? Yeah, good idea listen to that guy he's got the answers. Better yet find a solution on your own to our health care problem. Maybe you can find one in a Swiss bank account or in the Cayman Islands.What maybe we don't have a problem 10:18?
I can't say (because I do not know) if Medicare Advantage will have some cuts. What I DO know about Medicare Advantage, is that the government subsidizes that much more than regular Medicare, meaning that the American people pay more for the people on that program to get many more benefits than everyone else on regular Medicare. If they are talking cuts, I think they are probably talking some of the extra-extra stuff, and not anything horrifying. I know that there was talk that the whole Medicare Advantage program would have to go away, because it cost America too much for it, so if they are talking some cuts, there must have been a huge compromise somewhere. But they really do need to cut some stuff from it, because it turns out to be very unfair to everyone else. And honestly, I don't know if it was the Democrats or the Republicans that were talking the most cuts on that program. The Republicans don't want the average American to have anything, as far as I see it, so it might have just been them.
It is beyond belief that the American people would even consider a man who hides investments in Swiss banks, offshore accounts to be our next President. Where is the tea party on this. Do they agree also? Or is it "get the black guy out of the white house" that's behind all this?
It Romney is President it will doom so many of you to a lower standard of living. Go ahead vote for him and explain your vote to your children! Romney is only running for his own self interest.
"get the black guy out"? wny not?, thats the exact kind of movement that got him in, "get the black guy in"
I don't believe that 11:47 was talking for anyone but himself.
I believe in 2008 was get someone in to turn things around, wasn't it?
Lower unemployment, it was over 11% when he was sworn in?
Promised to save businesses? {GM}
Get out of Iraq?
Universal Health care?
and as a bonus got Bin Laden pretty good record.
Nothing about getting a Black in anywhere.
Deval Patrick, Massachusetts Governor, vetoes a common sense bill that would limit food stamp use. With overwhelming bipartisan support, the Massachusetts legislature pass a bill that would ban EBT food stamps from being used for "tattoos, guns, porn, body piercings, jewelry, fines, and bail". (Boston Herald).
The Governor says those that passed this bill are guilty of "political grandstanding".
State Sen. Robert Hedlund (R-Weymouth):
“A lot of people in the Legislature, and a lot of taxpayers for that matter, believe there are a lot of problems with our EBT system... Some of us have worked hard to try to address those problems. Some of us actually take our jobs seriously, and to be accused of political grandstanding, I think it’s irresponsible and immature of the governor to speak that way.”
Massachusetts House Minority Leader Brad Jones (R-N. Reading):
“He’s accusing us of political grandstanding ... Well, I think he’s pandering to a political clientele who are in support of him and he wants to maintain that support.”
Jones is right. When you have such a large percentage of people now dependent on the Government to live and eat, you are going to have a really tough time cutting back on their benefits.
By the way, Deval Patrick is the politician that Obama mirrored his campaign after.
Term you are totally delusional
4:22 You had better hope that I am totally delusional. It won't be the first time I have been accused of that fact. Stay tuned.
I must be delusional also, I'm back at work and by 401K is almost 4000 points higher then when the Black guy showed up. And I have seen his tax records, but for some reason the White guy doesn't want to show his papers?
When my son was 5 or 6 years old I bought him a hamster. We named him Doodle and he was the coolest little guy. My son delighted in putting Doodle in the back of his Tonka dump truck and wheeling him around our apartment. Doodle would stand in the back with his little hamster front feet perched on the cab of the truck, lacking only a Red Baron scarf and goggles. We kept him in a small cage, which was totally inappropriate as Doodle could easily slip through the bars; something he did each and every night. And every morning, just after starting my coffee, I’d stand in the kitchen and call, Doodle, Doodle, Doodle,” and out he’d scamper out from that mysterious opening under the cabinet trim work. But hamsters don’t live long. We buried Doodle in Grandma’s backyard and we cried. This has nothing to do with the political topics of the day - I’m just saying.
Cute story Kathy. Are you preparing me for the tragic end for Winston we will soon face?
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