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Most anyone wants to help people get through tough times. The prob…

(I hear the skiing in the Swiss Alps this time of year is fantastic…)

Bleeds Blue on October 29, 2009 at 10:15 AM

I agree.

And take Biden, Pelosi, Reid, Frank and Dodd with you.

GTFO of my country.

NoDonkey on November 2, 2009 at 11:12 AM

Don’t forget bad breath,stinkysimon,and the rest of the usless trolls.

It may be a government job, but it’s Constitutional.

Then I found out my 23K a year job was created by the stimulus package. Ok, I’m still working there, since someone has gotta have it by law, even if it’s bad law.

Then one of the 10 Regional Census Centers spent almost $1 million bringing 400 employees to an ocean-side resort for one day of training on Thursday, then followed that up with another $1 million for bringing mostly the same employees back for training again the following Monday. (After paying for them to return home on Friday and come back on Sunday.)

My stimulus-funded butt stayed home at the office.

It is unclear to me if the entire Census is being funded with stimulus dollars–I don’t believe it is, but they sure spend the money like it is–but if so, just who is getting the benefit of this ridiculous outlay of money?

A: no one.

The primary cost of doing business this way is the tremendously inefficient use of airline fuel and gasoline by all of the persons travelling.
In order for a person to claim the .55 per mile travel rate they must drive their personal car, so car pooling is discouraged. Paying employees extra for burning non-renewable fuels does not stimulate job creation nor perpetuate trade.
But the alternative is for the Census to pay twice as much for last-minute airline tickets from one small, out-of-the-way airport to a major hub and then to another small out-of-the-way airport.

The USCB did save money by getting a great rate on those $595 a night off-season resort rooms (various employees estimate that the USCB only paid about $200 a night!!)…Of course, when I was in private sector, my companies always made us double up in the rooms and never gave us near as good a per diem as the USCB did.

It’s always nice to know I work for a first-class organization, but so sad to think where the money is coming from…anyone could be first-class if they had an unlimited checkbook.

So my $23K job was created by stimulus, but everyone else is making the extra $$$$ from it with no regard for thrift or efficiency.

There is no logical way to make these “saved and created” jobs pencil out.

Get ready for another full year of this BS as we enter into the 2010 election cycle and the rest of the $787B will be squandered on vote buying schemes by the Obama administration.

Stimulus jobs nothing more than “featherbedding”?
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Can I just have a check for $20K, I’m not greedy and I promise to stimulate the economy at every opportunity…. I could even try to do it in an environmentally friendly way!

kringeesmom on November 2, 2009 at 2:30 PM

That’s called tax relief—-a sin to Democrats

The classic example of the word’s use has to do with the rail industry no longer needing firemen because of dieselization. I have been railroading almost thirty-two years, and I have never seen what the Examiner calls “featherbedding” occur.

Labor organizations’ (from local units on up) annual LM reports are available online. If any news organization believes federal money is going directly into union coffers, that’s easily enough proved. And the kind of money we are talking about here isn’t easily hidden.

Now, if anyone wants to make the argument that “stimulus” money is creating an inordinate number of unionized government jobs, and therefore a portion of the money is being paid in dues, I’d like to see that argument presented.

Obama

OmahaConservative on November 2, 2009 at 11:09 AM

Yep, he’s toast.

Obama has the utter gaul to talk about needing to stop spending and be responsible, and he included govt in that, then he talked up his plan for BOLD ACTION to create jobs and tied it too..wait for it. GREEN JOBS!!and GE Jeff Iran Immelt sitting at the table there, IOW get ready for another ginormous govt program for ‘green jobs’ funneling cash to GE!

Then he iced the cake with word that we need TRILLIONS in infrastrucutre spending, which IIRC was how he sold the crapulent spendulus!!

how can ANYONE not laugh out loud at his hypocrisy and incompetence??

He nailed him.

Even if one accepts the numbers of “saved or created” jobs

Which numbers would that be, exactly? Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays or the actual BLS U-6 numbers?

You can’t believe anything coming out of the Bozo regime.

How much more BS can the people stand? Even the LSM cheerleaders are starting to get embarrassed.

Reverse Polish Notation

OT: The origin of the idea the Poles do every thing backwards……except in the case of Alan Kulwicki, for any of you old school NASCAR fans.

Maybe the white house needs a Reverse Polish Notation calculator. They are MUCH easier to use.

WashJeff on November 2, 2009 at 11:17 AM

Another fan of HP calculators, and yes, they are much easier to use. I’ll never go back.

I’m really beginning to hate government.

deidre on November 2, 2009 at 10:57 AM

As they say in France: “Moi aussi!!!”