Tuesday, October 13, 2015
Conservative news sarcasm alert: 97% of those 94.6 million not in the labor force aren't lazy bums after all
They're the 92 million who are in high school, college, and graduate school full-time, or who are raising the kids at home, or are disabled, or are over 65 years of age, retired and drawing Social Security.
Just 3% don't fit into any of those categories, or about 2.8 million people, that's it.
These are the truly "marginally attached" who aren't counted as unemployed.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics says about them:
"These individuals were not in the labor force, wanted and were available for work, and had looked for a job sometime in the prior 12 months. They were not counted as unemployed because they had not searched for work in the 4 weeks preceding the survey."
The BLS estimates they number 1.9 million in September. This analysis puts them about a million higher than that. Both can't be right but the margin of error is only 1%.
The government's estimate is close enough, I'd say.
Monday, October 12, 2015
Trump's success teaches that Republican voters are not libertarian ideologues
So says John Reid, here:
'Yet if the Trump’s enduring success has taught us anything [it] is that Republican voters are not libertarian ideologues. He recognizes that politics is about “Who, whom?”'
Rush Limbaugh sticks up for the traditional family against National Review and Kevin Williamson
And Williamson is stung by it, here.
Rush is right. National Review used to be a conservative magazine. Now it's a libertarian one:
"This all took place [says Williamson] in the context of a discussion of Mississippi governor Phil Bryant’s boneheaded remarks about working mothers. It was conventional-wisdom stuff — that children do better when the mother is at home rather than working outside it — and, as is very often the case, the conventional wisdom is wrong here."
Not alienating potential voters is more important to libertarians than defending what is right.
Sunday, October 11, 2015
Young "journalist" recently making $5,600 a month actually believes it's cheaper to eat out
Seen here:
'Technology has had a hand in widening the wealth gap and eliminating much of the middle-class since this industry shift began decades ago. But with the other hand, tech scoops up and delivers old promises of middle-class life and delivers them to the new poor. It’s cheaper to eat out, to shop, to entertain yourself, and to obtain consumer technology that makes all those things even more convenient, even on just $21,000 a year. A knowledge economy is sometimes referred to as “an economics of abundance, not scarcity.” It’s really an economics of scarcity with the appearance of abundance.'
Uh huh. She spends more time tweeting (14x/day) than researching, thinking or cooking, otherwise she'd know a single person can eat like a king three times a day for less than $3,500 a year simply by shunning food prepared in restaurants, fast food eateries and delicatessens and cooking entirely for oneself at home. Alcohol and toilet paper included. At $12.75 twice a day it costs $9,300 a year to eat out, once a day over $4,600. And you have to use the public sandpaper.
Spending a minimum of 22% of income on food for just one meal a day is crazy, and way too close to the housing component which should never exceed 28-32% of income.
Kids these days.
The Detroit News calls the libertarian Freedom Caucus "brats", wants Boehner back at least temporarily
Here:
"Too many House Republicans have taken their eyes off the prize. Rather than craft a patient strategy to position themselves as the party of adult leadership in a broken Washington, they have become battling brats intent on mounting quixotic fights they can’t win in the interest of proving their conservative cred."
The Freedom Caucus is doing what libertarians customarily do to Republicans in election contests
Keep them from getting elected, and advance Democrats to power. It's their reason for existing.
When are Republicans finally going to say enough is enough and throw them out?
Conservative news sarcasm alert: 13% of those 94.6 million lazy bums not in the labor force who eat but don't work stay home to raise the kids
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| 10.4 million mothers and 2 million fathers stayed home to raise kids in 2012 |
Saturday, October 10, 2015
Average age of a car on the road climbs from 11.4 years in 2014 to 11.5 years in 2015
IHS Inc. reported here at the end of July:
SOUTHFIELD, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The combined average age of all light vehicles on the road in the U.S. has climbed slightly to 11.5 years, based on a snapshot of vehicles in operation (VIO) taken Jan. 1 of this year, according to IHS Automotive, a global provider of critical information and insight to the automotive industry and part of IHS Inc. (NYSE: IHS).
I know. Mine average 13 years old.
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| floats like a butterfly . . . |
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| . . . stings like a bee, when you stick it |
Friday, October 9, 2015
Thursday, October 8, 2015
Wednesday, October 7, 2015
Tuesday, October 6, 2015
Biased polling: Libertarian leaning polls have Trump averaging 20%, the others 25%
IBD 17
WSJ 21
BLOOMBERG 21
Average 20
USAT 23
PEW 25
FOX 26
QUINNIPIAC 25
CNN 24
Average 25
The girly men at National Review still feel like Trump attacked them
Lowry and Ponnuru, here, who think Megyn Kelly, Carly Fiorina and Rosie O'Donnell make a "whole pattern":
'Trump’s discarded wives and his habit of making gross sexual insults of women also make it easier for liberals to campaign against Republicans’ supposed “war on women.” Perhaps one or two of Trump’s comments were not as disgusting as they have generally been taken to be: Maybe he didn’t mean to suggest that Fox anchor Megyn Kelly asked him tough questions because she was menstruating. But look at the whole pattern — his repeated attacks on her as a “bimbo,” his slam of Carly Fiorina’s face, his description of other women as pigs — and it’s clear that these bits of ugliness are not gaffes so much as a way of life.'
What a couple a pussies. No one who goes off on three men automatically becomes a man-hater. Men do it all the time, and so do women. But "discarded wives" gives it all away. They were no more discarded than any other gold digger is discarded. Women always take the side of the women.
Besides, the Megan Kelly and Carly Fiorina examples are weak. In the one case Trump artlessly hunted for the ages old idiom "seeing red" and came up short (and isn't everything he says equally artless?), and in the other the source for the story is as suspect as suspect can be but people who are purportedly conservative are still prepared to buy it? Predisposed to buy it is more like it. Carly Fiorina's success with this fake story among Republicans tells you all you need to know about the Republican Party, and Carly Fiorina.
Rosie O'Donnell, on the other hand, has a big fat target on her back for a reason, and deserves everything she gets.
Saturday, October 3, 2015
As usual the UK Daily Mail screws it up, shows old Hurricane Sandy loop from 2012 hitting New York, calls it Joaquin
You've got the wrong loop, fellas. Joaquin is headed out to sea, as your own graphic shows.
Video here, where they also report:
"Hurricane Joaquin, however, has become less of a threat to the United States as forecasts show the storm curving into the Atlantic and weakening in the upcoming days."
Imagine that! Joaquin "has become less of a threat" even though they show video of it slamming into Staten Island! The damn thing's headed toward Bermuda you morons!
You can always count on The UK Daily Mail to cover a story, you just can't count on it to get it right.
I hereby nominate it for A Grauniad.
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