Give me a break -- a person with an advanced degree looking at this kid-job is desperate because there are not enough real jobs out there even for people who could provide value. If I had a position requiring a Ph.D. -- I'd round file all the apps from current undergrads. Or as another example, when I need my taxes done, I don't call a plumber, but I sure don't call my accountant when my toilet backs up. That isn't hypocrisy.
The real root problem of this is the lack of good jobs, even a lack of crappy jobs. Those jobs have largely left the country and now the highest aspiration one can have is being a middleman taking a cut of some financial transaction. That isn't sustainable.
If you accept that job-exports have hurt the middle class, you should ask yourself why that happened. In most cases it will surely boil down to the cozy relationship between mega-business interests and the politicians they buy and this is at the heart of the OWS issues.
Now, there are different ways to attack the problem -- one could tax those who have manipulated the system, or one could eliminate that system altogether. The discussion right now should not be about ridiculing those who are trying to improve the lot of the middle class, but in deciding how to go about fixing our problems. I personally would rather see a systemic change, but something really must be done.
Nobody is even looking for the crimes so of course they will never be found. In the S&L crisis, 1000 FBI agents investigated banking fraud and 1000 bankers went to jail. The current meltdown 40x the size of the S&L crisis, there are 120 agents spread out over the country. Just going after Enron took 100 investigators, so 2 or 3 in each state isn't going to accomplish anything at all.
Right, as if the republocrats are any different from the demoplicans. But it isn't just the lack of a second party (more commonly called a third party) to our current mono-party system with D and R tints, the mono-party has effectively controlled election laws and ballot laws to keep any competition at bay.
Don't be a tard. The rich have co-opted socialism so that taxpayers cover their bonuses when they crash a business, but they get to keep all their profits when happenstance gives them a good year.
At my office, we have a perfect "beer money" job we advertise from time to time when college is back in session -- 6 hours/week, minimum wage, flexible hours within the 9-5 confines. We use the person to do random little things around the office that tend to get left undone.
This last time around, I've round filed resumes from people with Masters and Ph.Ds, none of them in things like pottery making or basket weaving.
After thirty years of job exportation, we should be realizing that educating everyone is not the solution -- we will just have highly educated unemployed. Instead of belittling those who are left standing in this game of employment musical chairs, be glad that you got your fat ass in a job-seat, and be compassionate to those who, unlike you, were simply unlucky. Who knows, you may be the next over-educated over-experienced unlucky unemployed person applying for a $54/wk job.
I have no love for Boomers, but what really got the ball rolling were the financial implications of Viet Nam, and you can't blame the boomers for that. Viet Nam lead to the devaluation of the dollar because we didn't have enough money to pay for the boondoggle. Now the Boomers have their own boondoggles in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and now Uganda. New destructive means of funding these wars will ensue, but it would be wrong to blame the war protesters and right to blame the war mongers, whether boomer or not.
Inflation is the hidden tax that robs mattress stuffers and enriches the financial elite because whenever the government decides to dilute the currency, those at the top get to use the money at the non-diluted value, while those who get it after trickle-down, get to use it at its deflated value. Rinse and repeat and the hard earned $1000 you put in a cookie jar in 1970, which would have paid rent for 10 months, will barely cover a month of rent in an extremely modest apartment, i.e., it's worth $555 in 2010. The mattress stuffer got robbed.
As an example of how ball-less, consider the S&L crisis where 1000 FBI agents investigated white collar crime. About 1000 bankers went to jail. The S&L crisis was 1/40th the size of the current meltdown.
Instead of investigations, there ate 120 FBI agents spread out across the country (even Enron required 100 investigators and WA Mutual is even bigger). Obviously, not even a single indictment let alone a conviction, despite the problem being 40x bigger.
If the Executive branch wanted to do something about it, it could very easily just by hiring more investigators.
Service of process is only one aspect of getting a fair trial and perhaps you are being tripped up by the word "process" meaning two things in different circumstances (the actual paperwork you get served with, and the actual mechanism of trial).
Here's what Cornell Law School's website has to say about due process:
THE PROMISE OF LEGALITY AND FAIR PROCEDURE
While the text of the due process clause is extremely general, the fact that it appears twice makes clear that it states a central proposition. Historically, the clause reflects the Magna Carta of Great Britain, King John's thirteenth century promise to his noblemen that he would act only in accordance with law (âoelegalityâ) and that all would receive the ordinary processes (procedures) of law. It also echoes that country's Seventeenth Century struggles for political and legal regularity, and the American colonies' strong insistence during the pre-Revolutionary period on observance of regular legal order. The requirement that government function in accordance with law is, in itself, ample basis for understanding the stress given these words. A commitment to legality is at the heart of all advanced legal systems, and the Due Process Clause often thought to embody that commitment.
The clause also promises that before depriving a citizen of life, liberty or property, government must follow fair procedures. Thus, it is not always enough for the government just to act in accordance with whatever law there may happen to be. Citizens may also be entitled to have the government observe or offer fair procedures, whether or not those procedures have been provided for in the law on the basis of which it is acting. Action denying the process that is âoedueâ would be unconstitutional. Suppose, for example, state law gives students a right to a public education, but doesn't say anything about discipline. Before the state could take that right away from a student, by expelling her for misbehavior, it would have to provide fair procedures, i.e. âoedue process.â
Many laws do have this kind of prelude and even those that don't have legislative history that may be helpful in ascertaining the purpose of the legislature in making the law.
That said, the law should be like open source code, freely available for anyone to read and analyze. Yes, it might be complicated and confusing to a non-lawyer, but computer code is complicated and confusing to a non-programmer. Even with that complicated nature, either can be analyzed with some study and effort, at least to some extent.
The real problem we have been having, starting with Bush's secret legal memos regarding due process free detention, and Obama's legal memo regarding due process free execution, is that the executive branch is essentially creating laws and keeping them secret making it impossible to know if what you are doing is something that will get you jailed or killed. That's a big deal, a dagger in the heart of what any free society is based upon, a shredding of the separation of powers, and ethically indefensible. There is no circumstance in which the rules of society ought to be secret.
Registration address? I have a yahoo email address I only check when I'm forced to register to buy something from a site. It usually has 10000 or so unread emails in it at any point in time.
No, you can't know that. The legal memo justifying ignoring the constitution is secret, meaning you are not allowed to know what string of circumstances will mean the president can decide to just kill you.
Man, the Demoplican party must have a huge cache of mod points because anything that points out the truth about Obama gets modded down.
Glen Greenwald had a great piece yesterday on how people who once vehemently attacked Bush for secret legal memos (*) and civil liberties violations, are doing the same things they decried with secret memos and worse civil liberties violations now that they are part of Obama's presidency. Civil liberties would have been safer with a Republocrat in office because then the Demoplicans could have gone on pretending to care about liberty. http://politics.salon.com/2011/10/09/the_awlaki_memo_and_marty_lederman/singleton/
(*) the law is designed to open source, readable by all so that it can be followed. Just how the fuck do you follow secret laws?
In order to prevail at anything hard, you must go through a period of tribulation. Your attitude is to just give up, which means you definitely lose. It's defeatist and pointless to not try for something better just because there will be hard times on the way.
I'm sorry but you make it sound like SS gets money back from some entity that isn't the US citizenry. This is like taking your paycheck, then writing yourself a check for a portion of it, spending all that is left, then spending that check you wrote to yourself claiming you'll pay yourself back out of next week's pay, and then saying you are saving money. The money that gets spent in the regular budget is gone for good. There is a debt obligation left, but the people who will pay that debt are not the people who got that money, the payors will be the same tax payers who lent it out. It's like paying twice while Haliburton runs off with the money from the first payment cycle.
There's a different version on Plastic Surgery Disasters/In God We Trust, released in 1981 but kind of prescient. From the track
Last call for alcohol.
Last call for your freedom of speech.
Drink up. Happy hour is now enforced by law.
. ..
You'll go quietly to boot camp
They'll shoot you dead, make you a man
Don't you worry, it's for a cause
Feeding global corporations' claws
Die on our brand new poison gas
El Salvador or Afghanistan
Making money for President Reagan
And all the friends of President Reagan
It is important to vote third party because winning isn't always the point. If enough people go third party, it can effect the discussion of issues and bring some sanity to the Demoplican and Republocratic parties.
Secondly, the surest way to positively make it impossible for a third party to gain traction, is to never vote for a third party.
And finally, a lesser evil is still evil. Take for instance the last presidential election. Civil liberties would have been better off if Obama had not won, because then the Democrats would have continued to pretend to care about civil liberties and would have pushed back against a Republican doing what Obama is doing. So really, the lesser evil turned out to be a greater evil.
And consider that the FICA is supposed to go into social security so you have an old age safety net, except any surpluses have been spent in the regular budget, where it is used for example, to enrich those who own and control the military industrial complex. It's like an inverse Robin Hood situation.
Well, Bakken is certainly part of the old wealth and not new wealth for the US. It was discovered in 1953. The only thing that makes it profitable at this point, is the price of crude. Drilling in Bakken won't bring the price lower, because as soon as it could have such an effect, getting that oil will be a money loser.
You are leaving out the heavily subsidized, sold below cost, Chinese imports that make it impossible for anyone to compete. Our solar industry is not failing because it sucks, it is failing because the playing field isn't level. But, instead of looking at how China is going to be THE player in the panel industry because of the unfair trade practices, we expect American companies to succeed in a "free market" which is nothing but a stacked deck, stacked in favor of the third world.
Oh that is happening.... in China where the solar panel industry is heavily subsidized by the government. Of course, US manufacturers are going bankrupt because they can't compete, but free trade right, it's what's most important.
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Give me a break -- a person with an advanced degree looking at this kid-job is desperate because there are not enough real jobs out there even for people who could provide value. If I had a position requiring a Ph.D. -- I'd round file all the apps from current undergrads. Or as another example, when I need my taxes done, I don't call a plumber, but I sure don't call my accountant when my toilet backs up. That isn't hypocrisy.
The real root problem of this is the lack of good jobs, even a lack of crappy jobs. Those jobs have largely left the country and now the highest aspiration one can have is being a middleman taking a cut of some financial transaction. That isn't sustainable.
If you accept that job-exports have hurt the middle class, you should ask yourself why that happened. In most cases it will surely boil down to the cozy relationship between mega-business interests and the politicians they buy and this is at the heart of the OWS issues.
Now, there are different ways to attack the problem -- one could tax those who have manipulated the system, or one could eliminate that system altogether. The discussion right now should not be about ridiculing those who are trying to improve the lot of the middle class, but in deciding how to go about fixing our problems. I personally would rather see a systemic change, but something really must be done.
Nobody is even looking for the crimes so of course they will never be found. In the S&L crisis, 1000 FBI agents investigated banking fraud and 1000 bankers went to jail. The current meltdown 40x the size of the S&L crisis, there are 120 agents spread out over the country. Just going after Enron took 100 investigators, so 2 or 3 in each state isn't going to accomplish anything at all.
You should hear William Black, top litigation director in the S&L crisis -- not even a hint of hippie: http://www.financialsense.com/financial-sense-newshour/guest-expert/2011/09/14/william-k-black-phd/why-nobody-went-to-jail-during-the-credit-crisis
Right, as if the republocrats are any different from the demoplicans. But it isn't just the lack of a second party (more commonly called a third party) to our current mono-party system with D and R tints, the mono-party has effectively controlled election laws and ballot laws to keep any competition at bay.
And of course, there's the lesser evil kool aide to get over:
http://americanextremists.thecomicseries.com/comics/126
Don't be a tard. The rich have co-opted socialism so that taxpayers cover their bonuses when they crash a business, but they get to keep all their profits when happenstance gives them a good year.
You're saying an awful lot in that short sentence and I suspect it could be very interesting. Care to expound a bit?
At my office, we have a perfect "beer money" job we advertise from time to time when college is back in session -- 6 hours/week, minimum wage, flexible hours within the 9-5 confines. We use the person to do random little things around the office that tend to get left undone.
This last time around, I've round filed resumes from people with Masters and Ph.Ds, none of them in things like pottery making or basket weaving.
After thirty years of job exportation, we should be realizing that educating everyone is not the solution -- we will just have highly educated unemployed. Instead of belittling those who are left standing in this game of employment musical chairs, be glad that you got your fat ass in a job-seat, and be compassionate to those who, unlike you, were simply unlucky. Who knows, you may be the next over-educated over-experienced unlucky unemployed person applying for a $54/wk job.
I have no love for Boomers, but what really got the ball rolling were the financial implications of Viet Nam, and you can't blame the boomers for that. Viet Nam lead to the devaluation of the dollar because we didn't have enough money to pay for the boondoggle. Now the Boomers have their own boondoggles in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and now Uganda. New destructive means of funding these wars will ensue, but it would be wrong to blame the war protesters and right to blame the war mongers, whether boomer or not.
Inflation is the hidden tax that robs mattress stuffers and enriches the financial elite because whenever the government decides to dilute the currency, those at the top get to use the money at the non-diluted value, while those who get it after trickle-down, get to use it at its deflated value. Rinse and repeat and the hard earned $1000 you put in a cookie jar in 1970, which would have paid rent for 10 months, will barely cover a month of rent in an extremely modest apartment, i.e., it's worth $555 in 2010. The mattress stuffer got robbed.
As an example of how ball-less, consider the S&L crisis where 1000 FBI agents investigated white collar crime. About 1000 bankers went to jail. The S&L crisis was 1/40th the size of the current meltdown.
Instead of investigations, there ate 120 FBI agents spread out across the country (even Enron required 100 investigators and WA Mutual is even bigger). Obviously, not even a single indictment let alone a conviction, despite the problem being 40x bigger.
If the Executive branch wanted to do something about it, it could very easily just by hiring more investigators.
William Black, lead prosecutor in the S&L crisis, has been trying to get this point understood, but googling him in google news leads to a real dearth of results. This is a good interview transcript:
http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2011/09/why-nobody-went-to-jail-during-the-credit-crisis.html
Here's what Cornell Law School's website has to say about due process:
If you really are a law student, read it all before finals: http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/due_process
Many laws do have this kind of prelude and even those that don't have legislative history that may be helpful in ascertaining the purpose of the legislature in making the law.
That said, the law should be like open source code, freely available for anyone to read and analyze. Yes, it might be complicated and confusing to a non-lawyer, but computer code is complicated and confusing to a non-programmer. Even with that complicated nature, either can be analyzed with some study and effort, at least to some extent.
The real problem we have been having, starting with Bush's secret legal memos regarding due process free detention, and Obama's legal memo regarding due process free execution, is that the executive branch is essentially creating laws and keeping them secret making it impossible to know if what you are doing is something that will get you jailed or killed. That's a big deal, a dagger in the heart of what any free society is based upon, a shredding of the separation of powers, and ethically indefensible. There is no circumstance in which the rules of society ought to be secret.
Registration address? I have a yahoo email address I only check when I'm forced to register to buy something from a site. It usually has 10000 or so unread emails in it at any point in time.
No, you can't know that. The legal memo justifying ignoring the constitution is secret, meaning you are not allowed to know what string of circumstances will mean the president can decide to just kill you.
Here's a conceptually similar cartoon:
http://americanextremists.thecomicseries.com/comics/123
Man, the Demoplican party must have a huge cache of mod points because anything that points out the truth about Obama gets modded down.
Glen Greenwald had a great piece yesterday on how people who once vehemently attacked Bush for secret legal memos (*) and civil liberties violations, are doing the same things they decried with secret memos and worse civil liberties violations now that they are part of Obama's presidency. Civil liberties would have been safer with a Republocrat in office because then the Demoplicans could have gone on pretending to care about liberty.
http://politics.salon.com/2011/10/09/the_awlaki_memo_and_marty_lederman/singleton/
(*) the law is designed to open source, readable by all so that it can be followed. Just how the fuck do you follow secret laws?
In order to prevail at anything hard, you must go through a period of tribulation. Your attitude is to just give up, which means you definitely lose. It's defeatist and pointless to not try for something better just because there will be hard times on the way.
I'm sorry but you make it sound like SS gets money back from some entity that isn't the US citizenry. This is like taking your paycheck, then writing yourself a check for a portion of it, spending all that is left, then spending that check you wrote to yourself claiming you'll pay yourself back out of next week's pay, and then saying you are saving money. The money that gets spent in the regular budget is gone for good. There is a debt obligation left, but the people who will pay that debt are not the people who got that money, the payors will be the same tax payers who lent it out. It's like paying twice while Haliburton runs off with the money from the first payment cycle.
Don't confuse Democrats with Liberals or Republicans with Conservatives. Neither are either.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfH263OAG0A
It is important to vote third party because winning isn't always the point. If enough people go third party, it can effect the discussion of issues and bring some sanity to the Demoplican and Republocratic parties.
Secondly, the surest way to positively make it impossible for a third party to gain traction, is to never vote for a third party.
And finally, a lesser evil is still evil. Take for instance the last presidential election. Civil liberties would have been better off if Obama had not won, because then the Democrats would have continued to pretend to care about civil liberties and would have pushed back against a Republican doing what Obama is doing. So really, the lesser evil turned out to be a greater evil.
Quit worrying about pesky things like amendments in the Bill of Rights. That so 1787.
And consider that the FICA is supposed to go into social security so you have an old age safety net, except any surpluses have been spent in the regular budget, where it is used for example, to enrich those who own and control the military industrial complex. It's like an inverse Robin Hood situation.
Well, Bakken is certainly part of the old wealth and not new wealth for the US. It was discovered in 1953. The only thing that makes it profitable at this point, is the price of crude. Drilling in Bakken won't bring the price lower, because as soon as it could have such an effect, getting that oil will be a money loser.
You are leaving out the heavily subsidized, sold below cost, Chinese imports that make it impossible for anyone to compete. Our solar industry is not failing because it sucks, it is failing because the playing field isn't level. But, instead of looking at how China is going to be THE player in the panel industry because of the unfair trade practices, we expect American companies to succeed in a "free market" which is nothing but a stacked deck, stacked in favor of the third world.
Oh that is happening .... in China where the solar panel industry is heavily subsidized by the government. Of course, US manufacturers are going bankrupt because they can't compete, but free trade right, it's what's most important.