Posted on 10/13/2011 5:59:23 AM PDT by Free Vulcan
Job openings at U.S. workplaces declined to 3.06 million in August from 3.21 million in July, the Labor Department reported Wednesday. Overall job openings rose 6.8% from the prior year...
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3 million is plenty enough.
We need the first 2 million open jobs for the additional 2 million immigrants added to our population, and after that there is still a million available jobs for unemployed American citizens to take.
I trust the Labor Department about as much as I trust a pet rattlesnake.
If you’ve ever been around the DC Beltway then you have seen the unending landscape of federal offices, inhabited by legions mindless cube critters. Which way do you think they vote? Their incentive to compile and report accurate stats is nil. Their incentive to fudge the numbers, on the other hand, is significant.
Media, no matter how specialized, who rely on government stats are unreliable themselves.
“If you’ve ever been around the DC Beltway then you have seen the unending landscape of federal offices, inhabited by legions mindless cube critters.”
Why do we need all of them?
Well in the case of the Democrat party they need them to vote. Really they are the one of a very few ‘gainfully employed’ groups the Dems can count on.
But let us find solace in the little things, as life in the DC suburbs for these automatons is anything but idyllic. The shortest, most minor journeys involve horrific traffic at all hours. True ‘locals’ are rare since so many out-of-towners seek federal employment. There are few proper neighborhoods since most neighbors neither know nor care to know those nearby, e.g. the Ugandan who works a plush job at their embassy but can’t speak a word of English. Any suburb that might have had a picturesque landscape or some sort of rare local flavor has been bulldozed into submission to make way for wider roads or yet another federal or contractor office. Much of the metro area empties out every weekend as the so-called residents flee this antiseptic, artificial environment.
‘Orwellian’ is a well-worn phrase these days, but beyond themes of oppression and surveillance ‘Orwellian’ also describes a life of grey sameness where ambition and individuality are actively suppressed. DC workers make a Faustian bargain - some of them quite eagerly - and the cycle continues.
“But let us find solace in the little things, as life in the DC suburbs for these automatons is anything but idyllic. The shortest, most minor journeys involve horrific traffic at all hours. True ‘locals’ are rare since so many out-of-towners seek federal employment. There are few proper neighborhoods since most neighbors neither know nor care to know those nearby, e.g. the Ugandan who works a plush job at their embassy but can’t speak a word of English. Any suburb that might have had a picturesque landscape or some sort of rare local flavor has been bulldozed into submission to make way for wider roads or yet another federal or contractor office. Much of the metro area empties out every weekend as the so-called residents flee this antiseptic, artificial environment.”
Maybe that is why the Palin family would rather live in Alaska?
Heck, look at any president who hightails it as often as possible regardless of party or ideology. Little difference among the presidents whether it’s Reagan or Obama although most have had the decency to own a patch elsewhere as a haven whereas Obama would rather squat on someone else’s land.
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