[bolobaby]

...UNLESS you work for the government. Then your income is skyrocketing.

What's wrong with this picture?

[Wolfie]

Once it gets down to third world levels, things will pick up.

[whitedog57]

Big government kills.

Look at the shambles that government has made and risk indicators are blowing off the charts.

http://confoundedinterest.wordpress.com/

[TexasFreeper2009]

On a related side note... Democrats are extremely happy about this latest finding because as everyone gets poorer the dreaded gap between the rich and the poor gets smaller.

[Buckeye McFrog]

can we take Federal spending back to 1996 levels too?

[Bitsy]

What’s wrong with this picture?

Smacks of communism and that is why the “little queens” are going to get a smack down in 2012!

[seeker41]

I worked for the State of Floriduh and am now unemployed as of 8/31/11. There is nothing out there job-wise, so I am exploring my options. I have applied for unemployment and foodstamps (1st time in my 53 years).

[Justa]

Not counting the cost of food and fuel of course.

[Logical me]

That's why I have been peppering everyone that right from 6 months after King Obama took over that he is not a socialists, or a Marxist, but a hard core communists and will destroy our way of life. And I will continue. All Democrats are socialists, Marxist, and most of all, millions are communists.

[Nachum]

The list, ping

Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list

http://www.nachumlist.com/

[NRG1973]

I wonder what the price of a gallon of gas was in 1996.

[NoGrayZone]

All of us in our office has lost hours....instead of having to lay off 1 person.

I have adjusted, but things aren’t getting better. I’m glad to still have a job and benefits(office in which has become a cut throat, backstabbing place to work).

I’ve had to adjust to the “new” atmosphere. I am none of what I’ve stated above.

Just had to spend $1000 to fix my beautiful beast, Ford Explorer, in which I expect to run into the ground.

Now my loving beast needs a rebuilt tranny. I’ve been saving for all this. I’m a few hundred behind because of this recent bill, but they are putting something into my tranny tomorrow that seals any stuff that has become unsealed (know nothing about cars, but I have trusted mechanics). They are helping me w/ a $5 bottle of this sealing stuff to help me out.

If I can wait one more year before I rebuild my tranny, I can not only afford it, but have some money set aside as well.

I am now a “statistic”.....ewwwww. Under employed. I have always been a full timer plus. Hard adjustment, but one that I must do, which I have.

[newzjunkey]

Husband's bank fraud and tax evasion convictions

On March 11, 2004, Schakowsky's husband, lobbyist Robert Creamer, the executive director of the Illinois Public Action Fund, was indicted in federal court on 16 counts of bank fraud involving three alleged check-kiting schemes in the mid-1990s, leading several banks to experience shortfalls of at least $2.3 million.[18] In August 2005, Creamer pleaded guilty to one count of failure to collect withholding tax, and bank fraud for writing checks with insufficient funds. All of the money was repaid. Schakowsky was not accused of any wrongdoing.[19] Schakowsky served on the organization's board during the time the crimes occurred,[20] and Schakowsky signed the IRS filings along with her husband.[21] U.S. District Judge James B. Moran noted no one suffered "out of pocket losses," and Creamer acted not out of greed but in an effort to keep his community action group going without cutting programs, though Creamer paid his own $100,000 salary with fraudulently obtained funds.[22] On April 5, 2006, Creamer was sentenced to five months in prison and 11 months of house arrest.[23] Creamer served his five-month incarceration at the Federal Correction Institute in Terre Haute, Indiana and was released on November 3, 2006.[24] Jan Schakowsky, wikipedia