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The 112th Congress - A Congress divided shall not cry!

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5mn_Major said:
Sounds like a horrible person for the house foreign affairs committee. Look for her to both overreach her role and aid in the suboptimization of foriegn policy. I'll agree with this as soon as we put a lifelong pacifist in charge of the dept of defense.
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So you think the UN HRC is doing a good job?
 
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Bakunin said:
This reminds me - what about these so-called retraining programs the Federal government funds for the unemployed? How many of these programs fund / assist people in going back to school for economically viable training?
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I don't think they are very effective, most retraining is worthless and expensive (even if the actual cost is dirt cheap for the school).

Maybe we should copy Germany and do flex time. Although I noticed most city/states can't get their unions to agree to it... they would rather have xxx employees laid off rather than reduction in hours (wages) for all. Maybe letting people collect partial unemployment checks for the reduced hours will be better than actual unemployment/retraining/etc costs...

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/01/business/global/01euecon.html
Mr. Lüschow said the increasing flexibility of companies in terms of wages, labor costs and recruitment was one reason for the decline in the number of unemployed.

German companies continue to benefit from the Hartz IV labor market changes introduced six years ago by the Social Democrat government led by Chancellor Gerhard Schröder.

Among other measures, the unemployed were obliged to accept jobs offered to them by the labor office or risk having some of their welfare benefits reduced. And companies, in agreement with the unions, could adjust working hours and wages to match order levels.

The spread of short-time work, used by companies over the past two years, also kept unemployment down. In the metals industry, more than 35 percent of all employees were working short-time shifts in mid-2009. Of the 813,000 workers in the auto industry, 21.5 percent were on short-time work, according to the Federal Labor Office. The office reported Wednesday that short-time work was being discontinued by several the big companies.
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BERLIN — Despite the economic troubles across Europe, German unemployment fell for a 12th consecutive month in June, bringing the number of jobless down by 88,200, to 3.153 million, the Federal Labor Office said Wednesday.

With the unemployment rate declining to 7.5 percent from 7.7 percent the previous month,
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WeWantMore said:
So you think the UN HRC is doing a good job?
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Kind of irrelevant don't you think? Really only depends on the politics of it. If the US can defund it without causing diplomatic problems then by all means defund it. My guess is we can't and thus it continues to be the tea partier's equivalent of flushing money down the toilet.
 
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WeWantMore said:
So you think the UN HRC is doing a good job?
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I think the house foreign affairs committee is about to do an even worse job...due to key members who have preconceived notions that are driven by politics rather than policy.

Repeat: if you buy into this approach, you should also buy into putting a pacifist in charge of the dept of defense.
 
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I guess I should have used short-time instead of flex time. similar idea but not sure our labor market, especially unions will go for it.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/oct/01/german-jobs-saved-imf
Demands by British trade unionists for the government to copy the German system of job subsidies to keep skilled workers employed were given a boost today when the International Monetary Fund released its latest overview of the global economy.

While the impact of the worst recession since the second world war has been to push up joblessness in every continent and every country, the IMF reported big variations between countries.

America's flexible labour market has not prevented an increase of five percentage points in the unemployment rate, which at close to 10% is at its highest level since the early 1980s.

In Germany, by contrast, the sharp contraction in industrial output has led to – so far at least – a rise of only three-quarters of a point in the jobless rate.
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And it has been the risk of a permanent loss of skills and industrial knowhow that has particularly concerned the trade unions.

So far, the government has turned a deaf ear to demands that Britain copy the German Kurzarbeitergeld scheme, which has extended the availability of subsidies for part-time working from six to 24 months.

Ministers have been put off by the cost – about £1bn – and have argued that tax credits provide the same sort of support as the German job subsidies.
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5mn_Major said:
Repeat: if you buy into this approach, you should also buy into putting a pacifist in charge of the dept of defense.
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Sure. Why not?

"I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity."
-- Dwight David Eisenhower
 
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Stewart was awesome last night. His researchers do a phenomenal job.
 
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WeWantMore said:
He's great, but I'm pretty sure there's software that they use to find that stuff. Neither here nor there really.
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Hopefully there will be a long-term impact, with the yodelers and politicians being forced to be a little more circumspect. Other technologies (movable type, newspapers, radio) have made it harder for politicians to tailor a stump speech to the particular collection of rubes in front of them without having their words compared to, say, what they said at the last whistle stop ("Hello, Cleveland"). Burning these guys EVERY TIME they play this game may help restore their usage of words to an actual meaning within a logical context, rather than just interjections used to stimulate the two minutes' hate.

Stewart hits it exactly right. Outrage and fury accomplish nothing -- the liars retrench and the folks who might be inoculated against the disease are instead turned off by the nastiness, or maybe even driven to sympathize with the demagogue. But simple, direct mockery using their own words... priceless.

Sure, shaming's too good for them. But it's what we've got and it works.
 
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I wonder where the usual Fox defenders are on this one.
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Foxton said:
I wonder where the usual Fox defenders are on this one.
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I really don't recall that there are many who defend Fox on the board...although some who probably follow them nonetheless.

I don't think its a shocker...but Fox is about the worst as they've really tried (and often successfully) to expand the market for 'outrage' and push it into the mainstream. And I think it says alot about their audience that they call themselves 'fair and balanced' and that seems to actually be a positive thing with their core audience.
 
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If the facts don't suit you, just change the facts.

WASHINGTON – Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) said the United States was founded on racial and ethnic diversity and that the founding fathers were responsible for abolishing slavery.

Speaking at an event sponsored by Iowans For Tax Relief, Bachmann hailed the "different cultures, different backgrounds, different traditions" of the early European settlers in America, adding that the "color of their skin" or "language" or "economic status" didn't preclude them from seeking happiness.

"Once you got here, we were all the same," she said. "Isn't that remarkable? It is absolutely remarkable."

The Minnesota Republican called slavery an "evil" and "scourge" and "stain on our history."

"But we also know that the very founders that wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more in the United States," Bachmann added.
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:confused:

Welcome to Bizarro America!

I wonder if Bachmann thinks King George signed the Declaration of Independence too.
 
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Great headline from Fark:

Researchers believe Chopin's hallucinations possibly due to epilepsy, but still don't know what causes Michelle Bachman's
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Michelle Bachmann running for President is going to be a great thing.
 
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