The Twitter feed and other social network channels fill with vitriol when Ms. Bachmann or Mr. Perry or Mr. Paul or any other Republican misspeaks, prevaricates, or outright lies, but let one Congressman yell out, “You lie” to Mr. Obama and the world comes to an end.
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Thors Trials & Tribulations
The President of these United States is going to talk tonight. “My fellow Americans, I will set you free! Jobs jobs jobs jobs jobs for everyone.”
25 million unemployed and every person without a job has heard those words before.
I’m thinking tonight Mr. Obama’s words will again be all hat and no cow(boys). And that may be the biggest trial of all.
Thors Trials & Tribulations
Found a little glitch in my online bank statement yesterday. My bank isn’t the biggest in the nation but it has thousands of employees, almost 1,000 branches in more than a dozen states including Vermont, and a comfy position on the Fortune 500 list.
My bank has gone paperless. We made a couple of deposits this month and the teller credited them to the Harper account. The deposits didn’t show on the statement.
Uh oh.
I stopped in there this afternoon.
The teller definitely credited them to the Harper account. Unfortunately, it was a Harper in Ohio. Or maybe Alaska. The branch manager snatched the two deposits back from that poor schnook (who also apparently doesn’t check his or her balance very often because the money was still there) and deposited it in my account.
I love the idea of saving a tree.
Fixing this took more work than planting one.
Persembe Peeve
I hate it when a reporter lies to me. Hate it.
The Washington Post‘s Harold Meyerson wrote, “Americas presumably anti-tax party wants to raise your taxes. Come January, the Republicans plan to raise the taxes of anyone who earns $50,000 a year by $1,000, and anyone who makes $100,000 by $2,000.”
Harold Meyerson knows better.
Anybody with access to a search engine knows better.
The “Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010” enacted a two point payroll tax cut in your SOCIAL SECURITY withholding rate (it went from 6.2% to 4.2% of wages paid). According to the IRS, this “reduced Social Security withholding will have no effect on the employees future Social Security benefits.”
But it certainly has an effect on the countrys future Social Security viability.
See, this is politics at its worst. Mr. Obama sees a huge pot of money (the Social Security Trust Fund) he can use now, so he wants it at the expense of We the Overtaxed People who have to pay it back after we boot his skinny butt out of office. Just like the ballooning National Debt.
And Mr. Meyerson knows that.
Mr. Meyerson’s piece foments the very class warfare he pretends to abhor. The Washington Post should be ashamed.
Thors Thursday Trials & Tribulations
STOCK ISLAND CAMPUS, FL — Keys Construction crews are rushing to complete the new Lagoon Landing dormitory of Florida Keys Community College for the grand opening tomorrow.
Move-in day for the students is Saturday, just two days before classes start. It has taken five years to plan and build the new 43,000-square-foot, 100-bed, $8.2 million dorm. 78 students have already applied for housing there. About half are from outside Florida and most from outside Monroe County.
Most of them are from away? This is a COMMUNITY COLLEGE, the whole purpose of which is to serve people in what? Community colleges ought not have students from a thousand miles away, let alone have $8.2 million dorms for them to stay in.