ZIMMERMAN FALLOUT, RED TAPE NONSENSE, THE JOBLESS RECOVERY AND OTHER THINGS TO MAKE YOU RIP YOUR HAIR OUT

I have been stuck in the seventh circle of hell known as government bureaucracy for the past few days. Seems my Mass health plan was cancelled for unknown reasons and I have spent the last few days trying to fix it with little success. First, they told me that my employee health plan had ended and that they advised me to go on COBRA. The only problem with that was I haven't had employee insurance since 2008 and have been paying for it out of my own pocket for years now for which I have received assistance paying for it. Then, while trying to find out why all this was happening, I was shuttled to five different numbers each one with varying wait times as I was passed like the proverbial buck. After finally faxing in the info they wanted, I was rudely told by someone with attitude that they didn't get my fax and all of this was my fault for not sending in the proper documents which I didn't even know about until yesterday. Funny how that bit of info wasn't included in any of the documents I got or the dozen people I have talked to over the past week. Why do we need so many different numbers for Mass Health? I like the plan but I hate having to deal with anyone at any of these agencies as they all seem borderline retarded and seem incapable of handling the smallest problem. This is why people hate government and think corporations run things better. Trust me, they don't. But this is turning into a Sisyphean task that will never end. Hopefully, when I call back later I can straighten everything out and not have to cough up more money out of pocket that I don't have.

In more relevant news, if MSNBC wants to know why it ratings are in the toilet, they should look no further than racist pundit, Michael Eric Dyson. This idiot who has tried to argue the idea that black people cannot be racist, which is in and of itself racist, just argued that Americans will not understand racism until white kids are being killed at the same rate as black kids. He then called on Eric Holder to use the Justice Department to try Zimmerman for hate crimes, which that case certainly does not qualify for. The high murder rate of black kids has nothing to do with white people as almost all of it is black on black crime and has zero to do with racism and everything to do with the drug trade. 94% of black murders are committed by other black people and more people are killed in an average weekend in Chicago than in fifty years of the Klu Klux Klan.

Racism is alive an well in the black community, Rachel Jantel, the woman on the phone with Trayvon Martin when he died, explained that the use of the word "Cracka" isn't racist but just how they speak in the ghetto. By that explanation, people down south who use the word "nigger" would be just as justified in using the word withing their own communities as well. The word cracka itself is racist as it is used as a slave term to describe their white overlords who would "crack the whip." The "Cracker" would whip the slaves when they misbehaved. How is that not racist when the very original usage was used with slavery? Just because you think it is okay to use it doesn't make so anymore than some white racist using the word nigger to describe black people. Both are racist statements so stop using it.

The job numbers have become so laughable that even the Wall Street Journal looked at the latest statistics and wrote an entire article about how fake they are. So even the MSM is looking into this and seeing outright lies now. This is from the WSJ:

In June, the government's Household Survey reported that since the start of the year, the number of people with jobs increased by 753,000—but there are jobs and then there are "jobs." No fewer than 557,000 of these positions were only part-time. The survey also reported that in June full-time jobs declined by 240,000, while part-time jobs soared by 360,000 and have now reached an all-time high of 28,059,000—three million more part-time positions than when the recession began at the end of 2007.

That's just for starters. The survey includes part-time workers who want full-time work but can't get it, as well as those who want to work but have stopped looking. That puts the real unemployment rate for June at 14.3%, up from 13.8% in May.

The 7.6% unemployment figure so common in headlines these days is utterly misleading. An estimated 22 million Americans are unemployed or underemployed; they are virtually invisible and mostly excluded from unemployment calculations that garner headlines.

 

Now while the did go on to blame Obamacare (which I still think is being used as the boogeyman to turn our workforce into part time slaves as this has been going on for far longer than the AHC plan), the article does spell out other forces at work such as outsourcing and a lack of skills needed to fill jobs that are readily available as two things that need to be changed.

 

Big business has responded with the usual head in the sand statements made by companies like McDonalds. They, along with Visa, released a way for everyone to survive minimum wage work with a "helpful" chart to show how it can be accomplished. Here it is and try not to laugh while reading it:

 

First, they say you have to work eighty hours a week, or two full time jobs to survive. Then, they go on to reveal numbers for bills that exist nowhere in reality. Rent for $600 a month is only possible if you want to live in the worst neighborhoods in the country. There is nowhere near me for less than $800 a month for a one bedroom. And what if you have kids? Good luck finding $600 a month anywhere for that. Car payment for $150 is impossible unless you bought a car from the 1990's and will be spending double that every few months for repairs. Heat is apparently a luxury as they equate no money at all for that. My favorite is $20 a month for health insurance which exists nowhere. Cable, phone and Internet is double the $100 a month they estimate as well. All in all, this budget does not exist in reality and I dare any McDonald's executive to try to live off of this for one month. I will pay one million dollars to anyone who can, which is impossible as heat isn't free and health care costs a minimum of $ 250 dollar a month for a decent plan which won't get you penalized by Obamacare.

This is why the world sucks and continues to do so. When we live in a fantasy world, like the above sheet proves, nothing will ever get fixed. Demand more from your employees and do whatever it takes to make it happen. The rich are screwing us blue and sooner or later, it will all come crashing down again. And when your sitting in the rain, wondering how your house, job and car are all gone you'll wish you had done more.