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Just work harder!
Author: Raine    Date: 07/09/2015 13:13:30

Oh John Ellis….
“My aspiration for the country and I believe we can achieve it, is 4 percent growth as far as the eye can see. Which means we have to be a lot more productive, workforce participation has to rise from its all-time modern lows. It means that people need to work longer hours” and, through their productivity, gain more income for their families. That's the only way we're going to get out of this rut that we're in.”


He goes on to clarify his totally out-of-touch statement:
In a statement, a Bush aide clarified that he was referring to the underemployed and part-time workers: “Under President Obama, we have the lowest workforce participation rate since 1977, and too many Americans are falling behind. Only Washington Democrats could be out-of-touch enough to criticize giving more Americans the ability to work, earn a paycheck, and make ends meet.”


In the meantime, here in the reality-based community, we had a certain President of the United States sign an executive order that would allow people to get just a little more ahead.
Here's a convenient way of getting more work out of your employees, without paying the required time-and-a-half pay for anything over 40 hours a week: Call them "managers." Currently, these so-called white collar workers are exempt from overtime if they make more than $455 a week or $23,660 per year, even if they perform routine tasks like stocking shelves at a convenience store. In fact, those small-time bosses don't even have to be paid anything more for the extra hours they put in to get the job done, not even minimum wage.

Monday night, President Obama announced that he wants to double that threshold, to $50,440 per year. The move would expand the number of people eligible for overtime from about 8 percent of the salaried workforce to about 40 percent, covering 5 million more workers, according to a fact sheet from the Department of Labor.
https://img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/files/2015/06/Screen-Shot-2015-06-30-at-10.09.43-AM.png&w=1484


So get out there and work harder people!

“You work three jobs? Uniquely American, isn't it? I mean, that is fantastic that you're doing that."
To a divorced mother of three, Omaha, Nebraska, Feb. 4, 2005

These people are insane, dangerous, deadly and corrupt for America and the world.

&

Raine
 

40 comments (Latest Comment: 07/09/2015 22:09:59 by Will in Chicago)
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Comment by wickedpam on 07/09/2015 13:20:43
Why do rich people always think middle and lower class people don't bust their butts to just pay the bills?



Morning

Comment by TriSec on 07/09/2015 13:24:22
Yesterday's and today's blogs, taken as a whole, illustrate beyond the shadow of a doubt how far removed from ordinary citizens the GOP has become. Used to be an old saw - "I'm not rich enough to be a Republican." Now it's a statement of fact.

Comment by TriSec on 07/09/2015 13:38:59
Oh, and Jeb? The TriSec Compound still maintains 3 jobs among the 2 adults here- we're trying to pay down the mountain of debt we incurred trying to stay fed and sheltered when your brother was in charge.

Comment by Mondobubba on 07/09/2015 13:44:36
I think this is appropriate given yesterday & today's blog topics:




Comment by Raine on 07/09/2015 13:53:08
Something else really important from the Obama administration.
Now, on Wednesday, the Obama administration will announce long-awaited rules designed to repair the law’s unfulfilled promise and promote the kind of racially integrated neighborhoods that have long eluded deeply segregated cities like Chicago and Baltimore. The new rules, a top demand of civil-rights groups, will require cities and towns all over the country to scrutinize their housing patterns for racial bias and to publicly report, every three to five years, the results. Communities will also have to set goals, which will be tracked over time, for how they will further reduce segregation.

“This is the most serious effort that HUD has ever undertaken to do that,” says Julian Castro, the secretary of the department of Housing and Urban Development, who will announce the new rules in Chicago on Wednesday. “I believe that it’s historic.”

Officials insist that they want to work with and not punish communities where segregation exists. But the new reports will make it harder to conceal when communities consistently flout the law. And in the most flagrant cases, HUD holds out the possibility of withholding a portion of the billions of dollars of federal funding it hands out each year.



Comment by Raine on 07/09/2015 13:54:01
Quote by TriSec:
Oh, and Jeb? The TriSec Compound still maintains 3 jobs among the 2 adults here- we're trying to pay down the mountain of debt we incurred trying to stay fed and sheltered when your brother was in charge.

Exactly. I cannot stand that family. and that is about the biggest understatement of the day.

Comment by Mondobubba on 07/09/2015 13:55:44
Jeb, may I call you Jeb (Even though your namesake in Jebdom was a slave holding traitor) longer hours equating to greater productivity is an egregious logical fallacy. You might remember the 90s when the country saw huge jumps in productivity not through people working harder, but through people working smarter; hello networking & internet?

Comment by Scoopster on 07/09/2015 14:28:13
Mornin' all!

Why am I not surprised that Jeb! and Dubya are on the same page when it comes to telling the poor to go fuck themselves.

Comment by Raine on 07/09/2015 14:43:27
Comment by Scoopster on 07/09/2015 14:54:46
One word.

FIRETRUCK.

Comment by Mondobubba on 07/09/2015 15:12:33
Quote by Raine:
DEATH PANELS ARE HERE


Oh noes! The Death Panels!

My mother and I have had "The Talk." I know what I need to be doing. She has it all written down too. Three short words: Pull the plug.


Comment by BobR on 07/09/2015 15:35:29
Quote by Scoopster:
One word.

FIRETRUCK.



(ok - not firetruck, but close)

Comment by Raine on 07/09/2015 15:42:52
We are a stupid species.
Theater etiquette rules are fairly straightforward: don’t be late, keep quiet during the show and if you are not a cast or crew member, stay off the stage.

These rules didn’t seem to trouble one audience member at Thursday’s performance of Hand to God, who startled crew and fellow theater-goers by climbing on to the stage of the Booth Theatre before the show started.

Once on stage, he tried to plug a cellphone charger into a power point on the show’s set which, it turns out, was fake.



Comment by Raine on 07/09/2015 15:43:29


Comment by Will in Chicago on 07/09/2015 15:43:51
Good morning, bloggers!!

John Ellis Bush (please recall that it was his cousin Faux News reporter John Ellis who announced that George W. Bush won Florida seems to have stepped into it big time.

American workers are working very hard, as Raine's excellent blog proved Yet the profits are going to the 1 percent.

TriSec, I can take next Tuesday's blog and I am up for Saturday's blog if no one wants it. No word on jobs yet, but still hoping.

Comment by Raine on 07/09/2015 15:47:10
Comment by Raine on 07/09/2015 15:52:04
I totally cannot wait to see this film!




Comment by Mondobubba on 07/09/2015 15:55:25


Yep there is a friggin amendment to the state constitution that says districts need to be compact and contiguous.

Does this meet those criteria:

http://img2-azcdn.newser.com/image/985407-6-20140711062547-judge-scraps-gop-drawn-florida-map.jpeg



That is a map of the 5th congressional district. It goes from Jacksonville to Orlando

Comment by Mondobubba on 07/09/2015 16:07:30
BTW the 4th District of Florida is Corrine Brown's. Let's compare it to my congress critter Ander Crenshaw's (R-White Guy):

http://s3.amazonaws.com/dk-production/images/34017/large/FL-04.jpg?1369602051


Notice all that stuff that is in the center of it? Yeah that is Florida 5. Crenshaw's district is designed to create a nice safe white um Republican one. See how it hops across the river on to the west? It is specifically designed to include both NAS Jax and NS Mayport. it also includes a part of town called Riverside, which is hilarious since that part of town doesn't want anything to do with Crenshaw.

Comment by Raine on 07/09/2015 16:09:19
Quote by Mondobubba:


Yep there is a friggin amendment to the state constitution that says districts need to be compact and contiguous.

Does this meet those criteria:

http://img2-azcdn.newser.com/image/985407-6-20140711062547-judge-scraps-gop-drawn-florida-map.jpeg



That is a map of the 5th congressional district. It goes from Jacksonville to Orlando
It's friggin insanity.

I was glad that Virginia has been called out for this as well.


Comment by Mondobubba on 07/09/2015 16:10:59
Oh and his was redrawn, It used to go much further west, but since there are rural rednecks who will vote for any white guy I mean reliable Republicans, his gets redrawn to be more compact, but it still isn't contiguous as far as I am concerned.

Comment by Mondobubba on 07/09/2015 16:18:08
Wow I mused and it was all on topic. What the hell is wrong with me?


Comment by BobR on 07/09/2015 16:19:39
Quote by Mondobubba:
Wow I mused and it was all on topic. What the hell is wrong with me?

not enough coffee?

Comment by Mondobubba on 07/09/2015 16:21:40
Quote by BobR:
Quote by Mondobubba:
Wow I mused and it was all on topic. What the hell is wrong with me?

not enough coffee?



Don't drink coffee, Bobber.

Comment by BobR on 07/09/2015 16:24:14
Quote by Mondobubba:
Quote by BobR:
Quote by Mondobubba:
Wow I mused and it was all on topic. What the hell is wrong with me?

not enough coffee?

Don't drink coffee, Bobber.

well there's your problem!

Comment by Raine on 07/09/2015 16:30:59
Quote by Mondobubba:
Wow I mused and it was all on topic. What the hell is wrong with me?

I ws a great Muse!

Comment by TriSec on 07/09/2015 17:07:49
You all know that like everything else, Gerrymandering comes from -?



Comment by Raine on 07/09/2015 17:24:35


Comment by Mondobubba on 07/09/2015 17:29:43
Quote by BobR:
Quote by Mondobubba:
Quote by BobR:
Quote by Mondobubba:
Wow I mused and it was all on topic. What the hell is wrong with me?

not enough coffee?

Don't drink coffee, Bobber.

well there's your problem!



Wait,,,I have a meme for that:

http://forums.na.leagueoflegends.com/board/attachment.php?attachmentid=1035735


Comment by Mondobubba on 07/09/2015 17:31:19
Quote by TriSec:
You all know that like everything else, Gerrymandering comes from -?




The center of the civilized world, the Dirty Water, the home of Whitey Bulger, the home of Joseph P. Kennedy? Boston Mass, home of the Masshole!

Comment by Raine on 07/09/2015 18:05:10
Quote by Mondobubba:
Quote by TriSec:
You all know that like everything else, Gerrymandering comes from -?




The center of the civilized world, the Dirty Water, the home of Whitey Bulger, the home of Joseph P. Kennedy? Boston Mass, home of the Masshole!
OMG! it's true!!!

I thought you two were just being all south /North for a while there!


Comment by Mondobubba on 07/09/2015 18:26:26
Quote by Raine:
Quote by Mondobubba:
Quote by TriSec:
You all know that like everything else, Gerrymandering comes from -?




The center of the civilized world, the Dirty Water, the home of Whitey Bulger, the home of Joseph P. Kennedy? Boston Mass, home of the Masshole!
OMG! it's true!!!

I thought you two were just being all south /North for a while there!


No, I was just trying to point out how provincial Bostonians can be.

Comment by Raine on 07/09/2015 18:33:13
Comment by Raine on 07/09/2015 18:33:54
Quote by Mondobubba:
Quote by Raine:
Quote by Mondobubba:
Quote by TriSec:
You all know that like everything else, Gerrymandering comes from -?




The center of the civilized world, the Dirty Water, the home of Whitey Bulger, the home of Joseph P. Kennedy? Boston Mass, home of the Masshole!
OMG! it's true!!!

I thought you two were just being all south /North for a while there!


No, I was just trying to point out how provincial Bostonians can be.
Go look up Gerrymandering at the Wiki mosheen….

Comment by Raine on 07/09/2015 18:35:57
here I do this for you…. Gerrymandering….

The word gerrymander (originally written Gerry-mander) was used for the first time in the Boston Gazette on 26 March 1812. The word was created in reaction to a redrawing of Massachusetts state senate election districts under Governor Elbridge Gerry (pronounced /ˈɡɛri/; 1744–1814). In 1812, Governor Gerry signed a bill that redistricted Massachusetts to benefit his Democratic-Republican Party. When mapped, one of the contorted districts in the Boston area was said to resemble the shape of a salamander.

The original gerrymander, and original 1812 gerrymander cartoon, depict the Essex South state senatorial district for the legislature of The Commonwealth of Massachusetts.




Comment by Scoopster on 07/09/2015 18:39:42

The original source is the Enquirer..... I'm really fucking disappointed in Gawker Media for rolling on this one.

Comment by Will in Chicago on 07/09/2015 18:45:51
The Enquirer is not my go to source for accurate stories. I suspect that this will prove to be false. (However, regardless of the truth of the matter, I will presume that the GOP will make this a talking point.)

Comment by Scoopster on 07/09/2015 19:01:58
Quote by Will in Chicago:
The Enquirer is not my go to source for accurate stories. I suspect that this will prove to be false. (However, regardless of the truth of the matter, I will presume that the GOP will make this a talking point.)

I wouldn't be surprised if they used it as a chance to attack Hillary as retribution for the media mess with Sarah & Bristol Palin. That's just how these goons work.

Comment by Mondobubba on 07/09/2015 19:40:12
In the Mondo is losing it file, I quoted The Princess Bride in a email to my boss.

In the classic film of true love and high adventure,“The Princess Bride,” the character Inigo Montoya says the villain, Vezzini, “ You keep saying that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”




Comment by Will in Chicago on 07/09/2015 22:09:59
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