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DCB: – yes but businesses are laying off workers to save money, once they save money and realize not only do they have revenue but have sheer profit – they don’t run out and hire more workers… that’s the problem I have
I have 3 friends right who are DYING at work – these are not finance types. They are there til after 8pm, not a minute to grab lunch, work weekends are making less than $100K a year in middle management type jobs in media, ok? and it’s b/c departments are shedding workers who nornally would be working alongside my friends to take off some of the workload. Americans are working much longer days and aren’t seeing the benefits from it – it’s b/c Businesses aren’t hiring new workers to take the load off!
Delepp – so why is NYS paying more per child than other states?
gemeni…it just the current vogue and fashion for the rightwing demagogues to demonize gov’t workers. Take todays example of the OT — as something wrong and some sort of waste of money. This example was at some psych institution. They would have us think that – well just lock the door and leave all the patients to themselves for the night. Reality is you would need hire more workers and reduce need for overtime. But wages for state psychiatric nurse is not competitive enough to attract them especially in a field where there is such a shortage.
And many nurses complain about the mandatory overtime. You may a few eager beavers who want to work as much as possible but many others who would want to go home can’t- forced to stay.
secondly, their rhetoric is that labor is biggest and growing expense of the state.
Real issue is cost of medicaid which along with all medical care cost have escalated over past couple of decades much faster than inflation. Many reasons for that.
But instead of real discussion of practical ways to get that under control — instead to just act angry and talk b.s. and appeal to emotions.
Both parties and candidates and even general public would have hard time discussing real issues and real practical solutions – that are politically doable.
if you are for a capitalist system, which is what we’ve been living under, you understand the need for protecting the private sector, since this is where jobs are produced.
The jobs that the government is peddling are great and many are necessary, but make no mistake about it:
THEY ARE PAID BY TAXES FROM THE PRIVATE SECTOR.
it’s like Newton’s law of thermodynamics,
matter can neither be created nor destroyed only changed in structure.
jobs in the government flow out of private sector funding,
they aren’t “created” by the government
unless you are for a semi-socialized, socialized, communist form of government which is just crap.
Hard to say Denton, as the tech bubble was bursting before tax cuts were passed and it’s unrealistic to assume lower taxes should have an effect within less than a year. High spending was a bigger cause of the Bush deficits.
“CGar- you missed the political discussions and climate change? where have you been??”
bxgrl, dear, I know we’ve been emarried for, well, what no doubt feels like eternity to both of us, but you seem to have forgotten that I very rarely partake of discussions here about politics, climate change, mosques, race, religion, or cats. It’s in the ketubah that I’m not required to, so I don’t. I mean, if you and I debated these issues, especially all your damn cats, we would’ve been edivorced before I broke the glass.
Besides, work is stressful enough, I only come here for the humour, sex, glitter and cooking tips, all of which are sorely lacking this afternoon. [SIGH]
DCB: – yes but businesses are laying off workers to save money, once they save money and realize not only do they have revenue but have sheer profit – they don’t run out and hire more workers… that’s the problem I have
I have 3 friends right who are DYING at work – these are not finance types. They are there til after 8pm, not a minute to grab lunch, work weekends are making less than $100K a year in middle management type jobs in media, ok? and it’s b/c departments are shedding workers who nornally would be working alongside my friends to take off some of the workload. Americans are working much longer days and aren’t seeing the benefits from it – it’s b/c Businesses aren’t hiring new workers to take the load off!
Delepp – so why is NYS paying more per child than other states?
gemeni…it just the current vogue and fashion for the rightwing demagogues to demonize gov’t workers. Take todays example of the OT — as something wrong and some sort of waste of money. This example was at some psych institution. They would have us think that – well just lock the door and leave all the patients to themselves for the night. Reality is you would need hire more workers and reduce need for overtime. But wages for state psychiatric nurse is not competitive enough to attract them especially in a field where there is such a shortage.
And many nurses complain about the mandatory overtime. You may a few eager beavers who want to work as much as possible but many others who would want to go home can’t- forced to stay.
secondly, their rhetoric is that labor is biggest and growing expense of the state.
Real issue is cost of medicaid which along with all medical care cost have escalated over past couple of decades much faster than inflation. Many reasons for that.
But instead of real discussion of practical ways to get that under control — instead to just act angry and talk b.s. and appeal to emotions.
Both parties and candidates and even general public would have hard time discussing real issues and real practical solutions – that are politically doable.
bottom line,
if you are for a capitalist system, which is what we’ve been living under, you understand the need for protecting the private sector, since this is where jobs are produced.
The jobs that the government is peddling are great and many are necessary, but make no mistake about it:
THEY ARE PAID BY TAXES FROM THE PRIVATE SECTOR.
it’s like Newton’s law of thermodynamics,
matter can neither be created nor destroyed only changed in structure.
jobs in the government flow out of private sector funding,
they aren’t “created” by the government
unless you are for a semi-socialized, socialized, communist form of government which is just crap.
G10 – I thought NYS unemployment was $1800/month?
bxgrl, you still haven’t said why Cuomo is so much better.
Hard to say Denton, as the tech bubble was bursting before tax cuts were passed and it’s unrealistic to assume lower taxes should have an effect within less than a year. High spending was a bigger cause of the Bush deficits.
Hey, Mr CGar!
“CGar- you missed the political discussions and climate change? where have you been??”
bxgrl, dear, I know we’ve been emarried for, well, what no doubt feels like eternity to both of us, but you seem to have forgotten that I very rarely partake of discussions here about politics, climate change, mosques, race, religion, or cats. It’s in the ketubah that I’m not required to, so I don’t. I mean, if you and I debated these issues, especially all your damn cats, we would’ve been edivorced before I broke the glass.
Besides, work is stressful enough, I only come here for the humour, sex, glitter and cooking tips, all of which are sorely lacking this afternoon. [SIGH]
DeLepp, I have a feeling the pics make that house seem less gloomy than it really is.
I’m all about stolen kisses/shags. I’m having an alcove bed built into my backseat as we speak.
“lol at “dybbuk”
bxgrl knows her devils.
I remember *rob* saying
he liked “beezubu””
That would be my BFF Beelzebub
Yeah- I read up on all you guys. 😉