Posts Tagged ‘economy’
Class warfare in America: the elephant in the room
Posted by: msgruntled on: April 3, 2009
I’m just going to quote from a letter to the editor published in the Washington Post when the first stimulus bill became law February 17th:
The Reaganomics axiom that the rich were too poor to pay taxes and the poor were too rich to need support from the government was a transparent mechanism in a class [...]
GOP: Ideas from another planet?
Posted by: msgruntled on: February 11, 2009
Republican Senators expressed concern that Labor Secretary nominee Solis “is connected with pro-union interests.” Gee, you’d think that you’d want the Secretary of Labor to be in favor of labor’s interests! What a concept! These of course are the same folks who complain that the stimulus plan is full of spending.
Thanks, NBER, that ship has sailed
Posted by: msgruntled on: December 2, 2008
The National Bureau of Economic Research has let us all know today that the recession started in December 2007. Gee, thanks, I guess us unenlightened civilians can now use the term recession with official approval. And economists wonder why people think they are out of touch.
Evidently, abject failure is a plus on some résumés
Posted by: msgruntled on: November 15, 2008
AIG now wants to hand out $500 million in deferred compensation to its executives, because, get this, they don’t want to lose these “talented” employees.
What talent exactly would that be?
AIG’s sudden empathy attack
Posted by: msgruntled on: November 10, 2008
AIG is suddenly concerned about the American economy and its shareholders. Where were they when they took on all those risky investments to make a buck?
rants about rampant stupidity, hypocrisy, bad customer service, and other annoyances that are thinning my hair out
- Ex AIG chairman joins Hall of No Shame « msgruntled: [...] About Class warfare in America: the elephant in the room Introducing the Hall of No-Shame; Nominations welcome [...]
- jm: I just got the message from the Jack Stone dickhead.
- msgruntled: No he didn't pay penalties, he paid interest. There is a difference. The Washington Post covered this story in detail including several interviews wit
