Which NJ is this?

From NJ 101.5:

Help wanted: Highly-skilled workers are in short supply

The improving U.S. economy brings with it a growing demand for workers with highly specialized skills — skills that many companies are finding to be in short supply.

“Today, companies are looking for specialists,” said Rich Singer, senior vice president director of permanent placement at Robert Half International, a recruiting and placement firm.

Singer said finding people to fill positions in accounting and information technology (IT) is especially challenging for companies.

In New Jersey, workers in high demand include those who specialize in pharmaceuticals, biotech, real estate, consumer products and construction.
Quite simply, there just aren’t enough workers to fill these positions.

Singer said the national jobless rate for IT professionals right now is less than one percent, and in many accounting specialties, it is less than three percent. The jobless rates for these two fields is lower than the overall national unemployment rate of 5.6 percent.

Over the next 10 years, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce projects double-digit growth for accounting professionals. “There’s just not enough of them to go around,” Singer said.

“There’s a lot of marginal people who are looking for work,” Singer said. “But the good candidates have a shelf life (on the market) of several weeks to three or four weeks, if that. And they’re getting multiple offers.”

Additionally, Singer said, it is difficult to find people “who are really motivated, who have a really good career path, who are willing to work hard.”
For some firms, recruiting is only half of the staffing battle. Retention of their star employees is the other half.

“If you (employers) don’t take care of your employee – the compensation level and work-life balance – there is a good chance in the next year or so you are going to lose that person,” Singer said.

Those in demand can often write their own ticket, Singer said. “There’s tremendous competition for employees.”

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78 Responses to Which NJ is this?

  1. Essex says:

    eeeets Ammmeriiiiiicccaaaa!

  2. grim says:

    Every time you see the word employee, worker, or person, simply insert the word “cheap” before it to help understand the article more clearly.

  3. [2] grim – I concur. In fact it’s kind of fun, like adding “between the sheets” to the end of any fortune cookie saying:

    For some firms, recruiting is only half of the staffing battle. Retention of their star cheap employees is the other half.

    “If you (employers) don’t take care of your cheap employee – the compensation level and work-life balance – there is a good chance in the next year or so you are going to lose that cheap person,” Singer said.

    Those in demand can often write their own ticket, Singer said. “There’s tremendous competition for cheap employees.”

  4. Time Report Est Prev
    8:30am US – Personal Income and Outlays 0.3% 0.4%

    9:45am US – PMI Manufacturing Index 54.0 53.9

    10:00am US – ISM Mfg Index 54.5 55.5

    10:00am US – Construction Spending 0.6% -0.3%

  5. Liquor Luge says:

    Not only is the middle class supposed to be ground into powder, we’re supposed to smile and enjoy it.

  6. Liquor Luge says:

    Will work for food. Not exactly what an employer should want to hear from someone who has six figures of student debt and a 7K/month nut to crack.

  7. Liquor Luge says:

    But, hey, it’s different here.

  8. grim says:

    Nice clip of snow up here in Wayne, a good 7-8 inches. Seemed like it was going to start icing, pellets coming down, but that seems to have cleared out. Made the first pass with the snow blower.

  9. Liquor Luge says:

    I’ve found out that not shoveling snow makes it impossible to get to my front door.

    I just leave the stuff.

  10. chicagofinance says:

    One inch of muck and slush here; no ice…..once with a sliding shovel should do it…

  11. We’re getting hammered again. 10-14″ forecast, parking ban went into effect at 6AM. Not too many cars on the road at that time.

  12. Fast Eddie says:

    Nom,

    Are you alive this morning? The Pats can beat anyone in the big game except…. um…. ok, I won’t even attempt that one today! ;) You must have had a coronary at the end!

  13. Fast Eddie says:

    Every time you see the word employee, worker, or person, simply insert the word “cheap” before it to help understand the article more clearly.

    I disagree. We’re bleeding wealth here and the cost to live here is warranted. I’ve been told more than once.

  14. I disagree. We’re bleeding wealth here and the cost to live here is warranted. I’ve been told more than once.

    The Great Pump’n’Splooge doesn’t count.

  15. Grim says:

    Personal savings rate up to 4.9, so consumers are savers now.

    For years we bitched about the zero savings rate, it’s now improved substantially.

    Why bitch about low consumption?

  16. Liquor Luge says:

    I think all you clowns should stop disrespecting Groundhog Day, which should be the proper topic here.

  17. Fast Eddie says:

    $600,000 is the entrance fee to live in tier 1 neighborhoods. Just ask the scores of muppets in Ridgewood that are two paychecks away from disaster. :o

  18. Liquor Luge says:

    Why save, grim? With the real rate of inflation outpacing yields (and negative interest rates on the horizon), where’s the incentive?

  19. Liquor Luge says:

    It’s too bad we don’t have more Chinese penny stocks to gamble on.

  20. Liquor Luge says:

    gary (18)-

    The new status symbol in NJ is the ability to leave.

  21. chicagofinance says:

    OPINION

    The Alarming Thing About Climate Alarmism
    Exaggerated, worst-case claims result in bad policy and they ignore a wealth of encouraging data.

    By BJORN LOMBORG

    It is an indisputable fact that carbon emissions are rising—and faster than most scientists predicted. But many climate-change alarmists seem to claim that all climate change is worse than expected. This ignores that much of the data are actually encouraging. The latest study from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change found that in the previous 15 years temperatures had risen 0.09 degrees Fahrenheit. The average of all models expected 0.8 degrees. So we’re seeing about 90% less temperature rise than expected.

    Facts like this are important because a one-sided focus on worst-case stories is a poor foundation for sound policies. Yes, Arctic sea ice is melting faster than the models expected. But models also predicted that Antarctic sea ice would decrease, yet it is increasing. Yes, sea levels are rising, but the rise is not accelerating—if anything, two recent papers, one by Chinese scientists published in the January 2014 issue of Global and Planetary Change, and the other by U.S. scientists published in the May 2013 issue of Coastal Engineering, have shown a small decline in the rate of sea-level increase.

    We are often being told that we’re seeing more and more droughts, but a study published last March in the journal Nature actually shows a decrease in the world’s surface that has been afflicted by droughts since 1982.

    Hurricanes are likewise used as an example of the “ever worse” trope. If we look at the U.S., where we have the best statistics, damage costs from hurricanes are increasing—but only because there are more people, with more-expensive property, living near coastlines. If we adjust for population and wealth, hurricane damage during the period 1900-2013 decreased slightly.

    At the U.N. climate conference in Lima, Peru, in December, attendees were told that their countries should cut carbon emissions to avoid future damage from storms like typhoon Hagupit, which hit the Philippines during the conference, killing at least 21 people and forcing more than a million into shelters. Yet the trend for landfalling typhoons around the Philippines has actually declined since 1950, according to a study published in 2012 by the American Meteorological Society’s Journal of Climate. Again, we’re told that things are worse than ever, but the facts don’t support this.

    ENLARGE
    PHOTO: GETTY IMAGES
    This is important because if we want to help the poor people who are most threatened by natural disasters, we have to recognize that it is less about cutting carbon emissions than it is about pulling them out of poverty.

    The best way to see this is to look at the world’s deaths from natural disasters over time. In the Oxford University database for death rates from floods, extreme temperatures, droughts and storms, the average in the first part of last century was more than 13 dead every year per 100,000 people. Since then the death rates have dropped 97% to a new low in the 2010s of 0.38 per 100,000 people.

    The dramatic decline is mostly due to economic development that helps nations withstand catastrophes. If you’re rich like Florida, a major hurricane might cause plenty of damage to expensive buildings, but it kills few people and causes a temporary dent in economic output. If a similar hurricane hits a poorer country like the Philippines or Guatemala, it kills many more and can devastate the economy.

    In short, climate change is not worse than we thought. Some indicators are worse, but some are better. That doesn’t mean global warming is not a reality or not a problem. It definitely is. But the narrative that the world’s climate is changing from bad to worse is unhelpful alarmism, which prevents us from focusing on smart solutions.

    A well-meaning environmentalist might argue that, because climate change is a reality, why not ramp up the rhetoric and focus on the bad news to make sure the public understands its importance. But isn’t that what has been done for the past 20 years? The public has been bombarded with dramatic headlines and apocalyptic photos of climate change and its consequences. Yet despite endless successions of climate summits, carbon emissions continue to rise, especially in rapidly developing countries like India, China and many African nations.

    Alarmism has encouraged the pursuit of a one-sided climate policy of trying to cut carbon emissions by subsidizing wind farms and solar panels. Yet today, according to the International Energy Agency, only about 0.4% of global energy consumption comes from solar photovoltaics and windmills. And even with exceptionally optimistic assumptions about future deployment of wind and solar, the IEA expects that these energy forms will provide a minuscule 2.2% of the world’s energy by 2040.

    In other words, for at least the next two decades, solar and wind energy are simply expensive, feel-good measures that will have an imperceptible climate impact. Instead, we should focus on investing in research and development of green energy, including new battery technology to better store and discharge solar and wind energy and lower its costs. We also need to invest in and promote growth in the world’s poorest nations, which suffer the most from natural disasters.

    Climate-change doomsayers notwithstanding, we urgently need balance if we are to make sensible choices and pick the right climate policy that can help humanity slow, and inevitably adapt to, climate change.

    Mr. Lomborg, director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, is the author of “The Skeptical Environmentalist” (Cambridge Press, 2001) and “Cool It” (Knopf, 2007).

  22. Comrade Nom Deplume, basking in the moment, middle finger extended . . . says:

    [13] Eddie,

    Yeah, I needed a defibrillator and more than once. I loved Kraft’s acceptance speech; it was nicely stated but still a heavily veiled “fcuk you, haters.”

    Sadly, the haters gonna hate, even when Goodell exonerates the Patriots. A friend posted on his thread, “who we gonna play in SB50?” While I thought that mighty presumptuous, I replied “I want to see the Giants”.

  23. Comrade Nom Deplume, basking in the moment, middle finger extended . . . says:
  24. Fast Eddie says:

    Nom,

    Haters hate when others are successful. Just ask the Obama supporters.

  25. Sima says:

    Grim: Yes, the correct word is CHEAP.
    The pharmaceutical companies are still having round after round of lay-offs, especially in IT. The last 2 months have been really bad. There are excellent laid-off workers desperately trying to find work.
    And yet some of the pharma companies are rehiring some of those same laid-off workers as cheap contract workers after about a year (many companies insist that any workers can only be rehired as contract workers after a year has gone by).
    That article made me want to barf, it was so full of BS
    (especially the paragraph:
    “In New Jersey, workers in high demand include those who specialize in pharmaceuticals, biotech, real estate, consumer products and construction.
    Quite simply, there just aren’t enough workers to fill these positions.”)

  26. grim says:

    26 – Yeah that line made me laugh, I cued in on it too.

  27. JJ says:

    Tom Brady, Belicheat, gizelle and that creepy Kraft guy are made for each other.

  28. [24] Nom – My oldest daughter was born in Boston on the morning of the first one, 2/5/2002, so I don’t mind Patriots Super Bowl parades too much. I even enjoy the occasional Red Sox World Series victory parade, especially the one where someone pegged Pedro right in the forehead with a baseball while he was waving from a duck boat. Karma can be a b1tch.

    Expat, make sure those sidewalks get cleared off.

  29. http://www.ibtimes.com/meet-ricki-lander-pictures-robert-krafts-girlfriend-patriots-appearance-super-bowl-1800698

    New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft will be in attendance Sunday when his team takes on the Seattle Seahawks in Super Bowl XLIX, and his longtime girlfriend Ricki Lander will almost certainly be at his side. Kraft, 73, began dating the 34-year-old actress in 2012, and the pair have been seen together frequently since.

    Kraft started seeing Lander nearly a year minute after the death of his wife, Myra Kraft, who died at age 68 of ovarian cancer in 2011.

  30. The scary part is that if I start dating a 34 year old actress when I’m 73 it means she’s about 10 right now.

  31. grim – how did you find this link last week?:

    http://www.weather.gov/images/phi/winter/StormTotalSnowRange.png

    I found our area by changing the URL, but I can’t find any page on weather.gov that points to it, same for your link. I was wondering if there are others. They seem to keep the URL the same and update semi-regularly during storms. Here’s Boston:

    http://www.weather.gov/images/box/winter/StormTotalSnowRange.png

  32. clotluva says:

    “Quite simply, there just aren’t enough workers to fill these positions.”

    I also chuckle when farmers use this same shtick to justify the use of illegal immigrants. What they really mean is:

    “Quite simply, there just aren’t enough workers to fill these positions willing to work for the wages we’d like to pay them.”

    Just like homes that are so overpriced that they aren’t really for sale, I suspect there are a ton of job openings where the prospective pay is so low that they shouldn’t be counted as unfilled jobs. You can’t obtain skilled labor for unskilled wages.

  33. Ragnar says:

    3-4 inches of snow was fully saturated with rain and super soupy this morning. But my Ariens Deluxe 28 still threw it about 20 feet. The problem is that the rain is pooling with snow blocking the normal drainage patterns, so I think there’s going to be a lot of bad ice created tomorrow when it gets really cold. So I’m going to try to get rid of more slush tonight if it’s still around.

  34. Sima says:

    Clotluva: Yes. But the job market is so bad in NJ with so many desperate laid off pharma workers that I noticed at one point that Indian recruiters (who offer the cheapest hourly rates) were announcing that they had pharma IT jobs available at $30. an hour – but you needed 15+ years of experience in certain areas, a Master’s was preferred, etc. And desperate people were applying!
    NJ has such an educated, experienced labor pool that they really should be focusing on attracting new industry here, such as biotechnology.

  35. JJ says:

    I rather be blown than blow snow

    Ragnar says:
    February 2, 2015 at 10:26 am
    3-4 inches of snow was fully saturated with rain and super soupy this morning. But my Ariens Deluxe 28 still threw it about 20 feet. The problem is that the rain is pooling with snow blocking the normal drainage patterns, so I think there’s going to be a lot of bad ice created tomorrow when it gets really cold. So I’m going to try to get rid of more slush tonight if it’s still around.

  36. chicagofinance says:

    I have mentioned that my uncle, who just turned 75, married a 21 year old….yes? Not joking….

    The Original NJ ExPat says:
    February 2, 2015 at 9:58 am
    The scary part is that if I start dating a 34 year old actress when I’m 73 it means she’s about 10 right now.

  37. clotluva says:

    Sima: If I were in IT, then at that point I’d transition away from “Pharma IT” and migrate to Healthcare IT or Finance IT or heck, even Government IT (particularly in a role that required a security clearance that favored citizens). If my career hinged on Pharma or Biotech IT, then I’d be off to the SF Bay Area, where it is seems to still be booming.

  38. chicagofinance says:

    To this day, I still have not identified the baseball source material for deriving the term “blown save”.

    JJ says:
    February 2, 2015 at 10:44 am
    I rather be blown than blow snow

    Ragnar says:
    February 2, 2015 at 10:26 am
    3-4 inches of snow was fully saturated with rain and super soupy this morning. But my Ariens Deluxe 28 still threw it about 20 feet. The problem is that the rain is pooling with snow blocking the normal drainage patterns, so I think there’s going to be a lot of bad ice created tomorrow when it gets really cold. So I’m going to try to get rid of more slush tonight if it’s still around.

  39. Juice Box says:

    Should make for a nice skating rink tomorrow, supposed to dip to 15 degrees by rush hour tomorrow.

  40. Juice Box says:

    re: # 38 – She will ride him to the grave for sure.

  41. Sima says:

    Clotluva: Yes, there is some migration from pharma to healthcare IT – but even there, there are just not enough jobs.
    There are so many unemployed finance and pharma (business) IT workers that there is basically NO migration from one to the other. The companies want workers that they do not need to train for even 1 day, and that are experienced in exactly what they now need.
    Basically they need to replace the workers that they laid off, but want to pay them only a fraction of the original salaries.
    As I’ve said before, recruiters have said that they are totally overwhelmed with resumes (200+ on the first day of posting) from totally qualified workers.
    Bottom line: too may workers and too few jobs.
    Interestingly, American recruiters are not as obsessed with the age of the unemployed person as the Indian recruiters. But age is definitely a big factor in whether a person is considered for even a low-paying contract job .

  42. 1987 Condo says:

    #43..of course age can’t be a factor, that would be illegal….

  43. JJ says:

    The blown save was introduced by the Rolaids Relief Man Award in 1988.

    chicagofinance says:
    February 2, 2015 at 10:53 am
    To this day, I still have not identified the baseball source material for deriving the term “blown save”.

  44. AG says:

    I don’t shovel snow. I leave that for the fatties.

  45. Toxic Crayons says:

    Anyone home organizing their butt plug drawer or did you guys make it to work?

  46. Toxic Crayons says:

    Broke the dude’s neck and not a day in jail. What kind of judge let’s this guy walk?

    Passaic man spared jail in severe road rage case

    JANUARY 16, 2015, 5:04 PM LAST UPDATED: FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 2015, 5:04 PM
    BY PETER J. SAMPSON
    STAFF WRITER | THE RECORD
    Print
    A Passaic man who violently assaulted an elderly couple in Garfield in what a prosecutor described as the worse case of road rage he had ever encountered was spared a jail sentence Friday.

    While pressing for a one-year jail term for Robert DeJesus, 39, the prosecutor acknowledged the defendant was truly remorseful and that his forthrightness in recounting what happened had helped the victim to get his medical bills covered by an auto insurer.

    DeJesus admitted he pulled the then 75-year-old driver from his truck and decked him with a single punch that broke his nose, knocked out teeth and left him unconscious in the street with three fractured cervical vertebrae.

    When the 64-year-old female passenger tried to intervene to protect her friend, DeJesus lifted her up and threw her onto the truck’s hood, tearing her rotor cuff, and injuring her arm and leg.

    Turning to his victims in court on Friday, DeJesus, who pleaded guilty to aggravated assault in October, apologized for “the pain and suffering” he had caused them. “I hope you can find it in your hearts, if not today then one day, to forgive me,” he said.

    The Dec. 11, 2013 incident began when DeJesus was traveling on the Ackerman Avenue bridge from Passaic Garfield and made a right turn from the left turn lane in front of the other vehicle. The move caused the older driver to nearly lose control of his vehicle, and he then followed DeJesus south on River Drive as DeJesus swerved in his lane and repeatedly gestured at the man and his passenger.

    At the Monroe Street intersection, when both vehicles were stopped at a red light, DeJesus got out of his car and started banging on the couple’s vehicle. DeJesus admitted he then pulled the driver from his vehicle and punched him.

    Bergen County Assistant Prosecutor Nicholas Ostuni told Superor Court Judge Liliana S. DeAvila-Silebi on Friday that DeJesus had taken responsibility for his actions and cooperated fully, enabling the other driver to show that he was pulled from his vehicle so his injuries should be covered by auto insurance.

    Ostuni asked the judge to impose a 364-day sentence in the county jail, but the judge instead sentenced DeJesus to four years probation.

    “It’s just very sad,” the judge said, noting that each driver cut the other off before DeJesus got out of his car and punched the older man. “It was all over nothing,” she said. “What really concerns me most is your anger.”

    Referring to a quote from Mahatma Gandhi, the judge told DeJesus, “Anger is like a hot steel rod in your hand; the only one who’s getting hurt is you.” She ordered DeJesus to undergo anger management counseling and to avoid any contact with the victims.

    The other driver, who has a heart condition, said afterward that he was lucky that DeJesus didn’t punch him in the chest because he might not have survived.

    Email: sampson@northjersey.com

  47. JJ says:

    You know those Jersey folk like that stuff. Toughens their butt holes for their long bus rides to Port Authority.

    Toxic Crayons says:
    February 2, 2015 at 11:53 am
    Anyone home organizing their butt plug drawer or did you guys make it to work?

  48. Comrade Nom Deplume with extended middle finger to the haters. says:

    [28] JJ

    Wanna see which finger the ring goes on?

  49. Xolepa says:

    Anyone complaining about their gas bill this year? Just got mine, for the month of January – $176. I keep my entire house at 71, don’t turn it down. Also have gas stoves, gas dryer, gas fireplace in the basement.

  50. Juice Box says:

    No worries the Millennials will buy us all out.

    “Mortgage debt threatens boomers’ retirements”

    “Most worrisome, fully 42% of households age 65 to 74 had housing debt in 2013, compared with just 18% in 1992. ”

    http://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-mortgage-debt-threatens-boomers-retirements-2015-02-02

  51. FKA 2010 Buyer says:
  52. FKA 2010 Buyer says:

    Interesting thought….

    Don’t mess with government giveaways to the well-off

    If you want to know whether an idea like this has any chance of getting support in Congress, the first question to ask is, who is going to be harmed? The 529 proposal was targeted at what may be the single most dangerous constituency to anger: the upper middle class. That’s because they’re wealthy enough to have influence, and numerous enough to be a significant voting block.

    The administration’s proposal may not have been policy genius, but it was certainly defensible. While 529 plans are open to anyone, they give their greatest benefit to those who have the disposable income to make substantial contributions to them, which of course are the wealthy and near-wealthy. While different surveys have produced slightly different figures (some are discussed here), it’s clear that most of the tax benefit was flowing to parents with six-figure incomes who could afford to pay taxes on the profits of their 529 accounts.

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2015/01/28/dont-mess-with-government-giveaways-to-the-well-off/

  53. Libturd at home says:

    My Troy-Bilt worked great, but the cotter pin which holds the rod which turns to rotate the chute snapped and then the rod fell out. I had to turn the chute manually after that. It’s a 50 cent repair, but it’s definitely not a Honda. When I went over to my multi with the Honda, it actually worked well. The neighbors asked me to look at their blower since it wouldn’t start. I had to laugh when I saw it. It was the identical blower to mine, but a different brand. They had left it in the backyard under shelter, but still exposed to change in climate for the last two years. When I pressed the prime button, fuel squeezed out of a fuel line. I told them that this was probably the cause of their issue. They also never changed the oil. One should change the oil every year and after the first 5 hours of use.

  54. Libturd at home says:

    FKA, how about simply shrinking the size of government and not making up BS jobs every time there is a recession?

  55. homeboken says:

    FKA Re: 55 – See also Mortgage Interest Deduction

    Figure 35-40% of the population are renters. Then add all those that have no mortgage.

    MID is a blatant giveaway to the upper middle class, with no economic benefit to the greater good.

  56. Libturd at home says:

    Who is going to rent all of those residences out?

  57. FKA 2010 Buyer says:

    [57] Libturd

    I would love to see how great this country could be if we could get rid of all the graf and fraud that is baked into Fed, State, and Local govt budgets.

  58. Libturd at home says:

    This country would return to greatness once the two party system is dismantled by a third party not beholden to lobbyist dollars and campaigns financed by the highest bidders. Until then, I will continue to exercise my right to vote by typing none-of-the above into my ballot on each and every election day.

  59. FKA 2010 Buyer says:

    Well played

  60. Ragnar says:

    55
    When people assume that the government owns the citizens, not vice-versa, then every dollar the government doesn’t tax from someone is presumed a “give-away”. Do I have that straight?
    I guess the government is “giving away” the ~52% of my income that they aren’t taxing from me this year.
    But goodness, they’re also “giving away” a lot to me by allowing me to defer gains in my 401k. Why isn’t Obama getting rid of that “give-away” also? Maybe he should also put an ankle bracelet on me to track me and making sure I’m working my hardest to make money for the collective. Perhaps he can also come up with some work-songs for me to sing while I’m making money for my master: “society”.

  61. grim says:

    You could tighten the MID parameters to eliminate the “benefits to the rich”, while still maintaining a middle and lower income benefit.

    Move from $1 million to $500k in debt allowable.

    Restrict to only acquisition debt of the primary residence. Eliminate MID for home equity loans.

    Eliminate MID for vacation and rental properties.

    Eliminate MID for boats, since a wealthy person can claim MID on the mortgage of her yacht. Likewise for 6 figure luxury RVs.

  62. 1987 Condo says:

    #64..agree, should be a no brainer.

  63. Anon E. Moose says:

    Grim [2];

    Every time you see the word employee, worker, or person, simply insert the word “cheap” before it to help understand the article more clearly.

    Too true. They should be forced to ask those complaining about this “Have you tried increasing salary?” or “How much are you offering?”

  64. Juice Box says:

    Today’s workers are push overs.

  65. Comrade Nom Deplume, who needs to stop screwing around and get back to work says:

    [56] lib

    I bought a troy bilt mower once and the fit and quality was so poor, I returned it immediately. Never even used it. Bought a Snapper and that performed well until I sold it.

    For small engines other than Honda, Kohler seems to be the gold standard. Unfortunately, in the aftermarket, its hard to find.

  66. Grim says:

    What’s with Christies idiotic vaccine comments today?

  67. Ben says:

    What’s with Christies idiotic vaccine comments today?

    Pandering to the psychotic part of the republican base. Apparently, vaccines are a government conspiracy.

  68. Anon E. Moose says:

    Juice [67];

    Are they? Maybe they’re not negotiating hammer & tongs for more pay (and wouldn’t that please puffin stuff?), they’re just deciding to take the latter option in a “Take it or Leave it” lowball salary offer?

    Like the old joke goes: “Light up your Camels; sit on your a$$es; this is the promised land.”

  69. grim says:

    70 – Is this some kind of bizzaro Monday? Obama backs vaccines, Christie calls them an option? WTF? Rand Paul backs the option position now too? Since when was this the republican position?

  70. Juice Box says:

    Re: #70 – Ben Marin County where the measles outbreak and where a whopping 10% opt out of vaccines isn’t exactly psychotic Republicans it’s mostly Bobo elites.

  71. Juice Box says:

    Re# 71 – Moose I’ll fight tooth and nail to give a worker a 10% salary increase, if t is deserved. Another week off? NO finger way. I get more requests for time off than raises. They all know the game by now low raises, and they only get a promotion if they man up.

    Smoke the camels, have a liquid lunch, grow a set. NO SPINE I say.

  72. Grim says:

    I clearly belong to no party.

    A pox on both their houses.

  73. Grim says:

    Suge – totally bonfire of the vanities

  74. leftwing says:

    53 – The photos are absolutely correct. Remove 90% of the people and the State is fantastic.

    55 – Damn those random bouts of honesty….”most of the tax benefit was flowing to parents with six-figure incomes who could afford to pay taxes”. Ooops, did we really just say citizens should be taxed until they are unable to pay anymore?

  75. Ragnar says:

    2 groups don’t like immunizations. The Christian science crowd is one. Maybe that’s who republicans are going for. The second group is the Hollywood crowd with mystical health gurus, chewing up their baby’s food, and nursing to age 10. Plus herbal vag steaming with Gwyneth. They are immune to disease but are pretty sure it’s modern medicine that makes their kids mentally “special”.

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