From the Record:
North Jersey employers put out the ‘Help Wanted’ sign
Ikea is hiring — and so are Hackensack University Medical Center, Public Service Electric and Gas Co., Eisai and Toys “R” Us, among other North Jersey employers. With New Jersey’s unemployment rate at its lowest point since 2007 — dropping to 4.3 percent in February — North Jersey employers and hiring counselors say the outlook for jobseekers is the brightest it’s been in years.
“There’s more out there; there’s more opportunity,” said Sandra Leshaw, director of Re-Launch Career Services at Jewish Family Services in Teaneck.
The highest demand is for workers with skills in health care and technology. Construction workers also are likely to find more opportunities now and in the coming months, thanks to a revival in home building, along with large-scale projects like Fort Lee’s downtown redevelopment, the American Dream project in East Rutherford, and plans for several new hotels in the region. Retail, manufacturing and warehousing also are hiring.
Still, challenges remain for jobseekers in North Jersey. The state added 81,500 jobs last year — the highest total since 1999. But this year’s jobs numbers have been less promising. In January and February, New Jersey lost a total of 24,300 jobs, many of them in the well-paid professional and business services sector, as well as in education and health. New Jersey’s job numbers for March are to be released Thursday.
The state still hasn’t made up all the jobs lost in the 2007-09 recession. By contrast, the nation has almost 6 million more jobs than it did before the recession.
Although the labor market has tightened, wages haven’t moved much, when adjusted for inflation. Under the laws of supply and demand, wages would be expected to rise as employers compete for scarcer workers.
But so far, that hasn’t happened. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, wages nationwide rose about 2.3 percent in the 12 months ending in March — a bit higher than 2 percent range of recent years. Even Janet Yellen, the chairwoman of the Federal Reserve, said there’s still enough slack in the workforce to keep wages from heating up.
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Eisai Inc., a pharmaceutical company in Woodcliff Lake, is one employer that has seen wages pushed up by competition for experienced employees in its highly specialized industry.“Top candidates have their choice of jobs,” said Lucille Naclerio, director of human resources. “Companies now need to position themselves to stand out.”
Eisai has 48 open positions in New Jersey, up 35 percent from a year ago.
Ryan Sanzari, director of operations for the real estate developer Alfred Sanzari Enterprises in Hackensack, said that paychecks in the building trades might soon reflect the rising demand for construction skills.
“If a carpenter has seven jobs going on at once, he’s going to throw higher numbers at you,” Sanzari said.
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Even with the increased hiring, not all the news is positive. Many of New Jersey’s new jobs are in lower-paid industries such as restaurants and retail, where a paycheck often cannot support a household. And many workers who lost their jobs in the 2007-09 recession have struggled to get back into the workforce — especially if they’re older.“There’s discrimination against older workers,” said Tammy Molinelli, head of the Bergen County Workforce Development Board. “That’s frustrating for us. We see so many talented people walking through the door.”
Many of those returning to the workforce after long periods of unemployment have had to take pay cuts, said Christopher Irving, head of the Passaic County Workforce Development Board.
Prospects are most difficult for job hunters without basic skills — such as proficiency in English, writing and simple math. These days, even entry-level office jobs require familiarity with Microsoft Word and Excel, said Molinelli.
“In the 21st century, technology is the way we communicate,” she said. The state’s One-Stop Career Centers offer training in basic technology skills, she said.
Both Molinelli and Irving said employers are looking for “soft skills,” such as being able to arrive at work on time, meet deadlines and get along with colleagues and clients.
“You’re not going to function in a work environment if you can’t work on a team, solve problems and communicate,” Molinelli said.
Good Morning New Jersey
Could you be more specific, Mike?
Is that the old ad campaign for Lotto?
Splat What Was He Thinking says:
April 11, 2016 at 6:51 am
All gluteus has is deflection, straw man and move-the-goalposts.
more than an apology, we owe them reparations
@BernieSanders
As president,
I would formally apologize for our country’s deplorable practice of slavery.
It’s easy to apologize for something that is entirely not Bernie’s doing and for which he personally will face no repercussions. Apology is cheap grace that appeals to only to guilty white leftists (Like ANON! Quelle suprise!).
As for reparations: I never owned slaves; no black man or woman alive ever involuntarily picked cotton. I might go along with it if only it bought this country an irrevocable “STFU” trump card to play any time some ignorant leftists jest can’t help themselves but cry “Racism!” For that reason along, the BLM movement would NEVER agree to it. They’d love to get the money, of course, but they would never willingly surrender their self- proclaimed position of “moral superiority”.
Hey Gourd-O! Seems like wage inflation ($15/hr.) is collapsing under its own weight.
California Labor Union That Fought for $15 Minimum Wage Now Wants an Exemption
When even the Los Angeles Times op-ed page says “This is hypocrisy at its worst,” you’ve gone too far left.
Give the reparations, it’ll be blown in a flash on useless sh1t. It’s worth the price to see what new excuse the left and their slackers will create to ask for more as they wallow in humiliation.
Looks like Bernie is now trying hard to narrow the Gap in NY. Buying the vote with promises of free stuff like reparations is the only way to go.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/ny/new_york_democratic_presidential_primary-4221.html
Clot, what’s on zero hedge today?
Tinpot, I left a response on the last thread.
Everytime I hear somebody say that, It reminds me of this skit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg6J1Skptbs
GOP’s broken (the good one) says:
April 11, 2016 at 8:48 am
more than an apology, we owe them reparations
@BernieSanders
As president,
I would formally apologize for our country’s deplorable practice of slavery.
Create a loophole and they will come:
Bob’s discount furniture seeks exemption from living wage rule.
Bob is getting:
Under the town’s proposed seven-year tax agreement with Bob’s, the company would pay no real estate taxes on the new building for three years, starting in October 2017. In the fourth year, Bob’s would pay 10 percent of the taxes, and the bill would rise to 30 percent by the seventh year. After that, Bob’s would pay 100 percent of its real estate taxes. The new building is expected to be assessed at about $17 million.
Bob wants more:
However, the town’s living wage ordinance, which applies to any company that gets a substantial tax break, requires company employees with comprehensive health care benefits be paid $13.41 an hour — $17.13 an hour for those without such benefits. The rates are based on a wage at or above the federal poverty level for a family of four, Planning and Economic Development Direct Mark Pellegrini wrote.
In seeking a waiver, company representatives said that of the 1,052 Bob’s workers in Connecticut, 17 entry-level employees in Manchester make less than the living wage specified in the ordinance, town officials said.
I guess the old commie senses opportunity and is finally going to drop the deference he’s been affording Hillary as party queen.
That scene was staged beautifully for Bill when he had the conniption last week. I think that when the Clinton sheeple take a look(very few do) at the record they’ll flee. These people have been a disaster for lower and lower middle class folk.
Hey Gourd-O! Seems like wage inflation ($15/hr.) is collapsing under its own weight.
California Labor Union That Fought for $15 Minimum Wage Now Wants an Exemption
When even the Los Angeles Times op-ed page says “This is hypocrisy at its worst,” you’ve gone too far left.
Exemption for union shops? This has nothing to do with living wage and everything to do with protectionism and building a monopoly.
It’s F*CKING CRIMINAL.
I’m running for President
Every one that votes for me gets $1Million Dollars cash once I’m in office
taxpayer funded of course
What’s the chance they ever pay a full bill? The state has to wait till year 8? They will never see a “true” tax bill. Worst part, they prob cry that the taxes are crushing them. Jerkoffs. Play the game, mikey. Play the game.
Bystander says:
April 11, 2016 at 10:31 am
Create a loophole and they will come:
Bob’s discount furniture seeks exemption from living wage rule.
Bob is getting:
Under the town’s proposed seven-year tax agreement with Bob’s, the company would pay no real estate taxes on the new building for three years, starting in October 2017. In the fourth year, Bob’s would pay 10 percent of the taxes, and the bill would rise to 30 percent by the seventh year. After that, Bob’s would pay 100 percent of its real estate taxes. The new building is expected to be assessed at about $17 million.
Bob wants more:
However, the town’s living wage ordinance, which applies to any company that gets a substantial tax break, requires company employees with comprehensive health care benefits be paid $13.41 an hour — $17.13 an hour for those without such benefits. The rates are based on a wage at or above the federal poverty level for a family of four, Planning and Economic Development Direct Mark Pellegrini wrote.
In seeking a waiver, company representatives said that of the 1,052 Bob’s workers in Connecticut, 17 entry-level employees in Manchester make less than the living wage specified in the ordinance, town officials said.
That’s not a real union. They don’t give a fu!k about their workers. These are the type of unions that have given unions a bad name. Run by crooks, who let human nature get the best of them. My word of advice, don’t associate every good union with the actions of this corrupt union.
Anon E. Moose says:
April 11, 2016 at 9:28 am
Hey Gourd-O! Seems like wage inflation ($15/hr.) is collapsing under its own weight.
California Labor Union That Fought for $15 Minimum Wage Now Wants an Exemption
When even the Los Angeles Times op-ed page says “This is hypocrisy at its worst,” you’ve gone too far left.
IT didn’t work for Gilligan.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/08/politics/castaways-rescue-help-sign/index.html
“When it comes to inflation, bond traders are finally starting to listen to the Federal Reserve.
After trying, and failing, to convince investors the steep drop-off in inflation in the past year was just a short-term blip, the Fed is now winning them over. Since mid-February, the outlook for consumer-price gains has soared from post-crisis lows as oil rebounds and Chair Janet Yellen signals a willingness to let the U.S. economy run hot before raising interest rates again. By one measure, market expectations rose last month by the most since 2011.”
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-10/fed-s-inflation-push-finally-has-bond-traders-wanting-to-believe
Now that you understand human nature, let’s not create powerful labor unions that inevitably will be run solely by fallibly human beings who further their own self interest.
The Great Pumpkin says:
April 11, 2016 at 12:02 pm
That’s not a real union. They don’t give a fu!k about their workers. These are the type of unions that have given unions a bad name. Run by crooks, who let human nature get the best of them. My word of advice, don’t associate every good union with the actions of this corrupt union.
Joyce
If memory serves, you said previously that SS (and maybe Medicare too) should be 100% pay as you go and adjusted as needed continually. Or am I mistaken? How does your plan stop redistrisbuting from one generation to another? The adjustment being taxes and benefits.
Redistributing-hmm, well it depends on exactly what you mean.
If I am reading you correctly, you are saying that I agree to “redistribute” from one generation to another also. I do not have a problem with that, can’t speak for Funnelcloud , however.
The problem comes in when you change the rules for some and not for others aka “grandfathering”.
Raising the age to collect for example. Bad move. Voucher vs Medicare is another bad move. These types of things are just what those who are “transition” types such as yourself are fond of. I don’t know your situation, maybe you are collecting, your mother, father, in laws , etc, or maybe none of the above. Does not matter.
It is immoral, unfair, unjust to take money from, for example, a working 20 year old kid (under one set of rules) and give it to an older person (under a different set of rules).
The issue is not the redistribution itself but the changes in how the money is redistributed. It is clearly in favor of the voting class (aka majority) vs the minority (younger voters) just by sheer volume.
If you raise the age to collect, it’s fine, just make it retroactive. No money disbursed until the retroactive payment is paid back. Institute it immediately with no delay.
Can’t stomach that, then don’t raise the age to collect. No problem. Just cut the amount paid out to equalize the system immediately -no transition period allowed.
Anything else is fraud.
Yes, there needs to be a limit in power (checks/balances) to protect human civilization from itself. One thing we have learned from history, human nature can’t be trusted.
D-FENS says:
April 11, 2016 at 12:24 pm
Now that you understand human nature, let’s not create powerful labor unions that inevitably will be run solely by fallibly human beings who further their own self interest.
What is more powerful, lobbyists in congress or a union? Is it better to be pro-active and make laws and rules in your favor, or fight and go on strike later?
Let’s call it a constitutional republic…what do you think? Wish somebody would have thought of that earlier….hmmmm.
The Great Pumpkin says:
April 11, 2016 at 12:39 pm
Yes, there needs to be a limit in power (checks/balances) to protect human civilization from itself. One thing we have learned from history, human nature can’t be trusted.
Traffic…JJ Style
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW9Fiu9IlA4
gary – Smack, Newports, grape soda, and lottery tickets? Some might go to ghetto gold (flatscreen TVs) as a store of value.
Give the reparations, it’ll be blown in a flash on useless sh1t. It’s worth the price to see what new excuse the left and their slackers will create to ask for more as they wallow in humiliation.
The next “nudge” toward single payer and socialized med:
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/04/11/feds-new-plan-to-wean-some-doctors-off-fee-for-service.html
Rory:
I figured you would try to hang your argument on your interpretation of a single word, taken (cherry picked?) out of context.
Your narcissism is worse than I figured, you honestly think that everyone on this board is far less intelligent than you.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@DefendWallSt
Hillary’s campaign staff blocked an African American girl from getting on the subway so HRC could get a photo-op
https://twitter.com/DefendWallSt/status/719221938317619200
Raymond, first, I’d appreciate if you stop pulling a ‘Michael’ and putting words in my mouth. Second, I’m surprised you want to play games with the definition of the word redistribute. With a program in place taking from some and given to others, it is impossible to prevent the program’s details from being changed both for legitimate reasons (deficits due to wartime spending, etc) and illegitimate ones (political maneuvers). Preventing these things from happening is as likely as ending the program = zero chance.
You have a problem changing the rules over time:
“It is immoral, unfair, unjust to take money from, for example, a working 20 year old kid (under one set of rules) and give it to an older person (under a different set of rules).”
But are okay with:
“If you raise the age to collect, it’s fine, just make it retroactive. No money disbursed until the retroactive payment is paid back. Institute it immediately with no delay. Can’t stomach that, then don’t raise the age to collect. No problem. Just cut the amount paid out to equalize the system immediately -no transition period allowed.”
First, I don’t believe you are sincere in this statement. What about the people who lived and died under a different set of rules. They get a pass? What are the reasons for needing to equalize the system? Is it politicians stealing and blowing the money on something and not saving it (one of the reason we have facing us now). And you’re okay getting less? What if the FICA tax rates have to go up, you’re going to make that retroactive? Using what metrics? Are we going to inflation adjust people earnings from 45 years ago?
“Anything less is fraud.”
Yes, as is what you suggest, as is the current system. It must be ended. I am in the middle of my working years, just so you know. I understand you don’t want to take it on the chin. I don’t either, but someone will. I’d absolutely include current retirees in sharing the pain (but like I said above, the people who came before them should share in it as well). Anyway, this is all academic. There is no chance in hell anything drastic changes. Their only solution until now is slowly raising taxes and slowly lowering payouts over time.
Gourd-o [26];
That’s not a real union. They don’t give a fu!k about their workers. These are the type of unions that have given unions a bad name. Run by crooks, who let human nature get the best of them. My word of advice, don’t associate every good union with the actions of this corrupt union.
An exercise for you: go look up the “No True Scotsman” fallacy.
The biggest problem with soci@lists (like you from time to time, and like Anon and Fabu more reliably) is that they expect that their magical fairy dust will make all humans stop “let[ting] human nature get the best of them.”
Oh, and given them a few hundred billion to tide them over while it all works itself out. Soci@lism is always good… for the Soci@lists.
Constitutional republic has to eliminate money from elections to at least have a chance. Ask our govt about that. What good are checks and balances if you are “paid” to legislate around them?
D-FENS says:
April 11, 2016 at 12:48 pm
Let’s call it a constitutional republic…what do you think? Wish somebody would have thought of that earlier….hmmmm.
ExPat [25],
Don’t forget the diamond-studded walking stick, 40s era fedora and pimped out vehicle. Think large!
education cures racism
@PBS
Tonight, @KenBurns invites you to see Jackie Robinson hit it out of the park.
Begins @ 9/8c. #JackieRobinsonPBS
I do think you are dead on with the social!st approach to human nature. They take a John Locke approach and believe good can overcome bad. As I age, I have realized this is nothing more than a pipe dream; hence, why I have given up on “true social!sm” as a viable form of govt. I think it will always be based on some form of a hybrid version of capitalism/social!sm.
The big question is automation. If it goes to where I think we are going, what system of economics will we employ? That’s the big question.
“The biggest problem with soci@lists (like you from time to time, and like Anon and Fabu more reliably) is that they expect that their magical fairy dust will make all humans stop “let[ting] human nature get the best of them.”
Oh, and given them a few hundred billion to tide them over while it all works itself out. Soci@lism is always good… for the Soci@lists.”
Yup, seems pretty inevitable.
Could this be a sign of the beaten up consumer in the American economic system and a product of income concentration? Majority of the population can no longer afford health care costs, so the answer is to socialize the costs?
Comrade Nom Deplume, Recovering From The Slopes says:
April 11, 2016 at 1:04 pm
The next “nudge” toward single payer and socialized med:
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/04/11/feds-new-plan-to-wean-some-doctors-off-fee-for-service.html
The design is fine. The trouble is people don’t understand it, forget it, and/or keep trying to reinvent what is already there.
The best place to start to walk things back would be term limits for congress and the senate. No one should be a politician by trade.
This could only be done through a constitutional convention.
The Great Pumpkin says:
April 11, 2016 at 1:31 pm
Constitutional republic has to eliminate money from elections to at least have a chance. Ask our govt about that. What good are checks and balances if you are “paid” to legislate around them?
Nailed it. No one should make a career out of being a politician. It should be reserved for those that have already succeeded and truly care for their country. The positions should not monetarily compensate anyone. Once you start attaching pensions and salaries, out comes the devil.
Could you imagine having elections where the basis is truly on how to make America better as opposed to making a politician’s life better? You need to eliminate any/all compensation attached to elected govt positions. Then we can start to have hope for politicians that will actually do what’s good for the people as opposed to themselves.
D-FENS says:
April 11, 2016 at 2:20 pm
The design is fine. The trouble is people don’t understand it, forget it, and/or keep trying to reinvent what is already there.
The best place to start to walk things back would be term limits for congress and the senate. No one should be a politician by trade.
This could only be done through a constitutional convention.
The Great Pumpkin says:
April 11, 2016 at 1:31 pm
Constitutional republic has to eliminate money from elections to at least have a chance. Ask our govt about that. What good are checks and balances if you are “paid” to legislate around them?
Tool [33];
education cures racism
@PBS
Tonight, @KenBurns invites you to see Jackie Robinson hit it out of the park.
Begins @ 9/8c. #JackieRobinsonPBS
If sports had affirmative action like so many other parts of government-run life, A) Jackie Robinson would have been crowded out of the field by mediocre talents just because they looked like him; and B) It wouldn’t have much mattered because no one would be watching the resulting mediocrity sh!t show anyway.
A certain health insurer can expect a number of federal agency “probes” and castigation from the minority leaders soon.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/unitedhealth-makes-good-threat-pull-215900019.html?soc_src=mediacontentstory&soc_trk=fb
Sad to see that many of the jobs that are becoming available are lower wage opportunities. With the cost of living and the percentage of college graduates looking for jobs, I would have hoped their would be more high paying jobs popping up.
[40] Amy
Jack Lew says you’re mistaken. Things are great.
Report for re-education at once.
[35] pumpkin
The result of single-payer legislation would result in a very distinct two-tiered healthcare delivery system. The best care would clearly be reserved for those who paid cash. The rest would go to bless her hospitals and less qualified doctors and healthcare delivery systems.
The way to get around that would be to do what they did in Canada which is to effectively bar private medical practices. All providers in Canada must receive payment from the government system. No one can get care outside of that payment system, not legally anyway.
All providers in Canada must receive payment from the government system. No one can provide care outside of that payment system, not legally anyway. However, I can see a number of impediments to implementing such a system in the United States, the least of which would be that it may run afoul of The Constitution.
“the least of which would be that it may run afoul of The Constitution.”
That doesn’t seem to stop them very often.
Ocean City , NJ voted best beach in America discuss
“the least of which would be that it may run afoul of The Constitution.”
That doesn’t seem to stop them very often.
This.
#27 Tinpot
Not sure what word you mean, I had to look up “promulgating”. So much for my narcissistic intelligence.
Feel free to correct any context. I think its more that, you have realized what you wrote. You went for the personal attack, heaven forbid, you be seen walking something back.
#30 Moose
I use government regulation to “make all humans stop “let[ting] human nature get the best of them.””
gluteus (9)-
Dunno, bitch. Why don’t you go to ZH and read it yourself?
BTW, there was an article over the weekend about how Arsenal inevitably spits the bit whenever success is at hand.
“Clot, what’s on zero hedge today?”
phoenix (20)-
C’mon, dude. We both know that anything floated as a “solution” to the biggest long con in history will involve fraud as a core principle.
“Anything else is fraud.”
(21)-
This…uttered by the biggest, most gullible Pangloss in the history of NJRER:
“Yes, there needs to be a limit in power (checks/balances) to protect human civilization from itself. One thing we have learned from history, human nature can’t be trusted.”
Somebody slip some PCP into this fool’s drink. It might actually wake him up.
joyce (29)-
The old “how do you boil a frog” joke…the “fix” will involve gradualism at its slowest, most insidious worst. Raise the temperature in the pot one degree at a time.
“Their only solution until now is slowly raising taxes and slowly lowering payouts over time.”
Cruz and Kasich hitting upstate NY hard.
Here is an optic that Trump will not want to see.
http://gawker.com/ted-cruz-courting-the-brooklyn-republican-orthodox-jewi-1769791221
If Cruz can pull a sizable block of that vote away from Trump, there is no way he gets to 50% for winner takes all.
yome (44)-
Can’t get a goddam drink there.
“Ocean City , NJ voted best beach in America discuss”
gluteus (52)-
Teddy Cruz should talk to Shrillary about how she got Kiryas Joel in the bag, back in the day. She and her white Al Sharpton dirtball of a husband wrote the book on shady quid-pro-quo.
“Cruz and Kasich hitting upstate NY hard.
Here is an optic that Trump will not want to see.
http://gawker.com/ted-cruz-courting-the-brooklyn-republican-orthodox-jewi-1769791221
If Cruz can pull a sizable block of that vote away from Trump, there is no way he gets to 50% for winner takes all.”
I do love the way Jesus fundamentalists fear, revere and loathe Jews all at once.
You can literally make a Jesus fundamentalist stroke out if you just tell him Islam is also a Semitic religion.
Anti-Islam is then simply another form of anti-Semitism.
BTW, I pulled #56 on my aunt in Texas a few years ago. She ended up not speaking to me until my mom died last year.
#48
Then you would have nothing to post.
Was the Arsenal article as depressing as this?
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/football/507232/Alan-Shearer-Newcastle-Toon-Rafa-Benitez-Relegation-News-Gossip-Round-Up-Latest
[46] Rory
You equated my use of “constructive” in the context of bringing issues to the fore to mean approval. And after I said I didn’t support Trump. How you get approval out of that is beyond me. I don’t think even the MSNBC staff would attempt those inferential leaps.
You’re looking to win the point by misconstruing my message, that Trump, for his faults, was talking about things that his opposition isn’t touching and proposing solutions for them. Oh, and I seem to recall calling his ideas “undeveloped”. I, for one, don’t think “undeveloped” was complimentary in that regard.
And I’m sorry you had to look up “promulgated.” But if being polysyllabic = narcissistic, so be it. You’re a majority of one
[59] Rory
I don’t think clot lives vicariously through an EPL team.
Perhaps in England social status is conferred based on which side you support. Not so here.
#54 Clot
She turned Rt 17 into I-86, it would be hard to top that.
Is there a Halal ETF?
Gluteus (59)-
Been down before. We’ll be right back up.
Bad as Ashley is as an owner, I’ll take him over Kroenke every day. Kroenke has no intention of Arsenal ever winning EPL or CL.
Plume (61)-
I do come close to living vicariously through my sheer delight at the serial failures of Arsenal.
Stu (63)-
Parve is about as good as you’ll find.
Scadenfreude
Schadenfreude, even.
Constructive is building toward something. Underdeveloped means the source is there, it just needs to be built upon.
Here are his positions do they hold up?
https://www.donaldjtrump.com/positions/tax-reform
People are talking about the issues, mostly from the point of “what is this guy smoking?” Everything is a deal or a negotiation. There is no substance and what there is, is geared toward the rich.
Promulgated is beyond polysyllabic. It may be a common word in your field, but its not in mine and I suspect many others had to look it up.
I don’t live vicariously through my football team. I’m not the one that brings football into these discussions. In fact it seems to me that you seem to be the one who is in here crowing about the Pats. It will be interesting to see if you follow the Toon through the drop.
#64
My friend from the boro said that, although he may get his wish this year. My cousin also said it when Leeds went down. The choice between Kroenke or Usmonov was never going to be a good one. We did see some money finally come out for players.
Trump ain’t getting elected. Cankles will win and we’ll have 4 more years for the Dems to figure out how to stop the next unowned candidate. For anyone who supports Obamacare…I invite you to stop by my hospital room so you can see what a complete and utter rim job I’m receiving through my well regarded BCBS. Healthcare in this country is a friggin crock of sh1t. It’s so rife with bad decisions and the insurance companies and hospital networks are so huge (by design), they couldn’t find savings with a coupon in hand. When this is all done, I am going to write a book about how horrifying healthcare is in this country. And really, it’s all due to the lobbies.
This is why I stated what I did in post 35. As the income inequality increases and drives down the consumer’s ability to pay health costs, it’s slowly becoming socialized to pay the cost. Yes, the wealthy will continue to get the best treatment; under this system, the laws dictating that the providers must be paid by the govt is exactly what the wealthy want. Why? They are above the law, laws don’t apply to them, laws were only meant to control the masses. So the wealthy get the best while forcing the rest of the population by law to take the socialized crap. Remember, this means good hard working professionals will get stuck in this system, taking it on the chin to help pay for the healthcare of the majority. The working professional takes it on the chin not only in quality of service, but also value. They get crap while carrying most of the cost.
Comrade Nom Deplume, Recovering From The Slopes says:
April 11, 2016 at 4:19 pm
[35] pumpkin
The result of single-payer legislation would result in a very distinct two-tiered healthcare delivery system. The best care would clearly be reserved for those who paid cash. The rest would go to bless her hospitals and less qualified doctors and healthcare delivery systems.
The way to get around that would be to do what they did in Canada which is to effectively bar private medical practices. All providers in Canada must receive payment from the government system. No one can get care outside of that payment system, not legally anyway.
All providers in Canada must receive payment from the government system. No one can provide care outside of that payment system, not legally anyway. However, I can see a number of impediments to implementing such a system in the United States, the least of which would be that it may run afoul of The Constitution.
Agree, cankles is winning. Guess, I’m not voting this election.
Healthcare is a joke. Made overly complicated to stick it in your a$$.
Libturd questioning the gender of Hillary’s Cankle fluid. says:
April 11, 2016 at 8:38 pm
Trump ain’t getting elected. Cankles will win and we’ll have 4 more years for the Dems to figure out how to stop the next unowned candidate. For anyone who supports Obamacare…I invite you to stop by my hospital room so you can see what a complete and utter rim job I’m receiving through my well regarded BCBS. Healthcare in this country is a friggin crock of sh1t. It’s so rife with bad decisions and the insurance companies and hospital networks are so huge (by design), they couldn’t find savings with a coupon in hand. When this is all done, I am going to write a book about how horrifying healthcare is in this country. And really, it’s all due to the lobbies.
I think this is the nicest thing you ever said to me.
Splat What Was He Thinking says:
April 11, 2016 at 7:28 pm
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This…uttered by the biggest, most gullible Pangloss in the history of NJRER:
“Yes, there needs to be a limit in power (checks/balances) to protect human civilization from itself. One thing we have learned from history, human nature can’t be trusted.”
Somebody slip some PCP into this fool’s drink. It might actually wake him up.
In “Regional Advantage,” her classic 1994 explanation of why Silicon Valley became the center of the tech universe and Route 128 outside Boston did not, AnnaLee Saxenian of the University of California at Berkeley argued that a key difference was that in Silicon Valley people jumped from company to company, while along Route 128 they stayed put.
In Silicon Valley, Saxenian told me in a 2014 interview:
People start companies, they fail, they succeed, they move on. And that seeds new companies, and those people carry on the knowledge and the know-how but it gets recombined with other skills and technology. Whereas you can think about the 128 company as being autarkic. The company was the family was the unit, and everything stayed within the company.
Saxenian wrote that in Silicon Valley, “Early efforts to take legal action against departed employees proved inconclusive or protracted, and most firms came to accept high turnover as a cost of business in the region.” Along Route 128, which rivaled Silicon Valley in the 1960s and 1970s before falling behind in the 1980s, it was a different story. One leading firm, Data General, “repeatedly sued competitors and former employees to prevent the loss of proprietary corporate information.”
Saxenian, a political scientist who’s now dean of Berkeley’s School of Information, depicted this difference in litigiousness as the product of broader cultural differences between Massachusetts and California. Writing a few years later, Stanford Law School’s Ronald J. Gilson suggested that maybe the legal differences came first. In Massachusetts, as in 46 other states, it’s possible for employers to enforce post-employment covenants not to compete — aka noncompete clauses. In California it generally isn’t.
Noncompete clauses usually ban employees from going to work for a competitor or starting a competing firm for some pre-determined period of time. Such agreements have been around since at least the 1400s, with proponents defending them as a way to encourage employers to develop new technologies and invest in worker training (because they have less reason to fear losing their secrets and their valuable employees to a competitor) and critics depicting them as an unfair restraint of trade that hurts workers.
California’s ban on the enforcement of noncompetes doesn’t seem to have been the reasoned product of this debate. Wrote Gilson:
The California prohibition dates to the 1870s, a serendipitous result of the historical coincidence between the codification movement in the United States and the problems confronting a new state in developing a coherent legal system out of its conflicting inheritance of Spanish, Mexican, and English law. The existence of this anachronistic legal rule at the time that Silicon Valley developed solved the collective action problem associated with encouraging employee mobility within the district.
Thanks to dumb luck, then, California ended up with a legal framework that encouraged the creation of Silicon Valley. And thanks to Saxenian and Gilson, there was a big new argument against noncompetes: They make it harder to create another Silicon Valley.
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2016-04-11/the-tyranny-of-the-noncompete-clause
[69] Rory
Still fighting, that’s good. So you have at least dinged me for using terms that aren’t as precise as you’d like. I’ll try harder.
Yes, I love my Pats. And yes, I’ll follow the toon in the championship. I don’t follow them because they’re a great team (and neither were the Pats when I started); I follow them because it’s a lot of fun to do so with our fan base. They’re a blast. So id rather follow a crappy team and have fun doing so than follow a winner simply because they win. In fact, you pointed out that I should follow them because I am a Sox fan and you’re right: we know something about loyalty.
[65] splat
I am often asked by my Toon Army buds why the loathing for the Gooners as they bear no ill will toward Arsenal.
I tell them that the first Gooner I ever has the displeasure to meet was a total prig and that it put me off the Gooners for good.
[43] Joyce
“That doesn’t seem to stop them very often.”
True enough
You can literally make a Jesus fundamentalist stroke out if you just tell him Islam is also a Semitic religion.
I thought it was to tell them that the Koran says Jesus was a prophet, born of a virgin, a miracle worker who carried Allah’s message.
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