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A new bill backed by the Obama White House would require all businesses to provide to the government data about employee pay as it relates to the sex, race and national origin of employee’s:

In an orchestrated effort that included a statement by President Barack Obama and an event at the White House featuring Vice President Joe Biden, Attorney General Eric Holder and Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, the president and his cabinet endorsed the Paycheck Fairness Act.
 
The House approved the act in 2009, but the Senate did not approve it. In the 111th Congress, both the House and the Senate have offered legislation that covers a wide range of workplace requirements and regulations, including training girls and women to become better at negotiating pay and benefits, and the establishment of a data base of U.S. workers’ pay in both the public and private sector.

The White House’s official line is that this bill is needed in order to achieve true pay equity among the sexes:

“Women make up nearly half of all workers on U.S. payrolls, and two-thirds of families with children are headed either by two working parents or by a single parent who works,” Biden said.
 
“Yet, the workplace has, for the most part, not changed to reflect these realities – and it must. Closing the gender pay gap, helping parents keep their jobs while balancing family responsibilities, and increasing workplace flexibility – these are not only women’s issues, they are issues of middle class economic security,” he said.

One thing American businesses need at this time; even more than relief from crushing taxes, a wealth destroying depression, and having zero access to any type of small business loans; even more than that, businesses need and want the government to step in and address the issue of “increasing workplace flexibility” and “helping families balance their responsibilities”.

Thank goodness for the forward-thinking Obama administration.

So this bill is all about pay equity, yes? Hahaha, surely you jest:

In a statement issued on Tuesday, Obama said it was discrimination in the workplace that is harming the economy and American families.
 
“Yet, even in 2010, women make only 77 cents for every dollar that men earn. The gap is even more significant for working women of color, and it affects women across all education levels,” the statement said.

You see, it’s not wealth destroying personal and business taxes that are harming American families, or even insane and ill-advised government policies – it’s not even the absolute crippling deficits that are going to be thrust upon your children and great grandchildren: it’s workplace pay discrimination that’s the problem.

How will the government “fix” this? Simple – by opening up the books of every single business in America and MANDATING them to pay the EXACT same amount to each employee, no matter if those employees that make less are stupid, slow, retarded, illegal, uneducated or disabled.

Joleelo the cashier, who is blind in one eye and can’t see in the other, and can only do 1/3 of the work that the white devil Fred can, will now make the same as Fred. Fred’s ability be damned, Joleelo has 8 kids to feed.

Employers are not allowed to ask about race, sex or national origin when hiring an employee, but now they will be forced to supply the government with that information, even though technically they are not suppose to know it. Gawd help an employer who tells the government that Steve is a Native Indian when Steve is actually from Mainland China. Hell, Steve may be a chick.

It won’t stop there, of course, it never does and literally can’t. Next the government will want to know why the Piggly Wiggly has 14 employee’s, but only two are black, only one is a lesbian and only one has a limp. That isn’t a true representation of American society. Even if that Piggly Wiggly IS in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where the last African American spotted there was back in 1983. Too bad, Wiggly, pay the fine and move along.

This bill is yet another bone thrown to the snarling mutt trial lawyers that helped that halfrican American President roll up to power a year and a half back. This will be a BOON for trial lawyers. Sue, sue, sue.

Another nail in the coffin for American business.

Media tycoon Mort Zuckerman, who recently admitted writing Barack Obama’s speeches in the past, has come out with an article, “Obama is Barely Treadiong Water“, in which Zuckerman criticizes Obama from the state of the economy, to healthcare, to everything in between. Among Zuckerman’s rants:

The hope that fired up the election of Barack Obama has flickered out, leaving a national mood of despair and disappointment. Americans are dispirited over how wrong things are and uncertain they can be made right again. Hope may have been a quick breakfast, but it has proved a poor supper. A year and a half ago Obama was walking on water. Today he is barely treading water. Then, his soaring rhetoric enraptured the nation. Today, his speeches cannot lift him past a 45 percent approval rating.

There is a widespread feeling that the government doesn’t work, that it is incapable of solving America’s problems. Americans are fed up with Washington, fed up with Wall Street, fed up with the necessary but ill-conceived stimulus program, fed up with the misdirected healthcare program, and with pretty much everything else. They are outraged and feel that the system is not a level playing field, but is tilted against them. The millions of unemployed feel abandoned by the president, by the Democratic Congress, and by the Republicans.

 

Republicans are benefiting not because they have a credible or popular program—they don’t—but because they are not Democrats. In a recent Wall Street Journal/NBC poll, nearly two thirds of those who favor Republican control of Congress say they are motivated primarily by opposition to Obama and Democratic policy. Disapproval of Congress is so widespread, a recent Gallup poll suggests, that by a margin of almost two to one, Americans would rather vote for a candidate with no experience than for an incumbent. Throw the bums out is the mood. How could this have happened so quickly?

The fundamental problem is starkly simple: jobs and the deepening fear among the public that the American dream is vanishing before their eyes. The economy’s erratic improvement has helped Wall Street but has brought little support to Main Street. Some 6.8 million people have been unemployed in the last year for six months or longer. Their valuable skills are at risk, affecting their economic productivity for years to come. Add to this despairing army the large number of those only partially employed and those who have given up their search for work, and we have cumulative totals in the tens of millions.

It is clear that the magical moment of Obama’s campaign conveyed a spell that is now broken in the context of the growing public disillusionment. Obama’s rise has been spectacular, but so too has been his fall.

There’s a lot of paragraphs I left out, but you get the general idea – Obama isn’t Zuckerman’s bff any more.

The Mayor isn’t actually sure what Zuckerman is complaining about. Zuckerman wasn’t lied to by Obama years ago when he was writing his speeches, Zuckerman was one of the media entities that actually created Obama and his lies. It was filth like Zuckerman that wrote the lies that Obama spoke in his leg-tingling speeches. Zuckerman knew what the American public wanted to hear, and even though he knew NOTHING about Obama (or perhaps he did, which makes it 1000x worse for Zuckerman), he had no trouble bald-face lying to the American public through his puppet Obama.

Obama isn’t a liar, he’s actually been rather truthful for a politician. Obama is a socialist and governs as a socialist. The Mayor knew Obama was a socialist (although The Mayor actually thinks Obama is a communist) before he was elected, you knew Obama was a socialist before he was elected, EVERYONE with a pulse knew Obama was a socialist. YET, Zuckerman wrote those speeches that made Obama seem like a moderate. Is that Obama’s fault or Zuckerman’s? Or both. More importantly, if you were to hang Obama or Zuckerman for treason, which one do you think should swing first? Decisions, decisions.

I’m not sure why Zuckerman is upset at Obama’s health care “reform”, liberals like Zuckerman have been fighting for this exact “reform” for decades upon decades. Now he has it, so what’s the problem? Zuckerman is upset about the stimulus but agrees with the nature of stimulus, quoting, “Americans are fed up with Washington, fed up with Wall Street, fed up with the necessary but ill-conceived stimulus program”. Zuckerman admits the massive, pork-laden slush-fund stimulus was necessary, but doesn’t agree with how it was administered. That’s semantics.

Zuckerman knew well in advance that Obama attended a church where the bigot Wright was Minister. That didn’t bother Zuckerman. Zuckerman knew that Obama’s wife hated America and openly said as much. That didn’t bother Zuckerman. Zuckerman knew Obama was influenced by commies like Alinsky, hung around terrorists like Bill Ayers, and the convicted felon Antoin Rezko. That didn’t bother Zuckerman.

But now that Obama’s poll numbers have completely tanked and the Demonrats are going to get their collective asses served to them on a platter come November, NOW Zuckerman is upset?

Fuck you, Zuckerman. YOU’RE the problem.

YOU created this mess, it’s YOUR head that should roll. You can’t play both sides of a coin, and that’s what this little puke is trying to do. He tried to con America into believing his lies, and now that things have gone sideways the douchebag is trying to cover his ass.

Nun uh.

Zuckerman has NO solutions to any of the problems HE created and now he’s trying to blame Obama. It won’t work. The day of reckoning is coming near, and Zuckerman knows it. When the day finally comes, I hope to hell there is no mercy for pieces of shit like this guy.

Even though the state of Illinois faces imminent financial doom over decades of gross mismanagement by often corrupt government officials, raises for union workers and the governor’s staff still abound. Before we get to the raises, let’s review where Illinois is financially:

Even by the standards of this deficit-ridden state,Illinois’s comptroller, Daniel W. Hynes, faces an ugly balance sheet. Precisely how ugly becomes clear when he beckons you into his office to examine his daily briefing memo.

He picks the papers off his desk and points to a figure in red: $5.01 billion.

“This is what the state owes right now to schools, rehabilitation centers, child care, the state university — and it’s getting worse every single day,” he says in his downtown office.

Mr. Hynes shakes his head. “This is not some esoteric budget issue; we are not paying bills for absolutely essential services,” he says. “That is obscene.”

For the last few years, California stood more or less unchallenged as a symbol of the fiscal collapse of states during the recession.

Now Illinois has shouldered to the fore, as its dysfunctional political class refuses to pay the state’s bills and refuses to take the painful steps — cuts and tax increases — to close a deficit of at least $12 billion, equal to nearly half the state’s budget.

So who gets affected first by the massive cuts?

From suburban Elgin to Chicago to Rockford to Peoria, school districts have fired thousands of teachers, curtailed kindergarten and electives, drained pools and cut after-school clubs. Drug, family and mental health counseling centers have slashed their work forces and borrowed money to stave off insolvency. 

The city of Rockford plans to close fire stations and lay off firefighters, and in Decatur, 180 impoverished seniors have lost their delivered meals. 

But it’s not all cut, cut, cut in Illinois. You’ll be happy to hear that the money spigot is still turned on full for certain segments of the Illinois constituency:

 Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn has handed out raises—some of more than 20 percent—to his staff while proclaiming a message of “shared sacrifice” and planning spending cuts of $1.4 billion because the state is awash in debt.

The Democrat has given 43 salary increases averaging 11.4 percent to 35 staffers in the past 15 months, according to an Associated Press analysis of records obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.

They include a $24,000-a-year bump for the man promoted to shepherd the state through the fiscal storm. Budget Director David Vaught got a 20 percent raise to bring his pay to $144,000 in October when he moved to his new position from Quinn’s staff, where he was a senior adviser.

If you are wondering what “shared sacrifice” means, well, that’s liberal looter talk for “pay up, asshole”. If you’re ever wondering who politician’s are talking about when they utter the words “shared sacrifice”, go to your bathroom mirror and look in it. If the mirror gives you a reflection that looks stunningly similar to your face, chances are it is you that will be “sacrificing”.

And don’t think for a minute that Illinois taxpayers are only “sacrificing” for a mere 43 government workers. Oh no, their “shared sacrifice” will extend to another 43,000 union employees:

More than 40,000 unionized state workers got a pay raise last Thursday, bringing to 7 percent the amount they’re gotten since last year. These same state employees are in line for another 7 percent by next July 1, all at a cost of a half-billion tax dollars a year.

A half a billion? It’s obvious more sacrificing is in order. Much more sacrificing.

Illinois is basically Detroit, it just doesn’t know it yet. Corruption, graft, influence peddling, these things are legend in Illinois. And it won’t change any time soon, there are too many people getting paid to do nothing. Nothing but vote Democrat, that is.

Most likely Obama’s “stimulus” 2.1 will funnel a whack of cash to Illinois and other corrupt state governments to pay for the unions, lackey’s, etc. That’ll get Illinois out of a jam for a few more years. Until then, get the popcorn out and watch the show.

**One final thing – notice how the Democrats always say they are on the side of the little guy, the underprivileged, the marginalized? And look who gets their services cut first: the mentally ill, kids, drug addicts, minorities. And look who gets the raises: union workers and politicians.

Canada’s own Helen Thomas, New Democrat MP Libby Davies, is in hot water from the reigning Conservative gov’t and opposition Liberals after remarks she made questioning Israel’s legitimacy:

When asked, “When do you believe that the occupation in Israel started — ‘48 or 67?” Davies says 1948, the year Israel became a state.

“The only conclusion you can draw from what she said is that there is no legitimacy to Israel’s existence since 1948,” said Liberal MP Bob Rae.

“Someone who would say such a thing and who would mouth these words and says these things should not have a serious political office in a major political party.”

Davies had posted a letter on her website apologizing for her remarks last week, and insisting her answer was little more than an honest mistake.

“My reference to the year 1948 as the beginning of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory was a serious and completely inadvertent error,” she wrote.

“I apologize for this and regret any confusion it has caused.”

But Harper used the incident as cannon fodder in the fight with the NDP over Afghan detainee documents, likening her position on the Middle East to the NDP’s refusal to go along with Tuesday’s agreement on how best to bring Parliament into the loop on the detainee paper trail.

When Layton accused Harper of hiding the truth by refusing to freely release all the documents, Harper turned the tables.

“The only person hiding the truth here is the leader of the NDP, who has a deputy leader and a House leader who says that Israel’s existence inside its pre-1967 boundaries is an occupation,” Harper said during Question Period.

Harper then likened Davies to longtime Washington journalist Helen Thomas, who was forced to retire last week after saying Jews should leave Israel and go back to Poland or Germany.

“The member of the NDP who said that should be forced to resign as well,” Harper said.

Layton said Davies had apologized, and neither she nor the NDP denies Israel’s right to exist.

Apologized for what exactly?

It always amazes The Mayor when asked about Israel, how articulate leftists are in their opinions. But the SECOND there is any blowback about their views, they immediately curl up like a salt laden slug and take the “no hablo inglis” position. For the love of any God but the Christian God, take a freakin’ stance and stick to it.

It’s all on video, Libby Davies at a ANTI-Israel rally, there was a PROTESTER with a sign that read “The world says NO to Israel OCCUPATION” standing right beside her, and when the guy with the camera asks Libby a question about Israel, she answers, *This is the longest OCCUPATION in the world”.

It doesn’t get any more cut & dry than that, does it?

So to say there was some sort of confusion and misunderstanding, well, that’s simply ridiculous. The only confusion is in Libby Davies pea-sized brain.

Make no mistake about it, Libby Davies may be the dumbest person EVER to enter Canadian politics. She is an embarrassment and a complete dim bulb. She deserves preferential parking spots at malls. Sorry, I lost where I was going with this.

Anyway, being dumb is one thing, but to apologize for something you believe in is plain pathetic. I can excuse dumb, people don’t generally have a choice in that matter, but I can’t excuse pathetic, it disgusts me and shows me what a weak reptile Libby Davies is.

As for Stephen Harper and the Liberal Attack Machine®, they might want to reconsider calling for Davies resignation over this matter. Especially considering Harper has no problem bringing in about 200,000 immigrants every year that believe EXACTLY the same thing as what Libby Davies thinks she may or may not believe depending on who’s listening and which way the wind’s blowing. If we follow Harper’s lead and call for the firings of every person who believes what Libby Davies believes, well, there will be a hell of a lot of job openings come tomorrow.

And as for the liberals, they might want to watch what they’re saying, too. If Rae and The Count now believe the same thing Harper does, it’ll get real interesting come election time when all those liberals who are looking for votes in Scarborough, Mississauga, Milton, etc, come a-callin’ on all those new Moslem neighbourhoods. You see, word on the street tells The Mayor that there are quite a few Moslems that have some sort of problem with the Jews. I don’t what problem, give me a second to Google it.

My point is this: Harper and the liberals should shut their mouths. This is still a democracy, and even though Davies is about as smart as a chunk of cinderblock, she still has every right to say what she said. I just wish though she’d wear a burqa so we didn’t have to look at that rat-chewed face of hers.

The end. Now, let’s dance!

From the always great I Hate The Media site:

There’s nothing more revealing than those candid moments when libs are caught with his pants down (no Barney Frank reference intended).

In this case, we’re referring to the candid moment on MSNBC’s Morning Joe show when Mika Mxyzptlk asked Time editor Rick Stengel if the magazine’s latest issue would cover the Joe Sestak story.

Stengel was baffled. He stuttered. He stammered. He tried to fake it until Mika cattle prodded the inner recesses of his mind by saying, “The Sestak controversy. Joe Sestak.”

“Oh, Sestak.” Stengel said. “No. No. There is not. There is not.”

Media bias? Naaawwwwwwww.  The media is impartial. They even say so!

For those of you south of the 49, here’s a healthcare “teachable moment”, courtesy of the governments of Canada:

Pressured by an aging population and the need to rein in budget deficits, Canada’s provinces are taking tough measures to curb healthcare costs, a trend that could erode the principles of the popular state-funded system.

“There’s got to be some change to the status quo whether it happens in three years or 10 years,” said Derek Burleton, senior economist at Toronto-Dominion Bank.

“We can’t continually see health spending growing above and beyond the growth rate in the economy because, at some point, it means crowding out of all the other government services.

“At some stage we’re going to hit a breaking point.”

Healthcare costs are out of control in Canada. They, among other sweet entitlements, are decimating provincial budgets. Canadians respond in typical fashion by saying, “keep your hands off our *free* healthcare.” All the while our system is going broke (or is broke), has become bloated and inefficient, and is delivering services at a snails pace.

Speaking of costs:

Healthcare in Canada is delivered through a publicly funded system, which covers all “medically necessary” hospital and physician care and curbs the role of private medicine. It ate up about 40 percent of provincial budgets, or some C$183 billion ($174 billion) last year.

If you Americans want to get an idea how much Obamacare and his “free” system is going to cost, do this simple math: Canada has 1/10 the population of the States. $183 billion was eaten up by our provinces to pay for healthcare. Now multiply.

Spending has been rising 6 percent a year under a deal that added C$41.3 billion of federal funding over 10 years.

But that deal ends in 2013, and the federal government is unlikely to be as generous in future, especially for one-off projects.

“As Ottawa looks to repair its budget balance… one could see these one-time allocations to specific health projects might be curtailed,” said Mary Webb, senior economist at Scotia Capital.

Brian Golden, a professor at University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Business, said provinces are weighing new sources of funding, including “means-testing” and moving toward evidence-based and pay-for-performance models.

“Why are we paying more or the same for cataract surgery when it costs substantially less today than it did 10 years ago? There’s going to be a finer look at what we’re paying for and, more importantly, what we’re getting for it,” he said.

Other problems include trying to control independently set salaries for top hospital executives and doctors and rein in spiraling costs for new medical technologies and drugs.

Good luck. Try taking the financial incentive away from doctors and see what happens. Taking away the financial incentive from doctors is the main reason why we lost so many of them to the States the last 20 years. I know this seems crazy, but doctors, not unlike every other Joe in Canada, like to make money. They don’t like being capped, the resent it. It you cap a doctors pay, they will do less work. This is the reality of life.

Ontario says healthcare could eat up 70 percent of its budget in 12 years, if all these costs are left unchecked.

Then what is the solution to cutting costs, where will the cuts start?

In a report released last week, TD Bank said Ontario should consider other proposals to help cut costs, including scaling back drug coverage for affluent seniors and paying doctors according to quality and efficiency of care.

Yes, cut drug coverage for “affluent seniors.” Unfortunately, that pool has shrunk considerably since Dalton McGuinty came to power, I hope there is a plan B.

And that pretty much sums up how healthcare works in Canada. Canadian provinces are not allowed to set up for-profit/private clinics because they benefit the “rich” and everyone in Canada is mandated equal healthcare privilages as dictated by law. However, when CUTTING programs for healthcare, the government always looks first at the “rich.” It’s not as if “rich” Canadians didn’t pay their fair share of taxes throughout their lives, and many times they probably paid MORE than their fair share, but when it comes to cuts, all of a sudden we are not all equal, the “rich” suddenly have targets on their backs.

So, you may never have paid taxes in your life in Canada, or you may have walked off a banana boat onto these shores 10 minutes ago, but YOUR drug benefits are free, but a tax-paying Canadian will have his coverage CUT because he was stupid enough to become rich.

You see, no one in the highest offices of power ever suggests that we cut the “abortion budget”, or not pay for sex-change operations for the transgendered, oh no. Keep your stinkin’ hands off my body. If someone wants to lead a lifestyle whereby they get pregnant, oh, let’s say 10 times in their life, and has an abortion every time, well, taxpayers are on the hook for it. Irresponsible? I told you, keep your stinkin’ hands off my body.

But if you’re rich? Pay up, deadbeat.

What other brilliant cost-saving measures are up for discussion?

Scotia Capital’s Webb said one cost-saving idea may be to make patients aware of how much it costs each time they visit a healthcare professional. “(The public) will use the services more wisely if they know how much it’s costing,” she said.

“If it’s absolutely free with no information on the cost and the information of an alternative that would be have been more practical, then how can we expect the public to wisely use the service?”

What, I’ve been told all my life that healthcare is free?

This is not only an idea that won’t save money, it’s an idea that will cost money. Plain and simple – most citizens of Canada do not give a SHIT about the cost of healthcare, and a piece of paper outlining that Sanjit’s emergency visit for his sore throat cost taxpayers $145.00 means nothing to Sanjit. NOTHING. As long as there is no bottom line that says Sanjit has to pay a portion of that bill, Sanjit and all the little Sanjit’s of Canada could not care less.

And how will this idea cost taxpayers more money? Well, unless we have trained robots hiding amongst the ranks in Health Canada, who is going to administer this idea? We will need a new department, photocopy paper, new computers, an operating budget, blah blah to bloody hell blah. Wait, I know where we can get the money for this! From affluent Canadians. We’ll just take their drug plans.

Works EVERY time.

Day 37 of the BP oil gusher, 40 million gallons of oil spilled to date (conservative estimate), and what was Obama up to last night? That’s the $17,600 question:

Those dining with Obama were treated to quail egg with caviar and salmon ceviche with jicama and avocado on a tortilla chip as their starting hors d’oeuvres. Next they were served a spring onion-asparagus tartlet with Meyer lemon vinaigrette-dressed frisee salad. The main course was braised Kobe beef short ribs with potato puree and a salsa verde-topped spring vegetable ragout. And the evening was topped off with buckwheat crepes with roasted cherries and almond ice cream.

That is the equivalent of fiddling while Rome burned.

Obama is scheduled to make an appearance in the Gulf tomorrow, the second time there since the BP disaster occurred 37 days ago. To date, I haven’t heard if Sean Penn has made an appearance there, or whether Hollywood will be throwing a *Gulf Get Better* concert any time soon. Animal rights activists seem to be pretty quiet, and the left, sans James Carville and a few Senators and congresscritters up for election come November, seem to be rather quiet, too. No word on what Kanye West has to say.

Obama is “angry and frustrated” over the whole ordeal, and is blowing off steam by shooting hoops, playing golf and eating $17,600 meals with Barbara Boxer. The spill has even caused concern with Obama’s daughter:

Even his daughter, Malia, prods him on the matter, he said, recounting her popping her head into the bathroom while he was shaving in the morning to ask: “Did you plug the hole yet, Daddy?”

Barack had to tell his daughter that no, the hole hasn’t been plugged yet. Keep in mind, he thought she was talking about the hole in the border between Mexico and Arizona.

No one expects Obama to put on a pair of gloves and get down to the Gulf and start cleaning seagulls, as a matter of fact, I’m not even sure there is much he can do about any of this. But it’s the optics that are a real bitch. Instead of meeting with the families of the dead rig workers and giving them his heartfelt condolences, Obama’s shooting hoops and chuckling it up. Instead of getting down to the Gulf ASAP to see the damage and get first-hand accounts of the mess, he took 10 days to get down there. He had just his SECOND press conference in a year today, the first one since this disaster happened. Imagine, this is the biggest environmental disaster in America’s history, and Obama took 37 days to call a news conference to explain what’s going on.

Shifting blame to GWB and blaming BP every day is not helping either. Obama has had 15 months to correct any policy flaws GW and company had, to retro blame a guy who hasn’t been in office for a year and a half, well, that’s just poor and looks terrible. Also keep in mind that the Obama Administration signed off on the permit that said it was safe for BP to drill for oil in the gulf and that everything was up to inspection. Blaming BP on a daily basis is sad, too. Instead of “putting your foot on their necks”, the administration should be working with BP; finding solutions, and trying to minimize the damage as best they can.

This whole bloody disaster has turned into another blame big oil game. An opportunity for the socialists in power to come down hard on “big oil”. To impose new taxes. To appease the fanatic left and put a halt to offshore drilling. To preach the “alternative energy” doctrine.

Never allow a crisis to go to waste.

And we’re always in crisis.

US newspaper circulation continues its death spiral, to the laughter of all right-thinking peoples:

Figures released Monday by the Audit Bureau of Circulations show average weekday circulation fell 8.7 percent in the six months that ended March 31, compared with the same period a year earlier.

Sunday circulation fell 6.5 percent.

Keep in mind that 2009 was the worst year EVER on record. So when you hear that circulation fell 8.7 compared to the WORST YEAR on record, that should tell you what a kick to the wedding tackle that is to the state-controlled propaganda newspaper business.

The San Francisco Chronicle’s weekday circulation dropped nearly 23 percent from the year before to 241,330.

At The Washington Post, average circulation fell 13.1 percent during the week to 578,482 and 8.2 percent to 797,679 on Sunday.

USA Today lost 13.6 percent of its circulation and averaged 1.83 million. That extended a slump that began with a slowdown in travel during the recession, which trimmed sales where USA Today is especially popular, such as hotels and airports.

The New York Times, which saw an 8.5 percent decline in weekday circulation during the most recent period and a 5.2 percent drop on Sundays. The Times’ average circulation was 951,063 on weekdays and 1.38 million on Sundays.

The article goes on to list the bogus excuses, and there are many, as to why newspapers are hemorrhaging readers, but the reason is as obvious as the jug ears on Obammies commie face: people don’t want to read state-controlled lies.

Simple.

Consumers are giving their money to alternate media now. Why would a Conservative pay for a newspaper that insults them and calls them racist? They wouldn’t. Why would a Tea Party member buy a paper that calls them teabaggers and spews hateful venom towards them? They wouldn’t. Why would a Conservative line the pockets of leftie trash who will turn around and support a President who is an outright commie hell-bent on destroying America? They wouldn’t.

In a statement, Newspaper Association of America President John Sturm said that declining circulation does not offer a full picture of the industry’s health.

He pointed to recent studies by Scarborough Research and Nielsen Online showing nearly 100 million adults still read a printed newspaper every day and that newspaper Web sites averaged more than 74 million unique visitors a month during the first quarter.

I hope John Sturm didn’t pay for that research, because if he did he got mightily ripped off. 100 million adults read a printed newspaper every day? Sure, in the world maybe. But is this Sturm unit trying to tell us that 100 million Americans read a printed newspaper every day? Hell, I doubt there are 100 million Americans that speak English. I’m starting to wonder if there are 100 million Americans that can read.

Keep believing your own lies, Sturm. I hope they serve those delicious little pigs in a blanket at the wake.

According to the cheerleaders at one of the various state-controlled media centers, GM has paid back all its loans to the US and Canadian governments. Then there’s reality:

General Motors has repaid its government loans ahead of schedule and is making “great progress,” the automaker’s chief executive officer said Wednesday.

“GM’s ability to pay back our loans ahead of schedule is a sign that our plan is working and that we’re on the right track,” Ed Whitacre said at a press conference.

The final 5.8 billion dollar repayment does not cover loans made to the “old” General Motors which is being slowly wound down through the bankruptcy process.

The US government, which provided about 50 billion dollars in emergency loans, holds a 60.8 percent stake in the new company. The Canadian government and a retiree health care trust also hold significant stakes.

“We are encouraged that GM has repaid its debt well ahead of schedule and confident that the company is on a strong path to viability,” said Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner.

Yes indeed. GM is “on a strong path to viability”, it just hasn’t made any actual profit for the last 2 years. Other than that, they are solid as a rock.

When I first heard the news that GM had paid back its government loans, I was curious how a company that lost $5 billion last year and $20 billion the year before could pay back the $63 billion it had “borrowed” from the Canadian and US governments. Then I read that GM didn’t actually pay back the whole amount, but they paid back only 10% of that loan. Then I wondered how the heck did a company that had lost $25 billion in the last two years manage to scrape together $5 billion to pay back a portion of their loan? And then that nasty little thing called reality popped right into my over-sized noggin’: GM paid back a small portion of their loan by sacking 65,000 workers.

And not only did they sack 65,000 workers, but they fully intend on renegging on those 65,000 pensions, too. You see, in 2013 and 2014 when those pensions come up, it will cost GM between 12-14 BILLION every year until those persioners die and go to the great manufacturing plant in the sky.

So how is GM going to pay out $14 billion every year from 2013 until forever? They aint. They aint gonna pay, you and I are gonna pay.

You see, the American gov’t owns over 60% of GM and Chrysler, and therefore are on the hook for the retiree pensions. Meaning, YOU and I are on the hook for the pensions.

The Mayor doesn’t actually drive a GM, yet feels as if GM is giving him a good ride.

After asking teachers in the state of New Jersey to give up their 4 percent raise and to make bigger contributions to health care, Bergen County Education Association president Joseph Coppola sent this email out to teachers:

“Dear lord,’ this year you have taken away my favorite actor, Patrick Swayze, my favorite actress, Farrah Fawcett, my favorite singer, Michael Jackson, and my favorite salesman, Billy Mays. I just wanted to let you know that Chris Christie is my favorite governor.”

I suppose there are quite a few things a person can get upset about after reading that, but I think the thing that bothers The Mayor the most is the unoriginality of the email. I mean, The Mayor received that email in 1996 to his Hotmail account. Then again, an email like that is fitting to any teachers union in North America: unoriginal, unimaginative and outdated.

Joseph Coppola, the author of the plagiarized “prayer”, has since apologized, throwing himself on the mercy of bad comedy, but Chris Christie isn’t satisfied with that. He wants the head of Coppola on a school cafeteria plate. Some folks have suggested Chris Christie should just drop the whole thing, water under the bridge so-to-speak. But look at it this way: if a teacher in New Jersey caught one of their students sending out an email like the one Coppola sent out – but instead of Christies name, had Joseph Coppola’s name on it, or a teachers name ~egad~ what do you think would have happened to that child?

Well, for starters, a police investigation would be well under way. A team of child psychiatrists would be opening up the child’s head in order to reprogram the little delinquent, and the parents of the young rapscallion would probably be hauled off to face charges in some sort of court that deals with hate crimes and other crimes against humanity.

People are losing their jobs, their homes and their families. The depression is relentless and is affecting everyone. But look how the teachers union reacts when even the suggestion that their pay should remain the same – not lowered  – but just stays the same. How dare the Governor suggest that teachers should be treated like everyone else! My Lord, what next, take away their 2 months summer vacation, their March break, 3 weeks off at Christmas and their 7 hour work day? Ahhhhhhh, nooooo!!!!!!

What a sad bunch of critters, the revolution can’t come soon enough.

California’s last auto plant closed last week, allowing its 4700 workers to spend more time with their families and to contemplete what hope & change really means:

The plant made Toyota Tacoma trucks and Corolla sedans. The last Tacoma rolled off the assembly lines last week, and Corolla production ended Thursday.

The plant began 25 years ago as a joint venture between Toyota Motor Corp. and General Motors Co. GM pulled out last year, and Toyota later announced it would halt production, eliminating about 4,700 jobs.

State officials are pursuing federal grants to help those impacted by the closure.

Considering the 4700 workers will be wards of the state soon enough, it’s good to see state officials pursuing federal grants to help their wards out.

Typically there aren’t many upsides when a company closes its doors and terminates all its employees. In California, there are ONLY upsides. For instance, now that this evil car company has shut its doors, there will be no more carbon emissions spewing from its smoke stacks, meaning, the Green Hunchbacked Frog will now be able to breathe fresher air. Bonus.

Also, people without jobs eat far less than those earth-rapists that have jobs. This will please Michelle Obama and her obesity task force.

Detroit’s pro-business environment has resonated so well with businesses that now things are going so peachy there is a recommendation to plow 90% of Detroit into the ground and turn it into a farming community. This will work doubly well in California, where the tree hugging, Birkenstock wearing, Segway driving, bong-smoking, lazy, liberal retards that try to pass as actual human beings with functioning braincells, well, they’re gonna love what’s in store for them. Perhaps they can plow the auto plant into the ground and grow soybeans in its place.