Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
New initiative from the White House to be announced today:
President Barack Obama is looking to boost summer job prospects for kids.
The White House says that with help from the private sector it’s gotten commitments for nearly 180,000 youth employment opportunities for next summer and is aiming for tens of thousands more.
Obama says that with young people facing record unemployment the government must do everything it can to make sure they have opportunities to learn skills and a work ethic.
The summer jobs plan is to be announced Thursday. It’s the administration’s latest “We Can’t Wait” initiative to go around Congress. Many of the positions would be unpaid training opportunities.
Republicans charged that the White House is taking credit for positions at places like CVS and Bank of America that were going to be created anyway. [emphasis mine]
What a bizarre little mega-bundle of weirdness.
The positions, at least “many” of them, are unpaid. So the White House is acting on its, uh, Article II constitutional authority to be, um, an…employment agency? Yeah I recall seeing that in Article II somewhere I think…I believe Madison was the one who came up with the idea, or maybe Hamilton, I forget.
Okay, sarcasm off. So the White House is going to be an employment agency, and it appears it has been one for awhile by now. Except it’s something of a mediocre employment agency. If unpaid training opportunities represent the goal, young people have managed to get that far before just on their own. I did it in the early eighties, just after Reagan got in, when his recovery hadn’t yet picked up any steam. That was record unemployment. I learned to type and worked hard to justify my wage, and be somewhat presentable in an office.
Who needs this help from the freakin’ White House to get them a job that doesn’t pay anything?
And the irony is not lost on me: This “We Can’t Wait Initiative” is, not even subtly, a slap at Congress. Not too hard to pick up the message — we can’t wait for Congress to act, we have to pick up the initiative and go go go! One might be inclined to say, welcome to the Libertarian Party Mr. President.
But the remedy is…the White House is here for you. Gonna get you a job that doesn’t pay anything. And then you’ll say hooray, that President Obama got me a job that doesn’t pay anything! And Congress didn’t! So I’m going to be a passionate advocate for government intervention, my whole life…but only from the White House.
And only until 2013 or 2017 — as long as Obama is running the place.
Keep Congress out of my government, or something?
I don’t know how the Obama-fan thinks this stuff out. I suppose by the usual means…not doing it. Obama is in charge, it is His economy, so naturally it’s up to the White House to find jobs for young people that don’t pay anything — that’s how robust the economy is when Obama is running it. According to Obama. Is there any way to read that other than as an admission of defeat?
It’s becoming a broken-record drum-beat, maybe I should make it up into a sidebar blog-widget: Can’t aspire toward the successes if you won’t recognize the fails.
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Not to go all semantics but doesn’t a “job” entail actually getting paid. Not getting paid for something involving labor would be considered volunteering.
This program pretty much represents the Obama years in a nutshell- working for nothing, nothing is working.
- tim | 01/05/2012 @ 10:06“Many of the positions would be unpaid……..”
Isn’t that called slavery?
- Robohobo | 01/05/2012 @ 21:33Volunteer / unpaid positions do often offer a handful of benefits:
– work experience in some field
– networking opportunities
– a place to go/be when school is out and/or you really have nothing going on in your life to give you purpose
That said, I’m there with you, wondering what in the hell any of that has to do with President DumDum and his ridiculous administration. I suspect it is all about getting that 25% teen unemployment rate down during an election year, nothing more.
- cylarz | 01/06/2012 @ 04:42