Do your bit for the Funeral Industry.
Bust a cap in your ass.
~Aimee Thanatogenos & Mr. Joyboy
Whispering Glades Necropolis
Los Angeles, CA

Actually it isn't true. Funeral directors are being very hard hit, as families are buying cheaper funerals, if at all.

It's a dead-end job.

On the other hand, sales of shovels are through the roof.

I understand the competition is stiff.

The business model is too rigid, which explains why the industry's current state is moribund.

Certainly a grave issue. In fact, I bet the funeral directors feel like dirt.

Meanwhile, the current administration's policies are making the situation worse, and some of you want to make jokes about it? Maybe it's better to laugh than cry, but the amount of money our government is spending is no joking matter. It's hard to believe, but Obama has tripled our national debt in less than one year. And, what did we get for that money? A stimulus package that has been one giant clunker. Where are the new private sector jobs that were supposed to be created? Unemployment is now over 10%, and it's not likely to go down anytime soon. When it's over, Obama's Presidency will be known as the second coming of Jimmy Carter.

(whistlin' walking along) 'think I'll go down to the wal-mart and git me some stuff'

(at the check-out)'sir your wal-mart card is over-extended, we're gonna have to take it from you'

(back at home writing a note) 'I can't take it anymore, goodbye cruel world'.

wait til Obamacare and mandatory jail sentences kick in.

Actually, I wonder why there isn't more of this happening. People are indebted for things they must have, like houses and cars, then their jobs are taken away by some corporate maneuver or other, then they can't get another job because there just plain damn aren't any, they find their house is being foreclosed on and that the promised Federal help for that isn't working too well...

In the space of only a few months, someone can go from middle-class to homeless and broke as a result of forces over which they have less than no control. I can see why there is a growing number of people unable to handle such a chain of events.

I know some smart-ass is going to try to respond to this by saying "if people wouldn't take out stated-income mortgages and buy plasma TV's they can't afford...yadda yadda ya." I'm not talking about the irresponsible - I'm talking about people who have had their jobs or industries yanked out from under them. You can't be responsible when you're left with no job and no money, even if you've spent a lifetime meticulously paying every dime you owe, on time. Savings only last so long, and joblessness can last a damned long time these days.

The mass media needs to make up its mind, either we are in a recovery or a recession. Not that's there's any such thing as a jobless recovery. Its all bullshit and its bad for you.

The politicians have killed this country.

#8 | REPUBLICAN4EVER....When you take into account the unemployed who have run out of unemployment benefits, the actual unemployment rate is around 22%.

"Where are the new private sector jobs that were supposed to be created?"

I don't know, where are they. We were told that if we gave tax cuts to the rich the jobs would trickle down to us but they haven't trickled. We are dealing with the effects of thirty years of Trickle Down, Voo Doo, Reaganomics and Obama is just the President, he didn't create this disaster he's just the fool who put himself in a position to have to fix it. OMG! He hasn't fixed the Republican's disaster yet, Oh gee, what's taking him so long????

Danni:

With all due respect to the President and the fact that he did indeed inherit a mess, there's a lot more that could be getting done - and isn't.

One thing that could be getting done right now is temporarily capping the national work week at forty hours. Another is creating more tax incentives to keep jobs Stateside. Another is taxing the living shit out of illusory "profits" achieved by cutting people out of jobs. It would take some legislation, some balls, some willingness to take some heat from the right - but all of these things are doable, and so far as I know, none of them are even on the table. Stimulus money is not going to get the job done; there isn't enough of it available.

Obama absolutely inherited one hell of a mess that he didn't make, you're right. But unless he gets on the stick and applies some common sense instead of relying on stimulus funds, his successor is going to be inheriting the same mess, only maybe bigger.

Global Warming is our justice. We are to blame. The debate is over. Give all your hard earned money to Al Gore and that will solve all of our problems. I have said it, "And It Is So".

The politicians have killed this country.

#13 | Posted by gluon at 2009-11-10 08:54 PM | Reply | Flag: Flag:

No actually WE killed this Country. We hired them. We are their bosses so it's us who have killed this Country.

This is just a small detail in the bigger picture of how Mother Nature brutally, unceremoniously, and wantonly culls the unneeded, the useless, the extraneous, in pursuit of Her next step in the biological boom-and-bust cycle!

Like a sculptor, armed with hammer and chisel, one must destroy a once-uniform slab of marble in order to create something greater.

In the spirit of the times, allow to to make a few suggestions: huff a tailpipe; take a razor's edge to slash UP the river (as opposed to across the stream); aim for the center of the skull if attempting to blow one's brains out (so as to hit the vital lower-brain structures); hurl yourself off a radio mast...or, get creative.

If you feel you do not need to be here, you probably don't.

Please, do the rest of us a favor and kill yourself.

"One thing that could be getting done right now is temporarily capping the national work week at forty hours. Another is creating more tax incentives to keep jobs Stateside."

No argument from about that but I can assure you, if he tries, it will just be more obstructionism from the Republicans and more screams of "socialism!" That's no reason not to try though. We should absolutely start some system of penalizing companies that outsource(d) jobs.

... but I can assure you, if he tries, it will just be more obstructionism from the Republicans and more screams of "socialism!"

Won't just be Republicans. Blue Dogs too. And Joe Lieberman.

The next time you are thinking of turning on the TV or radio to waste an hour or so of your life watching or listening to the corporate stooges with their simplistic schtick and their canned opinions do yourself a favor and listen to this instead.

I guess you libs can just look at it like a late term abortion.

I guess you libs can just look at it like a late term abortion.
#23 | Posted by Sniper

Well, I guess you could.
But that would stoopid.

Why would that be stoopid dok? You libs can't take the blame for the extended depression that little o caused so you can't take credit for suicides.

Calling them what they are and realizing the dems caused it would be verrry stoopid.

it was also reported that there are more couples staying together because of recession
so does bush get credit for keeping more families together? lol

surely if everything is his fault then the left will give him credit for that

Another is creating more tax incentives to keep jobs Stateside."

#20 | Posted by danni

That would be a good start but it would fall short. High production costs here in the US are made up many things, big government and all their laws being the largest factor. Our high standard of living, clean air, clean water, clean landfills, etc all have their PRICE. You can't have your cake and eate it too.

Our high standard of living, clean air, clean water, clean landfills, etc all have their PRICE. You can't have your cake and eate it too.
#27 | Posted by Sniper

Thats an interesting admission there, Sniper.

When Bush flew home to Texas, we thought we were getting an FDR to replace a Hoover. Instead, we got another Hoover.

I dont know about the hoover thing

did hoover have a justice department that went after independent news agencies with threats.

did he attempt to enslave the middle class with one 6th of the economy to hang over thier heads?

did he have people that wanted the american people to rat on thier nieghbors

well this administration has done or is trying to do all three and more

"That would be a good start but it would fall short. High production costs here in the US are made up many things, big government and all their laws being the largest factor. Our high standard of living, clean air, clean water, clean landfills, etc all have their PRICE. You can't have your cake and eate it too."

I think the answer to that is to begin a re-leveling of the playing field. China has been getting away with murder in the forms of woefully underpaid labor nd artificially cheap money, and we need to do something about that. Tariffs that apply to goods produced under those circumstances - and don't apply to goods produced by fairly-paid workers and with world-standard financing - might be one way to go about it. I don't necessarily have anything against China - the Chinese gotta make a living, and they're just as entitled to a decent standard of life as anyone else - but I want them to compete fairly. Be a hell of a thing to enforce, though.

However, of all the suggestions I've made here, I think the biggest bang for the buck would come from a temporary capping of the national work week at forty hours. A lot of companies are working the shit out of a few people, refusing to hire more. Might be necessary to do it for three to five years. There also needs to be a good hard look at companies' present tendency to put people on salary, then treat them as if they were waged (deducting for time missed, etc.) - a lot of people are being badly abused.

did he[Hoover] have people that wanted the american people to rat on thier nieghbors

#31 | Posted by afkabl2 at 2009-11-11 11:27 AM

I don't think so but I'll tell you who did. Your hero.

"Operation TIPS, where the last part is an acronym for the Terrorism Information and Prevention System, was a program designed by President George W. Bush to have United States citizens report suspicious activity. It came under intense scrutiny in July 2002 when the Washington Post alleged in an editorial that the program was vaguely defined, and investigative political journalist Ritt Goldstein observed in Australia's Sydney Morning Herald [1] that TIPS would provide America with a higher percentage of 'citizen spies' than the former East Germany had under the notorious Stasi secret police.

In the days immediately following Goldstein's revelation, publications such as the libertarian magazine Reason,[2] and then the progressive Boston Globe,[3] emphasized the Stasi analogy, widely highlighting Operation TIPS' shortcomings. TIPS was subsequently cancelled after concerns over civil liberties violations.

Goldstein later observed that he broke news of Operation TIPS on March 10 in Spain's second largest daily, El Mundo,[4] but that he struggled until July before finding a major English language paper which would print the story..."

Most assuredly B-Rock's fault. He failed to instill any Hope and Change.

Thinning the herd.

You libs can't take the blame for the extended depression that little o caused...

No need to worry about suicide when Alzheimer cases like sniper has spread to the entire tea party generation. Soon they will all forget about chasing the buck anyway.