Saturday, May 4, 2013

We Need More QM! (Quantitative Milking)

Commentary by Roger Erickson

Sno Cone Joe Indicted for Stalking Mr. Ding-A-Ling: Ice cream truck turf war ends with couple's arrest

Sign of the times.*

Upper Looting Class to middle/lower classes: "There ain't room in this hierarchy for the both of us."  Do tell. Shall we cut off our legs to spite our arms?

Words fail me too. This is like listening to R&R & Paul Krugman as dueling inanities. Remind me why formerly ingenious Americans are LISTENING? We have options, you know. Remember those? Ever actually explored one? Maybe we should revive "Options Anonymous," as a therapy group.

* More people will be seeing decreases of close to 17 percent to their unemployment benefits at the end of May. By the end of June, cuts to unemployment benefits will reach almost 23 percent.

Missouri lawmakers passed a bill that will make it harder for unemployed workers to receive unemployment benefits.
[A misguided electorate and the leaders they've chosen are misreading their situation.The serfs are fighting among themselves over who's tightening their belt and who's not ... in order to meet their (fat) masters demands.]

Under pressure from Disney World among others, Florida state senators passed a bill to preemptively prohibit municipalities from passing ordinances guaranteeing paid sick days to workers. (Huffington Post and Orlando Sentinel)

[Newsfeed reads like a depression.]


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