The news is that after accounting for last-minute unemployment insurance extensions, “emergency” spending and higher Medicare physician payments, total federal outlays are estimated to be $3.65 trillion in fiscal 2012, up slightly from $3.6 trillion in 2011. The last year has seen no major reforms in any of the big entitlement programs—Medicare, Medicaid or Social Security. Spending on food stamps alone is scheduled to reach $80 billion in 2012, more than double the amount as recently as 2007.
And expect the madness to continue if a hand-picked GOP President is elected to the white house.
Unless, of course, that president is Ron Paul. He is our only hope.
it’s a long, strange URL but my god, it’s worth it.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SJanQ4M6qts/TwArDARfzEI/AAAAAAABS88/9N_ivUnPRJA/s1600/debt%2Bjunkie.jpg
Obama is the greatest food stamp president in history!
Did you know he has a Nobel Peace Prize?
Ha…I guess the Peace Prize was in anticipation of Obama’s becoming the first place Foodstamp president.
Brings to mind the old nursery rhyme:
Pease porridge hot, pease porridge cold
Pease porridge in the pot nine days old.
Some like it hot, some like it cold
Some like it in the pot nine days old.
Well they’ll have to get use to that sort of fare if they don’t smarten up at the polling booth come November!
Mike
“Unless, of course, that president is Ron Paul.”
he’s worst than Ozero, unless you are looking for a quicker route to a war in the ME
Aliens have big plans for us, we’ll come out just fine. If you don’t mind hand-mining uranium.
“Obama is the greatest food stamp president in history!
Did you know he has a Nobel Peace Prize?
Posted by: Fearless Leader at January 1, 2012 12:41 PM”
The Nobel award committee is soooooooo good. See,by giving the Zero the “Peace” prize,they knew in advance he would stop riots in America by keeping people fed,screw the debt. Oh. Did you know all civil wars start because of hunger and/or starvation? See. Obozo really is a zer…errr…hero!
Kate what do you know about fanances? We’re not all farmers like yourself. Some of us have to pay income tax.
Kate what do you know about finances? We’re not all farmers like yourself. Some of us have to pay income tax.
There’s always an a@@hole in the mix.
It’s funny how .05 trillion is “up slightly” these days.
1,000,000,000,000.00 = 1 trillion or 1 million million. Remember when a million dollars meant something?
.05 = 50,000,000,000.00 or 50 billion dollars.
“up slightly” only applys if it’s not your 50 billion to give away.
What a@c said.
Rick Santorum seems to be moving up fast. Could be a photo finish.
Every social construct is just peachy until someone has to take the hit financially, the trick being the percent of the population taking the hit is wide and the hit is relatively small. The hit in this case is accumulating astronomically and being postponed till it cannot be overcome…..we’re talking dark ages hit here……stock up on supplies and keep yet powder dry.
This is going to magically work itself out, right? The same way Obama will pay one’s bills?
Older woman in Santa Barbara County paying for groceries with a ‘WIC'(Women, Infants, Children) card, well dressed, she then goes out to the parking lot and drives off in her late model full-size SUV equipped with aftermarket rims and rubber.
Not unusual.
And my heart bleeds for these poor people…
@ Justthinkin
“Did you know all civil wars start because of hunger and/or starvation?”
Abe Lincoln would disagree. Most though.
you think the ‘culture of entitlement’ and ‘don’t want a job, just pay me’ crowds are big there NOW ? wait for it…and you KNOW our SCOC would jump on this in a heartbeat…
Employers are facing more uncertainty in the wake of a letter from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission warning them that requiring a high school diploma from a job applicant might violate the Americans with Disabilities Act.
The development also has some wondering if the agency’s advice will result in an educational backlash by creating less of an incentive for some high-school students to graduate.
The “informal discussion letter” from the EEOC said an employer’s requirement of a high school diploma, long a standard criteria for screening potential employees, must be “job-related for the position in question and consistent with business necessity.” The letter was posted on the commission’s website on Dec. 2.
Employers could run afoul of the ADA if their requirement of a high school diploma ” ‘screens out’ an individual who is unable to graduate because of a learning disability that meets the ADA’s definition of ‘disability,’ ” the EEOC explained.
The commission’s advice, which does not carry the force of law, is raising alarms among employment-law experts who say it could carry far-reaching implications for businesses.
Attorney Maria Greco Danaher, of the labor and employment law firm Ogletree Deakins, said the EEOC letter means that employers must determine whether a job applicant whose learning disability kept him or her from obtaining a diploma can perform the essential functions of the job, with or without a reasonable accommodation. She said the development is “worthy of notice” for employers.
“While an employer is not required to ‘prefer’ a learning disabled applicant over other applicants with more extensive qualifications, it is clear that the EEOC is informing employers that disabled individuals cannot be excluded from consideration for employment based upon artificial barriers in the form of inflexible qualification standards,” she wrote in a blog post.
Mary Theresa Metzler, an attorney with Ballard Spahr in Philadelphia, said there may be an “unintended and unfortunate” repercussion of the EEOC’s discussion: “There will be less incentive for the general public to obtain a high school diploma if many employers eliminate that requirement for job applicants in their workplace.”
Officials at the EEOC said the letter in question addressed “a particular inquiry” and disputed that it would have repercussions in secondary education.
“No, we don’t think the regulation would discourage people from obtaining high school diplomas,” said Peggy Mastroianni, legal counsel for the EEOC. “People are aware that they need all the education they can get.”
She said the letter does not offer a new interpretation of the ADA.
Jeanne Goldberg, a senior attorney/adviser at the agency, said the issue would only come up when high-school graduation standards are not related to a specific job.
“This would never arise when the high school diploma is in fact necessary to do a job,” she said.
Ms. Metzler said the policy could lead the EEOC to bring claims against employers or encourage applicants who failed to gain employment to raise the issue.
“The EEOC may be inclined to test its view on the high school diploma requirement and its impact on the disabled in a court case,” said Ms. Metzler, who is advising clients to “review their job descriptions to determine if a high school degree is truly necessary, or would aid the employee in performing the essential functions of the particular job.”
In a nanny-free world the government would have no input in who the employer hires as far as qualifications go. The dumbest thing I saw last year was a hospital notice on the bulletin board seeking volunteers to push wheelchair bound patients for a few hours a week. Grade 12 required. Idiots.
Smarter >
First you want to bomb Iran and now you worry about global GDP. Who cares about world GDP so much “Libertarian”.
http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/05/17/immigrants-cost-23b-a-year-fraser-institute-report/
“Immigrants to Canada cost the federal government as much as $23-billion annually and “impose a huge fiscal burden on Canadian taxpayers,” according to a think-tank report released Tuesday” –{Fraser Institute}.
Oops wrong post above – damned tabs.
They need a GST like we have here. It saved Canada.