The Economy is Not That Bad

[tiznow]

yeah one of my favorite south park episodes kinda involves this abortion subject

its the one where cartman goes to teach inner city kids how to cheat to get ahead

:lolBIG:

if you get a chance watch that episode so great

south park is pure genius and the funny part is most liberals (a big majority of their viewers i'm assuming) don't get the depth of it all and them ripping on liberals alot of the time.....


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The long-running television cartoon show South Park is not for children. It pushes the boundaries of lewd, but here's one surprise: South Park often makes fun of sacred liberal cows, including global warming, hatred of Wal-Mart, and . . . abortion. It may be hard to believe, but for the last 10 years South Park has been consistently and brazenly anti-abortion.

For example, in an April episode this year Cartman, a morally reprehensible and often disturbingly astute 8-year-old, gives inner-city high-school kids his secret for success: Cheat! When a female student is about to drop out because she is pregnant and believes abortion is wrong, Cartman tells her, "Abortion isn't wrong! What is the one thing that I've been teaching you?" She responds, "That cheating is good?" Cartman says, "Yes! And abortion is the ultimate form of cheating. You are cheating nature itself. Why do rich white girls get ahead in life? Because they get abortions. . . . They cheat that little critter in their belly right out of a chance at life."


:missingte

Cartman's demographic assumptions are off but his message is clear. A female, "pro-choice" South Park fan I know said the above exchange jarred her so profoundly that she had to stop watching. She said that it "hurt" to hear it. Why? Because in American pop-culture no one speaks the most basic truth about abortion. The brashness of South Park rejects the euphemisms and obfuscations of the left.

South Park has more jewels in its manure. Kyle and Stan, the two "good" children at the center of the show, by the end of the week's misadventures usually gain an understanding that cuts through the tortured and predominately liberal logic of the world around them. So, South Park: Not worth watching for many WORLD readers, but worth knowing about.

 

[rolltide]

Do the US unemployment figures only include those workers receiving unemployment benefits? Many of the financial industry workers that are losing their jobs are given packages contingent upon them not filing for unemployment insurance. Therefore, if the unemployment data only includes those receiving unemployment benefits, those receiving packages are not included.

the government's definition of the unemployed includes only people who do not have a job, have actively looked for work in the four weeks preceding the survey and are currently available for work. It excludes the self-employed, those working part-time or on commission only, and the underemployed. It also doesn't count those who have given up looking for work altogether, "discouraged workers", defined as persons not currently looking for work specifically because they believe there aren't any jobs.

so if you're working 10 hours a week to "get by" and seek a full time job you are not categorically unemployed. As explained, it also does not include folks that are either 1099 employees or on just commission (such as a headhunter who owns his own business) that have no job orders to work on.

tracking decreased payroll is a better indicator since 1099ers and small business owners on commission put their comp through payroll when they pay theirselves. Less checks = less people getting paid

• December Jobs Loss Was 697,000 Net of Concurrent Seasonal Factor Bias (Instead of Official 524,000 Loss)

 

[duckhunter]

i own a small business, have had it for over 30 years........this is as bad as i have ever seen it.

 

[eek.]

A lot of companies will be getting rid of people now anyway because this is a boom time for a company to fuxx its employees up the ass.

No awkward questions will be asked, no scrutiny.

Cut wages, cut benefits, get rid of older more expensive workers, cut jobs, cut pensions, move stuff overseas, outsource stuff, long live capitalism.

:toast:

 

[koidog]

you guys obviously dont work in the financial sector.

I work in Advertising. And the Economy is NOT that bad.

I didn't say it's great, but the fear compounds the problem.

 

[DeathEatsaCracker]

You are obviously not aware of the precipice on which we are currently residing.

Things are great for me. The last two years have been my best ever, and 2009 will be just as good. Where I work actually benefits when things are bad because we are the low cost producer in our company. The only thing that means is that you gotta look at the big picture.