Well, whatever you do keep piping up and raising hell. Financial troubles are emotionally very hard to cope with and that's another thing that just doesn't make it to these politicians. These are real Americans, real people who are getting wiped out financially every damn day.
Are you using ie6? I have a bug which I haven't been able to track down.
If so, use firefox, as far as I know the only display bug I have is with this look, on ie6. But if there are display bugs like that, please email me!
Also, in "my account" you can change the look of the site to a blue theme. That doesn't have the ie6 bug.
Email me off line because I have periodically gone looking for that damn bug in ie6 and I don't have that browser/OS combination (I believe it's ie6/w2k) to hunt it down.
Lots of great feeling as I deposit my last unemployment check. Thanks and gratitude to all the H1B folks. But while I stand behind a short brown Mestizo dude, I notice the altercation between him and the bank teller. It seems he has no other form of identification than a debit card from a central American bank. He has no drivers license, not even a Matricula Consular Card. If you recall, many of the 9/11 Hijackers had false or non-existent id.
The paycheck the Mestizo is getting, is for a local government sidewalk construction project. No unions here, everybody is Amigo, ese. The original sidewalks were built by the WPA in 1935. I bet there were no illegals working on the original sidewalks.
On the week following 9/11/2001, sixteen caskets were laid out one local parish alone, St. James, in Basking Ridge, New Jersey. Let LULAC and La Raza, and try their crap on me, face to face.
I figured it out and reposted using html from DK. Looks a lot better...thanks.
One other question: When I log in I have no content on the left half of the screen (where front pagers publish in DK). I have to scroll all the way down, to the bottom of the blog/diary list on the right, to see anything.
Congress is trying to increase guest worker Visas, Employment based visas by 550,000. Take Action.
I don't believe there are 40M people unauthorized in the United States, that sounds grossly over estimated, but I do believe 12M they low ball because the numbers are so alarming to most Americans.
The real thing here is....beyond just handing McCain an issue without even realizing it...and that shows some real out of touch with what the American people actually want...
and it obviously is not some corporate written cheap labor lobby bill....
Is the completely disregard for US workers. I mean that's just a fact that flooding the labor supply and enabling unlimited migration/immigration will repress wages, erode worker rights and any solution that the American people could accept simply has to recognize those statistics and put Americans 1st. It's like Americans are dead last and the reason is not the philosophy of this issue...instead corporations want this, lobbyists want this.
And honestly believing that this will win the election ...well, unless illegals are voting I don't see how such an outrageous statement would. Even by Demographics the Hispanic vote does not start and end with this issue in any way.
I suspect that you accidentially toggled to the rich text editor, which won't work. That's a WYSIWYG and does the HTML formmatting "for you" so if you put in tagged HTML code it will reformat it to display the actual HTML code.
all of the tags from DK should work on here, but that's formatted correctly. They have correcting code as I do (software to correct badly formed HTML tags) but there might be differences but that would be if there are errors.
This site is full XHTML (and I have it set you can use HTML but XHTML is the official format). DK and all Soapblox sites, are a limited subset of HTML. So, anything you can post there should be a straight cut and paste over here.
Over on DK, you have to go into edit and then hit copy. Then while in the plain text editor here paste.
If you toggle the rich text editor that would interpret all XHTML/HTML tags, thus display the HTML code along with the text.
The body comes up in plain text editor on default.
Also, if you cross post there are a few things such as link over to EP (the code is in the user guide) and change your title just a tad and possibly the 1st sentence. I'm all for cross posting but ya gotta fake out the aggregators. They will punish websites who has identical content and bury them in rankings. By changing the title, putting a little "cross posted on the Economicpopulist" link and the first sentence, that is enough to fake out those various ranking engines.
I looked over your revisions and I didn't see anything that looked messed up, although you need to format your links.
Here's the user guide which has examples on formatting as well as how to use the rich text editor and so on.
DK doesn't have a rich text editor, i.e. two different edit modes from which to choose from to write a post, so I suspect (since you hit the vote yourself off the front page button! ;)) you hit the "switch to rich text editor" mode too.
Just email me. There is a private check box which works like drafts on DK. Check that and only you and then myself (since I'm the admin) will be able to see what you're working on.
Health care is the one that really bothers me. look at these OECD graphs on costs in the United States vs. other nations and they have almost all single pay health.
It's costs. What I fear with their data is that it will be used to cut much needed social/public benefits when ...well let's see the estimates of how much rip off is going to corporations via the taxpayer?
but the two wars are currently only a small part of the problem. Together, their total cost is between $120-$140 Billion a year. From government Trust funds and foreign investors, we are currently borrowing $720 Billion a year. So even if you discount the wars, we are still borrowing about $580-$600 Billion bollars a year. That is just at TODAY's rate ($1.97 Billion per day). God only knows what it will tomorrow.
I don't know if you look at the "Debt Clock" or not. I have been watching it for the past year or so. When I started, we were borrowing about $1.34 Billion per day. One year later (today) it is up to $1.97 Billion per day. I have watched the daily amount being borrowed getting larger and larger, at an ever increasing rate.
Where will it stop?
When will it stop?
WHY will it stop?
What will happen if those foreign countries lending us money decide that we are no longer a good investment and try to cash in the $2.5 Trillion worth of Treasury Bonds they hold?
I have heard people say, "they won't do that". My respose is BULLSHIT. Who needs bullets when they can bring down the "American Imperialists" with one fell swoop of the pen. They are still a Communist country and unlike America, their government totally controls their financial section, not the other way around, as it is here.
Whatever our government is going to do....THEY BETTER START ON IT SOON !!!
but in 2014, or so, it will be. It will become more and more of a problem every year thereafter. Medicare is a much more immediate problem because this year marks the 1st year that it can not totally pay for itself. The additional funds it needs to cover expenses will have to come out an already strained General Fund, and like SS as the years pass its economic impact could be disastrous.
There is a "perfect economic storm" brewing. It not only includes all the Social programs (Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid) but the ever increasing National Debt and Deficit, Devaluation of the dollar, loss of jobs, loss of corporations, banking defaults, and on an on. Pick your own economic indicator to add to the list. There is NO good, long term, economic news out there.
In the coming years, all of these will require an ever increasing level of funding, far beyond what taxes will generate. So far, we've been suplimenting the shortage by borrowing money from Government Trust funds and foreign countries.
Borrowing is not an issue at the moment. Most economists agree that the current level of borrowing is not unprecidented and is managable. What they don't seem to understand is that, unlike past similar situations, this one is only going to get worse. There is nothing in our economic future that can prevent this problem from escalating out of control.
Everyone of them is on the decline and their is NOTHING from stopping them from getting worse. The Republicans are banking on economic growth, but how can we have economic growth when we are losing jobs and corporations are moving overseas daily. Our ability to manufacture anything is being stripped.
This country was built on the backs of people working in manufacturing. The Republican don't seem to give damn if our entire manufacturing base disappears.
BUT these lowly mill and manufacturing workers are the brakes that have always stopped an economic decline. Republicans are killing the goose that has time and time again laid our golden and egg and kept this country afloat.
There is no free lunch and unless someone can explain to me HOW we are going to pay for everything we've promised the American people with an ever decreasing economy, then I'm going to remain scared, really scared.
is not a problem now, but will be more so in the coming years. It is but a small portion of the "Perfect Storm" forming around our financial institutions and our economy as a whole.
HOW MANY ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ARE REALLY IN OUR UNITED STATES TAKING JOBS THAT RIGHTFULLY BELONG TO AMERICANS???
There is endless speculation about how many illegal immigrants there are in our United States. Our politicians, especially the pro-illegal ones, love to use the number 12 million. They have been using that same number for the last four years, all while, each year, millions more illegals have invaded our United States.
Illegals have been swarming across our border ever since 1986, when amnesty was granted to the estimated 1.3 million illegal immigrants, who were here at that time, which turned out to be closer to 3.5 million.
In 2001, before any real concentrated border enforcement effort, it was estimated that the Border Patrol apprehended 1, out of every 7, illegal immigrants, attempting to cross our Southern border. Now, with a increased Border Patrol effort, and 300 miles of fencing, plus some vehicle barriers, along the almost 2,000 mile Southern border, it is estimated that the Border Patrol now apprehends 1, out of every 4, illegal immigrants, attempting to cross our Southern border.
So, realizing that we could grossly guestimate how many illegals came into our country each year, by multiplying available DHS statistics on Border Patrol apprehensions, by as much as 6, in the early years, and by 3 in the last couple of years, how many illegals do you think we now have in our country??
In the last ten years, well over 11 million illegals have been apprehended at the border. If we used the lowest multiplier, that 1, out of 4, were apprehended, it still indicates that over 33 million illegals entered our United States, and that is just in the last ten years. How many more entered from 1987 to 1998??
Let's stop accepting, or believing, that there are only 12 million illegals in our United States. There are probably much closer to 40 million, if not more. We can even assume that as many as 20 million former illegals have since become legal over the past 22 years, and the numbers of illegals, here right now, could still be well over 30 million.
Support E-Verify for ALL employees, and let's begin taking our country back!!!
Social Security is one of the most successful and lasting legacies of the New Deal. It lifted senior citizens out of poverty. Again it is widely touted as one of the most successful government programs ever. Perhaps that is why the anti government "free" market crowd wants to take it down - it daily disproves their ideology.
With the shift away from traditional defined benefit pension plans and toward the volatile 401K plans social security becomes more important than ever. A 401k is simply not going to be enough to help someone live a secure retirement. . 401ks are simply too dependent on the economy and the stock market - if the market is down when you are ready to retire your 401 k could drop huge amounts of value. In the big drop off in 2001 when the first Bush recession hit mine dropped almost half its value and took the next 5 years just to catch back up - instead of earning value. The old line that "my 401k is now a 201k" was no joke.
Had we Al Gore's much ridiculed "lock box" preventing congress from raiding the funds for other things such as wars we wouldn't even be talking about a SS "crisis"
Even Greedspan admitted that it would actually be fairly easy to correct any future shortfall of SS with any or combination of the following - rolling back the Bush tax cuts, raise the salary cap, or shift the retirement age a few years back = which is already happening anyway as people reach retirement age and find they do not have enough money to retire and continue working either full or part time.
Honestly I think they aren't talking about the lobbyists controlling government because Democrats too are controlled by lobbyists.
Wish it weren't so but sure appears to be that way.
That's too bad for Boeing because workers are right now on strike and the huge issue, which of course isn't being covered by the press, is offshore outsourcing by Boeing.
BTW: I don't know if you meant to do this but you voted your own blog post down (little arrow on the bottom left of your post) and watch out because those voting things move content around the site so users control the front page by consensus! ;) Somehow I don't think you meant to say you don't want your own blog on the front page. ;)
Over on the left is a user guide and we're so small and there is an email system, so I answer questions on the technical end, no problem.
I did them in a Friday Movie Night. Look at his social security graph and he shows the funds are there, but simply stolen by Congress for other programs.
It's Medicare/Medicaid and the costs that is the ultimate monster in the room.
I like Walker and I think his numbers are solid and the way the deficit is out of control, I agree with his "Dr. Doom" message.
That said, I question not cutting drastically the DoD budget, and the Iraq war has surely broken the bank.
I think they could not deny/reduce benefits if we got the lobbyists plain out of Congress who corrupt almost all good intentions, including social programs.
Medicare, our monstrous trade deficits, our lack of savings, and a government that uses bogus wars to distract the public, are our most immediate concerns.
If we can't deal with these issues then this country will be doomed long before Social Security collapses.
and it works. What is your email address and I'll send you a screen shot of what the other looks like.
Well, whatever you do keep piping up and raising hell. Financial troubles are emotionally very hard to cope with and that's another thing that just doesn't make it to these politicians. These are real Americans, real people who are getting wiped out financially every damn day.
Are you using ie6? I have a bug which I haven't been able to track down.
If so, use firefox, as far as I know the only display bug I have is with this look, on ie6. But if there are display bugs like that, please email me!
Also, in "my account" you can change the look of the site to a blue theme. That doesn't have the ie6 bug.
Email me off line because I have periodically gone looking for that damn bug in ie6 and I don't have that browser/OS combination (I believe it's ie6/w2k) to hunt it down.
Lots of great feeling as I deposit my last unemployment check. Thanks and gratitude to all the H1B folks. But while I stand behind a short brown Mestizo dude, I notice the altercation between him and the bank teller. It seems he has no other form of identification than a debit card from a central American bank. He has no drivers license, not even a Matricula Consular Card. If you recall, many of the 9/11 Hijackers had false or non-existent id.
The paycheck the Mestizo is getting, is for a local government sidewalk construction project. No unions here, everybody is Amigo, ese. The original sidewalks were built by the WPA in 1935. I bet there were no illegals working on the original sidewalks.
On the week following 9/11/2001, sixteen caskets were laid out one local parish alone, St. James, in Basking Ridge, New Jersey. Let LULAC and La Raza, and try their crap on me, face to face.
I reported this scene to ICE.
I figured it out and reposted using html from DK. Looks a lot better...thanks.
One other question: When I log in I have no content on the left half of the screen (where front pagers publish in DK). I have to scroll all the way down, to the bottom of the blog/diary list on the right, to see anything.
Can I correct this ??
Congress is trying to increase guest worker Visas, Employment based visas by 550,000. Take Action.
I don't believe there are 40M people unauthorized in the United States, that sounds grossly over estimated, but I do believe 12M they low ball because the numbers are so alarming to most Americans.
The real thing here is....beyond just handing McCain an issue without even realizing it...and that shows some real out of touch with what the American people actually want...
and it obviously is not some corporate written cheap labor lobby bill....
Is the completely disregard for US workers. I mean that's just a fact that flooding the labor supply and enabling unlimited migration/immigration will repress wages, erode worker rights and any solution that the American people could accept simply has to recognize those statistics and put Americans 1st. It's like Americans are dead last and the reason is not the philosophy of this issue...instead corporations want this, lobbyists want this.
And honestly believing that this will win the election ...well, unless illegals are voting I don't see how such an outrageous statement would. Even by Demographics the Hispanic vote does not start and end with this issue in any way.
I suspect that you accidentially toggled to the rich text editor, which won't work. That's a WYSIWYG and does the HTML formmatting "for you" so if you put in tagged HTML code it will reformat it to display the actual HTML code.
all of the tags from DK should work on here, but that's formatted correctly. They have correcting code as I do (software to correct badly formed HTML tags) but there might be differences but that would be if there are errors.
This site is full XHTML (and I have it set you can use HTML but XHTML is the official format). DK and all Soapblox sites, are a limited subset of HTML. So, anything you can post there should be a straight cut and paste over here.
Over on DK, you have to go into edit and then hit copy. Then while in the plain text editor here paste.
If you toggle the rich text editor that would interpret all XHTML/HTML tags, thus display the HTML code along with the text.
The body comes up in plain text editor on default.
Also, if you cross post there are a few things such as link over to EP (the code is in the user guide) and change your title just a tad and possibly the 1st sentence. I'm all for cross posting but ya gotta fake out the aggregators. They will punish websites who has identical content and bury them in rankings. By changing the title, putting a little "cross posted on the Economicpopulist" link and the first sentence, that is enough to fake out those various ranking engines.
I looked over your revisions and I didn't see anything that looked messed up, although you need to format your links.
Here's the user guide which has examples on formatting as well as how to use the rich text editor and so on.
DK doesn't have a rich text editor, i.e. two different edit modes from which to choose from to write a post, so I suspect (since you hit the vote yourself off the front page button! ;)) you hit the "switch to rich text editor" mode too.
Just email me. There is a private check box which works like drafts on DK. Check that and only you and then myself (since I'm the admin) will be able to see what you're working on.
Health care is the one that really bothers me. look at these OECD graphs on costs in the United States vs. other nations and they have almost all single pay health.
It's costs. What I fear with their data is that it will be used to cut much needed social/public benefits when ...well let's see the estimates of how much rip off is going to corporations via the taxpayer?
but the two wars are currently only a small part of the problem. Together, their total cost is between $120-$140 Billion a year. From government Trust funds and foreign investors, we are currently borrowing $720 Billion a year. So even if you discount the wars, we are still borrowing about $580-$600 Billion bollars a year. That is just at TODAY's rate ($1.97 Billion per day). God only knows what it will tomorrow.
I don't know if you look at the "Debt Clock" or not. I have been watching it for the past year or so. When I started, we were borrowing about $1.34 Billion per day. One year later (today) it is up to $1.97 Billion per day. I have watched the daily amount being borrowed getting larger and larger, at an ever increasing rate.
Where will it stop?
When will it stop?
WHY will it stop?
What will happen if those foreign countries lending us money decide that we are no longer a good investment and try to cash in the $2.5 Trillion worth of Treasury Bonds they hold?
I have heard people say, "they won't do that". My respose is BULLSHIT. Who needs bullets when they can bring down the "American Imperialists" with one fell swoop of the pen. They are still a Communist country and unlike America, their government totally controls their financial section, not the other way around, as it is here.
Whatever our government is going to do....THEY BETTER START ON IT SOON !!!
but in 2014, or so, it will be. It will become more and more of a problem every year thereafter. Medicare is a much more immediate problem because this year marks the 1st year that it can not totally pay for itself. The additional funds it needs to cover expenses will have to come out an already strained General Fund, and like SS as the years pass its economic impact could be disastrous.
There is a "perfect economic storm" brewing. It not only includes all the Social programs (Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid) but the ever increasing National Debt and Deficit, Devaluation of the dollar, loss of jobs, loss of corporations, banking defaults, and on an on. Pick your own economic indicator to add to the list. There is NO good, long term, economic news out there.
In the coming years, all of these will require an ever increasing level of funding, far beyond what taxes will generate. So far, we've been suplimenting the shortage by borrowing money from Government Trust funds and foreign countries.
Borrowing is not an issue at the moment. Most economists agree that the current level of borrowing is not unprecidented and is managable. What they don't seem to understand is that, unlike past similar situations, this one is only going to get worse. There is nothing in our economic future that can prevent this problem from escalating out of control.
Everyone of them is on the decline and their is NOTHING from stopping them from getting worse. The Republicans are banking on economic growth, but how can we have economic growth when we are losing jobs and corporations are moving overseas daily. Our ability to manufacture anything is being stripped.
This country was built on the backs of people working in manufacturing. The Republican don't seem to give damn if our entire manufacturing base disappears.
BUT these lowly mill and manufacturing workers are the brakes that have always stopped an economic decline. Republicans are killing the goose that has time and time again laid our golden and egg and kept this country afloat.
There is no free lunch and unless someone can explain to me HOW we are going to pay for everything we've promised the American people with an ever decreasing economy, then I'm going to remain scared, really scared.
is not a problem now, but will be more so in the coming years. It is but a small portion of the "Perfect Storm" forming around our financial institutions and our economy as a whole.
You got me here. I had to go find your last comment on one of my diaries where you mentioned this blog.
No...I didn't mean to screw my own diary and YES...I'd love to have a diary on the front page.
I imported the diary, as is from Kos, and was suprised to see that all the html wouldn't work. Any suggestions on how to convert to this site easily?
Thanks
HOW MANY ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ARE REALLY IN OUR UNITED STATES TAKING JOBS THAT RIGHTFULLY BELONG TO AMERICANS???
There is endless speculation about how many illegal immigrants there are in our United States. Our politicians, especially the pro-illegal ones, love to use the number 12 million. They have been using that same number for the last four years, all while, each year, millions more illegals have invaded our United States.
Illegals have been swarming across our border ever since 1986, when amnesty was granted to the estimated 1.3 million illegal immigrants, who were here at that time, which turned out to be closer to 3.5 million.
In 2001, before any real concentrated border enforcement effort, it was estimated that the Border Patrol apprehended 1, out of every 7, illegal immigrants, attempting to cross our Southern border. Now, with a increased Border Patrol effort, and 300 miles of fencing, plus some vehicle barriers, along the almost 2,000 mile Southern border, it is estimated that the Border Patrol now apprehends 1, out of every 4, illegal immigrants, attempting to cross our Southern border.
So, realizing that we could grossly guestimate how many illegals came into our country each year, by multiplying available DHS statistics on Border Patrol apprehensions, by as much as 6, in the early years, and by 3 in the last couple of years, how many illegals do you think we now have in our country??
-------------SOUTHWEST BORDER PATROL APPREHENSIONS----------
----1999-------2000-------2001-------2002-------2003-------2004-------2005-------2006------2007------2008
1,537,000-1,643,679-1,235,718--929,809--905,065-1,139,282-1,189,108-1,071,972-858,638-660,882
In the last ten years, well over 11 million illegals have been apprehended at the border. If we used the lowest multiplier, that 1, out of 4, were apprehended, it still indicates that over 33 million illegals entered our United States, and that is just in the last ten years. How many more entered from 1987 to 1998??
Let's stop accepting, or believing, that there are only 12 million illegals in our United States. There are probably much closer to 40 million, if not more. We can even assume that as many as 20 million former illegals have since become legal over the past 22 years, and the numbers of illegals, here right now, could still be well over 30 million.
Support E-Verify for ALL employees, and let's begin taking our country back!!!
Social Security is one of the most successful and lasting legacies of the New Deal. It lifted senior citizens out of poverty. Again it is widely touted as one of the most successful government programs ever. Perhaps that is why the anti government "free" market crowd wants to take it down - it daily disproves their ideology.
With the shift away from traditional defined benefit pension plans and toward the volatile 401K plans social security becomes more important than ever. A 401k is simply not going to be enough to help someone live a secure retirement. . 401ks are simply too dependent on the economy and the stock market - if the market is down when you are ready to retire your 401 k could drop huge amounts of value. In the big drop off in 2001 when the first Bush recession hit mine dropped almost half its value and took the next 5 years just to catch back up - instead of earning value. The old line that "my 401k is now a 201k" was no joke.
Had we Al Gore's much ridiculed "lock box" preventing congress from raiding the funds for other things such as wars we wouldn't even be talking about a SS "crisis"
Even Greedspan admitted that it would actually be fairly easy to correct any future shortfall of SS with any or combination of the following - rolling back the Bush tax cuts, raise the salary cap, or shift the retirement age a few years back = which is already happening anyway as people reach retirement age and find they do not have enough money to retire and continue working either full or part time.
Honestly I think they aren't talking about the lobbyists controlling government because Democrats too are controlled by lobbyists.
Wish it weren't so but sure appears to be that way.
That's too bad for Boeing because workers are right now on strike and the huge issue, which of course isn't being covered by the press, is offshore outsourcing by Boeing.
Glad you're over here and being a bloggin' fool!
BTW: I don't know if you meant to do this but you voted your own blog post down (little arrow on the bottom left of your post) and watch out because those voting things move content around the site so users control the front page by consensus! ;) Somehow I don't think you meant to say you don't want your own blog on the front page. ;)
Over on the left is a user guide and we're so small and there is an email system, so I answer questions on the technical end, no problem.
Welcome!
I did them in a Friday Movie Night. Look at his social security graph and he shows the funds are there, but simply stolen by Congress for other programs.
It's Medicare/Medicaid and the costs that is the ultimate monster in the room.
I like Walker and I think his numbers are solid and the way the deficit is out of control, I agree with his "Dr. Doom" message.
That said, I question not cutting drastically the DoD budget, and the Iraq war has surely broken the bank.
I think they could not deny/reduce benefits if we got the lobbyists plain out of Congress who corrupt almost all good intentions, including social programs.
Medicare, our monstrous trade deficits, our lack of savings, and a government that uses bogus wars to distract the public, are our most immediate concerns.
If we can't deal with these issues then this country will be doomed long before Social Security collapses.
Fannie Mae raised $7 billion in its largest individual sale of senior debt:
to who?
doesn't say!
sell off troubled unit is the latest.
How are they going to get any buyers when no one will even give them additional capital?
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