If you would have provided a detailed chart of Hayhoe's projections your readers would have seen that her projections are already diverging from reality. You also did not include her error bars for her future scenarios nor did you identify the model(s0 used. That is your prerogative but when someone makes claims about future climate, it is customary to identify the weaknesses in those projections too, otherwise it gives the impression that that you are biased.
The problem is that you state, "Now here is what happens with emissions continuing on by 2070 if greenhouse gas emissions are 1000 ppm" but you make the error of claiming that future projections are fact and they are not. A great example of how such assumptions can be wrong is unfolding in the Antarctic right now. The estimates of modeled mass balance loss have been found to be completely wrong and future Antarctic contribution to sea level rise exaggerated. See the links below for the science on how the models were found to be so wrong:
People like me with science backgrounds who have programmed and used models would never express the certainty that you use in your article as if future projections were fact. The American Meteorological Society has demonstrated further problems with the models used for instance by the IPCC and testing projections made in the 1990s already diverging from measured satellite and buoy data. Read here if you would like to see how AMS scientists tested the IPCC models.
The IPCC itself warns, "In sum, a strategy must recognize what is possible. In climate research and modeling, we should recognize that we are dealing with a coupled non-linear chaotic system, and therefore that the long-term prediction of future climate states is not possible."
http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/tar/wg1/505.htm
The measured outgoing longwave radiation radiation is greater now than in the 1980s which should not be happening because the additional CO2 in the atmosphere should have lowered OLR as the Earth's radiation budget seeks a new equilibrium. Companies that sell products are required to provide caveats and in climate science there are many caveats and most scientists, in the Feynman style of full disclosure, willingly offer caveats when discussing research and modeled projections and they should be included in any discussion of climate science as they always are in other fields of science.
Gore, no thanks, the other option again the other side of the same coin. Not a fan of either choice, all politicians in D & R same lack of moral fiber in public and private lives. Gore was right there along with old Mr. Bill "Son of Hope - Hope you aren't an American worker about to get screwed by NAFTA and Alan Greenspan" Clinton. The same Bill Clinton now representing foreign nations and making millions while his "wife" works as Secy. of State (damn you ethics and conflicts of interest, real and apparent). Gore did nothing to stop it. Gore's father set him up, like Murdoch set his son up for life of $ and privilege, like Bush did for his sons, Senator Buffett set his son up, Joe Kennedy/rum runner/inside trader/American ambassor to the UK that had to be recalled for his appeasement stance set up his clan, etc. All the same private club and, as old George Carlin said, we ain't in it. Not pulling a partisan thing here, just dislike them all and don't trust any one of them, especially when there are millions of people that didn't earn any Nobel Prizes or press coverage who literally die fighting corruption, abuses, sacrifice themselves to stop their family, relatives, etc. from getting raped and murdered daily in S. America, Africa, Asia, and elsewhere. Gore's living the highlife like the rest of the 1% while thinking he knows how the "common man/woman" lives. Nope.
We would be better off as a Nation if we randomly selected a citizen from the populace and made him serve in Congress. That would ensure we educated our populace in classic liberal arts like Jefferson, etc. wanted (science, math, history, and other subjects) because anyone could be eligible for service. That would prevent grooming or buying candidates like we have nowadays. It would ensure a caring and educated and involved populace. And no serving citizen could be richer during or after his limited service and would be accountable to fellow citizens and the govt. And if the "elite" don't listen to the populace soon, Cincinnatus and others will speak as if they are alive and well.
Thanks for letting me know. It should be there now, as the link and as an attachment. Must have gotten lost in an edit. It is so difficult to get accurate overviews on the PPACA, the politics are absolutely thick as ....well, the point of this post.
The interview was good, but we've known this for far too long. They have ambassadors (why exactly is an MBA and GSux alum with 20 years in that cartel our ambassador to Germany? No one else with the money to buy the position and ram austerity down the EU's throat?). Banksters buy the politicians and pay for everything they want. Banksters buy the campaigns and ads. Banksters have their own AGs and police forces (NYPD thanks Mr. Dimon for his kind donation - I'm not sure shareholders or pensions were consulted, but Dimon needs protection, so who cares). Banksters charge interest rates the mob never dared after the purposely delay receiving payments. Banksters rig auctions. Banksters forge documents. Banksters cause people to lose their homes, get sick, and die. Banksters have repeated security breaches and cause ID theft, but they never lose any sleep or $ over that. Did I miss anything? And no matter how badly they screw everyone else, their puppets keep repeating the "job creators, best and brightest" BS. No matter what, they keep getting richer and smirk like freaking psycopaths. There are simple solutions to all of this, but those are ignored and the people who care are struggling to survive in this rigged coutry.
This country now stands for something, but it's not to be emulated. Whenever these unindicted co-conspirators give other people's $ to some charity, it always makes me laugh and cringe. "Hey, look, I'm giving $1 million to kids in the city, but meanwhile I destroyed entire state economies and fired 10,000 people and foreclosed on your grandmothers and I make money when I screw up or when I simply do my job adequately - but people like me will still meet and great "powerplayers" while sipping champagne and laughing." And many people that ask questions are long-term unemployed and seen as useless. Oh well, back to the Olympic Trials. USA! USA! USA!
I don't think one can negotiate with MDs. We have a corporate take over of health care services. I plan to detail this, but they are forcing patients to sign over to loan shark interest rates, plus turning over bills that aren't even late to bill collectors, ruining people's credit.
Pretty obscene with poor services, or fake billing and obviously a $10k bill @ 18% interest rates is an outright crime.
Some are pushing people into loan shark credit deals for medical services that are not even actually necessary, "sales" push.
The point of this entire exercise wasn't supposed to be about a tax and a penalty, it's supposed to be about getting everybody quality health care to stop the medical horror stories.
If you click on that link to the CRS analysis, there is a sliding and increasing scale on the penalties, which I agree, people will just pay that.
I think the Good news in associating this with a tax is for people to realize taxes are supposed to pay for public services, not go into some black hole somewhere and another point is this is why other nation's taxes are higher, those who have national, universal single payer health care systems.
In other words, those other countries shouldn't be looked at as "high taxes" but instead providing high quality health care at reasonable cost and that is what all of their citizens pay for, through taxes.
For individuals the current 'tax' for not complying with the ACA is only about $760. It will be cheaper for some just to pay the penalty.
If an uninsured person has the choice of paying $760 vs $500/month with a $5000 deductable, the choice is obvious.
It's better to place the money in your own account then negotiate a cash price for services with the doctor.
This is a stealth tax on the poor that will be raised in the future. Since we currently have a market based system that has failed to restrain costs, I'm not sure how obligating people to participate in the same broken system will change things.
I pulled a CNN and did not read the entire opinion. Justice Ginsburg really pointing out what is implied in the above, these clauses Robert's claimed were "unconstitutional" are the very clauses which enabled social security, Medicare, Medicaid, so it seems the backdoor open to attack our existing social safety nets was laid.
From the Justice Ginsburg opinion:
The provision of health care is today a concern of na tional dimension, just as the provision of old-age and survivors’ benefits was in the 1930’s. In the Social Security Act, Congress installed a federal system to provide monthly benefits to retired wage earners and, eventually, to their survivors. Beyond question, Congress could have adopted a similar scheme for health care. Congress chose, instead, to preserve a central role for private insurers and state governments. According to THE CHIEF JUSTICE, the Commerce Clause does not permit that preservation. This rigid reading of the Clause makes scant sense and is stunningly retrogressive. Since 1937, our precedent has recognized Congress’ large authority to set the Nation’s course in the economic and social welfare realm.
But the reason this post starts out with the opinion is it has such bad ramifications and lo behold the constitutional lawyers, scholars are coming out and saying something similar.
Sorry folks, you have to get to the bottom of the post to see real costs.
I should have added something, last I saw, finding a health care policy for an individual that covered anything and didn't have a $10k deductible for less than $300 was not around.
So, on the health care situation these tea party, Republican people wanting to return to what is before have to be kidding. It's literally killing people.
The argument here is simply on systems, costs, merits.
We pointed to many times how much cheaper health care is in other nations and no, it is NOT because Americans are fat. It is because they do not have these for profit, private health care sector, making money off of the sick.
We're about more efficiency and reducing costs, universal U.S. citizen coverage.
The term "'alien' means any person not a citizen or national of the United States" as written in the U.S. Code. This isn't Bill Maher or Rosie's show or CNN, the law is written down and words have specific meanings. And that's what's used in immigration proceedings, for visas, etc., so talking about "outer space" and trying to be cute in a criminal court, with immigration judges, policy discussions with big boys and girls, US Attorneys, and border agents will, well, not get you very far. So, according to the law that Congress wrote and that is the law of the land, "aliens" aren't actually from "outer space," but something else. Your end of the lesson is done.
Yup, the old "calling illegal immigrants" illegal aliens is the biggest issue and the crux of the problem? Yeah, I've literally heard that before, surprisingly in countries south of the border where I've actually talked 1-on-1 with locals that are shocked that we have 20% plus real unemployment while those same countries are building a new factory for an "American" computer company. Do you know what the immigration policies in those countries were? Let's just say being sent home after a brief stint in jail would be the best option. Go to San Jose, CR Bangalore or Juarez or Shanghai or Jakarta see how they protect their workers, how they steal our IP, how they destroy foreign workers and imprison illegal ALIENS! Go to Jakarta, you will be fingerprinted even with a visa. Go to Russia, you will be followed because you don't belong if you are "lucky" enough to secure a visa. Go to Japan, easily identifiable foreigner, best of luck stealing a job. Take care and blame the American worker for daring to use ILLEGAL ALIEN.
Firstly, aliens come from outterspace. Unless some of you talking about aliens living among us disguised as humans, which is a completely different topic probably for another blog Secondly, blaming immigrants for poor wages is a "supply-side" perspective. What our economy needs is greater aggregate demand, so we don't have to squabble over what's left of the job market. Lastly, the influx of undocumented immigrants is a product of the "free trade" agreements, like NAFTA. If we just deny jobs to those whom need them, we aren't solving the imbalance created by these failing policies.
Those bastions of BS, like WSJ and CNBS, now have increasingly irate unemployed + underemployed people chiming in and ranting against the lies following propaganda articles. Sure, Fox and MSNBC and CNN might get away with more as suckers buy into the whole fake D & R care about me and not about big $ as they blame Romney or Obama for their ills (yeah, either side of the same coin is THE SAME COIN!), but when those suckers find they are replaceable and join the masses with even more experience and education, they might clue in. We are in a Depression that's not being addressed by these robber barons or their puppets because they love it, it's time to get pissed!
READ LINKEDIN TO KNOW THINE ENEMY - you'll see many, many people coming from a certain country that has a certain capital named "New Delhi" in the last 5-10 years and other countries. These folks have many misspellings, minimal qualifications (not sure what many of these "institutes" do - but for some reason these foreign grads have jobs here and tens of millions of vets and grads from Top 100 USA schools in the US don't) and now are in HR and screening positions. Sold out, biatches, sold out by traitors!
Lower taxes on "job creators," repeat the BS skills gap ("I'm offering a free internship that demands someone who will not ask questions, will work in a coal mine, and pays me for the honor - I cannot find any help! Please, lower my taxes!"), more visas for foreigners, sell our military technology and IP to foreign competitors and military enemies and the American citizenry are supposed to say, "You're right, I'm a lazy moron, I have no clue, you are my better, please sell us out some more to enrich yourselves"? And tolerate that BS in the press? NO WAY! NEVER! I think we were taught that should never be tolerated, ever.
There is no shortage, in fact we have a glut of PhDs in STEM. Corporate lobbyists spin out sponsored bogus papers, and I'm reasonably certain the press is paid for these "plant" stories. Notice how "the press" never amplifies the real studies coming out of Sloan (a highly respected research institution), or other real economists.
i.e. when Americans are squeezed out of graduate school in favor of foreigners, no surprise, the majority of research involve foreigners because Americans have been denied, or squeezed out financially, of those opportunities.
But bottom line, even the GAO has shown, there is no labor shortage and all one needs to do is look at BLS statistics, which includes H-1B, L-1, foreign guest workers to see the unemployment rates are double the norm.
The corporate lobbyists are on a roll, they have their demands in exchange for campaign cash and want their bought and paid for politicians to deliver on what they bought them off for in the first place.
The reason is Durable Goods advance report is very often revised and a second release is 6 days later, and much more accurate. While advanced durable goods shows a 1.1% increase, it's just a waste of time to feed the Wall Street buzz machine when odds are in 6 days this percentage will be revised.
So, folks reading our coverage on Durable goods, we will make a point to go into much more detail on the overall Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories, and Orders Census report, which is released on July 3rd.
Tis true, but the irritating aspect on this article is many of those facts were covered on this site, as they happened. Can we get a mention? No, they take the regurgitated establishment press versions.
Anyway, the theme for this post, both of them are busy shipping as many jobs as possible overseas and both of them will import as much cheap labor as their corporate masters demand.
I call the treatment of the U.S. citizen worker being cast aside like dirty diapers they have used.
The press is clearly manipulated and I do not believe the polls on this crap. Right now it is claimed "Obama wins the battleground states due to his position on immigration". That's absolutely ridiculous, considering those battleground states are actually front loaded with people completely pissed about the never ending immigration mantra. Ohio, really? I don't think so. Florida maybe, not Ohio, or Wisconsin for that matter.
Anyway, bottom line this Presidential campaign is going to spend more money than one could use to redevelop and employ a small city and for what? They both are completely corrupt, simply MNC puppets. One could take that money and start a direct jobs program, then flip a coin on the Presidential race. Frankly it doesn't look good here that either one will not damage the U.S. and the economy further and if they do not, we know Congress will.
If you would have provided a detailed chart of Hayhoe's projections your readers would have seen that her projections are already diverging from reality. You also did not include her error bars for her future scenarios nor did you identify the model(s0 used. That is your prerogative but when someone makes claims about future climate, it is customary to identify the weaknesses in those projections too, otherwise it gives the impression that that you are biased.
The problem is that you state, "Now here is what happens with emissions continuing on by 2070 if greenhouse gas emissions are 1000 ppm" but you make the error of claiming that future projections are fact and they are not. A great example of how such assumptions can be wrong is unfolding in the Antarctic right now. The estimates of modeled mass balance loss have been found to be completely wrong and future Antarctic contribution to sea level rise exaggerated. See the links below for the science on how the models were found to be so wrong:
http://www.agu.org/news/press/pr_archives/2012/2012-31.shtml
http://www.springerlink.com/content/9k58637p80534284/?MUD=MP
People like me with science backgrounds who have programmed and used models would never express the certainty that you use in your article as if future projections were fact. The American Meteorological Society has demonstrated further problems with the models used for instance by the IPCC and testing projections made in the 1990s already diverging from measured satellite and buoy data. Read here if you would like to see how AMS scientists tested the IPCC models.
http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/cmb/bams-sotc/climate-assessment-2008...
The IPCC itself warns, "In sum, a strategy must recognize what is possible. In climate research and modeling, we should recognize that we are dealing with a coupled non-linear chaotic system, and therefore that the long-term prediction of future climate states is not possible."
http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/tar/wg1/505.htm
The measured outgoing longwave radiation radiation is greater now than in the 1980s which should not be happening because the additional CO2 in the atmosphere should have lowered OLR as the Earth's radiation budget seeks a new equilibrium. Companies that sell products are required to provide caveats and in climate science there are many caveats and most scientists, in the Feynman style of full disclosure, willingly offer caveats when discussing research and modeled projections and they should be included in any discussion of climate science as they always are in other fields of science.
Gore, no thanks, the other option again the other side of the same coin. Not a fan of either choice, all politicians in D & R same lack of moral fiber in public and private lives. Gore was right there along with old Mr. Bill "Son of Hope - Hope you aren't an American worker about to get screwed by NAFTA and Alan Greenspan" Clinton. The same Bill Clinton now representing foreign nations and making millions while his "wife" works as Secy. of State (damn you ethics and conflicts of interest, real and apparent). Gore did nothing to stop it. Gore's father set him up, like Murdoch set his son up for life of $ and privilege, like Bush did for his sons, Senator Buffett set his son up, Joe Kennedy/rum runner/inside trader/American ambassor to the UK that had to be recalled for his appeasement stance set up his clan, etc. All the same private club and, as old George Carlin said, we ain't in it. Not pulling a partisan thing here, just dislike them all and don't trust any one of them, especially when there are millions of people that didn't earn any Nobel Prizes or press coverage who literally die fighting corruption, abuses, sacrifice themselves to stop their family, relatives, etc. from getting raped and murdered daily in S. America, Africa, Asia, and elsewhere. Gore's living the highlife like the rest of the 1% while thinking he knows how the "common man/woman" lives. Nope.
We would be better off as a Nation if we randomly selected a citizen from the populace and made him serve in Congress. That would ensure we educated our populace in classic liberal arts like Jefferson, etc. wanted (science, math, history, and other subjects) because anyone could be eligible for service. That would prevent grooming or buying candidates like we have nowadays. It would ensure a caring and educated and involved populace. And no serving citizen could be richer during or after his limited service and would be accountable to fellow citizens and the govt. And if the "elite" don't listen to the populace soon, Cincinnatus and others will speak as if they are alive and well.
-Kurtz
Thanks for letting me know. It should be there now, as the link and as an attachment. Must have gotten lost in an edit. It is so difficult to get accurate overviews on the PPACA, the politics are absolutely thick as ....well, the point of this post.
The CRS link you cited appears to be broken. No need to post this, but I'd be grateful if you posted the report.
thanks
The interview was good, but we've known this for far too long. They have ambassadors (why exactly is an MBA and GSux alum with 20 years in that cartel our ambassador to Germany? No one else with the money to buy the position and ram austerity down the EU's throat?). Banksters buy the politicians and pay for everything they want. Banksters buy the campaigns and ads. Banksters have their own AGs and police forces (NYPD thanks Mr. Dimon for his kind donation - I'm not sure shareholders or pensions were consulted, but Dimon needs protection, so who cares). Banksters charge interest rates the mob never dared after the purposely delay receiving payments. Banksters rig auctions. Banksters forge documents. Banksters cause people to lose their homes, get sick, and die. Banksters have repeated security breaches and cause ID theft, but they never lose any sleep or $ over that. Did I miss anything? And no matter how badly they screw everyone else, their puppets keep repeating the "job creators, best and brightest" BS. No matter what, they keep getting richer and smirk like freaking psycopaths. There are simple solutions to all of this, but those are ignored and the people who care are struggling to survive in this rigged coutry.
This country now stands for something, but it's not to be emulated. Whenever these unindicted co-conspirators give other people's $ to some charity, it always makes me laugh and cringe. "Hey, look, I'm giving $1 million to kids in the city, but meanwhile I destroyed entire state economies and fired 10,000 people and foreclosed on your grandmothers and I make money when I screw up or when I simply do my job adequately - but people like me will still meet and great "powerplayers" while sipping champagne and laughing." And many people that ask questions are long-term unemployed and seen as useless. Oh well, back to the Olympic Trials. USA! USA! USA!
I don't think one can negotiate with MDs. We have a corporate take over of health care services. I plan to detail this, but they are forcing patients to sign over to loan shark interest rates, plus turning over bills that aren't even late to bill collectors, ruining people's credit.
Pretty obscene with poor services, or fake billing and obviously a $10k bill @ 18% interest rates is an outright crime.
Some are pushing people into loan shark credit deals for medical services that are not even actually necessary, "sales" push.
The point of this entire exercise wasn't supposed to be about a tax and a penalty, it's supposed to be about getting everybody quality health care to stop the medical horror stories.
If you click on that link to the CRS analysis, there is a sliding and increasing scale on the penalties, which I agree, people will just pay that.
I think the Good news in associating this with a tax is for people to realize taxes are supposed to pay for public services, not go into some black hole somewhere and another point is this is why other nation's taxes are higher, those who have national, universal single payer health care systems.
In other words, those other countries shouldn't be looked at as "high taxes" but instead providing high quality health care at reasonable cost and that is what all of their citizens pay for, through taxes.
For individuals the current 'tax' for not complying with the ACA is only about $760. It will be cheaper for some just to pay the penalty.
If an uninsured person has the choice of paying $760 vs $500/month with a $5000 deductable, the choice is obvious.
It's better to place the money in your own account then negotiate a cash price for services with the doctor.
This is a stealth tax on the poor that will be raised in the future. Since we currently have a market based system that has failed to restrain costs, I'm not sure how obligating people to participate in the same broken system will change things.
I pulled a CNN and did not read the entire opinion. Justice Ginsburg really pointing out what is implied in the above, these clauses Robert's claimed were "unconstitutional" are the very clauses which enabled social security, Medicare, Medicaid, so it seems the backdoor open to attack our existing social safety nets was laid.
From the Justice Ginsburg opinion:
But the reason this post starts out with the opinion is it has such bad ramifications and lo behold the constitutional lawyers, scholars are coming out and saying something similar.
Sorry folks, you have to get to the bottom of the post to see real costs.
I should have added something, last I saw, finding a health care policy for an individual that covered anything and didn't have a $10k deductible for less than $300 was not around.
So, on the health care situation these tea party, Republican people wanting to return to what is before have to be kidding. It's literally killing people.
The argument here is simply on systems, costs, merits.
We pointed to many times how much cheaper health care is in other nations and no, it is NOT because Americans are fat. It is because they do not have these for profit, private health care sector, making money off of the sick.
We're about more efficiency and reducing costs, universal U.S. citizen coverage.
Yes, we all know the legal definition of alien here, no need to shout. We also know our labor economics terms, native being one of the more odious.
The term "'alien' means any person not a citizen or national of the United States" as written in the U.S. Code. This isn't Bill Maher or Rosie's show or CNN, the law is written down and words have specific meanings. And that's what's used in immigration proceedings, for visas, etc., so talking about "outer space" and trying to be cute in a criminal court, with immigration judges, policy discussions with big boys and girls, US Attorneys, and border agents will, well, not get you very far. So, according to the law that Congress wrote and that is the law of the land, "aliens" aren't actually from "outer space," but something else. Your end of the lesson is done.
Yup, the old "calling illegal immigrants" illegal aliens is the biggest issue and the crux of the problem? Yeah, I've literally heard that before, surprisingly in countries south of the border where I've actually talked 1-on-1 with locals that are shocked that we have 20% plus real unemployment while those same countries are building a new factory for an "American" computer company. Do you know what the immigration policies in those countries were? Let's just say being sent home after a brief stint in jail would be the best option. Go to San Jose, CR Bangalore or Juarez or Shanghai or Jakarta see how they protect their workers, how they steal our IP, how they destroy foreign workers and imprison illegal ALIENS! Go to Jakarta, you will be fingerprinted even with a visa. Go to Russia, you will be followed because you don't belong if you are "lucky" enough to secure a visa. Go to Japan, easily identifiable foreigner, best of luck stealing a job. Take care and blame the American worker for daring to use ILLEGAL ALIEN.
Firstly, aliens come from outterspace. Unless some of you talking about aliens living among us disguised as humans, which is a completely different topic probably for another blog Secondly, blaming immigrants for poor wages is a "supply-side" perspective. What our economy needs is greater aggregate demand, so we don't have to squabble over what's left of the job market. Lastly, the influx of undocumented immigrants is a product of the "free trade" agreements, like NAFTA. If we just deny jobs to those whom need them, we aren't solving the imbalance created by these failing policies.
Those bastions of BS, like WSJ and CNBS, now have increasingly irate unemployed + underemployed people chiming in and ranting against the lies following propaganda articles. Sure, Fox and MSNBC and CNN might get away with more as suckers buy into the whole fake D & R care about me and not about big $ as they blame Romney or Obama for their ills (yeah, either side of the same coin is THE SAME COIN!), but when those suckers find they are replaceable and join the masses with even more experience and education, they might clue in. We are in a Depression that's not being addressed by these robber barons or their puppets because they love it, it's time to get pissed!
READ LINKEDIN TO KNOW THINE ENEMY - you'll see many, many people coming from a certain country that has a certain capital named "New Delhi" in the last 5-10 years and other countries. These folks have many misspellings, minimal qualifications (not sure what many of these "institutes" do - but for some reason these foreign grads have jobs here and tens of millions of vets and grads from Top 100 USA schools in the US don't) and now are in HR and screening positions. Sold out, biatches, sold out by traitors!
Lower taxes on "job creators," repeat the BS skills gap ("I'm offering a free internship that demands someone who will not ask questions, will work in a coal mine, and pays me for the honor - I cannot find any help! Please, lower my taxes!"), more visas for foreigners, sell our military technology and IP to foreign competitors and military enemies and the American citizenry are supposed to say, "You're right, I'm a lazy moron, I have no clue, you are my better, please sell us out some more to enrich yourselves"? And tolerate that BS in the press? NO WAY! NEVER! I think we were taught that should never be tolerated, ever.
There is no shortage, in fact we have a glut of PhDs in STEM. Corporate lobbyists spin out sponsored bogus papers, and I'm reasonably certain the press is paid for these "plant" stories. Notice how "the press" never amplifies the real studies coming out of Sloan (a highly respected research institution), or other real economists.
i.e. when Americans are squeezed out of graduate school in favor of foreigners, no surprise, the majority of research involve foreigners because Americans have been denied, or squeezed out financially, of those opportunities.
But bottom line, even the GAO has shown, there is no labor shortage and all one needs to do is look at BLS statistics, which includes H-1B, L-1, foreign guest workers to see the unemployment rates are double the norm.
The corporate lobbyists are on a roll, they have their demands in exchange for campaign cash and want their bought and paid for politicians to deliver on what they bought them off for in the first place.
The 'real media', i.e. CNN, NYT, WSJ, MSNBC have decided there is a real worker shortage in many industries.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/28/business/smallbusiness/even-with-high-...
You'll notice they never post a comments section with such articles. Even if true, I wonder how a few thousand jobs can solve anything.
The reason is Durable Goods advance report is very often revised and a second release is 6 days later, and much more accurate. While advanced durable goods shows a 1.1% increase, it's just a waste of time to feed the Wall Street buzz machine when odds are in 6 days this percentage will be revised.
So, folks reading our coverage on Durable goods, we will make a point to go into much more detail on the overall Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories, and Orders Census report, which is released on July 3rd.
Tis true, but the irritating aspect on this article is many of those facts were covered on this site, as they happened. Can we get a mention? No, they take the regurgitated establishment press versions.
Anyway, the theme for this post, both of them are busy shipping as many jobs as possible overseas and both of them will import as much cheap labor as their corporate masters demand.
I call the treatment of the U.S. citizen worker being cast aside like dirty diapers they have used.
The press is clearly manipulated and I do not believe the polls on this crap. Right now it is claimed "Obama wins the battleground states due to his position on immigration". That's absolutely ridiculous, considering those battleground states are actually front loaded with people completely pissed about the never ending immigration mantra. Ohio, really? I don't think so. Florida maybe, not Ohio, or Wisconsin for that matter.
Anyway, bottom line this Presidential campaign is going to spend more money than one could use to redevelop and employ a small city and for what? They both are completely corrupt, simply MNC puppets. One could take that money and start a direct jobs program, then flip a coin on the Presidential race. Frankly it doesn't look good here that either one will not damage the U.S. and the economy further and if they do not, we know Congress will.
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