Comments on: Employed People Can Now Roll in Their Riches

By: nojo

nojo — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:55:40 +0000

@al2o3cr: I'm not familiar with Crazee Eyes' district, but the homefolk may very well support her. Although I live in a deep-blue part of Sandy Eggo, I've met people from La Jolla, and they're nuts.

By: rptrcub

rptrcub — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:52:13 +0000

@SanFranLefty: I am not doing shit on a furlough day, unless my work place explodes, and even then, it's iffy.

By: al2o3cr

al2o3cr — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:49:21 +0000

One of our favorite wingnuts raises the ante: Bachmann: Will Obama Make Us Eat Less? I'm sure the people back home that voted for her are very proud.

By: Benedick

Benedick — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:36:17 +0000

@al2o3cr: Thanks for that. Now I have to go hide under the table.

By: SanFranLefty

SanFranLefty — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:16:51 +0000

@rptrcub: Unpaid furlough days are a pay cut, though. Especially when your workload isn't cut 20% or you don't get a 20% extension on deadlines, and you spend your furlough day working, albeit from home.

By: rptrcub

rptrcub — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:04:40 +0000

@SanFranLefty: I think I prefer furlough days rather than an outright pay cut, personally, because you at least get a day off from work.

By: al2o3cr

al2o3cr — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:41:27 +0000

TJ: just a reminder that while your typical teabagger is batshit insane, that particular well goes an awful lot deeper: YouTube - Mars Rover killed tiny humans.

By: FlyingChainSaw

FlyingChainSaw — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:04:01 +0000

Exactly, the story is really about the metric’s formulation.

By: SanFranLefty

SanFranLefty — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:46:48 +0000

So a few thousand Wall Street bankers gave themselves raises in the millions with the resulting average national salary going up $6.00/wk (which works out to just over $1.00/day, $.15/hr, so most likely less than inflation). Big difference between mean and median, Mr. NYT Economics Writer. Plus minimum wage went up ~~last fall~~ this summer.

Based on the unscientific anecdotal sampling system, most the people I know who still have jobs have had massive salary cuts approaching 20%, or at best have had their salaries frozen for the past couple years.

By: cuthbert

cuthbert — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:40:48 +0000

See I thought they were going to go for turning on the gas in the gym but I guess that would be insensitive, since, otherwise, it is such a pretty metaphor. All of us unemployed people, shoved into a gym. I really hope there are mandatory showers and metal detectors since it clear that I won’t be getting out of the damn gym any time soon. Maybe that is the plan. Cage matches and weapons. The possibilities are really endless. Thanks NYT!