Employed People Can Now Roll in Their Riches

In US Americal, the stats boys only want happy news because lumping in unemployment just depresses them.

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!

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.

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

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.

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

@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.

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

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.

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

@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.