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"Jobs jobs jobs, focused like a laser."
A "Fucking Masterpiece". Isn't he.... We Derailed Some Folks
Hope and Change indeed!!!
From the comments at oilprice.com:
"Oh yeah, I'm in Houston, right in the middle of it. Job shop, making machined parts for Halliburton and Baker, etc.
I'm ok so far, but all around me people are being laid off. Young men with kids at home, losing income and health insurance.
For geo-political reasons, because of the war on Russia and Venezuela and Iran...
Everyday I go to work I think 'is this my last day'? My wife is ill and I need health insurance. Maintenance medication.
I'm paying down debt. I need another year or so pay it off. If I'm laid off, it's bankruptcy.
What the hell, I want to work!"
It's all planned, for the demise of the low and middle class. Jobs that are lost won't be coming back. Either people rise up to the occasion or forever hold their peace. Sure they can pay for all the "illegal immigration" with our tax dollars, and end up at the end paying the fucking oligarchs in Ukraine with the same inflated greenback, but I will tell you this, salvation is coming along with the day that these folks will be held accountable and hung high for their treason against the people of this country.
read Animal House.
They made a book out of that movie?
yeah. it won a Putzer some years ago. lol
A putzer?
All these free trade deals Obama is negotiating in secret should really improve the lot of the middle class.
Fuck the whining about the oil & energy industry, which are parasites, and have fed on the blood of the middle class, using manipulated HIGHER prices for many, many years (probably 14 years manipulation higher for every one year of actual price equilibrium).
Shut the fuck up about ANYONE crushing the POOR OIL PRODUCERS BOO HOO for a change, Zero Hedge.
Let oil go to $10 a barrel - better for the middle class AFAIC.
Poor ENERGY PRODUCERS. WAAAAAHHHH!!!!!
OBAMA IS KILLING MIDDLE CLASS WITH HIGH ENERGY PRICES!!!
WAIT, OBAMA IS KILLING MIDDLE CLASS WITH LOW ENERGY PRICES!!!
I believe he meant "ANIMAL FARM"....
:)
The Nau Center for Texas Cultural Heritage has halted construction on the downtown facility just four months after its groundbreaking.
The board of directors of the center, Houston First Corp., and the city of Houston came together and agreed that it was better to shelf the project at a time when construction costs are rising and oil and gas stocks have plummeted.
http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/morning_call/2015/03/time-to-hit-the-...
Poor Houston! Poor Dallas!
After anally raping Americans from coast to coast since 2000, with oil as much as $147/barrel, based on commodity gaming, and those ill-gotten gains
going to Houston, Dallas, Wall Street prop trading desk jockeys, and some of the biggest multinationals in on the scam, they actually have a new reality to deal with!
Oh Dear! Think of the 120 million American Motorists going to work, school and grocery stores who WANT TO PAY MORE FOR FUEL AND TO HEAT THEIR HOMES - NOT!!!
First he comes for the banks and health care, uses the IRS to go after critics, politicizes the Justice Department, spies on journalists, tries to curb religious freedom, slashes the military, throws open the borders, doubles the debt and nationalizes the Internet.
He lies to the public, ignores the Constitution, inflames race relations and urges Latinos to punish Republican “enemies.” He abandons our allies, appeases tyrants, coddles adversaries and uses the Crusades as an excuse for inaction as Islamist terrorists slaughter their way across the Mideast.
Now he’s coming for Israel.
Barack Obama’s promise to transform America was too modest. He is transforming the whole world before our eyes. Do you see it yet?
Against the backdrop of the tsunami of trouble he has unleashed, Obama’s pledge to “reassess” America’s relationship with Israel cannot be taken lightly. Already paving the way for an Iranian nuke, he is hinting he’ll also let the other anti-Semites at Turtle Bay have their way. That could mean American support for punitive Security Council resolutions or for Palestinian statehood initiatives. It could mean both, or something worse.
Whatever form the punishment takes, it will aim to teach Bibi Netanyahu never again to upstage him. And to teach Israeli voters never again to elect somebody Obama doesn’t like.
Apologists and wishful thinkers, including some Jews, insist Obama realizes that the special relationship between Israel and the United States must prevail and that allowing too much daylight between friends will encourage enemies.
Those people are slow learners, or, more dangerously, deny-ists.
If Obama’s six years in office teach us anything, it is that he is impervious to appeals to good sense. Quite the contrary. Even respectful suggestions from supporters that he behave in the traditions of American presidents fill him with angry determination to do it his way.
For Israel, the consequences will be intended. Those who make excuses for Obama’s policy failures — naive, bad advice, bad luck — have not come to grips with his dark impulses and deep-seated rage.
His visceral dislike for Netanyahu is genuine, but also serves as a convenient fig leaf for his visceral dislike of Israel. The fact that it’s personal with Netanyahu doesn’t explain six years of trying to bully Israelis into signing a suicide pact with Muslims bent on destroying them. Netanyahu’s only sin is that he puts his nation’s security first and refuses to knuckle under to Obama’s endless demands for unilateral concessions.
That refusal is now the excuse to act against Israel. Consider that, for all the upheaval around the world, the president rarely has a cross word for, let alone an open dispute with, any other foreign leader. He calls Great Britain’s David Cameron “bro” and praised Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood president, Mohammed Morsi, who had called Zionists, “the descendants of apes and pigs.”
Obama asked Vladimir Putin for patience, promising “more flexibility” after the 2012 election, a genuflection that earned him Russian aggression. His Asian pivot was a head fake, and China is exploiting the vacuum. None of those leaders has gotten the Netanyahu treatment, which included his being forced to use the White House back door on one trip, and the cold shoulder on another.
It is a clear and glaring double standard.
Most troubling is Obama’s bended-knee deference to Iran’s Supreme Leader, which has been repaid with “Death to America” and “Death to Israel” demonstrations in Tehran and expanded Iranian military action in other countries.
The courtship reached the height of absurdity last week, when Obama wished Iranians a happy Persian new year by equating Republican critics of his nuclear deal with the resistance of theocratic hard-liners, saying both “oppose a diplomatic solution.” That is a damnable slur given that a top American military official estimates that Iranian weapons, proxies and trainers killed 1,500 US soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. Who in their right mind would trust such an evil regime with a nuke?
Yet Netanyahu, the leader of our only reliable ally in the region, is repeatedly singled out for abuse. He alone is the target of an orchestrated attempt to defeat him at the polls, with Obama political operatives, funded in part by American taxpayers, working to elect his opponent.
They failed and Netanyahu prevailed because Israelis see him as their best bet to protect them. Their choice was wise, but they better buckle up because it’s Israel’s turn to face the wrath of Obama.
http://nypost.com/2015/03/22/israel-beware-of-obama/
What a load of tripe. I think Morsi was being unfair to monkeys and pigs when he compared them to zionists.
Oh was that from Animal Farm? It has been too long for me.
Cliff claven,
The idea that Israel is our most reliable ally is bizarre. One needs only think about the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty to know all one needs to about Israel.
Our "alliance" with Isreal is one in which we give everything, and receive nothing. Actually, we receive far less than nothing. Isreal is for us a minus in every possible way. What we have gotten from Isreal is the death of our citizens and our young men, death of the tattered remains of our constitutional government, lost of vast sums of money, and now, thanks to Nuland other Jews who dominate the State Department, a revival of the cold war with Russia.
I have as low an opinion of Obama, but I give him credit for one crucial accomplishment: he has not attacked Iran.
Fun with Farm Animals
Six downvotes (at this time) and nobody wants to actually dispute TIS?
It is all circling the drain. It has to end. People are gonna get stepped on one way or the other. Let's get it over with so the number isn't catastrophic.
Who gave Obama a "peace Prize" ? What the fuck kind of stupid was that?
I believe it was the society named after the guy who invented dynamite.
Leave it; he's on a roll...
My advice to you is to start drinking heavily.
Animal Farm (By George Orwell)
Snowball's Chance, by John Reed
It can't come soon enough
place the blame on the main tap root, the fed complict with keynsian econ policy world wide, but first got to get back to greenspan blowing the easy money hsg bubble, then the reflation via worldwide stimulus creating 100/bbl artificially for a 7 yr duration. another symtom of fed policy creating havoc in peoples lives. i know as i sold new homes...
I find it hard to believe a machinist isn't knocking down some serious scratch and I thought ObamaCare gave everyone Faaarrreee! health insurance.
My brother-in-law is a machinist.
I'm thinkin the commenter is a plant Alaric, sayin.
The real beast lurks in that darkness.
yup, behind the curtain(so as to say), secrecy(super money accumulation-fed private shareholders and they don't even need zillions, just policy tools), or in the open via stupidity of the masses and our inability to overcome singularly,or even a group (due to their ability to tap into violence).
Forgot the link. My bad
100,000 Layoffs And Counting: Is This The New Normal?
http://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/100000-Layoffs-and-Counting-Is...
nmewn:
I suggest you consider the story of Adam Booth, who presents videos of machine shop work on his channel Abom79. He tells the story of the family machine shop started by his grandfather, then run by his father, then run by him. The machine shop was put out of business by the 2008 recession.
Abom79 Welcome to My Machine Shop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J576TqTjJ3A
Im a tool maker and machinist and I am knocking down some serious scratch right now. Busy as hell. CNC making tooling for stuff that looks like war materiale. We can't know the final destination. Its a secret. The money is real good tho. Just sayin.
"Im a tool maker and machinist and I am knocking down some serious scratch right now. Busy as hell. CNC making tooling for stuff that looks like war materiale. We can't know the final destination. Its a secret. The money is real good tho. Just sayin."
Not every Machine Shop has a gov't clearances to machine classified parts for big $$$. A very large number of machine shops are set up for Oil & Gas drilling parts. The Layoffs for Machine shops that do a lot of OIL & GAS work are indeed seeing layoffs, but the O&G layoffs have just begun and will build over the next few months, unless the energy prices recover. The issue is that a lot of Frack drilling was built on borrowing billions. The collapse in Oil prices is like the collapse in Housing prices in 2007 or the Tech Bubble of 1999 that resulted in a recession with very large layoffs nationwide.
I started an oilfield mfg machine shop here in Edmonton, Canada in 1989. We have survived thick and thin, but will almost certainly perish before this attack is over. Many peers lost their shops in 2008; many more will die this year. We are not greedy and operate on thin margins as more and more large oil producers adopt foreign equipment policies. Detroit was the beginning, oilfield now, and aircraft will be next. I currently employ a mentally challenged Native single dad, a 65 yo retired phone company man, and a retired hockey player who until recently, had the record for most time played in Olympic hockey for his country. They will all be layed off this year. We make great oilfield service rig products, which are in service worldwide, but only modest incomes. We have been squeezed out; we can't hang on any longer. I have no regrets, I will persevere.
Mother in law is a masochist.
Depends on what the meaning of middle class is. See, them energy workers is part of the "rich folks". You all know. The same ones that he said were the ones making millions and billions and gots way too much dan' da' res' of 'em. And then lowers the threshold for the tax event to be $100K (or less) joint filing, etc. See, them energy folks he puts out of dem works is evil big money makers who enables the pollution of the environment. See, if everybody drove an electric car there's be no pollution.*
* forget the generating stations (mostly fossil) and amazingly bountiful waste lost trough resistance in the transmission wires and dirty batteries and all's living on federal subsidies and none of it is profitable, fuck me, he's Doing God's Work**
** Allah Ackbar
So, what? You mean lunch? Yeah, see you at Allan's Snackbar around 11:45ish.
Charlie Gibson's middle-class does not live in North Dakota.
That "Fucking Masterpiece" is a constitutional lawyer. The shit head knows excatly what he's doing and how it needs to be done to side step the constitution.
Asshole just doesn't give a fuck.
The only thing the incompetent corrupt divisive arrogant narcissistic illegal alien muslim pathological lying fudgepacker cares about is its celebrity grand imperial lifestyle.
The only thing the incompetent corrupt divisive arrogant narcissistic illegal alien muslim pathological lying fudgepacker cares about is its celebrity grand imperial lifestyle.
It's okay there's a golden parachute on that mine cart......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9bHuquTFCs
"Hard Pivot on the economy."
an uppity middle calss don't vote so well....
My first thought DICK HEAD
Of course you are...NOT!!! You fork-tongued, flim-flamming, phony, flaky, faggy, fake fucker.
boy, now there's some alliteration.
I dispise this guy so much I could spit. I do spit, alot. The Progressive prick.
You ever get tired of the word 'progressive'? I do. I think it's like the PC version of 'dictator'. That's what he wants to be. That's what all socialists/communists/progressives really want to be, deep down.
Correct, and the moniker "progressive" actually means regressive.
These fools wish to regress to the multi-century failure of collectivism, writ large.
Call them what they are - regressives.
You forgot Maoists, Taoists, Bolsheviks, Stalinists and Trotskyites. Going tribal really gets you hard, doesn't it? You are part of the problem. Fucking idiot.
Does it seem like he's pushing folks in the wrong direction? I wonder.
when faced with a situation where man is in a closed container, and his life relies on Gauges, even though the gauges have been proven to be inaccurate, man will still watch the gauges ( read that in a space shuttle story once )
"If you like you middle class standard of living, you can keep you middle class standard of living!"
This shit is getting surreal. We are a class with no special interest therefore we do not exst. If you don't exist you can't be saved and will not be missed when you're gone. I greive for the loss of children playing in the street until the lights come on and everything else that went wiith and defined my middle class upbringing. It is gone, gone with the wind, I'm afraid. From here on anything is possible. So sad what a waste of a once great country.
"We are a class with no special interest therefore we do not exst."
Correct. At least "special interests" get attention every 4 years when they want their vote. You and me, not so much. Just keep sending that money, though.
After watching the Greek slow motion train wreck I'm convinced that there is only ONE method of protest that works- not paying taxes. Effective, if done in numbers. But.... you go first. I'll just hang back and see how it goes for a while.
Our only "vote" is the decision on how we spend the earnings of our labor. By giving those earnings to those who do not earn them through redistribution or debt or the printing of money, they are diluting our vote, stealing our vote and giving it to those would empower them to steal more.
The sad part is that they TOLD us what they were going to do, as they always do.
Jobs? Berry never had a job.
Well...at least the First Lady (and her entourage) have been able to travel the globe on our dime. And with more than a year and a half left as queen, she has time to revisit some of her favorite places!
Hey Obama,
Keep oil this low for the rest of the year and help bankrupt WLL. You'll be my fav president ever if you do this for me buddy.
Go Obama!!!!!!!
Well, is there anything left? Furniture? ELectronics? Autos? Appliances? Tools? Anything? Hello? Anybody??? Well, honey... I guess there's nuthin' f*ckin left. Sorry energt sector, the .01% are using as much as they can.
May as well blame this bozo obonga anyway... the last in line, way out of his depth - but this is easy 25 yrs. of hard core and willful physical american economic destruction, planned long before that, finally coming near the end, i'll be relieved.
trees exported to china for cheap garbage composite furnature coming right back here and europe...
probably be your next 2 by 6 sawen in china for 1/hr and shipped back as wall panels for even bigger macmansion garbage bigger is better homes. all with cheap ass vinyl windows made in china too.
Chamber of Commerce has a plan and the Wealthy have a plan.
- Employ more Illegal Aliens
- USE Illegals for Police by Waiving Background Checks
- Use Illegals for additional Security for Gated Communities, Compounds, Commercial Enterprises
- Use Illegals as Roust-abouts & Rough Necks on oil Drilling come-back
- Begin reclaiming US Manufacturing with Illegal Workers
I can almost taste the Iron.
Oh Oligarchs. What will you do....?
But those working in the energy sector are the RICH, not middle-class...
This cartoon was supplied by Townhall.com, a notorious neo-con outlet.
They must have paid Tylers for access.
Shit always gets weird here on the weekends.
If obama is behind the middle class, its so he can pick their pockets like his banker friends.
There is no country anymore, its "us vs them".
The country has been split in two
The counterfeiters and politicians vs. the people trying to earn a living.
You cant even fucking vote for anyone other than someone who is part of the Bush/Clinton cabal dynasty . . . every fucking presidential candidate is some asshole who dances naked in the woods worshiping Moloch at the bohemian grove. . . that should tell you something for fucks sake . . .
This is who you vote for
http://www.lovethetruth.com/jis_images/cremation_of_care.jpg
Moloch
If you are going to continue voting for these puuppets you might as well worship your god directly instead of awing over his puppets.
As long as we get the fucking Iran nuclear deal everything will be peachy. That is until some other .1% er happens to donate another 10 mill to Benghazi hillary to purchase another coup.
They got the color right.
So it's Obamas fault oil workers were laid off. Yes, lets give all the extra oil workers back there jobs and pay four bucks a gallon again. How fucking stupid. If gas had been the right price to start with there would be no fracking fucking up the country.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't; may as well just play golf and order some drone strikes.
He's less a dictator than a news anchor. He reads the teleprompter for the men behind the curtain running the extraction of America's wealth. Once they've sucked us dry of our wealth, which isn't so much money as it is purchasing power, then they pen us in, restrict travel, and start thinning the herd through disease or war.