13 January 2014 (09:47 UTC-07 Tango)/11 Rabi ‘al-Awwal 1435/23 Dey 1392/13 Gui-Chou (12th month) 4711

There are more studies that show that more and more people are getting their working hours cut drastically, all so unAmerican Corporate America can avoid providing mandatory health benefits (under Obama Care) for employees who work 30 hours a week or more: “Employers often prefer part-time workers because they don’t have to pay benefits and can pay less per hour than full-timers.”-Arne Kalleberg, University of North Carolina

Even if minimum wage is increased to a pathetic $10 USD per hour, it still won’t be enough because so many people will be working less than 30 hours per week!

Recently the Obama regime proudly said that 6-million people enrolled in the Affordable Care Act.  Lie!  It’s been revealed that 3.9-million of that claim was actually people finding out that they were ‘eligible’ for Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program, and that was back in October/November!

Then Marilyn Tavenner, administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, went and spoiled it even more by stating most of the people that the Obama regime claims have been signed up for Medicaid under Obama Care were already enrolled long before, and just happen to be renewing their Medicaid enrollment at the time Obama Care begins!

In other words most of the 6-million Obama Care “enrollments” are actually people finding out they’re eligible, or mostly people already enrolled in Medicaid and simply renewing!

CNN has been reporting on the growing number of people who’ve paid for insurance through Obama Care, and have sought medical help only to be denied because of technicalities!  Those technicalities range from not having proper insurance ID cards, to not picking the right doctor under their Obama Care insurance plan, to being “lost” within the insurance provider’s “system”!

The people being denied care, many who make too much money to get ‘free’ Obama Care coverage, are also complaining that they are constantly given the “runaround” by insurance companies and Obama Care reps when they call to complain. CNN also reported that insurance companies admit they are getting swamped by a “unprecedented level” of complaints.

Daily News reporting that the supposed Spanish language version of the Obama Care website (CuidadoDeSalud.gov) is preventing Spanish speaking residents from signing up because it’s not written in Spanish: “When you get into the details of the plans, it’s not all written in Spanish. It’s written in Spanglish….”-Adrian Madriz, Obama Care ‘navigator’ in Florida

U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman, Darrell Issa, is warning U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.  He basically accused her of lying to Congress: “Witnesses who purposely give false or misleading testimony during a congressional hearing may be subject to criminal liability……With that in mind, I write to request that you correct the record and to implore you to be truthful with the American public about matters related to Obamacare going forward.”

Click here to read the Forbes report on the Milliman study that proves Obama Care will fail financially.

And now there are reports that if Obama Care fails, then U.S. taxpayers will pay to bailout out the insurance industry! Seems fitting, the insurance industry wrote Obama Care to begin with, so why not rip off the dumb ass taxpayers of the United States even more!!!!

Incomplete list of announced closings and layoffs:

Video game maker Capcom is restructuring its U.S. and European ops, which means layoffs.

Alabama:  The 88 years old Huntsville Country Club now bankrupt.

California: In San Rafael, Autodesk finally revealed they are laying off 90 employees. Company officials blame it on the bad European economy.  Kroger owned Ralph’s grocery store laid off 108 employees across SoCal! In San Clemente, Southern California Edison laid off 547 people!

Colorado: The Elk Creek coal mine laid off 115 employees! One year ago there was a collapse at the mine, and a fire began which is still burning.

Florida: In Boca Raton, the last Legal Sea Foods restaurant shut down.  The Massachusetts based owners blamed the bad economy.

Indiana: Arc of Northwest Indiana shutdown all of its 22 assisted living homes!  90 patients and 120 overworked employees affected! The Indiana Department of Health is investigating complaints of inadequate nursing care and had already revoked licenses for several of the homes.

Kansas: The Apadana Iranian rug store shutdown after 39 years of sales.  The longtime owner, Bahman Raisdana, blames the bad economy and said “I don’t feel good……..I cannot afford to have inventory anymore.”

Michigan: Too Big to Jail and taxpayer funded bailout sucker, Monarch Community Bancorp, warned of layoffs as it tries to pay off the TARP.

New York: In New York City, Italian restaurant Bice laid off 66 employees, the restaurant could be sold off.  Fab announced a second round of layoffs, this time at least 84 people in NYC will lose their jobs. In Utica, the bad economy and Obama Care forcing Saint Luke’s Healthcare to eliminate 106 jobs!  The hospital eliminated 37 jobs back in January.  In Carthage, Carthage Area Hospital laid off 29 employees.  Cayuga Community College laid off seven workers. College officials warned of more layoffs due to declining student enrollment.

North Carolina: In Cary, Xerox laid off at least 508 people at their call center!

Ohio: Call Henry laid off at least 98 people, due to a lapsed contract with NASA.  What housing market recovery? Too Big to Jail PNC Financial laying off employees due to crashing demand for home mortgage refi loans.  In Bedford, chemo therapy drug maker Ben Venue shut down its 72 years old factory, despite making $300-million USD in upgrades.  1100 jobs lost, on top of other Ben Venue layoffs earlier in 2013!!!  It’s connected to a lawsuit involving Johnson & Johnson versus Boehringer over the chemo drug Doxil.

Tennessee: What housing market recovery? Churchill Mortgage laid off at least 19 employees.  Company officials blame it on crashing home loan demand.

Texas: In Austin, social media video gamer Kabam laid off 23 employees.  In McAllen, Globe Supermarket shutdown. In Canyon, unique books, videos and music store Hastings shutdown. 35 jobs lost.

Virginia: In Burke, Treasured Child Consignments shutdown after almost 22 years in business.  The greedy landlord made a new lease agreement with another business.

Incomplete list of announced closings and layoffs:

U.S. legal drug pusher, Merck, laying off 8500 people, and that’s on top of the 7500 jobs they’ve already eliminated!!!

JCPenney shutting down at least 15 JC’s Five Star Outlet stores across the U.S., 1400 jobs lost!!!

Northeast Utilities laid off 160 people in its IT ops!  The job cuts are connected to the merger with NStar.

Cloud data storage company, Nirvanix, now bankrupt “…to preserve its assets and to pursue all potential options to maximize value for its creditors….”.

Groeb Farms now bankrupt.  U.S. Department of Justice says the honey maker is bee-hind the biggest case of food fraud in U.S. history!  It involves illegally  importing Chinese honey.

Alabama: What automotive industry recovery? In Tuscaloosa, tire maker BF Goodrich laid off as many as 110 people! The local union boss says tire sales have been going down.

California: Paramount Pictures laid off 110 people!  Company officials blamed it on “..an increasingly competitive environment…” NBC Digital laid off four employees, and refused to explain why.  In Corona, Activis laid off 19 employees.  In Los Angeles, DTT laid off 64 people.  In Santa Clara, French-Italian STMicroelectronics laid off 52 workers.

Illinois: What automotive industry recovery? Once again, Caterpillar laying off more employees.  This time Caterpillar officials are not saying how many are going to become unemployed. In Machesney Park, JC’s Five Star Outlet (formerly known as JCPenney) shutdown (see above).

Indiana: In Fort Wayne, Nyloncraft shutdown.  111 jobs lost! Company officials blame a shrinking “customer base”.

Kansas: LaRocca’s Pizza shutdown.

Kentucky: In Madisonville, Goldenrod Dairy shutdown after 80 years in business. 140 jobs lost!  Company officials are consolidating operations.

Mississippi: Non-profit United Blood Services shutdown in Meridian.  It’s part of their adjustments to Obama Care, which they warned about back in 2012!

New York: The State Thruway laid off another four employees. Officials would only say it was a personnel matter.  In Buffalo, Will Poultry on William Street shutdown, ending 113 jobs!  In Wappingers Falls, Southeastern Container finally shutdown, letting go the last 15 employees.

North Carolina: What automotive industry recovery? In Salisbury, Performance Fibers laid off 16 workers, and blamed it on crashing sales.  The company makes fibers used in products like vehicle seat belts.

Ohio: In Marietta, the Christian god can’t stop the Salvation Army from shutting down their thrift store.  Salvation Army officials said sales at the thrift store had crashed so much they couldn’t pay the utilities!  In Salon, Aclara shutdown, 79 jobs lost.  The electronics company is up for sale.

Pennsylvania: Beiter’s shutdown its furniture, appliances and electronics store in Wilkes-Barre.  Store owners said because of the bad economy they were hoping for a break in the rent from the landlord, but the landlord refused.

Tennessee: The Oak Ridge National Laboratory is asking 475 employees to voluntarily quit!  It’s blamed on federal spending cuts.  Sears announced it will close its Hickory Ridge Mall Towne Centre store.

South Carolina: In Berea, after 42 years the Apollo King Restaurant shutdown. It’s blamed on family health problems.

Wisconsin: In Portage, PolyOne shutdown, 86 jobs lost.

09 January 2014 (15:17 UTC-07 Tango)/07 Rabi ‘al-Awwal 1435/19 Dey 1392/09 Gui-Chou (12th month) 4711

Several newly released studies and books show what many in the main streamer news media have discounted for decades: The rich just keep getting richer, and the poor stay poor.

The City University of New York’s Graduate Center says their research shows people who live in New York City are fools, at least the ones who aren’t rich are fools.

The bottom 20% of people working in the Big Rotten Apple saw a pathetic $1,028 USD increase in the average incomes from 1990 to 2010.  In the same 20 years time period the top 1% saw an increase of $264,210!!!

The study also showed the Middle Class continues to lose ground to the elites.

Steve Murdock, a former state of Texas demographer and former director of the U.S. Census Bureau and current director of the Hobby Center for the Study of Texas at Rice University, has published a book called Changing Texas: Implications of Addressing or Ignoring the Texas Challenge.

Murdock warns of a growing income gap between those who got a good education and those who did not.  He predicts by 2050 the poverty rate in Texas will be at 17.7%.  As of 2010 it was 14.4%.

Once again the academic and socio-politcal elites harp on lack of education.  That’s bullcrap after decades of ever increasing spending at the expense of taxpayers, resulting in a decrepit educational system!

It’s been proven that since the 1980s most tax money has gone to the administrative side of public education, and then to bogus school security programs.  But I know (after helping my three kids to navigate the joke of an education system) that the actual quality of education went down since I graduated in 1982!  And I thought it was bad when I was in grade school, having to actually correct some of my High School teachers and realizing at least half of them knew nothing about the subjects they were supposed to be teaching!

By the way, I attended both public tax funded schools, and private parent funded Christian schools, and I found the quality of education lacking in both!  Most of my grade school education was done at the local library in Hesperia, California, and every now and then at the library in Victorville when my mom took us there.

My parents actually had two sets of encyclopedias (remember, this before the invention of personal computers and the internet), Britannica and World Book.   They probably don’t know it but I actually read those books, and when I wasn’t satisfied with those expensive investments my parents made, I rode my bike the few miles to the library. Self taught I was!  That’s how I knew, by the time I hit High School, that most of the teachers were BS artists! And that’s how I knew that my most of my children’s teachers were BS artists! And now I’m even college edumacated with a BA in International Studies from Idaho State University.

Here’s another story: In the late 1990s I knew a Junior High school coach and math teacher who taught at a now closed down Junior High school in Pocatello, Idaho.  He admitted to me that he knew nothing about Algebra.  He said he was forced to become a math teacher or lose his coaching job when the Administration decided all teachers had to teacher two different subjects.  The only position open at that particular Junior High was Algebra.  He admitted he winged it for years before actually learning Algebra from the students.  He did it like this; he would pose questions to the class to find out which student seemed to know the subject.  Then he would have that student demonstrate solving Algebra problems (meaning the smart student actually taught the class).

Unfortunately for me I never had a smart student in my grade school math classes, let alone a smart teacher. I remember having many problems with the math books because the answers in the back of the book didn’t jive with the formulations in the main part of the book, and when I asked my teachers about it they always responded “read the book” (that’s clue number one that your teacher is a dipschtick).  I latter found out from a competent math teacher at ISU that most math books are wrong, and he was right as I discovered while helping one of my daughters with her math class at Highland High school. I used his tips to see if the book was wrong and it was.  It left important steps out of the Algebraic formulas.  When I pointed it out to her math teacher he was stupefied.  Her mother and I immediately transferred her to Pocatello High school where, at the time, they had a very competent math teacher.  By the way, that math teacher at ISU was the best math teacher I ever had, and he got fired that same semester!  The dean of the math department said his teaching style went against her philosophy regarding math.    Her philosophy is “If you don’t understand math, it’s because you don’t love it!” 

Until the quality of education is addressed, which means getting rid of massive tax sucking administrative bodies, getting rid of tax sucking Orwellian police state school security systems, and make the teachers prove they know what they are teaching and can teach it, it’s only going to get worse!

But those changes aren’t going to happen because the administrative bodies have become too powerful, the incompetent teachers protect themselves with corrupt and powerful unions, they also find political support in the politicians who spout the need for education improvement, and as long as the general public is kept in a paranoid schizophrenic state the police state school prisons are here to stay.

It’s almost like a conspiracy to dumb down the average worker of the United States so the 1% elites can get richer by creating a slave wage labor state?

“Our ideals and principles, as well as our national security……..That’s what makes America different. That’s what makes us exceptional.”-Barack Obama, 10 September 2013

PS: When I was a student at ISU, in one of the many history classes I took there was gaggle of education students.  One of them was going on about how she failed her Teacher Certification test, for the third time!  She said ‘no worries because I’ll just get my husband to pay for another one. I’ll eventually pass’.  Yeah, there’s no hope for our education system when education students have that attitude!