Merry Christmas

Posted on December 24, 2011 by Scatcatpdx

John 1
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4 In him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. 7 He came as a witness, to bear witness about the light, that all might believe through him. 8 He was not the light, but came to bear witness about the light.
9 The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world. 10 He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. 11 He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. 12 But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, 13 who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.
14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. 15 (John bore witness about him, and cried out, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me ranks before me, because he was before me.’”) 16 For from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace. 17 For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. 18 No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father’s side, he has made him known.
I wish you all a very merry and blessed Christmas

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“Why would I take a job away from somebody?”

Posted on December 11, 2011 by Scatcatpdx

Willamette Week Reports Not everybody is onboard with Monday’s plan blocked.  

District president Jeff Smith said a few thing  I found noteworthy.

“Why would I take a job away from somebody? 

I don’t get what they’re thinking. It’s my job to put people to work. I’ve got jobs for ’em, so I’m going to put ’em to work. And I’m going to take some of Wall Street’s money.” 

While as somebody right of center, I often find my self at opposite ends with the unions but this time we can agree. The best way if you want “Wall Street’s” money is to trade for it. Open a business or find a job. Tearing down “the machine” will end destroy more than OWS claims to liberate. I go 80 years of proof called communism. Millions of us our jobs and our wellbeing are depend on trade. If the Occupiers want to stoop trade because of a mythical one present then  where will we work and by bread. Of course, they will have and answer; we just line up for hours for a meager bread ration like the oldUSSR. 

I am bothered there not stronger response to Occupy Wall Street.   They take a page from Fascist movement of the past; create a demon to attack aka   one presenters. Never mind the already pay 37% of taxes.

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Thanksgiving post

Posted on November 24, 2011 by Scatcatpdx

The year that is drawing toward its close has been filled with the blessings
of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so
constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they
come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature that
they cannot fail to penetrate and soften the heart which is habitually
insensible to the everwatchful providence of almighty God.

In the midst of a civil war of unequaled magnitude and severity, which has
sometimes seemed to foreign states to invite and provoke their aggressions,
peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the
laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere,
except in the theater of military conflict; while that theater has been
greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union.

Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful
industry to the national defense have not arrested the plow, the shuttle, or
the ship; the ax has enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines,
as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more
abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased,
notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege, and the
battlefield, and the country, rejoicing in the consciousness of augmented
strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years with large
increase of freedom.

No human counsel hath devised, nor hath any mortal hand worked out these
great things. They are the gracious gifts of the most high God, who while
dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy.

It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently,
and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and one voice by the whole
American people. I do, therefore, invite my fellow-citizens in every part of
the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are
sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of
November next as a day of thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent Father
who dwelleth in the heavens. And I recommend to them that, while offering up
the ascriptions justly due to him for such singular deliverances and
blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness
and disobedience, commend to his tender care all those who have become
widows, orphans, mourners, or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in
which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of
the almighty hand to heal the wounds of the nation, and to restore it, as
soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes, to the full enjoyment of
peace, harmony, tranquillity, and union.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the
United Stated States to be affixed.

PRESIDENT LINCOLN’S THANKSGIVING DAY PROCLAMATION, OCTOBER 3, 1863.

Normally I would post Washington’s Thanksgiving Proclamation, but with all
the turmoil economic and otherwise, war, and rumor of wars, I felt Lincoln’s
Proclamation is more appropriate.

So with that Happy Thanksgiving. Just because one is single and away from
home is no excuse not to celebrate.

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Most of U.S. Unemployed No Longer Receive Benefits

Posted on November 7, 2011 by Scatcatpdx

According to the article on Fox News, “Early last year, 75 percent were receiving checks. The figure is now 48 percent — a shift that points to a growing crisis of long-term unemployment. Nearly one-third of America’s 14 million unemployed have had no job for a year or more.”
Another way to look at this is those who are unemployed form 14 Dec 2009 are now receiving their last check after 99 week without a job. During the same time period, I was dong a short contract until March of 2010 and another nine moth unemployment followed by nine moths of work followed by one moth unemployment before starting a new contract on Monday. Therefore, in other words I was working 25 weeks or more and especially in a self-inflicted depressed economy in Oregon. I cannot buy the line one cannot find, even for a few weeks, suitable work in ones chose field, relocation, and / or retraining during the 99-week period. The 99’ers are very much at fault for their situation.

The real failure here is the unemployment system. The goal of unemployment should not be subsistence while stuck in a low standard of living but restoring people to productive work. In another post, I quoted an MTI professor noting what and unemployed person can accomplish during a 99-week period. Some Ideas I have are nationalizing the unemployment insurance to make unemployment potable. Second is to encourage relocation.
Another fallacy is in the article is $1 spent on unemployment benefits generate up to $1.90 in economic growth. I cannot find any substantive proof. Those who advocate this position fail to account the dollar taken from the productive economy and redistributed. The problem is there a big difference between a product wage and an entitlement. When I work I produce a service or item by taking material of less of value adding my time and skill to make an item or a service of grater value for me or the company. Where the unemployed worker is not productive he or she are not engaged in labor making item or service of great value,; therefore the government take a dollar out of the productive economy and redistributes the bill to the unemployed. The $1.90 return is offset by the dollar has removed from the product economy. In truth a dollar spent on unemployment only generates $.90
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/11/05/most-us-unemployed-no-longer-receive-benefits/#ixzz1cuCZRbPe

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