Just for fun he says, "Get a job"...

Standing in line marking time--
Waiting for the welfare dime
'Cause they can't buy a job
The man in the silk suit hurries by
As he catches the poor old ladies' eyes
Just for fun he says "Get a job"

http://www.hotlyrics.net/lyrics/B/Bruce_Hornsby/The_Way_It_Is.html



http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/08/06/1002259/-This-week-in-the-War-on-Workers

You want a war on workers? Well, this is a week in which the good news was that the FAA shutdown ended after "only" two weeks and the economy added enough jobs that at the rate we're going in 2011, we could be back to 2007 job levels by June 2016.

The bad news? A record number of people are on food stamps, unemployment benefits are getting cut in states across the country, and the Women, Infants, and Children nutritional assistance program could get cut. The wealthy paying 25 percent less in taxes than in the 1990s doesn't really help things, and adding insult to injury, Eric Cantor says that unemployment benefits are "pumping up" the jobless. And the graph at upper right? Yup, that's happening.

A few good things did get talked about this week, like a jobs program for veterans—particularly important in light of this diary by Downtowner—some ideas for better manufacturing policy and a bill being introduced in the Senate to end discrimination against unemployed job applicants. Stitch those three ideas and about a dozen more like them together and you have the beginnings of an actual jobs plan. But don't worry! Republicans have a plan—to eliminate 300,000 jobs.