Boo hoo.
Faced with a deficit, after years of a bad economy, UNH may be forced to do what many companies had to do years ago–cut more staff. I can’t tell you how bad I feel for them. The small business I work for went from 30 employees down to 12…two years ago. Of course we were not supported by taxpayers, nor did we have unions or arbitrators insisting we pay people like Ed Larkin to do nothing for five years at the staggering cost of almost half a million dollars.
At my office we streamlined down to the bare minimum needed to keep things running, and have discovered efficiencies and opportunities to be more productive with less resources. Not only are we still in business, but things are actually looking up. Yeah, it’s more work for the rest of us, and no we have not had raises in years, but we are working and providing a product and service (and paying taxes).
But State run enterprises, or those who have become dependent on tax payer prop-ups, have little or no incentive to make those hard choices.
Harry Reid’s excuse for refusing to bring the Obama Tax away jobs bill to the Senate floor was a busy floor schedule. This is only important because Reid and the Narrative gang are busy blaming Republicans. But Dirty Harry Reid might as well have said he couldn’t do it because he had to wash his hair or arrange his sock drawer. 
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I have no end of respect for Firefighters and their commitment to others, but politically there is very little evidence that when they run as (r)epublicans in New Hampshire they have any intention of supporting the party or the platform.
Since 1948, the oldest data BLS has, there have been 46 months in which the unemployment rate has been 9% or higher. Twenty six of them have occurred during the 31 months of the Obama administration.
Instead of running on the theme of Hope and Change, Obama can run on the theme of More in 2012: More unemployment, More government, More debt, and More guns for the Mexican drug cartels.
The unemployment figure of “9.1%” is the media-agreed-upon figure from the Procrustes Economics Institute™. Procrustes, you will recall, is the ogre-innkeeper in the story of Theseus who had a remarkable bed that fit everyone—because if any of his guest hung over the edge of the bed, he lopped it off.
The “9.1%” figure has remained reasonably constant because, like Procrustes, those reporting on unemployment constantly lop off from the unemployment figures those who have totally dropped out of the work force, and those who are no longer unemployed because they are underemployed, i.e., cannot find jobs comparable to the ones they lost and so have taken lower-level jobs simply to have some vestige of income.
The “9.1%” is bad enough so that the media look as if they are reporting something with a nexus to reality—they are admitting the economy is bad—but nevertheless conceals the true magnitude of the disaster….