Very true and why I go putting these collections together but you just added an original!

Let's run some "real news" and then ask yourself if it could be right in The Onion. Real news:

1) Banks need more money from taxpayers, already spent sizeable amounts on cocaine and prostitutes and vacations;
2) Banks continue to launder money for foreign terrorists, government concerned with Americans bringing 6 ounces of liquid on planes;
3) CEOs using software to reject tens of thousands of Americans for openings, don't know how to find skilled workers;
4) Companies are tired of government intervention, demand greater subsidies from government;
5) Free market capitalists demand government leave them alone, free market capitalists currently lobbying candidates, politicians, and officials in federal, state, and local agencies to ensure they get what they want;
6) Banks payoff regulators, banks claim if anything was wrong, the regulators they paid and lobby would step in and stop them;
7) American companies are tired of "overqualified candidates," seek applicants who can barely walk and talk at the same time;
8) College graduates must work for free to prove they have the right fit with corporate culture that demands sacrifice from everyone below the CEO;
9) Media repeats same keywords on every station and same stories - those who think this is more than random are labeled conspiracy nuts;
10) Companies and politicians tired of government intervention - demand the military and State Department step in to protect their infrastructure and personnel overseas;
11) Government officials sign pledge they will not raise taxes - same officials are tired of people protesting and exercising rights under Constitution;
12) Politicians are sick of people collecting benefits and want to end government assistance, politicians keep collecting government paychecks and enjoy government benefits;
13) TV anchors claim Americans are just lazy and should settle for less - same anchors throw hissy fits when they aren't given millions more per year for reading teleprompters;
14) Politicians and companies demand people work until they die because they have it too easy, companies refuse to hire people over 30 because they are too old;
15) Politicians claim there are jobs out there and people don't take them because they are lazy and unskilled, at least 4 people for every job opening, with dozens per actual opening;
16) Manager fired because employee stole small amount of money, manager faces criminal charges quickly; banker steals $1.2 billion dollars, answers a few questions, and continues on collecting money for politicians and enjoying wealthy life;
17) Man tries to bribe police officer, currently in jail facing charges; man bribes hundreds of police officers internationally, currently lobbying law enforcement and politicians;
18) Millions of people claim they are applying for jobs but constantly ignored and rejected for year after year - they are called lazy and unskilled and liars by media and politicians; ex-Microsoft CEO personally appears in front of Congress and claims he cannot find any Americans to do jobs, he is praised by Congressmen and they don't call him a liar;
19) Companies claim they cannot find skilled and educated people to do jobs in USA; companies relocate overseas where they find candidates with no skills and less education and hire them immediately
20) Life-long politicians that inherited wealth and companies from families tell Americans to just work as hard as they did and they would succeed
21) Political candidates claim unemployed only have themselves to blame for anything that goes wrong; political candidates blaming everyone but themselves for not winning office
22) Banks launder money for drug cartels that risk destroying entire nations and kill tens of thousands of people; politicians collect money from banks and blame soda cartel for risk it poses, demands people not be allowed to buy big soda while getting angry when asked about banks and corruption
23) Government having trouble finding skilled individuals who are motivated to work; usajobs.gov automatically rejects tens of thousands of candidates daily, opens and closes positions with 24 hours, and keeps candidates hanging on for 3+ years
24) Government concerned with Iran and places sanctions on banking with Iran while paying thousands of people to combat money laundering; government upset when a regulator finally tries to stop Iran money laundering after 10 years of silence

"The Onion"? Nope, pure truth. Every single one. And thousands more.

Hey, I didn't say it, Matt Taibbi did. I do think all flavors of the political spectrum want Holder out at this point, he seems to have real issue with doing his job as a general rule.

These facts are scary. How many companies are being run by generalists instead of experts? The writer Malcolm Gladwell says that it takes 10,000 hours of intense study and work to become an expert at anything. With this data its safe to assume that most companies are being run by generalists. Another thing missing is passion. How can you develop passion for where you work when you have little evidence that the company intends to keep you or cares for you as a person or a member with upside. It also help develop an attitude of every person for them-self. Back stabbing probably abounds and employee attitudes are about what's in it for me instead of the common good. A sad state of affairs.

Tough choice, polio vaccines for nothing vs. bankster information that will profit a bankster/part-time mayor. Hmm, what would Salk say? I'm guessing the world population matters more than an elitist bankster. Hey, Mayor, dollars to donuts in a push-come-to-shove situation like a Gulag, or concentration camp where Polish and Jewish and Ukrainian and other freedom fighters were killed, or Pol Pot's hellholes where people were killed for wearing glasses, you wouldn't do the right thing, you wouldn't stand up for the weak, the oppressed, etc. And I could see the excuses, "Sorry folks, you've got to die, but I can do so much more if I live." We've heard it, we hear it, and we'll hear it 10,000X more times. An unarmed German young woman had more balls than many more people claiming to be people of integrity - look it up. Are the victims in Davos, are the victims in the UN, are the victims sipping champagne? Americans don't ask for much, we just want people who will look out for their countrymen and the Constitution according to the laws they swore to protect. Looking out for the weak is more impressive than sipping more champagne at a sycophants' convention - but it involves real sacrifice, something most Americans have had more than their fair share of for many years.

Look around the US and travel abroad. People overseas think we have it so good, we're spoiled, that we need Indians, Chinese, Mexicans, and Central Americans and foreigners to do our jobs. Yet when you explain that CNBS and Bloomberg and Congress paint a certain picture and it's pure bullshit, and real unemployment is 20%+, and that we actually have degree after freaking degree but still are purposely ignored by our own "American" corporations so they can undercut and replace us, they are pretty damn surprised. What's most shocking to them is that our leaders really don't give a crap about their own citizens to this level in a country that preaches about equality and fairness and the rule of law.

See, the corporate-owned media paints that picture, TV wants people to believe that everyone's living like a spoiled leech on "Real Housewives of Who Gives a Crap." so that people think Americans have it coming and we just need to accept less and work harder. Well, f*ck that. That's all noise and we all know it. CNBS has Jack Welch on as some icon? Of what? Getting rich off people who are fired and destroyed? He's an asswipe that loved cutting people so he could prosper, nothing more. And what, his replacement is better? And he's on a "Job Council." WTF has that council done except give more titles to more asshates killing the middle class while Obama and ex-Pres Clinton (yeah, Bill, I have to remind you, you aren't in office anymore, so disappear and stop screwing over more Americans with your foundations and acting like someone who cares about the world) and every other politician meet secretly with CEOs to bone us over.

There's a story about ATP Oil CEO saying the government made it impossible to succeed and that's why he's bankrupt. Isn't it great - whenever they succeed and make mad loot, it's because of their actions solely (are you kidding me, especially in natural resources sector where there are GOVT. LEASES and the oil companies rely on our govt. and military protecting their asses around the world). And when they fail (despite all that $ they lobby with), it's still not their fault, it's the government's? Sounds like ready made excuses at every turn. CEOs succeed, it's all to the CEO's credit, not the workers, taxpayer infrastructure, state-educated workers, military protecting resources globally, govt. that will help protect company in court and WTO, state and federal courts that seek rule of law and settle disputes, etc. And when they fail, damn, it's not the CEO's fault, it's all that uncertainty, the government, those policies 50 years from now they cannot predict. Stop it, while all the complaining is going on, there are tens of millions of people with more skills, brains, education, and a whole lot more integrity and concern for other Americans who are homeless or close to homeless. So preach it on Fox or in Forbes or some other puppetshow that can pretend to care. But don't try to meet Paul Ryan, he might be busy, he's meeting with Adelson so they can make sure justice and law enforcement and foreign bribery laws never affect the people with money -"and justice for all" [audience laughter].

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Yeah, Bloomberg, there's an icon everyone can universally despise. So much time to spout globalist 1% agenda, so little time to actually be a mayor - just resign already so you can keep visiting the Aspen Institute, Brookings, Davos, lobbying/lying to Congress about lack of qualified Americans, etc. 365 days a year.
Murdoch, another person loathed around the world.
Eisner (what would Walt say about people like that)?
Bill Gates - the man who stole IP from other people, acts like he invented something, and then perjurs himself in front of Congress saying he just can't find any qualified Americans to do his bidding (but then again, Youtube has the videos of the script they are supposed to follow to get more H-1Bs, and wouldn't you know it, Bill Gates can read scripts).
And on, and on, and on.

But that's the facade they want the world to believe, anything's possible, if it just weren't for the lazy Americans that we have to fire and destroy.

Drop these people off without the family connections and their names, without their bullshit step-on other people and lie your way to the top attitudes and see how great they really are - hint: they aren't.
Hey, Murdoch, bribe a cop to get out of a ticket and we'll see you in a cell within 10 hours. But with your name only and your millions made through crime, you can lobby DOJ to avoid charges. Guess what, that only proves you are worse than the average citizen because you break laws and then require preferential treatment to avoid hard time.

Yeah, most CEOs, they are special, very special. Anyway, time to go, Robespierre is meeting on the tennis court (oh, banksters and CEOs, if you don't know the reference and right quick, you ain't that bright, but ask one of your unpaid interns to kiss your ass, it will make you feel powerful despite your lack of skills and care for your own country).

They are few and far between, that would make a nice post, ethical, moral CEOs who do their job of taking care of their employees. This used to be a strong corporate value before 1980.

If either party was interested in America, the national interest and even the debt, they would be canceling federal contracts which offshore outsource, curtailing immigration into the country, confronting China on currency manipulation, putting the Banksters in jail, reenact Glass-Stegall, stop putting foreigners ahead of U.S. state resident students for educational entrance, opportunity, jobs, stop making more bad trade deals, give massive hiring incentives, tax, grants, rebates, tied 100% to U.S. citizen workers, create tax incentives for the return of traditional pensions, enforce anti-discrimination laws that are for U.S. citizens instead of turning those laws on their head or ignoring them...

Put social security in a "lockbox" to use Al Gore's phrase and raise the cap on income taxed, enact single payer universal health care....

the list goes on and on and if you notice, in that laundry list are favorites of conservatives and favorites of liberals. That list is derived from actual statistics and analysis, objective analysis I've read, done on a daily basis and I'm just rattling off a policy list off the top of my head.

All we have is noise, idiots, talking blather, non-issues, and a massive snow job on non-choices (such as destroy Medicare with vouchers or go bust), because the lobbyists and corporations who control our politicians, government, don't want the above laundry list of actions they could take to solve our problems.

We see it everyday, the entire "press" picks "empty issue du jour" and prattles on about it for a 24 hour "news" cycle and they wonder what happened to their readers, why their ratings are tanking.

They are not informing, they are snowing. It's like a gigantic snow job, spin machine.

"House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner spar over debt. Transcript below:

Ryan: Here's the point, if you'll allow me. This is your time, so we'll just take a long time. Here's the point. Leaders are supposed to fix problems. We have a $99.4 trillion unfunded liability. Our government is making promises to Americans that it has no way of accounting for them. And so you're saying yeah, we're stabilizing it but we're not fixing it in the long run. That means we're just going to keep lying to people. We're going to keep all these empty promises going.

And so what we're saying is, in order to avert a debt crisis -- you're the Treasury Secretary -- if we can't make good on our bonds in the future, who is going to invest in our country? We do not want to have a debt crisis. And so it comes down to confidence and trajectory. Do we have confidence that we're getting our fiscal situation under control, that we're preventing the debt from getting at these catastrophic levels?

If we go back to the preceding chart, number 13, you're showing that you have no plan to get this debt under control. You're saying we'll stabilize it but then it's just going to shoot back up. So my argument is, that's Europe. That is bringing us toward a European debt crisis because we're showing the world, the credit market's future seniors -- people who are organizing their lives around the promises that are being made to them today -- that we don't have a plan to make good on this.

Geithner: Mr. Chairman, as I said, maybe we're not disagreeing in a sense. I made it absolutely clear that what our budget does is get our deficit down to a sustainable path over the budget window.

Ryan: And then they take back off.

Geithner: Why do they take off again? Why do they do that?

Ryan: Because we have 10,000 people retiring everyday and healthcare costs going up.

Geithner: That's right. We have millions of Americans retiring everyday, and that will drive substantial further rise in the growth of healthcare costs. We're not coming before you to say we have a definitive solution to our long-term problem. What we do know is we don't like yours."

This is a taped interview between both. Geithner knows their plan is bull and does not fix the problems long term. Democrats do not relly want a fix. They want ot control the dole completly..
Ryan points this out a few times, Geithner respons is typical Ob Scam We just do not like your plan, not if it better or worse we just do not like it..
I see Ryan as the guy who can get this thing back under control, OB and company are not going to do that.... Geithners' response should tell all of you that..

article link, or google it your self and many other Ryan Interviews, he shows Debbie Wassermann to be a complete idiot, which she seems to be... Also Chris Matthews and others anbout the budget and such...

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/02/16/geithner_to_ryan_on_de...