OK, so tomorrow is Fat Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday. I'm home tonight making a King cake . . . kinda . . . it's actually a lemon bundt cake without the baby inside. It is a lemon cake (with Meyer lemons from my own tree) with a lemony glaze. I'm going to sprinkle it with gold, purple and green sanding sugar and take it to work tomorrow for all to admire, Domestic Goddess that I am.
Don't hate me because I can bake!
Monday, February 23, 2009
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Michael Steele: "Work" vs "Job"
STEELE: Well, the difference, the distinction is this. If you got a government contract that’s a fixed period of time it goes away. The work may go away. There’s no guarantee that there’s going to be more work when you’re done with that job.
STEPHANOPOULOS: But we’ve seen millions and millions of jobs going away in the private sector just in the last year.
STEELE: Yes, but they come back though, George. That’s the point. They’ve gone away before and they come back…
HUH?
By Steele’s definition, a contractor, who bids contract to contract in the private sector, is "making work," it’s not a job because there is an endpoint to the contract, after all, there is no guarantee that there will be another one (is there a guarantee that there will always be a demand for a product in the private sector?)
So, if you have a job building schools, bridges, roads, levees, or anything with money that comes from the Federal Government, you don't have a 'real' job. Isn’t making work *scratching my head* the exact purpose of the stimulus?
Good thing this doesn’t mean that a paycheck isn’t really money.
And I thought Sarah Palin was the worst the Republican Party could come up with.
STEPHANOPOULOS: But we’ve seen millions and millions of jobs going away in the private sector just in the last year.
STEELE: Yes, but they come back though, George. That’s the point. They’ve gone away before and they come back…
HUH?
By Steele’s definition, a contractor, who bids contract to contract in the private sector, is "making work," it’s not a job because there is an endpoint to the contract, after all, there is no guarantee that there will be another one (is there a guarantee that there will always be a demand for a product in the private sector?)
So, if you have a job building schools, bridges, roads, levees, or anything with money that comes from the Federal Government, you don't have a 'real' job. Isn’t making work *scratching my head* the exact purpose of the stimulus?
Good thing this doesn’t mean that a paycheck isn’t really money.
And I thought Sarah Palin was the worst the Republican Party could come up with.
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