erika writes about one reason IT can’t keep women in the field.
Getting off the bus
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Apr 082009
Apr 072009
Now that Vermont has legalized same-sex marriage by overriding a gubernatorial veto, the bigot squad is going to back off, right? After all, their real beef was with imaginary activist judges, and this was a decision made by elected officials.
Oh, wait, the National Organization for Marriage begs to differ:
But we take heart in knowing that this vote was not representative of what Vermonters understand marriage to be. We know that the Vermont Legislature did everything in its power to avoid allowing Vermonters to vote directly on the future of marriage.
No doubt, if Vermont had legalized same-sex marriage through a straight up popular vote of the people, these relics would bemoan how it wasn’t really the will of the people, because, oh, I dunno, homosexual lobby brainwashing satellite rays from beyond the stars? Certainly it can’t be that NOM and their ilk are losing the culture war.
They’re right about concern for their grandchildren, though. It must be a terrible thought to know, somewhere in your cramped, reptilian brain, that the kindest thing your grandkids might say about you is “they couldn’t help being like that, it was the times they grew up in”.
(h/t, Diana Peterfreund)
Apr 052009
Samwise is kind of avoiding me today because I am stalking around muttering under my breath about how the fucking Baby Boomer generation needs to grow the fuck up, after reading an article that exemplifies everything about the stereotype of the ivory-tower policy wonk you can imagine.
Frank Micciche writes about how the recession is hitting over-50s, and he’s right; it’s hard to compete for jobs against people half your age who are willing to work for peanuts, it’s difficult to face retirement when your nest egg got flushed to pay for executive ‘retention bonuses’ at AIG. His solution to this? Screw the next generation, of course. That’s what we’re for.
. . . .Restoring Medicare as the primary payer for all seniors would reverse this calculus.
. . .Elimination of all payroll taxes for those over 60 would not only leave more money in their weekly paychecks but also make them cheaper to employ for businesses, which would be spared their share of the payroll tax on these workers.
…On the savings side, policymakers could temporarily quadruple the amount of savings that households headed by individuals 50 or older are allowed to put into retirement savings tax-free.
Huh. And what are we going to do to cover that extra Medicare and those payroll and retirement-savings taxes? It’s as if Micciche thinks that we can just have the Summer of Finance, where if we all hold hands and think love of money at the world, the recession will go away, like, by the power of our minds alone!
Because the alternative is that he knows, but isn’t saying, that the lost tax income and the increased Medicare expenditures have to come from cutting services to and/or raising taxes on existing taxpayers. Apparently Micciche doesn’t think or care about how that will affect Generation X and own down, since those are the people largely starting, raising and supporting families of their own – and often, their aging parents.
Hey, that’s what everybody else is for, right? Keeping the Boomers happy?
Fuckers.
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