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Quite the diminishment is represented below. The key word, though, is PRIVATE businesses. The cities, counties, states, and federal employees have helped make up the difference, as they are more than happy to protest en masse to get increasingly out-of-this-world compensation.
If I’m not mistaken, this is the portion of the year where we have the longest stretch of time between stupid holidays. We’ve got about 80 full days with no flippin’ Labor Day, no freakin’ Memorial Day, and no bloody High Holy Cabbage Feast Day. Incidentally, I see that the city of Palo Alto, which already overpays its employees by hundreds of percent for doing almost no work, is going to give them Juneteenth AND Cesar Chavez Day off from now on. Besides that, their venal union leaders won them ANOTHER paid holiday of their choice so that they may engage in, and I’m not making this up, “a day of reflection.“
Yeah, let me count on one finger just how many city employees are going to be hanging out at home doing THAT.
Jesus. Anyway………….
(more…)Looks like our biggest trading partner and the second biggest economy on Earth has some trouble – – and that’s based on these certainly-goosed numbers!
