Originally Posted By: travlin'easy
I love it when the newscasters get on TV and make brash claims about an economic recovery.

Gary....they have a name for that.....it's called "propaganda."

Originally Posted By: travlin'easy
...but no one's paychecks are increasing

Not only that....they're actually DE-creasing!

Originally Posted By: travlin'easy
I went on to explain that my cost per job does not change, even if the job only lasted 5 minutes.

Does anyone honestly care about that? It all comes back to the "bottom line."

Originally Posted By: travlin'easy
We came to an agreement. I cut two jobs out of the 12 I had booked for that facility for the year, and the rate of compensation would remain the same for the remaining jobs.

You did better than me, Gary! I had two accounts where I played monthly for about 15 years. Account #1 said: We want you to continue playing here but we have to cut your salary $25 and the bookings go down to 4x a year. Account #2 did exactly the same thing but, at least, there was no pay cut.

Originally Posted By: travlin'easy
So, Obama and the bleeding-heart, liberal press can say anything

....and they do......say whatever they have to to stay in office.

Rush Limbaugh came up with a great comment in reference to the "appointed one" (who labeled himself the "appointed one"): Rush said: "stop and think about it....you can say whatever you want and BS your way through life, as long as no "calls" you on it. It seems that's exactly what the bureaucracy learned along the way!

Mark