American small businessman schools rep on austerity
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http://www.colbertnation.com/full-episodes/tue-april-23-2013-eric-schmidt
Ricter, I'm just gonna throw this in here again because it is so fucking hilarious. (Everyone skip over the first segment on twinkle toes, Gov.of New Jersey, and the air traffic stuff, and go to the next part on "Rogain and Braveheart" or whatever. Hilarious!!!)
"All we have to do is just cut the budget and keep laying off people until those people get jobs."
Ricter, I'm just gonna throw this in here again because it is so fucking hilarious. (Everyone skip over the first segment on twinkle toes, Gov.of New Jersey, and the air traffic stuff, and go to the next part on "Rogain and Braveheart" or whatever. Hilarious!!!)
"All we have to do is just cut the budget and keep laying off people until those people get jobs."
"Forget the modest 3.1 percent rise in the Consumer Price Index, the government's widely used measure of inflation. Everyday prices are up some 8 percent over the past year, according to the American Institute for Economic Research."
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/03/whats_the_real_rate_of_inflation.html#ixzz2SGw42Yci
"Instead of helplessly wringing our hands and crying out about the high price of fuel and food, let us accept the present state of things and brace ourselves up helpfully and bravely to face the increased cost of the necessities of life. If fuel and food cost nearly twice as much at present as they did ten years ago, then surely it becomes our imperative duty to see how we can, each of us, according to our possibilities, make the material for warmth and cooking go twice as far as they have done hitherto."
- LADY BARKER, First Lessons in the Principles of Cooking, 1874