Bucky wrote:I guess it depends on how you define "tangibly", but I was unable to get a job in the career I desired because of it

Grotewold wrote:I think a return to the "deficits don't matter" stuff is way more likely than an elimination of the mortgage interest deduction

Bucky wrote:it's pretty specific. I wanted a career as a philly firefighter. Was #137 raw score after taking the test (out of about 5,000 total participants) . That test created a hiring list which lasted for about 6 years, and they hired some 800 people from that list. I didn't even get a call to move the the next step of the process.

Houshphandzadeh wrote:-100 for punning

Doll Is Mine wrote:I wonder how well I would do on one of those tests. A firefighter, huh?

bleh wrote:

Doll Is Mine wrote:I wonder how well I would do on one of those tests. A firefighter, huh?

Firefighting is easy, just dial 911.

Barry Jive wrote:

bleh wrote:

Doll Is Mine wrote:I wonder how well I would do on one of those tests. A firefighter, huh?

Firefighting is easy, just dial 911.

you rang?

The Nightman Cometh wrote:so glad the degree I'm earning is werthless

David Siegel, the owner of Westgate Resorts, sent a surprising email to his employees Monday.

It said that if President Barack Obama wins re-election and raises Siegel's taxes, he will have to lay off workers and downsize his company - or even shut it down.

"If any new taxes are levied on me, or my company, as our current President plans, I will have no choice but to reduce the size of this company," he wrote. "Rather than grow this company I will be forced to cut back. This means fewer jobs, less benefits and certainly less opportunity for everyone."

The purpose of the pre-election hearing, presumably, is to embarrass the administration for inadequate diplomatic security. But Issa seems unaware of the irony that diplomatic security is inadequate partly because of budget cuts forced by his fellow Republicans in Congress.

For fiscal 2013, the GOP-controlled House proposed spending $1.934 billion for the State Department’s Worldwide Security Protection program — well below the $2.15 billion requested by the Obama administration. House Republicans cut the administration’s request for embassy security funding by $128 million in fiscal 2011 and $331 million in fiscal 2012. (Negotiations with the Democrat-controlled Senate restored about $88 million of the administration’s request.) Last year, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned that Republicans’ proposed cuts to her department would be “detrimental to America’s national security” — a charge Republicans rejected.

Ryan, Issa and other House Republicans voted for an amendment in 2009 to cut $1.2 billion from State operations, including funds for 300 more diplomatic security positions. Under Ryan’s budget, non-defense discretionary spending, which includes State Department funding, would be slashed nearly 20 percent in 2014, which would translate to more than $400 million in additional cuts to embassy security.

Wisconsin state Rep. Roger Rivard (R) "is drawing heat for saying that his father had told him when he was young that 'some girls rape easy' as a way to warn him that a woman could agree to sex but then later claim that it wasn't consensual," the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.

Said Rivard: "He also told me one thing, 'If you do (have premarital sex), just remember, consensual sex can turn into rape in an awful hurry.' Because all of a sudden a young lady gets pregnant and the parents are madder than a wet hen and she's not going to say, 'Oh, yeah, I was part of the program.' All that she has to say or the parents have to say is it was rape because she's underage. And he just said, 'Remember, Roger, if you go down that road, some girls,' he said, 'they rape so easy.'"