The Drunken Economist

No, seriously. Read this and tell me you don't feel the same: "Never in the history of intergenerational transfers has one generation left such a mountain of IOUs to another as the baby boomers are leaving to their grandchildren. When you do the math, there is only one logical political home for

Want to know why you, or your kids don't have journeyman jobs in the USA? Because of a corporate SUBSIDY/ HANDOUT called the H1B VISA. We have PLENTY of workers in the USA! We're the ONLY country that GIVES AWAY middle class jobs to China & India. END THIS PROCESS. SIGN THIS PETITION. (link goes

Hey kids, it's your Uncle Drunky, back to the land of blogging when he feels like it. This is not the 'review of Tron Legacy & why it's Atlas Shrugged for our time. That may come later. Now we come to a kid who sounds like every clued 30-something I've met lately. Read his comment here before you

Today's required reading comes from Mark Sigal, @netgarden on twitter. It raises the right questions of 'what now' --now that we all have to move on in the wake of three Boomer presidencies, here in the USA. But first, a little refresher about why NO ONE wants to make a business or 'participate' in

In case you were wondering why I follow H1B 'Immigrant' shills like my little sahib Wadhwa as well as NASSCOM Don Tennant so closely... here's your answer: The decay of American STEM jobs: "The folks at Scientific American have launched "1,000 Scientists in 1,000 Days" -- a program to bring toge

Believe it or not, you can get news from Fox. Sometimes, when van Susteren meanders off script. Now listen as Grandma Helmethead of the State Department breaks it all down about how we armed the Mudjahadeen: (Via Planetseeder - Hillary Clinton Admits the U.S. Government Created al-Qaeda.) Of c

I suppose a whole buttload of GenX'ers and younger will be moving to Canadia after reading this: "A hurricane of debt, deficit, and demographics is heading to the shores of all developed economies. With it will come high inflation rates, high costs for credit, low growth rates, and weakening devel

It's raining EVEN MORE Desi slimeballs in New York -- the official state of Indian corruption, second only to New Jersey. This time? An old 'Indian Innovation' called 'human trafficking' by any other name. But we'll get to that: "Another Indian diplomat has been hit by charges of forced labour by

(UPDATE: So why would Michio McScience big up H1Bs? Why, to increase the sales of his new, "mixed reviews because of filler" book. Don't believe me? Here's the lame talking point right here in the book itself.) In a move that's rivaled only by the baseless threats of the Goldman Sachs and others wh

In other words, Mr Boomer: Your kids are screwed if this bill passes and you do not share in the pain. Oh, you don't want to hear it? Again? Okay, then I'll talk to anyone born after 1964 in the US: Looks like the Boomers will get one last fuck in on the anyone GenX & under before they move on to b