The Men Of Morning Joe Mansplain Women Issues To Mika
ROMNEY: And I — and I went to my staff, and I said, “How come all the people for these jobs are — are all men.” They said, “Well, these are the people that have the qualifications.” And I said, “Well, gosh, can’t we — can’t we find some — some women that are also qualified?” And — and so we — we took a concerted effort to go out and find women who had backgrounds that could be qualified to become members of our cabinet. I went to a number of women’s groups and said, “Can you help us find folks,” and they brought us whole binders full of women.Mika pointed out that this was a lie. Whoa! That was simply too much for the men of Morning Joe. How dare she bring up something that the men declared unimportant; how dare she point out that Mitt lied again. Joe Scarborough declared the women in binders topic ridiculous and desperate - which tells me that he's afraid of it. Mark Halperin stated that "that's not what this election should be about" and how they "shouldn't be parsing individual statements said live during a debate" and asked, wistfully, if we could just talk policy for the next three weeks. I intend to hold him to that.
JPMorgan Oops
If you can grasp what happened in the London Office of JPMorgan Chase, then you probably could become the next CEO of the bank as it seems the current CEO Jamie Dimon had no clue.
Chart of the Day
Obama and jobs.
US Workers are Hugely Productive
US workers are hugely productive and aren’t getting paid for it.
Seriously, Austerity Is Not Working
As we brought to your attention the other day, austerity as a policy is not working. Economist Christina D. Romer writes, “The result is that austerity is uniquely destructive right now.”
Occupy the SEC
One of the interesting things about the Occupy Movement is to see how it grows in different directions. From one of the working groups in Zuccotti Park came Occupy the SEC. The idea of Occupy the SEC is to work at the policy and regulation level, not just in streets and parks.
Austerity is Dead, Long Live Austerity
With the failings of austerity as a large hammer to fix the world economy become oh-so-evident, still pundits and policy makers keep on pushing it through.
The Cesspool That Is Debt Collection
Remember yesterday, we were discussing the ethics of debt collectors at the bedside in hospitals? Yeah, turns out debt collecting companies aren’t very honest. They may be one step above payday loan companies.
