Few things are less mind-boggling than the persistent Republican belief that government jobs are seemingly less valuable (or outright destructive) than private sector jobs. Typical comments range from the usual bureaucratic speak “The public sector is out of control…creating jobs at a faster rate than the private sector can pay for them” to this outright…
Category: Wednesday
WCE: Rich Asshole(s) of the Month: Foster Fries, Sheldon Adelson, Meg Whitman, etc.
When it came time to do my “Rich Asshole of the Month” segment for Working Class Economist, the answer was a no-brainer. From Stephen Colbert to MoveOn.org, liberals have heard a lot about the horrific Supreme Court decision that allowed corporations and rich individuals to donate unlimited amounts of money into shadowy super-PACs, and even…
Now What For Rick Santorum, Peyton Manning, Newt Gingrich, Joe the Plumber, and Rush Limbaugh
I know that this feature on the site is supposed to be about life post-college (and usually is) but since nobody really cares if I stray from that, let’s talk about what’s next for some embattled people in the news lately… 1. Rick Santorum: Okay, guy, you didn’t win any states no one thought you…
Now What?: What’s Your “Leap” This Year?
Every so often—-as in every other day—-I like to run a puff piece, and today I’m especially fascinated with Leap Day. Leap Day just so happens to be one of my favorite holidays even if it doesn’t include getting out of work or school, and most people shamefully chose to let it go to waste….
Rich Asshole of the Month is…Chris Brown, A Different Kind of Rich Asshole
Last month, I introduced a new segment to Working Class Economist called “Rich Asshole of the Month.” The thinking behind it is that just generally calling out rich people isn’t doing any good because the 1 percent gets to say “Well, I might be bad but I’m not the Koch Brothers bad,” and calling out…
Now What? (Life Post-Grad): Does Generation Y Experience Love Differently?
With Valentine’s Day being yesterday, it made me wonder if there is something in the DNA of Generation Y—-fundamentally altered by being able to video chat with someone around the globe in five seconds—-that made them experience love any differently than generations past. Is emailing or Facebook or even sexting really that different than love…
Working Class Economist: Another Positive Economic Trend, “Insourcing”
No sooner do I write today’s earlier article about “Cash Mobs” when a second positive economic occurrence transpires: insourcing. [If you were superstitious you might want to avoid black cats and indoor umbrella openings for the next couple days because something suspiciously uplifting is going on here.] For those unfamiliar with insourcing (or general wordplay)…
The Fast Food Critic: Red State Food vs. Blue State Food (Food Goes Partisan)
Before anyone thinks I’ve done so many new articles lately that they’re running together and I really meant this to appear in the debate section, let me assure you I haven’t made a mistake (this time). As I pointed out last week while recapping the lessons I’d learned doing all of the different segments, something very…
Working Class Economist: Celebrating “Cash Mobs,” Finally Something Viral Goes Useful
So much bad news comes out of the economy, that sometimes it can be easy to miss something positive. Coincidentally, so much useless news comes out of the internet (where a guy getting punched in the balls and his baby laughing at it will draw more viewers than any news oriented blogs like this one…
Everything Now What? (Life Post-Grad) Has Taught Me
Rolling on with this week’s trend of going through what each segment has taught me (I’ll stop short of recapping what “Mom Jokes” taught me but not until then), it’s “Now What?’s” turn to act a little wiser. But since part of being young is not learning from your mistakes, I didn’t really learn much…
Everything The Fast Food Critic Taught Me in the Last Year
Going along with this week’s anniversary trend of recapping some of the lessons I learned doing the various segments comes this “Top 5” lessons list from The Fast Food Critic. Lesson 5: 9 Times Out of 10, The More Ingredients Something Has the Worse It is For You. That’s not always an ironclad rule, but…
Everything Working Class Economist Has Learned in the Last Year
As I pointed out yesterday, this marks the one year anniversary of Alabama Liberal. And what better way to celebrate than to look back on the last year and detail what Working Class Economist has learned… Lesson 1: Rich people suck. Lesson 2: That is all. No, but in all seriousness there were just a…
Fast Food Critic: McDonald’s Removes “Pink Slime” From Hamburgers…Wait, There Was Pink Slime?
There isn’t a whole lot of news every week that comes from major fast food chains, and there is virtually NO news from them that is positive. However, McDonald’s defied that expectation this week by announcing that it hasn’t used ammonium hydroxide in its hamburgers since August of last year, and that ammonium hydroxide is…