Samantha Pierce

When I first heard the murmurs and rumblings about the reporting errors at Recovery.gov claiming jobs created in districts that don't exist and what not I just rolled my eyes. Typical government ineptitude right? Reading our President's response to the criticism of the errors got me thinking a little more about my initial assumption that this was just more run of the mill government ineptitude. (Via Wizbang .) Obama Calls Stimulus Data Errors 'Side Issue,' Says Focus Is on Job Growth President Obama brushed off criticism over his administration's inaccurate reporting on job creation Wednesday, telling Fox News the accounting is an "inexact science" and that any errors are a "side issue" when compared with the goal of turning the economy around. He said job growth is his No.1 responsibility. Emphasis added. First thoughts, I wonder if the IRS will buy that accounting line come April 15? Well Mr. IRS Agent sir, you know the President did say that...

I'm a day late with this since the swine flu hysteria came to my neighbourhood. Honestly 36,000 people die of the regular seasonal flu in the US every year and people are freaking out about a flu that has thus far killed less than 100 world wide. Here's what the CDC says about seasonal flu . Every year in the United States, on average: 5% to 20% of the population gets the flu; more than 200,000 people are hospitalized from flu-related complications; and about 36,000 people die from flu-related causes. I'm wondering if every running nose will get school closed down this fall when the regular flu season starts again. There have been 279 confirmed US cases of swine flu so far and 1 death, of a kid who came from Mexico to get medical treatment. World wide there have been 1276 confirmed cases so far. Is this worth China rounding up every Mexican it could find and essentially holding then hostage? No. Is it worth keeping thousands of kids out of school? No. I know people ...

I was very pleased to arrive in NYC yesterday evening and see this story being reported in the news. I had every confidence that a few well placed snipers could make a quick end of the pirate stand off. The part of me that wants to wonder why this wasn't done days ago will wait until next week to fuss about it. For now I bask in the knowledge the America still has a bit of the thug let in it. The Maersk Alabama arrived safely in Kenya on Saturday , three days after Somali pirates stormed the ship, failed to hijack it, and fled in a lifeboat with the captain. "The FBI has informed us that this ship is a crime scene," John Reinhart, president of Maersk Shipping Line said Saturday, explaining why crew members cannot immediately leave the ship. "It has moved from the rescue to investigation," he said. "After the investigation, we then move to repatriation, which is bringing our heroes home. That whole declaring the ship a crime scene thing was...interesting. S...

That's my senator y'all! In the words of Luke Skywalker, I care. Just one question though. Am I one of the "chattering classes" or am I one of the American people? Technorati Tags: schumer , stimulus , chattering classes , new york Generated By Technorati Tag Generator