Not any more. the business version of Turbo Tax will do that. Either way what it accomplishes and the only thing accomplished is more expense in the overhead column and that means shafting the end user the consumer.

Remember the old song. This government ...what is it good for... absolutely nothing.

Which they were forced to make by government edict regardless of the results of due diligence. Personally I think the corporatists and the statist are used to screwing each other it's some sort of kinky thing. But don't blame just one side. They are the same just as Democrats and Republicans are the same. Two faces one party and all left wing fascist socialists run by an elitist power group. To turn the screws a little more the government changed the required operating regulations and ran the complying banks out of business. Some pigs and some banks are more equal than other pigs. i laughed my ass off a year or so later watching the SFB protestors outside a Bank America - not my favorite place- for not paying their 'fair share' of taxes. Literally in Sebastopol, California standing outside looking at the idiotic signs. One was worse than the other. So they got pissed off until i explained. Businesses don't pay taxes dumb ass. their customer pay all the taxes. it's called a Cost of Government column and lives after the usual legitimate book keeping entries and before final profit.

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That puts you one up on the administration.

high prices lose customers faster while Dollar Stores are adding fresh foods. A new book for Kindle explains that the dollar stores are very often more green than the boutique stores and how to shop for exactly what Whole Foods is shutting off.

There are now five ways to adjust to market conditions in business.

1. Quality
2. Service
3. Prices

4. Layoffs and reduced hours
5. Reduce taxes

and finally number Six the Six hundred pound guerrilla chuckle chuckle

6. Close.

Long Range the unborn will pay. Short range Grandpa and Grandma ARE paying. Those Walmart part time jobs must look pretty enticing to the formerly solvent recently retired. Also in the face of closings Dollar Stores under different names are expanding and Amazon is feeling NO pain. I'm not impressed with there product search program but the rest of Amazon is Amazing!!! I just finished buying Christmas from my boat added some spare boat parts and computer batteries and a new RCA Cell Phone for me. Sears? That name sounds vaguely familiar? What's a mall? Why do I not care?

That's where a lot of your Christmas job bumps are coming from in the fulfillment industry. Pickers, Packagers and Shippers. Not to mention the computer skilled that put it all together. Some of that bump will stay as more turn to internet shopping and let the malls close.

The big culprit for the inflation or Cost of Living Index picture is not counting devaluation of buying power. 2008 triggered the biggest one in double digits we 're still getting one to one and half percent per year adjustments. Screw me once shame on you screw me twice shame on me. I left before the second screw job. Near as I can figure with the current change in exchange rates minus transfer fees I'm just about caught up with the government engineered 2008 crash. Thanks for less than nothing Mr. President from SOUTH of the border.

Quick comment on the 34.5 average hour work week. Many employee benefits are based on full time or 40 hours. 30 hours is not full time. nor are temporary jobs. By cutting employees to they cut a large amount of expenses. 34.5 average means half the work force is not legally permanent....

Part of a full article this may offer some clues. Jeff Crouere at http://townhall.com The last line is part of the answer but doesn't explain U6. There is an AP article in the same location detailing the same conclusion 579,000 down 146,000 up = 433 net loss HOWEVER how much of that was the fall harvest and students returning to school bump....



Jeff sez:

"For the past few years, the Obama lovers in the media have been boasting about the supposedly great economy Americans are enjoying. According to this fictitious narrative, Obama’s strong leadership saved the economy and led to our “recovery,” but, in reality, we face today a RINO or “Recovery in Name Only” economy.

The real economy was exposed in the September labor report. The country created only 142,000 new jobs, much less than expectations. This year, we are adding fewer than 200,000 new jobs each month, well below last year’s average of 260,000 new jobs per month.

The so-called experts blame it on the global economic slowdown, yet, the economy of the United States has been troubled for years. We never recovered from the Great Recession of 2008 and have really been suffering from a prolonged recession.

The stock market only “recovered” because of a massive influx of money from the Federal Reserve. This policy of “Quantitative Easing” was the main reason the market did not totally collapse. Now, interest rates are being kept artificially low because the Federal Reserve is not confident the weak economy can sustain an increase.

They have every reason to be concerned. Weekly earnings fell approximately three dollars to $865.61 and hourly wages decreased one penny last month and have only increased 2.2% this year. Workers are earning less and working less hours as the average work week declined to only 34.5 hours. The old adage of a 40 hour work week is from a bygone era of economic prosperity that does not reflect today’s economic reality.

Some hopelessly positive analysts will cheer that the unemployment rate remained steady at only 5.1%. However, this rate is totally meaningless in an economy with only 148.8 million Americans working and an astounding 94.6 million people outside of the workforce.

Americans outside of the labor force include all people 16 years of age and older who are not employed and have not made any efforts to look for a job. Millions of these individuals are so discouraged about the labor market that they have stopped looking for employment. Many are completely dependent on government assistance. In America today, 50 million Americans are living in poverty, while 46 million people are receiving food stamps, a figure that has been exceeded for 38 straight months. A mere 15 years ago, only 17 million Americans received food stamp benefits.

In the last month, 579,000 Americans left the workforce, a number more than four times higher than the number of new jobs in September. Thus, the labor force participation rate fell to 62.2 percent, the lowest since 1977.

View Full Article http://townhalldaily.com the rest is worth the read. for The Rest Of The Story remember those words?