Just fill your basket full of sandwiches and weenies
Then lock the house up, now you’re set
And on the beach you’ll see the girls in their bikinis
As cute as ever but they never get a job
When Jim Bunning threw out the first pitch in the 2010 Contributors vs. Deadbeats ball game, we should have known the Let Them Eat Cake All-Stars would have been waiting on deck.
Earlier this week, Senator Jon Kyl (who aside from no-chin McConnell, maybe the strangest looking person in government) added a new corollary to the Albeit Macht Frei Theory of Trickle Down Economics when he said “In fact, if anything, continuing to pay people unemployment compensation is a disincentive for them to seek new work.”
Who knew eating dog food and watching Oprah in a La-Z-Boy recliner was a far better way to support one’s kids?
Proving that Kyl is not alone in his belief that the Albeit Macht Frei Theory of Trickle Down Economics (which transferred 80 percent of the wealth of this country to like 2 percent of the population and which spent trillions of dollars of wars, armaments, no-bid contracts and bridges to nowhere with Chinese loans) — is really an entire school of thought, ex-Congressman and currently fat-as-a-pig bug killer Tom Delay said exactly the same thing.
Sunday on CNN Former House Majority Leader Tom Delay called Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Kentucky) “brave” for launching a one-man filibuster of unemployment benefits, arguing that they dissuaded people from going out and finding work.
Please note, Candy Crowley of the “liberal media” sat there and barely challenged the Bugman on his latest round of revisionist history. This was her tough question — “People are unemployed because they want to be? ”
It is truly amazing how Bunning, Kyl and Delay can go around and simply call the millions who are out of work — almost all due to NO fault of their own — a bunch of deadbeats queens who while driving their Cadillacs are basically leeching off the rich. Just because the top 1 percent of the country do all the work in this country, I guess the bottom 99 percent are just a bunch of roaches feeding on their success.
And when you have roaches, who you gonna call — Bugman Delay!
When is this country going to wise up and realize it is the callous, greedy and selfish people like Reagan, Bush, Armey, Delay, Kyl and the incredibly creepy Phil Gramm with their pay for wars on credit cards combined with feed-the-rich tax policies who have destroyed the economic base of the middle class? If you watch enough of the punditorium, you would believe that we are about to vote in the same people next November who left us at the abyss — just because Obama is giving us socialized medicine.
What a stupid country.
What Kyl and Delay want the workers of the world to believe is that any person (and they mean liberal, since a conservative would NEVER lose their job) who has supported their families for years now just wants to sit home and watch everything they have worked their entire lives for just go down the drain so they can get an unemployment check. The reality is very, very few people use unemployment as some sort of Power Ball lottery win. Someone who made between $50-75K surely loves the fact they can lie around and drink mai tais while the $405 per week rolls in.
Kyl and Delay act like jobs are available for the taking everywhere. Maybe Kyl and Delay have the privilege of turning down offers, but eight years of their policies (complicit with the Dems) have moved a lot of well-paying jobs outside the country, while at the same time basically bankrupting the Treasury. In addition, millions are under-employed, barely making enough to get by.
It truly does amaze me that anyone — even a Republican — can believe this Orwellian double speak. I am convinced there are really only two kinds of Republicans — the mega-rich and suckers. How can anyone actually think that their pro-fear and anti-middle class (and anti- immigrant, minority, women, gays, elderly, Democratic, and especially anti-Black President) attitude is good for this country? While we can argue that the Democrats have not done anything to correct the course (and they haven’t) — we know exactly where Kyl and Delay want to take us.
Delay is a special case — he is the Genghis Khan, Sauron and Nero of the political world. The only thing that flows in the caverns of his empty head is hate of anything that is not in his world. There is not one iota of compassion, only a fear-mongering extremist who would rather spend money on wars and stuffing the pockets of his rich friends that helping those in need.
But the most pathetic part is that the media continues to give the unemployed and maybe-a-felon Delay an open mike to peddle the fear.
(You might want to click on this picture – there is a lot going on at Delay’s Diner)
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For too long the ‘regular Joes’ have been too busy trying to survive in the GOP years to pay much attention to politics, and because of their being tired, worn down, and taken advantage of they got angry. The GOP was quickest to realize this and cashed in on it until the ‘regular Joes’ realized what was happening & they were being lied to and rebelled. This time it took longer than it generally does to awaken them from political apathy because the mainstream media was more interested in Paris Hilton than the problems around the country, let alone around the world. They’re still waking up and if the Dems & their supporters don’t start wielding the big stick they were given the GOP is gonna take it from them and beat them with it screaming ‘incompetence’ while lying their way back into power. The GOP realizes this and is busier than ever grooming a whole new generation of college kids via Young Republican efforts on campuses.
WALL STREET RAPE OF AMERICA
Big boost by Reagan + Bush Tax Cuts
1945–1% owned 30%– Total Financial Wealth
1980-1% owned 20%
1989-1% owned 36% –(RR gift of 80% increase)
2007-10% owned 70%
2007-20% owned 93%
2007-80% owned 7% drip drip drip down
1980-2007-FLUSH UP–piss down
FOLKS WILL YOU SPREAD THIS INFORMATION SO THE PEOPLE WILL KNOW
Democrats are asleep. I do not understand why we do not have more LOUDSPEAKERS?????
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WHY NOT LET THE PEOPLE KNOW GREAT THINGS???
Is there no D leadership or all asleep or owned by Wall Street?
Net New Jobs Per Year
Rounded numbers
Wall Street Journal 1-19-09
Clinton-2,900,000
Carter—2,600,000
Johnson-2,300,000
Reagan–2,000,000
Nixon—-1,700,000
Kennedy-1,200,000
Truman– 1,100,000
Ford——- 745,000
Bush I—– 625,000
Eisenhower 438,000
Bush II—- 375,000
Democrat—10,100,000
Republican– 5,883,000
Per Day In Office
Democrat—10,125 Days
Republican-13,149 Days
Jobs per day
Democrats-997
Republicans-447
2 to 1— is a bragging right people do not know it
Silly. The solution to poverty is a job. If you don’t have one, get one. This is what we said when we welcomed President Clinton’s welfare “reform,” right? Simply “pull yourself up by the bootstraps,” “work hard and play by all the rules,” and “look for a hand up, not a handout.” Can’t find a job? Well, did you expect government to hand you one? We stood up against nanny government.
It’s a good thing, too. We ended poverty by ending welfare, so we can end unemployment by ending unemployment benefits. Right? Providing unemployment saps people of the incentive to find a job, work hard and save money for the next time they lose their jobs.
Sure, the competition is rough now. While putting hundreds of thousands of former welfare recipients — however many there were — into the job market, we were also exporting hundreds of thousands of jobs. But no matter. Our social policies state that there is NO legitimate reason for the able-bodied to be unemployed, and the public gave its stamp of approval to these policies. We got what we asked for.
JOBS? Six applicants fo each one.
Comment is not in real world as Great Depression
when doctors could not get a job. Many of my friends cannot get a job. They will take minimum wage for awhile. Many applications. I sent out 18 for a pal. No reply.
Firm announces hiring 40. Over 400 show.
WSA Wall Street Of America sent 2,300,000 of our goo jobs to China in Bush 8 years.
Hanes Brands. All jobs to China this year.
China subsidizing huge modern plant.
Whirlpool in small town sends 1000 jobs to Mexico this year. Horror in small town.
The writer has no experince. I have been there done that. Closed plant of 500 in small town. Awful.
Closed plant with 350 which had been only job.
Town of less than 1000.
We are in a total changed environment.
Total Industries have gone overseas.
My Apparel–My Textiles–Steel–Glass–Electronics
Mt hometown was Hosiery Captial of America. None left. Home of largest Textile firm in world. Gone.
Largest luxury yacht mfg in world. Gone.
Furniture Capital. Gone down not zero.
Few plants scattered over states.
It is sad. Rich so very rich. Middle class worker wages stagnated since 1970s
1945 top 1% owned 30% Total Financial Wealth
1980=20%
1989=36% (reagan big tax cut for top)
2008–1%=43%
10%=70%
20%=93%
Thanks Bush for your gifts.
80%=7%=120,000,000 workers shafted big time
WSA from USA
Revolution shall cometh via 120,000,000 Les Miserables.
Individual Effort will get you to the top???
Bull. Baloney. Teacher grad last year(2009) cannot find a job teaching.
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Tom Corbett, Jon Kyle of Arizona, Sharon Angle of Nevada, Jim Bunning, Tom Delay, James Sherk of the Heritage Foundation ALL say there are plenty of jobs but the unemployed are ‘disincentivized’ or ‘spoiled’ (angle) SO, if you are unemployed or know anyone who is unemployed immediately SEND YOUR RESUME to these people and say that you’ve ‘seen the light’ and don’t want to be lazy anymore and ask them for a job. Tell them you’ll work as their staffers for HALF the salary they now pay their staff – thus saving the taxpayer’s money. LET’S START A MOVEMENT! Send your resume and ask for one of these vacant jobs
Maine is generally short of teachers, dentists, doctors, nurses, etc. Doesn’t hurt to try. Place is beautiful, weather leaves a bit to be desired if warmth is your thing;-)
The Senate Republicans were demoralized by voters rejecting them in 2006 and 2008
They are dis-spirited. They are angry
They want revenge on the voters.
They do not care how much pain they inflict on millions of families.
Stress. This is Party Stress.
In business I have seen it many times Nepotism or friendship got a promo to VP or President
No experience in Marketing-Finance or Manufacturing.
Backgrounds in sales, teaching, military..
Make bad decisions. Things got wrong.
Great on golf course or at dinner away from plant
Nice.
But, once enter workplace entirely Jekyll-Hyde.
Tense. Nervous. Angry at everyone. Blame others.
Bully. Threats.
Nice good people gone bad under Stress.
Senators are like that. Pain inflicted is of no concern to them
Angry at voters. Want revenge. Cornered snakes.
They are anti everything
In short, They are Mentally Emotionally Sick people.
The best medicine is to send them home for a long long rest.
Elect Democrats. Cool calm deliberate nice pleasant feel thy pain.
Olduglymeanhonest
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