An oldie, but a goodie, and incredibly appropriate.
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Republicans of the Senate: F**k the Poor!
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History of the World Part I,
Mel Brooks,
Poor,
Unemployment
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To save a country is to damage the poor?
ReplyDeleteWhat are you smoking?
'The poor' don't buy the communist party 'class struggle' mythology anymore. So the talking points aren't working. America saw what the left really was, these last few years, as they ruined our businesses and finances, and medical care, etc, etc, etc.
It will be generations before anyone but the loyal comrades buys that shit again.
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Eh? Soooooo, not extending unemployment insurance, and extending tax cuts to millionaires and billionaires (while larding the cost onto the debt) is the way to go then? I still haven't heard a single coherant explanation for that.
ReplyDeleteThe money you would give to the unemployed--Where does that come from?
ReplyDeleteI have never heard a coherent argument for wealth redistribution. History is the argument for why 'redistribution of wealth' is a bad idea. Read a book.
The amount of money necessary for unemployment is chump change next to the amount Republicans want to give to rich folks. Who needs it more?
ReplyDeleteUnemployment compensation is among the MOST stimulative money that government spends. Tax cuts for the wealthy? Among the LEAST stimulative.
Who creates jobs in a healthy economy? Small businesses.
ReplyDeleteWhat destroys small businesses? Taxes.
The government can only get in the way of jobs.
And we might be able to agree with each other, were it not for how the Republicans define "small business." Multi-million/billion dollar operations are classified as small business, which is hokum.
ReplyDeletePetty envy of success is due to communist training.
ReplyDeleteA western way to look at success is that it provides more jobs for others, and more opportunity for others to move up as well.
Petty jealousy leads to everyone being equally poor and miserable.
It's a question of perspective, and which culture you were raised in. Some people can accept new knowledge, but other remain inflexible and refuse to learn.
Big business is sitting on more money than at any time in history, still outsourcing, not hiring here at home, and the people can't afford to buy their products.
ReplyDeleteWhen I learned about the robber barons and the time before child labor laws and other regulations, it was presented as a very, very bad thing. But it looks like we're headed back there, and that you're cheering it.
Wake up. You are whining about images and mythology and class-warfare boogeymen, yet actual real bad people are right in front of you and they are doing very bad things.
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Mythology? Bad people? Warfare? You have a flair for the dramatic, doncha?
ReplyDelete"Class warfare" often seems to be a nonsense phrase invented to hurl back at anyone who tries to point out when rich folks were getting tax breaks and other bennies. Sure it's used in other senses, but most of the time I hear it from conservatives in much the same sense that they cry "race card" if they're accused of racism.
Any phrase used to give cover to Goliath instead of David strikes me as newspeak. And THERE'S your mythology.
What did your _resident sign?
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If I follow you correctly (and who knows at this point), you are referring to the extension of the Bush tax cuts by President Obama (who is your president too). I disagree with the "comprimise," as do most economists. But I'm THRILLED with the result of the DADT vote. As with all presidents, it's a mixed bag.
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