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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2013 16:03:42 GMT -5
So apparently "Big Pussy" Chris Christie vetoed a minimum wage increase as being too generous. Now I know in Libertarian La-La Land "minimum wage" is a dirty word, on the theory that lower wages mean more jobs. No doubt they would be able to find morons willing to work for fifty cents an hour, but frankly in my universe people should not be allowed to let themselves be exploited, voluntarily or not. But the silver lining is, of course, once again Republicans are painting themselves as elitist enemies of working people (how much are YOU getting paid, Chris?). Keep it up, Democrats love to win. Sorry! but Increasing Minimum Wage will hurt Small Business owners! The economy sucks! If that pass it will cause most people to get laid off because small business owners are trying to struggle to stay afloat! Your Quote-( Keep it up, Democrats love to win) Thats because people are lazy ass F*ckers and want more govt dependency! I'm struggling I didn't want govt to support me! People bitches about their job lousy pay, Find another job!
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Post by jdredd on Jan 29, 2013 22:57:29 GMT -5
So apparently "Big Pussy" Chris Christie vetoed a minimum wage increase as being too generous. Now I know in Libertarian La-La Land "minimum wage" is a dirty word, on the theory that lower wages mean more jobs. No doubt they would be able to find morons willing to work for fifty cents an hour, but frankly in my universe people should not be allowed to let themselves be exploited, voluntarily or not. But the silver lining is, of course, once again Republicans are painting themselves as elitist enemies of working people (how much are YOU getting paid, Chris?). Keep it up, Democrats love to win. Sorry! but Increasing Minimum Wage will hurt Small Business owners! The economy sucks! If that pass it will cause most people to get laid off because small business owners are trying to struggle to stay afloat! Your Quote-( Keep it up, Democrats love to win) Thats because people are lazy ass F*ckers and want more govt dependency! I'm struggling I didn't want govt to support me! People bitches about their job lousy pay, Find another job! We can argue the merits of a minimum wage, but my point is that one more GOP leader is taking the side of the well-off (small business owners) against the not-so-well-off (minimum wage workers). Yes, "lazy ass f&ckers" get to vote, so if the GOP wants to win, it better figure out something.
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Post by Tired in CV on Jan 31, 2013 4:19:29 GMT -5
Sorry! but Increasing Minimum Wage will hurt Small Business owners! The economy sucks! If that pass it will cause most people to get laid off because small business owners are trying to struggle to stay afloat! Your Quote-( Keep it up, Democrats love to win) Thats because people are lazy ass F*ckers and want more govt dependency! I'm struggling I didn't want govt to support me! People bitches about their job lousy pay, Find another job! We can argue the merits of a minimum wage, but my point is that one more GOP leader is taking the side of the well-off (small business owners) against the not-so-well-off (minimum wage workers). Yes, "lazy ass f&ckers" get to vote, so if the GOP wants to win, it better figure out something. The only reason the Democrats wants to raise the minimum wage is to generate more TAXES! Every time they raise minimum wages they bring more people into paying taxes. It doesn't matter that the net effect is that the worker ends up earning less after taxes. Most feel like they have more money until tax time so they get fooled easily. It is a lose-lose situation. Bad for business (and the free market) and bad for the minimum wage earner. And for those who still don't have to pay taxes, the government gets to "borrow" more of their money throughout the year. There is also a fine line between minimum wage and Welfare. Many won't work and choose Welfare because at minimum wage + taxes they don't fare as well. There needs to be a greater separation between the two.
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Post by jdredd on Jan 31, 2013 15:16:17 GMT -5
We can argue the merits of a minimum wage, but my point is that one more GOP leader is taking the side of the well-off (small business owners) against the not-so-well-off (minimum wage workers). Yes, "lazy ass f&ckers" get to vote, so if the GOP wants to win, it better figure out something. The only reason the Democrats wants to raise the minimum wage is to generate more TAXES! Every time they raise minimum wages they bring more people into paying taxes. It doesn't matter that the net effect is that the worker ends up earning less after taxes. Most feel like they have more money until tax time so they get fooled easily. It is a lose-lose situation. Bad for business (and the free market) and bad for the minimum wage earner. And for those who still don't have to pay taxes, the government gets to "borrow" more of their money throughout the year. There is also a fine line between minimum wage and Welfare. Many won't work and choose Welfare because at minimum wage + taxes they don't fare as well. There needs to be a greater separation between the two. Some Dem leaders may only want to raise the minimum wage for the tax revenue, but my contention is that minimum wage voters hear that Dems want to raise their pay and Reps don't. So who do you think they are going to vote for? The GOP is offering them nothing. P.S. The longer I live the the more "Free Market" seems synonymous with "scam".
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Post by jdredd on Jan 31, 2013 22:22:16 GMT -5
Considering the GOP's behavior at the Hagel hearing, I'm wondering if the GOP is losing votes not just because it is perceived as the Old White Guy Party, but as the Mean Old White Guy Party!
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Post by jdredd on Feb 7, 2013 16:24:02 GMT -5
While it may seem like it's over for the intellectually bankrupt herd of clowns known as the GOP, do not despair, you wingnuts! As sure as night follows day, the GOP will rise again. How will it happen? Most likely some crisis such as war with Iran, economic chaos in Europe or China, or environmental catastrophe will challenge the ruling Dumbocrats, and they will totally bungle the deal. And then the GOP will get it's chance to f&&k things up even more.
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Post by jdredd on Feb 11, 2013 3:31:15 GMT -5
God, I hate having a President in the WH who's only qualification is that he's slightly less bad than his recent opponent, a guy who demonstrated FOR the Vietnam War. I'd love to be ripping BO a new one, but it would only give a boost to the likes of snakes like Mitch McConnell, and I might sound like I had something in common with that über-douchebag Rush Limbaugh. I guess I'll have to stick to trashing Libertarians. Oh well, as Tim Leary once said to me, it's only politics.
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Post by jdredd on Feb 20, 2013 20:47:58 GMT -5
I went on the National Review web site today, and all I saw was Hagel, Hagel, Hagel. Now really, how many people give a crap about who the Secretary of Defense is? How many people on the street could name the last one? One in ten? WHO CARES? Yet that is the small ball the GOP is playing. Fine with me, I hope they keep it up.
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Post by jdredd on Mar 19, 2013 0:08:02 GMT -5
So the GOP chairman Rience Preibus came out with his three part plan to rescue the GOP: First, spend ten million bucks reaching out to minority voters (Is he kidding? Ten million dollars is pocket change to the GOP's billionaire bankrollers). Second, try to match the Dems online get-out-the-vote program (Gee, I thought the Tea Party geezers were all over cyberspace according to the propaganda. What happened to them last November?). And third, shorten the primary system so a candidate is chosen by June or July at the latest. Now that is a suggestion that makes some sense. No endless mind-numbing debates again.
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Post by jdredd on Mar 20, 2013 16:24:20 GMT -5
I'm watching my favorite Fox show, "The Five"', and there was an advert for Hannity's show where H is bleating about Obama living high on the hog. A President living large? Who knew? Really, is that what the right has come down to, that kind of petty criticism? I would think Republicans would be more sensitive to appearing to possess such small minds.
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Post by jdredd on Mar 24, 2013 12:44:10 GMT -5
There are many factors in the GOP's (temporary) decline, and one may be that the term "liberal", which has been a pejorative in many parts of the country since at least the 70's, is now being followed in pejorativeness by the term "conservative" IMO. I suspect both terms are being rejected by more and more voters, which is depriving the Right of a previous "bump".
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Post by Turk on Mar 28, 2013 0:29:48 GMT -5
Republicans lose because they don't know how to sell used cars.
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Post by jdredd on Apr 3, 2013 4:33:23 GMT -5
www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/righ....he-gop/?hpid=z2"The Republican Party’s old guard that came of political age in the Reagan era and, not unlike their fellow baby boomers, who view failure to obtain what they want as the result of others’ shortcomings, are having a hard time of it. They assumed ever-increasing defense budgets. They took it as gospel that taxes are always wrong, everywhere and for any reason. They never dreamed anyone would question marriage is between one man and one woman, and they were certain that since Simpson-Mazolli they need only utter the word “amnesty” and pro-immigration-reform proponents would melt like the drenched Wicked Witch of the West. They have now adopted a “What’s the matter with everyone?” mix of annoyance and incredulity that their bedrock assumptions have crumbled." "They now confront an electorate as different from the Reagan electorate as the media that covered the Reagan presidency. Moreover, they face politicians and candidates both on the right and the left who came of age entirely after the Reagan era. These politicians have learned different lessons from Reagan and grew up in a different economic, political and cultural era. The old guard may remain influential, but only if pols and pundits of that generation rethink their understanding of modern conservatism, find a new set of issues on which to focus and adopt new arguments to defend their party. And for the most part, the public face of the GOP must migrate from the ill-tempered, white, old men to a diverse, media-savvy generation that understands Americans of the 21st century. Then the essence of conservatism — the promotion of personal liberty — can survive and the GOP will endure as a viable national party. Right now, I think that is a 50-50 proposition."
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2013 11:43:19 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2013 0:54:17 GMT -5
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