The Hits Keep Coming
Governor ‘Goodhair’, the reputed star of the cast for Snow Fright and the Seven Dingdongs has selected Neocon zombies, Douglas Feith and Donald Rumsfeld, as his ‘foreign policy advisors’.
NPR has a talk show on featuring one of the most annoying voices I have ever encountered – The Diane Rehm Show. Today’s topic was Zero’s ‘jobs bill’, and the only thing that made the discussion memorable was a caller named Steve from Lansing, Michigan who cut to the chase in one short question: “I would like to say that we haven’t had a tax increase in this nation in almost 12 years, so I want to know, where are the jobs?”
Then in the Local Puppy Trainer [print edition] you have a real expression of the ‘slave mentality’ of local Republicans. A guy complains about the teachers being unhappy about having their ‘step increases’ [experience pay raises] eliminated. The guy says he works for a corporation and hasn’t had a raise in three years, but he’s ‘grateful to have a job’. Excuse me, but the only reason to be ‘grateful to have a job’ would be if you weren’t qualified for the job and it was given to you as a favor – like the people who worked for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad, or many of the later hires at the Justice Department under the Hedgemony.
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And the saddening story today…
About 6 million Californians had incomes below the federal poverty line of $22,113 for a family of four in 2010, census data released Tuesday show. That’s 16.3% of the population, up from 15.3% in 2009.
Nearly 1 in 5 residents lacked health insurance last year, one of the highest rates in the nation. Median household income in the state, when adjusted for inflation, fell 4.6% to $54,459. That’s the largest decline in a single year since record keeping began.
Begs the question…where ARE the freakin’ jobs?????
can we clone stevefromlansing? until then, i may have to start calling up some of the local talk radio shows and ask that question whenever it seems relevant.
diane rehm’s voice: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spasmodic_dysphonia#Notable_people_with_spasmodic_dysphonia
As long as the ‘people in charge’ refuse to accept the reality that what they are doing is 180° out from what is needed, things are only going to get worse. I read somewhere that the majority of people who still have a mortgage on their house, have no equity in the house. So long as we continue to act as if major banks are not bankrupt, things won’t improve. If we had just re-introduced the programs that worked in the 1930s, we would be on our way out of this mess, instead of struggling to pay off the gambling debts of Wall Street with the Social Security trust fund.
That explains it, Hipparchia, but doesn’t make it any less annoying.