Hatriot Neal Boortz thinks Obama voters should lose their jobs
Just when I thought things couldn't get any more bizarre today, this gem crossed my Twitter stream, courtesy of Media Matters. Really, some folks ought to think before hitting the "tweet button." From the hatriot Neal Boortz, known as Talkmaster on Twitter, this little pair of gems:
Yes, it really DOES say that. Not content to leave that little bomb in the stream, he followed up with this:
While Media Matters was content to show this insanity with no further comment, I'm not. Small business is better off today than it was under Bush. This is fact. Their taxes are lower, they get an immediate tax credit for providing health benefits to their workers, and they finally get some parity with the big corporations.
Neal Boortz calls himself a libertarian, but he's really just a fool with a big mouth and a microphone.
I wonder if he's ever researched his company's past. If so, he'd know the founder of Cox Radio was Franklin D. Roosevelt's running mate in 1920. FDR would NOT approve, and I somehow believe Mr. Cox would not either.
do these talking heads EVER think before they speak or (in this case) tweet?
Only when the last tree has died
and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught
will we realize we cannot eat money.
Remember during the Kerry election? A woman was fired for having a Kerry sticker on her car. So there is a precedent set already. Scums! :)
From CBS News:
Was Employee Laid Off for voting for Obama?
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I'm blogging this, with credit, of course. :D
Conservatives are anti-labor, anti-worker, anti-small-business...The irony and hypocrisy of this statement is nearly paralyzing.
If these lunatics were true to their word and had any brains they'd be firing Repug supporters and right wingers .
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
He still has a job/microphone? Fuck, who knew?
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
His name is talk master? So talk master de bater... His name just evokes teen humor, matches the intellect of his listenership....
a PhD in sucking...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
It is interesting when you see he is in the National Radio Hall of Fame. He must create thought in people across this nation when he is 6th in radio personalities most listened too. You may not agree with all he says but he does bring up interesting points you dont hear on any other talkshow host program including Beck, Limbaugh & Hannity.
What Boortz does is considered a job? Fooled me...
OK Boortz is a dick who has an agenda.
Now that we got that out of the way, do any C&Lers own a small business or know someone who owns a small business and is deeply concerned about the implications of this bill? I do and my friend won't be able to hire people anymore because of these expenses. I predict you will see a lot more employees getting 1099's and getting contractor status. The employee/employer relationship has become strained and unmanageable.
The pools referred to in the excerpt below will be formed in 2014 so that small businesses can buy into them. the rate savings are nearly insignificant, and insurers are allowed to raise prices as much as they feel necessary between now and 2014 (in a way this makes sense, who knows where costs will be).
The pools will probably only slightly shrink your insurance costs: The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office predicts small-group premiums will fall by 1 to 4 percent thanks to the exchanges. (Unfortunately, the premiums may rise considerably before they fall. Health care insurance consultant Robert Laszewski told the Wall Street Journal that plans will want to make as much money as possible before the wide-sweeping reforms take effect in 2014.)
The article goes on to describe all the breaking points, tax credits, fine potential, etc. At the very least, it is complicated.
Anyone else concerned about this bill or does it all make sense now?
Once the rah rah sisboombah dies down and progressives get to know the actual legislation, I think you'll hear a lot of changing tunes. But I doubt if very many "progressives" will have the integrity to publicly recant their Jane Hamsher smears.
Obamacare or whatever you want to call it is nearly identical to the healthcare legislation proposed by the Heritage Foundation back in 1994 in response to "Hilarycare." Ironically, Republicans have been forced to keep quiet on the plan even though they wrote it. And, as if that wasn't enough irony, "progressives" have "Frumed" people like Hamsher for failing to climb aboard the cheerleading bandwagon.
So, although Boortz is a knob, he's kind of right that the health industry welfare package is bad for small business.
Between now and 2014 when the exchanges are active, small businesses aren't required to provide insurance. If they do, they can provide the high-deductible FSA accounts so popular as cost controllers. Assuming they cover employees, they get a direct tax credit of 35% this year. Immediately. How does that NOT drive costs down?
Something else I don't understand about the bill. Who is going to buy private insurance as an individual under this new plan?
If employers are required to provide it, is it just individuals that have jobs but their employers are smaller than 25 employees? because if you are poor, the insurance is provided for you by state and national welfare.
At what point is the employee responsible, and at what point does their employer become responsible?
Companies with more than 50 employees that don't offer coverage would be fined up to $750 per worker if any employees rely on government subsidies to buy coverage. The compromise bill the Senate will consider this week will hike the fine to $2,000 per full-time employee. The first 30 workers are excluded, but two part-time employees will count as one full-time one for purposes of penalty calculation.
Not everyone works for another company.
Some of us are self-employed.
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I understand that. Another friend of mine is self-employed and he had to find 30 other self employed individuals near him and start his own insurance pool. Not sure how this bill will affect what he had to set up. No insurer would sell him a private policy.
There are too many cut offs and unique situations with this plan. It is becoming like the tax code and the senior drug plan: it is designed to confuse the consumer so the best choice is not always clear, and many get steered to the more profitable choices.
Remember, this is a private insurance plan where they will offer a mix of products, with a high margin on some and a low margin on others.
The closer you look at how this bill will be applied, the more of a nightmare it becomes.
And more people will be buying them. By 2017, that insurance exchange can open up to cover employees of large businesses too. The sooner health insurance is unbundled from employment, the better. It's been the hammer over employees' heads for over 10 years, keeping salaries down and health insurers fat.
I like it - excellent word coinage!
I'll use it!
.. thanks!
When will government of the people, by the politicians, for the corporations perish from this Earth?
Not soon enough!
But someone else came up with it first. :) http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?ter...
As I noted on TP yesterday...
Not only is firing someone because of whom they voted for illegal, but ADVISING people to commit a crime is ALSO ILLEGAL. It's called "criminal solicitation".
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of police departments. Then it's called, "Congratulations, here's your new identity and home, Mr. Smith."
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
I had to look him up on google. Here's hoping I'll forget soon.
me-oww!
as well. ;)
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Gee, if they can discriminate against Democrats, does that mean I can discriminate against cracker trash?
America is a nation of 'white folks' that was settled by and for 'white folks' . So for right wingwrs, you can discriminate against anyone ECCEPT 'white folks'. (Unless they voted for Obama)
these people. This whole "fire Obama voters from their jobs and have doctors refuse to treat them" garbage reminds me of the "No n______, Mexicans, or dogs" signs of the not so distant past. And it's unacceptable.
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
but unfortunately we elected an academic.... not a fighter.
trust me. Obama isnt going to do anything for civil rights, he's too busy playing it safe.
just look at how little he has done for the gay community (who supported him in droves).
as of this writing i believe we elected another clinton.
I am glad we have an intelligent president again, but we desperately need a fighter right now.
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
He is the one Democrat that is unapologetic about smacking down Republicans
He's the Chief Executive, not the Chief Legislator. Though the last several POTUSes would have you believe that the Constitution allows rule by executive decree, this just ain't so.
If you want change, call your Senators and Representatives. If they're on board with you, pressure those who aren't. I've mentioned it here a handful of times in the past, but if you want to ensure the civil rights of the GLBT community, organize sit-ins at the Mormon Tabernacle and Catholic Cathedrals. Fill up the jails until you shut down the system in states and/or Congressional districts represented by those who stand between you and your rights. It worked for SNCC in the '60s. I see no reason why these methods can't succeed again.
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
Last I checked, the DOW was about to break 11,000 again, after sinking to 6,500 thirteen months ago as the economy shook off the last of the Bush economy (Rush proclaimed it "The Obama Recession").
Jobs are on the rise again too. If Obama were a Republican, they'd be singing his praises in the streets!
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false signals Mugsy
30,000,000 Americans unemployed, the size of Canada's population
(notice it takes Al Jezeera and The Real News to put America's situation in perspective)
The Dow has risen above 11,000 on very thin volume. the market is anything but healthy and financial reform is a bust.
I wasn't claiming the economy is either healthy nor in good shape, but you must admit my conclusion is spot on.
* There are two types of Republicans: millionaires and suckers.
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Most right wing Republicans are typical bullies- at their heart, they are absolute cowards-stand eye to with them and not back down, 9 times out of 10 they will sculk away with their tails tucked between their legs. They may talk alot of smack and threaten people, but in most instances, they lack the backbone to carry out their threats. Rule of the schoolyard, the way to handle a bully is not to turn the other cheek, but rather beat the crap out of them...
Democrats need to be more like Alan Grayson, and call these Republicans for what they are, and not apologize for it- Republicans are crybabies- they are out of power, and are throwing temper tantrums like children...
If the Republicans put up radical right wingers to run in '12- They will lose again- just imagine how they will come apart at the seams, if Obama or Hillary Clinton is elected in '12!
I hope Palin runs in 2012, and i hope the right cites beck as their spiritual leader. They will marginalize themselves.
..if someone said those who voted Republican should lose their jobs since they seem determined to make sure no one has a job?
too many people don't realize Conservatism promotes the Friedman/Norquist model of unfettered Capitalism. We've seen the result before in the Guilded Age. Upton Sinclair may have been preachy but he had some valid points. If Republicans/pure Capitalists had their way, we - the proletariat - would all be working for scrit in company coal towns.
Make no mistake. Republicans want every working-class citizen to have a job. But they want those jobs to pay as little as possible. Joe Lyles said it best: Conservatives use poverty as a weapon.
It's one of the reasons so may Conservatives hated LBJ's legacy. His war on poverty spoiled their economic model. Rush and others claim it didn't work but if you go to the Census Bureau and other sites and look at the numbers, the program clearly improved the quality of life for millions of Americans
..it's slavery...and that's the real bottom line.
Coporate slavery.
Pro wage-slave: "The Party of Lincoln" indeed.
* There are two types of Republicans: millionaires and suckers.
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Having worked a lot of different occupations in my life one thing was constant. And that's that those of right wing ideology are MUCH less productive workers. When they bother to work at all.
Of course, the obvious question is how would anyone know if an employee voted for Obama? They could be a recent convert, or a supporter with no voter registration at all.
Wanna get rid of that jackhole in accounting that keeps stealing your parking space? Put an Obama sticker on his car and report him to your boss.
* There are two types of Republicans: millionaires and suckers.
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Kneel Boortz talks the big talk, bangs the war drums, flys the flags, but when it came time to serve his country during the Viet-Nam War where was he?
Lying to the Selective Service about his status a student in ROTC at Texas A&M! After quitting school and ROTC in Dec 65, Boortz never notified the Selective Service about a change in his status ( as required by federal Law) knowing darn well that if you were out of school in '66 your arse is going "across the big pond!" Quitting college for good as a junior,(he never graduated)in late May of '68 he continued to carry his ROTC deferment until Feb of 68! Then all of a sudden he remembered to notify the draft board he had a new baby.No proof of a birth certificate has ever been offered as proof though!This new child protected him till he was 26 with being drafted!
Now inquiring minds have found out that Boortz,as you read this post is registered to vote in two different states, claiming each one as his home residence!I wonder what his excuse will be Monday,when his listeners will want to know why he abandoned Atlanta and Georgia as his legal residence for a legal residence in another city and state?
See in the small world of "Kneel" it's ok to vote in more than one state cause he's got a airplane,a condo,a motor-cicle and he's rich to boot!
One more note;
On his new voters registration card in the "other state' he"s listed his party affliation as a "REP" or Republican, not a Libertarian as he claims on-air 5 day's a week! What a world-class phoney!
Call his show Monday and ask him, I'm sure he'll have an answer for you!
Isn't that the type of thing that all good republicans do?
republicanism/conservatism is a mental illness!
The GOP is full of chickenhawk draft dodgers. . . Bush, Cheney, Rove, Gingrich, Limbaugh et al. They found all kinds clever ways to avoid being sent to Vietnam.
...how many of these Republican clowns never finished college and never served in the military even though some of them were of the right age to serve in Vietnam?
Never trust anyone who insists that patriotism requires you to blindfold yourself with the flag.
Why don't these F'ers just come out of the closet and admit what they are , Nazis , their methodology and mind set is the same , given complete control and power again these lunatics are capable of the same evil . Americans ? Patriots ? They are anything but!
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
They are not Americans.
republicanism/conservatism is a mental illness! They have killed the economy and millions of people in and out of America.
You know what you call 40 million republicans at the bottom of the ocean? A new and better day for America!
To say I am not a patriot shows your ignorance by classifying all people into one group. I proudly served my country and have a great deal of passion for Her as I am sure each of you do. We stand on opposite sides of the political spectrum and that is fine. Name calling is not becoming. Why not stand up and show facts for your side? I posted a few comments here already with facts from the Constitution and from the US Legal department. Not one person can dispute my view.
To "Project":who owns your job? Do you? Does the government own your job? No. The business owner owns your job. They are the one who signs your paycheck. Why is it the responsibility of someone else such as the government to come in and tell that business owner what he/she must do?
To anyone: where in our US Constitution does it state it is the governments responsibility to take care of everyone's individual health? Healthcare is NOT a Right granted to us...UNTIL NOW.
my bosses have been wondering this aloud in the office for the last month.
our best defense against this crap is to stop buying their products, disconnect cable, go over your insurance policy with a fine tooth comb (delete/remove all extra coverages), in a sense...."stop being a consumer".
this is obamas fatal error.... he keeps trying to court the business class that has minions to dismantle anything he tries to do in office.
There's something to be said for going John Galt. Taking your consumerism, taking your skills, taking your know-how, and just checking out.
Laughable.
Yes, this insane unamerican bullshit is making the rounds. Republidiots are sending something like this via email, spamming people, talking about companies laying off only people with OBAMA bumper stickers in their company parking lots.
Republicans *hate* us for our American values. They're Christian theofascist piles of racist shit who hate everything our country stands for.
republicans get what they deserve. It won't be pretty with all the lies and bullshit these filthy scum have spread around for so many years now. I hope I live long enough to see them get it.
republicanism/conservatism is a mental illness!
I just love it when a business declares it's political preferences. I have a growing list of local business supporters of Republicans and worse yet, Tea Baggers. I say, "Thanks for letting me know you prefer Repugs only as customers!"
Is this the guy Hannity calls a great American? And the same guy that calls Katrina victims parasites? Another compassionate conservative.
pennlady
"a great American" would leave this country, perhaps America could return to greatness.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
TALKMASTER????? Are you kidding me?
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Where were these ass clowns when "W" was wrecking our Nation?
...they were (metaphorically speaking) standing on the sidelines waving their pompoms and cheering "B-U-S-H! Yaaaaaaaaay, Bush!"
Never trust anyone who insists that patriotism requires you to blindfold yourself with the flag.
Doesn't surprise me in the least. These SOB's are out to divide this country, country be damned. It's all about the reich wing taking vengence and screwing this country up beyond belief.
Maybe it's time to retaliate with his mental thinking...we'll have progressive businesses let the reich wingers go first, because they are the ones that screwed this country up so bad to begin with.
It's just bull shit from the lunacy club.
It's domestic intimidation. Very similar to terrorism except the bombs are implied as opposed to real, in most cases that is. The American
TalibanWing-Nut Baggers are stupid. Is this a universal right wing constant? Are the Theocrats in Asia stupid too? That would make sense if true."Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
The fascists are pulling away the curtain. They are getting off on it. Ask Glenn Beck. H's addicted to it. The hate. The lashing out. Mmm... When you're in a corner there's not a lot you can do to "keep going" so you revert to the dark side.
Now that they have revealed their true nature "i don't give a rip about politics" they have nothing left to loose. Look out because just like the fugitive in a car chase, they will never stop now, come hell or high water.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
...a second Civil War? There is no longer any such thing as the "loyal opposition." It's just the opposition and they are working as hard to wreck this country, and more effectively, than most of our so-called real enemies.
That's what they want, but i think TV is distorting their numbers for them. TV news loves a good fight and "doesn't give a rip" about politics. Corporate TV people get paid to do what Corporate TV loves.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
...instead of simply calling for people to deny Obama voters a livelihood by firing them and refusing to hire them, why not tell people to deny them housing as well? Why not simply say that Obama voters should be rounded up and shipped off to camps so that they can no longer present any threat to "real Americans"? For that matter, what the hell...why not go for broke? Why not simply climb on your buddy Glenn's bandwagon and claim that Obama voters are an insidious disease in this country which needs to be eliminated?
I've said it before, but I think it bears repeating...if you removed the last two letters from Boortz's surname, it would describe him to perfection (BOOR).
Never trust anyone who insists that patriotism requires you to blindfold yourself with the flag.
What capitalist pigs such as Neal Boortz fail to understand is that they do NOT "provide a livelihood" to the workers. It's the other way around: the WORKERS are the ONLY people who CREATE WEALTH, therefore it is the WORKERS who provide capitalist pigs with their livelihood.
The law allows capitalist pigs to STEAL wealth from the workers. The pigs are parasites on the backs of the workers. I say we change the law and FIRE the pigs and allow the workers to own and run the businesses and share with one another the wealth they create instead of with welfare queens such as Neal Boortz.
Maybe all the nurses should stop treating their republican patients?
Or maybe teachers should stop educating republican children?
Or maybe all the democrats working in fire departments should resign or only fight fires of democrats houses and businesses. Or maybe policemen who might be democrat don't arrest democrats, but only republicans?
How stupid.
Thank your wife as we have a shortage of nurses in this country. However, I will challenge this thought. Where in the healthcare bill does it add new doctors for the 30 million plus people they are adding to the healthcare system? If as it states in the law they are reducing the amount of money a primary care physician can receive, why would a Doctor stay in business?
ON the same subject, Boortz never stated you should layoff people, he said "IF" Obama is hurting your business, why not layoff an Obama supporter.
Just to add some extra fuel to the fire regarding his comment regarding firing Obama supporters.
First, this was a tactic used in Bosnia-Herzegovina before the genocidal war started. State-controlled firms (it was a socialist economy) headed by one ethnic-religious member fired members of different ethnic-religious groups. So, an Orthodox Serb would fire Croatian Catholic and Bosniac Muslim workers. That turned out really well. Not only was there economic misery, but the nationalists managed to turn worker solidarity into an ethnic conflict for jobs.
But, this is the same Neal Boortz who is an outright bigot against Hispanics. According to Latinos Against Hate Speech Boortz said this about undocumented immigrants:
"Give 'em all a little nuclear waste and let 'em take it on down there to Mexico. Tell 'em it'll heat tortillas."
Or, Boortz on Mexicans importing the swine flu virus into the USA:
"[W]hat better way to sneak a virus into this country than give it to Mexicans? Right? I mean, one out of every 10 people born in Mexico is already living up here, and the rest are trying to get here. So you give -- you give -- you let this virus just spread in Mexico, where they don't have a CDC." Boortz went on to say: "So if you want to get that epidemic into this country, get it going real good and hot south of the border. And, you know, then just spread a rumor that there's construction jobs available somewhere, and here it comes. Because we're not gonna do anything to stop them from coming across the border."
Or, Boortz on Obama: "Let's ask how many prayer rugs he has."
Or Boortz on the middle class, working class, and the poor regarding census questions: "The rest of the information...is designed to help the government steal from you in order to pass off your property to the moochers. They're looters."
Boortz is an Ayn Rand libertarian, a bigot, and one through his hate speech encourages others to commit violence.
I am a Big Obama supporter. Constantly got nasty Obama emails from my republiturd bosses. Also had to put up with constant misinformation spread by office Foxbots almost daily. I complained, my job was "eliminated" even though another employee had less experience and years of service but was a big Sarah Palin fan.
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