My prayer for Rupert Murdoch: Let him be bankrupt and unemployed before he burns in hell
Now the administration wants to kill the 2003 income-tax cuts, at least the parts that reduced marginal income tax rates for high-income earners and for all recipients of dividend income. This proposal is particularly disturbing because the 2003 law was George W. Bush's main economic achievement; unlike most of Mr. Bush's policies, this one was well-conceived and effective.
Oh, boo hoo. As a corollary to my "screw you" to Barro, another middle finger for that. But wait, we haven't gotten to the best part yet:
The unemployment-insurance program involves a balance between compassion—providing for persons temporarily without work—and efficiency. The loss in efficiency results partly because the program subsidizes unemployment, causing insufficient job-search, job-acceptance and levels of employment. A further inefficiency concerns the distortions from the increases in taxes required to pay for the program.
Once again, we have a hack Hooverite writer for a Murdoch publication (who is employed and making entirely too much if he makes more than a buck) not looking at the more complex picture of why unemployment is what it is. No, that would be too much work for Barro. Instead, he blames the people who lost their jobs for not hunting hard enough, not bearing down and taking that McDonald's gig down the street. Because if they were all working at McDonald's or Wal-Mart, we wouldn't have this stubborn unemployment rate.
By God, Republicans will make them work. Republicans wouldn't let them live off the dole this way. Republicans would take the tax cuts and fly the bird at the middle class, but those bastards would work.
Not content with that indictment, he then goes on to say that the midterm challenge Democrats face is a direct result of extending unemployment benefits! Just imagine how things could be if Mr. and Mrs. Unemployed were slinging hash or Chinese merchandise for the corporate benefit of all those CEOs.
Let's not ask the tough questions about why trillions remain in reserve at those large corporations. Let's not ask the tough questions about why foreclosures are up, commercial real estate is a dead market, and new houses aren't being built. Let's not ask the tough questions about how it feels to sleep at night without any clue as to where the children of 99ers will get their next meal or how long it will be before they lose their house. Let's not ask the questions about why workers over age 50, workers of color, and other qualified workers are routinely passed over for their job search.
Why ask those questions when there are legions of unemployed to blame? So here's my wish for Rupert Murdoch, and it's not all that my heart wishes for him, but some things shouldn't be said aloud. I want him to walk in the shoes of the unemployed for 100 weeks, but with only 26 weeks of unemployment insurance. I want him to have no way to pay for food, and for him to be passed over for every job applied for, day after day after painful day. I want him to lose his car, his home, and his dignity. I want him to sit in a bureaucrat's office and apply for emergency food stamps, aid for the children, Medicaid benefits and place himself at the mercy of others, who may or may not be merciful.
I want him to rot from the inside out from the constant anxiety of having to wonder if he will ever reach the age where he can claim Social Security benefits -- benefits HE paid for. I want him to lie awake at night wondering where he can go to collect aluminum cans and glass bottles to turn in for the recycling money so he can bring home groceries that night.
I want him completely humbled and humiliated, to be prostrate before the government agencies he so sneeringly dismisses, to know what it is like to have nothing, not to be able to rely on anyone, and when he is so low there isn't a lower place to go besides hell, I want to lean over and whisper in his ear, "This is all your doing. You, and you alone, are responsible for it."
And then I want him to rot in the hell he made for himself for all eternity, while his remains are picked apart by conservative vultures.
Update: Fox News couldn't wait to jump on the bandwagon this morning, too:
Let him know what it feels like to be the people he screws over on a daily basis!
but definitely, a good start.
me-oww!
http://vimeo.com/10179241
How's this?
"Blessed art thou, O God, for not making me a Gentile, a slave, or a woman,"
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Like Limbaugh, this wretched decrepit stack of roach shit knows that he will die bitter and unloved, so nasty old Rup uses his power and money to make sure that as many as possible will also feel his terminal unhappiness.
Germany allows companies to move workers to part-time during recession and the government pays the difference between their fulltime wages and their parttime wages, resulting in continued consumer spending and no reduction in the workforce.
Unemployment in Germany lowers for the 14th month in a row.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fI1KYpKK030
In Greece austerity measures have been forced on the Greek government to pay down the debt - just like some American CongressPeople and CatFood Commission members think we should do here. These austerity measures have crippled the Greek consumer economy.
Greek officials warn thousands of small businesses are at risk of closing leading to a rise in unemployment.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89c6qr3pyBA
When will government of the people, by the politicians, for the corporations perish from this Earth?
Not soon enough!
I want to emigrate to Germany.
Wohin iste euer papiere?
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And not one European I know would switch systems with the US. The Europeans in general and in specific my area don't like their tax burden, but by God they wouldn't give up knowing they can get medical care when they need it. Ysb, when you do that AZ papers joke, that really should be applied to when you go for medical care in America. Like Dog the Bounty Hunter once observed about universal health care in Hawaii, the first question should be "Please state the nature of the medical emergency" instead of the demand "Whip out your wallet and show me your insurance card and maybe, just maybe we'll treat you."
Men are basically smart or dumb and lazy or ambitious. The dumb and ambitious ones are dangerous and I get rid of them. The dumb and lazy ones I give mundane duties. The smart ambitious ones I put on my staff. The smart and lazy ones I make my commanders.
I've noticed the comments section of the Wall St. Journal is getting more and more like the comments on Yahoo. Can't wait for their market analysis to become as accurate as Fox news.
I'm a reincarnationist
So may he come back as a salamander...
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insult amphibians when you wish they are reincarnated as Rupert Murdoch.
Personally, I would rather he came back like the guy in Metamophasis (as a cockroach).
Gregor Samsa. With the apple his mom threw, stuck in his back.
me-oww!
http://www.dragonorama.com/creatures/salamand...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw_zUUE4BE0
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Fourth Circle (Avarice and Prodigality)
"… I saw multitudes
to every side of me; their howls were loud
while, wheeling weights, they used their chests to push.
They struck against each other; at that point,
each turned around and, wheeling back those weights,
cried out: Why do you hoard? Why do you squander?' "[17]
Eighth Circle (Fraud [Malebolge])
* Bolgia 1: Panderers (pimps) and seducers march in separate lines in opposite directions, whipped by demons (Dante makes reference here to a recent traffic rule developed for the Jubilee year of 1300 in Rome: keep to the right[35]). Just as the panderers and seducers used the passions of others to drive them to do their bidding, they are themselves driven by demons to march for all eternity.[35] In the group of panderers, the poets notice Venedico Caccianemico, who sold his own sister to the Marchese d'Este. In the group of seducers, Virgil points out Jason, who gained the help of Medea by seducing and marrying her, only to later desert her for Creusa.[35] Jason also seduced Hypsipyle, but "abandoned her, alone and pregnant"[36] (Canto XVIII).
* Bolgia 2: Flatterers also exploited other people, this time using language. They are steeped in human excrement, which represents the words they produced.[35] Dorothy Sayers, who worked in the advertising industry, comments "Dante did not live to see the full development of political propaganda, commercial advertisement, and sensational journalism, but he has prepared a place for them"[35] (Canto XVIII).
* Bolgia 3: Dante now forcefully expresses[37] his condemnation of those who committed simony. These are placed head-first in holes in the rock (resembling baptismal fonts), with flames burning on the soles of their feet. One of the simoniacs, Pope Nicholas III, denounces two of his successors, Pope Boniface VIII and Pope Clement V, for the same offence. The simile of baptismal fonts gives Dante an incidental opportunity to clear his name of an accusation of malicious damage to the font in the church of San Giovanni dei Fiorentini[38] (Canto XIX).
* Bolgia 4: Sorcerers, astrologers, and false prophets here have their heads twisted around on their bodies backward, so that they "found it necessary to walk backward, / because they could not see ahead of them."[39] While referring primarily to attempts to see into the future by forbidden means, this also symbolises the twisted nature of magic in general.[40] In this Bolgia, Dante sees Amphiaraus, Tiresias, Michael Scot, and Guido Bonatti, among others (Canto XX).
* Bolgia 5: Corrupt politicians (barrators) are immersed in a lake of boiling pitch, which represents the sticky fingers and dark secrets of their corrupt deals.[41] The barrators are the political analogue of the simoniacs, and Dante devotes several cantos to them. They are guarded by devils called the Malebranche ("Evil Claws"), who provide some savage and satirical black comedy. The leader of the Malebranche, Malacoda ("Evil Tail"), assigns a troop to escort Virgil and Dante safely to the next bridge. The troop hook and torment one of the sinners (identified by early commentators as Ciampolo), who names some Italian grafters and then tricks the Malebranche in order to escape back into the pitch. The promise of safe conduct the poets have received from the demons turns out to have limited value (and there is no "next bridge"[42]), so that the poets are forced to scramble down into the sixth Bolgia (Cantos XXI through XXIII).
* Bolgia 6: In the sixth Bolgia, the poets find the hypocrites listlessly walking along wearing gilded lead cloaks, which represent the falsity behind the surface appearance of their actions – falsity that weighs them down and makes spiritual progress impossible for them.[42] Dante speaks with Catalano and Loderingo, two members of the Jovial Friars, an order which had acquired a reputation for not living up to its vows,[42] and which was eventually suppressed by Pope Sixtus V. Caiaphas, the high priest responsible for ordering Jesus crucified, is also seen here, crucified to the ground and trampled (Canto XXIII).
* Bolgia 7: Two cantos are devoted to the thieves, who are guarded by the centaur Cacus, who has a fire-breathing dragon on his shoulders (in Roman mythology, Cacus was not a centaur, but a fire-breathing monster slain by Heracles). The thieves are pursued and bitten by snakes and lizards. The full horror of the thieves' punishment is revealed gradually: just as they stole other people's substance in life, their very identity becomes subject to theft here,[43] and the snake bites make them undergo various transformations. Vanni Fucci is turned to ashes and resurrected; Agnello is blended with the six-legged reptile that is Cianfa; and Buoso exchanges shapes with the four-legged Francesco: "The soul that had become an animal, / now hissing, hurried off along the valley; / the other one, behind him, speaks and spits."[44] (Cantos XXIV and XXV).
* Bolgia 8: Two further cantos are devoted to the fraudulent advisers or evil councillors, who are concealed within individual flames. These are not people who gave false advice, but people who used their position to advise others to engage in fraud.[45] Ulysses and Diomedes are condemned here for the deception of the Trojan Horse. Ulysses also tells the tale of his fatal final voyage (an invention of Dante's), where he left his home and family to sail to the end of the Earth, only to have his ship founder near Mount Purgatory. Guido da Montefeltro recounts how he advised Pope Boniface VIII to capture the fortress of Palestrina, by offering the Colonna family inside it a false amnesty, and then razing it to the ground after they surrendered. Guido became a Franciscan in 1296, and died two years later. Guido describes St. Francis as coming to take his soul to Heaven, only to have a demon assert prior claim. Although Boniface had absolved Guido in advance for his evil advice, Dante points out the invalidity of that, since absolution requires contrition, and a man cannot be contrite for a sin at the same time that he is intending to commit it[46] (Cantos XXVI and XXVII).
* Bolgia 9: In the ninth Bolgia, a sword-wielding demon hacks at the sowers of discord, dividing parts of their bodies as in life they divided others.[47] As they make their rounds the wounds heal, only to have the demon tear apart their bodies again. Dante encounters Muhammad, who tells him to warn the schismatic and heretic Fra Dolcino. Dante describes Muhammad as a schismatic,[47][48] apparently viewing Islam as an off-shoot from Christianity, and similarly Dante seems to condemn Ali for schism between Sunni and Shiite (for more on Dante's relationship to Islam, see the relevant section of the main article). In this Bolgia, Dante also encounters Bertran de Born, who carries around his severed head like a lantern, as a punishment for (Dante believes) fomenting the rebellion of Henry the Young King against his father Henry II (Cantos XXVIII and XXIX).
* Bolgia 10: In the final Bolgia, various sorts of falsifiers (alchemists, counterfeiters, perjurers, and impersonators), who are a "disease" on society, are themselves afflicted with different types of diseases.[49] Potiphar's wife is briefly mentioned here for her false accusation of Joseph, as is Sinon, the Greek spy who tricked the Trojans into taking the Trojan Horse into their city (Sinon is here, rather than in Bolgia 8, because his advice was false as well as evil). In the notes on her translation, Sayers remarks that the descent through Malebolge "began with the sale of the sexual relationship, and went on to the sale of Church and State; now, the very money is itself corrupted, every affirmation has become perjury, and every identity a lie;"[49] so that every aspect of social interaction has been progressively destroyed (Cantos XXIX and XXX).
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Exactly what I needed. Thank you.
Where do they dig up these imbecilic, silver-wingnut-welfare-spoon-fed, jackasses? Mr. Barro, a word directly from the depths of my heart: take your sorry ass to McD's and turn some fries to get your vaunted unemployment rate down, pinche puto culero.
in China. Then you'll see jobs return. Especially with complete deregulation so there are no safety standards for either labor or the products made.
Bingo.
Today's winner.
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
Being unemployed sucks though.
Edit. To not have work is like to be the pariah of the society, the New World Order requires everyone to be slaves of the system.
Crappe...
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"......rotting from the inside out"
Too late on that one. Looks like the rotting is nearly complete.
Yup , I am afraid you are right . This evidently being the best that Obama , the Obama administration and the Democrats can do ... we are very very screwed.
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
More than Murdoch and Fox , more than the Republicans , more than the step on a rake Democrats , 90 % of them nothing but self serving cowards and wimps , and more than the RepubliDems / Blue dogs , put the blame where it belongs , blame the American people , the electorate , at least half being the most ignorant , dumbest and or the "sickest " people on planet earth , they are absolutely "defenseless" mentally , totally unarmed . I do believe that we are doomed , SOL .
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
"The best case against democracy, can be obtained through a five minute conversation with the average voter."
----------Winston Churchill
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
If tax cuts are supposed to create jobs where are all the jobs? The GOP claims to end the cuts to the wealthiest will be a job killer.
Tax cuts that went to the wealthiest 5% did nothing, NOTHING, to create jobs. Isn't that clear by now? Jesus, since the W tax cuts jobs have fled the country in un precedented numbers.
Tax cuts to the lowest 50% would have created jobs, stimulated investment and benefited the economy tremendously but the brain damaged idiotic GOP insist on extending the cuts that did NOTHING to create jobs but only went into the bank accounts of the rich for speculation.
Tax cuts that went to the wealthiest 5% did nothing, NOTHING, to create jobs. Isn't that clear by now? Jesus, since the W tax cuts jobs have fled the country in un unprecedented numbers.
Clear to everyone except half the American people.
I think I see my underemployed wing-nut neighbors sitting outside with Styrofoam cups in hand.
They are still waiting for Ronnie "rotten brains" trickle down.
It's coming, it really is. Just like the Easter bunny and the great pumpkin.
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
German for fussy douschebag.
I'm 100% with you on this ... Cluster-Fox has become a 100% all the time - all screaming - all dimwitted - propaganda outlet... EVERY THING THEY LET GO ON THE AIR IS A LIE. WORLDWIDE..
Hello FCC... Got any balls left??
Hoover. Says it all, doesn't it?
That's the point when I stopped reading this article.
It seems to be embedded in everyones mind that hoover was the problem back then, except he wasn't. However, that never stops people with no idea of history, from bringing that up over and over and over again.
I like to use it as a litmus test to see if the person actually knows what they are talking about, or are just repeating what they heard from an echo chamber that is devoid of thought.
Hoover wasn't the cause of the depression, any more than Obama was born outside the US. Funny how those lies still get spread around though.
Everyone knows the Crash of '29 happened under Calvin Coolidge, but Hoover's problem was predicting that the good times were just around the corner, that the market could repair itself.
The market is an abstraction, it cannot repair itself. But we hear the same argument today as regards to the Great Recession of 2008. Some intervention is necessitous.
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Was to the institution, not the president. I'm aware that Hoover wasn't responsible for the Great Depression, but his policies exacerbated and accelerated it, and he didn't stop after losing to FDR. He kept the drumbeat loud and high in a Cheney-esque fashion long after he left the presidency.
Hoover and Cato "think-tanks" are the ones conservatives are always quoting
But when do we get to hear from the Green Hornet?
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we'll get from the Bush Institute in the future.
when there is high inflation. When there is low inflation it just move money from spending (fast money) to savings (slow money). Fast money turns over and creates economical activity. Slow money does not turn over so it does not create any economical activity. Of course some would say that it lowers the interest rate and thats good. That would be true up to the moment the economy hiccups and nobody is lending. Tax cuts right now is the wrong cure for the wrong disease. They just don't understand economics. What should be done is to raise the top tax rates to between 70% and 90% and to spend the money collected. This would convert slow money back into fast money and growth the economy.
The thing that is never mentioned about all these so-called unemployment deadbeats is that they must pay taxes on their benefit checks. After taxes are taken out, either at the time the check is given, or when people file their tax returns for the previous year. Thank you Ronnie Raygun. That doesn't leave very much for people to live on either way. Ask me how I know.
He already lost half a billion to his monopoly, with Avatar being his only real hit for the last year. And people are already getting bored with it, so I guess it's only a matter of time at this point.
Uh, no. The administration (hopefully) just wants to let the tax cuts expire. A subtle, but significant difference that is apparently too difficult to comprehend for these soulless ghouls.
The republicans are so psychotic and anti-American, I think they are gonna be in for a big surprise on election day.
Just like 1998 and 2000!
If they didn't own a 24/7 propaganda monopoly on 90% of the airwaves, they would be toast.
I still think the re-instatement of Fairness Doctrine is the key to everything else.
Once their Orwellean lie machine is "outed," they got nothin'. And I mean absolutely nothin".
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
Speaking of Avatars:
http://sreeraj.sulekha.com/albums/allphotos/s...
http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction...
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Remember the first rule of conservatives:projection (they lie)
Corporate pension funds earnings assumptions http://bit.ly/cl8BiP Cut by 2%-3%, and cash-heavy corporate balance sheets don't look so good
Their books are as phony as everything else about them.
Don't forget mark to myth.
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that was some wicked shit. i would be happy to have these rich assholes boil in oil for a while, or maybe a combo of oil and corexit, but your ideas of slow death are better than mine.
Sounds like a real coming-of-age story, Karoli.
; )
an Aussie (no offense to Aussies) and that its second largest shareholder is a Saudi prince. Fox does not have this country's best interest at heart. It's CEO is a political operative, always has been, always will be.
other souless endeavors with a saying from my youth. "Eat shi. and die !" I wish i knew where the saying originated. I also hope that the WSJ follows other papers into obscurity with its conservative lies and drivel. I know this would give the old jerk heartburn.
I curse the day Louis XIV & the Catholics forced us to leave warm, sunny France.
crumble when people started to realize that the "news" that his papers
were publishing was crap-can we do the same again today?? I have some
Republican acquantinces who won't watch FN anymore. How do we effectively
attack this?
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