Rep. Nan Hayworth (R-NY) Dodges Questions About Verizon Strike and Free Trade Agreements
Janette Spoor, a Communications Workers of America activist, asked Congresswoman Nan Hayworth (R-NY) what she will do to help American workers whose jobs are being sent overseas. Rather than answering the question, Hayworth goes on an unrelated rant on American exceptionalism and how the United States has offered more opportunity to its citizens than any other country. She argued that this is true because the government stayed out of the "free" market.
The audience wasn't happy with the answer and pressed her to answer the question. One man pointed out that the greatest growth in American history came when Franklin Roosevelt was president and government was more involved.
Hayworth continued to spout her Tea Party-free market rhetoric, but the audience wasn't having it. She was called out for her support for various free trade acts and her refusal to vote to close tax loopholes that benefit companies that outsource jobs. The same man then blasted her "You are the problem, not the answer," and "Ma'am, you are not the teacher here, you are a congresswoman."
When she was asked about the outsourcing of jobs by Verizon and the subsequent strike, Hayworth refused to discuss the topic: "I am not talking about Verizon right now...This is not the Verizon meeting."
She continued by saying that the solution to jobs was taxes that are more "free" and flat.
Exceptionally unrepresented by the people elected to office. Oh, that's right, it's the corporat people they represent...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
"public servant" thinking that we are their employee's and not the other way around.
Keep the pressure on!
One of them should have mentioned free trade means we have to earn 25 cents an hour to compete.
So many others have no income at all... /s
I swear that people in this country need to start committing crimes so they can fill the jails. At least they'll have a roof and something to eat.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
#;-o
"No one ever said these people were logically consistent."
- watchdog -
That, and baloney sandwiches.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
about the color of said sausage. I should think that a number of jokes would be writing themselves on the theme.
"No one ever said these people were logically consistent."
- watchdog -
for Open Thread with "add a caption". I suppose they still could.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
or an appendage from Big Butter Jesus post lightning strike?
(For those who already forgot BBJ....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Mf2u9VWAhM
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
;)
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Should we presume that they were without pits?
'Talk to the hand'
The immaculate extraction, perhaps?
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Did she get fries with her horse cock value meal?
She must have been famished because she ordered the clydsdale extra value meal.
Unk, unk there miss corn dog princess.
No, no, you're doing it all wrong.....let Marcus show you how to woof down a big'un.
Miss Manners says use a firm grip with both hands and roll your eyes upward....just as the high class porn stars do.
Year 2135, Scientist say they found photographic evidence of the beginning of Chlymidia infectious epidemic in corn dogs. Source was obscure early 21st century political hack that caused entire corn dog industry into extinction. Hundreds saved.
She uses the same technique for milking bulls.
L.I.T. (Lobbyist In Training).
'Talk to the hand'
unfamiliarity...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
He has such delicate hands.....
'Talk to the hand'
their family history ("got off the boat in Ohio") before shoving their shit down the throat of the constituent asking the question? I'm sure these people without jobs have family history too. Doesn't make a damn bit of difference when the companies who operate in your jurisdiction, with the help of your Party's policies, outsource those jobs to your benefit.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
They want their audience to live in a mythical past so they won't see the shit sandwich that they are going to get.
Ignorance and denial. Smooth prepared talking points. Corporate shills.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
all attend. If so, can someone cut their broadband please?
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
How to be "competitive".
Slash taxes.
Outlaw Unions
Lower wages to 75 cents an hour.
Bring back the Feudal System.
"To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And,
at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between,
plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big "thing."
This is truth, to me. "
-Jack Handy
I am happy that there were members of the audience who were smart enough to reject the bullshit that Rep. Hayworth was spewing. This shows that not everyone is buying what the Tea-nuts and the far right-wingers are selling.
Nan Hayworth was asked pertinent questions about outsourcing of American jobs and her support of free trade, and her response was to dodge and attempt to change the subject. What an idiot!
I wish to commend the man who pointed out that America's greatest period of economic growth occurred during FDR's presidency. If it were not for government intervention and measures at that time, things would have been worse. Yet, there are right-wingers and Tea-nuts who spew such awful stuff about the New Deal.
How can any sane person return the GOP to power with their warped logic, obstructionist attitude and corporate pandering is certainly mind-blowing. Surely, not all Americans are THAT crazy!!
"You are not the teacher here, you are a congresswoman."
That's something we need to remind them again and again: you aren't here to educated us, you're our employee. Your job is to spend our tax dollars.
One good thing that comes out of these town hall meetings is that after listening to the TeaChoads ramble on incoherently it makes people mad. Mad enough to consider voting differently. When the fake paid-for hillbillies used to scream over the speaker, that was just plain inbred disgusting. I like how now everybody is at least polite when they slam these corporate whores.
This has been a good week for blowback. Mitts got laughed at about corporations being people, Bachmann got bagged on by a homosexual, as did Pawlenty. People are getting sick of this constant bullshit.
"One man pointed out that the greatest growth in American history came when Franklin Roosevelt was president and government was more involved."
Nonsense: "The Hoover Deal" http://www.fee.org/from-the-archives/the-hoov...
the true test comes in 2012, when these bloviators are up for re-election: will those same unhappy audience members vote her sorry ass out of office?
Dodges Questions About Verizon Strike because she cannot honestly answer the question. Because all these fascist conservatives care about is PROFIT. They don't care about jobs, health, people, etc.
Thanks, here's more of the fantastic factual response ...
The same man then blasted her,
"You want government to stay out of business. What happens when the government stays out of business?
This is what happens..."45,000 people are on the picket line because they want to take everything away from us"
Then he added....
"You are the problem, not the answer," and "Ma'am, you are not the teacher here, you are a congresswoman."
Priceless!
These idiots are like cultist androids that have their answers downloaded by their Tea-Borg Collective and when they encounter dissent they robotically bleat out Non Sequitur! This does not compute! I am not authorized to answer that!
These morons make Communists look positively reasonable in comparison.
"We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."
Robert F. Kennedy
"I am not programmed to respond in that area"
"I am programmed to disengage and talk over dissenters"
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
these companies want contingent on the percentage of workers they hire domestically? That will keep the jobs here. That would give the exec's something to think about.
Goodnight, Frau Blücher
you could explain why virtually every economist worth their salt, including just about every one on the left, Krugman included,, thinks free trade deals are a good idea?
Hasa Diga Eebowai
Could you explain why job outsourcing and free trade deals have anything to do with the Verizon strike. The unions that are striking are the ones that install and maintain Verizon's domestic systems and none of them can be out sourced in consequence. No one in Mumbai can fix a broken wire or microwave repeating tower in New York can they? Do you think maybe this might have more to do with those pesky consumers who insist on switching to low cost suppliers of telecommunication services like Vonage? .
Hasa Diga Eebowai
"the United States has offered more opportunity to its citizens than any other country."
Ha, sure. I need some data on that before i believe something like that.
Bite my shiny metal ass.
http://www.startalkradio.net/
So her dad worked for a steel company, I bet he was in a union!
Nice pair of legs. Seriously, for the life of me I can't understand why they never seem to answer people's questions. Nicole Sandler got tossed out of an Allan West meeting because she was asking questions about the so called reTHUGlican jobs bill that has yet to come
i'm wondering- if example after example i see, of pieces of shit like hayworthLESS, speaking to groups of real, normal people is beginning to have a cummulative effect yet. they were real troopers. but even passive , docile citizens must eventually have there fill of this crap and do something about it. please, are there any encouraging words out there? it's a crying shame that legs that nice lead directly to a complete dumbass.
her eyes roll back just right.
i can't believe that i miss-spelled ''their'' in my previous post. ugh! the pudding is in the proof-reading......or something.
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