Tom Delay: People Are Unemployed Because They Want To Be
Tom Delay thinks Jim Bunning is "brave." (But then, this is the same man who said, "By the way, there's no one denied health care in America. There are 47 million people who don't have health insurance, but no American is denied health care in America.")
Like most Republicans, he thinks you should be desperate enough to take any job you can get, even if it doesn't begin to meet your family's basic needs - especially the dignity-free, low-wage, low-security jobs so beloved of top Republican donors:
Appearing on CNN's "State of the Union," the Texas Republican said that Bunning's fiscal responsibility was commendable, even if his shenanigans (refusing to allow unemployment benefits to be considered by unanimous consent) nearly brought the Senate to a halt.
"Nothing would have happened if the Democrats had just paid for [the benefits]," Delay said. "People would have gotten their unemployment compensation. I think Bunning was brave in standing up there and taking it on by himself."
Asked whether it was bad strategy to make a budget stand on a $10 billion extension of unemployment (as opposed to, say, the Bush's $720 billion prescription drug package), Delay insisted that if the PR had been done right, Bunning would have been applauded. Helping the unemployed with federal assistance, he said, was unsound policy.
"You know," Delay said, "there is an argument to be made that these extensions, the unemployment benefits keeps people from going and finding jobs. In fact there are some studies that have been done that show people stay on unemployment compensation and they don't look for a job until two or three weeks before they know the benefits are going to run out.
Host Candy Crowley: Congressman, that's a hard sell, isn't it?
Delay: it's the truth.
and break the terms of service here? I really feel like it because Tom Delay doesn't deserve niceties anymore.
Personally I like Iceland's approach to this economic BS. Great read, good for them.
Iceland voters reject repaying $5 billion foreign debt
http://www.cnn.com/2010/BUSINESS/03/07/icelan...
Goodnight, Frau Blücher
What Iceland did here was pure old fashioned tit-for-tat nationalistic, slightly isolationist, and completely irresponsible behavior. Early in the financial crisis, the UK and other EU countries put a freeze (if memory serves) on Icelandic assets in their countries. All Iceland is doing here is backing out of a deal they already agreed to to stick it to the countries that made thier lives more difficult. This isn't great news, this is just more vindictive international politics. Both England and Iceland benefited greatly during the bubble from the irresponsible investing done in Icelandic banks, but Iceland is just taking a back door from owning up to any responsibility for it. It's basically the same as what banks are doing, taking bailouts and then expecting to not have to pay anything back ever.
As to Tom Delay, he's a slimey bastard. I don't get how anyone that doesn't have a trust fund could ever vote for a republican. They are just reprehensible scum.
The people of Iceland didn't make the agreements, it was the few select bankers and government officials. Now these few slobs want the average man to pay for their failed experiment. I understand the economic implications but I like the fact the people said they aren't going to play in their sand-box anymore.
As for Tom Delay, 100% agreement
Goodnight, Frau Blücher
But Icleand boomed over the last decade or so. Everyone benefitted. And they aren't just skrewing the big bankers, they are skrewing people in those other countries that have their retirement savings or college funds tied up in Icelandic investments too. What this is in effect is a country voting to default on its debt. Historically, that has never played well for any country.
but I still like the message it sends to those who brought on the mess.
Goodnight, Frau Blücher
The truth is that Icelanders are willing to pay. What they are against is added interest payments in excess of the original loan. CNN just glossed over that little bit of information.
I heard on NPR yesterday that the amount owed was something
like $135 per person per month for eight years. That's a fair chunk of change. That would be $4 trillion here, if we each owed as much.
As for Pond Scum Delay, ditto.
Iceland is barely a side show to what we owe just today. We each owe an estimated $113,934 or $1,186.81 per month over 8 years.
US Debt Clock
http://www.usdebtclock.org/
Goodnight, Frau Blücher
... that it's time for Delay to be unemployed because that's what they want him to be.
But he'll probably have some bigtime lobbying job waiting in the wings, so unemployment won't be a problem for him.
Why wouldn't Candy Crowley's reply to Delay saying, "It's the truth" be "No, it's not"? I never understand why a simple reply, telling the liar that they know it's a lie without being rude, is never the road taken...
He is no longer in the congress in an official capacity anyway.
Barack Obama: Change we can only imagine
that MOST thieves, swindlers, con-men and tax-evaders GO TO PRISON!
get paid below minimum wage but they get free housing and medical.
GO TO PRISON not tv studios like these weasles from BushCo; Cheney, Rove, Powell, Coulter,Palin, etc!
Why hasn't he been tried yet?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
is still awaiting trial, still under indictment, another well heeled heel who will probably never do time, probably waiting for a repub to get back in the white house, so he can be pardoned like libby
That's what I'd like to know. What is taking so long to try this bastard?
what he was charged with doing.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
It wasn't legal then ....
is where Mr. Deelay's lawyers will be going if the case ever
gets to a trial.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
Edit: I had better remove what I just posted, I'm so fucking angry, I said some things I should not have. This remains:
Arrgh! Fuckers! We need to EAT THESE FUCKERS!
People are unemployed because of the Wall Street Mobsters and their Mortgage Security Swindle, which was the greatest fraud in the history of the world.
Because the Banksters themselves lost so much money, they followed the fraud with a massive heist of the public purse.
This they did by buying the government, FOR CHEAP.
They and Tom Delay should be in jail.
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
the millions of jobs outsourced overseas.
I just went back to work after being laid off last fucking Spring. We're better off than a lot of people admittedly because my wife is working and making a good living, but without unemployment, we would have been seriously screwed.
But the likes of DeLay and other fucks like him think that people like me have just been sitting around loving being out of work collecting money. To that, I say FUCK YOU.
I'M not the problem here, fuck face, the problem are the motherfuckers that caused this recession in the first fucking place. We're just trying to make sure we can pay our bills and keep our fucking house.
I've been looking for work every fucking day of my life since I was laid off. But when there are millions of other people doing the same thing as I am, the odds just aren't that great.
And when I say "back to work" that means at the moment I am working a contract with no benefits. Again, thanks to my wife, I have benefits through her, but what if I wasn't married. I would have lost my house. A civilized society wouldn't have allowed this to happen in the first place, but if it did, said society helps to make sure that people don't wind up on the street.
So fuck you, DeLay. Fucking die of a heart attack already and make the world a better place, you piece of shit.
Thanks.
"Let's talk dirty to the animals"
I live in the city on the west coast. That's not "real America" to these guys.. ;)
Absolutely! God damned, this pile of Republican shit makes me angry -- I posted a comment I had to go back and remove, I was so angry.
GOD DAMN RIGHTARDED TRAITORS! As if their victims are sitting around sucking off the public teat because they want to, as if they fucking have a choice in the Republican economy fucking piles of treasonous shits like him committed against us.
I couldn't have said it better Mike V. Tom Delay is fucking moron and has no clue as to what the unemployed are going through. Thank you for your honesty!!
I've been unemployed for 14 months, I'm drawing the maximum unemployment benefit in my state and I take in about a quarter what I'm used to, I can't fix my broken tooth, I can't move to a safer place and I had to budget for months just to buy two new tires for my car. All because I WANT to be unemployed.
Seriously, the real problem here is that people invite clueless douchenozzles onto television to ask them their opinions of something that hasn't remotely affected them. When was the last time DeLay didn't have health insurance of the finest kind? When was he last worried about paying an electric bill because the past month was really cold? When did he have to juggle things in order to get a suit cleaned to go to a job interview? When did he last have to put getting a broken tooth fixed on indefinite hold because he couldn't afford to pay even a discount dentist of the Orly Taitz variety?
Barack Obama: Change we can only imagine
Never.
Democracy is the road to socialism. ~ Karl Marx
You're on unemployment? Lucky.
/is envious
What studies (that Tom hasn't pulled from his rectum) show the lunacy that Delay asserts? Because I know of NO unemployment compensation package that doesn't ask the participants if they actively looked for work and requires them to show proof. Perhaps the exterminator should become better acquainted with the way things work in this land before he opines at great length about them. But then that would be un-Republican.
That you don't have to cite actual sources when you make shit up.
Barack Obama: Change we can only imagine
It says:
Assert unsourced statistics and facts with great assurance. Reply to requests for proof by saying some version of "You can look it up." You thereby demand that your opponents do the work of proving your argument for you.
I also call it the Archie Bunker School of Logical Debate: Claim something and when challenged, just say "It's a well known fact. You can look it up."
comes from one of the wealthiest towns in Texas, Sugar Land. He is the poster boy for everything wrong with the Rethug party, spoiled, rich, white boys.
Is it the 21st century yet?
macroecnomics by krugman and his wife
http://books.google.com/books?id=dpTBdNGGrtUC...
http://newledger.com/2010/03/what-on-earth-is...
what happened to this guy being found guilty of a crime? how is he still being treated like a political leader instead of just a criminal?
With no respect whatsoever.....
S T F U !
You useless sack of sh*t criminal.
ES&D.
Now, if Democrats don't use THIS in commercials against Republicans this election season, they don't deserve to be re-elected.
I've also noticed lately that ever since Repubs started tasting electoral victory, they can't help themselves from blurting out what it is they really believe and think. That could wind up being their undoing in the fall.
We can only hope. Crushing, humiliating defeat would be a great thing. 75 real Liberals and Progressives in the Senate (sorry Joe, you don't get to play any more), and some 300 -350 in the House would be a reason to celebrate.
Democracy is the road to socialism. ~ Karl Marx
is when it cannot provide for its people, none of the experts will speak truth to power, except for paul craig roberts, he will be trashed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNs6dhU75Zs
most experts keep up the charade of some kind of fix, never mentioning the real problem
Evidence points to that conclusion.
WTF !! Why isn't this AH sharing a prison cell in Texas [Deleted-Sitemonitor]
The mere fact that this AH, among far too many, keep showing up in the MSM points out that this country is in serious need of an adult in charge. This country has proved that the Rule of Law is dead, time after time after time. That being said, it is a wonder why there haven't been more berserkers running riot in this madhouse.
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
-- John F. Kennedy
another lesson from Fox. Bring the criminals on and eventually they will get enough of them to hire and raise their ratings.
they would put a bag over Candy Crowley's head,
and a sock in her mouth.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
I'm happy to see that the site moderator curbed expression about this scumbag Republican's "let them eat cake" spew. LOL. I was angry enough to post something totally off and had to go back and remove it before the site moderator banned me for life.
Well we don't have buddies that can put us into "think" tanks.
Hell, I haven't even seen the inside of a drunk tank.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
"Hell, I haven't even seen the inside of a drunk tank, lately."
Fix that for you. :-D
Seriously though, how can we even afford booze when we can't keep the power on?
Democracy is the road to socialism. ~ Karl Marx
More than one way of getting a buzz...
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
I prefer holding my breath in impotent rage until I pass out. I am hoping that I'll suffer an aneurysm and drop dead so that I don't have to worry about any of this nonsense any more. My wife might object but at least I'd be free of GOP idiocy ruining everything.
Democracy is the road to socialism. ~ Karl Marx
Where's sched to tell us were all wrong, and delay is a real sweetheart?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
was the same fool from the UK that was here 3 or 4 weeks ago that kept up with the same BS over and over again. Apparently on a different computor andd a new name. Nicole mentioned that he/she was from a different country.
They may have a conflicting... sched-you-all? :P
Study the symptoms not the virus...
I noticed he didn't try to challenge me on the various Federalist articles I cited, or on the history of the Continental Congress, followed by the Articles of Confederation, followed by the Constitution, followed by the Bill of Rights about eight years later.
The fool was saying the country was built on the Constitutional Rights.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
...of allowing Delay to state this: "In fact there are some studies that have been done that show people stay on unemployment compensation and they don't look for a job until two or three weeks before they know the benefits are going to run out."
If you're not going to follow up by asking what "study" he's basing this on? Really a poor job of interviewing this asshole.
From Monica Crowley?
Barack Obama: Change we can only imagine
From anyone? Maybe KO and RM, but that's about it.
Democracy is the road to socialism. ~ Karl Marx
My bad though they are very similar. C&L edit function won't let me change the name to Candy.
Barack Obama: Change we can only imagine
you don't think she's sweet enough to be called Candy?
The edit function told me that access was denied.
Barack Obama: Change we can only imagine
someone already replied to your post. Edit is allowed untill a reply is logged.
"Let's talk dirty to the animals"
In fact there are some studies that have been done that show people think you, Tom, are an asshole and you should have been in jail long before now. Now just why aren't you?
Delay has some great connections to over sea sweatshops.
"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
one is not eligible unless one is actively looking for work
its fraud to take benefits and accept a check
but of course as he is a crook, i guess he thinks everyone else is too
hungry and driving 20 year old cars and have no insurance because they want rich plantation owners to run Murka.
I really hate this rodent looking fuck. Can anyone remember what it was that he did that denied veterans funding simply because he didn't like the congressman in whose district the money would have gone?
Being a Republican, the traditional media just shrugged, rather than treat it like there were any real consequences.
Barack Obama: Change we can only imagine
Well, there is a simple way to find out just how correct DeLay and Bunning are about this.
1. Search for the current population of the greater metropolitan area of a major city in a given state. In this case, let's go with Louisville, Ky., the largest city/metro area in Jim Bunning's state of Kentucky. (answer in this case: 1,244,000,000)
2. Let's be generous and eliminate half of that population to account for those either too young or too old to be counted among the workforce. (answer in this case: 622,000)
3. Search for the current unemployment rate in that area. (answer in this case: approximately 10% or roughly 62,000 unemployed people in the Louisville, Ky. greater metropolitican area)
4. Now, go to one of the most popular job search sites like CareerBuilder.com and plug in Louisville, Ky., with a generous distance of, say, 50 miles to include every arguable block of Louisville's greater metropolitan area and then some.
5. Answer: 2480 jobs available in the biggest metropolitan area of Jim Bunning's state of Kentucky where some 62,000 people are currently unemployed.
Don't like this to be confined to just CareerBuilder.com? Fine, double the amount of jobs they claim are available to account for the ones not listed on that site. Triple it....QUADRUPLE it if you like.
Even if the "real" number of available jobs in that part of Jim Bunning's state is as much as 10,000, what are the other 52,000 unemployed people in that area supposed to do while Bunning and DeLay are busy accusing them of being lazy liars, set up their own lemonade stand out on the sidewalk?
Bonus Conclusion: It looks like Republican Senator Jim Bunning has been doing a really piss poor job of helping to create jobs for the unemployed in his state, doesn't it?
n/t
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
-- John F. Kennedy
You are applying logic to the illogical. Remember, these are the same people that think if you give business owners tax cuts, they will hire more people in their factories in order to produce goods for a non-existant market, not just pocket the cash for another trip to Cabo. These are the same poeple that think poor women pop out babies in order to game the system and get more money, because as we all know, what the government pays out per child totally covers the cost of raising a baby, especially in an urban area. These are not people with basic reasoning skills, your argument means nothing to them.
♥
Study the symptoms not the virus...
Typo correction for my above post: Current population of that area is 1,244,000 not 1,244,000,000
sometimes common sense makes sense.
i'm sure that anyone reading your post understood what you meant.
;-)
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
-- John F. Kennedy
I added up all the categories on CB excluding Franchise and Real Estate because they are basically business opps.
The grand total number of jobs advertised - 627,422.
Many jobs occupy numerous categories so I believe it safe to say that 10% of those are duplicates.
So, about 564,680 jobs are on CB.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics:
"In February, the number of unemployed persons, at 14.9 million..."
I know there are jobs advertised elsewhere...but...
Not even the miracle of the Internet and CareerBuilder can make this new math work.
Where could those pesky 14.4 Million other jobs be advertised?
Oh, my. There goes my foot - right through Tom DeLay's skull. Oops.
"I guess your wondering why I did this. Well let me explain in detail. Over the years I’ve had some good jobs, but I always got layed off. Now I’m 58 years old + I can’t get a decent job. I’m told I’m “overqualified” which is a code word for “too damned old”. Like I’m expected to age gracefully into poverty. No thanks! I’m done."
"I’d like to encourage other like minded people to do what I’ve done. If life aint worth living anymore, don’t just kill yourself, do something for your country before you go. Go Kill Liberals! Tell the cop that killed me that I said “ Thanks, I needed that!” --Jim David Adkisson
Study the symptoms not the virus...
Because liberals are the ones that created the cutthroat economic system we have. This just goes to show you how shockingly bad liberals are at messaging, and how good conservatives are at duping the weak, stupid, and vulnerable.
to mimic the 'Monday Morning Meetings' the neocons had for at least 8 years to keep everyone on message? They're probably still doing that shit too...
me-oww!
I'm sure they are. The problem is no one believes you when you say that you are out to help others any more, so they just go with the person who's selfish interests line up most with their's. At least that is my theory. Well, that and the suplanting of earthly concerns with religious hyperbole.
I am thinking that the old labels don't work anymore.
Conservatives are crying that Repugs wrecked their movement-progressive people are deeply disappointed in the Dems. You would think that the current climate would be heralding the death knell of the two party system, but instead they are shoring each other up in attempt to hang on to the status quo.
I pledge allegiance to the Constitution of the United States of America, and to the republic which it established, one nation from many peoples, promising liberty and justice for all
Maybe an even better idea: Hunt NeoCon and NeoLiberal AHs -- the USA is a "target-rich" environment, kind of like shooting fish in a barrel.
Not that I am endorsing such a course of action -- only a retort to that Jim David Adkisson quote you provided.
;-)
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
-- John F. Kennedy
"But more charges await the 58-year-old man who authorities say has been frustrated by a lack of employment, a reduction of his food-stamp benefits and what he perceived as the liberal ruination of the United States." :-/
Study the symptoms not the virus...
thinks that if you were a professional making $80,000 you should be perfectly happy earning minimum wage at McDonnalds.
If he had his way the unemployed would be given a one way ticket to the North Mariana Islands where there are many jobs available at slave wage thanks to him and his buddy Jack (abram)off.
'We, the People'............rimshot................hahahahahaha!
It's not just fraud and abuse these guys are worried to death about , the bottom line is that these low life are against any unemployment benefits , any social security , any medicare , any social program that may cost the F'ers even a dime (in taxes) and they are against any minimum wage . It's the greed party , quite literally . Greed is good , greed is a virtue , thee only virtue . Grover Norquist ditto heads .They would be quite pleased if there were millions of families , millions of elders living on the streets , in their cars and tents , just as long as they get out of paying taxes , taxes that do not add up to squat for these
peoplesub humans .They don't give a damn about the people of this country , they represent the corporations and the very wealthy , thee elite and that's it .Cold hearted pigs .This is what I'm told every time I apply for a job that's not in my career field. Apparently Delay has never heard this term.
because you want to be.
/snark
me-oww!
I've scrubbed toilets, swept floors, dish-washed and others whilst I was finishing my college degree.
Now employers see my military background, my associate in Business, Bachelor in Political Science, and associate in Paralegal studies and don't wan't to touch me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=749id7dcYTI
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
I've scrubbed toilets, swept floors, dish-washed and others whilst I was finishing my college degree.
I've snaked toilets then scrubbed them replaced the floor as well, washed dishes in restuarants, would gladly sweep any floor I can tile, hell give me a scraper and a mop and you can eat of a concrete floor when I'm done with it, but give me a job? McDonalds as an employer may be my only option shortly and I don't care for their product. I'm not even getting unemployment it's tougher than I've seen it in my short 51 years.
The love you take is equal to the love you make. John Lennon Paul Mc Cartney
I get that alot.
I was talking with the manager at the Hess about a cashier job.
She said, "But you have two college degrees."
Me: "And I can run a cash register"
Her:"But you won't stay"
Me: "Nobody stays! There is a new employee here nearly every week."
Her: "Oh, they're not new, they're from other stores that have cut hours"
Still no job.
I pledge allegiance to the Constitution of the United States of America, and to the republic which it established, one nation from many peoples, promising liberty and justice for all
I was told I was overqualified again just last week -- for a one-month *contract* position.
the hiring manager (in the IT field) says to me, or the recruiter that I talk to that they'd like to submit me for the position, but it's a step down, so they think I'll walk when I get a better offer.
I'm like, NO FUCKING SHIT DUMBASS. Like the rest of the world. When a better offer comes along, of course I would take it..
It took me almost a year to find a new job and it's just a contract that could end any day. I'm replacing someone that's out on medical leave that's "expected" to return in April.
And even then I had to take something that was 20 percent less than I was making before.
I'll admit that I turned away some recruiters that DID offer me something, but I'm not working for 18 dollars a fucking hour, I've been in IT for a decade working my way to a sysadmin and I'm supposed to beg for that crap?
If the fat cats had their way there would be no public services. So when they've told the MASSES to suck it and the masses can't eat they revolt. Then you have civil war and people like Tom are the first one's to get robbed and beheaded. But if he's really a die hard no sympathy survival of the fittest type person he should be willing to accept superior numbers of his desperate neighbors coming and just taking everything he owns.
Personally I prefer civility and accepting that government and community are about having a functioning society vs. a Lord of the Flies scenario.
and invite the Tom Delay's of this country as "guests of honor"to a "long-pork" BBQ ??
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;-)
Feed the poor ! Eat the rich ! Viva la revolution !
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
-- John F. Kennedy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG_LrGPsJB0&fe...
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
do get a lot of those.
Nice work.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ5_SyvxDXE&fe...
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Dancing With The Stars (1:26)
Study the symptoms not the virus...
some people do wait for the benefits to run out because that benefit is more than the minimum wage job that might hire them. They do the math and if it helps them to put food on the table and pay the bills, more power to them.
I've been searching for work since the moment I was laid off, but I have passed up opportunities becaues they would pay out less than the 55% of my former salary I get from UI. I don't think I should have to accept that I have to move back in to a crappy apartment with horrible roommates with an hour+ commute just because I lost my job. I worked my way up, I don't deserve to be dropped on my ass.
This is, of course, assuming that industries in minimum wage industries will hire you in the first place. Nobody likes to hire the overqualified because, guess what, you're not going to keep wearing the blue smock once a decent job opens up.
and couldn't get a job at Wendy's. I'm pretty sure based on the managers reaction that my degree was precisely why they didn't want me. Damn this education stuff.
If the job doesn't require a resume, why mention that you went to college at all? That is, assuming you actually wanted or needed to work at Wendy's.
Of course, your job history would kind of betray that, so never mind.
I put the degree on my resume was because I thought it might look good. I used to think having a resume looked good too. Apparently stupid helpless and desperate were the qualifications I wasn't focusing on.
....than the wanker running the place......which means that you are a threat to leap frog over him to a higher position.
'We, the People'............rimshot................hahahahahaha!
I believe you have hit the proverbial nail directly on the head with that comment.
Once upon a time I owned a Subway. I applied for a job at a local Subway, and was told by the owner that there was no way I could be an employee there because I knew too much about Subway.
I pledge allegiance to the Constitution of the United States of America, and to the republic which it established, one nation from many peoples, promising liberty and justice for all
Subway Sandwich Shop Literally Rises At Ground Zero
;)
Study the symptoms not the virus...
I have witnessed this human behavior more than once in different situations.
Competition is a threat even if your experience brings added strength to the business plan.
'We, the People'............rimshot................hahahahahaha!
Defies logic, doesn't it?
Ranks right up there with voting against your own self-interest. ;o}
I pledge allegiance to the Constitution of the United States of America, and to the republic which it established, one nation from many peoples, promising liberty and justice for all
folks are now only employable to the degree they are capable of being manipulated for exceedingly long periods of time at laughable wages.
That was definitely the impression I got. Not to mention almost every time I've proposed an idea that might make my boss more money I usually get a lecture about knowing my place. Then within two weeks the randian genius employing me will implement that strategy.
done that.
Exactly .
FIFY.
a grotesque caricature of a human. Or he is a golem.
me-oww!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdqqSUu5ggU&fe...
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6V0eww_X4g
me-oww!
I've seen that movie. Roddy McDowell's golem looked like Gumby worked over with a blow-torch. So I try to forget it.
Whenever I see Roddy I think:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csw6hNH8Ewk
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Whom ever could figure it out would be a true hero.
"Let's talk dirty to the animals"
That's just it exactly. Republicans don't think like normal people, their brains don't operate the way normal peoples' do. Evolution has tailored about one tenth of the world's populace to be Republican in mind, behavior, and IQ.
The result is the world's bloody history.
anytime someone starts claiming to know the truth.
run fast.
bet this guy goes to church every sun.
america is about religion not spiritual values.
world of difference.
we are an immoral nation to the core with our wars for profits and capitalist agendas.
And few people understand how truly immoral it is. Thanks for saying it.
Is it the 21st century yet?
Tom Delay's words on why he missed Vietnam: "So many minority youths had volunteered for the well-paying military positions to escape poverty and the ghetto that there was literally no room for patriotic folks like me in Vietnam." --Quoted in Houston Press, Date uncertain
DeLay was eligible to enlist but said he did not at the urging of his wife. --Quoted in Houston Post 8-19-88.
DeLay received student draft deferments during the Vietnam era and avoided military service through the 1969 lottery. --Quoted from Washington Post 5-4-99
That first quote... wow. I'm so glad out country is led by the shockingly out of touch and dickish.
of criticism of Dan Qualyle's choice as Veep becasue Mr. Quayle had served in the reserves.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
“Now, tell me the truth, boys, is this kind of fun?”— DeLay to children living in the Astrodome during Hurricane Katrina where DeLay likened their stay to being at camp.
Many more Delayisms here
Really. Not. Human.
me-oww!
Delay is sitting in the catbird seat for life since becoming a Congressman in '85.
Until '85 he had to hustle for a living or he would not be paid. When he got his government job he had a steady pay check even if he decided to take a week off and travel to Scotland and play golf with his buddy Abramoff. Being paid by people that he loathed and despised was something that Delay and Jack (abram)off had in common. He is guaranteed a retirement from those same people that he so despises for his time in office (state and federal) for the rest of his life......what a country.
'We, the People'............rimshot................hahahahahaha!
TELL IT TO JACK AMBRAMOFF ;)
Study the symptoms not the virus...
Best Faux vid evah!
'We, the People'............rimshot................hahahahahaha!
This pathetic little heartless felon doesn't have a job either.
It's official: CNN is now Fox.
CNN is not FOX. They do not put stupid people on the air just because they think they look good.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
cite your sources, Mr. Delay.
because you're insinuating that 1 million Americans aren't looking for work. not looking for work while receiving UI is a crime. so Mr. Delay is insinuating that approximately 5% of Americans are criminals.
if you squint your eyes just right, one might call that slander.
in fact, by insinuating that people receiving UI are lazy criminals, he could in fact be inadvertently creating a sense of bigotry amongst some hiring managers. he could in fact be inadvertently creating a situation where hiring managers believe his assertion, and might in fact discriminate against hiring someone who's been out of work for a long time, because those hiring managers believe Mr. Delay's assertions and don't want to hire someone lazy.
so again, if you squint your eyes just right, it really does look like slander, with a possible punitive damage created by his assertions.
so I'd really like to see Mr. Delay cite his sources.
Lets get real here . First time in my life unemployed , I am 59 y.o. .I get $380 a week unemployment before taxes , that works out to be 9.50 an hour @ 40 hours . If I go out and land a burger flipping job it would pay what , 7.50 or $8 and be part time ? I would lose the majority if not all of the unemployment compensation to top it off . Before getting laid off I was making 22.50 and hour and I also did my own contracting / work making 40 to 50 dollars an hour , needless to say these are not good times for this family , this is not the life of Riley trust me . It would be absurd for me to go get a job flipping burgers , it would put us right out on the streets .As for my trade I have made so many contacts and calls repeatedly ( and to no avail ) that I have become a pain in their backsides , some have told me to stop calling , we'll call you if / when things pick up and we need another man .As for my own work , the phone is just not ringing anymore , I'll get maybe one call every month and a half and then you have to bid so low now to get the job you can't hardly turn a profit . Tom Delay , I'd love to knock your teeth out .
Punch away but wear a biohazard suit, these Republican scumbags are diseased.
1) Tommy Delay has not been convicted of a crime. He has been indicted but never tried.
The allegation behind his indictment was that he conspired to and did engage in laundering coporate money to spend in state political races in Texas. Now, thanks to the Supreme Court ruling, he would not have had to launder any money. The corporations could have spent the money directly.
2) Tommy Delay does not believe the pesticides he applied could hurt human beings.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
...for anyone except his fellow crime partners and himself. And he dances like my inebriated uncle James at family get togethers.
This is just another example of Republican indifference and contempt for the poor and the working class- so they oppose any funding that would help those in need who need help...
I will never understand poor and working class voters who vote Republican- They are voting against their own interests.
"Nothing would have happened if the Democrats had just paid for [the benefits]," said Tommy Delay.
This has a corollary exempting wars.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
by proposing just. Pay for the unemployment by cutting off funding for the two illegal wars. Force the Republicans to be on the record as supporting wars over Americans. Good policy and good politics.
With two-thirds of his employees laid off, Henry Ford, then the richest man in the world, said the unemployed created their own misery by not working hard enough.
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Tom 'It's the Truth' Delay milked the Government for Millions of Dollars (and is still under investigation, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_DeLay_campai... ) and is just plain jealous that a few million Americans might need a little cash to get through the misery of the Republican/Conservative Economy Collapse.
Let's show him we don't hold a grudge and invite Delay and his Republican/Fox News friends over for dinner at the "Hot-Plate Hotel".
Pass the dog food!
"Zappa Frank - Hot-Plate Heaven At The Green Hotel"
"I used to have a job
An' I was doin' fairly well
Depression came along
An' everybody start to yell
"Where'd they go, them good ol' days,
An' all that crap we used to sell?"
Now I'm in Hot-Plate Heaven,
at the Green Hotel
Republicans is fine,
If you're a multi-millionaire
Democrats is fair,
If all you own is what you wear
Neither of 'em's REALLY right,
'Cause neither of 'em CARE
'Bout that Hot-Plate Heaven,
'Cause they ain't been there
They really oughta go
'N find out how the hall-way smell --
They'd benefit to know
'Bout what the bums in there could tell
(I guess we're only dreamin',
But I s'pose it's just as well
That's ALL you get to dream
Up in the Green Hotel)
Nature didn't put me here,
An' neither did my fate --
It musta been some evil ol'
Republican candidate!
He's over there in Washington,
But I wish he was in HELL
'Cause I'm in Hot-Plate Heaven
At the Green Hotel
Things is slightly better now;
They hope we will forget
The misery of 'TRICKLE DOWN',
An' jelly-bean etiquette
The Regal Presidential Style
Has simply not worn well,
But neither has my rags,
Up in the Green Hotel
I said the Green Hotel
I mean the Green Hotel
Been there once
The Green Hotel
We're goin' again
The Green Hotel
Neither has my rags,
Up in the Green Hotel
Hey, pass me the dog-food!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=aj5OT3z1VGA
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
republicanism/conservatism is a mental illness, that has ruined our economy and killed and wounded millions of innocent people for oil!
F##k U Tommy.
Your entire parties approach to policy has been a PROVEN FAILURE.
Why does anyone give the time of day to these people.
Shut them out of the process, nothing they do will work.
If you disagree please refer to the last decade.
F##k U Tommy.
Your entire parties approach to policy has been a PROVEN FAILURE.
Why does anyone give the time of day to these people.
Shut them out of the process, nothing they do will work.
If you disagree please refer to the last decade.
Dear Tom Delay,
I am unemployed and have been since 2008. In south Florida it is impossible to get a job doing what I have been trained for. Because of sever arthritis and being age 50 my choices are minimal to say the least. I am a certified CAD drafter and there is NO future construction projects or companies willing to hire new CAD drafters at this time. I send out resumes at the very least 2 times a week with no response to every engineering firm within a 100 mile radius of my home. I am the face of the unemployed who wants to work and who needs this benefit to survive until people start to hire.
Delay is under criminal investigation, his Republican/Conservative AGENDA caused the worst economic depression in decades, resulting in massive unemployment and some dumb*ss invites Delay on conservative TV to give his warped opinion. AND DELAY BLAMES THE PEOPLE THAT LOST THEIR JOBS, BECAUSE OF HIS FAILURE.
FREAKING UNBELIEVABLE!
Is that this amoral bastard is still invited onto talk shows, as if decent people should give a flying fig what he thinks about anything.
A former award-winning journalist and lifelong class warrior, keeping a jaundiced eye on the Washington elite.
That's the real truth. As for the rest, his vicious comments are suggesting people are foreclosing on their homes because they want to, going hungry and watching their children go hungry because they want to, going homeless to live under bridges because they want to, even dying of diseases that they can't afford to treat because they want to. Just shows how these criminals think that everyone else is deliverately suffering because they want to be victims. Truth is they despise criminals like Delay.
Isn't it time for that criminal to serve his time? Why is he still walking the streets as a free man? I think a good stretch behind bar would perhaps making him begin to show some remorse (empathy for suffering fellow humans) ... won't happen until he is restricted to a 6 X 9' space in the gray bar hotel for a couple decades.
The wingnuts are a bunch of narcissists.
If you really think about their behavior, it explains everything.
Why do they blame liberals, the government, Rinos, and everyone else for their frustrations? Because they are simply TOO AWESOME to suck!!
If they fail, it MUST BE someone elses' fault, because it certainly cannot be their own!!
From the trailer-park redneck to the billionaire board member, narcissism is the one trait that unites wingnut assholes everywhere.
I really wish there was a "idealogue commitment box" on every tax return, that would allow these true-believers to check a box that disallows them from receiving any form of assistance (including unpaid-for emergency healthcare) in exchange for a lower tax rate.
I would gladly walk past these "box checkers" as they die in the street, free from the entanglements of "big guvmint".
Jeebus, wingnuts are just farkin' dumb...
And agreed!!
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
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