The Republican Party To All Unemployed Americans – Drop Dead. Please
Posted: Friday, October 21, 2011
by Judge Dred
The Republican Party (and a couple of spineless Democrats, along with an independent jerk from Connecticut) have blocked President Obama’s attempt to create 400,000 jobs with a portion of his American Jobs Act. Why? The GOP’s direct refusal to pay for the bill with a tax on the top 1% of wage earners in the country is the main reason. This is disgusting. Americans are suffering from unemployment, foreclosure on homes, disintegrating infrastructure and many, many other maladies. In essence, the GOP has told all unemployed Americans to drop dead. Please.
Let’s stop and take a moment to breathe. Now let us consider what has just happened in Washington. Teachers are needed at every level of the American education system. Teachers are some of the most underpaid and underappreciated professionals in this country. They are also suffering layoffs in droves. Class sizes are increasing, which means lack of proper attention for kids in the classroom. Why would the idiot Senators doom our kids to a second rate education? Oh, they are slaves to the financial parasites on Wall Street and the corporate world.
Firefighters and police officers….need I say more? It takes a special kind of person to run headlong into danger, whether it is a burning building or a situation involving a crime with a weapon. As much as these professions can be maligned at times by the media, I challenge the idiot Senators to tackle these jobs. I guarantee that a vast majority of them would run in the opposite direction in the face of danger. Hide under a desk and cry is more like it.
The three professions just described are essential to the health and welfare of our country. A person might be led to believe that most of these idiot Senators were taught at home by private tutors, hence the disrespect of teachers by blocking this bill. Have they never witnessed the devastation caused by a fire, resulting in the loss of life or property? Have they never witnessed the helplessness of the victim of an assault, robbery or burglary? It simply does not matter. The idiot Senators DO NOT work for the people of the United States. They work for the special interests that will benefit them personally.
What the idiot Senators have just told millions of Americans is this: If you are unemployed, drop dead. The Republican Party does not care about you, because you probably won’t vote for them anyway. Teachers, firefighters and police officers don’t belong to the top 1% of wage earners. If they did, someone might come up with a 9-9-9 plan for them. The following is a fictional story.
Mitch McConnell was walking down a Kentucky street one day when he realized something – he was lost. Why? The only teacher in town was laid off due to recklessness on Wall Street in New York. The town lost millions of dollars and was unable to pay the teacher. The teacher did not have the chance to teach Mitch to read. Saddened, he trudged on.
Alas, Mitch was greeted with a stroke of luck. He found the street on which he lived. As he kept going, he ran into a mean looking stranger. “Give me your money” said the stranger. “I don’t want to”, replied Mitch. “My friends, Charles and David, said I could keep my money”. The stranger then smacked Mitch in the back of his head, knocking him senseless. The stranger then walked away without taking anything.
“Help!’ cried Mitch. I’ve just been assaulted! Unfortunately for Mitch, there were no police officers available in town. They were all laid off, and the state police were overburdened with calls thirty miles away in the next town. The Senator representing Kentucky helped to vote down funds which could have been used to hire five officers.
As Mitch reached his home, he smelled smoke. His house was on fire! Mitch’s family was safe, but the house burned to the ground. All of the town’s firefighters were laid off the day before, and funds were denied to the town by the Senators in Washington. Because they wanted to make the President of the United States look bad at any cost. The cost this time was Mitch’s education, safety and home. This was all in the name of obstructionist and insane politics.
The real Mitch McConnell does not care if this happens to you. McConnell, the Republican Party, along with their Democratic butt kissers don’t care to get America working again. 400,000 jobs are nowhere near enough to jumpstart the economy, but it would have been a start. These evil deeds are performed in the name of corporate greed and obstructionist politics. They will do anything to get President Obama out of office. Everyone better wake up before it is too late, and you end up on a soup line with no home or job.
What is the best way to tell these idiot Senators to drop dead? Make sure you go to the polls on Election Day 2012 and vote the idiots out of office. Don’t forget to bring your picture ID.
Until next time.
JD
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Top-level comments on this article: (4 total)Very good article...Now I can get this off my chest. No "Term limitations" with our tax money in their pockets, we are the Zs of life to them. Sitting doing nothing and pulling money from the corp arena also. I am still angered, Cheney helped to enhance war efforts so that he could send, Brown and Root, KBR, and Haliburton in to rebuild after the war. Those same politicians are the ones that are still in office. Then they cry: "too much government." Then the people cry "yes." Sad, the people have not figured out they/we are the government. They are basically saying, "they do not want us involved."
"Of the people, by the people, for the people."I was angry when I heard the news that the GOP blocked the portion of the bill concerning teachers and first responders. Collective bargainig rights for these professions are eroding, people are losing homes and going hungry, and these idiots in the GOP can look at us with a straight face and say, "The Obama Administration is a failure". Playing politics with our lives, simply to stop the President in his tracks, should be labeled as an act of treason. Don't get me started on Darth Cheney. He should take a cue from G.W. Bush and disappear.
I suppose that Obama not being a hawk is bad for buisness. Our cost of living has gone up, partly because many of our resources and materials have been shipped overseas. HIgher prices for us and more profits for the fat cats. Americans better figure out quickly that the idiots in the GOP are not working for us. You're right, they don't eant us involved. Hence, calling the 99 percenters "mobs". The GOP can now see control slopping from their grasp, and they don't like it. Rev, thanks for reading and commenting.Anytime!!! "Right is Right."
It's a shame we have to wait until the 2012 election to boot them out of office. Anyone that voted against the jobs bill, whether they're Republicans, Democrats or an Independent should be kicked out of office now!
They are not interested in the well being of the people of this country. The entire problem is too many of them are wealthy and will suffer a hit with any tax increase, no matter how insignificant.
Historically, when this country has gone to war taxes have been INCREASED - to the tune of 94% on the wealthy during WWII. Instead of increasing taxes, Bush decreased tax rates, AND increased deductions which is why this country is facing this economic crisis now. A review of the provisions in EGTRRA that didn't go into effect until FY2010 show you exactly what the Republicans want and how far they'll go to get it. Had a Republican won in 2008 that provision would have been reversed, or at least delayed. Instead, they passed the bill knowing, in advance, what it would do to the economy and how a sitting president can easily be replaced when unemployment and deficits are high.
Republicans want one thing and one thing only and that's the White House. Their theory seems to be that U.S. voters will be just as ignorant in 2012 as they were in 2008 and they'll win back the White House and control of the senate, if they make Obama look bad enough. U.S. voters are no longer standing in the shadows when it comes to what's happening in D.C.
They're 'interested' because if they haven't lost their job, they know of someone who has, either a member of their family, their friends, or their neighbors and it's sad to see.
There is nothing more disgusting than to turn on the TV and see a political ad that is costing big bucks to run, while food pantries are begging for donations.
Thank you for your article.
Pat JohnsonMembers of either party, along with those independents, who wish to play partisan politics with our lives should be removed from office immediately. Most politicans are weathly when they get to Washington, so they are only looking to benefit themselves and their wealthy coroporate friends.
We could all go to hell in a handbasket and the GOP for the most part, simply wouldn't care. As long as they get the White House in 2012, and keep control of the House, the GOP will perform their special brand of wealth redistribution. I call it the reverse Robin Hood syndrome: rob from the poor to give to the rich. Now that's socialism at the highest level.
Hopefully voters will see through the GOP smokescreen and do what's right in 2012, by voting the far right ideologues out of Washington.
Thanks for reading and commenting.Seem to me their wealth can be described in one sentence – The Hill’s 2011 listing of the 50 wealthiest lawmakers, had a ‘minimum’ combined net worth of $1.6 billion dollars - $200 million more than the prior year.
10 of the freshman Tea-Party backed candidates were on this listing.
Republicans have almost twice as many rich as Democrats – the split is 32 Republicans and 18 Democrats.
The guy at the bottom of the top 50 totem pole has a net worth of $6.2 million – how can a person with this type of wealth even begin to comprehend what is happening with the guy that lost his job, lost his unemployment bennies and is about to lose his house - they can't.
I just hope voters will be smart enough this time around to figure out WHY the country is in the mess it's in and not blame it on the current administration -
Only time will tell.
Pat Johnson
A very respected politician in the UK said only a couple of months ago, referring to our Coalition, but our Prime Minister directly: "Always remember that Politicians are only the Caretakers of our country and that you (David Cameron) only run the country - not own it. The people that are of Britain own the lands, as the People decide who to appoint who their caretaker's are."
I applauded this simply because it IS true. Politicians can sometimes get above their station and refer to the Nation as "Their Nation", but it is the People of that Nation who put them in this position while the Political and Media Machines Spin the Political Soup of the day. We listen to this Soup before dishing it out in a second serving. While the people of Britain lose their jobs, their livelihoods, their dignity and their faith in the world as a whole, our politicians boast of buying new cars, new homes away from the stressful city and of how they cannot decide whether to take a holiday to the Florida next year or take a short break to the South of France - at the Tax Payers expense, of course.
"We're In This Together" is irritating, as I am sure any American will agree if and when turning on Sky News and seeing our Prime Minister standing in his well paid job telling the British people "We must all think Positive to get through these troubled times". I, myself would rather Obama be our Prime Minister than these Bumbling Buffoon's make a mockery of our country playing political games as though there is no real threat for failure at the end of it all. If they fail - we all fail - Then Mr Cameron "We will all be in this together" with no possible way to escape what's coming next!
Sorry Guy's, your responses just seemed to ring true some of our home truths over here in the UK. Bad times that I hope and pray will never again repeat for any of our next generations.I am not surprised that there are some similar things going on over in the U.K. Here is a major difference: While politicans in the U.K. will pretend that "We're all in this together", the Republican Party in the U.S. will make no such claim. We have Herman Cain who says, If you're not rich, it's your own fault". Then there's Mitt Romney, who will tell a person not to fight foreclosure, to let the process go through and someone else buy your house.
In other words, Romney is saying to go homeless, while an investor can buy your house, fix it up, and make money for themselves by selling it. All the time while that family is in the street or in a shelter. Most of our politicans are rich when they get to office, so they are out of touch with the American public when they make outlandish statements.
Obama is far from perfect...but I would rather have him back in office that these lunatics from the Republican Party who pretend to know and care about what the American people want. I too, hope and pray that no one will have to go through this nonsense again, both in the U.K. and U.S.
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It's so hard for me to take Republicans seriously because they're behavior is so illogical and unintelligent. They've created the blueprint for their own eventual downfall. But the effect of their actions is lethal, I understand that. Lethal, tragic.
I can't bear to see another Republican blathering on about how having to pay taxes will discourage capitalists and destroy the foundation of American society. It's such a vacuous, old, tired and dumb argument.Unfortunately, it looks like many people are taking the Republican diatribe as gospel. I hope the GOP downfall is purely political, because it seems like we will all face financial disaster if they take complete control of government. They are trying by any means they feel are necessary to win the White House. Voter suppression and outwardly lying about facts are two of their favorite methods.
I'll say this for the Republicans: Democracy only works for them when they are in control. Now that is a truly frightening thought. Can you imagine a President Perry, Cain or Romney? After all, logic never enters into the Republican platform. Only lies and scare tactics. They seem to be experts at building walls, whether it is at the southern border or around anyone whose politics are in the center or lean toward the left.
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