Well…just a little short one on an article I just read about how much people really do hate Ted Cruz….one of his compatriots in congress, Rep Peter King, had this to say today…”I really hate Ted Cruz…I’d take cyanide if he gets the nomination…” now, I know this is hyperbole from a congressman who is known for it…but to publicly make a comment like that during the New York primary says a lot to how much ole Ted is just despised by everyone he has ever come into contact with from his college roommate to the prosecutor’s office in Texas, to the senate…everyone hates Ted….and that only happens by being the self-centered asshole that he is…remember, his little shutdown tantrum cost this country over $24 billion dollars….money that could have been spent to provide free college to over 200,000 kids…selfish asshole…geez…
Category Archives: Politics
$15 dollars an hour is too much?
Well…after a few states have passed minimum wage laws that raise the wage to a still unlivable $15 dollars an hour, we have heard the baloney hand wringing and threats from the ceo’s of many of the low wage companies that depend on not paying their workers what they are worth say that they will have to close down or move to red states where they can still take advantage of their workers. Boo frickin hoo…just read an article comparing the $15 dollar per hour wage that people have been fighting for to the ceo pay on an hourly basis and it is not pretty…all of these jerks that are whining to high heaven make…wait for it…$2,300 to $9,700 PER HOUR…yep these asses that are complaining they can’t afford to pay their workers are getting ceo welfare to the tune of millions of dollars a year…with the ceo of McDonald’s getting a 368% raise for coming up with all day breakfast…yeah…that sure was not an original thought but this idiot took credit for it and is going to siphon off million of dollars more that the company just can’t afford to pay it’s workers. I’ve had enough of coddling these guys and letting them think that they are worth what the get paid…I mean who is worth $35 million a year while his workers are starving? Things just need to change…and the repubs won’t do it…geez….
Why are taxes so complicated? I think you can guess….
Well…with it being tax day, I thought it might be fun to take a look at the reason why taxes are so complicated. In many countries around the world the state sends out a form with all of your information already entered into it and all you have to do is sign it…with the record keeping and computer capacity that has made life easier everywhere but here, you would think the US would be able to do that, too…but, no….not when you have the tax preparation industry protecting the 15 billion dollars they make every year doing taxes for individuals. The whole thing tracks back to 1998 when congress ordered the IRS to build a “return free system” for people who have relatively simple returns…but, even before the rules were tried, the tax prep industry started throwing money at legislators trying to get the act rescinded and they have spent almost 30 million dollars trying to keep the tax code as complicated as possible to ensure their profits. It is not like these guys know what they are doing, either…a study done buy the GAO found that 90% of the returns done by “professional” preparers had errors in them….something that is not better than people doing it themselves. I am just so tired of business buying themselves profits that come from the hard work of normal folks just because they can…and I am tired of congress not doing their job to protect US citizens from this kind of crap….geez…
Kasich the moderate?
Well…as you know, every repub that has been elected to a governor’s seat lied to get there…hiding what they truly were about and playing reasonable, moderate, politicians since, if they told the truth about their views and what they were going to do, they wouldn’t get elected. The same kind of crap is now being pushed by Kasich…that he is the more “moderate” candidate that independents can vote for. Yeah…not so much…just start with the 30 bills he has signed restricting a woman’s right to control her own body…and then to the answer he gave a female college student the other day when asked what he would do about the huge amount of sexual assaults on college campuses across the US. His answer? “Don’t go to parties where there is alcohol.” Yep…just like every other misogynist repub who doesn’t really give a damn about any issue that is important to women, he dismisses the questioner with a flippant, stupid comment that shows he’s no moderate…just another troglodyte repub…so, the next time you hear moderate connected to Kasich…just laugh and shake your head…geez….
The results are in…
Well…it has been kind of a weird day today and I seem to be running late for everything…it may have been working on the car and ordering the new exhaust…yeah…that’s it…but, that’s not what I want to talk about…was just sitting here today thinking about the crap economics that the repubs have been pushing for the past 40 years and the fact that the results are in…that anywhere the tea party asses have been in control have seen their economies and budgets busted by the idiot “faith” that tax cuts will lead to a growing economy and that budget cuts will do the same….not in Kansas, not in Louisiana, not in Michigan…nowhere. In Kansas, the economy is so bad that they can’t even afford to educate their children after the tax cuts to the rich and business…here in Michigan, the love of austerity and tax cuts (only to business) has led to the poisoning of an entire city and cities that are going bankrupt with cuts in state funding…and, after Bobby Jindal got done with Louisiana, a dem had to come in and try to fix the cratered economy and education system. But, the only thing that repubs will learn from this is that they didn’t cut taxes or spending enough…if they had only cut taxes for the rich completely, it would have worked…a delusion that is killing this country…but, the idiots keep getting re elected so maybe the people deserve this crap….geez…
This is just too funny….
Well….it has been fun to watch as the dysfunction on the right and the just atrocious behavior by the front runners for the repub nomination have made the party just a toxic swamp of nastiness. But, the funniest thing I’ve read lately was an article a few minutes ago that shows the toxicity to be even worse than anyone thought. Some high ranking repubs are quietly starting to advise their members who are in tight races to skip the convention so they don’t get tarred by what they know is going to a debacle in Cleveland….yep, for the first time since I have been around…and that is a long time, politicians are going to abandon a sinking ship of a convention to try to keep their jobs by “talking” to their constituents and meeting with them instead of going to the convention…the place where every repbub just drools to get to to preen in front of the cameras and get free advertising. I laugh at all this since everyone but the right saw this coming…when you do nothing but stoke fear and hate, what do you expect? Now that their hate is being directed at themselves, they have lost control and the rats are deserting that quickly sinking ship…couldn’t happen to an uglier group of people….geez….
The fallout begins to crush NC…
Well…after the idiot repubs in North Carolina passed the anti LGBT law a few weeks back that allows discrimination against those folks…their even more idiot governor told the press that he had not seen any effect on business in the state…yeah, that was then…but now, just today, Deustch Bank pulled a 250 job expansion in the state that goes with Paypal’s 400 jobs that will not be coming to the state…and it gets even worse…in a state economy that does lots of convention and tourism business, the cancellations are now starting to be reported with at least 29 groups cancelling their trips to the state. What does this mean to the tourism industry? The estimate so far is that they will lose almost 90,000 room nights with the cancellations…if we use an average of just $100 per night that makes almost $9 million dollars that the state has lost already and that is just the start. How many jobs will go with the loss of that $9 million? At least another few hundred and the ball is just now getting rolling. I have sympathy for the people being hurt that didn’t want the law passed…with the last poll saying that over 60% of the people there didn’t want the law but the far right haters there just had to do it…it’s the only thing that these idiots know…hate….and I really hope the state continues to pay dearly for these asses actions…they are getting what they deserve…geez…
The idiocy continues….
Well…with the passing of the anti LGBT bills across the south and the reactions to this undisguised hate towards these people, you would think that legislators in other states would think long and hard about enacting that hate in their states. But, no, the idiocy continues and has spread to Michigan with, you guessed it, the repubs here proposing the same kind of legislation here in reaction to the state board of education starting to formulate policies that would protect LGBT students here. What the hell is is with these folks? Why do they seem compelled to use their control over the government to hurt people? That is the modern repub party folks….scream about the federal government taking control over the states and then use the power of the state to take away local control that they love in any other circumstance. Look, you know that I point out this hypocrisy on a regular basis, and you are probably tired of hearing it…but people need to be aware of the damage the repubs are doing to this country….and vote to stop it…geez…
Short sighted stupidity…
Well…with all of the pro discrimination laws that are being passed by repubs across the country, I wonder if any of them thought through what the ramifications are going to be? Okay…yeah, I know…by definition the repubs don’t think, they just hate and that hate is aimed at anyone that is not straight and white…but, if they truly think these laws are going to allow them to discriminate for more than a couple of years, they are delusional. In fact, I think they just sped up the process where the 14th amendment will be applied across the board to everyone in the US….that equal protection under the laws will mean actually that and they will no longer be able to hide behind their hate based religion to try to ensure the LGBT community is just a little less equal than everyone else. These folks need to take their religion and put it back where it belongs; in churches, not being used as a club to hate….one funny thing that has come out of these laws is the fact that how they are written, they allow discrimination against christians as well as the LGBT community…I am waiting for an atheist business owner to put a sign up saying “no christians allowed” for a laugh…but, we atheists don’t go in for that discrimination crap…who are the better people? Geez…
Some civility…
Well…not a lot going on today except for the Tigers home opener so I thought I’d just talk a little about politics….there has been some huge amounts of sniping going on between Bernie and Hillary over the past month or so and I’ve had a problem with it…after all, we’re supposed to be the party of ideas not of nastiness like the repubs…but, in a good sign for the general, the two campaigns have called a truce…at least on who is qualified to be president anyway…but, I think they need to stretch that truce to include everything…we have made the mistake in the past of being repub light when that’s not what people want…at least on our side…and, you don’t appeal to independents by being meaner and nastier than the repubs…and I don’t think anyone can be nastier than Trump or Cruz….what we need to do is continue to highlight the policy differences between us and them…and we’ve had 35 years to figure that out since the repubs have been saying the same things that don’t work since Reagan and they aren’t going to change now…geez…