Well…I was going to comment on the doubling down of the repubs on their nonsensical tax plans, or their hatred of gays, or anyone else that is not like them….but, for some reason, the bike ride emptied my brain of all of the thoughts that I had in there…and lately, the thoughts have been thin to say the least. Okay, going back to the papers to look for the topics that were there….there is one that I wanted to tackle is the whole transfer the tax burden from the rich and corporations to individual workers and retirees. First, there was the lie of the direness of the financial state of Michigan…we were told that without the corporate tax cuts and increases on individuals along with benefit cuts, that Michigan would have an unsustainable deficit that would stretch into the forseeable future…but, let’s take a look at what really happened…magically there is a billion dollar surplus in the state’s coffers at the end of the year…before any of Snyder’s tax changes took place and it looks like Snyder and his cronies were lying again to reward their corporate masters with 1.7 billion dollars in tax cuts. How much longer do we sit here and allow the looting of our state by these thieves? Geez…
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I predicted this one….
Well…a few days ago, I expressed my hope that one of the outcomes of the Iowa repub nonsense would be that both Perry and Bachmann would just go home and we would never have to hear from them again…and I predicted that poor showings would have that result. I am happy to report here that ole Rick is heading back to Texas to “think” about his campaign…I don’t know what he is going to think about…can he even think? Or, will his donors and cronies do the thinking for him while he styles his hair? Then, ole Micheel has a news conference scheduled for this afternoon for a “major announcement” on the direction of her campaign…but the only direction I see for her is to head due north back where she came from….maybe we can hope that she will retire and go back to “un-gaying” gays in Minnesota. What a couple of know-nothing losers that even the delusional repubs have rejected as being unqualified…now, if we could just do the same for ole Newt and Santorum, the IQ of the entire party would rise about 50 points.
One last thing, I’m going to keep hammering on Mitt for the lies on job creation that he keeps spouting on the trail…the latest is that he “created” over 100K jobs while at Bain Capital…but he never nets that with the hundreds of thousands of jobs that he killed while stealing the assets of the companies that Bain purchased..so folks…you can tell when ole Mitt is lying about his jobs record…it’s when he opens his mouth…geez…
A few things..
Well…just a few things that I want to comment on this morning to try to get back in the swing of things and get some political commentary going again…first…I just can’t wait for the Iowa nonsense to be over and done with…and I am glad I don’t live there to have to listen to and see all of the political ads that have dominated the airwaves…but there will be one bright spot to come out of today..or maybe two…we probably won’t have to listen to Michelle Bachmann or Rick Perry any more since they are both likely to finish well back in the pack…I don’t know why anyone listened to them anyway…they are two of the most stupid sounding politicians that I have ever heard…and I’ve been around a long time. I really can’t wait until they start to hammer ole Mitt on his claims to have created over 100K jobs while at Bain Capital when it is just not true…never created one job….remember that folks…never created one job and I look forward to him having to really answer for his destructive reign there and personally profiting in the hundreds of millions of dollars while he and his cronies looted companies that would still be alive if it weren’t for them.
Oh, one last thing….I see that the incestuous right wing media nonsense continues in today’s Detroit News where they treat their house dog Manny Lopez as an independent writer when they published his screed about Obama’s vacation and ole Manny’s contention that Obama can’t care about the 99 percenters since he is one of the one percent. The first thing to me is that there should be disclosure that Manny is regular columnist at the News and to make it look like he is an independent “other voice” is just dishonest and only adds to the echo chamber that is the right wing media. The more salient point to make here, though, is that Obama worked hard and achieved his way to the one percenter that he is…he didn’t have mommy or daddy start him on third base and tell him he hit a triple…geez….
Maybe the Republicans are getting some sense….
Well…there is not much going on with politics but the Iowa nonsense with the repubs but I can’t believe that there is so much time and attention being expended on this weird, throwback of a process. When you do the math, the whole caucus there and all of the votes amount to less than one-half of one percent of the total electorate in the US and the winner comes out thinking that he or she is presidential material and has earned a mandate to continue. But that is not what this is about…this is supposed to be about the repubs getting some sense and abandoning the idiot Newt for the nonsense he has been spouting…now, ole Newt may be right at home in a Dickens novel, but he is certainly not presidential material and it looks like even the hard right that controls the elections in Iowa has wised up to that fact. Well…maybe I’m wrong that they’ve gotten smarter…since they have pushed Rick Santorum to second place in the polls and have even kept Ron Paul in the running…this could be fun to watch if you like slow-motion crashes….I know, not too lucid but I’m really trying so bear with me a while…if I don’t get better then abandon me…
Everyone’s doing fine but the workers…
Well…this one just popped into my head about an article that I saw a few days ago that said that the current congress is the richest one in the history of the country with the current crop’s net worth being 10 times the average Americans, and this points to one of the problems that I see with the country right now: that everyone but the workers are doing well. Corporations have the highest highest retained earnings of any time in history and CEO pay is at it’s highest in relation to worker’s pay since statistics have been kept…why doesn’t anyone connect the dots here? We have the rich in congress making laws for the rich bought and paid for by corporations that have done nothing but stagnate the income of the middle class (or, in real dollars have shrunk the income of the middle) and we wonder why no one is spending, we wonder why the economy can’t stop sputtering and start to move again? Until the middle gets a true share of their contribution to the economy and the rich stop taking more and more, we are doomed to just idle, to look at tiny slivers of hope and blow them out of proportion just because we want to believe that the American dream still exists…I’ve got news for you….it’s already gone…geez….
Boehner is still an idiot….
Well…just a little short one to comment on the jaw dropping comment that ole John made after the dustup over the extension of the middle class payroll tax cut that was resolved last week. The quote goes like this: “…we fought the good fight. Why not do the right thing for the American people even thought it’s not what we (the republicans) want? What a revaltory statement that I’m sure he didn’t want to make…he’s just not that bright but it did lay bare the repubs contempt for the American people and our country that is held by these folks….that they don’t give a damn about anyone but the party and those of the 1% that bankroll it and buy repub seats in congress. I hope Boehner’s comments are plastered across the media for the next year and Obama keeps hammering them on their lack of concern for anyone but themselves….geez…
Is Michelle Malkin a human being?
Well…normally, I wouldn’t even concern myself with the half-baked nonsense that Michelle Malkin writes since her screeds make my brain hurt when I read them….but, today, I just had to comment on her downright gleeful take on the struggles of the L.A. school district to supply better meals to the children that go to school there. She deems the whole venture to upgrade the lunches a failure since the children “voted with their stomachs” and liked the old high-fat meals of pizza and chicken nuggets better. Of course kids are going to like the food they have been taught to like through billions of dollars of advertising…and I do admit that high fat, fried foods taste good, but to not even try to stem the obesity epidemic would be a gross abandonment of our responsibilities as adults and the only thing Michelle Obama is trying to do is to use her voice to try to educate people on how to eat better for a healthier life. But, as always, ole Michelle sees it as a sinister plot to have the government take over all aspects of everyone’s life but then throws in that the program in L.A. is a failure because they have provided health benefits for part time cafeteria workers. Geez, Michelle, who taught you to hate so much? Just another shill for the right wing conspiracy to take everything from the 99% and give it to the 1%…
Nolan Finley has gone over the edge…
Well…I really do have to thank ole Nolan for being up to more of his nonsense this morning in the Detroit News where the latest dump from his tortured mind sees Obama and his re-election team behind the ‘Occupy” movement with a little George Soros thrown in for good measure. His main premise is that since Romney will probably be the republican nominee, (as he sees it) it is imperative for Obama to discredit the financial industry where Romney made most of his money and the best way to do this is to make a fake populist revolt of the people to make the charges. Nolan, Nolan, Nolan…..this sounds a bit like projection since your beloved tea party is just that… a fake grass-roots organization backed by billionaires for the specific purpose of killing the middle class and taking more, and more, and more for the rich and corporations. What you truly don’t understand is the “Occupy” movement started long before it had the backing of unions or really anyone on the left and Obama is still keeping his distance….and was really late to the party. I think you have the whole thing completely backwards….”Occupy” is truly a people run movement that is a direct response to republican policies that always favor the rich and, whether it was the plan or not, have decimated the middle class….so, when you talk conspiracy theories, your fear of the people taking the country back from your ilk oozes from every word…and you should be scared…
Romney’s entititlement society…
Well..it just pisses me off when one of the 1% starts to lecture us on what, in his warped, privileged mind, is wrong with society today. He is lecturing us on entitlement? Romney, who was born the son of wealthy parents who has all the best in life with no struggle to pay the rent, put food on the table, or send the kids to college? I’ve had enough of the elites and their rich buddies faking that they even give a damn about anyone but themselves and then continue to steal what rightfully belongs to the middle class, without who the rich would not be rich…the only sense of entitlement here in the US belongs to the rich who think they got to where they are by hard work…and that is just nonsense…they got where they are with the connections and old boy networks that do not operate on merit…they operate on cronyism and the winks and nods that come with a rigged system. Mitt, why don’t you just go back to Bain Capital and ship some more jobs overseas…that is the only thing you are good for….geez….
Tax shenanigans….
Well…if it wasn’t so sad, watching the repubs try to justify not continuing the payroll tax holiday for middle class workers without getting a new pipeline for their oil company owners would be funny. But, it really isn’t…it just another example of the sad state of affairs in the modern republican party that is dominated by the tea party. One of the really sad things is that, even with the claims of Rick Perry and some of the other repub candidates that the pipeline is really a jobs program since it would create between 100,000 and a million jobs, none of that oil is even going to be used in the US since we have become a net exporter of refined oil products. So, what is this pipeline about? It’s about more and more profits for the oil companies who don’t really give a damn that the pipeline will run across one of the largest aquifers in the central US, and that independent analysts have said will create maybe 500 new jobs; if that many. This is what happens when business owns one of the two parties here in the US and will never be better until we take their money out of the equation….and get the repubs back to representing the people who voted them into office not the corporations that bought them their seats in congress…geez…