Well…can a rich guy get any further out of touch with anyone who actually has to work for a living that ole Jeb!? I am so fricking tired of rich people who have never had to work a day in their lives trying to tell us how to better ourselves and get ahead…the other day ole Jeb! came out and said that American workers need to work longer hours and through their productivity gain more income for their families…exactly how do you do that Jeb!? All of the productivity gains of the past 20 years has gone to the top 1% while wages have been stagnant…how would the worker get a share of those gains, a union perhaps? Nope, that is not how to do it…you’re just supposed to work more hours (never mind that US workers already work more hours than in any industrialized country) and then hope all that productivity trickles down into better wages, or full time jobs…but that’s not what the 1% want…they want temp and part time workers they don’t have to pay benefits to…what’s your policy plan to make that happen Jeb!? I have had enough of blaming workers for their plight when the blame belongs to people like ole Jeb! and his cronies who have rigged the system and weakened unions to the point that the workers have no power anymore…just go back to your boardrooms and shut the hell up…geez..
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Still no politics…
Well….I have been thinking and thinking about a political one to do with absolutely no luck…how can you maintain outrage when everything that the right does is outrageous? There was on thing from Wisconsin where a federal court stuck down the “admitting privileges” crap law that did nothing for the safety of women…just another attempt to limit their healthcare choices…I wonder when women are going to get tired of a bunch of guys telling them what they can and can’t do with their own bodies? What else? Let me go look at a few news websites to see if there is anything going on….oh, more from Wisconsin…the repubs in charge there want to repeal a law that says the employers have to give workers a day off every week…the law was in response to employers forcing their workers to work months at a time without a day off for rest…but the repubs, who hate everyone who is not an owner…just don’t give a damm…they won’t ever be in those conditions again so they think everyone else that is just not important…and their big donors have been pushing for more ways to abuse their workers for a long time now….is there any question why I just hate the repubs? geez….
Just a little noodling…
Well…I’ve been sitting here thinking about what to write for the second one of the day and have had no luck…so, that means I have to just wander around a bit and see what happens…I think I’ll go out to the Post and try to find something…okay…no luck…so I’ll pose a question…why is work taxed at a higher rate now than investment? Why shouldn’t all income be treated the same? Why should a billionaire who makes his money through investment pay 14% while the worker sweating in a foundry or auto plant pays 30%? I think it all has to do with the lack of respect the repubs have for workers as evidenced by all of the ways they have tried to hurt them over the years. The Ryan budget would do more of the same…give more tax breaks to the rich while raising our taxes…doesn’t anyone else see this as immoral? This, coming from the party that holds themselves out as the morally superior one…the family values party…since when did stealing the whole country for the rich become a family value? And, when did women agree to give up all of their rights to their own bodies when they become pregnant as the repubs are putting in their platform….I am getting a little tired of pointing this stuff out to people…but, if not me, who? geez…