And in the bigger picture, Republicans' efforts to castigate the jobless continue to strike me as bizarre. Sharron Angle, the extremist Republican Senate candidate in Nevada, considers the unemployed "spoiled ." One GOP congressman recently compared the unemployed to "hobos." In the House, GOP lawmakers tried to eliminate a successful jobs program. Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) actually started pushing a measure to require the unemployed to take mandatory drug tests in exchange for benefits. Kentucky's Rand Paul wants the jobless to quit their bellyaching and "get back to work."Real simple, Steve. Real Americans are never unemployed, only Those Other People are. Since Those Other People vote Democratic and Real Americans vote Republican, cutting off Those Other People only hurts the Democrats, and not Real Americans.
And, of course, in the Senate, Republicans have refused to allow a vote to extend unemployment benefits, and won't even consider aid to states that would prevent hundreds of thousands of additional layoffs.
What did the unemployed ever do to offend the Republican Party this much?
Ergo, the GOP has a double-sided battle axe to grind against the unemployed, and it's time to cut them off in an election year. People without unemployment money can't make their bills, their car payment, hey, even their mortgage or rent. And homeless people, they tend not to vote, dig?
I have a few burning questions for Zandar...
ReplyDelete1. Why would NASA's Admin foremost mission be to improve relations with the muslim world?
2. Where is the annual report from SS Board of Trustees? It's always out between April and May.
3. Why is the NAACP voting on a resolution condemning the Tea Party? Now while they may have some extreme views the issue of race has hardly been proven on a wide enough basis to condemn the entire movement.
4. so we're on our 3rd moratorium and "The new order does not appear to deviate much from the original moratorium" why are we wasting time? Who are they trying to win over by wasting time?
1) The White House corrected that NASA statement to include outreach to scientists of all nations, not just Muslim ones. Scientists and science are the kinds of things NASA should be promoting.
ReplyDelete2) That is a very good question, I don't know, and I would very much like to.
3) I'm with the Atlanta Post's Charing Ball on this one. The NAACP should be taking action to correct real, actual racial injustices (which there are too many of) rather than picking symbolic fights.
4) The difference is this includes all offshore drilling, and the moratorium includes putting the burden of proof on oil rigs to have adequate safety plans in place. Only those who do not will be be banned from drilling and will be refitted with adequate safety measures. Seems like a common sense kind of thing to me. If it's safe, then the oil rigs will be able to prove it by measurable means.
4 is going to be questionable, it's on them to prove it's safe but it's will be "safe in the eye of the beholder".
ReplyDeleteDoes the next judge have stock in BP? :-)