Employers Won’t Hire The Jobless Because Of The ‘Desperate Vibe’
Refusing to hire people who are currently unemployed is not a strategy that will lower unemployment or improve the economy. Of course, businesses have no responsibility for such things. This is the great flaw in conservative philosophy – wanting to leave the future of our country in the hands of corporations that have no responsibilities to the economy, the people, the physical country, or the Constitution. They are neither patriots nor citizens, yet conservatives want this anarchy of self-interests to control the country. Such a country would be America in name only.
Capitalism is fundamentally narcissistic, and you cannot run a free and just country on such principles.
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Peter King: I’ll Hold Hearings On Radical Islam
They condemned the rightwing extremist threat assessment last year for thoroughly partisan reasons – until a soldier shot up a military base and proved them wrong.
I remember when innocent American groups were investigated, even infiltrated, in the republican search for terrorists.
Texas republicans have mandated a rewrite of history to claim that Joe McCarthy was vindicated and a patriot instead of a politician who destroyed careers and ruined lives for the sake of power.
We need American Muslims to stand up and oppose the use of Islam as a tool of terrorism, but conservatives seem determined to alienate them in every way possible. American Muslims are treated with suspicion and distrust, investigated, alienated, harassed and ignored. Mosque construction is resisted, and efforts to bridge the understanding gap have been crucified.
Of course they are not jumping at the chance to aid their own persecution. They are Americans, and deserve to be treated like Americans. National security is in their best interest too, let’s keep it that way.
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Steve Israel, New DCCC Chairman, Set To Go On ‘Offense’ For House Democrats
“Israel argues that the Republican-redistricting-dominance story line is overplayed because the party picked up so many seats this fall, not only making it tougher for the GOP to draw Democrats out of districts but also creating potential intraparty squabbles over the lines. ”
This sort of short-sighted thinking is why the republicans keep outmaneuvering the democrats.
Save the BS for the vegetable garden, Steve, and give the people what they want – honesty.
Big promises provide target practice for the other side, and disillusionment for yours. We are tired of big talk and small action. Very tough times are ahead for the lower 98, and it gets worse by the month as long as conservative propaganda dominates the public perceptions.
Rule #1: Never give a fact-checker the opportunity to call you wrong.
Stick to the facts and statistics like glue. Keep the embellishments to a minimum.
Rule #2: No overreaching promises.
Set aggressive, attainable goals. We need a Daedalus, not an Icarus.
Rule #3: No Headbutting.
You get into a battle of words, conservative media will bury you. Challenge the policies. Let the public challenge the personalities.
Rule #4: Draw a picture, show your work.
No he-said/she-said. Don’t just draw a conclusion, show how you arrived at it. Give the facts and statistics in a Main Street friendly way. You won’t convince us if we cannot follow your reasoning, don’t believe it, or consider it BS.
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Obama-GOP Tax Cut Bill Turning Into ‘Christmas Tree’ Tinseled With Gifts For Lobbyists, Lawmakers
This deal has turned into just about everything that the last election protested. Secret deals, buying votes, huge deficit spending.
Extending UI benefits has a positive stimulative effect. Tax breaks for the middle class, positive but less efficient. The SS holiday is a dangerously slippery slope. The rest is unstimulative and unaffordable.
The economy will never recover as long as the tax breaks for the rich remain in place. They just drain too much money out of the economy with very little return. 2/3 of the economy is consumption-driven, and not enough money is getting back to consumers to sustain it’s growth.
Middle class workers have not shared the benefits of increased productivity, which has been used to keep job creation low. The middle class has lost a tremendous amount of wealth in the housing bubble, lost retirement money, and been forced to compete on wages with workers in third-world or emerging economies.
The job creators have all the money they need to start hiring. What they lack is customers. They are waiting for the people they have shorted to start spending money they no longer have. Government stimulus spending is the usual way to break that gridlock, but the effort has been undermined and that well is tapped dry.
Tax cuts for the rich haven’t created jobs, and restoring those rates will not hurt job creation as much as conservatives claim.
This plan may seem like good politics, but it also seems like bad economics.
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