JoeB131
Diamond Member
True.
A demagogue politician's job is to use taxpayers funds to support boondoggles. The zombified populace do not know their ass from a hole in the ground.
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Nice attitude.
But here's the problem with that thinking. It's the businessman who has made so many dependent on government.
Take Romney (Please). He eliminated good union jobs at AmPad, at GS Steel, at DDi. Moved some of those jobs overseas, or bought from foreign sources. But he will brag endlessly about how he created 100,000 jobs at places like Dominos Pizza at Staples.
Jobs that pay minimum wage, have no benefits, and require very little skill. Essentially, "McJobs".
The problem with "creating" McJobs is that if you are anything but a teen or college student doing them, then you are going to need help getting by in life. You are going to apply for food stamps (fun fact- 40% of people using food stamps have jobs) you are going to apply for Section 8 housing to help with the rent, you're going to need Medicaid for medical coverage for your family, and so on. And once you realize the government is doing more for you if you just vote for Democrats than your employer does for you if you bust your hump 40+ hours a week, that's an incentive to vote for Democrats.
This is where Republicans I think have become self-defeating. A lot of what the GOP stands for is still admirable. Self-reliance, hard work, limited government. But because the Establishment has put the greed of a few over the good for the many, and support union busting, offshoring and other offenses against the middle class, they shouldn't be surprised when the people they are trying to reach vote Democratic. Which is pretty much what happened in 2008.