The top ten reasons not to vote Republican in the midterms

[tuhaybey]

I would say the main reason is because Republican policies consistently fail.

 

[JoeNormal]

And who's going to write those regulations that will fix the problem, ding dong? The people who are owned by the corporations. You didn't think that through, you never do.

And government spends trillions and you want it to spend more. And you think regulations are going to stop people from trying to buy it? Your freaking insane. Seriously.

It's obviously not going to happen with people like you pulling for the worst among us. I've pretty much resigned myself to watching it all go down. I hope I get to see it - it'll be interesting.

It's capitalists like me who created the wealth this country has. It's socialists like you peddling fear who are destroying it. Look at all the business leaders who made us like we are. All are like me, not one is like you. Even guys like Gates and Buffett who advocate what you do didn't do it that way themselves.

I'm sure you THINK you've created the wealth this country has. It's the people who actually produce things who've created it in reality.

I began working for my current employer when the founder of the company was still running things. He was a brilliant and innovative humanitarian. He passed a few years back and was replaced by the typical CEO type. He'd have been as happy selling paint as MRI machines. Short term profits were his real passion so he brought in the typical corporate parasites. It's a shell of what it used to be.

Yes, comrade, it's the bourgeois, we are oppressing the proletariat.

So when I spend all my money and borrow a bunch more to start a business and I only get paid after everyone else and the company is built on my idea and I lose everything if I fail while hire employees who get a regular paycheck through the whole thing and if we fail they just find another job ... I made money on their backs.

Why does the word "Marxist" bother you again?

It's the worker who pushes the buttons on the million dollar machine who creates the wealth in this country, not the guy who bought the million dollar machine. Silly capitalist.
One day the workers of the world will unite, get rid of the silly investors, use those fingers to build a workers paradise. You'll be sorry. You'll see.

Oh, that's what workers do. Interesting. Jeezus, have you guys ever had a job?

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

It's obviously not going to happen with people like you pulling for the worst among us. I've pretty much resigned myself to watching it all go down. I hope I get to see it - it'll be interesting.

It's capitalists like me who created the wealth this country has. It's socialists like you peddling fear who are destroying it. Look at all the business leaders who made us like we are. All are like me, not one is like you. Even guys like Gates and Buffett who advocate what you do didn't do it that way themselves.

I'm sure you THINK you've created the wealth this country has. It's the people who actually produce things who've created it in reality.

I began working for my current employer when the founder of the company was still running things. He was a brilliant and innovative humanitarian. He passed a few years back and was replaced by the typical CEO type. He'd have been as happy selling paint as MRI machines. Short term profits were his real passion so he brought in the typical corporate parasites. It's a shell of what it used to be.

Yes, comrade, it's the bourgeois, we are oppressing the proletariat.

So when I spend all my money and borrow a bunch more to start a business and I only get paid after everyone else and the company is built on my idea and I lose everything if I fail while hire employees who get a regular paycheck through the whole thing and if we fail they just find another job ... I made money on their backs.

Why does the word "Marxist" bother you again?

It's the worker who pushes the buttons on the million dollar machine who creates the wealth in this country, not the guy who bought the million dollar machine. Silly capitalist.
One day the workers of the world will unite, get rid of the silly investors, use those fingers to build a workers paradise. You'll be sorry. You'll see.

Oh, that's what workers do. Interesting. Jeezus, have you guys ever had a job?

Workers don't push buttons on expensive machines? Are you sure?
Maybe you could tell us what those poor exploited workers are doing?

 

[Mustang]

They shouldn’t be there in the first place

This Republican House has the least public mandate of any Congress in history. In the 2012 elections, the Republicans won 234 seats to the Democrats 201. But the Democrats won 48.8% of the popular vote, to the Republican’s 47.6%. The Democrat’s vote tally was nearly one-and-a-half-million higher. There is no precedent for this, not even close – never has the legitimate preference of the voters been so distorted.

If the Democrats had won – because they got the most votes – the Tea Party would be far less influential. There would have been no debt ceiling crisis, roiling markets and shaking consumer confidence, and no government shutdown lasting sixteen days.

With the Senate having passed a bi-partisan Immigration bill with more than two-thirds of the chamber voting yea, the house would, by now, have followed suit, with a final bill coming out of conference, bound for the president’s desk.

They don’t realize we get it already

The Republicans have voted more than 50 times to repeal or defund Obamacare.

“They have been obsessed with repealing the Affordable Care Act,” President Obama told a Democratic National Committee meeting in Washington. “You know what they say: 50th time is the charm. Maybe when you hit your 50th repeal vote, you will win a prize. Maybe if you buy 50 repeal votes, you get one free. We get it.”

No one likes them

The lowest point in the average of the polls that Nancy Pelosi’s Democrat-led House ever reached was 17%, as Obamacare was being passed. Generally speaking, the Democrats mainly stayed above 20%. Hardly amazing, but worthwhile remembering, given what was to come. The Republican controlled House has been by far the most disliked in modern history. An associated Press poll from the last week of September had them at 7%. It’s not just the least popular Congress, though: It’s also, according to Gallup, the least popular institution of any kind ever recorded.

They don’t do anything

The 113th Congress remains on track to be the least productive in modern history. Just 142 public bills have been enacted into law in the current session, down from the 906 the 80th “Do-Nothing” Congress passed in 1947-48. At this same point in the last Congress, which set the record for the fewest bills passed into public law in the modern era, 151 bills had made it into law.

They don’t represent society

Backers of Rep. Steve Southerland threw the Florida Republican a men-only fundraiser earlier this year. The invitation came complete with instructions that attendees should “tell the missus not to wait up” because “the after dinner whiskey and cigars will be smooth and the issues to discuss are many.”

In 1950, 98% of House Democrats and 97% of House Republicans were white men. In the 64 years since, that share has fallen 51 points for Democrats, but only 8 points for Republicans. Today, 89% of House Republicans are white men, compared to just 47% of House Democrats. On election night 2012, Democrats took pride in the fact that, for the first time ever, women and minorities would compose a majority — 53% — of their caucus. Meanwhile, the share of women and minorities in the GOP House conference went down, from 14% to 11%.

They’re too into Israel

Recent polls make it clear that, in the U.S., the strongest support for Israel’s right-wing policies now comes not from Jews, but from Republicans. Around the time of the Gaza conflict, Pew reported that the share of Republicans who sympathize more with Israel had risen from 68% to 73%, far larger than the proportion of Democrats.

Republican love for Israel knows almost no bounds, stemming, perhaps, from an absolutist trait in the conservative worldview. Israel is the Middle East’s only “good guy,” surrounded by a sea of “bad guys.”

In 2013, Israel’s GDP was $291.3 billion. The U.S. has subsidized about 25% of the tiny country’s annual defense budget in recent years; and U.S. military aid is roughly 1% of Israel’s economy. Yet the Republicans still complain that the Obama administration hasn’t been sufficiently supportive. For all their unwavering loyalty, however, it is really strange that, after the surprise defeat of Eric Cantor, there are now exactly zero Jewish Republicans in the House.

Their outreach to the Black community still faces hurdles

“To a significant extent, the Republican base does have elements that are animated by racism. And that’s unfortunate,” Democrat Steve Israel said recently on CNN.

“I couldn’t be consistent with myself and my core beliefs, and stay with a party that was so unfriendly toward the African-American president,” former Florida governor Charlie Crist said in an interview.“I was a Republican and I saw the activists and what they were doing, it was intolerable to me.”

“The reason why Fox News and the GOP attract people like Cliven Bundy, Ted Nugent, and George Zimmerman is because they have spent the entire Obama years using racial divides as a political weapon,” Bill Maher argued earlier this year, later going on to argue that Fox News called the New Black Panthers scary, but portrayed white militia members as heroes.

An interesting proxy for measuring racial prejudice is a person’s views on interracial dating and marriage. The Pew Research Center has been polling on this question for 25 years. In 2012, 18 percent of Republicans disapproved of blacks and whites dating each other.

They’ve wasted a huge amount of money

The Republicans have cost the taxpayer, directly and in terms of hindered economic potential, a huge amount since taking over the House.

The lawsuit against the president will cost up to $350,000, billed at a rate of $500 per hour.

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) estimated that the House Republican’s prolonged showdown with the administration over the raising of the debt ceiling, a procedure, up till then largely a formality, increased government borrowing costs by $1.3 billion.

Standard & Poors estimated that the Republican-initiated shutdown, which lasted just over two weeks, cost $1.5 billion per day, and took a total of $24 billion out of the U.S. economy.

Almost continuously, since 2012, the Republican controlled House has been investigating Benghazi. “The Department has devoted thousands of man-hours to responding to the numerous and often repetitive congressional requests regarding Benghazi,” Assistant Secretary of Defense for Legislative Affairs Elizabeth King said in a letter to Congress. That estimate included “time devoted to approximately 50 congressional hearings, briefings, and interviews which the Department has led or participated in.”

In May, the Republicans formed a special committee to re investigate Benghazi – the budget is $5,650,000 – bigger than the budgets for the committees on Veteran’s affairs, Intelligence and the budget itself.

When House Republicans voted to appoint a special counsel for the IRS investigation, House Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin responded by saying, “The IRS has spent more than $14 million in taxpayer money accommodating Republican requests, turning over more than 600,000 pages of documents, none of which substantiate the GOP’s wild attempt from the get-go to tar the administration.”

Its amazing that a fiscally conservative party has contrived to spend or waste this much money. Would anyone seriously suggest most of it had been well spent?

They can’t get their story straight

Despite having actually issued fewer executive orders than most of his predecessors, the Republicans have accused the President of being aggressively unilateral. In June, Republican Speaker John Boehner criticised the President’s use of executive orders, saying Congress must act to avoid Obama from acting like a “king.”

When Boehner was forced to cancel a vote on his border legislation after he didn’t have enough votes to pass it, he then issued a press release demanding that Obama act alone to secure the border. “There are numerous steps the president can and should be taking right now, without the need for congressional action, to secure our borders…” The logic being that it is not okay for Obama to take executive action unless the House is paralyzed by Republican infighting.

They’re going backwards in their thinking

Fewer Republicans today than in 2009 believe in evolution, according to a Pew poll last year. The poll showed that less than half – 43 percent – of those who identify with the Republican Party say they believe humans have evolved over time, plunging from 54 percent four years ago. Forty-eight percent say they believe “humans and other living things have existed in their present form since the beginning of time,” up from 39 percent in 2009. According to a recent National Science Foundation study, only 28 percent of conservative Republicans believe that humans evolved from earlier species. The fact these statistics are going backwards, in the twenty-first century, is amazing.

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I'll give you my top 3 reasons in no particular order.

1. Over the last 30 years conservatives have become increasingly extreme to the point that the marginalized extremists of the GOP of 30 years ago are now the base of the party.

2. Despite all their talk of morals and principled conservatism, conservatives are fundamentally dishonest. I know that people throw around that kind of charge pretty willy nilly, but I don't say it lightly or casually at all. Although I know that politicians tend to obfuscate, I have never heard so much blatant lying, and dissembling, and outright prevarication as I have heard from conservatives both in office and in the media. I've listened to talk radio for 20 years, and it's only gotten worse. That leads me to #3.

3. Maybe it's because nobody really calls them on their lies, and maybe it's because it seems to work. I don't know what it is exactly, but conservatives thrive in a climate of fear and ignorance. I'm not just talking about a lack of knowledge; I'm talking about woeful disinformation which ultimately leads to bad public policy which can be the only result of believing things that aren't true.

4. And last, but certainly not least, Republican conservatives have a stealth agenda that reflects both their dishonesty AND their extremism. I have no intention of being hoodwinked by people who have proven to me time and time again that they can't be trusted (or even competent) when it comes to governance. I mean, if the Iraq War and Hurricane Katrina taught us anything, it's that while they're very competent at getting elected, they're fundamentally dishonest, and they're incompetent. It only adds injury to insult when it's plain that the lives of average Americans mean absolutely nothing to the GOP hierarchy who obviously only care about serving their wealthy contributors with special tax breaks, favorable legislation, and a legal immunity from law suits, followed very soon by blanket pardons for anyone in their ranks serving in gov't who gets caught breaking the law as the administrations of Ford, Reagan, Bush 41, and Bush 43 proved.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

I would say the main reason is because Republican policies consistently fail.

Obviously. I mean just look at what they've done to California and Illinois.


Oh, wait.........

 

[JoeNormal]

It's capitalists like me who created the wealth this country has. It's socialists like you peddling fear who are destroying it. Look at all the business leaders who made us like we are. All are like me, not one is like you. Even guys like Gates and Buffett who advocate what you do didn't do it that way themselves.

I'm sure you THINK you've created the wealth this country has. It's the people who actually produce things who've created it in reality.

I began working for my current employer when the founder of the company was still running things. He was a brilliant and innovative humanitarian. He passed a few years back and was replaced by the typical CEO type. He'd have been as happy selling paint as MRI machines. Short term profits were his real passion so he brought in the typical corporate parasites. It's a shell of what it used to be.

Yes, comrade, it's the bourgeois, we are oppressing the proletariat.

So when I spend all my money and borrow a bunch more to start a business and I only get paid after everyone else and the company is built on my idea and I lose everything if I fail while hire employees who get a regular paycheck through the whole thing and if we fail they just find another job ... I made money on their backs.

Why does the word "Marxist" bother you again?

It's the worker who pushes the buttons on the million dollar machine who creates the wealth in this country, not the guy who bought the million dollar machine. Silly capitalist.
One day the workers of the world will unite, get rid of the silly investors, use those fingers to build a workers paradise. You'll be sorry. You'll see.

Oh, that's what workers do. Interesting. Jeezus, have you guys ever had a job?

Workers don't push buttons on expensive machines? Are you sure?
Maybe you could tell us what those poor exploited workers are doing?

Where it's possible to automate a job, it's already been done. If a worker is hired for a job function, it's because a machine can't do it. Why don't you start a list of the things a machine can't do and get back to me when you complete it.

 

[Bush92]

They shouldn’t be there in the first place

This Republican House has the least public mandate of any Congress in history. In the 2012 elections, the Republicans won 234 seats to the Democrats 201. But the Democrats won 48.8% of the popular vote, to the Republican’s 47.6%. The Democrat’s vote tally was nearly one-and-a-half-million higher. There is no precedent for this, not even close – never has the legitimate preference of the voters been so distorted.

If the Democrats had won – because they got the most votes – the Tea Party would be far less influential. There would have been no debt ceiling crisis, roiling markets and shaking consumer confidence, and no government shutdown lasting sixteen days.

With the Senate having passed a bi-partisan Immigration bill with more than two-thirds of the chamber voting yea, the house would, by now, have followed suit, with a final bill coming out of conference, bound for the president’s desk.

They don’t realize we get it already

The Republicans have voted more than 50 times to repeal or defund Obamacare.

“They have been obsessed with repealing the Affordable Care Act,” President Obama told a Democratic National Committee meeting in Washington. “You know what they say: 50th time is the charm. Maybe when you hit your 50th repeal vote, you will win a prize. Maybe if you buy 50 repeal votes, you get one free. We get it.”

No one likes them

The lowest point in the average of the polls that Nancy Pelosi’s Democrat-led House ever reached was 17%, as Obamacare was being passed. Generally speaking, the Democrats mainly stayed above 20%. Hardly amazing, but worthwhile remembering, given what was to come. The Republican controlled House has been by far the most disliked in modern history. An associated Press poll from the last week of September had them at 7%. It’s not just the least popular Congress, though: It’s also, according to Gallup, the least popular institution of any kind ever recorded.

They don’t do anything

The 113th Congress remains on track to be the least productive in modern history. Just 142 public bills have been enacted into law in the current session, down from the 906 the 80th “Do-Nothing” Congress passed in 1947-48. At this same point in the last Congress, which set the record for the fewest bills passed into public law in the modern era, 151 bills had made it into law.

They don’t represent society

Backers of Rep. Steve Southerland threw the Florida Republican a men-only fundraiser earlier this year. The invitation came complete with instructions that attendees should “tell the missus not to wait up” because “the after dinner whiskey and cigars will be smooth and the issues to discuss are many.”

In 1950, 98% of House Democrats and 97% of House Republicans were white men. In the 64 years since, that share has fallen 51 points for Democrats, but only 8 points for Republicans. Today, 89% of House Republicans are white men, compared to just 47% of House Democrats. On election night 2012, Democrats took pride in the fact that, for the first time ever, women and minorities would compose a majority — 53% — of their caucus. Meanwhile, the share of women and minorities in the GOP House conference went down, from 14% to 11%.

They’re too into Israel

Recent polls make it clear that, in the U.S., the strongest support for Israel’s right-wing policies now comes not from Jews, but from Republicans. Around the time of the Gaza conflict, Pew reported that the share of Republicans who sympathize more with Israel had risen from 68% to 73%, far larger than the proportion of Democrats.

Republican love for Israel knows almost no bounds, stemming, perhaps, from an absolutist trait in the conservative worldview. Israel is the Middle East’s only “good guy,” surrounded by a sea of “bad guys.”

In 2013, Israel’s GDP was $291.3 billion. The U.S. has subsidized about 25% of the tiny country’s annual defense budget in recent years; and U.S. military aid is roughly 1% of Israel’s economy. Yet the Republicans still complain that the Obama administration hasn’t been sufficiently supportive. For all their unwavering loyalty, however, it is really strange that, after the surprise defeat of Eric Cantor, there are now exactly zero Jewish Republicans in the House.

Their outreach to the Black community still faces hurdles

“To a significant extent, the Republican base does have elements that are animated by racism. And that’s unfortunate,” Democrat Steve Israel said recently on CNN.

“I couldn’t be consistent with myself and my core beliefs, and stay with a party that was so unfriendly toward the African-American president,” former Florida governor Charlie Crist said in an interview.“I was a Republican and I saw the activists and what they were doing, it was intolerable to me.”

“The reason why Fox News and the GOP attract people like Cliven Bundy, Ted Nugent, and George Zimmerman is because they have spent the entire Obama years using racial divides as a political weapon,” Bill Maher argued earlier this year, later going on to argue that Fox News called the New Black Panthers scary, but portrayed white militia members as heroes.

An interesting proxy for measuring racial prejudice is a person’s views on interracial dating and marriage. The Pew Research Center has been polling on this question for 25 years. In 2012, 18 percent of Republicans disapproved of blacks and whites dating each other.

They’ve wasted a huge amount of money

The Republicans have cost the taxpayer, directly and in terms of hindered economic potential, a huge amount since taking over the House.

The lawsuit against the president will cost up to $350,000, billed at a rate of $500 per hour.

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) estimated that the House Republican’s prolonged showdown with the administration over the raising of the debt ceiling, a procedure, up till then largely a formality, increased government borrowing costs by $1.3 billion.

Standard & Poors estimated that the Republican-initiated shutdown, which lasted just over two weeks, cost $1.5 billion per day, and took a total of $24 billion out of the U.S. economy.

Almost continuously, since 2012, the Republican controlled House has been investigating Benghazi. “The Department has devoted thousands of man-hours to responding to the numerous and often repetitive congressional requests regarding Benghazi,” Assistant Secretary of Defense for Legislative Affairs Elizabeth King said in a letter to Congress. That estimate included “time devoted to approximately 50 congressional hearings, briefings, and interviews which the Department has led or participated in.”

In May, the Republicans formed a special committee to re investigate Benghazi – the budget is $5,650,000 – bigger than the budgets for the committees on Veteran’s affairs, Intelligence and the budget itself.

When House Republicans voted to appoint a special counsel for the IRS investigation, House Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin responded by saying, “The IRS has spent more than $14 million in taxpayer money accommodating Republican requests, turning over more than 600,000 pages of documents, none of which substantiate the GOP’s wild attempt from the get-go to tar the administration.”

Its amazing that a fiscally conservative party has contrived to spend or waste this much money. Would anyone seriously suggest most of it had been well spent?

They can’t get their story straight

Despite having actually issued fewer executive orders than most of his predecessors, the Republicans have accused the President of being aggressively unilateral. In June, Republican Speaker John Boehner criticised the President’s use of executive orders, saying Congress must act to avoid Obama from acting like a “king.”

When Boehner was forced to cancel a vote on his border legislation after he didn’t have enough votes to pass it, he then issued a press release demanding that Obama act alone to secure the border. “There are numerous steps the president can and should be taking right now, without the need for congressional action, to secure our borders…” The logic being that it is not okay for Obama to take executive action unless the House is paralyzed by Republican infighting.

They’re going backwards in their thinking

Fewer Republicans today than in 2009 believe in evolution, according to a Pew poll last year. The poll showed that less than half – 43 percent – of those who identify with the Republican Party say they believe humans have evolved over time, plunging from 54 percent four years ago. Forty-eight percent say they believe “humans and other living things have existed in their present form since the beginning of time,” up from 39 percent in 2009. According to a recent National Science Foundation study, only 28 percent of conservative Republicans believe that humans evolved from earlier species. The fact these statistics are going backwards, in the twenty-first century, is amazing.

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When people answer polls about the favorable rating of Congress, they lump it together as the "federal government." Remember Democrats control the Senate.

 

[peach174]

And who's going to write those regulations that will fix the problem, ding dong? The people who are owned by the corporations. You didn't think that through, you never do.

And government spends trillions and you want it to spend more. And you think regulations are going to stop people from trying to buy it? Your freaking insane. Seriously.

It's obviously not going to happen with people like you pulling for the worst among us. I've pretty much resigned myself to watching it all go down. I hope I get to see it - it'll be interesting.

It's capitalists like me who created the wealth this country has. It's socialists like you peddling fear who are destroying it. Look at all the business leaders who made us like we are. All are like me, not one is like you. Even guys like Gates and Buffett who advocate what you do didn't do it that way themselves.

I'm sure you THINK you've created the wealth this country has. It's the people who actually produce things who've created it in reality.

I began working for my current employer when the founder of the company was still running things. He was a brilliant and innovative humanitarian. He passed a few years back and was replaced by the typical CEO type. He'd have been as happy selling paint as MRI machines. Short term profits were his real passion so he brought in the typical corporate parasites. It's a shell of what it used to be.

Yes, comrade, it's the bourgeois, we are oppressing the proletariat.

So when I spend all my money and borrow a bunch more to start a business and I only get paid after everyone else and the company is built on my idea and I lose everything if I fail while hire employees who get a regular paycheck through the whole thing and if we fail they just find another job ... I made money on their backs.

Why does the word "Marxist" bother you again?

It's the worker who pushes the buttons on the million dollar machine who creates the wealth in this country, not the guy who bought the million dollar machine. Silly capitalist.
One day the workers of the world will unite, get rid of the silly investors, use those fingers to build a workers paradise. You'll be sorry. You'll see.

So how does the worker who pushes the buttons and makes 50 to 75 thousand a year suppose the buy that million dollar machine?

 

[Bush92]

How is the democratic party more worthy of being called the "racist party of ignorance" than the republicans. Rebublicans continuously try to maintain policies that have unequal outcomes for different races. They also, in many instances, openly deny some of the most prominent research produced by science. If that doesn't constitute "racist" or "ignorant" I don't know what does.

Weber your back! My favorite punching bag. The whole political identity of the left of the political spectrum in the United States is a hatred of all White males who do not buy into the undoing of traditional values and the lessing of individual liberty at the expense of an Unconstitutional central authority. But anytime you disagree with a liberal (because in their own warped mind that have a moral high ground) you are an ignorant, racist, pig. It's all they know. Like spoiled children. "I want my mommy!" Easily translates to the need for a nanny state. For liberals, "when the going gets tough...the tears start rolling and someone is to blame." Might as well be conservative White males.

 

[kaz]

[So how does the worker who pushes the buttons and makes 50 to 75 thousand a year suppose the buy that million dollar machine?

I did it with my savings, IRAs, loans from family and working for free for several years while I lived off the backs of my employees who risked nothing and drew a regular paycheck.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

I'm sure you THINK you've created the wealth this country has. It's the people who actually produce things who've created it in reality.

I began working for my current employer when the founder of the company was still running things. He was a brilliant and innovative humanitarian. He passed a few years back and was replaced by the typical CEO type. He'd have been as happy selling paint as MRI machines. Short term profits were his real passion so he brought in the typical corporate parasites. It's a shell of what it used to be.

Yes, comrade, it's the bourgeois, we are oppressing the proletariat.

So when I spend all my money and borrow a bunch more to start a business and I only get paid after everyone else and the company is built on my idea and I lose everything if I fail while hire employees who get a regular paycheck through the whole thing and if we fail they just find another job ... I made money on their backs.

Why does the word "Marxist" bother you again?

It's the worker who pushes the buttons on the million dollar machine who creates the wealth in this country, not the guy who bought the million dollar machine. Silly capitalist.
One day the workers of the world will unite, get rid of the silly investors, use those fingers to build a workers paradise. You'll be sorry. You'll see.

Oh, that's what workers do. Interesting. Jeezus, have you guys ever had a job?

Workers don't push buttons on expensive machines? Are you sure?
Maybe you could tell us what those poor exploited workers are doing?

Where it's possible to automate a job, it's already been done. If a worker is hired for a job function, it's because a machine can't do it. Why don't you start a list of the things a machine can't do and get back to me when you complete it.

I'll get right on that.

 

[OnePercenter]

Good. The less Congress does, the better. Your property and your money are never safe while Congress is in session.

Why anyone would believe shear volume of legislation is a way to measure the quality of Congress escapes me.

Another Koch talking point. Less government, less Congress, makes it easier for the 'Bros' to rape and pillage. True red coat thinking.

 

[tuhaybey]

Obviously. I mean just look at what they've done to California and Illinois.


Oh, wait.........

Your profile says you live in Chicago. Am I correct that you haven't ever been to the red states to see the blight there? Chicago is a dream paradise compared to any red state.

And California? What is your complaint about CA? CA's economy, obviously, drives the whole country. That's where all the big new companies come from, all the main innovations, etc. They are running a budget surplus. They have a median income $20k/year higher than Texas does... CA is the posterchild for success stories in the US.

 

[OnePercenter]

Yes, that's exactly what you wrote, or do you claim corporations are breaking the law when they don't pay U.S. taxes on their overseas operations?

If you believe that what I posted than quote it, or shut up.

 

[OnePercenter]

The Republicans and Democrats have already beat them to it.

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting the same result. Continuing to support the Republicans and Democrats who have fucked up our nation, likely beyond repair, is the epitome of asshattery.

So let's take actual history. Since Nixon, the Republicans and their supporters, corporate America and wall street are responsible for:

Japan product dumping
The fake gas shortage
Iran/Contra
The S&L crisis
Deregulating the HMO act
The largest middle class tax increase ever
A stock market crash
Deregulating derivatives
Another stock market crash, the worst in history

So tell me, how have Democrats 'fucked up' our nation?

 

[OnePercenter]

I'm not suggesting every republican is stupid (most are however), but the republican ideology is based in stupidity.

You'll never see the irony of that statement coming out of your mouth.

If I'm wrong, tell me. What have republicans of today ever done for everyday Americans?

Fixed Democratic crap.

Can't answer the question? Reality seems to have hit.

 

[OnePercenter]

And yet, Republicans will still win more votes than Democrats.

Liberals can't imagine democracy having any purpose other than looting those having a better time in life.

By having the rich like me pay the same effective rate of Federal tax as you do.

I'll prove my point. My Federal effective rate in 2013 was 4% on $26.5M.

What was yours?

 

[OnePercenter]

Republicans voted against Democrat schemes to loot and enslave the productive members of society.

By not allowing the Koch Brothers to rape, pillage, and pollute to save a buck?

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Obviously. I mean just look at what they've done to California and Illinois.


Oh, wait.........

Your profile says you live in Chicago. Am I correct that you haven't ever been to the red states to see the blight there? Chicago is a dream paradise compared to any red state.

And California? What is your complaint about CA? CA's economy, obviously, drives the whole country. That's where all the big new companies come from, all the main innovations, etc. They are running a budget surplus. They have a median income $20k/year higher than Texas does... CA is the posterchild for success stories in the US.

I've been to many states.
And the 2 in the biggest fiscal holes are California and Illinois.

Chicago is a dream paradise compared to any red state.

The Chicago public school system is an incredibly expensive failure.

 

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And yet, Republicans will still win more votes than Democrats.

Liberals can't imagine democracy having any purpose other than looting those having a better time in life.

By having the rich like me pay the same effective rate of Federal tax as you do.

I'll prove my point. My Federal effective rate in 2013 was 4% on $26.5M.

Bullshit.