DISQUS

Webster · 1 year ago

Let's not forget where all this started: with Reagan and his "trickle-down" economics. There was the beginning of the plutocracy that has been running this country.

lynchie · 1 year ago

Thanks Republicans you and your president have done a stellar job in destroying the country. You all continue to squack about the tax and spend liberals, the socialist new president, the welfare queens, too many regulations, too much government oversight, the unions destroying business, the country being right of center and the election an anomaly which is not American wanting more from its politicians and government well guess what assholes--you have destroyed the country. My prediction is that the DOW will fall below 6000 before year end. Unemployment will be mid teens, number of Americans in poverty will skyrocket and we the people will throw out all incumbents next election. Not a single policy or program the Republicans have passed is working. The wars are a total bust, deregulation is a joke, government oversight allows corporations to sell us Melamine, and who knows what in our food, banks are charging Mafia like interest rates, our economy is in tatters with shifting jobs and money overseas and your contention that the liberals (marxists, communists) are going to make it worse. Please explain to me cause I am a stupid Liberal how we can fuck it up any worse that you sorry bastards have. You had 12 years of running congress, 8 years of the Bush (the most hated man in the world) so everything that now is going around the toilet bowl is yours, you own it, you created it and you bought it. Tell me how you are going to fix a blessed thing. Tell me why decreasing taxes on the have and have mores has helped us--please I am waiting, should I pack a lunch?

paulbot5 · 1 year ago

Its going to get worse from the democrat bailouts

Indigo · 1 year ago

"Something's happening here,
What it is ain't exactly clear . . . "

lost_nacf_gop · 1 year ago

Okay, we all have GOP friends, right? Make sure we thank 'em every chance we get, for giving us 8 years of Shrub - the gift that keeps on giving (kinda like Malaria)

MNUSA · 1 year ago

It doesn't do any good. They live in an alternate universe.

Greensburg · 1 year ago

The only bailouts so far have been for the rich and super rich, all in the financial and banking industries, nothing for the blue collar worker and labor. This more than anything should show Americans what the government and the Republicans especially think about the joe sixpacks of this country.

Rob Mule · 1 year ago

Of course it is going to get worse for America...Right now the elites are simply trying to shore up the elites...You know the right to linger over a private 5 star lunch while your single passenger corporate jet idles on the exclusive private jet tarmac away from pesky security routines and the common masses.
Of course, there are cutbacks...like sumuggling only 4 oz. tins of Imperial Beluga Malossol Caviar between state lines for $580 per tin as opposed to the 1 lb tins going for $2320 each or switching from pricey winter black truffles to more economical summer blacks.

MNUSA · 1 year ago

How dare you! You are trying to start a culture war.

EmGD · 1 year ago

Bush? Clearly this is all the fault of minorities with mortgages and Detroit workers with the nerve to want a living wage and basic health care.

http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/

cole3244 · 1 year ago

this is just one of the consequences when you have ignorant bigots voting their hateful social mores over economic pragmatism, too bad the stupid people that vote this way have to drag the rest of america into the sewer with them, and then those that believe otherwise have to clean up the mess, again and again and again.

Rob Mule · 1 year ago

You know, Jesus didn't say "The rich will be with you always" just the poor...

Older_Wiser · 1 year ago

Please, no quotes from ancient schizophrenics who heard voices in the wilderness. : )

Rob Mule · 1 year ago

Let's not blame Jesus for phobes like St. Paul...
Jesus never utters a word against homosexuals in the New Testament.
With his stated love for the Apostle John and the healing of the Roman Centurion's companion servant, unknowingly celebrated in the modern mass, Jesus, the historical figure, was on our side.

bluestockton · 1 year ago

I'm old enough to remember when LBJ launched the war on poverty. Many Americans of the type who later became Reagan voters quoted that Bible verse as if Jesus were MANDATING poverty and it was a sin to try to alleviate it. That's a true Christian for you.

Older_Wiser · 1 year ago

I read somewhere yesterday that it cost those execs $20K to fly each of their toys to DC (they couldn't even plane-pool?) from MI.

Meanwhile, Bush will sign bill containing extended unemployment benefits (7 weeks, I believe) as a final sop to the not-working people of America who have recently lost jobs because of him and his sorry-ass friends...

Rob Mule · 1 year ago

America's so rich she even throws people away...

VolintheVille · 1 year ago

The term "jobless Americans" have no party association. But individual Americans do. Make no mistake of my distain for bush (no cap's = no respect), nor any of the gop who found themselves in office in 2000.
My question "how many of these now jobless Americans, voted for bush and gop congressmen/women in 2000"? Next question "how many of you voted for the re-election of bush in 2004". Happy with your choice? Because of your choice, there will be dark, hard times in 2009. I've got zero sympathy for bush or his kind, I struggle (after listening after listening to the American story sometimes found on NPR) to find the sympathy for those Americans who DID vote for bush.

MNUSA · 1 year ago

This jobless American voted Democratic (Humphrey, McGovern, Carter, Mondale, Dukakis, Clinton, Gore, Kerry, Obama) all the way down the slate and did volunteer work for Obama/Franken/Ellison. Hey I remember how well my family and everyone around me did during the Clinton years.

Older_Wiser · 1 year ago

Now we're having to put up with Ted Stevens trying to elicit sympathy from the Senate...go to jail, Teddy-Boy.

LasloPratt · 1 year ago

That Bush family and the GOP really do a number on working people.

Working people? I believe the term you're looking for is "the help."

bluestockton · 1 year ago

Didn't you love Joe the Plumber's snit about progressive taxation penalizing people who make money by working hard for it? Get a clue, Joe: McCain married an heiress, and Bush is a trust fund baby who screwed up every job he did hold. And while Fortune 500 CEO's may work, too many of them run their companies into the ground and still get golden parachutes.

Money rains down on all these guys like manna from heaven, in numbers way out of proportion to what they've actually done to earn it.

High Crimes & Misdemeanors · 1 year ago

Don't you just love this got'damn quote by yahoo news service. This is on their front page right now 11:38AM CST:

"Stocks down after unexpected jump in unemployment claims"

Yea sure, these were reeeeaally unexpected, never mind we keep hearing job losses in the last month of 53,000, 5,000, 7,000, etc, etc,.... the right wing noise machine can't even tell lies very well.

MNUSA · 1 year ago

And there are millions more unemployed like me, who never file for unemployment benefits and are uncounted.

Peter · 1 year ago

I see high paying jobs posted on popular job sites -

www.linkedin.com
www.indeed.com
www.realmatch.com

I think the media is trying to scare the US workforce.