Granted, conservatives hate the regular Olympics as well. Anything that says Americans should respect and see other nations as equals to us just pisses that kind off.
So it is no surprise that GOP cuts also take aim at eliminating funding for Special Olympics training facilities among other things.
Because, disabled Americans should know – just like minorities, women, and gays – they aren’t equal and shouldn’t think they are in Republican America.
Wouldn’t it be nice if our corporate heads took some personal responsibility and some shame for when their companies are suffering and do something like this?
And no, taking a $1 salary while reaping millions in stock options paying only 15% in taxes doesn’t count.
Women. Brown people. Teachers. Elmo. And now Girl Scouts. Is there anybody these folks don’t hate?
“New Jersey has the third highest percentage of millionaire residents in America. Damn near 7 percent of the people that live in New Jersey are millionaires.
New Jersey millionaires, how many of them are there? Well, there’s 212,000 of them.
How many teachers? A hundred and twelve thousand.
They got more millionaires in New Jersey than they do teachers, but we got to have the teachers pay for everything. We can’t raise the taxes on the rich folks over in New Jersey, maybe the top 2 percent maybe giving 1 more percent? Nope, can’t do that.”
Ed likes to get bent out of shape over a lot of things, but sometimes he picks the right thing to be pissed about.
Some damning information in graph form on how much wealth has been concentrated amongst so few Americans.
Or to put it another way, how little money is left for the rest of us to fight over.
Ah, Republicans. So quick to vote against investing in our country and just as quick in hoping Democrats bail them out.
The jerkward in this instance is from Iowa and wants a trail line between Chicago and at least Iowa City. But he voted AGAINST a bill that would fund that line because he’d rather waste money on billionaire tax cuts and giving freebies to oil companies than to invest in our nation’s infrastructure.
He still says he wants the train line though. He just doesn’t have the spine to vote for it himself.
Typical Republican. Can’t stand up for his constituents. Won’t fight the wars they want to start. Won’t pay for any program they push, not even when it’s cash they have to put up in hard times to be paid back later. Just won’t help Americans.
I say they fund the line and run the damn this up to the Mississippi River. Iowa seems thrilled to keep bigots like Steve King, support backstabbers like Grassley, and return Terry Branstad and his murdering kid to power. Not to mention this asshat. Let ’em suffer, it’s what they apparently want.
In case you were curious about whether this asshat Walker has a point, here are the actual facts.
In case you weren’t paying attention, the rich really ARE getting richer.
More importantly, our increasingly middle class is not.
It used to be that everyone had a fairly good shot at gaining a lot of money. Up until the first one to three milllion taxes weren’t too bad. After that, you got the 90+ percent taxes the GOP tries to scare you with. Let’s rehash that. After you made a few million dollars IN A YEAR you got most of the rest taxed.
That’s how this country ran. That’s how wealth is created and, yes, redistributed for the good of the nation.
Now? The rich have a MUCH lower tax rate. Obviously at some point you can’t buy any more. So the rich invest. The riskier the investment, the more profit you make. Profit, mind you, that doesn’t get taxed at more than 15%. That’s the capital gains tax you might have heard of. Republicans say it is a double tax. It would be if the initial investment were taxed; which it isn’t.
Let’s put it this way. If a rich investor “wins” a million in the stock market, he only pays 15% on the million. If YOU win the lottery, you have to pay taxes on it like it’s income. Why? Because the GOP only rigged the system for the investor, not you.
Same thing with the estate tax, also called the “death tax” by Republican marketing goons. They say this hurts family farms. It doesn’t. At least, none but the absolute largest ones. No, this is BS to distract you from the fact that wealthy kids – let’s say the Kardashians or Hiltons – can have it all by literally doing nothing useful with their lives.
Sorry, I’m venting but there’s a really our economy is lagging. Rich folks with money burning a whole in their pocket are betting in commodities and the stock market. Those bets are destabilizing markets so you have to pay more for gas, food, your house. Because their bets wash out what normally would be taking place. Instead of blindly throwing darts, many of those markets used to be full of estimates made by folks who worry about the supply and demand of refineries, pigs, corn, beaver pelts, whatever. Now that educated approach is washed out by rich dullards just looking to make even more money.
For the rest of us? We’ve got assholes like Governor Scott Walker in Wisconsin trying to make people mad at teachers for having worked for better job conditions and benefits than the rest of us. Can you believe that? They have been pensions, and it’s THEIR fault? FAULT? We’re supposed to hate folks who have NOT gotten screwed by business or conservatives in general? The worst part is that such a line of argument works!
It makes me sick to see what we’ve come to as a people. Our wages haven’t gone up and they buy a lot less. Meanwhile, the folks who have more, keep getting more – at our expense – and we’re supposed to hate the folks who work hard, go to school to know more, serve our society for less than what they could make in the private sector.
Really?
People who hate government programs dail to realize how many government programs they actually use.
In short, these people are idiots.