I'm not the numbers guy that Paul Ryan claims to be. Well, Paul Ryan isn't even the numbers guy he claims to be if you remember he misremembered his marathon time by about an hour or so (in his favor...) and that that equals....a whole bunch of minutes, if you want to get technical about it. They want him to get technical about numbers- even FOX does- but, he doesn't want to worry our pretty, little heads with numbers just yet. We'll just have to elect him and Willard Rmoney to find out how those numbers crunch.
You know something? Electing president's isn't "Let's Make A Deal!". For one thing, there are really only two doors. There's the republican door and the democrat door. Libertarians and the occasional Ralph Nader are merely windows or, at best, garage doors that no one really cares to open because we know there's just a lot of junk in the garage. Might be some good stuff but, you'd have to sort through a lot of junk to get to it. Why bother? We like to wish there was a third door available but, the two parties are against that since they've kinda got a monopoly going. Truth be told, the two doors tend to lead to the same place anyway. It's as if there's only one party...
The republicans just might be trying to change that. They've certainly gone off the reservation lately! For the first time in a long time I can actually tell the difference between the two. Frankly, I'm kinda scared. They've always been a contrary bunch but, since '08 and certainly since '10, they've gotten seriously crazy. They sound exactly like the idiot 'tards I smack around on the threads.
Willard Rmoney actually complains that 47% of Americans don't pay taxes. Give or take a few points, this is probably true. OK. we agree on that. I'm going to go out on a limb though and say that, the reason for this non-payment of income taxes is that they don't fucking make enough money to qualify to have to PAY income taxes! This is because they are poor.
One of the most obscene things Mitten's said in a speech was that he was *proud* of us because, though we had lost jobs that paid $22.50 an hour, we endeavoured to survive by getting TWO jobs that paid $9 an hour. For those keeping score at home, that adds up to $18 but, not per the hour because you're not doing Paul Ryan math here. Nope, you're working eight hours more per day and still making less. I gathered that Mittens was proud of us because, we can take a lickin' and keep on tickin' like he's sure heard about cheap watches. I was surprised the media didn't pick upon this. To be fair though, Rmoney lies so much and modifies his positions so much that it takes 24 hour cable news outlets 24 hours a day to keep up with his nonsense. They might have had to hire extra help....
The thing is, Rmoney, and those of his kind, made those $22,50 an hour jobs go away because payroll and good-paying jobs cut into profits!!!! Rich people fucking hate that. I promise you that their bottom line is their bottom line and they seriously do not care how they get there as long as it is as cheaply as possible. Prior to the American Civil War, there was more money in Vicksburg, Mississippi than there was in New York City. Guess why? The low-overhead of slavery. After the initial expense of buying a human being, all you had to do was feed them and beat them. We fought a long, bloody war that was not at all about slavery! It was about "state's rights" or, more to the point, whether states had the right to have slaves. So, you see, it wasn't about slavery AT ALL!
We still have slavery in the world today though it's not called slavery anymore. It's called: Chinese Labor. It differs from slavery in that the workers aren't bought at auction and, in fact, are actually paid, so, it's not slavery. The people want to work. To hear Willard Rmoney tell it, they want to work so badly that fences and guard towers are in place to keep people from coming in and working in the hopes of getting hired on and paid! Yep, this cocksucker went to Harvard and he knows human nature. People want to work. They just don't want to be paid too much for it....
Well, I'm no Harvard grad. I think it's got more to do with hunger than a desire to stay busy.
Currently, in Freeport, Illinois, Rmoney's old business, Bain Capital, is moving 170 jobs from the Sensata company there to China. You probably heard about that. If not, google it. The bottom line is, workers in China will be making 99 cents to $1.37 per hour, far less than the men and women of Freeport are willing to work for. And Bain and those fellows have a duty to show a profit to their shareholders. (Ferrerman note: I think shareholders are the citizens of the new millennium. Unlike us, they have a vested interest in this country.) The Freeport Sensata workers have had to suffer the indignity of training their Chinese replacements. This is the equivalent of having to dig your own grave before the Mafia kills you. I don't know why people do that. I guess we're used to last-minute heroics? As long as there is a breath in your lungs, you might have a chance...
Well, 170 jobs. Is that a big deal? After all, this has been going on for 30 some years. Surely those Freeport folks can replace those jobs with a couple of $9 an hour jobs, right? Bain Capital has to answer to shareholders, after all. If they are not making the most profit possible, then they are not doing there job for those shareholders. They might as well be communists. Better to deal with communists than be one.
Of course, those communists do have a way with non-shareholders. Our glorious corporate masters can learn a thing or two from them. Well, they are. We can have full employment here, in our not-too-distant future. It just won't pay very well. You see, it can't. Payroll cuts into profit and profit is the bottom line. Without profit, there is no trickle down. It's like "our" oil. The oil companies can sell "our" oil for far more profit, far more satisfying shareholders in foreign countries with burgeoning economies. IRONY ALERT: one of those burgeoning countries is... CHINA! There's more than a billion of them folks and, more and more are becoming shareholders. And they are not burdened by a Constitution or founding fathers or an EPA.
It's a brave, new world order, isn't it?
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