Not Joe The Not Plumber Interview
Posted on February 15, 2010
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His response was blunt. “I don’t owe him [McCain] s—. He really screwed my life up, is how I look at it.” Wurzelbacher said, “McCain was trying to use me. I happened to be the face of middle Americans. It was a ploy.”
That’s some kind of conservatomic bomb at the republican party, not that he’s relevant, I’m really hoping we get rid of McCain next cycle.
Speaking of parties, Minority leader Mitch McConnell spent 18 minutes crying on the senate floor, about someone who the comment section suggests is/was a butt buddy. How much are we paying him to spew this shit? I want a refund.
Social Security
Posted on February 14, 2010
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If the name didn’t give it away this program was created to give security to our social structure. Before social security everyone was on their own for “retirement”. If you ran out of money, the bank failed, or the stock market tanked the majority of your investments, there was no safety net to catch you, just a cold dumpster that you hope to find a few apple cores in before sleeping under a bridge. Old people had it especially tough, in many cases they were no longer physically able to work anymore, so even if they wanted to start earning a wage again, just to keep afloat, their oldness made it impossible to make a living wage. Obviously this wasn’t everybody, but enough old people got together and said this wasn’t right, and changed the way we view our elders. Now regardless of economic class each citizen is (currently) guaranteed by the federal government a living wage after they retire. Inflation has destroyed this dream, at least in the way it was setup.
I understand the need to feel like whatever you put into social security should be exactly what you get out of it, but what would we do about people who are too old and for whatever reason too poor to take care of themselves? This mantra of personal responsibility is great to preach to a new generation in the hopes that we won’t *need* this kind of support, but I don’t feel like it’s any way for society to treat older people, like they constantly need to worry about where their next meal comes from. Without some kind of social security, to help give the basic necessities of life, shelter, food and water to those who are unable to get it themselves without having to resort to violence, I can’t conceive of getting rid of a program that helps make sure our elders don’t end up homeless. I’ll concede that the way social security was constructed wasn’t fair, but I think it would be irresponsible to let the hands of wall street play casino politics with people’s money in a similar way. Social security in a way gives us a choice, and a foundation, we don’t have to choose to invest only in private markets because we are all invested in ourselves. The life you live solely on social security is just as much a struggle as anything else, only instead of having to be scared about where your next meal comes from you have freedom.
Gays Can’t Marry, Strangers Can
Posted on February 13, 2010
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Committed lesbian couple with lots of babies is denied a marriage license, but the complete strangers, the state doesn’t care anymore. Ya, banning gay marriage totally makes sense.
Global Warming Will Destroy Olympics…Then World
Posted on February 11, 2010
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So since there’s no snow in the mountains for the Olympics, as there usually is in Canada this time of year, so I’ve decided to throw science away and believe that the world is warming at such a rate that will destroy us within the next few years. Obviously by taking a snapshot of a single city right now I can determine the global impacts of this devastating completely random occurrence in nature that has totally not been happening since the industrial revolution. The entire Mexico country is surely engulfed in never ending flames as we speak, the Armageddon will reach our shores soon, it’s only a matter of time before the flame-retardant monsters start food riots. Good luck, and remember once you’ve found Al Gore, you’re home free. Our savior will show us our next path, and how we must rebuild in a barren waste land of fire and brimstone. Oh why, why Olympics did you curse this land so! Blame Canada.
“If the election were held today…”
Posted on February 9, 2010
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What a stupid thing to say. The election isn’t held today, in fact Obama’s election isn’t even held this year. Does Palin understand how the American political system works? President’s aren’t elected daily, we weren’t setup like that, and to assume or even suggest that a daily voting system would be better is like having some political wet dream. You think Bush would have been reelected if elections were held 6 months after he was in office? You think it fucking matters? Unless the suggestion is a constitutional amendment to change the president to a daily poll do your country a favor and shut the fuck up.
Claiming Obama has to declare war on Iran, or support Israel (which obviously Palin isn’t following at all as Obama hasn’t changed anything about our “special relationship”) is fear mongering, war mongering, immature and selfish. How anyone can claim they are religious and think overwhelmingly that war with a nation of millions is going to benefit the world, if not only for politics, absolutely no religion would be supportive of a war like that, and if they did it’s called a fucking cult. America going to war with Iran is irresponsible, useless, it wouldn’t make anyone safer, and would kill millions in the name of Palin’s god. Quit being such a selfish bitch and someone please cut her mic.
“Trust me, after taxes, a million dollars is not a lot of money”
Posted on February 9, 2010
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Of course, to most Americans, $250,000 — let alone a million — is “a lot of money.” The median household income is about $52,000 and only two percent of Americans make $250,000 or more. Fewer than half-a-percent make more than a million dollars. “After taxes,” someone making a million dollars can still expect to keep about $675,000.
So the goverment takes 32.5% of your million, which is actually lower than the rate taxed on my bonus which is normally 36% which is never past the thousands. To Steel, the “leader” in such a corporatist elitist position, partying with billion dollar people everyday must put everything the GOP does in complete contrast to REAL AMERICA. If Mr. Steel thinks $675,000 isn’t a lot of money, why shouldn’t the government just give that amount to everyone? It’s just pennies when you think about it, who doesn’t have $675,000 just laying around collecting dust? It would take someone earning the median income in this country 13 years to earn that million “not a lot of money” dollars after uncle sam gets through with you.
One million dollars, even taxed at 70%, is a heck of a lot of money. It’s probably not enough to sustain a family for longer than a few years, but it’s more money than 98% of the country will ever see in a single year. Next on the GOP plan, privatize social security and medicare (leaving your retirement solely in the hands of wall street, which has been so great to us right?), lower taxes for the richest bankers and more war! Which will all be inflating the currency high enough to start using $675,000 bills to wipe our asses on, and you can thank the GOP for that.
Price For Freedom – $35 Billion to Airbus!
Posted on February 5, 2010
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The United States Senate is being held up right now, not at gun point, but at “give my state the pork barrel pet projects I want or the government will cease to function” point. In a most unusual move Senator Shelby from Alabama placed a unilateral hold on every single nominee Obama asked for unless the congress gives his state 40 billion dollars.
One is a $35 billion contract to allow Northrop Grumman and Airbus, not Boeing, build an Air Force refueling tanker(more on that here), and the other an FBI explosives testing center that has not been built despite Shelby earmarking $45 million for it in 2008.
The testing center I think could be up for debate (though certainly not to hold up the entire senate for), but I have no idea what this republican obsession is with Airbus. Who had sex with these senators to make them think our government should outsource making planes to a company that’s going to overcharge us just as much, if not more, than Boeing. They’re foreign and transportation costs more, oh and that crazy thing called unemployment, which in the US is still 10%, and the republicans will completely destroy our government unless we outsource more jobs to Europe. Hey everyone, remember those jobs you all thought we had REPUBLICANS ARE DESPERATELY TRYING TO PUT YOU OUT OF WORK.
I’m not trying to say this in a, democrats are doing sooo much better way, but the numbers pretty much speak for themselves.
The outlook for jobs became a bit less bleak Friday when the government released January’s unemployment rate showing an unexpected decline from 10 percent to 9.7 percent. It was the first drop in seven months.
So by the logic of places like Fixed Noise who constantly harp on Chairman Mao light for being a raging socialist who’s killing babies in the street for sport this recently surge in employment, while small, means that Obama just won the entire universe. I’d love to deny it, but if the number going up past 10% meant that he was desperately trying to destroy this nation, like the job killing republicans, than surely a number below 10% means everything Obama touches turns to gold, and he has officially become worthy of an all out celebration of the best human the universe will ever know. We need a constitutional amendment praising our leader for how great he is, and we should consider abolishing term limits so we can keep this guy in office until he has more kids and they can become leaders too…right?
I wish I could extort the federal government and act like it wasn’t a big deal. I wish I could tell the government, “give me all the money you don’t have or I’ll throw a hissy fit”. I wish we had laws that not only made this behavior illegal, but placed a social stigma on it that wouldn’t require a court room to hand out judgment, but that every citizen would take it upon themselves to build a giant wall around where this guy lives so he cannot infect our society anymore with his filth. It’s one thing when republicans want to disagree on health care, and I think their claim that health care is fine, if people are ok with that, is perfectly acceptable if you don’t care about the budget, but to place a blanket hold on every single person Obama wants on his staff? Shelby deserves to be in jail, now.
When Did The Bowl Get Political?
Posted on February 2, 2010
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I remember learning a while back that sports, mainly the larger events, won’t do political advertising because it sends the wrong message, and it has a tendency to show bias on an issue.
So how come the super bowl plans to show some anti-abortion ad? It’s one thing to advocate for beer or chips. The story being portrayed in this ad is that abortion is never good, and you should never choose it, it’s 100% political and it’s invading football, do they really have that much money?
Of course the story itself is one in which I would see no reason to disagree. His mother was in a foreign country and she didn’t go along with their suggestion, but why should this case be the poster child for every case? What about the mother who’s life is in danger because he child is being born in a way that is dangerous, what about the girl who made her own personal choice? It’s futile for males to be the main recipients of this advertising too, what the fuck right do I have, or any male without a doctors degree, to suggest what a woman should or shouldn’t do with her uterus. You don’t need an advertisement to explain people what their options are, you need a doctor, and anyone making their decision based on advertising shouldn’t be allowed to be making decisions…ever.
Produce Nothing Make More!
Posted on January 27, 2010
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No this is not some kind of get rich quick scheme, the idea is to maximize how much you make based on the productivity you put in. So let’s say I put in 8 hours of work and I make $160 for my company in productivity, if I was paid $8 an hour I’d be getting paid roughly 50 cents for every dollar I made the company. That would be generous, usually the number is closer to earning 30-40 cents for every dollar you produce. However that’s only in the real world, where you make real products and you generate real economics, if you really want to get paid more for doing nothing work for a bank.
[T]o keep up with the Goldmans, laggards like Citigroup are handing out fat slices of their profits, leaving little left over for their shareholders. Citigroup is, in effect, paying its employees $1.45 for every dollar the company took in last year. On average, its workers stand to earn $94,000 each.
Obviously I was stupid enough to think I should produce something for this economy, because producing something for the economy could barely pay me *half* of what I’m *worth*, however if I was to change professions and learn complicated banking formulas designed to screw over the population and continue hording money purely in the name of greed I could be making not only what I’m worth, but another half person on top of that. I couldn’t imagine getting paid more than what I’m worth, if for the sole purpose of screwing over the taxpayers who own your business. Rewarding the worst behavior, paying out more than revenues, just what kind of drugs do you have to be on to think anything about this situation is even ok? These people deserve to be fired and dragged publicly out to explain why anyone, especially in a company that can’t function without the government’s help, is paying out more to employees than they are worth. As if we didn’t have enough reason to hate bankers, if only because they get to live like kings for doing absolutely nothing.
Obama Governing From “Hard Left”
Posted on January 24, 2010
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Actually, the republicans just officially ran out of talking points.
Obama from the “hard left”? That’s news to me. That leftist “public option” he pushed for, the Afghanistan “surge” mainly of private contractors, the stimulus compromise that was nearly half tax cuts, not doing anything (although obviously the EPA trying is A+) to fight the worst toxic waste polluters in the state were all great liberal causes…WHAT THE FUCK. There’s nothing hard left about Obama, certainly he’s left, but hard? He hasn’t even got through healthcare, he’s floating like a butterfly and hibernating.
If Obama is being criticized for anything it’s that many people don’t feel he’s lived up to his campaign promises. This is of course hurt by the fact that his “campaign promises” was a year and a half long campaign of not understanding just how bad things got. The supreme court just ruled that corporations have even more rights than regular human citizens (the one’s with developed morals and circulating blood), what is Obama supposed to do? Obama’s hands are completely tied on so many decisions like this, and because he wants to preserve his character (or any other BS political reason to back down) we all say “Where’s our change?”. This “republican” talks about governing from the middle…but look at the dire state that our country is in because of radical right wing ideology that corporations are inherently “good” or “people”.
Mr. McConnell I’ll meet you halfway with our politics, but YOU FIRST.
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