Romney the patriot

Mitt Romney's slogan that he tells to us is Believe in America.  But the money that he makes (takes) from us Be Leavin' America.   "I love America so much that I will do all I can to bankrupt it and render it unable to provide for its citizens", right Mitt?  Make money by taking away American jobs, then send those profits overseas.  Make political promises to the bankers who rigged the Libor in exchange for a couple of million dollars of campaign contributions, and complain that the uber-rich don't have enough influence.  You and your ilk all say that the wealthy are job-creators and they need ALL their money AND low tax rates in order to create jobs.  Well, Mitt, you have close to half a billion and payed only 13.9% taxes.  Where the fuck is your factory?  Do you need more?  At what point can we consider a person's personal wealth sufficient and their taxes low enough for them to be able to share some of that by benevolently creating jobs?  If 1/2 Billion and 13.9% tax rate is not enough, then there must be scant fucking few people who can actually create a job.  But that's not the case.  Wealth does not create jobs, DEMAND creates jobs.  And what creates demand?  Expendable income in the hands of the MANY- aka the middle class.  We give you all the money and what do you do?  Move it offshore and you don't even pay taxes on it.  Should we all follow your lead Mitt.  Everyone destroy jobs here and avoid their taxes.  Then you can be president of the nothing you created (destroyed). 

Is the state of Florida willing to throw an entire police department and the State's attorney under the bus to protect the criminal son of one of its judges?  At some point, they either need to say, "George Zimmerman did something wrong," or "Everyone who was involved with this case did everything wrong."

How many cops will be forced to resign to protect this guy?  Give it up and arrest him now!  Let him defend himself in a court of law, not behind closed doors with his dad's buddies. 

Don't switch to Progressive Long Distance

Progressive Long Distance promised me to save money.  I was paying $35/line for 2 lines with all the calling features I needed plus an additional $5 for Voicemail.  So it was $75/month plus taxes etc.  They told me I would pay $30/month with all features included.  So I switched.  Then I got my first bill for $197.  They told me that I had been promised $40.50/line, plus $5/feature (caller id, forwarding, three way, call waiting) and $13 for voicemail.  So $73/line.  I NEVER would have agreed to this.  Who would?  I called to complain and they denied ever quoting me that price.  The conversation was taped, but to hear the tape I would first have to pay the full amount???  They offered to discount me 30% and discontinue my service, which I accepted just to be done with them.

Don't switch to Progressive Long Distance.  I have filed complaints with the FCC and the Better Business Bureau.  They suck.

Let's change the rules

Let's say we're playing football.  I pay off the refs to change the rules.  I get to have 20 men on my side, you get to have 5.  I get unlimited downs per possession, you get one.  If I throw an interception or fumble the ball, it is given right back to me.  If you somehow manage to score, 50% of your points go to me. 

And when you complain that this is not fair, I will counter that "You are just envious of my success.  You're engaging in class warfare.  You're trying to re-distribute my wealth of points.  You are punishing my productivity.  And if I don't get all the points, then I may stop scoring altogether.  And we should know that I am the only one capable of scoring (evidenced by the fact that I am the only one with any points in this game), so you need me as a point-creator.  Once I get enough points, I'll trickle some down to you.  But until then  go out and get your own points.  Your situation has nothing to do with me.  The answer is not to tell me to stop stealing from you, its for you to find someone to steal from.  And if you can't then you don't deserve to eat." 

I don't think this game can last too long.   

Who hates regulation?

The ones who hate and fear regulation and oversight the most are the ones who are doing things that they shouldn't be doing.  Who fears the cops?  Criminals.  Who hates speed limits?  Speeders.  Who hates spy-cams?  Well everyone has a problem with them, but people who are trying to do something in secret hate them more. 

So look at the people who are calling for an end to regulation.  Why do they want it?  The people who want to dismantle the EPA obviously want to pollute.  The people who want to fight financial oversight obviously want to keep ripping people off. 

how to divide the profits

Lets say that I have a company that makes 1 million dollars of profit.  I could hire 16 employees at $50,000 and pay myself $200,000.  It is justified because I am taking the risk and making the innovation.  Or, I could hire 20 employees at $10,000 each and pay myself $800,000.  How is that salary justified?  Because I can call myself a job creator.  We need to create jobs at any cost?  Or we need to create jobs at the least cost.  Which is better for me and which is better for America?  Screw it, abolish the minimum wage and let me hire people at $1 and then praise me for all the people I can "employ".

working together to move a log

So the house republicans and democrats are in a room and there is a large log in the middle that needs to be lifted.  The log is called the economy.  The dems pick up their side and say, "hey, help us lift this thing."
Reps:  No
Dems:  Why?
Reps:  Because you want it. 
Dems:  OK, what do you want?
Reps:  A bunch of unrelated shit.  Like an oil pipeline through the heartland and the removal of authority of the EPA to restrain our polluting buddies.
Dems:  Well, that has nothing to do with the ecomony, but this is so important, we will agree.  Now will you please pick up your side of it?
Reps:  No.  We won't work with you on anything.  Whatever you want, we will kill, even if its something that we want too.  Then you'll get blamed and we'll get rewarded.  So fuck off.
And the media reports read, "Congress Unable to Work Together"