Working class favor GOP by 58%

[California Girl]

Oh I see. So Republicans have never been guilty of that. Got it.

As far as businesses that have been sitting on their cash waiting for Democrats to get kicked out so that their taxes will remain the same, how wonderful that they will prove what I've been saying all along: The corporations run this country; not the people. They will open up a few jobs, then be right back where they were mid-2000's trying to cut wages and benefits. Watch it happen.

Actually, Maggie, it has nothing to do with that. A lame duck congress stops either side from fucking up. That can create the stability required to increase confidence in the economy. That stability is what leads to businesses feeling confident to spend money, increasing investment and creating jobs.

You guys get all hung up about who's in bed with which party. Simple fact - business doesn't give a shit whether it's a Dem or a GOP POTUS. They need stability.

The reason that business isn't spending is nothing to do with either party - it is because business pays attention to economists... and economists are predicting a double dip recession.

If people would stop ranting about the other 'side' and look at all the facts, instead of cherry picking the ones that fit their own view, we might get some intelligent debate. But that's not gonna happen here.

Read what nine experts on the economy have to say about the recovery and predicting a double dip recession (they don't). This is really quite short.

Recession, Recovery and a Possible Double Dip: What Experts Are Saying About the Economy - Financial News for the Best Bank Rates | Go Banking Rates

I work with some of the best economists on the planet, global experts. I know them. These guys predicted every damned thing that has happened - and they predicted it over 5 years ago. They called it a 'perfect storm'. Every single prediction came true. They are not saying a double dip is unavoidable - they are saying it is very likely. I'll take their opinion over the opinion of any article anywhere.

 

[California Girl]

I give up. Why, then?

For heavens sake, go find out, you lazy ass. Stop expecting to be spoon fed. Go and look hard at the FACTS and try thinking critically about the bill. Take off the partisan glasses and concentrate. It's not hard.

I've been looking for comments from the Republican leadership on that bill and can find nothing. So I look to you if you have what I don't. Can you at least give me a hint? Please, please, pretty please?

Damn, I'll have to go find it again. I'll have to look for it tomorrow... it's late and I need to get some sleep.

 

[skookerasbil]

It is kinda funny that many of the Obama supporters dont work or barely work, so that poll # comes as no surprise.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

In other words democrats will no longer be able to make back room deals, limit debate and bribe members.

Correct. Instead Republicans will be doing those things.

 

[JakeStarkey]

The working class wants policies that are favorable for creating private sector jobs - which is the opposite of what is promoted by Obamanomics.

Quit being moronic and sophomoric at the same time, fishbreath: you sound as if you are not even graduated from fish school yet. The working class want security and generally do not have that type of grasp of economics that even you have at times.

 

[Oddball]

Why would the working class support the Republican Party? To do so would be to vote against their own interests.

Just can't drop that overbearing, nanny state elitist we-know-what's-good-for-you-better-than-you-know-what's-good-for-you attitude, huh?

And y'all wonder why you're going to get your asses kicked three weeks from now?

 

[Annie]

The working class wants policies that are favorable for creating private sector jobs - which is the opposite of what is promoted by Obamanomics.

Quit being moronic and sophomoric at the same time, fishbreath: you sound as if you are not even graduated from fish school yet. The working class want security and generally do not have that type of grasp of economics that even you have at times.

That's it son, now insult the 'working class.' How very progressive.

 

[Samson]

Poll echoes 1994 swing toward GOP - Spokesman.com - Oct. 7, 2010

What exactly do they expect will happen in the immediate future which will benefit their "working class" lives?

I'm geniunely puzzled.

With repubs taking the house, you will see an immediate improvement in business and consumer confidence.

In other words democrats will no longer be able to make back room deals, limit debate and bribe members.

Oh I see. So Republicans have never been guilty of that. Got it.

As far as businesses that have been sitting on their cash waiting for Democrats to get kicked out so that their taxes will remain the same, how wonderful that they will prove what I've been saying all along: The corporations run this country; not the people. They will open up a few jobs, then be right back where they were mid-2000's trying to cut wages and benefits. Watch it happen.

What corporations helped Obama win and gave the Dems a Supermajority in Congress?

 

[MaggieMae]

For heavens sake, go find out, you lazy ass. Stop expecting to be spoon fed. Go and look hard at the FACTS and try thinking critically about the bill. Take off the partisan glasses and concentrate. It's not hard.

I've been looking for comments from the Republican leadership on that bill and can find nothing. So I look to you if you have what I don't. Can you at least give me a hint? Please, please, pretty please?

Damn, I'll have to go find it again. I'll have to look for it tomorrow... it's late and I need to get some sleep.

I sure hope you wake up in a better mood!

 

[MaggieMae]

Why would the working class support the Republican Party? To do so would be to vote against their own interests.

Just can't drop that overbearing, nanny state elitist we-know-what's-good-for-you-better-than-you-know-what's-good-for-you attitude, huh?

And y'all wonder why you're going to get your asses kicked three weeks from now?

Frankly, I can't wait. I so hope Republicans take away so many seats that they'll be in charge. I'm more than eager to see how they can actually handle the tough stuff. We all know the noobs are very good at platitudinal visions of their potential power, but their effectiveness based on actual capabilities is yet to be determined.

 

[MaggieMae]

With repubs taking the house, you will see an immediate improvement in business and consumer confidence.

In other words democrats will no longer be able to make back room deals, limit debate and bribe members.

Oh I see. So Republicans have never been guilty of that. Got it.

As far as businesses that have been sitting on their cash waiting for Democrats to get kicked out so that their taxes will remain the same, how wonderful that they will prove what I've been saying all along: The corporations run this country; not the people. They will open up a few jobs, then be right back where they were mid-2000's trying to cut wages and benefits. Watch it happen.

What corporations helped Obama win and gave the Dems a Supermajority in Congress?

I don't defend him in that regard. This is a valuable website, and everyone should bookmark it. You can find just about anything on contributions to political figures, and it's constantly updated. Here's the part on industry donations to the 2008 presidential campaigns.

Presidential Candidates: Contributions by Sector, 2008 Cycle | OpenSecrets

Expect those numbers to at least triple just for the mid-term coming up because corporations are now hiding behind storefront websites.

 

[Oddball]

Why would the working class support the Republican Party? To do so would be to vote against their own interests.

Just can't drop that overbearing, nanny state elitist we-know-what's-good-for-you-better-than-you-know-what's-good-for-you attitude, huh?

And y'all wonder why you're going to get your asses kicked three weeks from now?

Frankly, I can't wait. I so hope Republicans take away so many seats that they'll be in charge. I'm more than eager to see how they can actually handle the tough stuff. We all know the noobs are very good at platitudinal visions of their potential power, but their effectiveness based on actual capabilities is yet to be determined.

Oh, the irony is killin' me!

 

[Full-Auto]

Just can't drop that overbearing, nanny state elitist we-know-what's-good-for-you-better-than-you-know-what's-good-for-you attitude, huh?

And y'all wonder why you're going to get your asses kicked three weeks from now?

Frankly, I can't wait. I so hope Republicans take away so many seats that they'll be in charge. I'm more than eager to see how they can actually handle the tough stuff. We all know the noobs are very good at platitudinal visions of their potential power, but their effectiveness based on actual capabilities is yet to be determined.

Oh, the irony is killin' me!

Just imagine improved business and consumer confidence just for winning.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Not consumer confidence at all: consumers are terrified of the GOP. DiamondDave does not like this (just got neg repped for it), but fuck him ~ he's a hack.

 

[Meister]

Not consumer confidence at all: consumers are terrified of the GOP.

Link, or is that just an uneducated opinion?

 

[Cuyo]

We don't have a 'working', 'middle' or any other 'class'. We were founded as a free people where anyone can succeed. There should be no 'class' divides.... these are labels, created by politicians, to keep people focused on each other rather than on the politicians.

The ideology always sounds so sweet. But when the reality is that the top earning class (20%, or those earning more than $100,000 annually) received 49.4% of all income generated in the US in 2009, while the 14.3% of Americans living below the poverty line received 3.4% of income, how it SHOULD work kinda goes down the toilet.

According to the Census Bureau, the disparity between those at the top and those in poverty is the wideset recorded since the Bureau started tracking household income in 1967. How else would you define that other than "class warfare"??

Ironically, it's the middle class that takes the biggest hit because they are rarely afforded the same government benefits as those meeting the poverty level, yet they can't begin to compete with regard to the struggle to spread their incomes among the very same necessities that the wealthy can. The upper wage earners are given every tax break and/or subsidy to advance their own bottom lines even more.

There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning.

-Warren Buffett

Interesting how you can throw in a few slogans and get massive amounts of people to vote against their own interests.

 

[Oddball]

Interesting how you can throw in a few slogans and get massive amounts of people to vote against their own interests.

What is with the leftist snobbery lately?

Who the hell made haughty, socialistic little twirps like you the final arbiters of what's in the best interests of people you know nothing about?

 

[Meister]

Interesting how you can throw in a few slogans and get massive amounts of people to vote against their own interests.

What is with the leftist snobbery lately?

Who the hell made haughty, socialistic little twirps like you the final arbiters of what's in the best interests of people you know nothing about?

Some have been reduced to ankle biting.

 

[Cuyo]

Interesting how you can throw in a few slogans and get massive amounts of people to vote against their own interests.

What is with the leftist snobbery lately?

Who the hell made haughty, socialistic little twirps like you the final arbiters of what's in the best interests of people you know nothing about?

Since Reagan, we've seen a massive concentration of wealth as the working class has been stripped of protections in the name of "Freedom." Yeah it's freedom alright, freedom to outsource jobs, import everything, then exploit the very flooded labor pool that you've created.

Then somehow they convince you that the state of the economy is somehow the fault of Democrats. Here the GOP (and the rather centrist Clinton) have tossed you to the wolves for 30 years. Now the booze-cruise hits the iceberg, and since the Democrats couldn't fix it in 20 months, you're ready to throw them out and put the very people who put you here in the first place, back in charge.

I think Maher put it best: A disappointing friend is better than a deadly enemy.

Of course I'm not talking about any specific people, for all I know all the GOP cheerleaders here (And all those wonderful "Independents" who agree with the GOP 10 times out of 10) are part of that 2% who actually benefit from Republicans being in office.

But, going on raw numbers, I find that hard to believe.

 

[Oddball]

You're a fool....An ignorant, bigoted, elitist snob fool at that.