tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22563831.post1949088700349037724..comments2024-02-15T15:25:04.287-08:00Comments on Losing the War on Humor: "Tough Shit!" Jim Bunning Says2Truthyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06621258620190540140noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22563831.post-84653658808590118922010-03-03T13:17:14.291-08:002010-03-03T13:17:14.291-08:00Bunning's outburst and the predictable outrage...Bunning's outburst and the predictable outrage from the Democrats is just another sideshow, but you DO have to give credit where credit is due: Bunning's “tough shit” soundbite couldn't brand the GOP better. Yes, the bread and circus aspect of it shouldn't be lost on anyone, with exception of the usual fools and tools who witlessly cheer and sneer over their favorite team's ruling class bidding that NEVER has anything to do with honestly helping Main Street. The populist nerve hit was “unemployment benefits” but here's the kicker: <br /><br />Why is it that when it comes to MILITARY SPENDING, these Senate logjams never happen? Why are they always, immediately overcome? <br /><br />True, the nation is going bankrupt but you can blame that on military spending. Further, if corporate America stopped outsourcing/insourcing jobs, this little problem about finding money for unemployment benefits would be mute. But the BEST Democrats are doing is pointing fingers as the big bad GOP instead of rallying their moveon.org (or its moron.org? I forget) base to throw out their congress weasels who are blowing greedy, insufferable and out of touch corporate “leaders” slopping at the blooming trough-box on the U.S taxpayer dime.<br /><br />And where is the 24/7 media attention as to WHY increasing millions of Americans are losing their jobs and unemployment benefits? No where. Where are the lefty guys like Stewart & Colbert to expose the smug elites behind the curtain? These two used to be funny until they began the O boot-licking). The Bunning bluster is the latest episode from Democrats and Republicans in power to distract the plebes from the real, behind closed doors sucking sounds from Wall Street to the Beltway to Silicon Valley.<br /><br />I wish you well in your job search, especially if you live in the land of Billy Goats - who never saw a smart American he couldn't dream about kicking to the curb for cheap, dubiously “skilled” labor and who must have every political whore in Washington State to enable him to do it.2Truthyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06621258620190540140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22563831.post-19337760109285670092010-03-02T14:23:26.258-08:002010-03-02T14:23:26.258-08:00It seems you've missed Bunning's point (al...It seems you've missed Bunning's point (along with a lot of other people). Let me lay it out simply:<br /><br />1. Bunning agrees with the benefit extension. I heard the words from his mouth.<br />2. Every single dollar the gummint spends is borrowed; we are broke (penniless, insolvent, down-and-out, hard up, strapped, destitute, in hock to our eyeballs...) <br />3. The stimulus bill was larded up with all manner of pork and useless spending (golf cart earmarks, ACORN, $57000/house weatherization, tax-money for a bridge between Microsoft offices...) not to mention the money being wasted on worthless nation-building and support of third-world gangster governments.<br /><br />So... if the Congress of the US cannot find ten billion dollars of spending to cut for this then there is no hope that any spending will ever be cut or reduced.<br /><br />I got my pink slip yesterday (soft. engr.). So these matters interest me. The spending train wreck we're headed for also interests me as I would like to retire someday.<br /><br />The villains here are the Dems like Patty Murray that cry crocodile tears for the poor people she and her ilk led to the slaughter in the first place.<br /><br />And then there are the spineless Republicans who run for cover when an actual issue comes up.robertnoreply@blogger.com