Happy Labor Day, if you have a job
By Brian Kirwin | Monday, September 5th, 2011 |Great performance, Obama. Two-thirds through your Presidency, and this is the best you got?
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The right wants to jeer him. The left wants to censor him. Moderates usually want both. Brian Kirwin is a political consultant and public relations strategist in Virginia Beach with a lightning-rod flair. Brian also serves on the VB Arts & Humanities Commission and frequently appears on Hampton Roads theatrical stages, if only to prove that all actors aren’t liberals. Kirwin’s columns stir up debate and hit the political scene with no punches pulled.
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18 Responses to "Happy Labor Day, if you have a job"
Oh no. He’s got way better. Just re-elect him and see. 9% (cleverly defined) unemployment is too low for a socialist country. That’s because food stamps and unemployment checks are the best forms of stimulus (cf Obama, Pelosi, Reid, Clyburn, Hoyer, Durbin, VanHollen Kaine, Whazzit Schultz and a cast of thousands). The zero jobs is a step in the right direction but there needs to be more pronounced losses to get the economy humming.
Just put this up:
google “Richmond Tea Party This Isn’t Supposed To Be Happening.”
Thanks to Shaun for the inspiration.
This sob barbarian thinks that unemployment will remain high because Barry will do all of the wrong things. And that the US economy has been in a recession since 2007. And that trading paper money for real items might not be the worst idea in the world.
So how is the stock portion of your investments treating you ???
As Brian alludes, the destruction of the middle class in moving along just fine. There really was not much cause for celebration this labor day. Capital has replaced labor as the source of prosperity, spurred by government policy and the forces unleashed by globalism. So can the middle class be saved by President Obama, or for that matter, by any other President? Those jobs we lost in the Great Recession are gone and most CEOs of global conglomerates can spend their trillions anywhere, so why spend it in the US? Most herein suggest that the President does not know what to do, but frankly, who does? The crop of candidates on the other side is scary, devoid of ideas, full of anger and destruction. Is that the best the republicans can do? Do we need to repeat the disastrous policies of the Bush Administration over again, the same tax cuts for the rich and famous that got us into this mess in the first place?
Translation of Mike’s comment: Obama and the Democrats don’t have a clue about what to do, so there is no reason to believe that any Republican candidate for President can fix the unemployment problem. After all, we all know that liberals are smarter and that conservatives are just angry, except for conservative CEO’s who are just greedy.
Did I get that about right?
Actually, what needs to be done is to invest in science, education, and infrastructure, but of course, the republican House will have none of that. Their solution continues to be more tax cuts that got us into this mess in the first place.
Mike, did you ever watch a circus clown make a balloon animal or a balloon hat? He squeezes on one side and out pops a section of balloon somewhere else, and so it goes until an animal likeness or hat is finally created. Think of Obama as that clown where he is squeezing the US middle class and business balloons and ‘lo and behold… growing and thriving middle classes and businesses are popping up in India, China and a host of other countries who aren’t yet being squeezed by their clowns. So when our clown can’t figure out how to make any new animals or hats he is fired because he has become boring and keeps squeezing the same middle class and business balloons to make the same creations until he can’t afford any more balloons. Maybe that is why Obama goes on so many vacations… he is looking for a place that has cheap balloons?
“Actually, what needs to be done is to invest in science, education, and infrastructure, but of course, the republican House will have none of that.”
Pardon me, but wasn’t that what the $787B stimulus bill was intended to do? You know, two years before the Republicans gained the majority in the House?
I realize the apologists for the republican mantra that cutting taxes is the simple answer to all our problems prediminate on this forum; I guess at some point I would have thought that the disastrous consequences of this policy as played out by the Bush Administration would have been sufficient to have educated us that only bad or worse can result from more of the same. Yet with guys like Rove teaching you that past disastrous policy is a simply a winning opportunity, you have simply doubled down. Someday, those on this forum not a member of the top 1% club will realize how they have been taken advantage of, but then again, maybe they won’t.
Mike, if Bush is still president, Rove still has power and both are getting all the blame, who or what is some guy named Obama? You should reset the clock on your xBox and fast forward to 2011 because your video games have new versions with updated and more exciting characters that have replaced the old ones you are still playing.
Well Tim J, this isn’t a game, it is the fiscal management of the greatest nation in the world. And the team of Bush/Rove/Cheney drove us over a cliff and we are still recovering from the effects. To even consider putting a republican with essentially the same policies as Bush/Rove/Cheney back in charge is preposterous, yet that is clearly the consensus of this forum. I guess this forum is comprised of only wealthy hedge fund managers who got bailed out and pay only 15% tax on their income, the rest of us be damned.
Maybe Barry wants to hire more agents for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
http://www.wusa9.com/news/article/161065/158/Woodpecker-Saving-Daughter-Costs-Mom-500
A few months ago, a government agent from FWS showed up to the home of an eleven-year-old girl with a federal summons in one hand and a citation for $535 in another.
The girl’s crime? Saving a baby woodpecker from being killed and eaten by the family cat. The bird’s mother was nowhere to be seen, so the girl (an aspiring vet) convinced her parents to let her care for it for a few days until the bird was well enough to fly away on its own.
Noble act? Wrong. Federal crime. It turns out that the bird is on the government list of protected species… and according to the government’s newspeak, protecting a bird that’s on the protected species list is a crime.
It sort of echoes Thomas Jefferson’s line about King George having “erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people…” It seems not too much has changed.
Mike,
I gotta tell you, after three years that “blame Bush” bullshit just really doesn’t cut it anymore. Even President Obama has dropped it. You occasionally have a good point to make here, but no one pays any attention because of your slavish devotion to depicting all political disagreements in terms of an epic struggle between good and evil. If you ever just once admitted that the Democrats are not infallible and that the Republicans are not evil incarnate, then you would be surprised how much more credible you would sound. Seriously.
bandeja, we will all be killing and eating woodpeckers after Obama gets done with us. I wonder which of the countries where Obama and his wife have vacationed will give him asylum after his jobs speech(s).
Starting to wonder if Barry is a one trick pony that can’t even do his one trick good anymore. Spend more money, spend more money is all he knows.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife seems to be unfairly targeting Gibson Guitar. Outside observers see a more sinister possibility in all of this. Henry Juszkiewicz, Gibson’s CEO, is a Republican, who has contributed to Republican candidates (as well as some Democratic candidates). Other guitar companies, which have not been targeted, are led by Democrats. Is there a political motivation to all of this?
Solyndra Has been said that this is a story that could drag Obama down. The taxpayers are going to take it in the ear for $400-500 million.
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/solyndra-obama-connection
Yes HisRoc, I am amazed at how memories fade so quickly. Seems as if most citizens have simply forgotten about how they felt in the Fall of 2008 as their personal wealth disappeared as fast as investment banks disappeared on Wall Street. But today, many want to simply forget, and put the same culprits back in charge. Sorry you seem to want to forget as well, as most do, yet in the end, when I listen to Perry, I just get a sick feeling that here we go again. The picture for America, if he duplicates his performance in Texas, would be disastrous; higher unemployment, children with terrible educational opportunity, a plethora of minimum wage jobs, many workers without health insurance, all amidst a stratified society benefitting the wealthy few in energy companies that benefit from low cost labor. Frankly, if that is the nation you want, I am disappointed.
Hisroc,
When it comes to economics, I’d say it is a clear cut struggle between good and evil when it comes to Democrats versus Republicans. Even so called moderate Republican Presidential candidate has put forth an economic plan in which capital gains taxes would be completely eliminated. He would slash the corporate tax to 25% in exchange for eliminating depreciation of business assets as well as proposing to eliminate cash expense deductions. He also wants to eliminate the mortgage interest deduction on personal income taxes.
Now, this is supposed to help the small business man. Well, I guess I am too small to qualify as a small business, so how will this impact a tiny businessman like me (Little David Transport is rolling and making money)?
Well, I had to pay over $100k for my truck, and I would no longer be able to depreciate it under Huntsman’s plan. I obtained the $100k I needed by refinancing my house and under Huntsman’s plan I would no longer be able to deduct the interest on the loan.
Under Huntman’s plan, my taxes would go up, not down, and Huntsman is supposed to be the moderate in the Republican field! Supposedly he consulted with businessmen who approve of his plan, but I do not think he consulted with any tiny businessmen like me.
I didn’t explore too much on what his elimination of cash expenses means, but I am thinking that under his plan, I might have to even pay taxes on all the money I spend on fuel. Think about it; a large portion of what I charge to haul a load of freight ends up going to pay for the fuel needed to haul it (it can cost me well over a thousand bucks when I refuel) and I should not be able to deduct this expense before I calculate the profits I should pay taxes on? My fuel costs typically exceed my profit level. Under Huntsman’s plan I might lose money but still owe income taxes.
Huntsman claims under his plan America will “revert back to a system that believes in capitalistic traditions, the free market, innovation, and empowers entrepreneurs.” Well I am one entrepreneur who will not be empowered. Jon Huntsman wants to raise my taxes to give the wealthy yet another tax cut.
FBI agents armed with search warrants descended on bankrupt solar company Solynrda Thursday morning. The investigation comes after a request by the Department of Energy’s inspector general. We trust this is the start of a real investigation and not a “securing embarrassing documents” operation.
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