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Mitt-I have been unemployed for 3 yrs-5X longer than any previous period in my 27 yrs of adult life.For the 5 yr pre-Vancouver Winter Olympic construction boom, I earned from $26,000 to $40,000 a year.Then I had no income for 10 mos, burned through $14K in saving, plunged $3K in debt, applied for welfare 16X and petitioned 2 MLAs, finally I got welfare, and have been on it for the last 30 mos.Almost all my meals come from the soup kitchens.I have to eat with poly drug addicted alcoholics, the mentally ill, endure long lines full of smokers (I wear a bandana over my mouth).I gave up looking for work 2.5 yrs ago and am now going to college.I wonder if I'll ever work again.The only good news is that I am studying French and will go on an exchange to Quebec this summer, but I doubt I will get a summer job and I'm sure that I will be deep in debt.
If Grover Norquist succeeds in having Obama impeached for a tiny 2% tax for the uber rich, then I would like to see him drowned in a bathtub.
Stocks formed the much-heralded "golden cross" on Tuesday,
but traders waited until the market's actually closed before
confirming it.The U.S. stock-market surge in January may
feel to some like having reached a remote mountain peak. It was
a lot of work, but there are not many people to celebrate with.
S&P Futures
OFF TOPIC
I know -
and probably against the law -
BUT
THERE WERE 4470 STRIKES - MOSTLY OF THE SIT DOWN VARIETY - IN 1937 -
IN response to INDIANA becoming a RIGHT TO WORK FOR LESS STATE -
I would love to see the NFL players union -
pull a sit down strike after the coin toss -
DURING the SUPER BOWL in INDIANAPOLIS
You should first of all discuss your concerns with your employer or immediate boss. Your company may have a safety representative, who might be your first point of contact. If you have an employee representative, such as a trade union official, they may be able to help you..As a last resort, you can get in touch with the authority responsible for enforcing health and safety in your workplace..Health and safety inspectors have powers to enforce the law. If you take this course of action, your employer must not discipline you or put you at a disadvantage in your job - for example, not paying you for the time you refused to work because of unsafe conditions, passing you over for promotion, etc.
placas solares termicas
*I'll never break your heart..No way, no how..I'll make you cry..*
Wow! You are very talented! Loved your music..especially the cornet with that mute....I have played trumpet off and on for years..although I have not played in a couple of years now. Got lots of music books of variety..mostly all Fake books. I found your s&t blog....I don't know if I could switch so easily from playing a trumpet to playing a trombone like that. Very talented!!! You're not really 111 years old are you? I found the s&h site as well. Columnist of the TSO since 1930? How mysterious!! Oh, I liked your blogs too!
I'm afraid there's too much money in politics ... and it d o e s corrupt (on both sides, though I'll still take the Dems any day). Eventually, things will moderate .. I just wonder if I will live to see it.
Occupy Wall Street gives me some hope!!!
Go "Occupy Century Aluminum," small in numbers but gigantic in heart!............ Fight on!
Willard Romney's comment about the poor reminds me of his Aunt Barbara......"and so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them." not to mention his great, great, great, great, Aunt Marie....." If they have no bread, let them eat cake." Being out of touch with economic reality is just part of who these republican candidates are. Do I think any are better than Willard? Better at what?....being a crook, liar, cheat, capitalist, religious nut, bigot, sociopath, psychopath, they're all pretty much the same .......it's just who they are!
I read an article about Romney's "poor" statement. He said that he wasn't worried about the very poor because they have a safety net to fall back on, which I might add, most rethuglicans want to dismantle and use as a stump-speech punching bag: welfare.
if they need to be damned i would hep them.get that way ,
Bravo sir well said!!!
Mitt Romney's clumsy tongue at times is the best Obama campaign we can get. LOL
The irony is thick as the stains around my drain: the poor consistently vote against their interests by getting stuck on hot-button issues like abortion or gay marriage and voting for the Cons. Cons like Mit don't give shi** about people or how the laws affect us as long as he can insure that our rights are taken away, more restrictions are placed on individuals and we give more and more money to the rich. They love less liberty and revel in the hatred. The astonishing part is that they are so out of touch with what we need and want, they think that everyone believes their self-serving rhetoric.
The only drawback is that Obama is also using rhetoric as a smoke screen to hide his real colors. I believed him during his first campaign, but he failed perform and lost the talk. Now he's talking the talk once again, and I doubt he will ever lean to walk the walk.
This is the same kind of power vacuum that got Hitler elected. Perhaps it has been engineered.
Instead of Paris Hilton or Lindsay Lohan (and others of their ilk) going to rehab or jail the next time they screw up, have them trade places with a street person for a year or two...
@ D Richards
Join the Socialist Party....I did....
When I was growing up, my parents told me that "anyone can become President"....
When the homeless person living in the alley behind my building becomes President, I'LL BELIEVE IT!!!
A profile of the typical low level Republican voter as presented on Huff Post :
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/27/intelligence-study-links-prejud...
Of COURSE Mitt Romney isn't concerned about the poor!!!
He NEVER WAS POOR!!!!
I wish some of these hotshots would go visit the very poor, such as the children who can't have books because the rats eat them. Or a 60 year old man starving in tent city, too weak to get off his cot and reach for a can of ENSURE that the safety net leaves under his bed.
I propose a television series called "Poor Swap."
Let rats eat Mitt's Esquire, and let Mitt live for a week on Ensure.
IMHO, there's little (if any) difference between the Republicans and Democrats...they're BOTH wholly owned subsidaries of Corporate America, they'll BOTH do the bidding of the 1%, and they'll BOTH go down within 10 years....THAT'S why I'm voting straight Socialist in 2012!!
I don't know what kind of romantic film you see, while daydreaming. Is it Robin Hood and his buddies, climbing a wall with ropes, killing a few guys with arrows and then storm the palace? Or like The Three Musketeers, with muzzle loaders and rapiers? Well, it won't be muzzle loader canons, as during the first Revolutionary War. It would be battled out with modern weapons and totally destroy the United States. And you shouldn't suppress the fact that it would be a civil war indeed. It would be the same destruction like in Iraq -- here in America. In addition also with predator drones. You can easily start a civil war, but it's hard to end, while hate is growing and growing and people change to raw animals.
Before something like that should happen, I'd rather consider what I suggested in my other post. If there wasn't any another solution. I hope many American firebrands read this!
The way I see it, the GOP is currently in a suicide pact with the Tea Party.
question if billionaires our pain 15% on dividends and then added to the tax of the Corporation which they claim and that means they are paying 45 or 40% present mean the person in the Corporation who is getting paid 30 -35,000 a year and pays 30% in taxes on their income is really paying 60% because the Corporation is taxed first?
Phylogonously ugly? I hope it wasn't "philogynously" (which would have had a j sound); that refers to loving women. I barely caught it, and there are too many possible ways to spell it for me to be sure. You win this round, Thom.