Qtec
12-28-2010, 11:20 PM
I told you so. The GOP hates the worker.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">As the New Year - and the new GOP House majority - approaches,<span style='font-size: 14pt'> Republicans are ramping up their war on government workers. Grover Norquist and his Weekly Standard allies urged Congress to <u>let cash-strapped states go bankrupt in order to slash public employees, drain their pension funds and punish their unions.</u></span> At the heart of their crusade is the bogus claim, as 2012 GOP White House hopeful Tim Pawlenty put it two weeks ago, that "since January 2008 the private sector has lost nearly 8 million jobs while local, state and federal governments added 590,000." <span style='font-size: 17pt'>Alas, as with so much conservative mythmaking, the statement isn't merely a lie. As the data show, the public sector has actually shed hundreds of thousands of jobs over the past two years.</span>
While Ohio Republican Steve LaTourette was among the first to deploy the mythical 590,000 figure this summer, it was Governor Pawlenty who brought it to prominence two weeks ago in his vitriolic Wall Street Journal op-ed, "Government Unions vs. Taxpayers."
"They work for government, which, thanks to President Obama, has become the only booming "industry" left in our economy. Since January 2008 the private sector has lost nearly eight million jobs while local, state and federal governments added 590,000."
Sadly for the man who calls himself "T-Paw," the figure isn't even close.
<span style='font-size: 20pt'>As Politifact noted about T-Paw's "Pants on Fire" lie, </span>"Pawlenty's statement doesn't account for the tremendous -- and now vanished -- bump from hiring Census workers." And as it turns out, Pawlenty simply reproduced the 590,000 figure from a June 24, 2010 blog post at Andrew Breitbart's Big Government web site. Once the temporary hiring of Census workers from January 2009 through May 2010 came to an end, Politifact concluded, <u>"total federal hiring comes to only 34,000."</u> Or as Paul Krugman put it:
<span style="color: #990000">See, if you measure right at the top of that peak at the right, <span style='font-size: 14pt'>pretend not to notice</span> that it's all Census workers, and never update the number, you get your myth inserted into the discourse, and it becomes part of what everyone knows ... </span></div></div>
link (http://crooksandliars.com/jon-perr/590000-republican-lies-about-public-employees)
From what I have seen, not one single GOP/Republican can speak for 5 minutes without making multiple untrue statements.
This attack on Joe Sixpack is a true revelation. They hold the country to hostage for tax breaks for the rich that the country can't afford and then attack the worker claiming he is too expensive!
Q..........makes me sick.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">As the New Year - and the new GOP House majority - approaches,<span style='font-size: 14pt'> Republicans are ramping up their war on government workers. Grover Norquist and his Weekly Standard allies urged Congress to <u>let cash-strapped states go bankrupt in order to slash public employees, drain their pension funds and punish their unions.</u></span> At the heart of their crusade is the bogus claim, as 2012 GOP White House hopeful Tim Pawlenty put it two weeks ago, that "since January 2008 the private sector has lost nearly 8 million jobs while local, state and federal governments added 590,000." <span style='font-size: 17pt'>Alas, as with so much conservative mythmaking, the statement isn't merely a lie. As the data show, the public sector has actually shed hundreds of thousands of jobs over the past two years.</span>
While Ohio Republican Steve LaTourette was among the first to deploy the mythical 590,000 figure this summer, it was Governor Pawlenty who brought it to prominence two weeks ago in his vitriolic Wall Street Journal op-ed, "Government Unions vs. Taxpayers."
"They work for government, which, thanks to President Obama, has become the only booming "industry" left in our economy. Since January 2008 the private sector has lost nearly eight million jobs while local, state and federal governments added 590,000."
Sadly for the man who calls himself "T-Paw," the figure isn't even close.
<span style='font-size: 20pt'>As Politifact noted about T-Paw's "Pants on Fire" lie, </span>"Pawlenty's statement doesn't account for the tremendous -- and now vanished -- bump from hiring Census workers." And as it turns out, Pawlenty simply reproduced the 590,000 figure from a June 24, 2010 blog post at Andrew Breitbart's Big Government web site. Once the temporary hiring of Census workers from January 2009 through May 2010 came to an end, Politifact concluded, <u>"total federal hiring comes to only 34,000."</u> Or as Paul Krugman put it:
<span style="color: #990000">See, if you measure right at the top of that peak at the right, <span style='font-size: 14pt'>pretend not to notice</span> that it's all Census workers, and never update the number, you get your myth inserted into the discourse, and it becomes part of what everyone knows ... </span></div></div>
link (http://crooksandliars.com/jon-perr/590000-republican-lies-about-public-employees)
From what I have seen, not one single GOP/Republican can speak for 5 minutes without making multiple untrue statements.
This attack on Joe Sixpack is a true revelation. They hold the country to hostage for tax breaks for the rich that the country can't afford and then attack the worker claiming he is too expensive!
Q..........makes me sick.