Mitch McConnell (R-KY) announced on a talk show today that the Republicans do indeed have a jobs bill. They just can't tell us what it is. Oh, maybe by September they'll let us know. But it's a top secret operation until then. Are they trying to figure out how to ship the worker with the job to India. Actually, yes. India is sucking up jobs so fast from the United States of America that they are now bottom feeding by hiring our lawyers. So, OK, that's not so bad. But the tech jobs, etc. Come on.
80% of US corporations are sitting on over a trillion dollars of cash reserves that some of them got through the Bush bailout, not to say that President Obama should have bailed out banks, but Bush bailed out all kinds of corporations & banks that did not need it while the corporations refused to hire back workers or new workers because they figured out that you'll do two, three people's jobs just to keep yours. The auto bailout was all right but the fucking banks? Where are the loans to small businesses? Why did the Republicans kill a jobs bill for small businesses, who do most of the hiring of new workers. Corporations are not job creators but rather job killers.
There is one building in the Cayman Islands that has 18,000 US corporation mail drops, so that they can avoid taxes. 80% of US corporations do not pay taxes to the US government. Do you know who makes up the difference? Yeah, you & me. So, they send our jobs overseas & they don't pay taxes. They make billions every quarter IN PROFITS. & we take upthe slackwith our tax dollars.
Chinese products coming into this country are taxed on average about 2%. American products going to China are taxed at 24%. Anyone see the problem? US corporations who enjoy all the protections & benefits of this county ought to be required to produce their products on US soil & let tariffs take care of it. We'd soon see an upswing of American manufacturing & the flowering of small businesses in this great country.
College: Before the "Reagan Revolution," it took one income to rear a family. Then, it soon took two incomes. Now, if you want to send your kid to college, you're looking at a second mortgage. A second job. President Obama wants to ensure that all kids can go to college, especially taking advantage of community colleges. Republicans want to dumb you & your kids down. They want obedient workers who will work for minimum wage, which is hardly a minimum. It's below minimum, it's in the ditch, it's poverty level. Try living anywhere in this country on minimum wage, no benefits and no power. We are no longer the smartest country in the world. We're at about 40%, which is about where we are on most social needs.
Fourteenth Amendment: Republicans are talking about changing the 14th Amendment so that children born in the US are not automatically American citizens. Fine. If we're going to change it, then let's add just one word: "natural." Put it before the word "persons" in the Amendment & the corporations are fucked. Good trade off? Computer says, "Nah." Computer says, "Fuck the corporations, anyway." Whoops, Computer is a corporate lackey. Who to listen to?
Drop & Leave: How many women do you think cross the Sonora Desert in death defying conditions just to drop a baby in the US? There are so many corpses in the US of folks trying to cross that desert that the facilities to process them are over loaded & now they are bringing in freezer trucks to keep the corpses from decaying until they can get to them.
Filibuster: Used to be that if a Senator wanted to filibuster a bill, he or she had to keep talking, day & night & day again. They had to stand there & read into the bill anything they wanted, like "Finnegan's Wake", "War & Peace", "The Bible," "The New York Times & even the "Washington Post." Now, all they gotta do is say "I filibuster." Everyone goes home. Guess what party put through the bill that changed the rules. Come on, John Boner (R-OH) god forbid you have to interrupt a tanning date? Either get rid of it or go back to the original. Some are talking about making it a 55-45 vote to bust the filibuster. Nah, go back. Make 'em stand there hours & days on end. It's good theater & some of us may be exposed to literature that brings out the true nature of the speaker. Or ourselves.
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