The House floor was the scene of some heated exchanges after Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) took the floor to address the 9/11 Health and Compensation Act.
While this is merely a heated and not offensive exchange. It is representative of the diminishing level of discourse in Congress on both sides. Congress is becoming the WWF without the folding chairs and pile drivers.
… you guys thrive on divisiveness … you’ve got it!
Byron,
Bull-twinkies … do another google
Lot’s of folk up here work for GM … out of the red … into the black … hiring freeze is lifted … Twinsburg to go from a couple 100 units a day to 1400 … all laid-off are back … all “96’s” relocated (that’s a plant closing relocating of workers agreement) funds all paid up … the REAL list goes on and on.
And …Overtime is up and the people working in the plants aren’t like your republican buds on Wall Street … when they get a pay check, they’ve actually worked for the money.
Unfortunately for you, I know a lot about the American Auto Industry so you can’t shine me on or get away with that false fact stuff you republicans love to spread around.
Go buy a Toyota, boyo, and hope the wheels don’t fall off. And say hello to Corker and Shelby … I trust they’re smart enough to give the north a wide berth when traveling. Nobody is buying them candy and flowers and nobody is going to forget what they tried to do to the American Auto Industry!
Spending among the upper income groups is not down that much. The stock market is up 3000 points from the bottom. Tiffany’s for instance just recorded a huge profit. Whole Foods profits were way up. The airplanes are pretty full. The 90% with jobs are starting to spend again. The problem is the unemployment situation. Republicans don’t want the government to hire or even provide unemployment benefits and the corporations aren’t hiring. The rich are still getting richer.The CE0’s certainly don’t want to part with their 25 million plus salaries to hire a few workers. Salaries during the Bush years became the most inequitable they have ever been and that has not changed.
Bdaman:
how are things in Florida? How are the beaches doing and how is the fishing?
Smom:
“David Stockman says republicans are bankrupting the country.”
If you get rid of the tax cuts it is going to kill this economy and will reduce revenues to the treasury because of less business activity.
What they should be doing is cutting taxes further. JFK did it and it worked.
Smom:
“Also corporations are sitting on huge piles of cash. They don’t care about hiring.”
they are afraid of the unknown. Corporations are run by individuals who have the same fears as the rest of us. I understand that consumer spending is way down, I know we have cut way back.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/01/opinion/01stockman.html David Stockman says republicans are bankrupting the country.
Wow, TraitorB,
You seemed to have missed the earlier post, I named the Dart family as being one that has made it here and keeps it over there. This goes for a number of people that I am familiar with. I read an article in a family business publican that there are companies that have their primary business in the US have more than 4.5 trillion US Dollars in reserve.
Byron That is because the wealth that was created went to the top 1%. Taxation policies favor the wealthy. Also corporations are sitting on huge piles of cash. They don’t care about hiring.
Sorry to hear what, I wanna know, what is it.
Are you guys talking threw e-mail and the blog at the same time?
Buddha:
Sorry to hear that. But oh well.
Blouise:
I think you will find that only Ford (which didn’t take money) is doing well.
The lower middle class is helped by a growing economy not a stagnating one. In a dynamic economy people don’t typically stay in the lower middle class, they are able to move up. The economic policies of this administration and the last one have been devastating to wealth creation, which is the mechanism for job creation, in this country.
You cannot have a growing middle class in a stagnant economy.
But anyway the simple fact of the matter is that you see the jobs created by government spending, what you don’t see is the jobs not created by the government spending money that would have been used by private individuals to create jobs in other areas. So the people that produce batteries (as in your example) are taking jobs from people that might have produced hammers. Why should people producing hammers be put out of work by people producing batteries? And have to pay for the jobs of the battery makers through their taxes.
Who gets to decide what jobs are necessary? In my mind that is despotism.
That was two tables cause sometimes I play two games at a time.
Of course you probably already figured that one out.
Aye, just ta judge, cause i’m a mean player too. How was or is your consistency. Out of all the games, did you run the table and if so how many times?
I may not be able to beat you on this blog but I know I’ll scatter your ass all over that fuckin table table. Then depended on how many shots of tequila and if i’m wrong about that I just might split your head open with the cue, just ta see if you bleed green too.
No visual needed.
Now that was good Buddha, my hats tipped.
So whats up Byron, read any good books.
Byron,
What Blouise said.
badtroll,
I won $250. As to the lady, a gentleman doesn’t kiss and tell.
Enjoy your HotPockets.
No, rumor has it he’s hiding, thinks people are lookin for him or somethin.
Don’t forget Bernakie, not to be confused with bare naked.
(Cheney would be let out by Haliburton on compassionate grounds 🙂 )
How is Mr. Cheney? has anyone heard?