Pinheads in the Free Press

So many pinheads, so little time...

Today's Free Press opinion page (www.freep.com/section/OPINION) is a beaut...

First of all, the headline "Sen. Bunning: Is he heartless or prudent?" Um, we have to ask? That anybody even bothers to raise this question speaks volumes about where we are as a nation. Ten percent of us are out of work, it's closer to twenty-five percent if you add in people who are working part-time but want full-time, or aren't getting 40 hours a week--NONE OF IT THEIR FAULT, THANK YOU VERY MUCH WALL STREET--and there are people who think we should not extend unemployment benefits. And we're really supposed to wonder if this is being prudent? Prudent how--so we can be a third world country? So we can lose even more jobs as there is less money to be spent?

Then there's the bonehead who "applauds" Sen. Bunning for "standing up against the constant increase in our debt." Uh, where were you when George W. Bush was running up record deficits, mostly through two badly thought out wars and cutting taxes for those who least need it? That worked out so well for us. Trickle down--as it always has in the past--ended up being a drop of water in the desert. Thanks for nothing.

But the winner for today was the idiot who wrote "Bravo, Jim Bunning," and then went on to claim that the best way to get people back working is to cut off their benefits, so they can move to where the jobs are. Hello? In the first place, where the fuck are they supposed to get the money to move if they don't have any? Second, what about the millions of us who need two incomes and have a spouse who is still working--he or she is supposed to quit and move, too? Frankly, it doesn't just bother me that I have to share a country with this stupid mother fucker, but that I even have to share a planet with him.

I feel so much better...

Peace,
emaycee