Another reason to be glad you're a Democrat

Suzy Welch, pampered elitist and wife of vastly overpaid and overrated former CEO of GE Jack Welch, thinks that the choice of songs sung by Willard Romney and President Obama speaks volumes about the two men.  Apparently, Willard's choice of his vastly off key rendition of "America the Beautiful" makes him a better American (read "white") than President Obama (read "black") and his remarkably--and totally cool--tuneful version of an American classic, Al Green's "Let's Stay Together."

Said Ms. Welch, "That is two different Americas.  Isn't it?"

You bet your ass it is, sweetheart.  And frankly, if being a good American in Ms. Welch's eyes means the choice between a bad version of "America the Beautiful" and the soulful Obama version of "Let's Stay Together," I'll stay here in 99% Land, thank you very much.

Fuck you, Suzy.

Peace,
emaycee

I see said the blind man

There have been a couple of telling pieces over the past week in the Free Press.  The first dealt with pay raises of roughly $19 million for U.S. House staffers.  The second with increased payroll spending at Michigan colleges.  I find it highly coincidental that in the midst of labor uprisings in Wisconsin, Ohio, and Michigan two such pieces as fit so neatly into the republican narrative would appear within a week in the Free Press.  The pay raises, of course, are government spending out of control, contributing to the deficit, overpaid government workers, ad nauseum.  The payroll increases, of course, are overpaid union members, overpaid government workers, bloated government spending, the conservative anti-education agenda (the less we know, the less they can pay us), ad nauseum.

I might (well, probably not, but what the fuck) be able to overlook this were the Free Press to have run a piece on GE making $14.2 billion last year but paying zero income taxes (can you say "don't want to piss off the paying advertisers"?) or a piece on Bank of America paying zero taxes for the second year in a row and claiming a $1 billion tax credit because they ran their business poorly (can you say "ditto"?).  For some odd reason, they don't seem to run a lot of pieces like Think Progress....

Who better serves middle America's agenda?  And doesn't charge $13 bucks a month to whine that you make too much money despite that college education and the Phd which cost you a pretty penny?  I rest my case....

Also, can someone please explain to me why, because of all their expensive and time consuming schooling, very few people bemoan doctors their generally lucrative careers, but don't feel the same about college professors above average wages despite all of their expensive and time consuming schooling?   Just wondering....

Peace,
emaycee