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

Libya, Schmibya

Can the Dems in Washington please do us all a favor and skip all of their posturing over the President's actions in Libya?

100,000 people didn't rally in Wisconsin over Libya. Gov. Kasich in Ohio and Gov. Snyder in Michigan do not have plummeting approval ratings over Libya. The Democrats chances in 2012 are not rising over Libya.

It's good jobs, good jobs, good jobs--that's what voters care about.

Peace,
emaycee

The truth will out

Any bullshit that the tea party is about average Americans taking back their country can pretty much be put to rest by their appearance at the rallies in Wisconsin. From all accounts, a whopping 2000 people showed up (versus 70,000 to 100,000 rallying for the working people in this country) to be toadies for the corporations who received tax breaks at the expense of decent wages and benefits for the middle class, and so that wealthy elites like the Koch brothers (who are funding the assault on America's middle class) can have even more billions at our expense. The tea party is all about the benjamins--making sure that the rich have theirs and the rest of us don't. Thanks, but no fucking thanks. Peace, emaycee