Comments on: Digit Vs. Rush http://www.fistofblog.com/2009/06/03/digit-vs-rush/ Fist of Blog is mostly a blog about things we find on the internet. In that respect, it is no different than other blogs. However, it is better than other blogs because we made it. We christen thee, Fist of Blog, as the passed gas of internets past. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 13:43:13 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Employment News http://www.fistofblog.com/2009/06/03/digit-vs-rush/comment-page-1/#comment-105361 Employment News Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:59:47 +0000 http://www.fistofblog.com/?p=12981#comment-105361 Nothing to worry or get nervous, just be confident and never tell any lie.. answer what you know.. are the first principles while attending an Interview. I had lot of experience in this area, so collected a big list of interview questions and answers sites (more than 220 sites) on wide variety of areas. This doesn’t cover just interview questions but also has information related to how to dress, how and what to ask the person who is interviewing you like if it is HR, you might want to know about the work environment, about the overtime rules, about the holiday structure, any medical benefits, insurance coverages etc.,. Thought it will be useful to all, so sharing them at the below link — might be of some help to you… today and even in future…

]]> By: Ryan http://www.fistofblog.com/2009/06/03/digit-vs-rush/comment-page-1/#comment-99293 Ryan Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:55:22 +0000 http://www.fistofblog.com/?p=12981#comment-99293 FYI, WW2 happened at the end of FDR's term. THAT is what lowered the unemployment rate. Also look at how the standard of living dropped quite a bit during that time. FYI, WW2 happened at the end of FDR’s term. THAT is what lowered the unemployment rate. Also look at how the standard of living dropped quite a bit during that time.

]]> By: Digit http://www.fistofblog.com/2009/06/03/digit-vs-rush/comment-page-1/#comment-99063 Digit Thu, 04 Jun 2009 07:25:15 +0000 http://www.fistofblog.com/?p=12981#comment-99063 Also, here are the unemployment rates under FDR from 1933 - 1940: <table width="250"> <tr><td colspan="3">Unemployment (% labor force)</td></tr> <tr><td>Year</td><td>Lebergott </td><td>Darby</td></tr> <tr><td>1933 </td><td> 24.9 </td><td> 20.6</td></tr> <tr><td>1934 </td><td> 21.7 </td><td> 16.0 </td></tr> <tr><td> 1935 </td><td> 20.1 </td><td> 14.2 </td></tr> <tr><td> 1936 </td><td> 16.9 </td><td> 9.9 </td></tr> <tr><td> 1937 </td><td> 14.3 </td><td> 9.1 </td></tr> <tr><td> 1938 </td><td> 19.0 </td><td> 12.5 </td></tr> <tr><td> 1939 </td><td> 17.2 </td><td> 11.3 </td></tr> <tr><td> 1940 </td><td> 14.6 </td><td> 9.5 </td></tr> </table> Looks to me like he reduced unemployment by about 10% at least. edit: Thumb fixed table to be prettier. Also, here are the unemployment rates under FDR from 1933 – 1940:

Unemployment (% labor force)
Year Lebergott Darby
1933 24.9 20.6
1934 21.7 16.0
1935 20.1 14.2
1936 16.9 9.9
1937 14.3 9.1
1938 19.0 12.5
1939 17.2 11.3
1940 14.6 9.5

Looks to me like he reduced unemployment by about 10% at least.

edit: Thumb fixed table to be prettier.

]]> By: Digit http://www.fistofblog.com/2009/06/03/digit-vs-rush/comment-page-1/#comment-99062 Digit Thu, 04 Jun 2009 07:17:07 +0000 http://www.fistofblog.com/?p=12981#comment-99062 Briefly, because I have to go to bed, Spence, watch <a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vM9lNL09y5c" rel="nofollow">this clip</a> regarding Sotomayor. It seems many of the conservative judges are guilty of the same things she's being excoriated for. Briefly, because I have to go to bed, Spence, watch this clip regarding Sotomayor. It seems many of the conservative judges are guilty of the same things she’s being excoriated for.

]]> By: Spencer Lowell http://www.fistofblog.com/2009/06/03/digit-vs-rush/comment-page-1/#comment-99059 Spencer Lowell Thu, 04 Jun 2009 06:42:06 +0000 http://www.fistofblog.com/?p=12981#comment-99059 I was hoping to focus more on the 4 main issues than Limbaughs style and his frequent insults. His entertainment value comes from his Bombasity. The 4 issues I was hoping to discuss that Limbaugh has focused on lately were: Obamas liberal policies as a whole, Soto Mayor's fitfullness for the position of supreme justice, the monitization of our debt, and Rep Waxman's dis honoring the peoples desire for the elected representatives of our Republic to read the bills they sign. Just 4 specific examples to use for debate. I agree 100% that I too hope Obama fails in his quest to implement his policies that go beyond liberalism into a mix of socialism (being defined as services supplied directly by government through tax dollars, or debt *aka future tax dollars* and Fascism (defined as strong central government keeping private sector intact, but dictating what the private sector must do/produce). If I wanted a GM car, I would have bought one, but I didnt', I bought a Honda that I absolutely adore every time I mash the gas pedal. But now government is saying I must support GM with my tax dollars to save jobs, and later on, to build the eco cars that I don't want to buy right now. It is true, I don't think Obama will force me to buy his lawnmowers with two seats, but I do believe he will institute a subsidy with my tax dollars to artificially drive down the price tag on eco cars below market rate to the level at which consumers will buy them. In effect, forcing me to pay a small part of the price for someone elses car that I wouldn't buy myself. In the early 1900's, it was a good thing that the government didn't try to bail out the horse and buggy industry to save the buggy making workers, the horse breaders, the black smiths, etc. Because we got cars, which the public found much more attractive and convenient. Today, it's not new technology that brought GM down, it was simply a failed business model. Creative destruction is so usefull in plowing away the inefficients, and making room for better models to flourish, in this case, Honda's, Toyota's, etc. The bailouts are not like living in your parents garage in tough times. Parents love you and willingly give you charity in tough times, but the government's use of taxpayer money is closer to a government official knocking on your door and saying you are required to clear a space in your garage for a stranger to live in during tough times. Sonia Sotomayor is a very simple example I think. The Statue of Lady Justice is blindfolded for a reason, in that it does not matter who you are, the law applies to all equally. She gave two candid statements which are always the best I believe for showing what a person honestly believes. First, she said the courtroom is where policy is made. Second, she said, "I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life." For the first part, the answer is "No" policy is made in the legislative branch, so as to be separate from the judicial branch to avoid concentrated power. Second, her quote is demontratively racist because a white man would be completely ostracised and condemned for saying, "I would hope that a wise white man with the richness of his experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a latino woman who hasn't lived that life." A double standard is not acceptable. If there was one thing I learned doing jury duty, empathy has no place in deciding the rule of law. To introduce empathy as a foundation of such is to invite bias into a system that is supposed to have complete impartiality. Timothy's meeting with the chinese was to ease their fears of us monetizing our debt is very diconcerting. We don't have the money to do the things Obama is doing, and there's not enough demand in the world for our treasuries (to make loans to us) so we are issueing debt, printing the money as we need it, and buying our own debt with it. Limbaugh laughs at this because most of the world knows this to be a failed practice that creates inflation. Mayanmar, Zimbabwe, and the Soviet Union all did this. It does not work out well, and Rush points this out in his radio show. Lastly. Most people are very concerned about our elected representatives not reading the bills they are signing. To honor this concern, representative Henry Waxman brings in a speed reader to read the new Environmental Protection bill, who only reads for a minute or two before the commitee starts laughing at it's rediculousness and agrees not to continue to have it read. The arrogence of our polititians astounds me. They were literally laughing. Waxman said he does not know all that is in the bill, but trusts the scientists who created the bill. I'm sorry, I did not elect these scientists to represent me. Beyond the four examples, FDR is an interesting subject, because his New Deal was, I think, a failure. I don't want to spend a lot of time on this, but even his secretary of treasury, Henry Morgenthau, for FDR's two terms as president said in the end of those 8 years that their plans failed to fix the depression. He said, "We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work ... After eight years of this Administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started ... And an enormous debt to boot!" At that time, FDR spent more money than all other previous administrations combined. He had public works programs instituted with federal tax dollars (or debt), just like Obama, and for the same reason, to give people jobs. Tax dollars collected in one state to pay for building projects in other states is taxation without represntation, and is not a sustainable job maker. FDR actually paid farmers not to produce to try and artificially drive up the price of produce after a huge farm production surplus occured due to international trade barriers that he put in place. This created a huge, expensive beauracracy to try to enforce farmers honesty that they were cutting their production, a beauracracy which became corrupt with bribes from farmers. FDR instituted the NRA (National Recovery Act, not National Rifle Association, haha) where a few powerfull individuals decided what the price of products/services should be and fixed those prices accross the country. If you charged less for a product or service that had a fixed price, you were jailed. Business went under that weren't able to keep their businesses solvent under the price restrictions. Even a tailor, who gave a 5 cent discount for pressing a pair of pants was jailed. In the end, a lot of FDR's programs were declared unconstitutional by the supreme court. But the damage was still done, over that decade, entrepreneurs were too restricted to justify the risks associated with starting new ventures and creating new jobs. FDR instituted the first gasoline tax, movie ticket tax, telegraph tax, and a host of other taxes that hurt the very people he was trying to help, the impoverished. Even if Obama doesn't raise the poor's income tax, they still get hosed on their ciggarettes tax, gas tax, proposed private health insurence benefit tax and all the other product taxes he's sure to come up with over the next four years. FDR even had a bailout program for struggling businesses! It wasn't quite like the "give away" bailouts we have been giving, they were loans to struggling businesses made with taxpayer dollars that were never recovered after the businesses failed anyway. At the end of his two terms, unemployment was still above 20%. No, I do not like FDR's new deal, and I don't like Obamas similar New Deal either. Cenrally controlled economies simply do not work. I believe the principles of individual freedom and liberty are what create the greates good for the greatest number. It made us the grandest nation in the world. I'm not a republican, and I'm not a democrat. As an aside, the main reason I like Glenn Beck is that he voices the same concern that myself and many others have: There is no difference between the two parties. Republicans do the same things the democrats do. I cant stand Bush, and I can't stand Obama. I hope that one day, we can reclaim a little of our founders spirit, and thrive again. I was hoping to focus more on the 4 main issues than Limbaughs style and his frequent insults. His entertainment value comes from his
Bombasity. The 4 issues I was hoping to discuss that Limbaugh has focused on lately were: Obamas liberal policies as a whole, Soto Mayor’s fitfullness for
the position of supreme justice, the monitization of our debt, and Rep Waxman’s dis honoring the peoples desire for the
elected representatives of our Republic to read the bills they sign. Just 4 specific examples to use for debate.
I agree 100% that I too hope Obama fails in his quest to implement his policies that go beyond liberalism into a mix of
socialism (being defined as services supplied directly by government through tax dollars, or debt *aka future tax dollars* and
Fascism (defined as strong central government keeping private sector intact, but dictating what the private sector must do/produce).
If I wanted a GM car, I would have bought one, but I didnt’, I bought a Honda that I absolutely adore every time I mash the
gas pedal. But now government is saying I must support GM with my tax dollars to save jobs, and later on, to build the eco
cars that I don’t want to buy right now. It is true, I don’t think Obama will force me to buy his lawnmowers with two seats, but I do believe
he will institute a subsidy with my tax dollars to artificially drive down the price tag on eco cars below market rate to the level at which consumers
will buy them. In effect, forcing me to pay a small part of the price for someone elses car that I wouldn’t buy myself.
In the early 1900’s, it was a good thing that the government didn’t try to bail out the
horse and buggy industry to save the buggy making workers, the horse breaders, the black smiths, etc. Because we got cars, which
the public found much more attractive and convenient. Today, it’s not new technology that brought GM down, it was simply a failed business
model. Creative destruction is so usefull in plowing away the inefficients, and making room for better models to flourish, in this case,
Honda’s, Toyota’s, etc. The bailouts are not like living in your parents garage in tough times. Parents love you and willingly give you charity in
tough times, but the government’s use of taxpayer money is closer to a government official knocking on your door and saying
you are required to clear a space in your garage for a stranger to live in during tough times.
Sonia Sotomayor is a very simple example I think. The Statue of Lady Justice is blindfolded for a reason, in that it does not matter who you
are, the law applies to all equally. She gave two candid statements which are always the best I believe for showing what a person honestly
believes. First, she said the courtroom is where policy is made. Second, she said, “I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness
of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.” For the first part, the answer
is “No” policy is made in the legislative branch, so as to be separate from the judicial branch to avoid concentrated power. Second, her quote is
demontratively racist because a white man would be completely ostracised and condemned for saying, “I would hope that a wise white man with the richness of his experiences would more often than
not reach a better conclusion than a latino woman who hasn’t lived that life.” A double standard is not acceptable. If there was one thing I learned
doing jury duty, empathy has no place in deciding the rule of law. To introduce empathy as a foundation of such is to invite bias into a system
that is supposed to have complete impartiality.
Timothy’s meeting with the chinese was to ease their fears of us monetizing our debt is very diconcerting. We don’t have the money to do the things
Obama is doing, and there’s not enough demand in the world for our treasuries (to make loans to us) so we are issueing debt, printing the money as we
need it, and buying our own debt with it. Limbaugh laughs at this because most of the world knows this to be a failed practice that creates inflation.
Mayanmar, Zimbabwe, and the Soviet Union all did this. It does not work out well, and Rush points this out in his radio show.
Lastly. Most people are very concerned about our elected representatives not reading the bills they are signing. To honor this concern, representative
Henry Waxman brings in a speed reader to read the new Environmental Protection bill, who only reads for a minute or two before the commitee starts laughing
at it’s rediculousness and agrees not to continue to have it read. The arrogence of our polititians astounds me. They were literally laughing. Waxman
said he does not know all that is in the bill, but trusts the scientists who created the bill. I’m sorry, I did not elect these scientists to represent me.

Beyond the four examples, FDR is an interesting subject, because his New Deal was, I think, a failure. I don’t want to spend a lot of time on this, but
even his secretary of treasury, Henry Morgenthau, for FDR’s two terms as president said in the end of those 8 years that their plans failed to fix the depression.
He said, “We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work … After eight years of this Administration we
have just as much unemployment as when we started … And an enormous debt to boot!” At that time, FDR spent more money than all other previous administrations
combined. He had public works programs instituted with federal tax dollars (or debt), just like Obama, and for the same reason, to give people jobs. Tax dollars
collected in one state to pay for building projects in other states is taxation without represntation, and is not a sustainable job maker. FDR actually paid farmers not
to produce to try and artificially drive up the price of produce after a huge farm production surplus occured due to international trade barriers that he put in
place. This created a huge, expensive beauracracy to try to enforce farmers honesty that they were cutting their production, a beauracracy which became corrupt
with bribes from farmers. FDR instituted the NRA (National Recovery Act, not National Rifle Association, haha) where a few powerfull individuals decided what the price of products/services should be and
fixed those prices accross the country. If you charged less for a product or service that had a fixed price, you were jailed. Business went under that weren’t
able to keep their businesses solvent under the price restrictions. Even a tailor, who gave a 5 cent discount for pressing a pair of pants was jailed. In the end,
a lot of FDR’s programs were declared unconstitutional by the supreme court. But the damage was still done, over that decade, entrepreneurs were too restricted to
justify the risks associated with starting new ventures and creating new jobs.
FDR instituted the first gasoline tax, movie ticket tax, telegraph tax, and a host of other taxes that hurt the very people he was trying to help, the impoverished.
Even if Obama doesn’t raise the poor’s income tax, they still get hosed on their ciggarettes tax, gas tax, proposed private health insurence benefit tax and all
the other product taxes he’s sure to come up with over the next four years. FDR even had a bailout program for struggling businesses! It wasn’t quite like the
“give away” bailouts we have been giving, they were loans to struggling businesses made with taxpayer dollars that were never recovered after the businesses failed anyway.
At the end of his two terms, unemployment was still above 20%. No, I do not like FDR’s new deal, and I don’t like Obamas similar New Deal either. Cenrally controlled economies
simply do not work.

I believe the principles of individual freedom and liberty are what create the greates good for the greatest number. It made us the grandest nation in the world. I’m not a
republican, and I’m not a democrat. As an aside, the main reason I like Glenn Beck is that he voices the same concern that myself and many others have: There is no
difference between the two parties. Republicans do the same things the democrats do. I cant stand Bush, and I can’t stand Obama. I hope that one day, we can reclaim
a little of our founders spirit, and thrive again.

]]> By: Digit http://www.fistofblog.com/2009/06/03/digit-vs-rush/comment-page-1/#comment-99055 Digit Thu, 04 Jun 2009 04:48:54 +0000 http://www.fistofblog.com/?p=12981#comment-99055 Chaos, Larry is DigitDad. He was referring to people who throw their lots in with Rush. He wasn't disagreeing with me at all. Chaos, Larry is DigitDad.
He was referring to people who throw their lots in with Rush. He wasn’t disagreeing with me at all.

]]> By: ChaosFist http://www.fistofblog.com/2009/06/03/digit-vs-rush/comment-page-1/#comment-99045 ChaosFist Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:17:25 +0000 http://www.fistofblog.com/?p=12981#comment-99045 I liked Brad Pitt aging backwards a lot more than I like Rush. The only distinction is that one is actually entertaining although dry and a bit slow. All this talk of outsourcing, manufacturing, and consumerism normally gets me really fired up. I don't want to get off on a total off topic tangent here, so I'll just stop before I prove to even the most closed minded folks that our world is built for the upper class alone to live on the backs of the middle and lower classes. That being said... Larry: he isn't abdicating his entire opinion, note he actually agreed with a few of the little things Rush said. Reading are seriuz business. I have found myself listening to Rush years ago, call it masochism if you like. The man does occasionally make a good point here and there, however over all, he is indeed a fucking idiot, and an assclown to boot. Even assclowns can make a valid point now and again, Digit knows it. I liked Brad Pitt aging backwards a lot more than I like Rush. The only distinction is that one is actually entertaining although dry and a bit slow.

All this talk of outsourcing, manufacturing, and consumerism normally gets me really fired up. I don’t want to get off on a total off topic tangent here, so I’ll just stop before I prove to even the most closed minded folks that our world is built for the upper class alone to live on the backs of the middle and lower classes.

That being said…

Larry: he isn’t abdicating his entire opinion, note he actually agreed with a few of the little things Rush said.

Reading are seriuz business.

I have found myself listening to Rush years ago, call it masochism if you like. The man does occasionally make a good point here and there, however over all, he is indeed a fucking idiot, and an assclown to boot.

Even assclowns can make a valid point now and again, Digit knows it.

]]> By: Fatfinger http://www.fistofblog.com/2009/06/03/digit-vs-rush/comment-page-1/#comment-99043 Fatfinger Wed, 03 Jun 2009 23:51:42 +0000 http://www.fistofblog.com/?p=12981#comment-99043 Folk...he's an entertainer. He's a radio personality playing a role for money. He's so good at his job it's amazing. I believe in his character no more than I believe Brad Pitt is a 90 year old man aging backwards. -Fat Folk…he’s an entertainer. He’s a radio personality playing a role for money. He’s so good at his job it’s amazing.

I believe in his character no more than I believe Brad Pitt is a 90 year old man aging backwards.

-Fat

]]> By: Digit http://www.fistofblog.com/2009/06/03/digit-vs-rush/comment-page-1/#comment-99041 Digit Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:56:14 +0000 http://www.fistofblog.com/?p=12981#comment-99041 John John John... It's exactly that free market that sent the jobs overseas. Allow me to paint a picture for you. Here int he United States, we have regulations on how goods are manufactured. We have some of these regulations because we've recognized and acknowledged that the way we were doing things was damaging to people, the environment, the economy, other businesses, whatever. As a result, businesses like, maybe a solar panel company, are looking overseas to get raw materials or even finished products. The raw materials are much cheaper over there. Now why is that? It's because there are no regulations in China. The businesses are government run, and the government decides what regulations they want to have or even enforce. As a result, the workers over there get paid substandard wages, live in substandard government provided housing, and the Chinese environment is absolutely devastated. Chemical, biological and radiological pollution are rampant, and the mortality rate is absolutely awful. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THERE'S NO REGULATION!! People get treated as commodities. Is this your suggestion for America? Get rid of the regulations and let the corporations find their own bottom rung? Regulations keep your food safe, your water drinkable, your car from killing you, your air breathable and on and on. The solution to losing foreign jobs isn't to deregulate. The solution is to create incentives to do business at home while punishing those who don't with stiff tariffs. We tried deregulation with the energy companies and got Enron. We tried deregulation with the banking industry and got TARP. We tried deregulation with the credit companies and we got a housing crash. We tried deregulation with the insurance industry and we got AIG. Deregulation is an economic death sentence. John John John…
It’s exactly that free market that sent the jobs overseas.
Allow me to paint a picture for you.
Here int he United States, we have regulations on how goods are manufactured. We have some of these regulations because we’ve recognized and acknowledged that the way we were doing things was damaging to people, the environment, the economy, other businesses, whatever.
As a result, businesses like, maybe a solar panel company, are looking overseas to get raw materials or even finished products. The raw materials are much cheaper over there.
Now why is that? It’s because there are no regulations in China. The businesses are government run, and the government decides what regulations they want to have or even enforce. As a result, the workers over there get paid substandard wages, live in substandard government provided housing, and the Chinese environment is absolutely devastated. Chemical, biological and radiological pollution are rampant, and the mortality rate is absolutely awful. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THERE’S NO REGULATION!! People get treated as commodities. Is this your suggestion for America? Get rid of the regulations and let the corporations find their own bottom rung? Regulations keep your food safe, your water drinkable, your car from killing you, your air breathable and on and on.

The solution to losing foreign jobs isn’t to deregulate. The solution is to create incentives to do business at home while punishing those who don’t with stiff tariffs. We tried deregulation with the energy companies and got Enron. We tried deregulation with the banking industry and got TARP. We tried deregulation with the credit companies and we got a housing crash. We tried deregulation with the insurance industry and we got AIG. Deregulation is an economic death sentence.

]]> By: John http://www.fistofblog.com/2009/06/03/digit-vs-rush/comment-page-1/#comment-99032 John Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:08:52 +0000 http://www.fistofblog.com/?p=12981#comment-99032 Jobs are outsourced overseas because our gov't regulations make it impossible to do business here! Companies can't even make the silicone for solar panels here in the US anymore, they have to buy it from companies in CHINA! Thank you EPA standards! Corporate America is chasing the bottom line because THEY ARE BUSINESSES! They exist to make money! It's time for the gov't to get the hell out of our lives and actually allow the Free Market to work. Jobs are outsourced overseas because our gov’t regulations make it impossible to do business here!

Companies can’t even make the silicone for solar panels here in the US anymore, they have to buy it from companies in CHINA! Thank you EPA standards!

Corporate America is chasing the bottom line because THEY ARE BUSINESSES! They exist to make money!

It’s time for the gov’t to get the hell out of our lives and actually allow the Free Market to work.

]]> By: The Full Monty http://www.fistofblog.com/2009/06/03/digit-vs-rush/comment-page-1/#comment-99031 The Full Monty Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:06:25 +0000 http://www.fistofblog.com/?p=12981#comment-99031 Perhaps the most profound observation I ever heard about Ronald Reagan came from Rosalynn Carter on a "60 Minutes" interview during the 1980 election. She said Reagan was a man who "made people proud of their prejudices." Limbaugh, Hannity, Beck, Fox News, et al., embody that with their right-wing sniveling. Is there any doubt what people Reagan was referring to with his "Welfare Queen" comment or Limbaugh with his "Welfare State" remark? This is bigotry, folks. They will use half-truths or unsubstantiated opinion to shill for right-wing politics and the GOP. I agree that the Obama Administration may not have all or any of the answers, but consider this: 1. We have pissed away billions of dollars on an illegitimate war in Iraq that the Republicans are STILL trying to rationalize! That's money and lives that could have been put to much better use! And all for an outcome we cannot predict or control… 2. In Corporate America's attempt to chase the bottom line, they have exported manufacturing jobs overseas to the point that our ability to manufacture for our own national defense has been severely jeopardized! And then they want to blame the unions… THIS is the Republican Party for whom Limbaugh "carries the water!" Your assessment of this weasel is spot on! BTW, I found FOB one night several months ago and I really enjoy what you guys have been doing. Keep up the great work! Perhaps the most profound observation I ever heard about Ronald Reagan came from Rosalynn Carter on a “60 Minutes” interview during the 1980 election. She said Reagan was a man who “made people proud of their prejudices.” Limbaugh, Hannity, Beck, Fox News, et al., embody that with their right-wing sniveling. Is there any doubt what people Reagan was referring to with his “Welfare Queen” comment or Limbaugh with his “Welfare State” remark? This is bigotry, folks. They will use half-truths or unsubstantiated opinion to shill for right-wing politics and the GOP.
I agree that the Obama Administration may not have all or any of the answers, but consider this:
1. We have pissed away billions of dollars on an illegitimate war in Iraq that the Republicans are STILL trying to rationalize! That’s money and lives that could have been put to much better use! And all for an outcome we cannot predict or control…
2. In Corporate America’s attempt to chase the bottom line, they have exported manufacturing jobs overseas to the point that our ability to manufacture for our own national defense has been severely jeopardized! And then they want to blame the unions…
THIS is the Republican Party for whom Limbaugh “carries the water!” Your assessment of this weasel is spot on!

BTW, I found FOB one night several months ago and I really enjoy what you guys have been doing. Keep up the great work!

]]> By: Larry OC http://www.fistofblog.com/2009/06/03/digit-vs-rush/comment-page-1/#comment-99029 Larry OC Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:40:05 +0000 http://www.fistofblog.com/?p=12981#comment-99029 "In conclusion. Rush Limbaugh is a fucking idiot." Yup. But not nearly as much as those who choose to abdicate their own thought process to his vaccuous rants. “In conclusion. Rush Limbaugh is a fucking idiot.”

Yup. But not nearly as much as those who choose to abdicate their own thought process to his vaccuous rants.

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