My prayer for Rupert Murdoch: Let him be bankrupt and unemployed before he burns in hell

[kpete]

August 31, 2010 04:00 PM
My prayer for Rupert Murdoch: Let him be bankrupt and unemployed before he burns in hell
By karoli

Credit: Jeff Danziger


Here's my retort to the Wall Street Journal's Robert Barro for this: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703959704575454431457720188.html Screw you and the horse you rode in on. I have had enough of the unrelenting blame-the-victim messaging from the financial experts and the Murdoch stable of reliable conservative idiot ideologues. This little crap-bomb from Barro is exactly what I'm talking about:

Now the administration wants to kill the 2003 income-tax cuts, at least the parts that reduced marginal income tax rates for high-income earners and for all recipients of dividend income. This proposal is particularly disturbing because the 2003 law was George W. Bush's main economic achievement; unlike most of Mr. Bush's policies, this one was well-conceived and effective.

Oh, boo hoo. As a corollary to my "screw you" to Barro, another middle finger for that. But wait, we haven't gotten to the best part yet:

The unemployment-insurance program involves a balance between compassion—providing for persons temporarily without work—and efficiency. The loss in efficiency results partly because the program subsidizes unemployment, causing insufficient job-search, job-acceptance and levels of employment. A further inefficiency concerns the distortions from the increases in taxes required to pay for the program.

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By God, Republicans will make them work. Republicans wouldn't let them live off the dole this way. Republicans would take the tax cuts and fly the bird at the middle class, but those bastards would work.

more:
http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/my-prayer-rupert-murdoch-he-be-bankrupt-and

[Capn Sunshine]

1. They always forget that WE PAY INTO THE UNEMPLOYMENT SYSTEM OUR ENTIRE LIVES

No one is "giving " us anything, we are getting money we paid for. This new canard of theirs, that people getting unemployment lose the desire to work, is just so fucking disgusting.

Too bad no one calls them on this bullshit.

[pgodbold]

2. And all the people said amen. nt