Pic Of The Moment: Ted Cruz Slanders Jobless Restaurant Workers

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[Sherman A1]

1. It would seem that Ted is making the case

that the employers are not paying their people enough to risk their lives.

[lagomorph777]

2. If 600 bucks doubles their wages, they have been underpaid.

[yonder]

3. Keeping that thing called a mouth shut will do more for his appearance

than those frequent facial hair adjustments, which aren't helping anything. The latest makes him look like a 19th century coachman.

[txwhitedove]

5. Bwaha, agree with all you said.

[eppur_se_muova]

24. He's going for the Wyatt Earp look. nt

[droidamus2]

4. If you have ever been on unemployment

You should know that if you refuse work, in this case returning to your previous job, you will lose your unemployment. I am not sure what the employer has to do to have this enforced but that is their problem and I sure wouldn't help them. So that whole line about people not returning to work is the usual Republican lie that takes advantage of the fact that most people don't really know how the unemployment system works. I would suspect there are a lot of people out there, don't know if this is true in every state, that don't know you can get some unemployment if you are working part time.

[forgotmylogin]

29. Unsurprisingly, Cruz and other Repubs have never been in need of unemployment...

...more so than now.

[muntrv]

6. Ted messes with the people handling his food.

[Heartstrings]

7. Not a good idea to criticize those who could potentially prepare/serve your food, Teddy....Nt

[GopherGal]

10. Ted planning to start a DNA database?

of all the restaurant servers who will "donate" DNA to his food?

Should greatly decrease the (already low) number of people who want to dine with Ted, just as a precaution toward switched plates...

[keithbvadu2]

8. Rafael came crawling back.

[Jakes Progress]

27. He grew that beard

to cover the rash he got from trump's ass. Shame on ted's wife.

[bucolic_frolic]

9. Pic of Cruz looks like it was taken about 1825

What's with Rand and Cruz and all the whiskers?

[2naSalit]

11. Window dressing on their facial sphincters. ...nt

[Hiawatha Pete]

21. "Facial sphincters"

Ain't that the truth!

[Jakes Progress]

28. They can't shave themselves.

They need a beautician to clean their own face.

[Gothmog]

12. K&R

[NoMoreRepugs]

13. Ted the new Frito spokesperson??

[ExciteBike66]

14. Cruz: why won't people risk their lives for 7.50 an hour? nt

[AllaN01Bear]

15. first off, it was your prez that said i absolve complete responisbility in this matter

i will leave it up to the states , now hes acting presidential cause hes loosing? ted cruz your an idiot.

[magicarpet]

16. Are those green and yellow oysters on my meal plate ?

It kind of looks like spit or deep throat mucus.

[Mersky]

17. His beard won't save him from that which will be served cold.

[LudwigPastorius]

18. Fuck Dr. Diabolus.

Holy shit, these Republican assholes are so afraid that someone might not want to risk their lives, and instead, draw on the assistance that they are legally and morally entitled to.

Every last GOP motherfucker needs to be voted out, and that party needs to be burned to the ground, and the earth it stood on salted so we never see their likes again.

[Mickju]

19. Ted looks particularly creepy in that Photo.

And of course what he said is idiotic, as usual.

[SWBTATTReg]

20. The noun and/or adjective 'Essential' has been grossly overdone and applies to just about every

job category in this Country, forcing millions of workers back to their now dangerous jobs (dealing w/ customers who may be carriers of the CV). cruz is the tip of the iceberg too, who does he really stand for? Business owners/donors or his voters, who are actually working for a living?

[DallasNE]

22. The Reason They Won't Come Back

Is because they value their life as worth more than $8 an hour, not because of supposed lucrative government handouts. With Cruz and other Republicans they only see things through the lens of cold, hard cash.

[PatrickforO]

23. I work a lot with economic developers and chambers of commerce,

and this is definitely the dialog when groups of them get together and talk about opening the economy.

Problem is, it is not just the extra $600 a week. It is the availability of childcare, and if kids are in school what does that look like?

Not only that, but what if the people are afraid of catching the virus? I wouldn't want to go back to work, and most people are being forced to. Like my own employer - we've proven we can do the job from home, but the trope is 'oh, we ARE going to go 'back' to work...'

But this $600 per week? There is merit to having a universal basic income, just in terms of fairness and human dignity, and we could make that happen by reversing the feckless and grossly irresponsible Republican tax cuts back to Reagan.

Bottom line, it costs money to run a government, and provide people they services they depend on and that keep us afloat. If our elected officials are forgetting about us and routing that money into the pockets of billionaire parasites, which is what has been happening over the last couple decades, then we develop gross inequities.

You think social unrest is bad now, if Cruz and his ilk get their way, and people start getting evicted and don't have enough food or shelter, then it will be more than social unrest. It will be revolution.

Unfortunately, as Marx said (and no I am not a Marxist, though he does have some good ideas), "A capitalist will sell you the very rope you are going to use to hang them." Kind of what is happening here. The greedy shareholder primacy model of capitalism we operate under right now is - 'just a little more' syndrome is going to break the back of the republic.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

25. Most workers staying home are doing so out of fear for lives & long term health. Because Republicons

... don't care a whit about slaves lives and long term health.

Greed Over People conners strike again.

[Jakes Progress]

26. I thought republicans believed in the profit motive.

Pay a decent wage and treat workers like the valuable resource they are and you will have all the workers you need.

During these trying times let's drop Senator's pay to $7.50 with no benefits. You only get paid for the time you are in the office and you only get one bathroom break a day.

I really want to see the food that comes from the kitchen the next time ted eats out. What a sleazy weasel.

[totodeinhere]

30. BS Ted. They won't come back because they are afraid of contracting the virus. n/t

[jayschool2013]

31. The old GOP trope that Americans just don't work hard enough

It's bullshit, and it has always been bullshit.

Since 1979, pay and productivity have diverged.
From 1979 to 2018, net productivity rose 108.1 percent, while the hourly pay of typical workers essentially stagnated—increasing only 11.6 percent over 39 years (after adjusting for inflation). This means that although Americans are working more productively than ever, the fruits of their labors have primarily accrued to those at the top and to corporate profits, especially in recent years.

[marble falls]

32. Maybe if they paid them more than $2.13/hour.

[Mersky]

35. No doubt

And didn’t that expect skimmed-off and socially-distant tips will add up to a living wage.

[Jimbo S]

33. Well, is he right or is he wrong?

IMO, the stimulus is needed, but one shouldn't be making more when unemployed than before when employed.

[Midnight Writer]

34. One good thing about President Trump. At least Ted Cruz isn't President.