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Mc Mike

(9,114 posts)
11. +1, Thanks.
Sun Oct 14, 2012, 07:34 PM
Oct 2012

In the GOP response to Prez O's 'State of the Union' speech this year, Mitch Daniels gave rave reviews to the creation of these jobs that are rooted in Chinese Communist serf labor conditions. Mitch was simultaneously shoving 'right to work' laws down his constituents' throats, while Indiana hosted the Super Bowl and the NFL Players union joined fellow AFL-CIO members in actively opposing his attacks on American workers and jobs.

The "Up" with Chris Hayes show that week-end did a roundtable discussion on the State of the Union speech and the response, during which a GOP speechwriter (for Condi Rice), named Elise Jordan, glibly dismissed concern for the documentably terrible labor conditions that corporate out-source moves spawned in Apple Corp's labor dorms. She advised us not to look at 'the grisly underbelly' of the visionary business model expressed by Steve Jobs, but to regard it and him as laudible and important because 'Americans don't want to look backwards, they want to look forward'.

It was an Orwellian phrase, since the repugs have been 'looking backwards' and attacking US Labor and good jobs as 'communist' and 'bad', since the late 1800's. Their whole 2012 campaign is currently based on telling America how great it was 'backwards' in US history, before Social Security, unemployment insurance, and Medicare existed, before labor had rights, before Roe v. Wade, before women had rights, before the Jim Crow poll tax was outlawed, before Civil Rights, before governmental regulation or oversight of businessman 1%ers. David Axelrod aptly summed it up by saying they "have the foreign policy of the '80's, the social policy of the '50's, and the economic policy of the '20's". But never mind, now the GOP wants to 'look forward'.

They look forward to making us compete with foreign workers who live in grinding abject misery, in a 'race to the bottom', as the USW film you posted puts it. They look forward to making us work like enslaved communist workers.

They look backward to attack labor and good US jobs, unless they want to look forward and attack labor and good US jobs. It really doesn't matter which way the hypocritical GOP looks, because whenever and where ever they look, they think that American labor is 'communist' and 'bad', but actual Chinese communist labor is 'all American' and 'good', as long as Apple, Bain, and Sensata make a huge profit.

The Chinese Communist corporate GOP. So delusionally, insanely sure of their frankly treasonous game plan, that they're now running a 1% aristocrat whose 'job' it is to destroy good jobs and create slave jobs, and profit from it. My money is on the 99% of working Americans winning in November, not the treasonous bad communist 1%er repugs.

k and r Berlum Oct 2012 #1
Please everyone, HELP MAKE THIS GO VIRAL AND GET IT ONTO NATIONAL NEWS. RBInMaine Oct 2012 #2
K&R n/t Lebam in LA Oct 2012 #3
K & R! lonestarnot Oct 2012 #4
Just posted to FB. n/t woodsprite Oct 2012 #5
K&R n/t proReality Oct 2012 #6
Anything atrocious enough sulphurdunn Oct 2012 #7
... aside from THAT truth- Bain owns Clear Channel. stlsaxman Oct 2012 #8
And Illinois gets it! Going heavy for Obama 55 to 36 rMoney ffr Oct 2012 #9
Listen to Romney's voice in that first video. JDPriestly Oct 2012 #10
+1, Thanks. Mc Mike Oct 2012 #11
This message was self-deleted by its author pathansen Oct 2012 #12
KnR Maine-ah Oct 2012 #13
K & R Wednesdays Oct 2012 #14
Wish I could rec this a thousand times. Amonester Oct 2012 #15
Monday Morning Kick... stlsaxman Oct 2012 #16
Make it so Berlum Oct 2012 #17
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