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Labor Day: The Republican $400 Million Buy-Out
Welcome to Lipstick Liberal‘s video celebration of Labor.
Transcript
Happy American Labor Day Tea-partiers, Republicans and conservative Americans, today as you celebrate this American day off those un-American lazy bastards forced you to take!
We are celebrating two of your America Working Man heroes!
These Selfless men are single hand-idly taking down POWERFUL anti-American/anti-labor forces and giving THAT POWER back to HISTORICALLY pro-American/pro-labor forces.
They spread their humble American message pie through your American grassroots movements, and you walked 1000′s of American miles, for nothing in return!
Just to prove what Americans are truly worth, and NOW you have given them the unlimited strength they needed, to fight against Political Corruption, Communism, Socialism and un-american activities!
They are like the AMERICAN Eagle they fight so hard to protect!
So, join me Tea-Partiers, Republicans and Conservative Americans as we honor your American Working Man heroes as they bring back YOUR American Right To Work!
Happy American Labor Day!!
Until next time Lipstick Liberal says
(blows kiss) mmmmuuuuuuaaaa!!!!)
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After a week of Orwellian politics brought to you courtesy of the Republican Convention, we spend this weekend celebrating the people who make their living through the sweat of their brow. People who the Republican Party claims want too much. People who literally work for everything they have.
Labor Day is about celebrating the people who make it possible for corporations to profit.
So much of the Republican pre-coronation celebration was centered on the theme “we built it.”
They overlooked who did the building, who made the widgets, who cares for the sick and who educates our children. This weekend for the real builders of America, the real labor that makes it possible for corporate America to earn their profits.
If corporate America had its way, Labor Day would be replaced with a “Job Creator” Day during which those who provide the labor would pay homage to the almighty “god” the “Job Creator”
There would be no minimum wage, let alone a living wage. Work safety standards would be a faint memory. They talk about the dignity of work, without recognizing that the dignity comes from the ability to provide for one’s family as a result of one’s labor. In Republican speak, this concept is equated with communism and socialism, as we hear story after story about the hardship that results when the money you inherited isn’t growing fast enough to buy a car elevator.
This weekend is about recognizing that the true American heroes are the people who labor every day to make life better for all of us. It’s about celebrating that while dollars only build fortunes, Labor built America.
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4 Responses to Labor Day: The Republican $400 Million Buy-Out
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clarence swinney
Sep. 3rd, 2012 at 11:09 am
FACT CHECK ON UNKNOWNS
Obama cut taxes for every American worker.
Signed 18 tax cuts for small businesses to help them through the Bush Recession.
Wants to eliminate tax breaks for companies that send jobs overseas
Wants the rich not paying a lower tax rate than the middle class but instead pay the same rate as under President Clinton. Reduces the deficit.
Romney wants to have the middle class pay the price for tax cuts for the rich.
Romney wants to cut taxes for multimillionaires by average of at least $250,000.
Romney wants to cut taxes for corporations by nearly a third at a cost of over $1 Trillion to taxpayers over a decade.
Romney wants to eliminate all taxes on companies foreign profits, giving companies more reasons to move jobs overseas
An Obama administration will help the middle class that will be hurt by a Romney administration
Under Romney the poor will get poorer the rich much richer.
clarence swinney
Sep. 3rd, 2012 at 11:10 am
The Rich Pay Almost All the Taxes
That’s simply not true. The percentage of total taxes paid by the very rich (the top 1%) is approximately the same as the percentage paid by middle class Americans (the 4th quintile, average income $68,700). Here are the details:
Internal Revenue Service figures show that the very rich paid 23% of their incomes in federal income taxes in 2006. The middle class paid about 8% of their incomes in federal income taxes. Based on U.S. Congressional Budget Office figures, the very rich pay just under 2% of their incomes toward social security, while the middle class pays just under 10%. According to a study by The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, the very rich pay about 7% of their incomes in state and sales and property and excise taxes, while the middle class pays approximately 10%. Another year of Bush tax cuts will reduce the taxes of the very rich by at least 3% more than the middle class.
So total taxes for the very rich are 29% of their incomes (23% + 2% + 7% – 3%). Total taxes for the middle class are 28% of their incomes (8% + 10% + 10%). These figures agree with CTJ’s 2011 estimate of total taxes paid.
A Walkaway
Sep. 3rd, 2012 at 11:37 am
The rich didn’t make their money, they stole it from the poor.
Literally.
See my post on “Republican Corporate Hubris”.
(BTW… I think ~30% profit on a necessity – fuel – is also stealing.)
I agree with the person who said that these days, we live under a kleptocracy rather than a democracy.
j
Sep. 3rd, 2012 at 2:54 pm
I wonder if anyone else saw the video of Romney’s mom
saying that her husband was a refugee from Mexico early on in life and lived on federal aid? Video archives are wonderful. Can we all give Chris Matthews a note of appreciation, he called out a repub lie today and Mrs Greenspan almost swallowed her teeth!