Republican Party, Teabag Party and the Libertarian Party absolutely SUCK!

[The Troll]

  John Stewart on his show said it all about Rep. Eric Cantor new 3.5 million job.  He said it wasn't about the job, it was pay for services render to Wall Street while he was in office.      Since Wall Street was his largest donor while he was in office.  Talk about your crooks, crooked Republicans.     

[The Troll]

  When are the Republican Sheeple going to wake up to the fact all of the murders and war in the Middle East was caused by George W. Bush and Dick Cheney when they went to war in Iraq.   

[Palehorse]

". . .After 21/2 terms of fiscal management from governors Mitch Daniels and Mike Pence, how are you doing? Sorry to break the news. You're probably doing lousy, that's how.

Indiana's average worker pay ranks 42nd in the nation at $776 per week. That does not sound like much because it isn't much.

Indiana's spokesmodels have a different, pithy marketing campaign every month to prove how lousy it would be if you worked in Illinois.

But the average worker there earns $971 a week, just short of $10,000 more a year than his Indiana counterpart.

Of the 50,000 Hoosier jobs added in each of the last two years, more were variations of burger-flipping, just-over-minimum-wage work than in any state in the Midwest.

There's your economic recovery.

If you want to gross 300 bucks a week, Indiana is a land of opportunity. It has the fifth-highest concentration of jobs in the fast-food and janitorial work in the United States.

The Center for Economic and Policy Research notes that the majority of these fast-food workers are adults, of whom 85 percent have a high school degree or more — and more than a quarter are raising children.

The proof of this reality is that Indiana's "business climate" is an ecstatic cauldron of joy. Business owners love to pay burger-flipping wages. Have you not heard of capitalism's joy?

But the millions in Indiana's fast-food battalion are not part of the middle class and never will be. They are citizens of an altered state that the gentle slope downward to working poverty has produced.

Evidence?

The annual Status of Working Families report found that Indiana poverty increased at a faster rate than all but five states. And, more troubling, the spiral shows no signs of slowing. There are more than a million Hoosiers living in poverty, a record-breaking level. There are 2.2 million residents who are officially "low income," meaning they earn less than 200 percent of the federal poverty level. That is $22,980 for an individual or $47,100 for a family of four.

We are making this poverty generational — 45 percent of Hoosier children live at or below the poverty threshold. That's higher than any neighboring state. What Indiana teaches them is how little they have a right to expect out of life.

More than 70 percent of new jobs in Indiana paid full-time wages insufficient to pull the worker out of the low-income category. We are poor because employers happily pay a median hourly wage of $15.24, less than all neighboring states except Kentucky. Indiana still has about 173,000 fewer jobs than it did before the Great Recession started in 2007.
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So. . . Do you want fries with that? Want to upsize your meal for another 90 cents? . . . 

http://posttrib.suntimes.com/29549427-537/rutter-how-indiana-slipped-into-burger-flipping-poverty.html#.VAeH_V5YzIK

[me]

What is the cost of living in Ill compared to here?

[Palehorse]

What is the cost of living in Ill compared to here?

Don't blow smoke up everyones ass. The reality is that is a statewide average, as are the numbers from Indiana. Using that average levels the playing field surrounding COL so don't even go there. 

You're just happy to have so many Hoosier families making less than you do. . . 

That piece is saying nothing less than what I've been telling everyone here since 2007! 

[The Troll]

Don't blow smoke up everyones ass. The reality is that is a statewide average, as are the numbers from Indiana. Using that average levels the playing field surrounding COL so don't even go there. 

You're just happy to have so many Hoosier families making less than you do. . . 

That piece is saying nothing less than what I've been telling everyone here since 2007! 

Palehorse "ME" just want to live off someone elses back.  Pay them nothing so I can live great, that's how Sweet Pea want to live.     She is the one who loves Walmart and say some of hers so called friends just love working there.  The largest employer in America and they have a turn over rate of employes of over 52%, that why she loves them and their low prices..

[Bo D]

So much for the theory that tax cuts help create jobs and help the economy....

Sam Brownback's failed 'experiment' puts state on path to penury

GOV. SAM BROWNBACK of Kansas says he has come to regret characterizing his policy agenda as a "real live experiment" that would test the efficacy of deep tax cuts to spur jobs and economic growth. In fact, Mr. Brownback's choice of words was apt. Few if any governors have undertaken such an extreme trial-by-revenue-deprivation in a state so clearly lacking the economic means to withstand it.

Now, as the damaging social and budgetary impacts of his slash-and-burn fiscal measures have become apparent, Mr. Brownback, a conservative Republican seeking reelection this fall in a state where every statewide elected official is also a Republican, is in the disorienting position of trailing his Democratic challenger in the polls.

Mr. Brownback's Kansas trial is rapidly becoming a cautionary tale for conservative governors elsewhere who have blithely peddled the theology of tax cuts as a painless panacea for sluggish growth. Most key indicators suggest that job creation and economic growth in Kansas are lagging those of its neighbors.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/sam-brownbacks-failed-experiment-puts-state-on-path-to-penury/2014/09/21/ded58846-3eb2-11e4-9587-5dafd96295f0_story.html?hpid=z5

[Palehorse]

This was drawn by a personal friend of mine, who is a professional cartoonist in Illinois.

[The Troll]

So much for the theory that tax cuts help create jobs and help the economy....

Sam Brownback's failed 'experiment' puts state on path to penury

GOV. SAM BROWNBACK of Kansas says he has come to regret characterizing his policy agenda as a "real live experiment" that would test the efficacy of deep tax cuts to spur jobs and economic growth. In fact, Mr. Brownback's choice of words was apt. Few if any governors have undertaken such an extreme trial-by-revenue-deprivation in a state so clearly lacking the economic means to withstand it.

Now, as the damaging social and budgetary impacts of his slash-and-burn fiscal measures have become apparent, Mr. Brownback, a conservative Republican seeking reelection this fall in a state where every statewide elected official is also a Republican, is in the disorienting position of trailing his Democratic challenger in the polls.

Mr. Brownback's Kansas trial is rapidly becoming a cautionary tale for conservative governors elsewhere who have blithely peddled the theology of tax cuts as a painless panacea for sluggish growth. Most key indicators suggest that job creation and economic growth in Kansas are lagging those of its neighbors.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/sam-brownbacks-failed-experiment-puts-state-on-path-to-penury/2014/09/21/ded58846-3eb2-11e4-9587-5dafd96295f0_story.html?hpid=z5

  Some  years back a book "What's Wrong With Kansas" the author wrote that Brownback was a crook and a liar and show many crooked things he did.   And the dumb Sheeple voted him in, they deserve what they got.   

[The Troll]

  I got a big laugh when the Supreme Court bitch slapped old Mikey Pense over gay marriage.  He came on television with a sad face and he said we must follow the law.   

   What I didn't laugh at was Mikey using taxpayer money to fight the case.   

[libby]

This was drawn by a personal friend of mine, who is a professional cartoonist in Illinois.

He's good!

[The Troll]

  The head of the CDC said that there would have been a vaccine for Ebola now.  If the Republicans hadn't force a budget cut on the CDC.  Good work Republicans, I hope all of you get Ebola.   

[Henry Hawk]

  The head of the CDC said that there would have been a vaccine for Ebola now.  If the Republicans hadn't force a budget cut on the CDC.  Good work Republicans, I hope all of you get Ebola.   

Here we go!  Troll, this just clearly political bullshit, with the elections coming up, and the democrats are doing their normal scare tactics....it is the most pathetic bullshit.

[The Troll]

Here we go!  Troll, this just clearly political bullshit, with the elections coming up, and the democrats are doing their normal scare tactics....it is the most pathetic bullshit.

  The man said it and you should find it and read it fool.   

[Henry Hawk]

  The man said it and you should find it and read it fool.   

Well fuck yeah the man said it, he was HIRED by the Obama Administration........of course he is willing to pass the buck.......THAT is what this administration does the best....Pass the buck and point fingers....they couldn't be accountable for their own actions if their life depended upon it....this is another classic example of crooked liberal politics. and their FAILED LEADERSHIP ABILITIES!!!