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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI Actually Saw A Republican Poster Urging Employers To Fire Workers To Jack Up The Unemployment Rate
So that it would undermine President Obama's reelection prospects.
That's why those miscreants have earned my eternal scorn.
sadbear
(4,340 posts)That would be awesome.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,714 posts)It had something to do with the law that employers in corporations with more than a certain amount of employees must send mass layoff notices sixty days in advance of the actual layoffs.
joeglow3
(6,228 posts)Yes, it is political posturing, but thank God it has not gained any traction:
http://www.defensenews.com/article/20121001/DEFREG02/310010007/Graham-Raps-Obama-WARN-Act-Stance
Curtland1015
(4,404 posts)Forget helping people! It's all about winning!
porphyrian
(18,530 posts)GreenPartyVoter
(72,381 posts)playing politics.
jsr
(7,712 posts)maxrandb
(15,359 posts)"In any way I am someone's Atlas, I will now shrug"
No shit, some idiot Freeper actually wrote that.
JHB
(37,162 posts)JHB
(37,162 posts)...or at least a "jack" related activity (or several, if non-activity can be counted as an activity) from his stylishly-appointed room in his mom's basement.
Blue Idaho
(5,057 posts)These bastards will do anything and say anything to win. They will happily destroy America in order to save the Republican Party.
dmosh42
(2,217 posts)voters realize the alternative is a bunch of Republican crooks manipulating the government like under Bush.