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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI heard Mitt Raumen Noodle say he wants to reduce the federal work force. Says their are too many
federal workers. May already be posted here, but I think he's an asshole.
teddy51
(3,491 posts)matter what he say's or does, that's the bottom line. I WANT TO BE PRESIDENT, PEOPLE. PLEASE HELP ME!
Initech
(100,108 posts)Yeah fucking right.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)Raine1967
(11,589 posts)Privatize the federal work force -- that is what he is saying, IMO. That is also what RP has been happily promoting.
Most federal workers are middle class. That is something Mitt Romney wont tell you.
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)WorseBeforeBetter
(11,441 posts)There is no question he's going to lose DC and MD, but this won't sit well with Northern Virginians in a state that is supposedly up for grabs. It'll play well in North Carolina, however... can already hear my wingnut neighbors...
Same song, same verse.
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)Don't give a fuck about those either I guess.
WorseBeforeBetter
(11,441 posts)One of my favs is a neighbor whose sister is a muckety-muck at the State Employees' Credit Union. She and sis' are Teabaggers who cheer anytime Rethuglicans cut state jobs.
Both revel in the new wing of the science museum, but neither give a flying fuck about actual state employees losing their jobs -- even though state employees ponied up $4 million for the new wing.
Museum receives $4 million grant from SECU Foundation
http://naturalsciences.org/about-us/news/museum-receives-4-million-grant-secu-foundation
Connecting the dots isn't their strong suit.
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)WorseBeforeBetter
(11,441 posts)one episode of Insannity or a lengthy sermon at their Baptist mega-church, and all is forgotten. They're both in birther territory now, so I pretty much avoid them...no more dots!
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)libinnyandia
(1,374 posts)Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)not to forget Halliburton
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)He'll deploy drones and just blow up whatever and whom ever.
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)A President is not a CEO.
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,390 posts)Waltz in, say "the problem with this place is you pay people too much - fire half of them, put the fear of God into the other half that they'll be next if they don't double their productivity to make up for that, give me my fee, and see ya!", and sprint out of the door to the next victim - sorry, 'client'.