Bartiromo this morning delivered an extortion message to the nation on MSNBC on behalf of

[Skidmore]

the wealthy and big business. She was asked why, in spite of record profits, they were not investing in jobs in America. Her reply was that they needed retain the Bush tax cuts. Give them freedom from contributing to the nation at all.

[Catshrink]

1. Yeah, like that worked so well the first time.

Fool me once....

[rurallib]

8. being trickled on just feels so good.

[davidhilton]

29. I'm so in the dark, who is Bartiromo?

[Tess49]

30. Me, too. Somebody help us out here.

[butterfly77]

32. She is one of the rich b...

Commentators who appears on CNBC who speaks about money and,stocks for wall street.

[tiny elvis]

46. does not matter. she is not the problem

if she bumped her head and turned into william z. foster, commercial news would drop her and find someone else to say what she says

[keroro gunsou]

40. trickle down

is code word for piss on the middle and lower classes.

[Altoid_Cyclist]

47. Trickle Down by Bruce Cockburn & Andy Milne

This song pretty much nails the true meaning of "Trickle Down Economcs".



Picture on magazine boardroom pop star
Pinstripe prophet of peckerhead greed
You say 'Trust me with the money -- the keys to the universe'
Trickle down will give us everything we need

Brand new century private penitentiary
bank vault utopia padded for the few
And it's tumours for the masses coughing for the masses
Earphones for the masses and they all serve you

Trickle down give /em the business
Trickle down supposed to give us the goods
Cups held out to catch a bit of the bounty
Trickle down everywhere trickle down blood

What used to pass for education now looks more like ignoration
Take the people’s money and slip it to the corporation
Yellow rain golden shower pesticide firepower
Summon feudal demons of sweatshop subjugation

Workfare foul air homeless beggars everywhere
Picturephone aristocrats lounge around the pool
Captains of industry smiling beneficently
Leaking hole supertanker ship of fools

Trickle down give me the business
Trickle down supposed to give us the goods
Cups held out to catch a bit of the bounty
Trickle down everywhere trickle down blood

Take over takedown big bucks shakedown
Schoolyard pusher offer anything-for-profit
First got to privatize then you get to piratize
Hooked on avarice- how do we get off it?

Trickle down give me the business
Trickle down supposed to give us the goods
Cups held out to catch a bit of the bounty
Trickle down everywhere trickle down blood

Trickle down give me the business
Trickle down supposed to give us the goods
Cups held out to catch a bit of the bounty
Trickle down everywhere trickle down blood

Trickle down

[closeupready]

2. To the contrary - in a recession, the wealthy need to be penalized if they are not spending their

wealth and creating jobs.

Maria is nothing more than a two-faced shill.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

7. If she's got two faces, I wish she'd use the other one.

The one I always see looks like she ran out of mascara and filled in with shoe polish.

[mopinko]

11. that's a good place to draw the line between who is rich

and who is middle class- when they have more money that they are not using then money they are.

[closeupready]

3. And another thing - when something isn't working, you don't 'retain' it.

She's saying the status quo is not working. Therefore, change nothing.

What an idiot she is.

[tabasco]

13. No, she's not an idiot.

She knows exactly what she is doing and pulls in a hefty paycheck to spew propaganda.

She is an evil, soulless cretin, like Limbaugh, but not an idiot.

[closeupready]

15. Actually, you have it correct. It's dangerous of me to underestimate people like her.

What she said was probably some sort of ad lib, since it is so transparently illogical:

A: There is a reason why the wealthy and corporation in 2010 are not creating jobs.
B: The Bush tax cuts of 2001 aren't that reason.
C: Therefore, keeping the Bush tax cuts will encourage the wealthy and corporations to create jobs.

You see? Not only is her argument illogical, her suppositions lead to the OPPOSITE conclusion, i.e., 'tampering with the tax cuts EITHER WAY will have no effect upon job creation.'

[liberation]

28. She's an evil idiot...

let's strop trying to equate lack of scruples with surplus of intelligence, please.

She is nothing but a hack who managed to marry well and knows how to read a script. Without her physical attributes and lack of anything remotely reminiscent of a moral fiber, it is doubtful she would be in the position she is in (and she is not that good looking to begin with).


The people who use her though, those... those are the evil non idiot lads and ladies.

[csziggy]

41. Maria Bartiromo is ignorant - but she still tries to pretend to know about things

During an exchange with Rep. Anthony Weiner, she asked him "If medicare is so good, how come you don't have it?" and had to have it explained to her.

To be in front of a national audience and to discuss a subject while being that ignorant about it takes an idiot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QDuzpXAYac

[AnneD]

50. Ignorant isn't the half of it....

she appeared on JEOPARDY and she was an embarrassment. I laughed my ass off. She barely got on the board-even on the questions that she should have known.

You should see her when Jack Welch is on. She wears her knee pads out sucking up to him. I gave up on her years ago. I only watch her to see her guest. When Country Wide Manzillo was on, I knew just by looking at him that he was a crook (he had a golf course tan-not a working CEO paleness) and this was a year before Country Wide went under.

[Cresent City Kid]

16. Exactly

When we give the rich this "freedom" she talks about, what we have now is what they do with it.

[booley]

43. It's working for her

and it's working for who she shills for.

Once again I feel the need to remind people that when the GOP says they are on Americans side, they are only talking about 1% of the population

The rich are getting richer. That the rest us are getting poorer is besides the point.

[Stinky The Clown]

4. Proud to be rec #5

This needs to be on a billboard.

[NNN0LHI]

5. She said corporations had gotten rid of all their fat which she said were employees

Wonder who these corporations plan on selling their stuff to if no one has a job?

Don

[MadMaddie]

24. Yea, they never think that far ahead.

[BeyondGeography]

6. I'm surprised she was even asked the question

That's progress.

[spanone]

9. she's an m$nbc employee, therefore she's cheap & vapid

[Skidmore]

17. As opposed to whom? A FOX employee, or a CNN employee,

or an ABC employee, or an NPR employee, or do you just always engage in kneejerkery?

Kernels of truth can be found in the strangest places when you look for them and take a break from trying to tear everything down.

[spanone]

21. thank you for your input, i have changed my wicked ways, just for you.

[verges]

37. Just like Keith and Rachael?

They're MSNBC employees.

[JBoy]

10. Baritomo is the same wizard that asked Anthony Wiener why he didn't use Medicare

if it was so great.

Dumbass mouthpiece.

[Skidmore]

14. Doesn't matter. She answered with what we know in our guts to be true.

We are being extorted.

[SOS]

12. And if the Bush cuts are retained

They will continue to sit on their trillions in cash.

It's gangster extortion, but even if you pay off they'll burn down your house.

[LoKnLoD]

18. As that expiration date gets closer and closer

As that expiration date gets closer and closer you will hear this talking point parroted from all over. Can't tax the rich, they make all the jobs in this country.... :sarcasm:

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

42. According to the Repugs, the Bush tax cuts aren't expiring

The Democrats are raising taxes again, because that's all they know how to do.

Notice the words "on the rich" doesn't appear in that sentence; nor does it appear in their meme. The "frame" for this issue is that the Dems are raising the taxes on everyone, even though (1) taxes are not being raised, and (2) it affects mostly the very rich, since they are the largest beneficiaries.

You can expect "they're raising our taxes" to be the rally cry of Teabaggers, and that it will intensify as the expiration deadline gets closer.

Any bets on what the end result will be?

[theothersnippywshrub]

19. Businesses create jobs only to meet increased demand: not because they have more money. n/t

[lpbk2713]

20. So much for whatever credibility she might have had.

Anyone who supports any economic measures that were ever proposed by the corrupt and evil BushCo Regime
is either corrupt and evil themselves or they have their head embedded entirely up their ass.

[Canuckistanian]

22. I'm SICK of this "rich people give us jobs"

Or that OTHER classic stinker, "I never got a job from a poor man"

Jobs exist becuase there is demand for the product that the company is selling, NOT how rich and generous the CEO feels.

I fail to see how the personal income tax rate of the owner affects the hiring rate at a particular company. I'm guessing ZILCH.

[MsPithy]

34. Canuckistanian and theothersnippywshrub at #19 are correct!

Investment does not create jobs, customers do! And, the largest group of customers is the middle class. If you want to create jobs, put more money in the hands of the middle class and stand back!

[CoffeeCat]

23. The corporations will get their Bush tax cuts...

...and anything else they want.

Then, they still won't create jobs or hire people--or give people the pay raises they deserve.

Then, they'll sit in their board rooms and at their cocktail parties--with all of our Senators
and Congress members--and laugh their asses off at how utterly dumb the American public is.

It's the American way!

[marmar]

25. She's terrible.....A shameless corporate shill.

nt

[valerief]

26. Funny how only turds come out of her flappy lips. nt

[harmonicon]

27. this is the woman who didn't know what Medicare was, right? nt

[salin]

31. because they have been doing such a great job with job creation with the bush tax cuts

since the recession hit? More and more one has to suspend reality to accept the talking points folks like she spew.

[The Wizard]

45. They've created many jobs

in India. Their goal is to have the American worker accepting minimum wage so as to increase the bottom line.

[CLANG]

33. I hate that woman!

[HughBeaumont]

35. Uh, Maria?

It's BUNK, Slappy. The Bewsh Tax Cutz resulted in NO NET NEW JOBS in 10 years. You and your elite Johns aren't fooling ANYBODY.

The top marginal tax rate is the lowest it's been in 75 YEARS.

If your buds aren't creating jobs at it's lowest point, something tells me that giving them infinitely more cash isn't going to inspire them to hire any more. It's taxing them that will do that. Idiot.

And don't EVEN get me started on the news farce known as CNBC

[socialist_n_TN]

36. There was a guy on Chris Matthew's show this evening

that was expounding the same thing. WHEN, OH WHEN, ARE WE GOING TO STOP PERSECUTING ALL THE RICH PEOPLE! (Where's that sarcasm icon??)

This seems to be the new talking point about taxes and the rich. Just let them keep their ill gotten gains and they PROMISE this time they'll trickle down on us. Yeah, like THAT'S worked so well for the last 30 years. NOT!

Let's try this for a while. We put the tax rates back to where they were in the 50s/60s and if they don't like it they can move to the free market Paradise of Somolia. Hey government's so evil, Somolia would be PERFECT for them. NO government there.

[JDPriestly]

38. Her statement is illogical. If we do not rescind the tax cuts,

the rich will continue to sit on their money -- or invest overseas. We will continue to be at their mercy, and they can continue to ruin the country.

If we do rescind their tax cuts and perhaps increase their tax rates, the government can use the money to wake up the economy, encourage people to work and improve the living standards of millions of people. The rich will decide to invest so that they can make money in the resulting improved economy.

The greedy rich are doing the United States in.

A whole generation of young people, especially college graduates, cannot get appropriate jobs. They cannot even learn how to work. Immigrants do all the jobs that kids used to do -- like work in fast food places, restaurants, etc. The idle rich are destroying the entire country. Sorry, but each of us has a responsibility. Each of us must contribute in his or her own way. Wealth only exists when it is being used. The wealthy are not using their wealth at this time. Therefore they will lose it. That is the nature of property.

Use it or lose it.

[Q3JR4]

39. We mega wealthy corporations make all kinds of jobs for you.

Part time, minimum wage jobs with no benefits, and we expect you to do the work of two people and you have to be young and of the "correct" skin color. Also you have to enjoy toeing the corporate line and eschew union membership.

If you get out of line we'll fire you because, hey, people are desperate in these trying economic times and are only kept from being paid below minimum wage because the government might have something to say about it. We are working on getting those minimum wage laws repealed, though, because people should be able to constitutionally choose to work for peanuts.

Q3JR4.
:sarcasm: _{In case I have to spell it out.}:sarcasm:

[FrenchieCat]

44. That's exactly what they are doing; holding America Hostage!

The whole "series of bad news" is to get a GOP majority in order
to stop the expiration of the Bush tax cuts in December of 2010.
That's all that is important to them, and they will manipulate
whomever they can to get it done. Some Dems want to sit home and
send a message? They need to think of what that message will be...

[mwb970]

48. She is a corporate shill.

There is no need to pay attention to anything she says.

[DailyGrind51]

49. Oh, mthey created jobs allright, Maria, IN ASIA!