What the GOP really stands for?

[kentuck]

Disdain for Workers
By PAUL KRUGMAN

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For the fact is that the modern Republican Party just doesn’t have much respect for people who work for other people, no matter how faithfully and well they do their jobs. All the party’s affection is reserved for “job creators,” a k a employers and investors. Leading figures in the party find it hard even to pretend to have any regard for ordinary working families — who, it goes without saying, make up the vast majority of Americans.

Am I exaggerating? Consider the Twitter message sent out by Eric Cantor, the Republican House majority leader, on Labor Day — a holiday that specifically celebrates America’s workers. Here’s what it said, in its entirety: “Today, we celebrate those who have taken a risk, worked hard, built a business and earned their own success.” Yes, on a day set aside to honor workers, all Mr. Cantor could bring himself to do was praise their bosses.

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Needless to say, the G.O.P.’s disdain for workers goes deeper than rhetoric. It’s deeply embedded in the party’s policy priorities. Mr. Romney’s remarks spoke to a widespread belief on the right that taxes on working Americans are, if anything, too low. Indeed, The Wall Street Journal famously described low-income workers whose wages fall below the income-tax threshold as “lucky duckies.”

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Now, such sentiments aren’t new; “Atlas Shrugged” was, after all, published in 1957. In the past, however, even Republican politicians who privately shared the elite’s contempt for the masses knew enough to keep it to themselves and managed to fake some appreciation for ordinary workers. At this point, however, the party’s contempt for the working class is apparently too complete, too pervasive to hide.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/21/opinion/krugman-disdain-for-workers.html

[lame54]

1. Greedy Old Parasites

[Flashmann]

2. Funny how all these

Damn pundits and experts are suddenly catching on to what's been excruciatingly obvious for THIRTY FUCKING YEARS!!!

[99Forever]

7. You got that right.

Or maybe now they are just saying it out loud.

[kentuck]

8. Or now, it's becoming obvious to working Republicans?

That they have been manipulated, used, and deceived for political purposes?

[Flashmann]

9. I just can't stop myself

From having severe doubts,that ANY of those dimwits would be clever enough to figure it out....If they're catching on,someone TOLD them...

[kentuck]

10. I feel you are probably correct...

the number would be very low. But it is a truth which they deny.

[porphyrian]

3. Gift of Paul (Ryan), of course. n/t

[treestar]

5. Yes. They are doing the workers a favor by employing them

and they want the adulation they think should go along with it.

They think they are superior by genetics. That's why it's OK to just inherit the wealth - you'd have been able to do it anyway.

[Kablooie]

6. G.O.P -> Fucking Asshole Power

The meaning is more important than the letters.

[nichomachus]

11. "Job creators" is just untrue

The goal of businesses and business people today is not to create jobs. In fact, it's quite the opposite. The best way to get a bonus, a raise, a promotion, or a better job is to "reduce headcount" (fire people) or "drive out cost" (fire people).

I read a lot of management interviews as part of my job. I have never seen one person who bragged about, or said that their goal was, creating jobs. They all pat each other or themselves on the back for reducing the number of employees.

[kentuck]

12. A very important point...

They are looking to increase productivity and profits, not create jobs. It's for their own personal benefit, not the benefit of workers. That's the truth.

[meow2u3]

13. Greedy Oppressive Predators

That, or as Harry Truman so eloquently put it, "Grab, Oppress, and Plunder."