An observation about joni ernst. She has milked the government for a

[shraby]

long long time. She served in the military with accompanying benefits and I guess as did her husband, and now is in congress milking it some more. Not to mention the farm subsidies her family has received.
But! She doesn't like government. Go figure.
Serving in the military isn't a bad thing until you go about dissing the government you served for and under. Then it's milking.

[Skittles]

1. she is a repuke tool

hypocrisy is the #1 skill

[La Lioness Priyanka]

2. i wouldn't refer to any of her services as milking the government, but proving that government

services are essential for all of us, not just us east coast bubble people.

she is a hypocrite but i really hate how we are using the demonizing language about govt services to put joni ernst down.

[Cleita]

3. That never ceases to amaze me. Republicans, who are all about boot straps

and self sifficiency, are often living off the government and won't even see it. When my husband was getting dialysis, one of the nurses there was one of those. Most dialysis clinics are supported largely by traditional Medicare since most health insurance and Medicare Advantage programs don't cover end stage renal disease.

Very few patients can pay for the thousands of dollars a month out of pocket so they go on Medicare so this government program picks up the expense. This nurse had her job and salary because of government money. Not only that her husband was a fireman another government job, yet both of them hated socialism and government programs for the disadvantaged even though they benefitted from them.

Go figure.

[shraby]

4. My neighbor used to complain about people getting government aid.

Both of them worked for the post office, owned the building in the little town that the post office was in and charged the government rent for it.
Happens all the time. Seems the biggest takers of government largess are the people who complain the most and loudest.

[MisterP]

7. that's how the whole enchilada runs--the most dependent counties are the ones

who most believe they're singlehandedly carrying the teat-suckers of both coasts

ever hear the Duck Dynasty on economics?

[louis-t]

5. I don't understand why repugs put people in charge of government

that HATE government. I ask them about it all the time. I've never got a straight answer.

[ND-Dem]

9. same reason right wing churches love separation of church and state -- unless they can get some

of that government money and then they're all over it like white on bread.

I noticed this very clearly in the city I live in circa George bush. evidentally he funneled a big chunk of change to religious groups, and I noticed they took the money and quit talking about how the local non-religious who'd been doing the same work were all so terrible cause they got government money.

it's still going on. Goodwill is increasingly doing what the government employment security used to do -- only they pay their staff a lot less (and I assume take a correspondingly big chunk in profit). and salaries, of course:

A 2013 article on Watchdog.org reported that Goodwill's tax returns showed that more than 100 Goodwills pay less than minimum wage, while simultaneously paying more than $53.7 million in total compensation to top executives.[33]

The former CEO, Douglas Barr, of the Goodwill of Southern California was the highest paid Goodwill executive in the country.[34] He received total compensation worth $1,188,733, including a base salary of $350,200, bonuses worth $87,550, retirement benefits of $71,050, and $637,864 in other reportable compensation.[35]

"In 2011, the Columbia Willamette Goodwill, one of the largest in the country, says it paid $922,444 in commensurate wages to approximately 250 people with developmental disabilities. These employees worked 159,584 hours for an average hourly wage of $5.78. The lowest paid worker received just $1.40 per hour."[33]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodwill_Industries

Goodwill = for profit

[ND-Dem]

8. She's been on the government dole since she graduated from grad school. All government

or military jobs. And in her first job (it was a city or county job), she funneled government contracts to her father's construction company.

So not only on the dole, but corrupt as well.