PASWO: Rush Limbaugh remains a big, fat idiot...

[elfs]

Man, you have to admire this comment from Rush Limbaugh, addressing a comment by President Obama:

This is what this regime does. This regime tries to tell us how we are feeling. "This month more Americans woke up, got dressed, and headed to work in an office or factory or storefront?" "Storefront?" "Factory?" These are all Marxist and Leninist terms. So is "worker."

Wow, I guess in Limbaugh's world the only real producers in our economy are "owner", "investor" and "at-will employee."

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

/bemusedoutsider here/

More bankruptcy filings this quarter iirc than any since 2005 (when a new bankruptcy law caused a peak).

Limbaugh is right about 'storefront' and 'factory'. But I think he's premature on 'regime.'

[mouser.livejournal.com]

Limbaugh is right about 'storefront' and 'factory'. But I think he's premature on 'regime.'


...just...wow...



And they're still compiling bankruptcy filings for Q1. If you meant last years, here are the numbers. (http://www.abiworld.org/AM/AMTemplate.cfm?Section=Home&TEMPLATE=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm&CONTENTID=60226) Not surprisingly, they tend to correlate to these numbers. (http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=usunemployment&met=unemployment_rate&tdim=true&dl=en&hl=en&q=unemployment+rate)

[(Anonymous)]

/bemusedoutsider here/

Yes, non-business bankruptcy filings would be a clearer indicator of national unemployment. Filings are a definite figure that's hard to tweak; 'unemployed' gets tweaked a lot.

[dr-memory.livejournal.com]

Worker, storefront and factory are all Marxist-Leninist terminology.

Ergo, Adam Smith and was a Communist! QED!

Factory?

[fldammy.livejournal.com]

When is the last time you used that term, "workers?" I call them employees or their specific job title. Workers in a factory, like there are factories still left? I do agree though, Obama is a elitist snob who is only concern about the far left agenda being implemented to bring USA down to European levels of stagnation. He doesn't give a rat's ass about little people, he wants us all on the USA reservation, easier to control that way by a single political party.

Re: Factory?

[mouser.livejournal.com]

Uh - I work in an office and OFTEN refer to myself and those I work with as "workers" I grant you that I don't know anyone that refers to INDIVIDUAL people as "a worker" but groups of non-managers/executives? Not that uncommon.

As for "USA reservation" - again, ...wow...

Re: Factory?

[elfs.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty convinced that I'm a "worker." Wasn't it just six or seven years ago, you know, during the whole ascendancy of the "permanent Republican majority" things, that "knowledge worker" was the new career du jour? And weren't universities to be relabled "knowledge factories?"

(I couldn't find an equivalently suitable "knowledge storefront." Pity, that.)

Re: Factory?

[mouser.livejournal.com]

Well, "storefront" IS now used to differentiate from "internet store" so there is that...

Re: Factory?

[doodlesthegreat.livejournal.com]

I like "elitist snob," which is an amusing code phrase for "someone with actual brains instead of a mindless snot like the last guy in office."

Re: Factory?

[mouser.livejournal.com]

Better then when they were calling him "uppity" I suppose.

Re: Factory?

[fldammy.livejournal.com]

Better then when they were calling him "uppity" I suppose.

Has Senator Robert "Sheets" Byrd been using the N word again? To refresh people's minds on who's party the true racist belonged to:

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_org_kkk.html "Dressed in robes and sheets, intended to prevent identification by the occupying federal troops (and supposedly designed to frighten blacks), the Klan quickly became a terrorist organization in service of the Democratic Party and white supremacy. Between 1869 and 1871 its goal was to destroy Congressional Reconstruction by murdering blacks -- and some whites -- who were either active in Republican politics or educating black children."

It's more amazing when the Black Caucus waded on purpose through the Tea Party folks during their anti Obamacare rally in an attempt to cause a scene and failed. Then they couldn't get any racial slurs hurled at them (video/audio crew was with them the entire time, nothing could be heard), they simply made up the accusations not realizing the camera and mike were recording the entire event. Guess they thought since they were black, everyone would believe them and wouldn't bother checking the video/audio recording. They guess wrong.

Re: Factory?

[mikstera.livejournal.com]

Quick (multipart) question: How is Robert Byrd's past (and we're talking about his association with the KKK, one which had ended by the early 1950s,... that would be 60 years ago) relevant to:

• Robert Byrd today


• the Democratic Party of today


• President Barak Obama


• President Obama's administration

In short: do you have anything relevant to add to this discussion?

Re: Factory?

[ben-raccoon.livejournal.com]

Yeah, good ol' Byrd, that durn racist. Oh, (http://byrd.senate.gov/speeches/2005_june/06_27_2005.html) wait... (http://www.naacp.org/programs/bureau-dc/report_card/108th_Congressional_Report_Card.pdf)

But (http://img.wonkette.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/racist_tea_party.jpg) teabaggers (http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/images/obama-witchdoctor-muck.jpg) aren't (http://aworldofprogress.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/teabagger-3.jpg) racist (http://www.newyorkslime.com/tea-party-racist-signs-04-back-to-kenya2.jpg) at (http://www.appletreeblog.com/wp-content/2009/05/teabagger-1.jpg) all.
(http://www.flickr.com/photos/30294265@N00/3447421271/)

Re: Factory?

[fldammy.livejournal.com]

I like "elitist snob," which is an amusing code phrase for "someone with actual brains instead of a mindless snot like the last guy in office."

Bush bashing is so over used. Let's say that the previous President had a clue on how the actual, real world, economy runs and what is required when handed a recession while the money producers are over taxed to get the economy going. Unlike the now disgraced Keynesian model which has what, a $1T of borrowed money spent on a promise that the unemployment wouldn't go above 8%. Oh boy, that was an expensive failure unless your claiming the government employee unemployment remains rock solid at 4% while construction based unemployment is at 17% was a massive success in union pay back for their support, none union jobs be damned.

Re: Factory?

[mouser.livejournal.com]

You don't get to point at events that happened over a century ago as relevant, point to events less then a decade as irrelevant, and expect to be taken seriously.

Re: Factory?

[yarnaddict.livejournal.com]

Ditto, here... I work in an office (WORK in an office), and I'm not the only one here who has often enough used the term 'workers'. Because we WORK here. We also call ourselves employees, because we are employed here. Neither is in any way considered demeaning.

And IMO, the snob in this particular scenario is named Limbaugh. How far will he dig to find something about which to criticize ANYone who doesn't think and opine exactly the same way he does?

Re: Factory?

[fldammy.livejournal.com]

How far will he dig to find something about which to criticize ANYone who doesn't think and opine exactly the same way he does?

Vs having a Regime target individuals for special treatment (tax audits or specific legislation to curb that person's voice). Being on such an enemy's list when they have complete power is a truly scary thought.

Re: Factory?

[mikstera.livejournal.com]

"Vs having a Regime target individuals for special treatment (tax audits or specific legislation to curb that person's voice)...

Would that be the past Bush Regime? If not, then could you be more direct about what you're trying to say, preferably with some actual evidence to support your assertions?

Thanks...

[doodlesthegreat.livejournal.com]

Well, "corporate serf" is too accurate for Boss Limbaugh.

Insane logic.

[gromm.livejournal.com]

Yes, everyone knows that all the factories are now Chinese. And since the Chinese are Communist (these days, for small values of "Communist", whereby they really mean "mostly Capitalist, but with all the personal-freedom denial of a Communist government, especially for poor people") therefore, all factories are Communist.

And storefronts are no longer either. We call them "malls" now. Maybe they have storefronts in China however, in which case we can also lump those in too. Not that we'll ever know, neither will 95% of the American population, so that's good enough.