http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/10/12/1336035/-If-the-GOP-has-thoroughly-accomplished-one-thing-in-the-past-6-years-it-s-this?detail=email
In six years of professional "No-ing," the GOP has accomplished very little. They've shut down the government, accused the president of trying to destroy the country, cooked up every sort of conspiracy theory you can imagine, attacked women, gays and minorities...but that really seems more like "activity" than something accomplished: petulant disagreeableness, throwing a wrench in the workings of the country because they're not in charge, and tearing down their scapegoats du jour.
But looking back at all Republicans have done, they seem to have achieved one goal really well: convince Americans making just enough that if only those with not enough had less, they'd be doing much better. Put another way, they've trained a certain segment of the population to kick downwards. Instead of looking at a system that makes it difficult to survive, instead of looking at the portion of the population that keeps getting richer and richer, instead of looking at how many hundreds and even thousands of times those above them make than everyone else...they look at the people just below them, getting poorer and poorer. Republicans have instilled such a level of contempt in people for unskilled laborers and the poor, that they do the work of justifying paying them less than enough to survive for the party.
Bear in mind, we're not talking about people who don't work; we're not talking about people who earn a lousy living, but a living. We're talking about people who work hard, and do not earn enough for the basic necessities. And as far as Republicans are concerned, this is good enough: the unskilled laborer's comfort, standard-of-life, independence, self-respect, health and ultimately life are worthy of only disdain. He is a failure by virtue of being unskilled, and as such deserves contempt. A cheap Big Mac is more important than the person making it being able to afford to pay his rent and put food on the table after working 40 hours a week.
First of all, the false comparison is just a way to heap scorn on the working poor: you just make fries, and you think you should be treated the same as an American hero?! It ignores benefits that are attached (health, etc.) to military service (still needed, but not found in fast food work...), and casts these as mutually exclusive options. Should we pay our military better? Absolutely. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't pay minimum wage employees more, either.
But that's not the worst part of this. Look at the smug contempt this person piles on fast food employees. Throughout the piece, she refers to fast food workers in only demeaning terms:
- Johnny Fry-Boy
- Sally McBurgerflipper
- Baconator
They have "failed," and if they "don't want minimum wage" they shouldn't "have minimum skills."
And, it bears repeating, this is not one bitter, hateful person spewing her contempt for her fellow man on the internet. Once upon a time, the GOP line was "get a job, earn money, it doesn't matter what it is, just get off your butt and work." It's now morphed
from "the dignity of work" to "make my burgers, b*tch. And hell no, you don't get paid enough to survive, because you're just a burger flipper!"
If a minimum wage worker cannot afford to live, that is his fault, because he should simply better himself. Despite the fact that, you know, he can't afford to live, much less acquire higher education....
no matter what one person says here it is in deed representative of the right wing view of the 47% or Progressive voters all inclusive of those they hate on and those they don't want to be citizens this ideology is the real stuff the republican platform is built on.
this will not change and surely will not if they hold the keys as well as the purse strings, we've seen what's more important and it does not resemble us Black or White or Brown or yellow we don't lean to the side from all the money in our pockets we don't try to control mass lives of Americans for more power and money, but I have to wonder if we were them with their advantages but with our empathetic view eventually morph into them??????
this country has always been divided it has always been us against them but only after them against them against others against us, hate permeates this country those who do happen to be the money=power people intent on keeping it that way and we unable to come together for our own good so we just help to perpetrate the tyranny against ourselves.
Pres. said "we are the change we've been waiting for", raise of hands how many of us have taken that seriously? if you won't look out for yourself can you really expect someone else with their own agenda to do it for you? Nov. 4th
