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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-31-08 09:28 PM Original message |
Myths That Must Die: "People are given jobs!" |
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mediaman007 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-31-08 09:35 PM Response to Original message |
1. You are absolutely correct! I call bullshit to all of the right wingers who |
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Mojambo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-31-08 09:37 PM Response to Original message |
2. Thom Hartmann has been doing some work on this idea that corporations "create" jobs. |
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Veritas_et_Aequitas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-31-08 09:38 PM Response to Original message |
3. Where are these job-givers, and how may I contact them? nt |
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DailyGrind51 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-01-08 07:07 AM Response to Reply #3 |
33. They are giving jobs to people in India and China! |
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misanthrope (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-31-08 09:43 PM Response to Original message |
4. Au contraire... |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-31-08 10:06 PM Response to Reply #4 |
9. I think Bluenorthwest;s post #5 says it best! n/t |
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Bluenorthwest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-31-08 09:50 PM Response to Original message |
5. But no one--no one--is given a job! |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-31-08 10:07 PM Response to Reply #5 |
10. Not to mention Dumbya himself. Not mention Wolfowitze, et al. n/t |
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roody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-31-08 11:02 PM Response to Reply #10 |
13. THEY were given jobs. |
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rucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-31-08 10:20 PM Response to Reply #5 |
12. You must not be married. n/t |
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americanmutt (73 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-31-08 09:51 PM Response to Original message |
6. Can you give me a job that want or can do... |
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mrcheerful (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-31-08 09:54 PM Response to Original message |
7. Yeah well try being disabled living on SSI or SSDI and being told that you aren't supposed |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-31-08 10:05 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. I think your post deserves it's own thread! n/t |
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PJPhreak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-01-08 12:03 AM Response to Reply #7 |
15. This is so true!! |
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mrcheerful (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-01-08 12:18 AM Response to Reply #15 |
17. My SO and I drive a 1978 full size Ford Van that SO was rewarded from her divorce |
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Chulanowa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-01-08 11:32 AM Response to Reply #15 |
36. He'd tell you to sell a worn-out mule with ticks, too |
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barbtries (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-01-08 12:47 PM Response to Reply #15 |
39. omigawd |
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misanthrope (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-01-08 12:18 AM Response to Reply #7 |
18. Amen to that! I'm on SSI as well... |
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mrcheerful (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-01-08 12:26 AM Response to Reply #18 |
19. Your lucky they raised the limit you can earn |
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misanthrope (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-01-08 12:59 AM Response to Reply #19 |
20. Say what?... |
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mrcheerful (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-01-08 01:08 AM Response to Reply #20 |
21. If your collecting SSI and SSDI |
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misanthrope (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-01-08 01:25 AM Response to Reply #21 |
22. Well, I must be receiving... |
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mrcheerful (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-01-08 01:32 AM Response to Reply #22 |
24. Also remember this veries from state to state, I'm in michigan |
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misanthrope (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-01-08 02:04 AM Response to Reply #24 |
25. Well that solved it... |
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Bluenorthwest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-01-08 08:05 AM Response to Reply #25 |
35. SSI and SSDI are very different things |
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mrcheerful (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-01-08 12:25 PM Response to Reply #35 |
38. I get both SSI and SSDI because I had enough work history |
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elshiva (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-01-08 02:46 AM Response to Reply #7 |
26. I hear you. I'm on SSI. I'm mentally ill. |
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DailyGrind51 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-31-08 10:18 PM Response to Original message |
11. "They" buy "your" expertise, talent, and labor, "they" don't give "you" a job! |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-31-08 11:04 PM Response to Reply #11 |
14. Yup, I like the way your Communist-Socialist-Marxist mind works! LOL! n/t |
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DailyGrind51 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-01-08 06:52 AM Response to Reply #14 |
31. Actually, I borrowed the idea from Lincoln! |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-01-08 03:52 PM Response to Reply #31 |
42. Wasn't Lincoln the father of the Communist-Socialist-Marxists!? n/t |
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DailyGrind51 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-01-08 03:55 PM Response to Reply #42 |
43. Lincoln and Lenin both begin with the letter "L"! |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-01-08 03:57 PM Response to Reply #43 |
44. Close enough for Alaskan government work! n/t |
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lonestarnot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-01-08 12:07 AM Response to Original message |
16. Whisper Union in his ear and he would shit. That is the way that works for those slave labor |
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elshiva (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-01-08 02:48 AM Response to Reply #16 |
27. Too true. So much money to get from slave labor. |
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Common Sense Party (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-01-08 01:29 AM Response to Original message |
23. And let's have a moratorium on all politicians claiming that they CREATE |
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Dark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-01-08 02:50 AM Response to Original message |
28. He's Reagans cheif of staff, he's backing obama and he's pointing out that even people |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-01-08 03:12 AM Response to Reply #28 |
29. OK, I missed that part, but still. |
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Dark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-01-08 06:52 AM Response to Reply #29 |
32. What about Bush? |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-01-08 02:08 PM Response to Reply #32 |
40. He (and all his co-horts) are the exceptions that prove the rule. n/t |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-01-08 03:59 AM Response to Original message |
30. Mainstream GOP policy is that the rich create all jobs in America. |
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DailyGrind51 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-01-08 07:14 AM Response to Reply #30 |
34. And, consumer demand creates the rich! |
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AllegroRondo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-01-08 12:06 PM Response to Original message |
37. or the myth that companies hire people because they have money to spend |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-01-08 02:10 PM Response to Reply #37 |
41. I wonder how GOPers are able to get into business without knowing this! n/t |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-02-08 06:42 AM Response to Original message |
45. Sunday morning kick. n/t |
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Zing Zing Zingbah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-02-08 07:46 AM Response to Original message |
46. 3 interviews to work at McDonald's? Where does this happen? |
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