Why those republican governors are refusing the stim money for unemployment

[SoCalDem]

I can't believe he actually SAID it, but one of those southern governors told us all why, last week in an interview..

Paraphrasing...

He said that the LOW, short-term unemployment benefits they "offer" was a PRIME reason why they have been SO SUCCESSFUL in "attracting" businesses to their states....and if they accepted "Obama's money", it would surpass the limits of their state's unemploymentm and the people would get "used to it", and they would have to change their laws and continue it, once the stimulus money had been spent..

So, for all you "workers" in those right-to-work states, down south, that's what your governors really think about you..

They think you are a "LURE"...a tool for them to use, to steal,cajole, tempt, lure, whatever, businesses AWAY from states that have a safety net for their workers. You are EXPENDABLE..

YOUR state will USE millions of your tax dollars to OFFER goodies to businesses to relocate to your state..those businesses will "offer" you jobs, but when they are in a financial pinch, they will dump you by the roadside like an unwanted dog, and not even look back....

Then your own state will look the other way, as you remain unemployed for months, because they USED your tax money to give to the fatcats, who gleefully donate to THEIR campaigns, for hooking them up with such a cheap workforce, and saving them all that money, but there's nothing for YOU..

[Captain Hilts]

1. Because the poor folks that it would help didn't vote for them. nt

[RaleighNCDUer]

2. Institutionalized corruption.

Different only in scale from the daily bribes needed to function in 3rd world countries.

We've developed it into an art.

[rcrush]

3. To keep people desperate for any type of work they will take the lowest paying

no benefits no union sweatshop jobs they can find?

[SoCalDem]

4. and failing that, join the military

:(

Thats' why the "all-volunteer" military "works"

[guitar man]

5. exactly

it would take some of the the sting out of the whip they love to crack on their slave wage plantations down here. :grr:

[mnhtnbb]

6. Our NC Governor Bev Perdue joked that even though she wasn't much of a driver,

she'd bring a truck down to SC and load up all the money they didn't want and drive it back to NC!

:rofl:


http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/1416568.html

Here's the quote:

"I am not a real good driver, but I will take a pickup truck to South Carolina and be glad to take any of the money that (Gov.) Mark Sanford and the people of South Carolina don't want," she said.

[glinda]

7. Or hope they move out of the State. Just like Mexico does.

[gratuitous]

8. It's an invisible tax break for corporations

And, since taxation is one of those zero sum thingies, by giving away something to corporations, something is taken away from someone else. That someone is the working stiff, already handicapped by being paid a lower wage, getting it in the shorts again when the corporation fires his ass for hanging around too long so they can give his spot to someone they can pay even less.

That is indeed what the powers that be think of the workers who produce their wealth.

[NNN0LHI]

9. Yep and I didn't know anything about this Republican scam until just today

I thought every state unemployment plan was basically the same until today.

No wonder the transplant auto makers love the south so much. We are all subsidizing these bastard corporations.

Learn something every day.

Don

[SoCalDem]

11. Right to fire at will?..check.. no unions?..check... pollution waivers?..check

super cheap land?..check
lousy state benefits for unemployed?...check
tax honeymoon?...check
state-provided road/sewer/utility infrastructure?...check
desperate, easy-to-manipulate workforce?...check

It's how the Rust Belt BECAME the rust belt

Plants & factories up north were remnants of the Industrial revolution, and needed massive renovation/restoration, right about the same time that unions were powerful, and flexing their muscles, and lookie who "stepped up to the plate" and "offered" them a solution...

[prolesunited]

10. Well, the South still misses its slaves

I guess this is the closest they come.