#cheap labor conservative

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US Representative Jim Jordan Is Just An Idiot

It's times like these when I'm glad I was gerrymandered out of Ohio's 4th Congressional District. Republican Jim Jordan is a cheap labor conservative who wants to punish poor people for being poor. He claims he wants to 'cut the deficit' but he recently showed he still doesn't know how food stamps work. http://dlvr.it/QQVNbf

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A $15 An Hour Minimum Wage Would Help All Of Us

A meme showed up in my Facebook feed the other day that tried to undermine the movement to raise the minimum wage to $15 and hour by comparing 'burger flipping' with a 'real job' as if that proved the protestors are wrong. It actually points out how broken our economic system is for middle-class workers and those who make the current minimum wage and lower. $15 an hour should be the starting point not the end. http://dlvr.it/L2cZXW

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Shocker! The Poor Doesn’t Spend Public Assistance On Steak And Lobster

A few state legislatures, dominated by Republicans, have not only attacked women with draconian anti-abortion laws but have also attacked poor people by trying to micro manage how they spend public assistance. The GOP has the idea that poor people are spending money on steak and lobster and other luxuries. One survey shows they are still wrong. http://dlvr.it/9NyYT0

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Cheap Labor Conservatives

A cheap labor conservative is a Republican who identifies with the Tea Party. They falsely paint themselves as a defender of "freedom" against "big government tyranny". The whole idea that the "private sector" is independent of the public sector is the totally bogus premise they build their insular world of disinformation. In fact, "the market" is created by public laws, public institutions and public infrastructure.

The cheap labor conservative sees freedom as industrial serfdom, union breaking, opposition to raising the minimum wage, and unfettered belief in the most oppressive and heavy-handed form of government tyranny: capital punishment.

The cheap labor conservative will say that "government can't do anything right" - except apparently, kill people. Indeed, they exhibit classic conservative unconcern for the very possibility that the government might make a mistake and execute the wrong man.

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"How many here have gone hungry? How many have had to give up a meal so your kids could eat? It's easy to talk about pulling up bootstraps when you've worn designer shoes your whole life." - Rep Jim McDermott (D-Washington) 9/18/2013

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"Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other rights."

- Abraham Lincoln State of the Union address 12/03/1861

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"Now let me tell you about what they’re talking about. They’re complaining that Wall Street wrecked the economy three years ago and nobody’s held responsible for that. Not a single person’s been indicted or convicted for destroying twenty percent of our national net worth accumulated over two centuries. They’re upset about the fact that Wall Street has iron control over the economic policies of this country, and that one party is a wholly owned subsidiary of Wall Street, and the other party caters to them as well.... Listen, if I am spokesman for all the people who think that we should not have 24 million people in this country who can’t find a full time job, that we should not have 50 million people in this country who can’t see a doctor when they’re sick, that we shouldn’t have 47 million people in this country who need government help to feed themselves, and we shouldn’t have 15 million families who owe more on their mortgage than the value of their home, okay, I’ll be that spokesman." - Alan Grayson explains "Occupy Wall Street" in less than a minute on Bill Maher's show on 10/07/2011