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For all the Teabaggers and Repub1%can’ts who continue to blame Clinton and Obama, Liberals and Democrats, etc. for the debt. Here is a picture so you don’t have to move your lips reading the facts.

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Paul Revere’s Ride

Apparently the ignorant, incompetent, lazy, greedy teachers that taught us the facts about Paul Revere’s ride were just plain wrong.

Sarah Palin has set the record straight, also too.

“Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscienti­ous stupidity.­” –M. L. King

The Shameful attack on Public Employees

The Shameful attack on Public Employees
by
Robert Reich, Fmr. Secretary of Labor; Professor at Berkeley; Author, Aftershock: ‘The Next Economy and America’s Future’

In 1968, 1,300 sanitation workers in Memphis went on strike. The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. came to support them. That was where he lost his life. Eventually Memphis heard the grievances of its sanitation workers. And in subsequent years millions of public employees across the nation have benefited from the job protections they’ve earned.

But now the right is going after public employees.

Public servants are convenient scapegoats. Republicans would rather deflect attention from corporate executive pay that continues to rise as corporate profits soar, even as corporations refuse to hire more workers. They don’t want stories about Wall Street bonuses, now higher than before taxpayers bailed out the Street. And they’d like to avoid a spotlight on the billions raked in by hedge-fund and private-equity managers whose income is treated as capital gains and subject to only a 15 percent tax, due to a loophole in the tax laws designed specifically for them.

It’s far more convenient to go after people who are doing the public’s work — sanitation workers, police officers, fire fighters, teachers, social workers, federal employees — to call them “faceless bureaucrats” and portray them as hooligans who are making off with your money and crippling federal and state budgets. The story fits better with the Republican’s Big Lie that our problems are due to a government that’s too big.

Above all, Republicans don’t want to have to justify continued tax cuts for the rich. As quietly as possible, they want to make them permanent.

But the right’s argument is shot-through with bad data, twisted evidence, and unsupported assertions.

They say public employees earn far more than private-sector workers. That’s untrue when you take account of level of education. Matched by education, public sector workers actually earn less than their private-sector counterparts.

The Republican trick is to compare apples with oranges — the average wage of public employees with the average wage of all private-sector employees. But only 23 percent of private-sector employees have college degrees; 48 percent of government workers do. Teachers, social workers, public lawyers who bring companies to justice, government accountants who try to make sure money is spent as it should be — all need at least four years of college.

Compare apples to apples and and you’d see that over the last fifteen years the pay of public sector workers has dropped relative to private-sector employees with the same level of education. Public sector workers now earn 11 percent less than comparable workers in the private sector, and local workers 12 percent less. (Even if you include health and retirement benefits, government employees still earn less than their private-sector counterparts with similar educations.)

You can read more HERE.

Couldn’t have said it better myself.

Thanks, Bill. Couldn’t have said it better myself. Let them hold a bakesale to buy a bomber.

As for the teabaggers, they need to grow up. Problem is, they’re too grown. Most of them are white old people who long for the good old days of lynchings and McCarthyism.

One thing is for sure. The teabagger party will eventually die off basically because each year they’ll lose a substantial percentage of their demographic to…death.

Stupid is as stupid votes.

I can’t believe the voters of Massachusetts could be so self-centered, brainwashed and stupid as to elect that teabagging liar. In doing so they’ve not only shot themselves in the foot, they’ve also forced the rest of us to suffer through the continued obstructionism of the GOP, the party of NO.

I will never forgive the voters of Massachusetts for forcing us to suffer because of their shortsighted selfishness.

“TOLD YOU SO” won’t help when that teabagging liar starts spewing his racist hate. You’ll never see that “man of the people” driving that pick up truck again now that he’s elected.

Let’s just hope centerfold guy has more brains than the beauty queen governor they almost foisted on us.

And to think MIT is in Massachusetts. They must import all of the smart people to teach and go to school there. Obviously Massachusetts is a lot dumber than people give them credit for.