Why are Republicans so hostile towards the workers?
ByIt is apparent that republicans want to punish the worker. Everything they do is geared towards punishing the workers.
Republicans want to and advocate for:
- Make unions illegal
- Eliminate minimum wage
- Eliminate social security and pensions
- Outsource jobs to foreign markets
- Eliminate safety and health regulations
- Tax the workers more, eliminate taxes on the rich (who already pay much less as a percentage of income than the workers)
All of those things hurt workers. They have proposed NOTHING that helps workers.
Republicans claim, "Our government should not punish people for being successful." But in reality, the "successful" are not punished at all when the "successful" only pay 15% and the workers pay 30%.
How are we punishing the successful when the successful get enormous breaks from the government, while the workers are suffering lower and lower wages as the rich get richer?
THIS is the one part I cannot grasp or understand. They claim to hold and embody so many values yet assault the common working person at every turn. They want the worker weak and blind and dumb. I don’t understand.
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January 27th, 2012 at 8:05 am
Says who?? I only have problems with UNIONS – which destroy the companies or the public one who suck the blood out of our tax payers.
Only Democrats use "CLASS WARFARE" to divide and conquer.
I am a 9 to 5 Salary worker and I am a proud Republican.
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January 27th, 2012 at 8:48 am
THIS is the one part I cannot grasp or understand. They claim to hold and embody so many values yet assault the common working person at every turn. They want the worker weak and blind and dumb. I don’t understand.
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January 27th, 2012 at 9:36 am
You are telling me you want all jobs sent to Asia.
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January 27th, 2012 at 10:19 am
Because there a buch of rich white guys that don’t no or care about the common man and will only make polices that will make them richer and more powerful
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January 27th, 2012 at 10:54 am
They hate the middle class and are trying to take it out entirely. FACT!
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January 27th, 2012 at 11:37 am
So exactly why should the successful be "punished"? Because they did what, earn more than the rest of us?
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January 27th, 2012 at 12:04 pm
They demonze work while glorifying unearned income.
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January 27th, 2012 at 12:54 pm
And working for a living is wrong? I can play too….Democrats hate companies that employ people. Democrats want everyone to sit at home and collect welfare and food stamps.
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January 27th, 2012 at 1:27 pm
the answer is in the very name "conservative " . Those who are fortunate want to hold ( conserve) their position and welalth.. they have the natural human bias that they believe that they are entitled to their fortunate position so they see any thing that might change it as a threat and even unjust..
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January 27th, 2012 at 2:00 pm
Republicans are the only ones that truly support we workers.
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January 27th, 2012 at 2:34 pm
ROFL
I love how your kind keeps telling us that union violence, threats, and murder against the American worker is somehow good for the American worker. Do you think anybody is buying it?
I love how your kind keeps telling us that forcing American workers to pay bribes to the corrupt union thugs is somehow good for the American worker. Do you think anybody is buying it?
I love how your kind keeps telling us that we’re taxing the workers more and taxing the rich less.. when all it takes to see what a moron you are is to look at the IRS tax brackets.
Tax Bracket Married Filing Jointly Single
10% Bracket $0 – $17,400 $0 – $8,700
15% Bracket $17,400 – $70,700 $8,700 – $35,350
25% Bracket $70,700 – $142,700 $35,350 – $85,650
28% Bracket $142,700 – $217,450 $85,650 – $178,650
33% Bracket $217,450 – $388,350 $178,650 – $388,350
35% Bracket Over $388,350 Over $388,350
And, of course, there’s that little problem with the fact that there are MILLIONS fewer American workers today than there was the day Democrats took control of congress. Are you really expecting people to believe that destroying jobs is good for workers?
You fail.
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January 27th, 2012 at 3:04 pm
Every single thing that you have claimed is false
I defy you to name one specific instance confirming any of your allegations ?(crickets )
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January 27th, 2012 at 3:39 pm
Their rhetoric doesn’t change the fact that they support the rich always and anytime over the rest. The are using the Nazi method of "if you are going to lie, tell the big lie." They’d also like kids back in the factories, they’d like to privatize public education, and end medicare and medicaid.
The proof is in how they publicly decided how to pay for such things. 6 days before christmas they raised taxes on the non-rich, smiling and backslapping and generally feeling they’d done a good job.
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January 27th, 2012 at 4:01 pm
“It’s amazing that people don’t understand that the more the market is involved and the smaller the government, the lower the price, the better the distribution, and the higher the quality.” Ron Paul
Spare me your ideas of liberal moral superiority and I will spare you mine. Furthermore the "rich get richer and the poor get poorer" is an oft used and foolish term. What you have to understand is that there is not a fixed pool of money, as the rich get richer, the poor get richer, the pool grows the rich spend their money and the poor end up with more. Or didn’t you realize that poor nations tend to have very few rich people and a lot of poor people, wealthy nations have a great number of rich people and a small number of poor, who I must say are far better off than the poor of any other nations.
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January 27th, 2012 at 4:18 pm
Republicans are hostile toward union largess, not workers. Unions artificially raise labor costs, thereby decreasing job availability. They are the ones doing the damage to workers. Even the people working in unions are victimized by the union bosses. Most unionized workers have no say in how their dues are spent or even whether to unionize in the first place.
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January 27th, 2012 at 4:24 pm
Who’s talking about making unions illegal? All I’ve seen are efforts to ensure that workers have the right to choose whether they want to be in a union or not and also make sure that their vote remains private and uninfluenced. If anything, those things strongly support workers’ rights.
Unless you’re talking about public unions, but public unions should not exist since all it ends up being is the government sitting on both sides of the bargaining table which is hardly fair to the taxpayers who foot the bill for those employees.
Minimum wage doesn’t end up helping anyone. In fact it’s more likely to hurt people looking for part time summer jobs or side jobs for some extra change. When you have a minimum wage, you risk placing a higher price on some jobs than the work is worth.. meaning those jobs will simply disappear entirely. Not every job should earn enough to support a lifestyle. Sometimes it’s just for some extra pocket money. Keep in mind that only a very tiny portion of people only earn the minimum wage. The majority of people who start out there end up getting pay increases within a couple of months.
Social security is on track to eliminate itself as it stands right now, so any proposals to eliminate it shouldn’t be overlooked. I’d rather eliminate it and keep the money myself than to keep paying into a program that may go bankrupt by the time I am at retirement age. I don’t see how forcing people to pay into a dying system is promoting workers’ rights.
The workers pay no where near 30% in taxes, so cut the crap on that one. And the 15% reduced rate only applies to long term capital investments. Any other investments or income is taxed at the normal bracket rates. Look at the tax revenue information… the rich on average pay 20-25% of their income in taxes whereas the middle class ranges from 10-16% and the poor tops out at around 2-3% with most paying negative tax rates. You’re looking at specific rich individuals and not at the group as a whole.
And I’ve seen no one promoting outsourcing or eliminating safety and health regulations.
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January 27th, 2012 at 5:00 pm
Of course you’re correct, but I’m surprised that you haven’t mentioned their plan for a New World Order. Many consider this not just a threat to ‘workers’, who are as ’successful’ as anyone else, IMO, but to the very way of life of every human on the Earth, because it would only serve to abolish all cultural differences; eliminate all borders; immobilize any threat by anyone to the NWO by consolidating all military power within the control of the NWO; consolidate all financial activity to that allowed by the NWO; squelch any competition to any NWO enterprise, either financial, technological or industrial; abolish all income-livelihood, safety-net programs, free health care systems, and every other similar ’social security’ programs because by this point, the population of the earth not part of the elite workers, staff and military of the NWO will be on their own to provide for their needs (restricted, of course, from migrating into areas controlled by the NWO); and finally, if it comes down to the ‘acceptable losses’ from nuclear strikes aimed at those areas of the population of the Earth not important to future development plans of the NWO, then so it be. Virtually all of the things you’ve mentioned are directly or indirectly related to this plan for a NWO (which Bush senior mentioned in his ‘State of the Union’ address way back when).
The US and Great Britain are leading the way in following through with the development and implementation of this planned NWO, with the Republican party, and more of the Democratic party each year, joining the ranks of the affluent few who see it coming, and are willing to embrace it as the manipulation of the laws by them continues to give them more power; they are following this plan regardless of the possible limit of their eventual involvement because it will ultimately only benefit roughly 1% of the world’s population while everyone else will either be ‘members’ in subservient positions to the elite directly or as representatives of the NWO in general, or they’ll be vanquished, as I mentioned, to areas not directly under the NWO’s care, control, or concern, but most likely monitored in some way as to keep them from developing any technology or planning any type of insurrection.
The plan is so simple that it seems as though it couldn’t possibly bypass the watchful, thoughtful awareness of virtually anyone at present in any position to make a stand, but most of the world’s population is conveniently distracted by the false calamity of financial gloom and doom by the Stock Market (run and primarily serving the NWO-related minority who are really in no danger whatsoever of losing their control of the situation) and fears of terrorism by the US and Great Britain (ironically, I think not), who are so obviously attempting to usurp as much of the major areas of the world as possible with valuable resources before it is so obvious and reprehensible that the smaller governments rise to the occasion in protest, but by then I’m afraid it will be too late. The major players in their respective dictatorial and otherwise self-centered positions in the smaller countries of less military consequence and holding no valuable resources that can’t be taken away from them later, are either ‘playing ball’ in order to at least think they’re a part of the big picture, or as I said, too self-centered, squabbling about the minor issues peculiar to their respective countries, and rightly could give a damn until it becomes more obvious that there is a viable threat to their leadership, but by then, as I said, it will be too late.
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I would say something like, "God help us all" if I thought that it would matter, at all.
January 27th, 2012 at 5:50 pm
Let us start with taxes as this is clearly something no one understands. We do not want to raise taxes on anyone. The wealthy in this country those making the highest earned income are taxed at 35%. Now when ANYONE takes the money they have and invests it and then turns a profit they are taxed at 15% this is called capital gains tax and is a tax on prophets made from money that had ALREADY ben taxed.
Union employees are the reason things cost so much on this country, the auto workers union is why a car costs 50k of you but american and the lack thereof is why a honda costs so much less..the japanese are doing fine without unions they are booming.
We want everyone to be responsible for his it her item success and failure social security ribs you of that. It takes money out of the system and puts it in. public coffers so washington can spend it how they see fit.
If their were no unions demanding things that they had not earned their would be no outsourcing.pain and simple.
The health and safety regs id just a flat out lie. No one had suggested removing osha or anything like that, it is simple a taking point of the left with no basis in reality.
the last had done more to keep the workers down than anyone in history. With projects and minimum wage and welfare they have robbed people of the pride in a days work.
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