"The private sector is doing fine."

Caper said:
But I really can't see what Romney would do that will make any kind of difference.
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He can put in more conservative judges that could very well cost us an entire generation of misery. Not sure why you clipped that out. We are already at significant risk of losing many hard fought for rights. I've no doubt that in 25 years we will fix it but christ, that's a long time to lose fundamental rights like reproductive rights or to set back gay rights. Now, if all you can do is clip out my premises and pretend that I didn't make the argument then don't bother. What you can or can't see is of no interest to me.
 
RandFan said:
He can put in more conservative judges that could very well cost us an entire generation of misery. Not sure why you clipped that out. We are already at significant risk of losing many hard fought for rights. I've no doubt that in 25 years we will fix it but christ, that's a long time to lose fundamental rights like reproductive rights or to set back gay rights. Now, if all you can do is clip out my premises and pretend that I didn't make the argument then don't bother. What you can or can't see is of no interest to me.
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Yes... your life will be miserable if Romney gets elected.
 
Caper said:
Yes... your life will be miserable if Romney gets elected.
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This isn't about me. I'm talking about women who value their reproductive rights. Gays and lesbians who value the right to marry. I guess since you are neither female or gay then what do you care, right?
 
Other terrible things we can do to generate jobs:

Annihilate Bolivia

Down in South America is this supposed nation called Bolivia. Now this place might not even be real having just been invented for the purposes of giving us an infuriatingly ambiguous ending to Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid. So who would really care if America went in and killed every single man, woman and child there? Doing so would inevitably lead to the need for replacement armored fighting vehicles, helicopters and loads of new infantry armaments. And that all means, jobs, jobs, jobs.

Why would we be doing this? Beats me. Revenge for that movie?

Blow up the Moon

Since the dawn of time (for Republicans this means 6,000 years ago) the moon has sat up there mocking us by existing and defying the weapons of drunken rednecks in their attempts to destroy it with rocks/slings/spears/shotguns. Now think of how many people we could employ if we made it a national goal to fly people up there, carve out huge caverns, plant huge new nuclear weapons then blow that giant affront to our control of the universe to pieces.

The downside is that this might lead to the end of humanity but you know that just means we all avoid that darned Rapture thing.

Child Incinerators

This would be doubly good as building the incinerators leads to loads of construction jobs and burning America's children alive would generate electricity. What's not to love about this?

Release a supervirus

Nothing might motivate the public to work together more than some super disease that combines the terrible afflictions of Ebola with the ease of contraction of the common cold. Three out of five supervillians probably already have a version in their freezer right next to their favorite flavor of Ben & Jerry's. All America would need to do is pay them to release it somewhere no one cares about......have we already destroyed Bolivia yet? Okay....so maybe Turkmenistan because that hardly sounds like a real country's name.


For anyone still alive after all this there would be jobs, jobs, jobs.....or maybe just a Mad Max dystopia but it would all be the same to the 1% who would be pretty much fine out in their massive compounds where they hunt survivors of all this crap for sport. They'd need something to pass the time having already sent their kids to the child incinerators for more profits.
 
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RandFan said:
This isn't about me. I'm talking about women who value their reproductive rights. Gays and lesbians who value the right to marry. I guess since you are neither female or gay then what do you care, right?
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I think they'll be ok.
 
shuize said:
It's not his silly "the private sector is doing fine" statement, its the two statements taken together.

Logically, I don't understand how one can believe "the private sector is doing fine" and at the same time believe it "absolutely clear the economy is not doing fine" unless one somehow thinks the private sector is not really part of the "economy" or not a big enough part of the "economy" to matter.
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Perhaps because you haven't seen Obama's comment in context. The private sector has been generating jobs for months. The public sector at the state and local level has been laying off workers. Those layoffs have been slowing down the economic recovery.
 
Kestrel said:
Perhaps because you haven't seen Obama's comment in context. The private sector has been generating jobs for months. The public sector at the state and local level has been laying off workers. Those layoffs have been slowing down the economic recovery.
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Where I work, we cannot find people to hire. That is how far the private sector job market has recovered. We absolutely cannot find people capable of doing this work.
 
BenBurch said:
As will yours. In ways that you cannot even begin to imagine.
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If you have that much imagination please enlighten us with specifics.

BenBurch said:
Where I work, we cannot find people to hire. That is how far the private sector job market has recovered. We absolutely cannot find people capable of doing this work.
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Capable is the operative word here. Doesn't do squat for the millions who don't have work (26M?). It is always the ones with the lower skill levels who suffer in the greatest numbers during these times. Of course Jackson's call to increase the minimum wage to $10/hour would help these masses out tremendously.
 
I can give you in broad terms only because of confidentiality rules; We simply cannot find people capable of designing and implementing systems involving operating systems kernel modification, device driver design, real time operations, scripting system automation, and strong IA elements in an environment of formal methodologies. The people who were good at this became discouraged during the Bush years, and many retired or went into other fields. The colleges are absolutely not turning out new graduates who can do this work.
 
elbe said:
Just curious, but would you be fine with losing your rights because you'll "be ok"?
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Me personally? I see your point. But if tomorrow I lost my right to get married I would not care.

But my main point is Romney is probably not even going to change that.
 
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Caper said:
Really? What ridiculous things have you cooked up in your head will come to pass if Romney is elected?
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Any diminution of the human rights of others is a diminution of your rights whether you hate those other human beings or not. Nations where people are allowed to destroy the rights of those they hate do not end up being nations where anybody has rights and such nations do not end well.
 
Caper said:
Really? What ridiculous things have you cooked up in your head will come to pass if Romney is elected?
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Look forward to increased budget deficits. Because when the GOP takes charge, deficits no longer matter. Tax cuts for people like Mitt Romney will have priority over anything else. We can count on more deregulation of the financial industry, including an almost complete gutting of the SEC. Assuring that nobody will get in the way of building the next financial house of cards.
 
Caper said:
Me personally? I see your point. But if tomorrow I lost my right to get married I would not care.

But my main point is Romney is probably not even going to change that.
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I'm married. If tomorrow, the GOP passed a law that nullified my marriage and made it so my wife didn't have a legal right to assets that aren't in her name or both our names (like my IRA accounts) I would care. A lot.

I can't even fathom doing that to someone else and thinking it doesn't matter.
 
BenBurch said:
They do not have those effected in the category "human being" so of course it doesn't matter to them. Hate does that.
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Ah yes, they lump all of the opposition into a single category of the most despicable kind. That is how they are able to dehumanize the loving and always understanding humans who comprise the entirety of their hate filled attacks.
 
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