Are you as shocked as I am? I mean, why on earth would government employees overwhelmingly lend their support to a man who is THE champion of the middle class, or the private sector, with its working folks and small businesses and its millionaires and billionaires not giving their fair share?
Is it because Obama uses those he pretends to champion to grow and enrich the government class he continues to grow?
Or am I just being cynical again, not understanding the true patriotism felt by those whose retirement plans and perks are paid for by a shrinking number of people making increasingly less, despite the fact that those governnment-working patriots make more than the people funding them, and enjoy far greater benefits and pension packages?
Because shut up, racist?
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I have some sympathy with most government workers. It’s public unions that are the enemy. And by sympathy I don’t mean pity. I mean, the rank and file government puke is an individual making the best deal he can for his family, like the rest of us.
The second goal of the Romney administration needs to be gutting public unions like Gov Walker did, if not outlawing them altogether. Freeze public employee wages til they’re in line with the private sector. Freeze hiring. Make public employees contribute to their own retirement as the private sector does, and end all double dipping.
In case there was a question, job one is trashing Obamacare and reforming medicare/Medicaid, job three is reforming Social Security into a 401k model instead of a pyramid scheme.
Being gainfully employed is always to be applauded.
But if govt. employees are overwhelming giving to Obama, then they are a kind of client group of the Democrat party. And that’s because the Democrat Party is the Party of big government.
And therein lies the problem, IMO. They aren’t a competing platform for governmental philosophy. They ARE government, as is, to a large extent these days, the mainstream press.
My wife is so serious about the Hatch Act she won’t even donate to candidates she does support — let alone to Teh One-and-Done, whom she doesn’t.
And don’t even suggest she put a campaign bumper sticker on her car.
Again, I’d bet this is more a function of the public unions, and I’m just saying I think there’s lots of public employees that aren’t simpatico with the unions.
smaller gov’t – fewer demonrats
opps gov’t paid demonrats
baracky’s voter suppression
“Almost no one has noticed that the Obama administration is waging war administratively against the voting rights of America’s warriors overseas.
This bureaucratic assault comes in the form of the Obama administration’s unconscionable foot-dragging on the implementation of the Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment (MOVE) Act, which President Obama signed into law in 2009. The legislation passed, in part, because the nonpartisan Military Voter Protection Project discovered in 2008 that under 20 percent of 2.5 million military personnel voted by absentee ballot. By 2010 that figure had shriveled to just 5 percent.”
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Of course Obama doesn’t want our warriors voting. He knows they would overwhelmingly vote against him.
This happens every election. Someone ought to look into what is causing the problem here.
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Jim Messina is the wonder bringer.
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Natalie Portman plays an astronomer who used to be a nurse who dates an alien thunder god now, because that whole suicidal bisexual delusional split personality ballet dancer thing just got old after a while. And why the swan gotta be black? RAAAAACIST.
From PJ Media via Instapundit:
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He hasn’t received a dime from me.
Of course knuckledraggers like me don’t count. And while I don’t sending money to the Romney camp; I do have plans to undermine his opponent.
Stay tuned.
Hollywood makes an excellent argument for poll tests. Some people are just too fucking stupid to be voting.
This is more or less why I don’t contribute to or participate in LMEPAC. There’s a fundamental problem with lobbying the government to keep paying you.
Maybe this is an unselfaware thing.
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That is all.
disregard my last
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(Note to self: be careful with those differential symbols.)
That is really all.