Posted on 03/08/2010 5:35:56 AM PST by Desperado67
As the video above clearly shows, on Friday, March 5th, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid stood on the Senate floor and stated, “Today is a big day in America. Only 36,000 people lost their jobs today, which is really good.”
Some people have criticized and even ridiculed Reid for his comments. He has been accused of being out of touch and/or insensitive to the plight of those people who lost their jobs. There is certainly a high degree of stupidity in his comments given that the 36,000 jobs were lost throughout the month of February and not just in one day, as Reid stated. That clearly shows his lack of understanding about how labor data is even presented.
And certainly Reid is not immune from making verbal gaffes. One only needs to do a little research to find Reid’s comments about how the income tax code is a voluntary system, and then there is the recent revelation that Reid felt Barack Obama spoke with ‘no Negro dialect’. Clearly the gaffes and the laughs are never-ending when it comes to Reid.
However, in this particular case, I would question whether Reid really made a gaffe. Ignoring Reid’s intellectual inability to discern between a day and a month, there is a good chance that Reid fully meant everything else he said.
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His gleeful voice is frighteningly moronic, but the fact of 36,000 lost and no change in any numbers indicates the first rush to ruin has slowed or stopped.
Now they will let us steep in this hot water and distract us with any number of buillsh!t ploys while the furtherance of changeing America continues.
Honestly folks ... the solution is the stuff that will get me banned and even imprisoned.
Does anyone really, really, REALLY believe an election or two will return our representative Republic to us?
An election or two took them away!!!!
I vote for ‘idiotic’. I expect no better from any DemocRAT.
That’s how easy it is to lose, but once lost, nothing ever comes back as easily ... if ever.
Must be why Reid,Polsi,Obama are a team of idiots.
True and they only have two functioning brain cells between the three of them.
This clip needs to be run continuously in the Fall campaigns with a suitable voiceover.
I'm not trying to be funny, but I do think it did some brain damage.
He sounds like he has the mental maturity of a 12 year old kid.
We do not have a pendulum system now, but a ratchet system. Conservatives can stop the gear from moving, but they cannot turn it back. Too many people become dependents every time the govt “gives” out more goodies that should be earned by individuals.
The Gingrich Congress, with the cooperation of Pres Clinton, did reverse the gear regarding the welfare “system”, and that encouragement of people to actually work for their income helped the ‘balanced budget’ and ‘budget surplus’ that Clinton loved to take credit for.
But that was a historical aberration.
I do. But it will be returned like a car that’s been stolen... a complete wreck, slammed into a tree.
To bad they dont know how to use so many functioning cells.
The understanding is quite simple ~ with the US system you figure out your income and then pay the tax on it. If you lie, you pay again, plus penalties.
This is in contrast to many income tax systems of that time, and even today, where the polizia financial estimate your income (by running over your books and following you around), and then assessing you ~ at that point your choice is to pay or you get to go to jail.
It's the "you figure out your income" part that is "voluntary". You can supposedly ask IRS to figure it out for you ~ but you still gotta' pay. I doubt many people do that.
We have to work to hold them accountable!!!! No one said it will be easy.
Fixing something like a nation takes one to ten orders of magnitude more effort than breaking it in the first place.
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