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Dems Advised to Avoid Talking about the Economy
Semi-News/Semi-Satire ^ | 18 April 2014 | John Semmens

Posted on 04/19/2014 8:18:41 AM PDT by John Semmens

Top Democratic strategist, James Carville, advised Democrats seeking reelection to avoid discussing the economy.

“The whole notion of an economic recovery is pure poison to any Democrat hoping to retain his or her seat,” Carville lamented. “The Administration has spurred too many false hopes with repeated promises of 'green shoots.' Our Party's credibility on this issue is totally shot.”

Instead, Carville recommends “an approach that transcends the stale notion that getting people back to work ought to be a goal of the nation's economic policy. Democrats need to embrace the decline in workforce participation and increase in the number on food stamps as ways for people to enjoy more leisure time.”

“The whole notion that it is man's fate to toil to feed his family is what Democrats must attack,” Carville argued. “With generous income support from government a growing share of the population can escape from this wage slavery. If Democrats can sell enough voters on this new conceptualization of the American Dream we have a chance to regain a majority in the House as well as hold onto the Senate.”

if you missed any of this week's other semi-news/semi-satire posts you can find them at...

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Opinion/154117-2014-04-18-semi-news-a-satire-of-recent-news-april-20-2014.htm


TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: carville; jobs; leisure; satire

1 posted on 04/19/2014 8:18:41 AM PDT by John Semmens
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Carville said: "Democrats need to embrace the decline in workforce participation and increase in the number on food stamps as ways for people to enjoy more leisure time.”

ROTFL.

The O/Care con artists dreamed up a bunch of oily phrases that put Madoff to shame:

<><> O/Care means "freedom"---not being tied to an employer for health care.

<><> Millenials subsidizing oldsters is "Individual shared responsibility".... something Madoff said when he was screwing his investors.

<><> and the unforgettable "we'll aggregate the numbers" (to nail employers forced to downsize to escape onerous O/Care mandates).

2 posted on 04/19/2014 8:30:04 AM PDT by Liz
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To: John Semmens

The economy, Benghazi, Obamacare, NSA, CIA, Mexican Gun Running fiasco, etc etc...


3 posted on 04/19/2014 8:41:50 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: John Semmens
Cant talk about Obamacare?

Cant talk about the economy?

Cant talk about Obama?

Soon, this is what all Dem candidates will look like in October.


4 posted on 04/19/2014 8:46:15 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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Darn you John....’cept there’s “0” satire in this article.


5 posted on 04/19/2014 8:47:56 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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We need The DemonRats To Tell Us ALL About The Obongo RECOVERY!When Is It Going To Begin???????????????


6 posted on 04/19/2014 9:13:30 AM PDT by bandleader
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Let me see now?”The War On Women”,”Racism”,”Income Inequality”???Here are just a few suggestions for The DemonRats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


7 posted on 04/19/2014 9:15:32 AM PDT by bandleader
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Dems Advised to Avoid Talking about the Economy

Good plan. The republicans should do that too. We should talk about the jobless "recovery", since Democrats have been told not to use the "R"-word. It's the worst recovery from a recession in history, far worse than projections on what would have happened if Obama and Congress had done nothing. This is a big government liberalism recession, and we need to remind voters of where this economy came from.

We should talk about ObamaCare killing jobs and preventing women and the young from finding work - a war on women and the young that prevents society's most vulnerable members from developing independence.

We should talk about silly government regulations (there are thousands of insane bureaucratic rules, and we should run the same commercial 20 times with the same words and visuals for 90% of the commercial but highlighting a different insane big government rule in each and talking about how silly, meddling rules kill job creation. Then we should put 100+ other versions on YouTube to get free coverage of the message that big government excess kills jobs.

8 posted on 04/19/2014 12:34:06 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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Hmmm. Let’s see. Can’t talk about the economy. Can’t talk about forign policy. Can’t talk about the national debt. And certainly can’t talk about Obamacare.

Guess it will be all ‘war on women’, Koch brothers, Republican racists, amnesty, and climate change.


9 posted on 04/19/2014 2:22:50 PM PDT by wildbill (O)
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