Posted on 10/21/2013 2:51:10 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
Actor Steve Buscemi has finally broken his silence to tell the world his expert opinion on the government shutdown.
Buscemi opined about the shutdown and much else in a wide-ranging with The Guardian.
“I think the shutdown is ridiculous. I think the Republicans in Congress are holding the country hostage. I think it’s criminal. I don’t see why they’re allowed to do it,” he said.
Buscemi, 55, said he hopes voters punish the politicians behind the temporary halt of about 17 percent of the federal government at the next possible opportunity.
“The tea party faction of the Republican party are holding the Republican party hostage,” he explained. “They’ve hijacked it. I don’t understand their philosophy. I think that in their own hearts and minds there’s a reason why they feel they’re doing good. But I certainly don’t agree with it. And I hope the shutdown effects change. I hope people remember this in the next cycle of elections.”
The Guardian lovingly describes the Brooklynite (who also has a second home in upstate New York) as a blue-collar liberal.
“I’m not against capitalism, but it’s another thing to blame the victim,” Buscemi told the British daily. “A lot of poor people have made something of themselves but nobody does it on their own. Everybody needs help. There’s nothing wrong with having government help, and I think if your goal is only to make money, that’s not a worthy goal in and of itself.”
The website Celebrity Net Worth values Buscemi at an estimated $35 million. The site says he receives a salary of $75,000 per episode for his work as the lead character on “Boardwalk Empire,” a pale and generally pointless imitation of The Sopranos.
“The idea that the money would trickle down to the poor is condescending, and doesn’t work,” Buscemi added.
Delving into other areas of politics, the high school graduate and former ice cream van driver took a page out of Thomas Frank’s prosaically liberal book, “What’s the Matter with Kansas?”
“So many working-class people across the country vote against their own interests,” Buscemi explained to his British interviewer. “It all comes down to culture wars: the right has always been able to use abortion and gay marriage, and in the past women’s rights, but all those things are starting to erode. There really isn’t much they can throw up as a smokescreen anymore.”
Buscemi also noted that he is somewhat dissatisfied with President Barack Obama and that he didn’t have his first girlfriend until he was 22.
Good actor, but apparently knows absolutely f**k-all about politics or economics.
See my sig below;
He’s the guy who plays a closet pedophile in a bunch of movies.
Buscemi plays stupiid scum. How surprising that he *is* stupid scum.
F U Donnie..
Stole that one.
"You know what this is, Steve?"
“I hope the writers of Boardwalk are Republicans. :)”
Known Republicans in the entertainment world are described as “unemployed.”
IDIOT!
Their philosophy is pretty much the Republican platform....which the establishment GOP-e clearly articulate at election time, but then return to legislate and behave like a progressive.
I was born and raised near Fargo. We generally tried to avoid wood chipping people -:)
When Steve Buscemi takes acting lessons from Sara Palin and Ted Cruz I will listen to his advice on politics and economics.
So the Old Wood Chipper chimes in, FAIL
He sounds like a guy who would vote for Christie if he ran.
That woodchipper was rigged.
...by keeping everything the same. Yep, that'll do it. Puke.
Oh for the good old days of Fargo when Peter Stormayer shoved this demented linturd into the wood chipper...
Really? He was in Billy Madison, he played the deranged serial killer. That came out in the early 90’s I think.
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