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Rep. Jesse Jackson Calls on Government to Hire All Unemployed Americans for $40,000 Each
Foxnews.com ^ | October 14, 2011 | FN

Posted on 10/14/2011 6:51:13 PM PDT by fight_truth_decay

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To: fight_truth_decay

You gonna pay for it Jessie.


41 posted on 10/14/2011 7:27:28 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: ken21

Thats not a livable wage. OWS wants 41600 a year.

A mule? what for? does it change the tv channels?

Wheres the land, house and free cable?

/s

Hey Jesse.. who is going to pay for this?


42 posted on 10/14/2011 7:28:58 PM PDT by cableguymn
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To: I see my hands

do I have to go in? Will they just send me a check?

Auto deposit?

do you know the price of gas?


43 posted on 10/14/2011 7:32:53 PM PDT by hadaclueonce ("Endeavor to persevere.")
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To: fight_truth_decay

Ok... he’s on crack again.....


44 posted on 10/14/2011 7:33:14 PM PDT by LaineyDee (Don't mess with Texas wimmen!)
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To: doc1019
I thought idiocy jumped a generation?

It does. Sr. is only a moron.

45 posted on 10/14/2011 7:36:13 PM PDT by dartuser ("If you are ... what you were ... then you're not.")
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To: IMR 4350

Figured JR was running for something:

Jesse Jackson Jr., Debbie Halvorson face off in Illinois race.

“Halvorson, a former congresswoman, effectively declared the congressman a failure and a foot soldier for President Barack Obama. An airport project Jackson’s been pushing for years — a major source of their rivalry — is going nowhere, Halvorson charged.”

“He’s been working on something for 15 years that hasn’t even really gotten started,” Halvorson told POLITICO. “I’m a person who can walk and chew gum at the same time. People want to have a choice in this primary. They want somebody strong enough who’s gonna give them a real fight, and that’s me.”

“Jackson, who’s been in Congress since he won a 1995 special election, has more reason to worry than ever before. Chicago Democratic insiders agree that having his name dragged into former Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s scheme to sell Obama’s Senate seat left some serious political scars, although Jackson was never charged with anything. Reports late last year of Jackson’s extramarital affair didn’t help, even though he and his wife, a Chicago city alderwoman, stayed together.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/65569.html#ixzz1aoUiW1Bx


46 posted on 10/14/2011 7:37:36 PM PDT by fight_truth_decay
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To: dartuser

Good point. ROFLMAO!


47 posted on 10/14/2011 7:37:49 PM PDT by doc1019 (You do not need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to skydive twice.)
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To: GLDNGUN
This IS satire...right?

I thought so too, but apparently not.

48 posted on 10/14/2011 7:41:15 PM PDT by calex59
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To: fight_truth_decay
My idea, based on the grimy looks of government owned structures in Portland and the numbers of wandering unemployed/homeless, is $25 a day, 3 squares(boxed jail food), and 2 Trimet tickets....double the pay for team leaders. Which one do you think the progressives and unions would favor? Rhetorical question...the answer is obvious. #3-$50k a year, free medical, free bus passes, union membership, 30 days sick leave year, etc. etc.
49 posted on 10/14/2011 7:42:18 PM PDT by crazyhorse691 (Obama is just the symptom of what is destroying the U.S.)
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To: fight_truth_decay

everyone working for less than 40K would quit to get the do-nothing government jobs.

This could easily collapse the economy


50 posted on 10/14/2011 7:44:26 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: fight_truth_decay

The funny part is there are a lot of idiots that will vote for him again believing they are going to get $40,000 if they do.


51 posted on 10/14/2011 7:45:47 PM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: kingu

JR is in his last ditch attempt to buy votes from the very same Chicago folks Obama had believing they would have their mortgages paid and their car payments made—and he is much “cuter” than Obama. Worked once before. And if their 40K job does not come through, then blame it on those evil Republicans, the Tea Party, Rush, Fox...Hank Williams Jr..Wall Street Bankers..the Rich..oh forgot Bush!


52 posted on 10/14/2011 7:46:54 PM PDT by fight_truth_decay
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To: kingu

JR is in his last ditch attempt to buy votes from the very same Chicago folks Obama had believing they would have their mortgages paid and their car payments made—and he is much “cuter” than Obama. Worked once before. And if their 40K job does not come through, then blame it on those evil Republicans, the Tea Party, Rush, Fox...Hank Williams Jr..Wall Street Bankers..the Rich..oh forgot Bush!


53 posted on 10/14/2011 7:47:08 PM PDT by fight_truth_decay
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To: fight_truth_decay

“40k would mean minumum wage would have to go up to pacify the already “working” Americans!”


Great point.


54 posted on 10/14/2011 7:51:22 PM PDT by Mears
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To: albionin

EX-ACTLY! No way the unions would stand for 40,000 per year jobs.Remember Davis-Bacon? The union thugs would crack the skulls of anyone who undermined their fat wages.


55 posted on 10/14/2011 7:52:51 PM PDT by boop ("Let's just say they'll be satisfied with LESS"... Ming the Merciless)
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To: fight_truth_decay

Also a mansion und a yacht.


56 posted on 10/14/2011 7:56:23 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: boop

Funny you should bring that up was just reading...

September 12, 2011

The Cato Institute’s Chris Edwards highlights a controversial new decision by the Labor Department to apply pro-union Davis-Bacon rules to the CityCenter development project going up in Washington, D.C. “While Democrats in Congress are demanding government action to fix the nation’s supposedly crumbling infrastructure,” Edwards writes, “here the Obama administration has thrown up a new hurdle to investment.”
http://reason.com/blog/2011/09/12/davis-bacon-in-dc-the-obama-ad


57 posted on 10/14/2011 8:00:21 PM PDT by fight_truth_decay
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To: Java4Jay

Good grief! I wish I hadn’t looked at that video.

JJJ is even nuttier than his dad—and I didn’t think that was possible......


58 posted on 10/14/2011 8:00:58 PM PDT by basil (It's time to rid the country of "gun free zones" aka "Killing Fields")
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To: SHOOT THE MOON bat

Hey, do the math.

Every welfare mama with two bastiges costs the taxpayers over $100K per year.

I’m all for this idea. Kick their butts off Section 8, stop the food stamps, stop the Medicaid, stop the energy assistance, stop the SSI for having stupid kids who won’t read because they were not read to as tots!

The welfare class COULD NOT MAKE IT ON $40K/YEAR per “family”!

As it stands now in “Allbenny”, the projects are chock full of leased two to four year old BMWs, newly leased Altimas, and seven year old Escalades on RENTED 24” rims.

I mean, what ARE you going to spend your welfare check for when your rent is paid, utilities are paid, food is taxpayer funded (plus your kids get ten meals a week free at school) and your health care expenses are fully paid?

Hey, go get a nice ride, manicures, plasma screens, hairdos, phones, bling, pot, crack, liquor, China-made clothes......

We could pay for it out of existing assistance money and have three fifths of it left over!


59 posted on 10/14/2011 8:11:42 PM PDT by noprogs (Borders, Language, Culture....all should be preserved)
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To: GeronL
It would be like “The Day After” scenario—

Drives to the take out window of McDonalds
Cheeseburger and fries, please?..silence...Hello?

At Wal Mart..Where's the friendly greeter, shelves are understocked..
At the Supermarket...food rotting, shelves empty and unstocked..self checkout.

Where is Everybody??? [Pin drops somewhere]

60 posted on 10/14/2011 8:11:55 PM PDT by fight_truth_decay
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