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Thursday, December 22, 2011

Rick Perry Thinks Everyday America Is "A Rat Hole"

Earlier today Republican Presidential hopeful Rick Perry declared that stimulus in the form of a continued payroll tax cut for Americans who work for a living and continued support for unemployed Americans in the midst of unprecedented joblessness is "putting [money] down a rat hole." Needless to say, he went on to imply that providing still more free money in the form of tax cuts, deregulation, and subsidies to the rich assholes who tanked our economy and who alone in all America are not suffering from its ongoing devastation is supporting "Job Creators."

As a candidate Rick Perry is going nowhere, of course, but his statements today are worth notice in their absolute GOP typicality. They are not at all remote, for example, from the Republican "moderate" (many decry him as a liberal!) front-runner Mitt Romney's weird recent Red-baiting escapades: for example, Romney's fulminations that increasing by just four percent the rate at which the rich are taxed, or comments that maybe, just maybe, CEOs should make thirty times more than average employees rather than three hundred times more represents a communist plot to impose absolute homogeneous equality on the general population.

Just to re-cap, though, today Rick Perry (not so long ago the GOP's savior flavor of the month) has declared, in a nutshell: [one] that the basic economic literacy of Obama's tax proposals and his introduction of the least bit of fairness into the discussion of these proposals represent, and I'm quoting, "Messed Up Priorities"; [two] that Americans who work for a living are rats living in a "rathole"; [three] that civilization depends on the creative genius of our rich asshole overlords, who are the real "Job Creators," all evidence to the contrary notwishstanding, and also, [four] On your knees, ingrates! (well, that part was implied).

Today's Republican Party, ladies and gentlemen.

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