Wisconsin GOP Senate Candidate Eric Hovde was chattin’ up some boys at the local Chamber of Commerce when he arrived at the real problem with today’s economic reporting: can you believe all these people whining about starving to death in the recession? How is that “news”? If people want food, they should just stop being lazy and get food. Now let’s “reset” the national economic conversation back to where it belongs, castigating the public for its irrational hatred of synthetic collateralized debt obligations.
We honestly hadn’t thought there was a glut of national media stories examining hard times for the working poor following the economic collapse of the century; there’s the occasional A27 blurb that mentions mass starvation, but only as part of an argument about why capital gains should be taxed at zero percent. Yet for Hovde, the papers read like Pravda*:
During the Q&A portion of the event, Hovde expressed his support for lowering the corporate tax rate, tackling the country’s spending problems and lowering the national debt.
Then, pointing to a reporter in the audience, Hovde said he would love to see the press stop covering sad stories about low-income individuals who can’t get benefits and start covering issues like the deficit more frequently.
“I see a reporter here,” he said. “I just pray that you start writing about these issues. I just pray. Stop always writing about, ‘Oh, the person couldn’t get, you know, their food stamps or this or that.’ You know, I saw something the other day — it’s like, another sob story, and I’m like, ‘But what about what’s happening to the country and the country as a whole?’ That’s going to devastate everybody.”
One day, just one day maybe, we’ll see someone working at any mainstream news outlet — perhaps a reasonable centrist at the Washington Post or New York Times who misses the days of bipartisanship, of Tip and Ronnie fightin’ all day and then going out for a drink, of Newt and Bill ending welfare — advocate for lowering the corporate tax rate. But probably not in this lifetime.
[HuffPo]
* — I’m so, so sorry
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‘But what about what’s happening to the country and the country as a whole?’
No, wait, this makes sense!
People starve to death one at a time, but a cut in the corporate tax rate to zero affects all the rich people at the same time! That means it's bigger news!
A micro solution to a macro problem.
Pravda
Question: Do Pravda's shoes match their handbags?
Needs more "Eat the Rich".
Tastier than hot pockets!
Soylent Greenbacks.
WWJD? He'd want you to PRAY that billionaires pay less in taxes. DUH?!?!?!
OT , just received this is an email and wanted to share. Maybe it's made the rounds already, and I missed it.
"The Motherfucking Pterodactyl" – Sarah Donner and The Oatmeal
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Give them this day
Our daily bread.
Here's my review of Hovde's economic policy:
"Zhil-bil korol kogda-to, pree nyom blokha zhila" – It stinks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZR1gSvnOI0
I'm sooo sick of reading this first story I've ever read about Eric Horvde, douchenozzle-at-large…
And I thought I was old getting the Pravda reference…
One can never refer to Lehrer often enough.
Really. Where are these people-things hatched, manufactured, podded?
In the Bain Romneybot factory in China.
Yes, keep praying about that, because, as Jesus said "Whatever you did for one of the least of these budget deficit stories, you did for me."
I, for one, would like to see less stories about Syria and more stories about side boobs.
I, for one, would just like to see more side boob.
I, for one, would like to see more boobs period.
There's gonna be male stripper movie soon. I just pray the media starts writing about this. I just pray.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1915581/
Will there be side testes?
Just read HuffPost exclusively and you should be ok.
Pics or GTFO!
When will this fad play out and we move on to more important things? Like underboob?
‘But what about what’s happening to the country and the country as a whole?’
Why, they're ignoring the fuck out of it, that's what.
“I see a reporter here,” he said….."and I want to paint it black."
Yeah, why doesn't our media waste even more time yammering about the non-issue of the deficit that they're constantly going on and on about instead of every great once in a while mentioning that class actually exists in America?
Plus we don't have enough bombs to protect ourselves from the messicans, so write about that too you 'freakin pencil jockeys. Jeeze.
"…. pencil jockeys"
He he. Old school.
Everyone who works for the LSM uses crayons these days. Primary-colored crayons to boot.
But what about what’s happening to the country and the country as a whole?
Um, many hundreds of thousands of people can't get benefits or food stamps?
Silly Annie, by country, he means CEOs and NASCAR team owners.
Oh, just the job makers! Well, I hear that they are buying more Gucci and less Prada. Tragic, really.
He means the landed gentry. And the robber barons.
Everybody knows that if those poors would study the bible more, sell their blood, a kidney or a kid, whatever, and give the money to the church, then God would give them more Hobo beans.
I find your proposal, modest as it is, interesting and would like to know if there is a newsletter or perhaps a website I might subscribe to.
“I just pray that you start writing about these issues. I just pray. Stop always writing about, ‘Oh, the person couldn’t get, you know, their food stamps or this or that.’
See people! The American nuns really need to STFU about the poorz because they give Hovde a case of the sadz.
American nuns need to STFU because they are supposed to be concentrating on preventing gay marriage or feminism. That's what the Vatican says, anyway. None of this "help the needy" bullshit that these harlots have been peddling for years.
Hopefully the media will stop writing about him.
"‘But what about what’s happening to the country and the country as a whole?’ That’s going to devastate everybody.”"
Funny … I don't remember him saying that when Shrub started two wars and gave a tax cut that bankrupted the country. Perhaps I missed that.
Why isn't this guy in Gov. Walker's cabinet already?
He looks like he's coming out of Walker's closet instead.
Yeah he's right! Remember all those Sally Struthers ads on late night TV when you were busy getting drunk and watching the late movie? Or how about that depressing USA for Africa was? What did We Are the World do besides get played on the radio till I wanted to puke? And don't get me started on these new Sarah McLachlan ads with the depressing abused puppies. Fucken' A Bubba. You preach on about depressing shit being reported due to its relevance!
Wait till he gets a load of the "It Gets Better" campaign.
Don't forget that touchy-feely treacle of Hands Across America.
It was a great day, A GREAT DAY, in America when that flopped.
Indeed. "Hand Jobs Across America" would have been a better choice.
"And, come to think of it, when is that Charles Dickens going to write a story telling the plight of the managers of debtors' prisons?!"
Charles Dickens = massive commie homo, obvs.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. But it was best for the 1%, so that's all she wrote about that. Time to execute another poor!
Some of Hovde's best friends are Mitt Romney?
Hey, I've got news for you. Mitt and Eric are people too! Well, or so I'm told.
Was it not Jesus who taught us that while we would always have the poor the health of the free market was on our shoulders.
Yes. I believe the quote is, "It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for a poor person to enter heaven". Or words to that effect. I'm paraphrasing.
"Luke 16:19-25 "There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. And at his gate lay a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who longed to satisfy his hunger with what fell from the rich man's table; even the dogs would come and lick his sores. The poor man died and was carried away by the angels to be with Abraham. The rich man also died and was buried.
In Hell, where he was being tormented, he looked up and saw Abraham far away with Lazarus by his side. He called out, 'Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am in agony in these flames.' But Abraham said, 'Child, remember that during your lifetime you received your good things, and Lazarus in like manner evil things; but now he is comforted here, and you are in agony." Which is apparently what Jesus said.
See, so rich people are taking all the money in order to save the poor from going to Hell.
The rich deserve a medal, they do.
STOP REMINDING ME ABOUT POOR PEOPLE!!!
Yeah, it's not like they have ID's and can still vote…
Go back to Scandinavia ya fuckwad!
He's right. I was watching a documentary on the holocaust. NOT ONE freakin' smile amongst all those skinny Jews. It was exhausting to watch…I mean, lighten up you depressing bastards.
Do you realize how many Americans would die to be that skinny?
American jews?
You'd think they could look at what was happening to Germany AS A WHOLE, not just the victims, you know? Like, what was the Nazi party up to? Were they having fun? Did they go to the beach in the summer? Were they busy creating jobs? Of course they were – building ovens. These are the things that the liberal press conveniently ignored.
Concentration camps are people, my friend.
Let them eat corporate tax rate cuts !!
Less fattening than hot pockets!
And the Lord said unto them
"Do not let yourself be troubled by the poor,
For they are a drag on the economy,
So fuck them.
But do cast your thoughts upon the lowly corporation,
Which may have to pay some taxes this year,
Despite being job creators,
For they are truly the most blessed in my eyes,
And shall have mastery over the Earth
and all of its wealth."
First Book of Koch, Chap. 4, Verse 12-18.
And the Lord did grin…
"The Teapartitudes"
BREAKING: "Man Bites Dog"
Eating Korean tonight, are we?
Nah, I'm fixin' to wolf down some greasy Indian food.
Oh, so you heard Sarah Palin's RightOnline speech?
Hokey smoke!
Starving children give delicate job creators the vapors. One must always be careful so as not to alarm or annoy them. Always do their bidding without question or delay and do not even look them in the eye.
You may be able to get a copy, if you live somewhere like, oh, I don't know, Chicago, or some place the libraries haven't been purged, but there is this book called Hard Times, by Studs Terkel. It's about where we are headed with Mr. Hovde's kind of deep thoughts on the economy.
During the Q&A portion of the event, Hovde expressed his support for lowering the corporate tax rate, tackling the country’s spending problems and lowering the national debt.
Because nothing cuts the deficit like lowering taxes. Maybe if we just put a tax on shit that doesn't make any sense we could fix our fuckin' deficit problem.
Tax things that don't make sense?
Why we could pay for universal healthcare with the script to Prometheus!
NASA Mars program funded by Pam Gellar.
A Fassbinder robot of my very own would definitely improve my mental & physical health, fwiw.
"If people want food, they should just stop being lazy and get food."
Yeah, like those black looters in New Orleans after Katrina. They should have bleached their skins and gone out to "find food" instead of stealing it.
"Stop always writing about, ‘Oh, the person couldn’t get, you know, their food stamps or this or that.’ You know, I saw something the other day — it’s like, another sob story, and I’m like…"
Who writes his teleprompter? Sarah Palin?
I hear 13 year old girls in line at the Orange Julius talk like that about Big Time Rush.
"‘But what about what’s happening to the country and the country as a whole?’ That’s going to devastate everybody.”
What's happening to the country is that more people are on food stamps than ever…and while luxuries are expensive, pitchforks and torches are not.
Future devastation trumps current devastation.
If you're non-blah.
He's right. The media doesn't cover the plight of the rich enough. I'm going to go to TMZ or maybe People Magazine and complain about that.
AND ALL THESE HOMELESS PEOPLE!!! WHY CAN'T THEY JUST GO HOME???
And all that whining about cancer. Why don't these people just suffer silently and die while we count our money? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/18/richard-…
If there were more Washington DC cocktail parties and dinner parties then the media would finally be fixed again.
It is Wisconsin after all, let the poors eat surplus cheese!
‘But what about what’s happening to the country and the country as a whole?’
Yeah, and what about all of the country? And the entire country? And the country too, also?
Spoken like a man who plans to suckle off the government teat for the rest of his life. Hypocrisy, thy name is tea Party.
I think he meant this country as a hole. As in smoking crater; these fuckers aren't going to stop until they've wrecked everything.
Question: do "bread riots" count as 'another sob story', or is it more liek something that happens to the country as a whole?
If these bald-headed cueballs want to get a job, they should, like grow their hair down to their knees.
Don't, uh, get a haircut, hippies!!!
Somebody should tell Paul Ryan's boyfriend to STFU and go back to what he does best. Which is to say, fellating Paul Ryan.
I want to see stories about stupid, handsome GOP politicians been ripped to pieces and eaten by starving wolves.
Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day.
Give a man an smug, overfed Republican assHovde , and he'll eat for a week.
That's the problem with dead children in the street: if you don't step over them, you might trip and hurt yourself. Let's try to maintain perspective here.
“I see a reporter here,” he said. “I just pray that you start writing about these issues."
Um, praying to a reporter? Really? This guy is a Darwin Award waiting to happen…
Yes, brother, and I pray you will get a flat tire in Watts one fine Saturday night around midnight.
It's like all those people who are starving in Africa: they live where there isn't any food! If they just had the gumption to get up and move to some place that has food, say Iowa, they wouldn't be starving!!!
Real Americans® throw away more food than those people eat! Get with the program, Africans!
I would like to see a "walk through rich neighborhood day" celebration. Not an organized march or anything. Just a stroll, at dusk, with a few hundred of your closest friends, along the tree lined streets of your average rich, white, over privileged boulevard.
When did i get blipped into this alternate reality………………..?
Bloody Poor's.
Always using their high ranking social status to hog all the headlines.
Wish I could be poor so I could get that kind of attention.
Somehow, I figured his commercials glorifying the money his father made (a la Bobby Newport) was going to lead us here.
There's only enough room on this planet for one John Tesh.
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