Good morning bloggy friends! I'm still in a cloudy slump, but wanted to put up a Newton post so I found this little piece from a FB friend. It's copied and pasted with permission of course, and you can bookmark the site, it's a good one!
Morning Feature – On MLK Day, Despicable in South Carolina (Nutshell)
On
Martin Luther King Jr. Day, GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich
and the audience put on a despicable display in South Carolina. (More)The subhead of Steve Kornacki’s Salon column The Way to South Carolina’s Heart captured the ugliness on display in last night’s Wall Street Journal-Fox News Republican presidential primary debate:
With one inflammatory appeal to the lowest common denominator after another, Newt steals the showThe New York Times‘ Charles Blow was disturbed enough to post a column at 2:30am that begins:
That’s the way I like to spend my Martin Luther King, Jr. Day: watching Newt Gingrich sneer at Juan Williams, a black man, for having the temerity to ask him if his condescending remarks about the work ethic of poor black people are indeed condescending[.]
Let’s start with Gingrich’s claim that “New York City pays their janitors an absurd amount of money because of the union.”
Both PolitiFact and FactCheck researched that last month and, not surprisingly, Gingrich is wrong. Yes, the starting pay for a custodial engineer is $55,625. But that is Gingrich’s “Master Janitor” position, a supervisory job that involves “hiring, training and supervising custodial staff; doing payroll; and maintaining and doing minor repairs to HVAC, boilers and plumbing.” Starting cleaners make only $15.77/hour, rising to $18.13/hour after two years.
Gingrich said the city could “hire 30 kids to work in the school for the price of one janitor.” The cleaner position is full-time, say 40 hours totaling $725.50/week. Divide that by 30 students, and it works out to $24/week per student. If each worked three hours a day after school, five days a week, each would be paid $1.60/hour. If that sounds familiar, perhaps that’s because it was the minimum wage when you got your first job … forty years ago.
Gingrich then revived his “food stamp president” rhetoric and, when challenged, doubled-down:
The fact is that more people have been put on food stamps by Barack Obama than any president in American history. Now, I know among the politically correct you are not supposed to use facts that are uncomfortable.Never mind that President Obama inherited the Great Recession, caused by policies Gingrich advocated as Speaker in the 1990s. Never mind that two-thirds of food stamp recipients are white, that almost half are working, or that Gingrich opposes raising the minimum wage to help working Americans buy their own food.
Never mind any of that, because Gingrich’s answer wasn’t really about the minimum wage or school janitors or poverty. It was about turning white Americans’ frustration against black and brown Americans, so they won’t ask why Gingrich would give an average tax break of almost $2 million per year to the top 0.1% … and only $100 per month to average working Americans.
Dr. King would have asked that question. So should we all.
19 comments:
Just because two thirds of the food stamp recipients are white that is still not the highest percent of the white community.
although I do agreee that number has increased under Obama's policies. I know it's hard to admit that but facts is facts.
WHAT????/
I love The Root article..
The truth? Of the 46 million people living in poverty in America in 2010, the U.S. census revealed that 31 million were white. Ten million were black. Of the 49 million people without health insurance coverage, 37 million were white; 8 million were African American. Latinos of every race and Asian Americans represented the remaining largest ethnic groups.
The face of poverty in America is overwhelmingly white, but as sociologist and professor William O'Hare explains in a 2009 study on children in poverty, the white American poor, especially those in rural areas, are "forgotten."
It's not terribly disheartening to listen to a scik fcuk like Newt Gingrich spout this incendiary rhetoric. But to hear that audience cheer him on like a hero scared the living shit outta me. Say something mean and stupid about the president. He shoots! He scores! Hurt poor brown people all in the same swipe. Three points! Fucking dumbasses! Then say you want to help poor people own their own businesses! Yay! Champagne all around.
You don't really like him, do you Lisa? Blecch!
Juan Williams makes an interesting character. He thumbed his nose at the broadcast ethics while at NPR causing FOX to sweep him up for a million dollars in a huge publicity stunt. Now his conscience is eating him alive and he finds himself a lone voice of humanity adrift in a sea of monsters.
Someone said this morning, I forget who, the GOP candidates are pandering to the Republiscum base, the base that wants their candidate to kick Obama in the balls.
I still don't get why they hate Obama so much, even to wish him dead! He has been sweet as honey to the fuckface GOP, he wants ALL Americans to prosper, not just Liberals, he has NOT pandered to his base, AND he has NOT raised taxes!!! What more do they want?? A white guy??
It reminds me of the Roman gladiator spectacles. The overfed, selfish republican middle class has definitely given the thumbs down to our beleaguered warrior. "Let him die!" between mouthfuls of food and gulps of wine.
The president does not determine who is eligible for food stamps. Congress does. And when times get bad, and more people are laid off, then automatically there are going to be more people eligible for food stamps.
If we have a record number of food stamp recipients, that is because we are recovering from the worst recession since the program started. And since the recession started under Bush, it would be much more accurate to call Bush the food stamp president.
exactly right Joe!
Newt who scams money from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, (then lies about it), while keeping a $500,000 revolving credit line at Tiffanys who was thrown out of the US congress for both openly scandalous ethical violations, and the ones he hid from us but the dishonest republican party KNEW about, but never told us. This is one reason they threw Newt under the bus in 1998 ... that newt NOW wants to cut off Walmart workers and US soldiers from their food stamps?
Walmart?
YES;
Ohio taxpayers spent more than $67 million "for the year" on food stamps and Medicaid for Wal-Mart workers
* Reliance by Wal-Mart workers on public assistance programs in California comes at a cost to the taxpayers of an estimated $86 million annually; this is comprised of $32 million in health related expenses and $54 million in other assistance.
* The families of Wal-Mart employees in California utilize an estimated 40 percent more in taxpayer-funded health care than the average for families of all large retail employees.
* The families of Wal-Mart employees use an estimated 38 percent more in other (non-health care) public assistance programs (such as food stamps, Earned Income Tax Credit, subsidized school lunches, and subsidized housing) than the average for families of all large retail employees.
Why does Newt hate Walmart workers?
YES even US soldiers
Military Food Stamp Program
More Troops Relying on Food Stamps
Why does Newt HATE the troops who fight for his fat old creepy ass?
Was it because when it was HIS turn in Vietnam, he HID like the rest of the republican chicken hawks?
Yes Newton Leroy Gingrich like Richard Cheney(in his own words, "had other priorities than military service") begged for defermnents.
Typical republican politician hypocrisy ... but having watched Newt practice this style of hypocritical republican politics for decades, I am no longer surprised.
"Newt Gingrich says he wants to get rid of Social Security. Who is more qualified to give this country financial advice than a guy who ran up a half-million dollar bill at Tiffany?" –David Letterman
Who is more qualified to give this country financial advice than a guy who ran up a half-million dollar bill at Tiffany?
The guy who's buddy got him an illegal land deal. Amazing how there is a trail of jail birds in Chicago. No and we are not talking White Water here.
Now if the LA Times would just release that video of that meeting with PLO members we would know "all" of our leader's baggage,but that suitcase has a pad lock on it more secure than Fort Knox.
Who is more qualified to give this country financial advice than a guy who ran up a half-million dollar bill at Tiffany?
Me,
My 15 year old daughter,
Sue,
The last guy to lower the deficit
Flying Junior,
Joe Markowitz,
Leslie Parsley,
Howard Dean,
Bernie Sanders,
Racheal Maddow,
Keith Obermann,
Jon Stewart,
Heck, even my cat wouldn't screw up the countries economy as badly as the ideology of the right wing has the last 30 years;
So according to you if food stamp recipients are mostly white then that moots your point of it being a racist statement.
Oh that's s right it was that guy
The CATO institute,
The Koch created, funded and directed right wing think tank ????????
Bhawahwhahwhahwahwhhwahahahaaaa;
You should do more comedy routines .....
You might have a future in stand up;
Lord knows the right wingers need some people who actually know how to do comedy.
BTW I said LOWER the deficit NOT balance the budget.
Nice try at ignoring the words I posted
But as usual
GOPer EPIC FAIL, at the facts .
whoa.... a
'stupid troll'
... not all that imaginative. or original.
After all the ethical and personal faults of Gingrich, he is not qualified to be a janitor much less President. If you are thrown out by your own party as Speaker of the House, don't you think the that your not qualified to be president? After all the lies he's told, who knows what the truth is.
Newt you are an old school douchebag and shouldn't be anywhere near the Presidency, nor people. Start a non-profit for homeless and hungry famlies to show you at least that you have some compassion for the downtrodden in our society and to make up for the shit storm you personally created these last 20+ years.
Newton the Fig, what an arrogant piece of dog doo doo...Proof the Right hates Obama so much, they actually cheer on a philandering scumbag when he is questioned about his cheating?? These people are so confused I don't know how they get out of bed in the morning!
It's gonna be a great year once the nominee is announced....:)))))
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