What's really sad is that measure, like all measures that benefit anyone who is an actual human being instead of a corporation, is being fought tooth and nail.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/09/politics/john-kasich-get-over-it-social-security/index.htmlHoly Hell, speaking of which.... We're cutting your social security and "Get over it." But, we need more corporate tax breaks, of course and how couldn't you support that.
"He asked audience members to raise their hands if they were far from receiving Social Security, asked them if they knew yet what their initial benefit would be and then asked them if they would be bothered if it were a little lower for the good of the country.
One person said it would be a problem.
"Well, you'd get over it, and you're going to have to get over it," Kasich joked. "
Once again, the average person is getting totally screwed, but more corporate welfare.... If we don't pander to the companies offshoring our jobs and lowering the quality of the ones we have here, then all hell will break loose, but those benefits you worked for all our lives are going to be cut and screw you too. Really? And my favorite part "for the good of the country?" Wow. it's patriotic for actual people to do with less, but corporations of course get more and drop dead if you disagree? Screwing you over is going to be policy and yes "young people" it's a slow boiling of you:
He initially said young people would see "a lot" lower benefit, before correcting himself to say perhaps not "a lot," but some amount.
Yup... Screwing you is the GOP policy, unless you not only are a company but have INC after your name and are large and buying lobbyists and legislatures. Nice....
"You're on Medicare and you want me to ignore the fact that it's going broke, you're not going to like me," he told the audience, adding later, "I'd rather have people be in a position where they're aggravated with me so I can accomplish something, than have them love me and accomplish nothing, OK. I'm not there to run a popularity contest.""
Amazing. He flat out doesn't give a shit what you think about him robbing you of what you paid for and what was deducted from your paycheck your whole damn life. Politicians and corrupt businesses robbed us of our retirement system's solvency and we're screwed, and it's awesome that we're gonna get screwed and vote for him BECAUSE of it. Yes, Mr Kasich you actually are running a popularity contest, because that is what an election is. An election is a popularity contest and you're pretty much telling the electorate to go screw itself as, of all things, a selling point for why they should vote for you. Nobody wants to ignore the fact that entitlement programs we paid for all our lives are going broke, we want a solution to keep them from going broke, not an execution of them.
Death by a thousand cuts is still death (of the programs we paid for).
And note how he doesn't give a shit what you think and essentially says you're taking a massive pay cut and doesn't care what you think of him but I wonder what he says to his corporate taskmasters? Somehow I think he panders to them a bit more, which is to say "at all."
We're being sold out.
This guy is that completely out of touch Bill Lumberg boss who doesn't give the slightest of shits that he's cutting your pay and you are the problem and simply need to "get over" it....
People want to elect that, and call Bernie Sanders insane for saying the opposite even though he's the only chance you have at not being screwed?
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http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/10/08/why-there-nothing-outrageous-about-urban-outfitters-request-for-free-work/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews%2Fnational+%28Internal+-+US+Latest+-+Text%29And of course here's Fox News saying it's wonderful to work for your corporate taskmasters, slave, and contradicting everything we all know is true about coercion and forced labor (you'll be fired if you don't and we know it, they even say "part of the job"). They're just moving towards partial and if they can get away with it later, total slave labor (internships *cough*).
Not surprised. There is everything wrong with this. They can totally afford to pay people, jesus, at least minimum wage for this and there are a ton of people looking for jobs. Boycott.