Another example of an out there legislator

and once again it happens to be a republican. Personally I'm not all that happy with Obama's two terms but Brenda Barton's comparing him to Hitler is imbecilic. I might not even be bothered to start this thread but along with this idiotic attack on the POTUS we find out that all of our National Parks Service employees are 'thugs'. This is a common epithet these days that right wing types commonly use against working people and union workers in particular. Apparently she expects that these people should work for free--defy what their supervisors say and keep the parks open. No doubt she thinks she 'pays their salaries' with 'her taxes' ergo she's 'their employer'. As a former postal employee I found it downright hilarious the odd time someone called me a thug just because I was a member of APWU. It's as if on joining the union I got a pair of Doc Martens, shin and elbow pads, a switchblade and a spiked baseball bat and began terrorizing the streets of my hometown knowing I had some kind of immunity from prosecution just because...well anyway now that I'm retired I turned all that shit back in.

http://www.news.yahoo.com/arizona-de-fuhrer-barton-obama-134942788.html

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Compared to perfection Obama smells of shit.

Compared to (fill in the blank republican elected official) Obama is reminiscent of the second part of the Trinity.

High IQ demonstrated: 'Compared to perfection Obama smells of shit.' It's literature itself.

I have a lot of issues with President Obama; however, the mandated by Congress shutdown of Federal Parks isn't one of them.

lriley, go listen to Billy Bragg's There is Power in a Union. It'll make you feel better. Or at least less like the lone human being who thinks the worker is of any value at all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TImbf8AoWTI

And what is it with Arizona?

I wonder sometimes what people have done or are doing for their livings when they show this sense of superiority--how removed they are from sewer workers, garbagemen, pizza delivery people? who I'm sure make their rounds in their very own neighborhoods--even if those neighborhoods are gated. This again is a problem with (or for) the republicans--they are less and less inclusive of others--they'd rather build their own private antiseptic utopias. It's also a problem for the rest of us if we only have two viable political parties and one is determined to drive away all the wrong people--blacks, hispanics, gays moslems and anyone fighting for fairness whether it's gender rights, civil rights or rights in the workplace.

Those on top of the economic food chain looking down on those below them as some kind of servant or potential servant class or lazy good for nothings or peasants with pitchforks out to loot, rapine and murder might want to start thinking some day of getting over themselves. Contempt for those with less wealth is a too common human frailty that does nothing to advance the species. Just another reason we need our country to share its wealth more than it has.

At least you have discovered the best coping mechanism: Maqroll!

Calvinism at its finest; since you're poor, you are clearly morally inferior, and most likely inferior in other ways as well. Questioning your betters, let alone defying them, is not merely a social offense, but a heretical act, defying God's Will as to your proper behavior and station.

Instead of being honored that one of your superiors has even bothered to take notice of you, albeit in a negative way, you have the gall to be offended? You should fall to your knees and beg God not to smite you for your sin of Pride, which is not only a sin, but one you haven't the slightest pretension to truly have.

Now, stop hitting me and stop trying to make me look like an arrogant, ignorant SOB, and get back to your unpaid labor, stat!

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It is my belief that the contempt, for the worker bee, stems from a desire to justify a huge disparity.
The more that the top feels a need to take the greater the need to make it look as if the top is somehow deservinh of so much less. While incomes and financial status will never be equal, nor do I think they should be, there is little to justify making 500 per cent more than one's employees. Unless of course there is something wrong with the employees.

>8 BruceCoulson: There was a study at Berkeley a little while ago that suggests that merely having money tends to make you more unethical than not having money:

http://www.visualnews.com/2013/07/12/do-rich-people-behave-more-unethically-than...

The video is interesting, because it makes the point that the behavior has less to do with class or culture, and more to do with the mere possession of money. And that the behavioral changes even show up when playing "money" games like Monopoly.

In Arizona we have ALWAYS had some uh "dumb Republicans"; it's in the Colorado river water? I dunno. "Ev Mecham's revenge"?

(However I DO believe the fault lies NOT in the river but in the TEA...)

Oh, geez. Ev Mecham. He won an election, guys. I thought the Loan Arranger or his assistant Carlotta Sales would have been better choices.

Well it was a three way remember. And then AZ got it out of its system?

Well then along comes Joe huh.

And THE most interesting aspect per Mecham's impeachment and removal was that it was the REPUBLICANS that really did it; Ted Cruz?..