Cantor: Today We Celebrate Those Who ‘Earned Their Own Success’

[highplainsdem]

Source: TPM

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor sent out the following tweet to mark Labor Day:

Today, we celebrate those who have taken a risk, worked hard, built a business and earned their own success.
— Eric Cantor (@GOPLeader) September 3, 2012

Read more: http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/cantor-today-we-celebrate-those-who-earned-their

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[liberal N proud]

1. The rich have stolen the true meaning of Labor Day

They have commericalized it and now they want to claim it celebrates what they have done?

[Agnosticsherbet]

2. He seems to be celebrating Capitalist day... n/t

[socialindependocrat]

3. It's called labor day not management day! n/t

[BlueinOhio]

4. What

I thought labor day was for workers.

[high density]

5. Why don't these guys like Cantor and Ryan take a dose of their own medicine

and stop suckling off of the teat of the taxpayers.

[Riley18]

6. Shows Cantor as out of touch or full of crap.

[atreides1]

34. No, it's not "or"!

He is out of touch and full of crap...

[Riley18]

45. Right!

[highplainsdem]

7. Link to the History of Labor Day on the Department of Labor's website:

http://www.dol.gov/opa/aboutdol/laborday.htm

Funny, I don't see anything there about building businesses, but I do see a lot about unions and workers.

[Viva_Daddy]

8. Next thing you know, they'll be taking credit for their own births...dissing women again!

[wordpix]

9. yeah, I started a business, too, Cantor

In 2009, right after your 8-year illegal prezeldent left office. I've been working my ass off and paying the bills, but it's no million dollar success story. A lot of people who want and need my services just can't pay for them, and I charge a very reasonable rate.

[cyclezealot]

19. You should be the real voice of business.

Without a vibrant work force making products( wealth) Capitalism is sunk. Mexico has a vibrant business tradition . Selling Chiclets on street corners. But, without demand Capitalism will self destruct.

[JDPriestly]

37. I did the same thing. Fortunately, I got out before too late.

I offered great services, charged very, very little, but discovered due to the kind of work I was doing that my clients/customers were earning too little to pay even the lowest price around (which is what I charged) for my services.

It is heartbreaking when you know you are really good, and you know people need your services but you also know that you cannot provide them for what you customers or clients can pay.

[bucolic_frolic]

10. ... by exploiting labor.

Any businessman will tell you how much they value their employees.

You bet they do.

They won't hire you unless you bring more profit to their business
than they pay you. Why would they do otherwise?

You put profit in their business, then you go and buy their product
and put more profit into it.

Then they get government tax breaks.

It is insane not to have your own business. Most people don't understand
that.

Labor is exploited, that's the nature of the system. Everyone should
own some small business of their own as a way of self-preservation,
a profit center for themselves.

[madaboutharry]

11. Eric Cantor is a disgrace of a human being.

[elbloggoZY27]

12. What a Sham

How about the millions of hard working men and women who lost their jobs and Congress did absolutely nothing but punted. My late Uncle started his own business right after he came back from being a soldier in WW II and lost the business due to foreign competition.

Also, thanks for freezing the salaries of Federal Employees.


Oh! and by the way small business does not create jobs or wealth, it is or was large corporations who do not exist anymore like the Steel Industry or Ship Builders.

My advice for this Labor Day Holiday and when Congress returns to Washington DC you actually do something positive for every United States Citizen out of work and pass a real Jobs Bill and drop the word NO.

[alarimer]

13. I have I mentioned today how much I hate these people.

I hate Republicans, I HATE them.

Got to hell, you scumsucker.

Nobody earns their own success. They earn it on the backs of everyone who has come before them. Those who build the roads, serve the coffee, build the buildings, work in emergency rooms, type the memos, all those things people like Cantor refuse to do.

[SoapBox]

16. Me too!

Thank you for saying that.

I'm so over being "nice" to the GOPathetics and Baggers.

[Bossy Monkey]

14. And here I was thinking it was to get people to forget about Haymarket

Apparently, it succeeded.

[SoapBox]

15. As a SMALL business owner...

we've never gotten shit for "help".

The help that we need, is protections from the Banksters and CC companies. Those fees! We actually have no problem with a business license or property taxes. Those big, bad regulations from the Feds? Hell, what bad regulations?!? Oh, I guess the Bullies mean the rules that try to prevent employees from losing a hand in a cutting machine! Gee...ain't those some horrible rules!

We've closed two locations, primarily because of the massive rent increases from the landlords. Would they work with us? Hell NO! At least we can laugh that one sat empty over a year and the other is STILL empty after about 1.75 years! FU to both of those bastards.

EVERYTHING has gone up in cost...power, phones, supplies and stock we need to produce, CC processing fees, bank fees...BUT what hasn't really changed are the payroll tax type stuff. Actually Jerry Brown here in CA just got a Workers Comp change through that we are hopeful will lower our premiums...thank you Jerry!

We just wish, that when the SS tax for the employees was reduced, that they would have done the same for the employers...that would have given us, the owners, a break.

Pinhead Cantor? STFU! You've not done SHIT for us!

p.s...all that small business crap. The Bully and Bagger Party hasn't a clue. If you are a business that clears $250,000/year OR has 50, 60, 70 employees, you are NOT a "small" business. Period. Small business is the husband and wife owning and working a sandwich shop...or the husband and wife in our area that, with a couple of employees have a pizza parlor. We have 4 employees...we are damned small.

GOPathetics and Baggers...you don't know what the hell you are spewing about...it's all lies.

[judesedit]

17. The asshole doesn't even give the people who worked and made it all happen an ounce of credit

What a loser!

[bluesbassman]

18. Like that's not a divisive statement. A slap in the face to every American who works for a paycheck.

How any wage earning American could think that the Republicans have one whit of concern for them is a mystery to me.

[SoapBox]

20. Funny...

On Think Progress, they just posted a story with the title:

"On Labor Day, GOP Leadership Celebrates Management"

http://thinkprogress.org/

regarding Pinhead's tweet.

[Aristus]

21. You didn't build it, you fucknozzle!

Organized labor did!

[all american girl]

22. Hey Cantor....how did that owner get that success....

EMPLOYEES....screw yourself.

[Nedsdag]

23. And how have YOU "earned your own success," Mr. Cantor?

When did YOU last work in the private sector?

Do tell.

[VPStoltz]

24. Can I just say, "I hate these self-righteous pricks!"

[Turbineguy]

25. Dumbass!

[proud patriot]

26. Oh mudcat did hear what he said?

this should be fun

[underpants]

27. Cantor was hand picked by Bliley to follow him

Give it a rest Eric.

[bucolic_frolic]

28. What a pompous ......

he might have gotten a few to agree with him if he celebrated

"the job creators"

but no, it's self-centered, their OWN success

and only those who have a business.

Vote him out of office!

[Kingofalldems]

29. To anyone who labors for someone else:

Republicans hate you.

[jsr]

30. So Labor Day is to honor Job Creators only

Another lying asshole. Figures.

[chelsea0011]

31. That is not why we celebrate Labor Day, but thanks for playing.

The people that built that building you work in, the people that clean up that smelly shit hole of an office for you, the people that make and serve food the cafeteria, the people that drive you around, the people that protect you with security, and many other thousands yiou come in contact with on a daily basis,.....those are the people that Labor was founded on. That learn some history.

[drynberg]

32. HEY CANTOR

I'm afraid that's not even close, Eric. We are celebrating LABOR DAY, not 1% day you dumbass! You see, you lackey, workers actually WORK and their labor makes $$$ for the fat cats, you looser, you are not even close to correct. One might think that you foamed on just to kissass of your money boys. That's even worse, much worse, than being very wrong. You are a sad little crumb who will be remembered very little in history books of the future, except for a sad little footnote about what a kissass you were...

[livetohike]

33. He doesn't know much about history, does he?

Or anything else. What a waste of space.

[truthisfreedom]

35. Wow. I didn't realize they could come up with a way to both steal the Labor Day holiday and offend

every laborer in the process. Kinda magical. What a piece of living shit.

[RoccoR5955]

36. Where would these bass turds be if the people who actually worked for a living

just didn't show up any more?
How the hell would "those who have taken a risk" make ANYTHING?

[libodem]

38. Oh, fuck you

You're a douchebag.

[Zoeisright]

39. Fuck you Cantor

You little weasel.

Apologies to weasels.

[LongTomH]

40. The latest from Bizarro World!

The Republican version of reality!!!!!!

[Major Hogwash]

41. Hahahaha!!!!!! Cantor has no clue what real working men and women do for a living.

He may have read a book or watched a movie about it, but he has hands that have never seen a blister or a callus before in his whole misbegotten life!!!

What a loon!

[Ken Burch]

42. ...not celebrating Mitt, then, is he?

btw...did Cantor earn HIS own success while working at the family firm?

[King_Klonopin]

43. My God! What a total FUCKHEAD!!!!!!

In summary:

Hurray!! for Boeing and Caterpillar and Donny Trump.

Fuck you !! to all the people who built the planes of WWII,
the heavy equipment farmers use to grow our food, and all
the people who clean the rooms at Trump Plaza. You Suck !!!

I would love to see someone give his smug face a bitchslap.


Vote Quimby.

[lunatica]

44. He's full of hate

His life must be miserable when all he does is think up ways to insult people he doesn't even know.

[pink-o]

46. Listening to this pissant little schlemiel....

Compels me to pull out my checkbook and donate to Wayne Powell.

[MFrohike]

47. He's accidentally right

Labor Day honors those who took risks (organizing for decent pay and conditions), worked hard (in backbreaking industries for the most part), built a business (if the workers don't make it, you ain't selling it), and earned their own success (Wagner Act, National Labor Relations Act, a slew of court decisions, better pay, benefits, conditions, etc.). Cheers to Eric for getting it right even if he didn't know it.