We have the teabaggers caterwauling about taxes. Where are the people screaming for jobs?

[Stinky The Clown]

It is utterly stunning that we hear ordinary (but willfully ignorant) people screaming about taxes and tax cuts that will never benefit them, yet we never seem to hear from people looking for jobs.

The media's stranglehold on this country is amazing.

[dkf]

1. If you rabble rouse as you are looking for a job, getting in trouble will not help I imagine.

[arcane1]

2. They've been convinced that every paycheck comes directly from a rich man's pocket

and that somehow, if a CEO pays a little less in personal income taxes, the company he runs will hire more people.

I try to never underestimate human stupidity, but this one still boggles my mind.

[KansDem]

3. You answered your own question with your subject statement.

We have the teabaggers caterwauling about taxes. Where are the people screaming for jobs?

"TeaBaggers" vs. "people." -- Which group will CorpMedia (i.e., FOX News) more likely cover?

That's the reason for the perception that TeaBaggers are everywhere and the people aren't...

[Ozymanithrax]

4. If they listen to we unemployed, they will hear a message they don't want.

to hear.

The media is part of the problem, not the solution. When people go to protest, they need to carry their phones and cameras to create their own media. If we do not document what we do and use every means to transmit it, it will not be recorded.

[Ozymanithrax]

5. If they listen to we unemployed, they will hear a message they don't want.

to hear.

The media is part of the problem, not the solution. When people go to protest, they need to carry their phones and cameras to create their own media. If we do not document what we do and use every means to transmit it, it will not be recorded.

[EFerrari]

6. Are they on the corporate media? Where are they doing this?

(Because I dont watch those shows and wouldn't know.)

[Populist_Prole]

7. I don't get it either

During the Bush administrations, most of my co-workers ( other than die-hard fundies ) were, even if not very well informed beyond skimming the headlines or watching 10 minutes of CNN, of a working class populist worldview. They usually referred to Bush somewhat disparagingly.

Now during the Obama administration, I just can't get over how so many of these same people have adopted a de-facto pro-corporate stance. Always spouting loudly about taxes, spending and all...and this latent love of capitalism as such. Absolutely bizarre.

It's gotta be race, at least subconsciously. Then again, whenever the the breakroom TV has an cable news on, I do notice they frame everything in the teabagger/GOP narrative. So yeah, it's just plain ignorance really.

[bhikkhu]

8. Remind them that tax rates are at a 60 year low!

...and I always like to throw in "Freedom isn't free, ya know" :)

[BiggJawn]

9. On the cutting room floor of the TV networks.

And the wastebaskets of the newspaper editorial offices and in the recycle bin folders of everyone else in the Lamestream Media.

The Media's stranglehold is only as strong as that of the conservative corporations that own them, that is,to say, like a vise.

[Doctor_J]

10. Media overthrow = return to democracy

Would be terribly costly and bloody, but there is no other way to get the country back

[Gregorian]

17. Without a doubt it is the only way to bring back a functioning country.

Mutiny of the 4th Estate is what I call it.

I lay awake last night wondering how we could break up conglomerations of media power. It's a lot easier to merge than to split. But it has to be done.

[JohnnyRingo]

11. Most of the 'baggers I've met are on Social Security.

They worked their life at factories or govt jobs for 30 years and now enjoy what they feel they "deserve". They somehow figure they worked hard to earn their own way and believe people now are just too lazy to follow in their footsteps. They don't think there's a job shortage, just people too lazy to work at the "new level of wage".

[madamesilverspurs]

12. ...

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[Vinca]

13. Media stranglehold is the right word.

People screaming for jobs need to dress up in costumes, I guess.

[Stinky The Clown]

14. Hat suggestion:

[Vinca]

15. Good idea, although I might cover the hat in a map of China.

[BNJMN]

16. Or quit blaming 'the media' as if it was something outside our grasp. Just did a YT search...

Results: 0

Guess next time people invade a GOP speech and chant,
'Where are the Jobs?" they may want to bring a camera?
And post tons of videos on YT?

Just an idea.
And not a very groundbreaking one at that.

[Stinky The Clown]

18. I'm sorry.

I have no idea what you're talking about.

Not being snarky. I really have no clue what you're trying to say.