“John Nash, the chairman of Care UK, gave £21,000 to fund Andrew Lansley’s personal office in November.
“Mr Nash, a private equity tycoon, also manages several other businesses providing services to the NHS and stands to be one of the biggest beneficiaries of Conservative policies to increase the use of private health providers.”
Quotes from Ron Paul, pictured here with the founders of white supremacist website Stormfront:
- “If you have ever been robbed by a black teen-aged male, you know how unbelievably fleet-footed they can be.”
- “Given the inefficiencies of what D.C. laughingly calls the `criminal justice system,’ I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of the black males in that city are semi-criminal or entirely criminal.”
- “We don’t think a child of 13 should be held responsible as a man of 23. That’s true for most people, but black males age 13 who have been raised on the streets and who have joined criminal gangs are as big, strong, tough, scary and culpable as any adult and should be treated as such.”
- ”I miss the closet. Homosexuals, not to speak of the rest of society, were far better off when social pressure forced them to hide their activities.”
- ”Order was only restored in L.A. when it came time for the blacks to pick up their welfare checks three days after rioting began. … What if the checks had never arrived? No doubt the blacks would have fully privatized the welfare state through continued looting. But they were paid off and the violence subsided.”
- “Opinion polls consistently show that only about 5 percent of blacks have sensible political opinions, i.e. support the free market, individual liberty and the end of welfare and affirmative action.”
- “Boy, it sure burns me to have a national holiday for that pro-communist philanderer, Martin Luther King. I voted against this outrage time and time again as a Congressmen [sic]. What an infamy that Ronald Reagan approved it! We can thank him for our annual Hate Whitey Day.”
- “Our priority should be to take the anti-government, anti-tax, anti-crime, anti-welfare loafers, anti-race privilege, anti-foreign meddling message of [KKK Grand Wizard David] Duke, and enclose it in a more consistent package of freedom.”
- “Duke lost the election, but he scared the blazes out of the Establishment. If the official Republican hadn’t been ordered to drop out, he might have won…Duke carried baggage from his past, but voters were willing to overlook that. And if he had been afforded the forgiveness that an ex-Communist gets, he might have won.”
- On the end of apartheid: “It is the destruction of civilization.”
- “The criminals who terrorize our cities — in riots and on every non-riot day — are not exclusively young black males, but they largely are. As children, they are trained to hate whites, to believe that white oppression is responsible for all black ills, to ‘fight the power,’ to steal and loot as much money from the white enemy as possible.”
- “Although we are constantly told that it is evil to be afraid of black men, it is hardly irrational. Black men commit murders, rapes, robberies, muggings and burglaries all out of proportion to their numbers.”
- He also mocked the idea of renaming NYC after MLK (which is a silly idea, but nonetheless), saying it should be instead renamed ”Welfaria,” “Zooville,” “Rapetown,” “Dirtburg,” or “Lazyopolis.” Of the rally on the subject, he suggests that ”[n]ext time, hold that demonstration at a food stamp bureau or a crack house.”
I already knew Ron Paul was a bigot, but where are these quotes from?! I must know!
-R
What a…well…I don’t really want to use that word on my blog…but I’m rather shocked that a man who’s on record as holding such abhorrent views would be afforded such a mainstream political platform.
(via stfuconservatives)
The 15 most disgusting Twitter responses to Troy Davis’ Murder. (via BuzzFeed)
Lots of News Corp. on there and a former congressman (last 5 presented with quote because Tumblr only allows 10 photos in a set apparently)
1. New York Post (Owned by Rupert Murdoch)
2 & 3. Ann Coulter (Gets paid by News Corp.)
4. “Pussy and Heroin” (They seem very proud to be on this list) Their Tumblr
6. Anthony Cumia from the Opie and Anthony show
7. Tammy Bruce (Gets paid by News Corp.)
9. “Jimmiebjr” His website
10. Frank Fleming
11. Tabin
“Women are killed for breaking religious laws that I am told to “coexist” with & people are going crazy abt a convicted cop-killer? #huh?
12. Neal Boortz
“Is Troy Davis dead yet? Can we speed this thing up? I have a drink ready to toast this cop killer gonig charlie tango”
13. Jake Bradford
“Will there ever be a trending RIP for a white cop-killer death row inmate? Maybe the 5th of never……..”
14. Tea Party Organizer Maggie Acerra
“The people so anxious to return this sociopathic cop-killer to the streets don’t live in his neighborhood”
15. White Supremacist David Duke
“Am I the only one who thinks even if Troy Davis wasn’t guilty of this crime he was probably guilty of another? So good riddance!”
This is the way that civilisation falls…with the rabble baying for the blood of an innocent man.
(via deanaferal)
Tax breaks for job creators help the economy.
This is in Republican fairyland, where by “job creators” we mean very rich people, and by “tax breaks” we mean that we’re giving them more money.
1. Giving more money to very rich people does not create jobs. If a very rich person (or company) suddenly finds itself with lots of extra money, there is nothing at all to suggest that they will spend this money on jobs. Think about that for a moment - why would they? They might hang on to it as liquid assets, they might merge with another company (which usually creates more unemployment) or they might just buy a fleet of yachts or something (which, if you’re concerned about unemployment in the yacht sector, might be good news I guess?). And even if there were some way to force companies to hire people (and remember that conservatives don’t seem to want to force companies to do anything), they’d probably outsource.
2. There is a way to put heavy pressure on manufacturers to create more jobs, and that is to increase demand for their products (especially in a country like America that seems to run its domestic markets on demand rather than supply). And one quick, easy way to do that (as Franklin Roosevelt discovered) is to pump money into the bottom of the economy. In other words, giving poor people more money will create more jobs. You can make them do bullshit jobs to get it, if you like; it won’t make any difference to the overall effect. Taxing rich people more than poor people isn’t “unfair” or “punishing the successful”; it’s fixing the economy.Basically, the real job creators are the average every day consumer.
While Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s (R) law dismantling collective bargaining rights has harmed teachers, nurses, and other civil servants, it’s helping a different group in Wisconsinites — inmates. Prisoners are now taking up jobs that used to be held by unionized workers in some parts of the state.
We make up indefensible laws to incarcerate citizens (for video taping police officers, sending their children to good schools or smoking marijuana), then enslave those citizens for cheap labor. It’s very similar to indentured servitude, but without consent (and thus less morally defensible). Will we continue to allow the upper class to make serfs out of us?
I really like the usage of the term “serfs” here, as that is exactly what is going on here: an attempt to return us to a feudal society. I have made this point here before, usually as a critique of libertarianism.
The signs are everywhere, and this is just one of the more blatant ones. We also have prominent right wing politicians and pundits openly stating that those who are not landowners shouldn’t have the same rights as those who are, in an attempt to disenfranchise the vast majority of Americans.
Their plan as I see it is a simple one. Remove voting rights for those who do not own any property (or at least make it very difficult for them to vote), pass ridiculous laws (as Jonathan said) allowing them to lock up people for victimless crimes, and then force people who are in prison to work for free. Using this free prison labor, they can now fire every employee who is a member of a union (or just fire them all anyway, free labor is good for business). Next thing you know, you have a class of landowners (nobility) and an underclass of slaves or serfs.
Humanity has fought for literally thousands of years to stop this sort of society from exploiting people. We cannot allow this type of oppression to return at any costs.
Conservative columnist Matthew Vadum, in his column “Registering the Poor to Vote is Un-American” for The American Thinker.
I literally do not know what to say this, other than the subtlety used in the past by folks like Vadum is dead. They do not want those in poverty to vote for fear their rich cronies will no longer be able to buy political clout. The richest 1% have 1% of the vote. 99% of the vote belongs to those outside of the top income brackets.
Never fear, Mr. Vadum. Citizens United v. FEC has your back. I’ll tell you what’s un-American: Decrying the empowerment of the impoverished via the last vestiges of the democratic process we have left in this country. To insist that a person is defined by what one owns versus who one is - that’s profoundly un-American.
You sir, are attempting to establish a new aristocracy in this country, a pseudo-royalty if you will. I believe the Founding Fathers might have a bigger problem with that than with the poor voting.
(via squeetothegee)
That is also a quite racist and ageist comment as well as classist because it is well known that blacks voted in historically high numbers (the perceived poor and unproductive and criminal) and the youth did a lot of numbers too (the unproductive, potentially criminal, and deviant).
(via strugglingtobeheard)
Tell me again about the good old days & I’ll slap you. This logic right here? This is the good old days in action. They want to bring the anti-labor, anti-equality, robber baron tactics that led us straight into the Great Depression.
(via karnythia) Hating everything again. Like, seriously, WTF? I guess you should only be allowed to vote if you make over 100K a year, since everyone else is just a leach on the system. (via spastasmagoria)
I’ve just been sitting here trying to form a coherent response to this, but I can’t. This is just evil, plain and simple.
(via deducecanoe)
“[Y]ou have realize what that implies. It’s not an abstraction. I’m a physician. That means you have a right to come to my house and conscript me. It means you believe in slavery. It means that you’re going to enslave not only me, but the janitor at my hospital, the person who cleans my office, the assistants who work in my office, the nurses.
“Basically, once you imply a belief in a right to someone’s services — do you have a right to plumbing? Do you have a right to water? Do you have right to food? — you’re basically saying you believe in slavery.
“I’m a physician in your community and you say you have a right to health care. You have a right to beat down my door with the police, escort me away and force me to take care of you? That’s ultimately what the right to free health care would be.”
- Sen. Rand Paul [R-KY], complete dick and embarrassment to himself, the Senate, and the state of Kentucky. Fear of being enslaved? Ideological lunatic. (via liberalsarecool)
No, he’s not just a ideological lunatic. He’s a fucking moron if he actually believes what he said here, and if he doesn’t believe it then he’s a disingenuous douchebag. There is no way to employ actual logical thinking and arrive at the conclusion he puts forth here. No way at all.
(via drinkthe-koolaid)
Do you have a right to food and water? Um…yes…I’d like to think that people do, really. Also, if what he was saying were true then that would mean that firemen, police officers, teachers…anyone who works in public service, is a slave. Seriously, what this man is saying is such absurd bullshit it beggar’s belief that he got elected. I despair at the politicians we have here at times, but it’s rare that they can spout bat shit crazy bullshit and still get elected.
(via drinkthe-koolaid)