The feds fund your schools? How did you manage that, and how do we get on board?
It is probably the 'go fuck yourself Obama apologist" that has this thread filled with that sentiment. Especially since Obama has been against killing government jobs during the bad economy and the Republicans are all for cutting taxes and reducing nanny state programs like, oh, education. Some are actively trying to abolish the Department of Education. So yeah, there is a lot of schadenfreude in this thread.
I’m sorry you are losing your job. But let’s face it, it is a job sucking at the government teat, and if I am not mistaken, you are all in favor of reducing the number of such jobs. I’d be a little more impressed if you were a job creator rather than a burden to the rest of us.
But the comments give the impression that Saint Cad has some sort of longer history on this topic.
Actually, if you look at the U6, which includes discouraged and marginally employed, it’s 14.5%, the lowest since Obama took office, down a half point since January, and down 2.5 points from its high of 17%. That rate is usually 7-8% when things are good, and jumped from 9 to 15% during Bush’s last year.
Good? No, but it’s moving in the right direction.
This last weekend I got a raise and made the last payment on my car.
Thanks, Obama!
Why would anyone need to look into posting history when the poster has invited all Obama economy apologists to go fuck themselves in this very thread?
Without Obama, you probably wouldn’t have had a job to lose in the first place. I’m sorry for your loss, but you’re blaming the wrong person
Curiosity, really. I too have seen the name enough to recognize a Doper, but don’t think I’ve read anything egregious (prior to the OP).
There are a handful of RW posters here who you know are right wing, but they’d never blather on like this. Then there are some RW posters who do so much similar blathering that you can almost guess the poster by the OP. This one is in the middle.
So without having to prove anything other than curiosity, has Cad spouted Norquistesque lines or libertarian-like LaRuchian rantings?
I don’t understand all the sympathy. If more conservatives lost their jobs as a direct result of government cutbacks, maybe they would reconsider their politics. It is hard for me to feel much sympathy when someone votes against their own self interest, and then blames the wrong guy for his misfortune.
I pay* cash *for my cars.
Thanks, Bush!
Let’s get this straight right now. My rant was directed to the people who talk about how the economy has recovered under Obama. I didn’t pit Obama directly so all of you who think that this was directed to Obama can go back to school and learn to read from your now probably fired teacher.
To point it out again, this was directed to people that turn some government-issued numbers into this picture of everything being great and wonderful economically and give Obama an almost Messianic reverence on how he has changed everything in the last three years. The economy still sucks despite any marginal improvement that may or may not be Obama’s doing.
Oh and for all of you accusing me of being part of the government bloat, remember that your complaining about someone willing to babysit kids and try and teach them math as they tell me to fuck off. I saw a math teacher try to wake up a kid in class today during the lesson and the kid punched the teacher in the stomach for disturbing him. But I guess that the consquence of pulling down such huge paychecks. Maybe some of you need to start a thread: Reduce Big Government: Fire a Teacher.
You know there is a search function that’ll help satisfy anyone’s curiosity on that score. I’m almost sure most people in this particular thread are responding to, well, this particular thread. In particular, getting told to go fuck themselves just because he’s getting fired and is blaming all the wrong people for it.
Dude, you are mad at the wrong people. The economy is improving no matter what your personal situation is. Calling people “Obama apologists” and telling them to go fuck themselves for stating facts is a pretty fucking stupid thing for an educator to do.
To be fair, nobody here thinks teachers need to be fired (if my speed-reading skills I was taught in 8th grade are still working). You’re getting poked at for being an administrator who [del]doesn’t[/del] didn’t serve the immediate cause of, well, teaching.
Now if you wanna get busy on a flamefest about ill-behaved brats in schools who appear to fear no repurcssions at home you will probably get plenty of good loving from left- and right-wingers alike. Few people posting here are of the sort to tolerate that kind of nonsense.
Today I learned: Conservatives are so stupid, they can retard the recovery by insisting on cuts during it, and still be pissed off that the recovery is taking so long.
I’d like to add, that there are certainly stupid liberals. But it isn’t a requirement.
I submit that most of the people chiding you being part of government bloat are doing so ironically, if you really want to discuss reading comprehension.
Get your government hands off my Medicare!
Who are those people?
Because they should. There’s huge difference between someone who thinks/thought he was the right man for the job, or is a fan, and being an apologist for him.