The all-inclusive "Republicans hate everything America stands for" thread

[DarkDrgon]

Yeah. And the above mentioned cousin is a Teacher.

[POS Industries]

Originally Posted by DarkDrgon

Yeah. And the above mentioned cousin is a Teacher.

At least tell me she's not a science teacher.

[Fifthfiend]

http://thinkprogress.org/education/2...student-loans/

Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) took on a unique enemy during a radio interview yesterday: people with student loans.
Though many politicians sympathize with those who are saddled with exorbitant student debt, Foxx, who chairs the House subcommittee on higher education, had a different take. Appearing on G. Gordon Liddy’s radio show, the North Carolina congresswoman recounted her own experience paying for college, where she worked her way through and graduated after seven years. Foxx then pointed to her own experience as justification for why she has “very little tolerance for people who tell me that they graduate with $200,000 of debt or even $80,000 of debt.” “There’s no reason for that,” she concluded:

FOXX: I went through school, I worked my way through, it took me seven years, I never borrowed a dime of money. He borrowed a little bit because we both were totally on our own when we went to college, totally. [...] I have very little tolerance for people who tell me that they graduate with $200,000 of debt or even $80,000 of debt because there’s no reason for that. We live in an opportunity society and people are forgetting that. I remind folks all the time that the Declaration of Independence says “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” You don’t have it dumped in your lap.

It's great how the people who have spent fifty years working to destroy opportunity in this country are so insulated from reality that they don't even know they've succeeded.

[Sifright]

Seriously I said this earlier but murdering alla dem neo-liberals would totally be an aces thing to do. Go at it french revolution style just dropping the guilotine down on the mother fuckers

[Karrrrrrrrrrrresche]

Um...
Tuition is a lot more expensive than it used to be, right?

[Sifright]

Originally Posted by K-Resh

Um...
Tuition is a lot more expensive than it used to be, right?

In many countries it used to be free! Now it's like 9000+ a year and thats just in the UK. I'm sure USA has like 30K fees for law schools

[Karrrrrrrrrrrresche]

Yeah Virginia Foxx was born in 1943 and graduated in 1968. I think it's a fair estimate to say that according to this chart the cost of tuition back then was somewhere in the area of $700. Somewhere near 2000 it's hit over 5,000.
Sooooo.

[CABAL49]

I should note as a former North Carolinian that Foxx is old money. One of my friends mom is running against her in the next election.

[Mr.Bookworm]

My father, for his sins, gets a lot of mail from Republicans asking him for money. The latest is from hopefully soon-to-be-departed Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin, and it's a particularly textbook example of this sort of thing. Thought you all might get a laugh out of this. Also, no, absolutely none of the punctuation, grammar, bolding, and so on has been changed.

Dear Mr. [Insert Name Here],

I'm facing an unprecedented recall election on June 5th . . .an attempt to make me the third Governor in the 236-year history of our Nation to be removed from office. And what is my grievous offense, you ask?

Apparently -- in the minds of the far-left extremists -- standing up for the taxpayers of my state by challenging the Big Government Union Bosses who stood as an immovable road-block to the reforms desperately needed to revive our state's economy-in-crisis.

Mr. [Insert Name Here], I was elected Governor just 17 months ago with a promise to think about the next generation, not the next election.

But the liberals are so disconnected from reality . . .so used to getting their way from elected officials at all levels of government . . .and so enraged by my sweeping conservative reforms . . .that they've vowed revenge against me.

Not surprisingly, they have a friend and ally in President Obama who is helping by parroting their class-warfare talking pints. The Democrat strategists in Washington view this recall race as the opening salvo in the President's re-election campaign. A win here is a big boost to his prospects; a loss will be a major set-back.

Because I incurred the wrath of the far-left, my wife and children endured days of protests in front of our private home -- this, after weeks of demonstrations at the State Capitol where protestors intimidated anyone identified as a Republican. Even my mother has been confronted by rude and vulgar people in the grocery store.

I've been in public service for a number of years now, so I've taken my share of "hits" from the opposition, but I never could have imagined just how far . . .just how extreme . . .just how uncivil the other side could be, particularly targeting seniors and minors.

In their misdirected anger, it's abundantly clear that they're furious at me because I've said that for public sector employees, collective bargaining is not a right, it's an expensive entitlement. And I demanded that they pay more for their health care and pensions -- just as their friends and neighbors in the private sector have had to do for years now -- so taxpayers weren't stuck it this horrendous bill.

(Incidentally, this is a good explanation of precisely how much bullshit this is.)

Every morning, I wake up and hear radio ads and TV spots filled with deliberate lies. The great news is: our efforts to shrink government, cut spending, curb regulations, and curtail frivolous lawsuits on our entrepreneurs are working and paying dividends.

The bad news is: our opponents will spend upwards of $40 million to defeat me in this fast-approaching recall race.

Mr. [Insert Name Here], will you help me win it?

It's your reputation for conservative activism and financial leadership that prompts me to write this letter to you. The enclosed brochure (I decided to grant all of you mercy and not scan this) will tell you more about me . . .and the results we've achieved in my first year in office.

Knowing that I can count on your generous help -- whether it's for $10,000, $5,000, $2,500, $1,000, $500 or another amount of your choosing -- will give me the financial firepower to fight back with the truth and win this recall race.

I do realize that's a lot to ask, but there's so much at stake, I simply can't afford to be timid. Please let me hear from your very soon as we're just 54 days away from what the Wall Street Journal called, "The Most Important Non-Presidential Election of the Decade."

Sincerely yours,
[photocopied signature]
Scott Walker
Governor

P.S. "How do you put up with all the grief?" That's what people ask me after hearing the things the Big Government Union Bosses have put me through after only a year in office. The answer is, for every brash and obscene protestor, there are twenty good people who come up to me, say they're praying for our family, and are eager to help. Mr. [Insert Name Here], our conservative reforms are working and our opponents have vowed to make an example out of me. Can I count on your support?

Paid for by Friends of Scott Walker, Kate Lind, Treasurer

Excuse me, now I need to go take a shower.

[Satan's Onion]

But the liberals are so disconnected from reality . . .so used to getting their way from elected officials at all levels of government . . .and so enraged by my sweeping conservative reforms . . .that they've vowed revenge against me.

I'm imagining some Liberal Samurai now, swearing REVENNNNNNNNNGE on behalf of his big-government lord.