They fucking don't give a shit if people are homeless or even die. As long as they get their handouts from the financial elites, everybody else can go to hell:
On the "economic recovery" page of House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer's Web site, the most recent statement Wednesday was from last October (until I pointed that out and it was hastily updated). House Republicans, meanwhile, sent out an e-mail headlined "Republican Economic Recovery Working Group to Announce New Initiative." That sounded like it might be about jobs, but it turned out to be a project called "YouCut." And You'reRight if you surmised that it involves public voting on lists of proposed federal spending cuts.
The GOP mantra of "where are the jobs?" was undermined last week when the Labor Department reported the April job creation number -- the highest in four years. But the report wasn't unadulterated good news for Democrats. People feeling better about their prospects flooded back into the job market, and that boosted unemployment from 9.7 percent in March to 9.9 percent in April.
Stan Greenberg, the Democratic pollster, said his party is talking about the economy all wrong. In particular he cited party chairman Tim Kaine's plan to sell Democrats as "the party of results" whose policies are working, and Republicans as obstructionists trying to block those policies. "It's no moment for a victory lap and no moment for self-congratulations by politicians," he told me. "People are angry and frustrated. They perceive Democrats have not been attentive on the economy. I'm sure they have been, but not in ways that people would see."
linkLet's play politics while people starve. Can these people be any more corrupt and clueless?
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