First, a little story. I went into one of those month-by-month cellphone places which are outrageously expensive but are generally all poor people can do because they have no credit or bad credit. I needed cell phones for a month for phone banking so I bought some and got a one month plan.
The young woman behind the counter, who was holding down the fort on her own, was efficient and pleasant. We, of course, got to talking politics. She confessed to me that she got paid $7.50 an hour and worked 10:00 am until 8:00 pm six days a week. No overtime, no benefits. And she had held the job for three years with no raises. She gets Christmas Day and Thanksgiving afternoon off, but she gets paid for neither. She said she doesn’t complain because her boss says that cheap labor is easy to find. “I need the job,” she shrugged.
She is working 60 hours a week and she is the 47% Mitt Romney doesn’t care about. Screw Mitt Romney. Screw this woman’s boss.
Screw the Koch Brothers.
Koch Industries, the Wichita, Kan.-based company run by the billionaire Koch brothers, sent a voter information packet to 45,000 employees of its Georgia Pacific subsidiary earlier this month.
In it was a letter, dated Oct. 1, from Koch Industries president Dave Robertson implicitly warning that “many of our more than 50,000 U.S. employees and contractors may suffer the consequences” of voting for President Obama and other Democrats in the 2012 elections, a list of conservative candidates the company’s political action committee endorses and a pair of editorials: one, by David Koch, supporting Mitt Romney, and the other, by Charles Koch, condemning Obama.
That’s political extortion. It’s economic terrorism. It should be illegal.
Republicans are the only people on earth who never have to be worried about being threatened by compassion. Well, them and maybe Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Y’all, I hate these people. I do.
Thanks to PolishSpring for the heads up.