No wonder wingnuts are opposed to empathy May 21, 2009
Posted by Evil Bender in News and politics, wingnuts.trackback
…they just can’t do it well. Over in California, where an extremist wingnut minority is taking a horrible situation and using it, along with a set of rules designed to cripple government effectiveness, to hold the state hostage.
But of course they feel really bad about it:”I would do a bigger number of layoffs,” [Meg] Whitman told the Roseville Chamber of Commerce last week.
“The most important thing is we have to get a government that the citizens of California can afford,” she said later in an interview with the Sacramento Bee. “And as badly as I feel about the 30,000 or 40,000 people that will lose their jobs, I feel even more badly for the millions of Californians who are paying higher taxes, who are looking at a state that is not working.”
That’s right. Screw 40,000 unemployed people in an economy with no jobs: the important thing is that no one pays higher taxes ever. Maybe we could take a survey and see if those who are being laid off would rather have higher taxes and a job or lower taxes and no job.
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Well, you know how it works – you can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs, and a few must suffer so that the Glorious Revolution can benefit everyone.