Scrooge of the Year
 

Mitch McConnell Found His Calling: Scrooge of the Year
Senate Minority Leader Mitch “No, No, a thousand times No!” McConnell (R-Ky.) today won the role of the 2010 Scrooge of the Year. Voters selected McConnell in Jobs with Justice’s (JwJ) 11th annual contest to find the politician, CEO, corporation or politician who has done the most to “scrooge” workers in the spirit of Ebenezer.

It was a crowded field with half a dozen other candidates, but McConnell won handily with 42 percent of the vote. After all, he spent the year leading filibusters against unemployment insurance, job creation, health care reform, Wall Street reform, health care for 9/11 first responders, the DREAM Act, Social Security cost of living adjustments, collective bargaining rights for public safety officers and just about anything that might benefit working families.

Old Ebenezer—before he had the greed and nasty scared out of him by some otherworldly visitors—would be quite proud of McConnell’s victory. Says JwJ Executive Director Sarita Gupta:

We hope that by being elected national Scrooge of the Year, Sen. McConnell will see the “Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come” and understand the dire consequences that his actions will have for generations of Americans.

The Kentucky JwJ chapter plans to deliver the Scrooge of the Year award in person to McConnell’s offices in Louisville. Want to bet they won’t be sharing eggnog under the mistletoe?

The health Insurance and pharmaceutical industry, with their single-minded focus on profits at the expense of our health, was the first runner-up, with 22 per cent f the vote. Hyatt Hotels won 10 percent of the vote for its workplace safety record and its attempts to eliminate quality healthcare and make the recession permanent for its employees.

Other nominees included Rite Aid, Publix, and Giumarra Vineyards, and popular write-in candidates were Honeywell CEO Dave Cote and Del Monte Fresh. Express Scripts was a candidate for Scrooge of the Year, but reached a settlement with workers and their nomination was pulled.

You can read more about all of the candidates on the Jobs with Justice website.

Someone dun right in DC?? bull****, I don't believe it....

say NO to all the crybabies......you know how the .govs always cry about cutting police, fire, .mil but never teachers and other totally stupidly over paid and underworked .gov workers???

put ME in charge, and watch the blood roll.....

messin' with the rong guy on that issue.....

:beat::beat::kick:

The 2010 Lump of Coal Award, Job-Killing Edition

The 2010 Lump of Coal Award, Job-Killing Edition - Business in The Beltway - Money & Politics - Forbes



The winner is ~ Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who called the $858 billion tax cut and spending bill he helped engineer a “step in the right direction” toward deficit reduction.

Only in Washington can you spin an $858 billion increase in the debt as a step in the direction of deficit reduction.

For that bit of high rhetorical legerdemain, Mitch McConnell wins our 2010 Lump of Coal Award with George Orwell Newspeak ribbon.




A demented artists' rendtion of a *retard*-looking turtle ...

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that's another one of the Reich Wing's lies. when you compare private enterprise employees salaries with government employee salaries with the same education/experience, the private enterprise employee makes more. you didn't know that did ya? that's what you get for eating at the trough of Reich Wing stoopidity. :D

it's a highly debated topic,but do you think a petroleum engineer for Exxon would quit & go to work for the government? :D doubtful. if you just search a little, you'll find a lot of stuff on it. here's just one of many- Reason Foundation - Comparing Private Sector and Government Worker Salaries

U R RONG....period, end of discussion......the typical .gov worker in Wash DC, comes in 1/2 hr late, goes 1/2 hr early, and takes a 2 hour lunch break, they typically sign in on the computer....flex time up the gazank to take the edge off the commuting in that town, which is HELL, and getting worse.....

now we look at the rest of the world where housing prices are collapsing like mad.....when you look up Monkey Co. Faryland, right outside DC, as an example of the region, you find housing prices are holding steady almost anywhere within that 'DC Suckup' variously described as a 100 mile radius circle drawn on the map, with Cap hill as the center.....clean down to Fredricksburg Va. and up north of Balto into Pa for a small amount....

includes a bit of W. Va. too.... housing prices for MY house here in Florida would be about 450k bux today.....1600' of living space.....

the average start is about 60k++ stick around a couple years, let them pay for your master's degree, and you golden....can't be fired without a act of GOD, and so just show up mostly every day....in 5? years you get 6 weeks sick/annual leave every year..... on top of the loose 'unofficial' hours I listed up top......

so to afford a 450k house which is no great shakes, I got news....you pair up with some lawyer in one of the thousands of law firms on the colloquial 'K st" NW .......or upper mgmt in some company sucking off .gov contracts....
OR you get two GS11's making 100 grand each....they can afford that house....

the ex's house....750 grand......easy....

she retired as a GS15 something....was making 150k+/year.....in better days she would laugh and wonder what she did worth that kind of money....same with all the other .gov workers I knew....and that was literally hundreds....

and you talk about a bunch of Dullards.....for instance, the most easily mentioned example.....going to a party at this upper level managers' house....find it's a 'presentation'....the person giving the 'talk' with snacks afterward.....was totally tossed off base, when I piped up after maybe 3 paragraphs into his speech/presentation 'It sounds like AMWAY'.....blew the presentation all to hell, and even some of the .gov workers were AMAZED at the revelation.....and here I had never ever been to a Amway party....

so you look at that security/benefits package and tell me they not making GREAT money, Bull****......:slap::beat:

or you could just do like a private sector guy & get pics of your boss bending his secretary over the desk & be set for life.