Comments on: Bachmann Wisdumb

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 16:07:30 +0000

She does not have a PhD. In fact, she opposes higher education. She has a J.D. from a law school that later lost its accreditation (you may have heard of it: Oral Roberts) and an LL.M in tax law, which is funny, because she also opposed tases.

By: Randy Mickelberg

Randy Mickelberg — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 13:55:05 +0000

Fricken stupid… Someone told me she has a Phd.? She’s never suffered the lot of being poor and doesn’t understand anything about it. Social Sciences out the window. Doesn’t it all boil down to who’s got the money. Are Republican’s at their core really interested in “job creation” or is that just a cover for “it’s all mine and I’m gonna keep it fend for yourself.” I honestly don’t understand it. What are their motives? It’s people like her that make me want to move. And whatever became of the word greed? It doesn’t exist in our culture does it? Randolfis Pandemonium…

By: Guido

Guido — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 03:21:19 +0000

I am from Minnesota and a large majority of us feel that Bachmann is a disgrace to humanity. Having said that she assumes that landlords accross the nation would reduce rent because they would benefit from lower expenses too. Here is what that logic says;

1. Having already charged and received high rents landlords never (really never) cut the rent due.

2. If a “minimum wage earner” can’t make current rent the landlord will evict them. Therefore repealing the minimum wage would result in greater homelessness.

3. Now I know where Tom “I’m really as stupid as Bachmann” Emmer got his rants from. Boy I am really glad he didn’t get elected governor of Minnesota. It would be a remake of the movie “Dumb and Dumber.”

By: Kim Randolph

Kim Randolph — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 22:05:46 +0000

Henry Ford was a brilliant businessman. He figured he needed to pay his workers enough so they could afford to buy his cars. He built an empire on that logic.

By: Don Walton

Don Walton — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 20:36:02 +0000

Somewhere out there is a Tea bag follower out there, thinking Great idea, screw the poor, and when they are too old to work, We can shoot them!

By: ADA Liberal

ADA Liberal — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 17:03:47 +0000

greatbear speaks for many of us – eliminate the minimum wage, bring back slavery and we’ll have full employment!

By: Pen

Pen — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 14:45:13 +0000

Is there anything wrong with this statement? Unemployment would decrease if there was a lower minimum wage.

Human beings are vulnerable in a free labor market, because a crust of bread a day and a rag to wear are very slightly better than being dead. That’s what we would take if we had to, and it’s in the nature of free markets that it’s all that the ‘buyers’ of labor would like to offer. And that’s what it would come to, for many people. Perhaps not for us, personally, if we’re fortunate enough and/or clever enough to have rare and expensively acquired skills that the buyers must compete for, but for lots of people who don’t. I take it for granted that this is a situation we would want to avoid.

By: Warren

Warren — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 18:51:27 +0000

Actually, here’s an even better way to do it.

1. Outsource all work except anything that requires actual physical presence to execute. Gardeners, painters, plumbers and the like – they’d have to be local. But everyone else’s job would be done overseas, for a lot less. This includes every and all legislative positions. Sorry, Michelle; it was your idea, so you can take some comfort from that.

2. Any surplus population could be handled via a new Soylent Program. An elegant end to homelessness, uninsured health costs, poverty, overpopulation, foster care and orphanages, illegal immigrants AND hunger, all at once.

3. Free packets of hot sauce on Fridays!

4. Mmm. This pack of baloney is Bachmannriffic!

See? Problems solved! Who said Libertarianism isn’t workable?

By: 0.03 centavos per kidney

0.03 centavos per kidney — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 18:02:43 +0000

I don’t think employment rates are so attractive in Somalia, and look at the negatively productive work many Somalians perform.
Somalia’s business climate is an extreme, but i think the above comment about the revival of the traditional family values “human wave” is closest to my “prediction”.
employers would lose financial incentive to maintain any ethical level of productivity.

OTOH, norquist, bachmann and other neo-slavery advocates would probably be horrified that the results would not turn out how they envisioned. i think that as long as reasonable legal rights were maintained (an assumption upon which i certainly cannot rely), worker unions’ membership would ‘explode’. “western” history has roughly shown that?

but, IAMNAH 😉

By: Donâ??t Reload Palin

Donâ??t Reload Palin — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 17:50:11 +0000

IQ level requirement for members of congress. Something like IQ=50. Then people like Bachmann would be gone
or you could hire 4 bachmanns for her current job, and… oh,

wait,

uh-oh. the resulting IQ would be even lower.

nvm