NEBRASKA BLUE

The journal star had an article on Tony R’s talking points up today.
Here - (Tony says)

He claimed we should focus on domestic issues, and help the middle class which is being squeezed, good Democratic points. Then went on to push his business background stating
I’ve had 40 years of creating jobs in good times and bad,” he said.

Well except the latest jobs Tony created are not here in the US, they are in China
where I doubt he would like anyone to know what his workers there make for a work week, or how many hours per week they work for that pittance.

Perhaps Tony should remind everyone he layed off workers in Nebraska just recently when he starts claiming to be all about jobs creation.

Two other comments by Tony bear discussing..

“I think we’re way overdue in making sure there are tax breaks for the middle class,” Raimondo said. “If we do anything, we could leave off the top 2 percent” of wealthy taxpayers in providing or extending tax relief.

Until last month, Raimondo served as chairman of the state’s worker training board, which oversees a program to help businesses retrain workers to adjust to global competition and technological change.

That effort to help companies and workers address “the skills gap” could be applied nationally, he said.

OK, so you are not going to give any MORE tax breaks to the rich, in your other talks you said you supported the tax breaks GWB already gave the rich, and would not repeal them.

You also support eliminating the estate tax. So in essence you want to give a little bone to the middle class and keep the top tax bracket people paying the same or even getting a bigger windfall.

A worker retraining program, which pays businesses handsomely I bet, and another program you have no idea how to pay for.

How about coming up with something original in the way of how to pay DOWN the massive national debt we already have, or pray tell us which programs you are going to cut to
even try to balance the budget, because it has to be done sooner or later.

Tony supports the status quo, he likes and supports free markets and free trade, and
abhors goverment regulation. A position which is fair to only the rich, business owners and their shareholders.

Since he was a past President of the National Association of Manufacturers you can get an idea of the company he keeps, the NAM has always been anti-union, anti-regulation and just about against everything that is good for the public interest.

Right now they are in troouble for making up false facts about global warming and how
reducing our greenhouse emissions as a country will hurt the economy.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/3/25/030/95399/505/483597

and here - http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2008/03/24/opinion/guest/22-loaded.txt

SO in effect the NAM uses fudged numbers to support their BS claims…

Much like Tony, he talks about creating jobs, when his own history is one of breaking unions, laying workers off, and investing his own money in China and not here.

And as for the middle class, well those middle class workers at Behlen Manufacturing in Columbus NE are making the same wages they made back in 1987 adjusted for inflation.
But I bet Tony is making one heck of a lot more than he did back then.

Enough to spend over a million dollars to buy himself a Senate seat….

In a few weeks all the folks in Lincoln and Omaha should start seeing nice TV ads showing
Tony the smiling bipartisan businessman asking for your vote.

Ask him to give all his workers the same raises he gave himself over the last 10 years then tell him you’ll vote for him.

Because right here in Nebraska he is one of the people that causes the middle class to be squeezed.

And all the cash he donated to the GOP and George Bush over the last 8 years helped too.

Ask him how much money he gave to GWB.

Sorry Tony, you have a lot more explaining to do before Democrats in Nebraska will give you a serious look.

Paul