More Government Drek

I was working on a post about two new green companies that have gone into the red on the backs of taxpayers - ECOtality and Beacon Power - but I got into the weeds with all the details about how one, ECOtality, was show-boated by the administration, even during Obama's State of the Union address last year.  Giving up our hard-earned taxpayer dollars and getting nothing but lies and losses in return can be exhausting to the point of debilitating... so I quit that post, for the time being.

So instead, here's the latest alert from Brother Jack:

 

 The United States Secretary of Labor calls out "teabaggers" 

This is so disgusting.  It's so hard to believe that ordinary Americans, who - initially, at least, merely dared to express alarm at the passage of the "Stimulus" legislation into law (on top of the bailouts that had already occurred), are referred to in such disrespectful and offensive language by officials this high in the adminstration.  I've certainly never witnessed anything like it in my life.

Kyle-Anne Shiver wrote an amazing post back in January of last year that I am tempted to print out and mail to Secretary Solis. This excerpt will give you a clue as to the gist of it. I do recommend reading it all, and repeat Kyle-Anne's own warning: "This is for adults only. It's not for the timid, squeamish or otherwise easily offended reader..."

... If so-called decent people and organizations wish to continue using the phrase, “tea-bagging,” in formerly respectable public forums, then they ought to know exactly what they are doing and how much grievous damage it is causing to those of us who have actually been “tea-bagged” by ... pedophilic tormenters.  And how much damage they may be doing — at this very minute — to children being “tea-bagged” by sexual predators in the present.

You see, “tea-bagging” is the pedophile’s very best friend and ally.  I know this because it was used against me.  I’ve studied the issue of childhood sexual abuse and know that this vile deed against children is not as uncommon as some believe.  In fact, according to the most recent findings, about one in every four American women was sexually abused in some fashion as a child.  About one in five American men were as well.  Few of us talk about it openly; I’m sure you can understand why....

 

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[Mannie Sherberg]

Sociolinguistics 101: Coarse people use coarse language; crude people use crude language; crass people use crass language.