Me at Quartino’s Monthly Wine Bash
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Breaking DOMA News of the Day: In a victory for gay marriage advocates that rivals the enormity of Proposition 8 in California, the First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Boston today upheld a lower court’s ruling and declared the federal Defense of Marriage Act unconsitutional.
From the court’s opinion:
“[M]any Americans believe that marriage is the union of a man and a woman, and most Americans live in states where that is the law today. One virtue of federalism is that it permits this diversity of governance based on local choice, but this applies as well to the states that have chosen to legalize same-sex marriage. Under current Supreme Court authority, Congress’ denial of federal benefits to same-sex couples lawfully married in Massachusetts has not been adequately supported by any permissible federal interest.”
Expect the ruling to be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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"That stimulus he put in place, it didn’t help private sector jobs, it helped preserve government jobs, and the one place we should have cut back was on government jobs. We have a 145,000 more government workers under this president. Let’s send them home and put you back to work!"
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Mitt Romney, detailing his plan for jobs in Craig, Colo.
Please tell me how firing 145,000 Americans would be good for the economy – not that Romney’s claim is correct. Under the Obama administration, public sector employment has dropped, but private sector employment has grown by 760,000 jobs since Obama signed the stimulus in February of 2009. Since then, public sector employment has dropped by 608,000. Even federal employment has a slower pace of growth than the private sector.
Anyhow, eliminating one job in the public sector does not automatically create a job in the private sector. That’s a ridiculous notion – if Romney is correct, for every teacher, police officer, or postal worker laid off in the public sector, their job became available in the private sector, right?
Right?
Romney’s hatred of the public sector is irrational. Romney supports public sector workers when he can use them as a prop for a photo op, like when he brought pizza to NYC firefighters. Obama may not be the #1 cheerleader for the public sector, but at least he’s not in favor of firing people in the name of job creation.
(via cognitivedissonance)
Everyone knows that people who have government jobs aren’t really people and that the wages they earn don’t actually support families, businesses, the economy, or even end up back in the government pot in the form of taxes.
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