Rubio is 38. Republicans have occupied the White House for 26 of those 38 years — all insisting that small government and low taxes are the answer to everything.

Wrong…

He’s right to worry about his children’s future, but their future has been jeopardized by the failed economic policies of the Republican Party

Correct…..! Prick.

their future has been jeopardized by the failed economic policies of the Republican Party

Wingnuts are unable to face their own success; they’ve eliminated the ‘consumer’ in consumer economy.

I greatly fear that the day is coming when poor people will actually put billionaires out of business, but it will be by exercising their 2nd amendment rights, not by any type of productive behavior.

I suspect this idiot is buying into the fallacy that a free market exists here or even can exist here in the US. He is blind to the fact that we now have an oligopoly for every major manufacturing and financial corporate activity going. How many major insurance agencies operate in any area, more than ten? More like two. How many major telecommunication corporations do we have in the whole country? A dozen? More like four. How about major financial corporations? More than four? Hah! And major media corporations? Are there half a dozen?

When you get a situation where so few are able to control so much, forget about any competition. The players have learned to cooperate among themselves so that it isn’t them that gets hurt if something goes wrong. It is we the victims. If anyone ever sounds off about a free market, competition, the invisible hand, whatnot, just laugh in his/her face.

Well, if there weren’t all these poor people, America would be a richer place, right?

Also, Charlie Crist got married, so he can’t possibly be gay.

Pretty crude to rank the cares of billionaires gone bad above those of the hundreds of thousands of voters whose pensions they’ve taken, whose medical care they refuse to pay for, whose savings have been swallowed in bank, loan and securities failures.

When George Bush said he was the president of the mores and the have mores, it was a bad joke by a scion of 150 years of Wall Street wealth, who cares about fewer people than Dick Cheney. Now, there’s a generation that thinks his perspective was a bright idea. It would be folly to elect them to meaningful public office.

Rubio is handsome, though. I mean, he’s telenovella handsome.
I wonder if Charlie would have a hard difficult time debating him?

I liked Will calling Meek basically a Liberal extremest. Hahahahaha!! That’s probably news to even Meek.

Bet Rubio can’t name a single billionaire who has been put out of business by poor people.

John Thain of Merrill Lynch.
If all those poor people had kept on paying their mortgages,
Thain would still have a job, be buying $35,00 toilets with shareholders’ money,
and fundraising for John McCain.

Rubio is wrong, unless he considers the poor people putting billionaires out of business to be attorneys.

OT
William Safire dead at 79. The old neocons are biting the dust, leaving the world to their nutzoid spawn.

One should not speak ill of the dead.
I’ll keep my trap shut, but it will be hard.

The old ones are going fairly fast now. The ones taking their place are not just conservative but certifiably crazy so I think we are probably worse off than before.

When George Bush said he was the president of the mores and the have mores, it was a bad joke by a scion of 150 years of Wall Street wealth, who cares about fewer people than Dick Cheney. Now, there’s a generation that thinks his perspective was a bright idea.

The idea clearly had been around a while, or George wouldn’t have said that.Reagan wasn’t too keen to have poor people (or students, or women) around, either. (Give you some idea of Bush’s views: people in West Texas were hesitant to vote for Reagan because he had a liberal running mate. My mother changed her voter registration because (a) she wouldn’t vote for Reagan, and (b) she didn’t think much of a guy who would change his publicly-stated views in order to get elected.)

Forgive me, for I am a little confused. When Rubio’s parents fled Cuba did they bring great wealth with them? If not how did they manage to become billionaires. It would be very useful for the average American to know this secret. Personally, I have noticed that even if you follow all the rules – you know, study hard, work hard, prepare for your retirement, buy a house, raise a family and all the other advertised values, they suddenly change all the rules. Your 401k is too scary to even look at, you can’t sell your house to anyone, no matter how low the price, your savings go for health care. When all your other assets have been taken, you’re single and wind up in a nursing home they take your house. Would somebody much smarter than me please write a book (maybe even a pamphlet) to advise the citizens on how to avoid becoming poor, so that we might not become a drag on all the upstanding billionaires.

classic prick

Rubio is married to a former Dolphins cheerleader.
I’m sure he has very high ambitions and he certainly has the looks.

beautiful on the outside. buttugly on the inside!

Supporting tarp hardly makes the other republican a compassionate conservative. Are there any democrats or progressives in the race?

Book Salon a couple of flights upstairs with David Swanson’s Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union hosted by Glenn Greenwald

I don’t know Rubios’ family history, but many of those who left Cuba in the days before Castro did come with much of their fortunes intact. Many of them settled in south Florida and along the Gulf Coast. But no worries, Rubio doesn’t stand a chance unless something really weird happens.

It won’t even take a pamphlet. You are supposed to have the dignity to die when you no longer have any money to donate to the billionaires to compensate them for putting up with your unbearable lack of socioeconomic status. That’s why this whole health care reform thing really must be stopped. Well, stopped right after the part where everyone is required to buy private insurance, anyway.

As it turns out, many political refugees come to America with a lot of wealth. I don’t live in an area with a lot of Cuban refugees, but we had an Iranian influx when the shah was going down and a lot of those people were getting out specifically because they had a lot of money and wanted to make sure they could get it out with them. Others came over after having lost everything or uncertain what they would be able to get out of the country, but not all of them.

“He worries that his children’s generation “will be the first to inherit a diminished country.”

If he is so concerned about a diminished country why doesn’t he take his behind back to the home country and do something about the people there and the country?

Cause it is easy to be a wingnut when you have everything handed to you. He learned from his parents who had the typical attitudes of the rich toward the poor in Cuba and brought such attitudes to this country.