GOP Congressman: the economy is TOO good, let's cause a recession

[Blue3]

This probably wasn't the best PR move...

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http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/house-republican-pushes-pro-recession-message

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Blum was already vulnerable. What is he thinking?

[Wells]

[Potus]

Blum was already vulnerable. What is he thinking?

It's folksy. DC is doing much better than everyone else.

[Mike Thick]

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[Beet]

We said we wanted honest politicians, right?

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We said we wanted honest politicians, right?

Yes, and this is one of the benefits. Now that Mr. Blum has unmasked himself as a crazy, we can show him the door.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Wasn't somebody on the forum saying just the other day that Blum was such a clear-thinking independent-minded type and stood a decent chance of surviving this election cycle because of it?

[TDAS04]

lol

[Kingpoleon]

In DC? A recession would require a good police chief first. Then, I can understand why you might want a controlled fire for new plants in a forest, but I want to look into this first.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

DC's businesses are all government related in some fashion. So while I understand the sentiment for smaller government, it was quite poorly expressed.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

What he should have said, was "DC needs to experience a recession for once, to understand the plight of everyone else". Still not a wise statement, but it strikes a populist note against DC being out of touch.


Indeed, it has often been noted that one of the reasons why the GOP elites both in the establishment and movement conservative think thanks were so taken by surprise by Trump was that they did not experience the recession pretty much at all, nor the house crash in DC, NOVA etc and therefore fail to relate and connect to the problems that the average middle class Republican in Georgia or Michigan are feeling.

[Citizen Hats]

What he should have said, was "DC needs to experience a recession for once, to understand the plight of everyone else". Still not a wise statement, but it strikes a populist note against DC being out of touch.


Indeed, it has often been noted that one of the reasons why the GOP elites both in the establishment and movement conservative think thanks were so taken by surprise by Trump was that they did not experience the recession pretty much at all, nor the house crash in DC, NOVA etc and therefore fail to relate and connect to the problems that the average middle class Republican in Georgia or Michigan are feeling.

it's ironically the sort of statement that only someone who was out of touch could make - someone who wasn't feeling the sting of potential unemployment, fewer hours, lower wages, and friends and family suffering the same. 

[SATW]

Blum's a moron, so this isn't new.

[Blue3]

What he should have said, was "DC needs to experience a recession for once, to understand the plight of everyone else". Still not a wise statement, but it strikes a populist note against DC being out of touch.

Doesn't most of DC consist of poor African-American neighborhoods?

[Vosem]

What he should have said, was "DC needs to experience a recession for once, to understand the plight of everyone else". Still not a wise statement, but it strikes a populist note against DC being out of touch.

Doesn't most of DC consist of poor African-American neighborhoods?

That's not what rural Iowans think of when someone says "DC", though.

[RightBehind]

People are upset by this why? All he did was come out and say what 99.9% of Republicans have been thinking since January 20, 2009.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

What he should have said, was "DC needs to experience a recession for once, to understand the plight of everyone else". Still not a wise statement, but it strikes a populist note against DC being out of touch.

Doesn't most of DC consist of poor African-American neighborhoods?

No. The city's no longer even majority black, tho still plurality for now. Ain't gentrification grand? It still is disproportionately Democratic tho, and those Republicans who are  explicitly racist are going to be more upset with white Democratic race traitors than with blacks.

[Nutmeg]

DC's businesses are all government related in some fashion.

The federal government employs only 14 percent of the region's workforce, and it is not even the metro area with the largest share of federal government employment or federally related employment.

What he should have said, was "DC needs to experience a recession for once, to understand the plight of everyone else". Still not a wise statement, but it strikes a populist note against DC being out of touch.

The people who live in the city are not out of touch; the rest of the country should do some self-reflection and consider who they keep electing to Congress. When people complain about our nation's capital, they really should be complaining about their own elected officials.

D.C. as a city has suffered for decades and finally is turning around, as so many American cities are after failed policies destroyed them. Most countries treat their capital with a degree of pride. Why do so many people in this country want a rundown national capital?

[Virginiá]

D.C. as a city has suffered for decades and finally is turning around, as so many American cities are after failed policies destroyed them. Most countries treat their capital with a degree of pride. Why do so many people in this country want a rundown national capital?

Because Republicans have been training their base for years to hate the government, especially the federal government. Got a problem in your life? It's Washington's and Obama's fault!

It's like you said, if people are upset with the way things are going, they need to stop reelecting the people who perpetuate Congressional gridlock and/or do not serve the issues of their constituencies. Instead, half the electorate doesn't even show up on election day and the ones that do tend to mindlessly send the incumbent back to DC.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

How about the GoP start moving on Bowles-Simpson, min wage and immigration reform, agenda items that Boehner didnt pass. But, Ryan, was a good start, but didnt pass anything but sequester cuts.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

DC's businesses are all government related in some fashion.

The federal government employs only 14 percent of the region's workforce, and it is not even the metro area with the largest share of federal government employment or federally related employment.

As even that article acknowledges:

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Without the government there, there would be no reason for a major city to exist along the Potomac. At best Georgetown and Alexandria would be small cities of around 25,000 each.

[Indy Texas]

DC's businesses are all government related in some fashion.

The federal government employs only 14 percent of the region's workforce, and it is not even the metro area with the largest share of federal government employment or federally related employment.

What he should have said, was "DC needs to experience a recession for once, to understand the plight of everyone else". Still not a wise statement, but it strikes a populist note against DC being out of touch.

The people who live in the city are not out of touch; the rest of the country should do some self-reflection and consider who they keep electing to Congress. When people complain about our nation's capital, they really should be complaining about their own elected officials.

D.C. as a city has suffered for decades and finally is turning around, as so many American cities are after failed policies destroyed them. Most countries treat their capital with a degree of pride. Why do so many people in this country want a rundown national capital?

Are you one of those people who thinks "the private sector" in DC is some rough-and-tumble beacon of honest free enterpise?

If you live in DC or Maryland or NoVA and you work for Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, Raytheon, CSC, SAIC, Leidos, Accenture, BoozAllenHamilton, PwC, Cisco, L3, Deloitte, or pretty much any law firm or public relations firm, your job would not exist if not for the federal government.

Even if you're making lattes at Starbucks or washing cars for the people who work at the places I listed above, your job, in that regard, also depends on the federal government.