GOP Staffers: Waitin’ In Your Welfare Line
“It’s a double-whammy,” said Brad Traverse, whose staffing website, www.bradtraverse.com, is a popular destination for job seekers on the Hill. “You have more firms who are both looking for Democrats and eliminating the Republican lobbyist positions. And from what I’ve heard talking to people is there’s a kind of a dearth of good, qualified Democrats to take some of these lobbying jobs.”
Younger staffers may have an easier time matching their $30,000 to $50,000 salaries elsewhere, but senior chiefs of staff making six-figure incomes will find it quite difficult to replicate that pay as Republican operatives in a Democratic town during an economic downturn.
“This is a very bad time to be looking,” one House aide said on the condition of anonymity. “There are a lot of people looking and not a lot of jobs out there for them. People can still find stuff; they just have to lower their expectations.”
You’ll pardon me if I don’t shed too many tears for the GOP, aka “the party that destroyed the American economy twice.” Thanks to the GOP, more people than ever go without health insurance. More people than ever are out of work thanks to GOP employment and trade policies. (I myself spent a good year and a half out of work in 2004-2005 jobless recovery). More people rely on credit cards to stretch their paychecks, incurring interest rates that are killing them, thanks to longstanding GOP policies that benefit corporations, not people.
I hope every single one of these GOP stooges learns first-hand what it’s like not to have anything. Not only does it serve them right, maybe they’ll learn a thing or two about being in the underclass, about compassion, and about community…
Oh wait. Republicans never learn anything. Well, it’ll serve ‘em right at least.
Soup is good food(we dont need you any more)
You made a good meal(we dont need you any more)
Now how do you feel(we dont need you any more)
To be shit out our ass
And thrown in the cold like a piece of trash
