A full quote from the ad being run over and again in Washington state is "In my experience, people create jobs, not government or regulation." As you might guess, the candidate is a Republican, though all her signs show for her party affiliation is "R".
Maybe "Republican" has become so toxic they can't spell it out, so instead of the N word, it's now the R word.
If her ad comment is any measure of the quality of candidates being run by R's, then no wonder they don't want to spell it out. This candidate is very likely alive today because of regulation, regulation that makes sure the water we drink and the air we breathe doesn't kill you. Everytime she ate out at a restaurant, regulations protected her from getting hepatitis C or some other communicable disease or food borne illness.
"In my experience" means in her thoughtless acceptance of "R" cant and hypocrisy, and over the orange thingamajig, I'll spell out just how empty headed this R candidate is.
If we didn't have police "on the job" she would have long ago been killed in an auto accident or some other criminal incident. Those who try to do their own protection by carrying guns everywhere instead end up, as numbers compiled by government show, killing or hurting themselves many times more frequently than if they had trusted the police to do the job. I'd love to see an ad in response to this R candidate showing someone getting robbed while people wearing Teabag hats and carrying R signs shout at the cops "get a job!"
I'd like to see these same folks yelling "get a job" to the firefighters battling in Washington state's largest fire in history, and screaming at the planes dropping water and fire retardants. Or yelling "get a job" at the folks who worked months recovering the bodies of the people killed in Washington state's springtime landslide--and who only this week found and identified the last body.
The idea that only private sector "jobs" matter is stupidity so appalling that if my party held to such arrant stupidity I too would be reluctant to spell its name out too. I have yet to figure out exactly what value the Koch brothers add to either their firms or the United States--they inherited their wealth, they did not earn it. They get hundreds of thousands of dollars an hour for, well what? What do they do that adds that kind of "value" to their products? Research shows that the greater the ratio between the Chief Executive's pay and their worker's average pay, the less well the company tends to perform. That's not pay according to performance, and it belies the claim that only the private sector knows how to achieve job performance.
In my experience, government gets the crap jobs and does them, day in and day out, thanklessly. For example, government plans for, and then responds to, disasters. When W. Bush privatized FEMA by handing it over to a completely unqualified, unexperienced "entrepreneur" it let over 1,000 people die in Katrina, and prolonged the misery of millions more. Government workers try their best to inspect for health and safety a million different situations, largely with very little funding and less understanding and support. But if they weren't on the job, incidents like the one in Texas where an uninspected industrial plant blew away the town would be far more frequent. And that one happened assuredly because Texas has been dominated so long by such "R"s as this candidate.
Volunteers are great, but they can't do the job we need done, all the time in every case, reliably. That Gov Perry invited volunteers to check on their local plants for safety compliance is a joke and a taunt, not a reliable plan to protect citizens from corporate greed and stupidity.
I think I'm going to have to refer to Republicans from now on as "R-word" candidates. And if anyone asks what an R-word candidate is, I will be able to explain to them why the Republican candidates are getting so embarrassed by what R's proclaim that they no longer can even spell out the label. R stands for Retrograde regulations, Reversed social progress, Restricted freedoms, Reduced wages, Retreat in women's rights,
Really Big disasters and explosions, Wreckless wars (yeah, that's a W version of R) . . .
Anybody want to add an R-word definition to these? Please add 'em in the comments. And has anybody else seen R coming up more frequently and Republican less frequently? Do Democrats shy away from Democrat and just use a D as much? I've even seen R candidates here use GOP instead of Republican, and say they are doing so to emphasize their Tea Party sympathies. Anybody else seen this in your area? Is it really becoming the R-word where you are?