Her speech reminds me of the speech given by the guy from Delta house in the movie Animal House where he ended up saying their suspension was an outright war on America..

"Forget change, I want improvement!"

I can't decide if she doesn't know she's ignorant but she's confident and knows she sounds intelligent to some people (but she doesn't know they're idiots).......or if she really knows the right answers but wants to fool the idiots......I'm guessing it's the former.  She can't get anything right.  She says it's prepostorous that union auto-workers make $70/hour.......but she clearly doesn't know that they average out (old hires and newer hires) $35/hr + bfts worth $15/hr, + legacy costs for retirees of $15/hr = $70.  She just doesn't know the whole equation and its logic.  And she jumps to dozens of ridiculous conclusions after her first, her major error. What a dooooofus.

Should it be a surprise that MSDNC hired another economic illiterate to host her own show?  No.  After all MSDNC is to NBC what UAW is to the Big 3...a massive financial liability.  The scary part is how eager she is to parade her colossal ignorance. 

"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." -Ronald Reagan

fitzfong.blogspot.com

All of a sudden there's a lot of fiberals who have found religion on corporate welfare. Isn't it amazing that they have this new found love of trickle down economics?

Does MSNBC only hire economically illiterate socialists? Hoover was an interventionalist - higher tariffs, expansion of credit by the Federal Reserve, the Home Loan Bank system, Agricultural Credit Banks, the RFC which gave money to shore up failing banks, states and argriculture, attempted price fixing, banned short sellers and expaned public works programs - all of which did nothing but make the problem worse.

Hoover literally tried to artificially keep wages high and advocated work sharing, which did nothing but increase unemployment. Hoover bragged that wage rates were the highest real wages in the world while he had the highest unemployment rate in American history. LMAO!

It is hilarious how economically clueless Maddow is.

America's Great Depression (PDF) (368 pgs) (Murray Rothbard, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Economics, 2000)

Big Three Bailout - Give Me a Break (Video) (5min) (John Stossel, 20/20)

Carbon Dioxide (CO2) is Not Pollution

We shouldn't be dabbling in any company's business. Businesses sink or swim depending on how they are being run. People are worth what a company can afford to pay them and still make a profit. If they're paying workers three times what they're worth because of union arm twisting, then they need to be history. Our government shouldn't take our money and give it to union mobsters.

What they always seem to miss is that it's not just how much they get paid. The number of workers they have and their salaries don't make up the difference they have with the implants. No, the real difference is the union contracts as a whole. The fact that a window-installer can't work on the door assembly line when a door assembly-man calls in sick is just silly, and that's pretty much what you get with the UAW. 

Explain to me one other buisness where you won't get fired when you constantly refuse to do anything but the bare necessities at work and expect to get paid more then the guys a state over who bend over backwards to get the job done and make a quality product, and I'll eat my millionaire monopoly hat AND monocole.  

Thankfully, Yahoo News has their elbow firmly on the pulse of the situation. Apparently the talkinng points were sent out to all the media, to frame the eveeeeel rich fatcat Repubs as in the pocket of foreign businesses and against the working man. Even Yahoo's take on the socialist card check program is laughable:

Many Democrats support the Employee Free Choice Act, which would take away employers' rights to demand a secret ballot on whether workers will join a union. Instead, workers could form unions by getting a majority of employees to sign a card in support of it.

See? It's all lollipop dreams and candy cane smiles, folks! 

1)  Finkelstein: Hearty Thank you for the Madcow story.

2)  Nwzbstrs Community: You all are the greatest! :)

3)  Economic illiteracy's so pervasive that the ideas of the average full-fledged Democrat (including of course the MSM) mirror the platform of the Communist Party USA. See  www.cpusa.org and investigate for yourself.  It's become "mainstream" (albeit unknowingly) to agree with the tenets of cpusa and their avowed adherents who despise capitalism.  Btw, the proponents of cpusa include many econ profs at state universities and "think-tanks" that have become trumpets for leftist thought.....John Podesta, Robert Pollin, etc.  It's quite incredible.  Too bad that NYT,WaPo, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN have abdicated their duty to report facts and trends, isn't it?

most taxpayers, not just republicans, don't want to be employers ... by default.   she forgets that increasing wages affects far more people than workers involved or the companies forced to pay the workers.  by default, consumers/taxpayers end up footing the bill: 

1.  they will be forced to pay higher prices on goods

2.  higher taxes to pay for the unemployed when the businesses close due to high overhead associated with forced pay increases for staff.

3.  higher taxes for the unemployed who were let go by businesses ... forced to cut staff in order to reduce overhead by being forced to pay higher wages.

before any of these buffoons on network/cable television start preaching to me about anyone's pay or lack of ... they need to disclose their own salaries and and explain why they aren't donating most all of it the liberal causes they wish to force upon the rest of us.

Would anyone be willing to wager about the kind of car Rachel Maddow drives. If you bet import and won, you just made more money than a UAW worker. Just a hypothetical, but if true, does she not prove beyond a doubt the hypocrisy of most liberal democrat, import driving, Birkenstock wearing dip-wads. Oh, they know what's best for everyone else but are exempt from scrutiny or criticism. Oh, and they're not to blame for failed auto industry it's always someone else's fault. The liberals have mandated the domestic auto industry out of business.

Everly Waverly, big shot from the East says--
"Round'em all up and throw'em in jail"

To the butch Lesbian's Wet Dream, let me say I HATE UNIONS!  I would rather be a union buster than anything.  Unions give to the fascist/socialists once called the Democratic Party. 

Oh, and need I remind you of someone who posts to Brian Maloney's blog...AN AVOWED SOCIALIST, who could EASILY work for MadCOW!

"Buyers remorse? When after 4
years of Rush Limbaugh insisting that Obama was directly involved with
the scandal, and nothing, not a shred of evidence lends credibility to
the theory...... once more normal Americans will laugh last.
Ironically, Obama's approval rating just shot up!

America is happy with electing Obama, he vast, vast majority.
over 70%, and he is not even if office yet.

Live with it, right wing media is irrelevant and speaks for the fringe, not America in general.

yet another White Water( and I did not support Clinton either)

just
like White-water, wing nuts will be grasping at straws. I did not even
vote Obama, but I guarantee you now, Obama will be exonerated.

Look
I get the RNC talking points, I understand how the RNC works, the
talking points are filtered over to the radio hosts, repeated word per
word by the hosts, and recited by the ditto-heads who worship these
hosts.

WP Dunn, hate to break it to you, but Republicans will
remain out of power for the next 50 years. We all understand
politicians are corrupt, no Democrat thinks their party is angelic.
Only Republicans place all their faith in a political party.
Republicans have shown to legislate against common, working people, all
the scandals in the world will not get Republicans back in power.
People are not going to vote for the party of the rich, because Democrats are corrupt.

I have my RNC talking points too, and I'm rolling on the floor laughing as always.

Obama
will be re-elected in a landslide in 4 years and will most likely get
their 60 seats in 2 years. Republicans are finished, 30 years of
legislating against working people, did them in. No scandal will
reverse the rejection of the GOP. NONE

Sane America will
sit back and laugh at the GOP, and vote more GOP freaks out of office.
You can scream " bu bu bu blovich, blogovich" like the sheep that you
are.

Obama's troubles? HYSTERICAL. After 8 years of Bush,
America i rejoicing Bush is gone in 5 weeks. America is thrilled.
America hates the GOP. Get it through your thick skulls.

after Bush ran this country into oblivion, nobody cares about this scandal and nobody but wingnuts are blaming Obama

When
America is unified around their president, you know a Democrat is in
power and you know wing-nuts will take their Anti-American stance

but but Blogovich!!! bu bu

get
ready for 8 years of GOP whining, in January the entire nation will
celebrate and Republicans will be bitter and threatening to leave the
country

The govorner was caught on tape cursing Obama, so much for Obama being involved.

give us all a break

America is happy, Bush is DONE, Republicans are done. Patriots are thrilled.

in 8 years we all can here the right wing shrieking bu bu bu bu senator-gate!!!! Hysterical

By  AmericalovesObama, at 11 December, 2008 15:15"

Or try this...

Ever notice when Americans are happy, Republicans are miserable and trying to destroy the president?

Repukes,
you are either with us, or with the terrorists. Obama has a mandate and
his approval ratings shot up, in a poll released today

When
America does well, when America is optimistic, Republicans are
miserable. Republicans are only happy when the vast majority of
Americans are angry, broke and miserable, like the past 8 years

As
Obama slowly repairs the economy and America's reputation, Repukes will
be more and more miserable. Republicans hate when the common folk are
happy and successful.
They hated FDR, cursed his existence, since
FDR helped the working class, but cheered Ronald Reagan as he
slaughtered nuns in South America, and destroyed American labor. sick,
sick, people.

Bush was a wet dream for them. Corpses on 9-11
corpses from Iraq, corpses from New Orleans, poverty, unemployment,
decreased wages, increased hunger. 8 years of virtual terrorism against
America, and Republicans were thrilled. You people are sick
Anti-American degenerates
Jobs disappearing, un-insured children, failing schools, Republicans rejoiced.

sick,
sick, degenerates. Only a true terrorist would defend Bush and still
defend Bush. Maek Levin is a terrorist, Limbaugh is a terrorist,
Hannity is a terrorist.
Maloney is a terrorist, supporting Bush is
akin to terrorism, and now the terrorists are upset, their jihad leader
is leaving office

. You people supported a president that destroyed America, and gleefully supported him.

Republicans are thrilled when America is suffering. Now America is optimistic, Republicans are on suicide watch

real sick people

By  RepubsloveDeadAmericans, at 11 December, 2008 15:33"

Just one JUST ONE DAMN TIME, I want to go to this slapnuts house with a gun, knock on his door, he/she opens it, I stick the gun in his mouth...FIGURE OUT THE REST!  I HATE COMMIES, SOCIALIST, FASCISTS, DEMOCRATS...DAMN IT MAN I HATE'EM ALL!  THEY ARE TRAITORS WHO THINK THE CONSTITUTION IS A CONSPIRACY!  IF THEY THINK THAT WAY THEN THAT'S WHAT THESE GLOBAL FASCISTS THINK OF AMERICA AS WELL!

For the record, I am NOT RECOGNIZING BARRACK HUSSEIN OBAMA ODINGA AS
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES!  I would like to become part of a
secession front!