Thanks to Marty Bennez for this clip and this quote: ---After highlighting the network’s derisive commentary on the poor of this country, Stewart then moved to how Fox News has covered corporations abusing the tax laws of this country. The anger was palpable with Stewart in this portion of the segment. He played a clip where it was stated that $3 billion has been lost on abuse, fraud and waste in the food stamp program. He contrasted this with another clip of Bolling stating that $4 billion in subsidies to oil companies was just a pittance. Stewart claimed that Bolling was the ‘worst math teacher ever’ by essentially claiming that $3 billion is greater than $4 billion. The segment also moved on to showing other Fox News’ contributors, as well as 2012 Presidential candidate Mitt Romney, justifying tax shelters and loopholes so that corporations and wealthy individuals can avoid paying billions in tax dollars. He focused his attention on how Fox seems to not have a problem with the ultra-rich hoarding money and avoiding paying their fair share, as they’ve stated that this should all ‘trickle down’ on the less fortunate.--- And of course the economy has been so bad under Obama that the corporations and CEOs are showing even bigger paychecks than before the crash. Thus, Republicans who still believe in trickle down, yet say the economy is bad show just how ignorant they are. On the other hand we also have the hypocrisy of the dems who apparently think Obamas doing a wonderful job and have also ignored that CEOs doing amazing while the country struggles. If you believe trickle down is crap, shouldnt you be calling him out on this too instead of standing by him? Or are both sides still waiting on that trickle down... ---Of course, as Stewart pointed out, that doesn’t appear to be the case. He helpfully featured a clip about JP Morgan Chase making millions off of EBT cards over the past few years. Chase got so much business from the EBT card venture that they had to create more customer service jobs. Wouldn’t you know, those jobs were outsourced overseas so they could pay those employees $3.25 an hour, rather than that largess being ‘trickled down’ to the American public, many of whom were being forced to use these very same EBT cards due to lack of good employment.---
Posted on: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 08:13:31 +0000
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