Rush Limbaugh loses 7th advertiser over Sandra Fluke ???slut??? flap

[vancouver]

And this sucker secdrl gets sucked right into it. Fortunately he is a dying breed, still the loudest, but dying.

Unfortunately not fast enough...

 

[Gissurjon]

Unfortunately not fast enough...

No but luckily I'm a patient dude.

 

[vancouver]

No but luckily I'm a patient dude.

Teach me!!! LOL!

 

[hoyle21]

ha..ha...ha...thousands? not even close

TANF is maxed out at 400 month for lifetime max of 60 months

food stamps most you can get is about 700/month with 3 kids, doesn't go up after that.

if you ever bothered to read any economic study's on the topic you would have learned about the long term economic effects when 2 presidents (Reagan & GHB) held the minimum wage stagnant for a decade while inflation reduced it to near nothing. i'm guessing you don't read any of the reports out of the OECD either on the subject.

bad economic policy has long lasting and many times permanent effects, increased poverty being one of them. people that think the effects of bad economic policy just "go away" when the date changes on the calender have no clue about economics.

Why let facts get in the way of their redneck preconceived notions?

 

[jgostained]

ha..ha...ha...thousands? not even close

TANF is maxed out at 400 month for lifetime max of 60 months

food stamps most you can get is about 700/month with 3 kids, doesn't go up after that.

if you ever bothered to read any economic study's on the topic you would have learned about the long term economic effects when 2 presidents (Reagan & GHB) held the minimum wage stagnant for a decade while inflation reduced it to near nothing. i'm guessing you don't read any of the reports out of the OECD either on the subject.

bad economic policy has long lasting and many times permanent effects, increased poverty being one of them. people that think the effects of bad economic policy just "go away" when the date changes on the calender have no clue about economics.

Max allotment according to the worksheet you fill out when applying is quite a bit higher. max amount is actually 24% more at an actual amount of $918 per month. On Fox News this morning a young lady who won ONE MILLION DOLLARS IN THE MICHIGAN LOTTERY IN NOVEMBER HAS STILL BEEN ABLE TO COLLECT FOOD STAMPS IN THE AMOUNT OF TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS PER MONTH! I believe that people in certain situations need it but there is so many welfare riders out there that is why we are in the current situation. The entitlement attitude is out of control in the world not just in this country. Hell give people the check I don't care just figure out a way to pay for it without raising my share of the cost of it. Impossible?

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[Zaphod]

Okay, and that's where I think the issue is. Ms. Fluke is going to a catholic university and wants the government to pay for bc. Should the government force religous institutions to pay for bc methods? Since it's a private institution, I think the govt. is infringing on the seperation of C&S.

The university should pay for the birth control through their insurance plan. Sixty years down the road after the pill came out it's suddenly an issue?

 

[Zaphod]

You are correct about this being a smoke screen but the problem isn't whether my insurance plan pays for it. The problem is does the church have to pay for it (at least for me). I personally think if a woman wants it she should have access but the church shouldn't have to float the cost. The church is against it and it has nothing to do with the members views. The church shouldn't bow to peer pressure.

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Peer pressure has nothing to do with it. The church should pay for it. Like I said before it wasn't an issue until this year.

 

[jgostained]

Peer pressure has nothing to do with it. The church should pay for it. Like I said before it wasn't an issue until this year.

This issue just arose this year of the church paying for the birth control. If you want free birth control go to the clinic and get it. It is already free at so many places. They give it to you if you just walk in and ask for it. So why make the church pay for something that already exists? I went to the clinic with my high school girlfriend and she would go inside and get her free birth control. It is free now why push your beliefs on someone else? I could care less if you make my boss cover it but the church come on get serious for a moment. I am a sinner but that doesn't mean the church as a whole is.

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[Zaphod]

This issue just arose this year of the church paying for the birth control. If you want free birth control go to the clinic and get it. It is already free at so many places. They give it to you if you just walk in and ask for it. So why make the church pay for something that already exists? I went to the clinic with my high school girlfriend and she would go inside and get her free birth control. It is free now why push your beliefs on someone else? I could care less if you make my boss cover it but the church come on get serious for a moment. I am a sinner but that doesn't mean the church as a whole is.

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I'm not pushing my beliefs on anyone. I'm resisting the catholic church trying to push their agenda on me and anyone else. The catholic church wants to influence the government but doesn't want to follow the rules of the government. Separation of church and state? Then the church needs to get out of government.

 

[jgostained]

I'm not pushing my beliefs on anyone. I'm resisting the catholic church trying to push their agenda on me and anyone else. The catholic church wants to influence the government but doesn't want to follow the rules of the government. Separation of church and state? Then the church needs to get out of government.

By pushing this on the church you are trying to push your agenda on the church. If your argument is keep the church out of government you need to attack this from a different direction. Right or wrong the social issues have gone ignored for quite some time but when you attack an organizations beliefs and the wallet all in one attack you awaken the sleeping giant. Do catholics use birth control? Yes but should the church or I pay for it? No but I am more then willing to pay my fair share of taxes and that means you can pay your share also and the government can use that money for what they please. I will not convince you mr left wing activist and you will not convince me the right wing conservative activist. I'm just happy that you and I both have the right to even have this conversation unlike in so many other places.

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[min0 lee]

On Fox News

I see the problem now....

 

[Zaphod]

By pushing this on the church you are trying to push your agenda on the church. If your argument is keep the church out of government you need to attack this from a different direction. Right or wrong the social issues have gone ignored for quite some time but when you attack an organizations beliefs and the wallet all in one attack you awaken the sleeping giant. Do catholics use birth control? Yes but should the church or I pay for it? No but I am more then willing to pay my fair share of taxes and that means you can pay your share also and the government can use that money for what they please. I will not convince you mr left wing activist and you will not convince me the right wing conservative activist. I'm just happy that you and I both have the right to even have this conversation unlike in so many other places.

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I wouldn't call me left wing.

 

[LAM]

Max allotment according to the worksheet you fill out when applying is quite a bit higher. max amount is actually 24% more at an actual amount of $918 per month. On Fox News this morning a young lady who won ONE MILLION DOLLARS IN THE MICHIGAN LOTTERY IN NOVEMBER HAS STILL BEEN ABLE TO COLLECT FOOD STAMPS IN THE AMOUNT OF TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS PER MONTH! I believe that people in certain situations need it but there is so many welfare riders out there that is why we are in the current situation. The entitlement attitude is out of control in the world not just in this country. Hell give people the check I don't care just figure out a way to pay for it without raising my share of the cost of it. Impossible?

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there is always some degree of fraud in any type of program where the individual or company, etc. receives some form of money or benefits from the government but this group is the smallest percentage.

since 1970 cumulative inflation in the US is 200% which comes out to 6.25% a year. most US workers are lucky to receive wage increases at 2% a third of the rate of real inflation.

CEO pay has skyrocketed 300% since 1990. Corporate profits have doubled. Average "production worker" pay has increased 4%. The minimum wage has dropped. (All numbers adjusted for inflation).


In this graph from the FRB you can see how the share of national income that goes to labor has constantly decreased since 1980. The only upturn occurred during the Clinton admin which was the result of real income growth from the Internet boom and progressive economic policy. Obama inherited the poorest middle class in 60 years, the cumulative effect of economic policy in the decades prior to his election. Look what happened to the share of the national income after 8 years of GWB, he tanked it.

It's also very easy to see how the effect of supply-side economics which favors top-down grants and policy show a decrease in the national income that goes to labor, increasing inequality.

then add in that since the 80's the federal tax code has been made less progressive. this means that the overall US tax code now is only slightly progressive as taxes paid at the state level are highly regressive as those in the lower income quintiles pay a greater overall percentage of their income in taxes while their wage growth is the slowest.

 

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46 Advertisers Have Now Dropped Rush

http://thinkprogress.org/media/2012/03/02/436852/rush-limbaugh-advertisers/

Rush Limbaugh’s latest misogynistic tirade against Georgetown University Law Student Sandra Fluke may be the last straw for many of the shock jock’s corporate sponsors. Thousands of angry customers have been inundating dozens of Limbaugh’s corporate sponsors, demanding that they cut ties with the program.

So far, Sleep Number, The Sleep Train, Quicken Loans, Legal Zoom, Citrix, Carbonite, ProFlowers, Tax Resolution, AOL, Bonobos, Sears, Allstate Insurance, Sensa, Bare Escentuals, Vitacost, Hadeed Carpet, Thompson Creek Windows, PolyCom, Service Magic, AccuQuote Life Insurance, Geico, John Deere, Stamps.com, St. Vincent’s Medical Center, Bethesda Sedation Dentistry, Cascades Dental, Philadelphia Orchestra, Goodwill Industries, Heart & Body Extract, Netflix, Downeast Energy, Capitol One, JCPenney, Matrix Direct, Reputation Rhino, Consolidated Credit, Constant Contact, RSVP Discount Beverage, Cunningham Security, Regal Assets, Freedom Debt Relief, Norway Savings Bank, Portland Ovations, The Girl Scouts of Oregon and Southwest Washington and O’Reilly Auto Parts have pulled ads from the program.

 

[Arnold]

So far, Sleep Number, The Sleep Train, Quicken Loans, Legal Zoom, Citrix, Carbonite, ProFlowers, Tax Resolution, AOL, Bonobos, Sears, Allstate Insurance, Sensa, Bare Escentuals, Vitacost, Hadeed Carpet, Thompson Creek Windows, PolyCom, Service Magic, AccuQuote Life Insurance, Geico, John Deere, Stamps.com, St. Vincent???s Medical Center, Bethesda Sedation Dentistry, Cascades Dental, Philadelphia Orchestra, Goodwill Industries, Heart & Body Extract, Netflix, Downeast Energy, Capitol One, JCPenney, Matrix Direct, Reputation Rhino, Consolidated Credit, Constant Contact, RSVP Discount Beverage, Cunningham Security, Regal Assets, Freedom Debt Relief, Norway Savings Bank, Portland Ovations, The Girl Scouts of Oregon and Southwest Washington and O???Reilly Auto Parts have pulled ads from the program.

holy shit balls, that is awesome!

 

[min0 lee]

At this rate he will longer be able to pay for his Oxycontin and Viagra.....he may need a little assistant from the government. Hah!

 

[irish_2003]

rich people don't have time to come to a bodybuilding forum and post on money...except lam...he's made so much money and knows everything that the one thing left for him to conquer is making a bunch of juiceheads become libtards along with him...

 

[Arnold]

rich people don't have time to come to a bodybuilding forum and post on money...except lam...he's made so much money and knows everything that the one thing left for him to conquer is making a bunch of juiceheads become libtards along with him...

what does being liberal or conservative have to do with it? do you really think the current GOP is conservative? give me a fucking break, GWB's administration started this financial mess. I am not putting blame on any parties here because it makes no fucking difference when the entire government is corrupt, the rich get richer, the poor get poorer and the middle class is a false reality.

 

[irish_2003]

what does being liberal or conservative have to do with it? do you really think the current GOP is conservative? give me a fucking break, GWB's administration started this financial mess. I am not putting blame on any parties here because it makes no fucking difference when the entire government is corrupt, the rich get richer, the poor get poorer and the middle class is a false reality.

i blame myself for not recognizing that I HAD the opportunity to invest in certain areas and get rich too...i don't blame the rich, nor the GOP...it's the difference between getting a "handup" (republicans) or giving "handouts" (dems)

 

[hoyle21]

Rich people aren't republicans. The most common republican now days is a red neck NASCAR fan from Georgia.

 

[Arnold]

i blame myself for not recognizing that I HAD the opportunity to invest in certain areas and get rich too...i don't blame the rich, nor the GOP...it's the difference between getting a "handup" (republicans) or giving "handouts" (dems)

just become a politician, most of them are millionaires.

 

[jgostained]

Rich people aren't republicans. The most common republican now days is a red neck NASCAR fan from Georgia.

Lol those are the ones we would be more then willing to give back to you.

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[jgostained]

I wouldn't call me left wing.

Well your not on the right......

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[jgostained]

I see the problem now....

Fair and Balanced

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[jgostained]

The university should pay for the birth control through their insurance plan. Sixty years down the road after the pill came out it's suddenly an issue?

It's a catholic university

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[woodwalker]

you guys are getting off topic.
rush called her a slut and a prostitute.
who cares if they think they shouldget free health care or not or if the taxes should be raised on the rich.
THEIR HYPOCRATES what about the liberals calling sarah pailin a dumb bitch, or laura ingram a whore, or the book written by al franken titled "Rush Limbaugh is a big fat liar".
Sorry but this is the U.S.A. and we have freedom of speech weather right or wrong left or right republican or democrat we have the freedom to say what we want.
i personally dont like her stand but i'm not getting all worked up because she wants to take more of my money to pay for her health care, thats her opinion, let her talk.

 

[LAM]

rich people don't have time to come to a bodybuilding forum and post on money...except lam...he's made so much money and knows everything that the one thing left for him to conquer is making a bunch of juiceheads become libtards along with him...

the world thanks you for not having children, it's so painful obvious you are dam near retarded...i could give a flying fuck about what you think about me, your opinion on anything is meaningless as you have shown to have a severe lack of knowledge in just about all subjects...I post only to inform those that have been "educated" by the mainstream media which only guarantees the watcher will know next to nothing, you are a perfect example of this.

history will show who was right and who was wrong and it won't be those that can't perform even basic mathematics to show a positive or negative economic trend over a period of time...

and as the saying goes "the truth does have a liberal bias"......

 

[jgostained]

you guys are getting off topic.
rush called her a slut and a prostitute.
who cares if they think they shouldget free health care or not or if the taxes should be raised on the rich.
THEIR HYPOCRATES what about the liberals calling sarah pailin a dumb bitch, or laura ingram a whore, or the book written by al franken titled "Rush Limbaugh is a big fat liar".
Sorry but this is the U.S.A. and we have freedom of speech weather right or wrong left or right republican or democrat we have the freedom to say what we want.
i personally dont like her stand but i'm not getting all worked up because she wants to take more of my money to pay for her health care, thats her opinion, let her talk.

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[Arnold]

you guys are getting off topic.
rush called her a slut and a prostitute.
who cares if they think they shouldget free health care or not or if the taxes should be raised on the rich.
THEIR HYPOCRATES what about the liberals calling sarah pailin a dumb bitch, or laura ingram a whore, or the book written by al franken titled "Rush Limbaugh is a big fat liar".
Sorry but this is the U.S.A. and we have freedom of speech weather right or wrong left or right republican or democrat we have the freedom to say what we want.
i personally dont like her stand but i'm not getting all worked up because she wants to take more of my money to pay for her health care, thats her opinion, let her talk.

Yup u r correct and the USA is also about capitalism and if Rush's sponsors don't like what he said or what he believes they have every right to take their advertising $ elsewhere, and I am ecstatic about it!

 

[hoyle21]

you guys are getting off topic.
rush called her a slut and a prostitute.
who cares if they think they shouldget free health care or not or if the taxes should be raised on the rich.
THEIR HYPOCRATES what about the liberals calling sarah pailin a dumb bitch, or laura ingram a whore, or the book written by al franken titled "Rush Limbaugh is a big fat liar".
Sorry but this is the U.S.A. and we have freedom of speech weather right or wrong left or right republican or democrat we have the freedom to say what we want.
i personally dont like her stand but i'm not getting all worked up because she wants to take more of my money to pay for her health care, thats her opinion, let her talk.

Have you heard Sarah Palin talk? She is an idiot, and Rush is a big fat liar. You think Rush works out? The guy is an obese drug addict. I don't think Laura Ingraham is a whore.