the suspense is killing me

Yeah. The waiting drove me mad.

It was always just a matter of time before this became an extension of GD.

derailing this one is kind of like an ahab/moby-dick situation for me

come on, this has happened plenty of times.

Yeah, but this time is different.

clever

pearls before PIIGS, godbody

great post imho

If we cover up their bad debt with our bad debt, things will probly work out in the end.

Needs more stimulus.

Having trouble taking these guys seriously for some reason.

Almost every time someone says "X is a right", what they really should be saying is "X should be a right".

It plays directly into the Tea Party's Randian rhetoric. If they have the "Right" to a job then someone else has the non-consensual obligation to provide it to them.

Cursed politics getting in the way of logic.

In my eyes, this applies to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness just as much as to jobs or healthcare or makeup-applying women-free roadways. But once I get to that point, the is/ought distinction disappears, in that any conception of rights is subjective (ie there really is no objective "is"). So when they say "a job is a right," I read it "a job is a right, imho," just like an RM post. However, "should be" and "imho" tend to reduce impact, so they're not a smart tactic even if those designing the signs agree with my take on things. Chances are, however, that they don't; they've just got a different conception of natural rights than John Locke and littlewing.