Warren — Musings —09.12.2011 09:32 PM

Candid assessment of Tea Party Tim’s performance

…by a reporter who joined his bus today:

Instead, he talked about “Bob” and “Jim”, two life-size posters of forestry workers. It was an attempt to illustrate the supposed unfairness of the immigrant workers tax credit, but mostly backfired as the stand-up cardboard figures eminated more charisma than the Tory leader.

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lukeventura says:

September 13, 2011 at 12:37 am

Does the tax credit scheme even apply to forestry jobs?

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- Pat says:
  
  September 13, 2011 at 7:13 am
  
  I was going to ask the same thing… I expect not… unless they have a PhD in Forestry or something… at which point you probably wouldn’t know they worked in forestry by looking at them…
  
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Harith says:

September 13, 2011 at 7:54 am

I’m amused that their “foreign worker” has a benign name like Bob, and is from a “foreign country” like the USA. I guess using someone Arabic or Indian would be too racist.

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- JenS says:
  
  September 13, 2011 at 4:14 pm
  
  I think what he was trying to say — but the message was sort of lost in the inanity of it — was “Look out, comfy white man. You’re not safe from this either!”
  
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