One of the best lines I've heard lately was from a retired shop foreman at the old Republic Steel plant in Cleveland Ohio ....when a young black kid was being laid off.   The black kid said to the shop foreman: "You're firing me because I'm black!” The foreman thought a moment and replied "No, we hired you because you were black."...   "We're firing you because you are useless!"   Sounds like a possible slogan for the 2012 election . . .