It’s amazing how many people that used to feel compassion and wanted to help the poor are now angry. That job has been taken away from ordinary folks, and is now the responsibility of the government. And to pay for it, our taxes are going up, up, up. It doesn’t help that the government runs billboards encouraging people to sign up for disability and other Federal benefit programs, or that lawyers are on T.V. night and day encouraging people to get on disability so they can get back pay for jobs they never had and live the good life till they die on the gold standard of entitlement programs (disability).
Work is so overrated. Why get a job when you don’t have to work? Nobody has to feed themselves anymore, or secure their own housing, or medical care, or phones. It’s an idyllic paradise really. And, the latest thing for those that choose not to work is to wear fleece pajamas out in public, the ultimate statement of “fuck you, I don’t have to work, I don’t even have to get dressed in the morning”. If you haven’t seen people walking around town in their pajamas, you will. Many cities and townships are passing laws banning people from pajamas in public:
“In Louisiana, the commissioner who proposed the recent anti-pajama ordinance told the Wall Street Journal, “The moral fiber in America is dwindling away. What is it going to be tomorrow? Walking around in your underwear?”
When work and producing are punished, and people are rewarded with free everything not to work, society continues to deteriorate. Working sucks! Get on disability while you still can, there is a ton of “no cost to you” stuff to get! Be set for life!
NO, MR. OBAMA, I DON’T HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO TAKE CARE OF THE LESS FORTUNATE
President Hopenchange gave his usual message today and with it was heavy with the usual BS about helping the poor. At the risk of sounding like a hard-hearted, greedy, sexy bastid, I’m just about sick of the poor! I consider “the poor” to be those who receive welfare payments, food stamps, Section 8 government housing, and all manner of government programs. You know, the ones with new Nike Air Jordans and brand new iPhone 5′s!
It appears to me the “poor” sure get a lot of things paid for by guys like me! You know, guys with jobs and iPhone 4s who work our guts out trying to not go on food stamps! When is President Obama going to be concerned about me? Oh, on the 12th? That’s good! The 12th of Never! If you remember, white guys don’t even exist in the socialist la-la land of Obama and his foaming at the mouth libtard friends!
Obama said today:
“But most of all, it’s a time to give thanks for each other, and for the incredible bounty we enjoy.
That’s especially important this year. As a nation, we’ve just emerged from a campaign season that was passionate, noisy, and vital to our democracy. But it also required us to make choices – and sometimes those choices led us to focus on what sets us apart instead of what ties us together; on what candidate we support instead of what country we belong to ….
We’re also grateful that this country has always been home to Americans who see these blessings not simply as gifts to enjoy, but as opportunities to give back. Americans who believe we have a responsibility to look out for those less fortunate – to pull each other up and move forward together.”
No, Mr. Obama, my responsibility is to take care of my family and me! The government has MADE it my responsibility to take care of others by the force of a gun you hold to my head. If I don’t pay the heavy tax burden you have placed around my neck, I go to jail. So please save the drama telling me it’s my responsibility to take care of the poor! No, it’s not my responsibility…or at least shouldn’t be. It’s the law!
All that cat can do is redistribute wealth! Like I once heard Walter Williams put it perfectly, if I want to give a bum a dollar from my earnings, that is my right to do so. It’s money I have earned. But I have no right to reach into the wallet of my friend and give that bum a dollar of his earnings. I have not earned that money. So how does the government have the right to do the exact thing? Because they have the guns and will put my ass in prison if I don’t pay up each year.
America under Obama and the Dims has become too focused on the poor. None of the remedies of additional welfare and programs will fix the poverty problem in America. Not that any leftist wants “the poor” to become “the wealthy.” Think of all the lost Democrat voters!
More has to be done to reward performers that add to America rather than dole out our money to those who add nothing but dependency! I am not responsible for anyone being in poverty and I shouldn’t have to bear the financial burden of the poor decisions “the poor” have made to remain there. There is no shame being born into poverty. But there is no excuse for doing little to rise above it! Too many on welfare wouldn’t go to work if they got a job as a Playboy photographer! So forgive my lack of compassion for the growing hordes of lazy, unskilled, ignorant welfare mooching hordes who want more from my thin wallet!
Magician Penn Jillette said it along the same lines but far better than I can:
It’s amazing to me how many people think that voting to have the government give poor people money is compassion. Helping poor and suffering people is compassion. Voting for our government to use guns to give money to help poor and suffering people is immoral self-righteous bullying laziness.
People need to be fed, medicated, educated, clothed, and sheltered, and if we’re compassionate we’ll help them, but you get no moral credit for forcing other people to do what you think is right. There is great joy in helping people, but no joy in doing it at gunpoint.
Well, he IS a magician, after all. But he’s exactly right! I’m tired of government looters telling us what OUR responsibility is! Especially libtards. Studies show liberals give less of their own money away than Ebeneezer Scrooge. Like Margaret Thatcher said, “socialists eventually run out of other people’s money to spend.” And they’re quickly running out of mine!
You can weigh in on that if you like. I’d like to hold on to more of what I earn. If I want to help someone, I will. But I won’t ask them or the government for anything!
http://angrywhitedude.com/2012/11/no-mr-obama-i-dont-have-a-responsibility-to-take-care-of-the-less-fortunate/
harry p. says:
but then some of are somehow in the office working on saturdays and sundays after already working 50 hrs during hte week.
well, i guess i better get back to work supporting others
http://thestrangestbrew.com/?p=3077
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1st December 2012 at 1:46 pm
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1st December 2012 at 1:56 pm
AWD says:
Do you get to wear your pajamas to work on Saturday?
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1st December 2012 at 2:01 pm
AWD says:
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1st December 2012 at 2:01 pm
Notquite says:
Just go Galt already. Your whining is getting pathetic.
Stick to Friday Fail. That at least has value.
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1st December 2012 at 2:02 pm
Fulton J. Waterloo says:
Also, work “sucks” because, since about 1973, ALL of the increased productivity of the American worker has been siphoned off by the top 10% in this country via various ‘riggings” of the system. I am not saying that the free stuff army is not hurting America; they most certainly ARE. But if the folks on this site are not going to deal with the REALITY that we live under GANGSTER CAPITALISM, you will just all spend tthe rest of your lives blaming people who are tangential to the real problem: that most people who actually WORK for a living in America are underpaid. It is called inadequate aggregate demand. Gety a life, and a real history book…
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1st December 2012 at 2:03 pm
Administrator says:
What kind of douchebag names their kid Fulton J. Waterloo. You must be a union worker because you can’t spell THIS.
Idiot is right.
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1st December 2012 at 2:03 pm
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Fuckwad Fulton again provides us with his 75 level IQ wisdom – Gety a life.
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1st December 2012 at 2:05 pm
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Notquite Right
How’s your lame ass blog doing? Did you get a job yet?
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1st December 2012 at 2:07 pm
Fulton J. Waterloo says:
And some more: the period in this country when the top 10% had the LEAST amout of national wealth (about 9%) was between 1934 and 1973. Hmmm, I remember some good times for the middle class from World War II to the Nixon era. Now, the top 10% has about 29% of national wealth. How is that socialism? Inquiring minds(DON’T) want to know…
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1st December 2012 at 2:08 pm
Fulton J. Waterloo says:
I am a bad typist. I am also an Iraq War veteran, and a recipient of the Bronze Star. I am named after Bishop Fulton Sheen. If any of you knew ANYTHING., you would know who he was.
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1st December 2012 at 2:10 pm
Administrator says:
We’ve met our Waterloo and he spells like a 3rd grader in the slow class.
For those who need translation help with Fuckwad Fulton’s comments:
AMOUT = AMOUNT
I love when douchebags like Fulton drop onto this site for the 1st time and presume to judge what it is about and then starts taking a big shit on the site with his rantings about glorious unions. It would be hysterical if it wasn’t so pathetic and sad.
It’s good to see the brain dysfunction of a liberal union loving Obama kiss ass.
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1st December 2012 at 2:15 pm
Administrator says:
We don’t give a fuck about some bad spelling internet troll who claims to be a war hero. Did you get the bronze star for killing the most Iraqi babies?
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1st December 2012 at 2:16 pm
Fulton J. Waterloo says:
Oh, yeah, I’m also a college professor who has been nominated for FOUR faculty member of the year awards at the University level. Before you guys paint me as a liberal, I have never voted for a Democrat for President (although I’ve not voted several times). You guys are not conservatives. What you are is the typical right wing prole from 1984 who has been programmed into blaming poor people for the ecomonic problems of this country. In reality of course, by not going after the REAL problem, which is a society and government controlled by corporations, you are functioning as Lenin’s “useful idiots,” that is, people who support their own oppressors. Sort of like women defending Bill Clinton.
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1st December 2012 at 2:17 pm
Fulton J. Waterloo says:
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1st December 2012 at 2:19 pm
Fulton J. Waterloo says:
Oh yeah, during the 1950′s, when a family could live on Dad’s income, 35% of Americans were UNION members! I would argue with you, but I do not beleive in fighting with an UNARMED opponent!
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1st December 2012 at 2:21 pm
Administrator says:
Fulton
Did you make the world safe for democracy over in Iraq?
We think the military budget should be cut by 50% and we should stop invading sovereign countries that haven’t threatened us.
Let me guess. You thought the invasion of Iraq was noble and worthwhile. Right?
It was a disgraceful use of power by an empire and you proudly killed on behalf of the douchebags that you rail against in your comments about the rich. The hypocrisy is delicious.
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1st December 2012 at 2:22 pm
Fulton J. Waterloo says:
On a happy note, I actually check out this site almost every day, because there is good stuff on it sometimes. After all, even a broken clock is right twie a day!
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1st December 2012 at 2:23 pm
Fulton J. Waterloo says:
Since I am a Christian, I celebrate Christmas. Hey Administrator, I’ll take a one pound bag of French Vanilla coffee for Christmas, as lonfg as it is fair trade! I figured the French and fair trade will up your bloog pressure a few more points!
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1st December 2012 at 2:26 pm
Administrator says:
I love when douchebags like Fulton take a shit on the site and when I kick him in the balls he tries to prove how smart he is by listing his many accomplishments. I truthfully don’t give a shit about your background or how many professors suck your cock.
Let me guess. You’re a professor at the University of Phoenix teaching The Glorious History of Unions to unemployed construction workers sitting in their basements in their underwear, scratching their balls.
I’m sorry to hear you are bringing the average IQ of the Phila area down by your presence.
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1st December 2012 at 2:27 pm
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What university is lucky enough to have you?
Curious minds want to know.
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1st December 2012 at 2:30 pm
harry p. says:
fulton,
it’s not gangster capitalism or socialism you dipshit. it’s really fascism/corporatism because that transfer of wealth has been done by those running govt along with their crony capitalists (the most important word being “crony”). Those years between WW2 and Nixon were good because the majority of the world not living in huts was bombed into a shit hole and we provided the resources and industrial base to build it back up. It was not much different than the broken window idea except it spanned generations so those that benefited from it saw little to no harship. They then thought this was the “norm” and expect it to continue even though it was only an abberation.
Admin,
Don’t insutl those people people with an IQ of 75 by insinuating they are as stupid as that dipshit. Fulton might only have half that.
AWD,
i didn’t wear my PJ’s, I was debating about wearing my adult sized fleece onesie with butt-flap,
I would have if it was just gong to be me, but a drafter is also here so out of respect for him I wore real clothes. funny how the unwashed masses at walmart don’t, I don’t have much shame, but I do have a little.
it isn’t all bad, even though I am “salaried” I am earning a combination of bonus pay and comp time (and I am in a “right to work” state). the extra loot from hours last week and this weekend will basically cancel the costs of christmas this year.
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1st December 2012 at 2:30 pm
Fulton J. Waterloo says:
You are actually playing “bad cop” here. This is funny. You and I would probably become good friends over a few beers. If you really ARE serious about your comments, you need to get into a really popular online college course…ANGER MANAGEMENT!
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1st December 2012 at 2:32 pm
AWD says:
Notquite: Go fuck yourself, if you don’t like the posts, then blow me and post your own asshole.
Fulton J. Waterloo
Received a quick ass-kicking from admin, and turns all nice. Do you think anybody believes what you say anyway? You can go fuck yourself as well.
Admin administers another welcome wagon greeting to dull-normal fuckwit retard FJW
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1st December 2012 at 2:34 pm
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Fulton
You are ignoring my question.
You had no problem killing Iraqis on behalf of the top 1% who run this country and the Military Industrial Complex corporations that treat their workers like dirt?
You volunteered to kill for corporate interests because they wanted the Iraqi oil?
This is fascinating to me and I await your rationale for your actions.
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1st December 2012 at 2:34 pm
Fulton J. Waterloo says:
I was going to tell you where I teach, but you might take my class entitled “Angry White Men Who Blame Everybody But the Real Culprits for America’s Decline.”
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1st December 2012 at 2:34 pm
AWD says:
These girls can wear their pajamas in public, but only them
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1st December 2012 at 2:36 pm
Fulton J. Waterloo says:
harry p at least seems to have some grey matter…
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1st December 2012 at 2:39 pm
Fulton J. Waterloo says:
Actually, that is a picture of the women I get to teach. You guys should take my class!
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1st December 2012 at 2:40 pm
harry p. says:
wow,
thanks to FJW for being a dipshit commenter and Admin for thrashing him, this is making the short breaks from the weekend time in the office very amusing.
Being a vet and college professor doesn’t mean shit (even if it’s the truth), my second cousin is both of those and he’s an incredibly small minded fool and douchebag.
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1st December 2012 at 2:40 pm
Administrator says:
Do you wear your Bronze Star proudly?
It seems you killed on behalf of the REAL CULPRITS.
How do you live with yourself, knowing you murdered innocent Muslims for corporate interests?
I guess some people are capable of convincing themselves that doing something despicable and then getting a medal for it makes it somehow noble.
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1st December 2012 at 2:41 pm
AWD says:
Fulton J. Waterloo
Living off the government, and now living off student loans (while your students go in debt). Ever had a real job? I’m sure you fill their heads with pro-union progressive liberal bullshit and demonize capitalism every chance you get (despite capitalism providing you with the economy that allows your worthless job). I was guessing a self-satisfied boomer (or parents are boomers), didn’t take the time to get an education or training (too special), military by default (couldn’t do anything else), online degree, now working at online “university”. Either way, a parasite.
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1st December 2012 at 2:42 pm
ASIG says:
So why is the Obama admin using your taxes to fund Mexican TV and radio to encourage the Mexican people to go to the US and apply for SNAP and other benefit programs. This will only help to bankrupt the country faster.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/07/obama-partners-with-mexico-to-boost-us-food-stamp-use/
Do you people get it now? When Obama says “share the wealth” he means Americans need to share the wealth with the rest of the world. Obama said he would fundamentally change this country. Lowering the standard of living to the average of the rest of the world would be quite a fundamental change.
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1st December 2012 at 2:56 pm
Administrator says:
Sounds of silence from Fulton about being a pawn for the corporate interests by killing for their oil.
Don’t the Arms dealers fit into your Real Culprit category?
You rail against the ruling elites, but you killed on their behalf.
Please provide us with a reasoned assessment of your actions.
Sound of crickets.
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1st December 2012 at 3:03 pm
Kill Bill says:
Wait. I was a union worker fonce. They did not let us wear pajamas. No sir. It was uniforms. Light blue polyester shirt and polyester pants, safety glasses, hearing protection steel toed shoes w/ oil resistant soles. We also had to buy all of our own tools, we had to take drugs tests and breathalyzers, we couldnt have a criminal record.
Please dont compare me to those dope heads and drunks wandering about DC and Walmart
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1st December 2012 at 3:06 pm
Kill Bill says:
Damn, admin, didnt you know jesus was a hoplite in the roman forces that carried a sword and forced entire nations into servitude and stole their resources and salted their land??
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1st December 2012 at 3:07 pm
AWD says:
Thanks to Obama, now Mexicans don’t have to work either!
Obama Partners With Mexico to Boost US Food Stamp Use – Even Though Most Illegal Immigrants Collect Welfare
Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, July 19, 2012, 3:36 PM
It’s as if he wants the country to fail.
The Obama Administration is using a Spanish soap opera format to push food stamps on illegal immigrants and Spanish-speaking Americans:
This is despite the fact that most U.S. families headed by illegal immigrants use taxpayer-funded welfare programs on behalf of their American-born anchor babies.
The Obama USDA is working with Mexico to increase participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) or food stamp program.
The Daily Caller reported:
The Mexican government has been working with the United States Department of Agriculture to increase participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), or food stamps.
USDA has an agreement with Mexico to promote American food assistance programs, including food stamps, among Mexican Americans, Mexican nationals and migrant communities in America.
“USDA and the government of Mexico have entered into a partnership to help educate eligible Mexican nationals living in the United States about available nutrition assistance,” the USDA explains in a brief paragraph on their “Reaching Low-Income Hispanics With Nutrition Assistance” web page. “Mexico will help disseminate this information through its embassy and network of approximately 50 consular offices.”
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1st December 2012 at 3:10 pm
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Fulton’s career as an online professor has taken a turn for the worse.
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1st December 2012 at 3:11 pm
Kill Bill says:
Its okay Fulton, all you have to do to regain your love of humanity is buy stuff from Walmart which supports big agriculture, foreign manufacturing, candy cigarette and alcohol producers for the benefit of the Walton family and those poor folks in China and Mexico and the families of those burned to death in Bangladash making pajamas
/snark
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1st December 2012 at 3:12 pm
Kill Bill says:
“Obama Partners With Mexico to Boost US Food Stamp Use – Even Though Most Illegal Immigrants Collect Welfare”
Bah, the government has been partnering with Walmart [Walmex] for decades
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AWD
I’m wondering if grocery stores in Mexico take US EBT cards. Walmart is in Mexico. Does Walmart in Mexico accept EBT?
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1st December 2012 at 3:22 pm
AKAnon says:
Per OP, Obama says: “But it also required us to make choices – and sometimes those choices led us to focus on what sets us apart instead of what ties us together; on what candidate we support instead of what country we belong to ….”
Exsgueeze me? Did anyone else pick up on the last line here? Maybe I’m making too much of this, but was this another Obama Freudian slip? Replace “we” and “country” with “cat” and “family”: “…of what family this cat belongs to…”
Do you consider yourself property of the country, or a citizen thereof? I don’t “belong to the country”. Apparently Mr. O thinks I do, though. What did George Carlin say? “You have owners”. Right.
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1st December 2012 at 3:42 pm
AKAnon says:
Exsqueeze (Wayne’s World reference).
I think Fulton is Stucky in drag. Reminiscent of his PhD Geologist dopple advocating abiotic oil.
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1st December 2012 at 3:48 pm
Administrator says:
It seems Fulton was in Iraq while he was in his mid-40s. His long career in the Maryland National Guard was crowed about by Fulton in a little Op-Ed piece in 1992 in the Phila Inquirer.
He must have been an officer, so he can’t even blame his superiors for his serving the corporate interests that he so despises. He did it willingly and proudly.
Sounds like you are quite proud of serving the corporate fascists that run the country. Duty, honor and serving your corporate masters.
Hypocrites abound on TBP.
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1st December 2012 at 3:49 pm
KaD says:
There’s a big difference between people who are unfortunate and people who are lazy, stupid, and useless. I’m all for helping the unfortunate-to get back on their feet. I’m not willing to support the lazy, stupid and useless.
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1st December 2012 at 3:58 pm
IndenturedServant says:
I wish we could somehow track sheople like Fulton through the unfolding demise. It would be nice to see their sorrow when reality finally sets in.
No one has any right to money I have earned without my consent, and that most especially includes unions and central banks.
I_S
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1st December 2012 at 4:10 pm
intj says:
The FSA was voted in.
Our GDP migrating to China/India/Mexico was voted in.
The Central bank was voted in.
Income tax was voted in.
The wars – by a spineless congress voting to defer judgment to the Emperor – was voted in.
I’m seeing a pattern.
Every time I saw that Obama phone lady I kept asking myself why she wasn’t sitting in some factory somewhere mindlessly assembling some widget and then I’d remember our manufacturing chased the state sponsored slave labor and moved off shore – with the full consent and design of our overlords.
I can’t help but think everything is going according to plan.
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1st December 2012 at 5:06 pm
TeresaE says:
Wow Fulton, you do realize that Unions are nothing but CORPORATIONS and legalized thieves.
The guys at the top steal from the rank & file, worse than many of the Corp executives.
I guess some theft is good theft if it is dressed up in a bow and you are brainwashed into believing it is for your own good.
Demanding the government take from my labors to pay others is theft.
Soon, once the whole “other people’s money” becomes a reality and not just a great quote by Thatcher, you will have the chance to be charitable. People such as yourself are going to have a chance to see what lies within your true hearts soon.
Because our current system has reached the point where it makes more logical and financial sense to do less, make less, thus have less to “share” (by gun point) with others. This reality has NEVER been sustained and the end result is ALWAYS shared poverty.
Think your union bosses will be opening their safety rooms to the likes of the hungry, cold, unemployed, rank & file? Good luck with that.
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1st December 2012 at 6:19 pm
Llpoh says:
Fulton is such a moron he blames the top 10 percent. The top ten percent is almost entirely made up of professionals, mid-level managers and small business people – yep, they sure are evil motherfuckers.
Fulton, you are an asswipe.
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1st December 2012 at 6:55 pm
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Fulton shoulda’ ducked.
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1st December 2012 at 7:35 pm
Reverse Engineer says:
OMFG.
RE
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1st December 2012 at 8:07 pm
Welshman says:
Jesus Admin.,
You need to stop using corn husk and go back to Charmin, little over the top.
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1st December 2012 at 8:21 pm
Administrator says:
Over the top isn’t possible on TBP.
I still await Fulton’s rationale for killing on behalf of corporate interests.
Why is that over the top?
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1st December 2012 at 8:26 pm
Llpoh says:
The best part of it all is that dear old Fulton is a college professor. Hilarious. Damn, the young folk sure are in good hands.
Good news is this asshat is not a boomer or the shit would really be slung byColma and SAH.
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1st December 2012 at 9:17 pm
Muck About says:
I never saw so much “pink” in a thread before. Must be something going on here, hey??
I think I’ll skip the discussion since it’s so one sided and go do something else.
MA
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1st December 2012 at 9:24 pm
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LLPOH
Fulton is 55 years old based on the age he referenced in an Op-Ed he wrote. BOOMER
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1st December 2012 at 9:39 pm
Eddie says:
My, my.
Spend a couple of days in class and this is what I miss.
Admin, you really have a hard-on for unions.
Fulton, you’re confusing apples with oranges.
Where did we go in 100 years? Standard oil goons shot union organizers who were striking for a living wage 100 years ago. Scott Nearing, one of my favorite economists, was fired from his faculty position at the Wharton School for writing articles denouncing child labor. This happened in the twentieth century. Actually BOTH these things happened in 1915. (God I hate the way you’ve made me begin to evaluate everything in a generational context)
My, how the pendulum has swung.
The real unions, the ones in the manufacturing sector, got outmaneuvered, while the bureaucrats used their tactics and got fat.
Some unions were always crooked. Like the Teamsters.
Some unions pushed way too far. like the Auto Workers. They are the poster children for workers who asked for too much…
I believe some unions did help working people rise to a living wage at a time when it would have not happened any other way. I’m old enough to remember when labor unions did some good for regular people.
China drove the last nail in the coffins of the industrial unions of this country. Other than government job unions.
I see a connection with the breaking of the industrial unions in this country, with the rise of the…”half percent”. (We should use that term. One Percent is inaccurate.) I think there is something to that. The unions got completely outmaneuvered. I wonder if Kissinger had any idea what would ultimately happen, as it has unfolded, when he opened the China door?
The unions that might have mad a difference in balancing the forces of productive working people (as opposed to bureaucrats) against the corporations have been effectively killed off sometime back.
I think your teachers unions and fire and police unions…they are a completely different animal than the labor unions of 1915.
Apples and oranges.
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1st December 2012 at 9:40 pm
ron says:
A thing not mentioned is with the jobs leaving the usa,the amount of jobs left isnt exactly good.
The desire for cheap labor.(mexicans here in az) hasnt helped any.And it sure isnt going to get better.
Im wondering where the government expects the money to come from?
And look at the moaning and crying if the largest military on earth has to cough up some cuts.
The desire for bloated unions dosent make any sense.Non union taxpayers are having to fund theyre underfunded pensions as it is.
Were screwed.
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1st December 2012 at 10:30 pm
Stucky says:
Fulton J. Waterloo
As Sean Hannity would say, you sir are a Great American. Keep posting. Admin is just jealous.
You and I have a lot in common.
I too served in a war … Vietnam … where I got the Medal of Honor, three Purple Stars, two Commendations, and a partridge in a pear tree.
After the war, I too, became a professor at an Ivy League school where I taught Stuckyism Economics, the main idea being stick-it-to-them before they stick it to you. In other words, how to be a union member.
But, that bored me and then I went ahead and invented the Internet. I also invented WordPress, one of my lesser accomplishments.
After that, I discovered the Higgs Pecker particle — a distant relative to the Higgs Bosom particle — which I used to invent nuclear fusion, patent pending and soon to be released.
Yup. I did all that. So, fer sure, you and me is the two smartest motherfuckers on this site. Your epic beat down of Admin is a thing of beauty. I live in NJ and would love to buy you coffee and shit.
Peace.
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1st December 2012 at 10:39 pm
llpoh says:
Stuck – I discovered the Stucky Pecker particle but no one believes me as it is so small that there is no microscope powerful enough to see it (hence the name).
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1st December 2012 at 10:50 pm
underfire says:
Fulton makes the same tired old disconnected argument that somehow it is the responsibility of “some” private US citizens to pay some “other” US citizens a “living wage”, which happens to be multiples higher than a “living wage” for the same job in most other countries around the world.
That had an outside chance of working at one time, but the vote is since in, and Americans choose to buy their stuff from other countries, made by foreign workers, where wages and benefits are a fraction of what they are here.
Maybe you can take a shot and answer this question. How does a country with a monthly current account deficit stretching uninterrupted back to 1975 maintain the wherewithal to sustain the lifestyle you think we all deserve?
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1st December 2012 at 11:49 pm
Grim Reaper says:
Ah my friends, but being a parasite IS a full-tme job…
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1st December 2012 at 12:20 am
Pirate Jo says:
I invented bacon. So there.
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1st December 2012 at 9:50 am
Stucky says:
“I discovered the Stucky Pecker particle but no one believes me as it is so small that there is no microscope powerful enough to see it …” ———– llpoh
Yeah, but when that little fucker gets excited ……… LOOK OUT!! It fills the entire room.
Keep in mind that the ENTIRE UNIVERSE was once smaller than the tiny dot at the end of this sentence.
Big thiings come in small packages, llpoh.
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1st December 2012 at 11:28 am
AWD says:
The stucky pecker particle. Is that the one that has the side effects of growing moobs?
I predicted Fulton was a boomer first. They’re not hard to spot. No matter what they do (or don’t do) they think they’re so very special.
So much for the post topic, as usual, but (unfortunately) has not gone to T&A yet.
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1st December 2012 at 12:18 pm
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1st December 2012 at 12:20 pm
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1st December 2012 at 12:38 pm
AWD says:
Is This Why Americans Have Lost The Drive To “Earn” More
In the recent past we noted the somewhat startling reality that “the single mom is better off earning gross income of $29,000 with $57,327 in net income & benefits than to earn gross income of $69,000 with net income and benefits of $57,045.” While mathematics is our tool – as opposed to the mathemagics of some of the more politically biased media who did not like our message – the painful reality in America is that: for increasingly more Americans it is now more lucrative – in the form of actual disposable income – to sit, do nothing, and collect various welfare entitlements, than to work. This is such an important topic that we felt it necessary to warrant a second look. The graphic below quite clearly, and very painfully, confirms that there is an earnings vacuum of around $40k in which US workers are perfectly ambivalent toward inputting more effort since it does not result in any additional incremental disposable income.
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1st December 2012 at 12:53 pm
AWD says:
We have been writing for over a year, how the very top of America’s social order steals from the middle class each and every day. Now we finally know that the very bottom of the entitlement food chain also makes out like a bandit compared to that idiot American who actually works and pays their taxes. One can only also hope that in addition to seeing their disposable income be eaten away by a kleptocratic entitlement state, that the disappearing middle class is also selling off its weaponry. Because if it isn’t, and if it finally decides it has had enough, the outcome will not be surprising at all:
But for now, just stick head in sand, and pretend all is good. Self-deception is now the only thing left for the entire insolvent entitlement-addicted world.
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1st December 2012 at 12:57 pm
Chicago999444 says:
Kissinger and Nixon knew damn well what they were doing when they brokered the peace with China.
The whole idea was to open as many slave labor havens to American business as possible and to undercut American workers.
The old line Republican Party has always had the goal of reducing working and middle class Americans to dirt-floor poverty and a sack of meal in return for 14 hours a day hard labor.
That is why they have always supported infinite population growth and have been wed to the Christian Right since the 40s. I suggest everyone read The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power, by Jeff Sharlet, who was once part of it.
And that is also why we fought the wars in Korea and Vietnam, and why tens of thousands of my male boomer brethren died in Nam. If the entire male population of the U.S. had understood the REAL reason we were in Nam (and Indochina and all the other 3rd world cesspools of slavery and poverty) not a single man of any age would have supported that treasonous, immoral war.
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1st December 2012 at 2:08 pm
llpoh says:
The Stucky Pecker Particle has some unusual attributes.
First, as hard as it is to believe, the particle shrinks substantially when exposed to cold.
Second, to excite this particular particle it has to be doused in a solution of 10 parts Viagra and 1 part Spanish fly. If the solution is successful, the particle will stay excited for only around 1 second, then falls into the equivalent of a deep sleep, and nothing will manage to re-excite the particle for at least 8 hours.
Third, if you douse the particle with alcohol, no amount of the Viagra/Spanish Fly solution will produce an excited stage. It enters a period of sleep, and canot be excited for at least 12 hours.
It is truly an unusual particle.
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1st December 2012 at 7:29 pm
crazyivan says:
LLPOH,
Your intimate knowledge of Stuck’s particle is disturbing.
More to the point, I wanted to address AWD’s very first image in his article. This is a cropped image of a billboard. The very same billboard that I have been driving past for the last two months. This is not a photoshopped joke. It is real and it’s also in Great Falls, Montana. In the extrene right of this image you can see a hand clasping an elbow. The rest of the billboard features (by now broke) ex-star trek actors preening for the camera. Notice the stars in the background in the image.
As unsettling as it was to see this advertisement by whoever it was that paid for it, it got worse when I started to think about who they were targeting with the Star Trek theme
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1st December 2012 at 9:00 pm
AWD says:
Ivan
It is a real billboard. I see it every weekend. I don’t know why it’s cropped, but it’s the only image I could find. Maybe because it has Sulu, the gay star trek actor. Obama and the dems want everyone on the government dole, and they aren’t shy about advertising it. They got the vote locked down for 2012 ad infinitum, and they’re raising taxes ad infinitum to get and keep the FSA on the dole. We, as a country, therefore, are finished. Forward! to socialism.
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1st December 2012 at 9:04 pm
crazyivan says:
Well godamnnit AWD, can’t you be just a lttle bit more optimistic.
“Forward! to socialism.”
How bout “damn the torpedoes, full steam ahead’”
If I ever aquire a submarine, I am going to track you down and recruit yo as my XO.
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1st December 2012 at 9:38 pm
Stucky says:
llpoh
I have to agree with crazyivan, your archrival, regarding your detailed knowledge of the Stucky Pecker Particle. I believe you are collaborating with Ms Freud.
Nevertheless, you forgot to mention that the fuckin’ particle throws up when excited, which results in thousands of other SPPs littering the area, but they have a half life of just 10 minutes, so I’m not to worried about it.
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1st December 2012 at 10:39 pm
llpoh says:
Stuck – yes, its ability to reproduce is astonishing.
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1st December 2012 at 11:09 pm