As Victor Davis Hanson describes them, many of the contemporary “poor” are part of a class of savvy system abusers and civic thieves who extend the metaphor into the spaces inside other people’s homes, sheds, businesses, etc.
As prc notes, “not exactly the Joads, eh?”
I read the VDH piece. Nothing a NO TRESSPASSING sign and a good sniper hide won’t cure. He could probably sell tickets to people willing to snipe.
When half of the vehicles in the public parking at the county welfare office are Mercedes, BMW, Lexus and Cadillac Escalades, you know something is amiss…
As I think I’ve mentioned in the past, I worked at a Circle K in AZ for a few months.
Our EBT (electronic welfare machine) didn’t work.
Every single time a customer tried to use an EBT card for purchases and couldn’t, they shrugged and paid cash.
And, to go along with what you said, Spiny, almost all of the welfare customers were driving late model cars.
I was recently approached at my bus stop by a guy wanting “fiddy cent fo da bus.” I said I’d do better than that; I’d give him ten bucks for his licensed Vikings cap with the tag conspicuously hanging from it. He declined.
“Guess I can’t help you, then.”
Squid, you are clearly a class warrior and greedy. How dare you suggest a transaction resulting in mutual benefit? Your actions will incite a Day Of Raaaaaage!!!!
Squid, you are clearly a class warrior and greedy.
Yup. We’ve reached the point where the guy who wants to keep what he earns is greedy, and the guy who wants to force it from him is noble. Poverty means struggling to pay for your wireless data plan and your pay-per-view bill. Our “first black president” is either a chubby white lip-biter from Arkansas or a skinny half-white preppy from Hawaii.
Black is white; up is down; Hagar is Roth.
We’re not gonna find out (at least from the horses’ mouths) why we’re broke. But, we’ll know.
a lot of times people aren’t poor they’re just bad shoppers
theft and the welfare state:
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newrouter,
Niiiice.
DarthLevin,
Day of Raaaaaage!!!!
Heh. I beat nr by 39 minutes.
A fine scotch,
Sorry.
I’d call that dancing boondoggle totally gay, but I’m sure there’s another million-dollar stimulus program that was created to discourage me from using such language.
Rule 1: Anything not nailed down is up for grabs.
Rule 2: If I can pry it up, it isn’t nailed down.
SN, no worries. I didn’t preface my links with anything and didn’t emphasize their content. Just makes me happy to be fast with news others also consider newsworthy.
‘Round these parts, residential A/C condensers tend to grow legs whenever the price of copper goes up.
afs i thought it fit in well with “a class of savvy system abusers and civic thieves “
Squid, if you’re worried about how the federal government spends money do NOT click this link. Note that treadmills for crustaceans is only #8 on the list.
Don’t click this link either. Duh! Bulk buying is WINNING!
Hey just for the record the Philadelphia eagles are bitching about the falcons playing rough on Sunday and knocking mike Vick out of the game which if you fpget the irony of that and the awesomeness of mike Vick getting knocked out of the game by the mean old falcons and big ole mean matt Ryan standing right in there and throwing two touchdowns, well, just thought I’d mention that.
Mike Vick is a bitch.
I’m doing tis from my android and I’m drinking so sorry for the bad grammar and such.
Solyndra Investor, Obama Bundler George Kaiser in 2009: It’s Time to Cash in on the Mother of All Government Handouts
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I read that VDH link yesterday, but I’d already linked another, and besides, I thought this one kinda regional.
Yep, farmers in the central valley gotta nail down and guard anything they want to keep. The problem is the very large illegal immigrant population, and VDH perhaps misses the irony that farmers created the demand for illegal immigrants in the first place.
Now demand for illegals has cut down, the ones that used to work for a guy last month still remember where he kept his shit. Valuable information.
Gangs are pretty ridiculous too. In my small(farming) town of 50,000, gang shootings are not uncommon, and kids don’t wear blue or red sneakers. Well, unless they’re in a gang, then it’s also a red(or blue) bandana, tattoos, and extremely baggy pants. An ensemble you might call it.
Anyway, the guys VDH described…that’s the face of La Raza. The ones Obama campaigns for.
Obama digs him some cultural unrest.
Oh, I forgot to mention, a guy hiking in the national forests in California best approach it like 1970 Vietnam.
There’s a lot of guarded and boobie trapped pot grows out there.
At least they let us start packing in the NF again. Thanks NRA!!
black flash mobs and “mexians” sounds like the baracky reelection team
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I’m pretty proud of Fresno by the way…
Then there was George Bush’s 2008 multitrillion-dollar “stimulus” that “saved” the country, but destroyed the real progress he had made from 2006 to 2008 in addressing mounting debt. Then there was Barack Obama’s “second” $800 million “shovel-ready” stimulus.
From the VDH link. Notice a small typo?
“Notice a small typo?”
Multitrillion?
Nah, only Obama, Nancy, and Harry could conceeve spending that much…
I did not know that a law could overthrow/repeal a Constitutional amendment. The things our dear constitutional scholar done learned me now.
And, of course, Obama’s stimulus was $800 billion.
Trillions, billions, millions, those are all big numbers. Not that much difference between them, really…
Shock poll: Palin w/in 5 points of Obama.
Hoochie Power!
Hmmm, Palin doing better than Perry and among independents too.
If you’re his type, you know what to do.
Well like the Joads you can probably suck on his sister’s breast.
But it will cost you!
VDH should invest in those spikes that let you drive in but tear the shit out of your tires if you drive out. For kicks.
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The people that work in the plant I build machines for are almost all illegal. All are in section 8 housing all are on food stamps. They all have nicer vehicles than the legal residents. They all pay tribute to the HR manager that hired them. They are all related to the HR manager.
Illinois being a sanctuary state and all.
“Zips in the wire! Zips in the wire!”
To be fair, Spiny, most of those are the county workers’ cars. I worked with 4 social workers. Two of them drove new Lexuses (Lexi?) and one of them drove a new Mercedes. The other drove a Honda civic. She was the practical one. But if you ask them to be more in line with the average worker in terms of paying into their retirement or health care, you’re Hitler or something. They just don’t get that they are net consumers of tax money, thus leeches on the public teat. These people are greedy POS.
I hope you’re right, OI. I hope you’re right.