1 EXCELLENT post, Laura!

2 And they call *us* morons....

3 We're not broke, it's a cash flow problem.

4 It's hard to tell what's hotter, LauraW's hump or her sense of humor.

5
And they call *us* morons....

Posted by: Uncle Mikey at July 13, 2012 12:03 PM (8qoXL)

To be fair, WE call us morons.

And we wear the moniker with pride.

6 oops, goofed

7 Guess We Can't.

8 Can't spell "DUMMY" without "DU".

9 Scranton is going to make it up in volume.

10 Problem is, the logic of which you speak is not taught in schools...they learn your money is the gubmint's money...'cuz it do gooood. And these dopes cannot be taught.
Seems to me the only solution is to create an environment which allows more people to become wealthy...only then will they get it

11 Reminds me of the time Bill Clinton told the pizza shop owner just to raise the price of his pizzas in order to cover the higher taxes. 

And why is it always about the police and firemen?  Why can't they just shitcan a bunch of office-bound bureaucrats instead?

12 Simply hilarious how anyone who is against having their taxes raised is doing so because they want to be able to buy a second home.  In Scranton.

Not that these people might simply barely getting by and are trying not to lose the one home they have.

And the idea that all retired people have $2million in the bank ....

The DUmmies certainly earn their sobriquet every single day, don't they?

13 Seriously though, if you've ever known one of those people who makes a decent to good income, but always has financial problems. They have trouble paying their bills on time, buy crap they don't need and can't afford, and try to hit you up for loans. Their behavior on a personal and individual level is EXACTLY like the behavior of political liberals. Not just stupid, but having the emotional development of a five year old.

14 These people are insane.

15 I have no doubt that Victorian pickpockets also met in conclaves to commiserate about the hardness of the law.

16 But, but, but buying library chairs that cost $1000 each is financially responsible.

17

They think that Scranton is home to...rich people.

 

Maybe they believe that the cast of The Office really lives there and intend to confiscate their earnings and royalties from the show.

18 The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money

19

No, I shall not go over there to observe these people in their natural habitat.  I am also aware that there are people in this world who like to dress up in furry costumes and/or  diapers to  have sex with each other.  I have no desire to see them do that either. 

20

Rich enough to own property = having 2 million in the bank.

 

These people are unreal. Someone explain to me how they are alive. 

 

How can you survive this long and be so stupid or ignorant of reality?

21 I will name him George, and I will hug him and pet him and squeeze him.

22 I am dumber for having read those comments....(and I was pretty damn dumb to begin with.)


Hollllly crap.....we are so screwed.

23

I kinda did a post on this  over at my little slice of Intarwebz Heaven this morning. I still can't quite figure out why libtards always jump to the wrong/absurdly extreme conclusion about everyfuckingthing.

 

I  do agree with Honey Badger: these people are insane.

24 I love it when the dens decide to go shopping in everyone elses bank account.

25 I like the way you talk.

26 10 Scranton is going to make it up in volume. Posted by: The Mega Independent at July 13, 2012 12:05 PM (PSdso) Hah!

27 oops...."dems" as in democrats

28 Those rich people in Scranton, with their second homes and boiled goose.

29 And why is it always about the police and firemen? Why can't they just shitcan a bunch of office-bound bureaucrats instead?Posted by: Uncle Mikey

THIS! THIS GODDAMN IT!!

Notice that All City Expense = police & fire and teachers.

That the cities spend untold millions on other things is avoided in the most craven, mendacious manner all to protect their socialist bubbles.

Two nations. We are two fucking nations.

30 Occupoopers always claim that stealing from others is OK because there should be no private property

Stealing their laptops and i-Phones is wrong though because that's "personal property"

Private Property = Other Peoples Stuff

Personal Property = My Stuff

31 32 Those rich people in Scranton, with their second homes and boiled goose. Posted by: Ben at July 13, 2012 12:14 PM (C2Y4l) And Apple Computers.

32 I think a lot of them aren't even really ideological. They're just ignorant thieving bastards, really. They've latched on to some kind of philosophical excuse for why their ignorant-thieving-bastardism is somehow a good quality.

33 The guy @89 is so close to the truth. 

Ask the Argentinians that had all their pensions nationalized.  

Gee, wonder why people keep money off shore or in gold?

Let's take a guess here.

"I'll take safety for $1000, Alex"

34 "How can you survive this long and be so stupid or ignorant of reality? Posted by: Ben" Food stamps, rent subsidies.

35

These are the poeple you can't go out to a nice dinner with, because they'll stick you on the apps., wine tab, taxes, and the tip.

'All I had was a salad.'

 

36
Anytime that hive of drooling slugs is mentioned, I think of this, as well as that fucking idiot Steve Kangas, who tried to kill Richard Mellon-Scaife, but ended up blowing his own brains out pathetically.

But I digress.

On to the chicken wire demostrations!!!

http://tinyurl.com/jlqbs

37 They've latched on to some kind of philosophical excuse for why their ignorant-thieving-bastardism is somehow a good quality. OF course. Good stuff is what I do, bad stuff is what you do.

38
Weapons Grade Stoopid.

.... and, btw... the DU linky no worky...

39

Sadly those kind of people are in the majority where I live. And they are probably teaching your kids.

Last saturday I was in the checkout line at costco and there was a nice middle class dude with his kids in line ahead of me. here's the exchange:

"hey Dad, they approved that new high speed rail to Los Angeles. Isnt that cool? I cant wait to ride that?"

"Yes, I think thats probably a good thing. But you can bet it will cost a lot more than they say."

"My teacher says it will be more economical than flying. and way better for the environment. Plus it will provide jobs for people in the central valley"

"Well I guess thats better than the government spending all that money on wars and corporate welfare!"

I fear that these people are typical. And they probably vote. We are so doomed!   

40

>>And why is it always about the police and firemen? Why can't they just shitcan a bunch of office-bound bureaucrats instead?Posted by: Uncle Mikey

Exactly. Harrisburg went backrupt by spending 300+ million on a garbage incinerator.

 

41 The insanity is that we're preying on the productive to fund unproductivity.

Unless you're doing something to keep the unproductivity you're trying to fund under strict containment, the process you've built ensures that unproductivity will GROW, requiring a bigger chunk of the productive to be taken to continue to fund it.

It's an ass-backward system that gets glossed over by somebody yelling 'compassion.'  Protecting a dysfunctional system isn't compassion, sorry.

42

So the logical thing to do is to invite flash mobs of unknown ethnicity to perform this function for all vehicles traversing Scranton. 

43

The left is the same with environmental concerns; the purity of the good intentions they claim to have somehow magically makes their claims legitimate and gives them authority to push others around.

44

36 -

 

That's true, because wanting the world to be a way that it isn't, is not really an ideology.  A mental illness, perhaps, but not an ideology.

45 The easy answer is just print more fucking money you twits. I'm really surprised that no one suggested that uncle sugar should just print up 15trillion and give each and every person in the USA money directly. I'm sick reading this - these people view the population that works as nothing more than slaves. It's high time this shit ended. One way or the other.

46 I am also aware that there are people in this world who like to dress up in furry costumes and/or diapers to have sex with each other. You realize there's probably a large amount over overlap with the folks in that thread.

47 I am sure VP Biden has sent a special personal contribution to Scranton to help out.

48 Where to go from a bad link?

49 The United States doesn't have a debt problem, it has a messaging problem.

50 The complete retardation demonstrated over there (Democratic Underground) is just precious. Here's my favorite quote:
<<Then let's take homes and other assets...>>

Got that? Just take it. Forget the literal fact that a VAST majority of "second homes" are actually rental investment properties that barely pay for themselves and are worth more as a tax shelter/write off whose main purpose is an investment in the future...

...anyone who has a second home (according to the genius who posted the above quote) is wealthy and should be heavily taxed.

51 Truth be told, that excerpt (I can't go to DU or I'll want to hurt someone for the rest of the day) reads like something out of fuckin' 'Atlas Shrugged'. It's like Ayn Rand had a time-machine, except she didn't need one - she had live that shit in Eastern Europe.

52 What is even funnier is the idea that only government can provide these services, fire, police, garbage collection.

I have a second home in a gated community at the beach.  We pay for the police, the garbage and give the county money for our fire station.

It costs a help of a lot less than the taxes in CLT and when we need something they come immediately.  I guess not having half a city of dead beats to look after makes for a lot more effective police department.

53 Read the thread, God help me. Proof that if people can be the solution, it's likely that people are the problem.

54

This is what it comes down to - I really don't care if Aunt Ethyl has $2 million in the bank and wants to leave it all to her favorite cat charity - I'm sure she is a very nice person.

 

Clearly Aunt Ethyl is next on this commenter's list of candidates for the Obamacare Death Panels, since she's clearly going to kick the bucket in the near future and leave her $2 million dollars to some frivolous charity    for cats.   This commenter is obviously not a member of PETA.

 

Taxing wealth is the next logical step

That way the wealthy who are sitting on the sidelines with trillions of dollars will have two choices. Invest it in creating jobs themselves or give it to the government so they can invest it to hire new workers and retain the ones we already have and pay them a fair days pay for a fair days work.

 

Outside of Hollywood, I think you'd be hard-pressed to find an area of the country with a high enough proportion of millionaires per square mile    to have a combined net worth of TRILLIONS of dollars. 

 

...This person does know they're talking about SCRANTON, right? 

55 LAWRWA

Fix the damned link already.

56 Scranton didn't have these problems when Michael Scott was the branch manager. Either bring Michael Scott back or tax Dunder-Mifflin even more!

57 I've been to Scranton...let me tell ya, they live high on the hog there.

Jesus these people are fucked in the head.

58 Coffee can buried in the back yard is looking better and better. 

59

If folks are well enough off to own property and want police/firemen around to protect it

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As if owning a house is some major accomplishment that only greedy rich white people are capable of. They really do have low expectations of themselves.

60 @25 - actually,no, the depression ended when war started looking like a probable enough prospect that the French and British had to start buying bullets and bombers again.

Oh, and us.  We had a Navy capable (sub torpedoes aside) of global warfare in 1942-43 because (to his credit) FDR started building it in 1936-37. 

61 Holy crapola.  That was bizarre.  I'm reminded how the Victorians use to allow sightseers into Bedlam to watch the inmates from above.

Incomprehensible.

62 When's the puppet show start, Obama?

63 Off civil sock.

64 Link fixed!

65 14Seriously though, if you've ever known one of those people who makes a decent to good income, but always has financial problems. They have trouble paying their bills on time, buy crap they don't need and can't afford, and try to hit you up for loans.

Their behavior on a personal and individual level is EXACTLY like the behavior of political liberals.

Not just stupid, but having the emotional development of a five year old.

Posted by: nerdygirl at July 13, 2012 12:07 PM (HAnzX)

 

True.  I have a friend like that...she makes good money, spends it all, then complains about being 'poor'.  I told her you're not poor, your broke...there's a difference.

66 Shouldn't it be, Democratic Underground Friday "DEF" Comedy Jam?

67

50 -

 

Yes I do, but I am really really really trying hard not to think of the word "overlap" in this context. 

68  like Rush always says, they want to be judged on their intent, not their results.  The President himself conceded this when he wants people to realize that he tried hard, not that he got any results.

69 When you have socialist public schools, er indoctrination camps, this is what you get.

That and letting people vote that do not own property.  What would Washington or Jefferson think of this shit?

They simply would not believe it.

70

The coversation reads like one of those korean spoof videos explaining everything from health insurance to architecture except there is no character who actually has a fucking clue as to what he's talking about.

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Off wookie sockie

71 >>It is the businesses choice.

Are apostrophes racist now?

72 It's funny to read this kind of economic ignorance from the occupants of mom's basement at DU

It's not funny to read it from the occupants of the White House

73

If folks are well enough off to own property and want police/firemen around to protect it

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As if owning a house is some major accomplishment that only greedy rich white people are capable of. They really do have low expectations of themselves.

 

I wonder what they'd say to the people whose    homes are underwater because the DU's beloved     Democratic congressmen forced banks to give home loans to risky loan seekers who wanted to purchase homes they couldn't afford.   Those folks purchased their homes -- so they're on the hook for more taxes, right?   And the folks who scrimped and saved and bought their homes the RIGHT way, and who are no suffering because of the idiots who DIDN'T do it the right way -- you want to force them to pay for your mistakes, too?   Cute!

74 As if owning a house is some major accomplishment that only greedy rich white people are capable of. They really do have low expectations of themselves.

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Well.... when your total assets are an iphone and a laptop.... and youre a 16th century expressive dance major with $85,000 in student loan debt living in your parents basement at the age of thirty.....

75 69 14Seriously though, if you've ever known one of those people who makes a decent to good income, but always has financial problems. They have trouble paying their bills on time, buy crap they don't need and can't afford, and try to hit you up for loans.


Hey, you talking about me?   Just cause I owe more than I have doesn't make me a bad person.   I got a free house now!

76 Pizza Shop: Do you want this pizza cut into eight slices?

DU: No. Just cut it into four. We can't afford eight.

77 I also peek in to DU occasionally to see stuff like this. I think we all should to know what we're up against. It pretty motivating for me.

78 Lefties are slowly turning other lefities into righties. Brilliant! This tactic for sure has to be discussed in George "Rhymes With" Lackoff's "Blue Book."

79

Has anyone brought up the fact that a.  Scranton is not only working class but poor working class, b.  that the University of Scranton owns a huge amount of tax exempt propety, c.  that the Diocese owns what the U doesn't and d. that the rest is owned by hospitals?  I am exagerrating only slightly about that.

 

These people quite seriously do not understand what is wrong with taking money that I've worked for and saved and giving it to someone else.  I suggest that we redistribute their ipads to prove the point.

80 Who would have though that the safety net would include free or subsidized cell phones?

81 @80

LOL! 

82

Libtards are just children in arrested development. Running a household, balancing a checkbook, running a business are all icky grown-up things that their square fathers did (or do). It might cut into their XBox time or choom supply.

My brother is a prime example. He has training as an electrician but has been laid off for over a year. His union isn't doing balls for him, he refuses to look for side work, and he bitches about the corporations and Bush becuase his benefits are about to run out. His wife is about to leave him because she's tired of working 3 jobs, plus raising the kids and doing household chores while he sleeps until 6 PM (!) and goes to bed at 10 AM. He either plays Skyrim all night or sits on Facebook, parroting every nutty leftard meme that comes down the pike. My parents and I have long since given up trying to help him. Hell, he didn't move out of my parents' house until he was fucking 38. He's 42 now. And no, I'm not exaggerating. How many more of him are out there?

83 @76 - yeah, that.

84 God help me, but I read the thread....the winner was the putz saying that all money should be illegal......what a utopian sewer they live in.

85 Taxing wealth is the next logical step That one's just brilliant. Tax the wealth and you get ONE shot at it. Say you turn it into a high-speed rail line from Scranton to Wilkes-Barre that no one uses. Now what?

86 Outside of Hollywood, I think you'd be hard-pressed to find an area of the country with a high enough proportion of millionaires per square mile to have a combined net worth of TRILLIONS of dollars. These idiots think "The Rich" are some amorphous pseudo-nation that hoards wealth like some legion of Scrooge McDucks, sitting on it like dragons on mounds of coin. They have no idea about what any of these things are or mean, how they work, or what those people do and how they live. And the punch line, of course, is that the people who live most like their mental images probably list among their heroes! I try to avoid 'eliminationist' thought, I really do, but to paraphrase? This nation needs an enema!

87 My income has already been taxed once. I am self-employed, so I've also had to pay self-employment taxes over the years. And no, I don't work as a banker, I don't exploit my workers (unless you call my own long hours at the job self-exploitation) and I produce a product that actually gets exported and brings money INTO the U.S. I don't trust any safety net to protect my retirement, so I have been faithfully saving for decades, in secure investments such as municipal bonds and CDs. I have accumulated enough to help my kids out with their college educations.

And now, because I've been scrupulous about saving and a careful investor, this OP would levy an extra tax on me, for no reason except that I've socked away enough for a comfortable retirement?

How anyone can be self-employed, like this person, and hold progressive redistributionist views baffles me. I think this commenter is either a conservative troll or a progressive who is suddenly realizing that the socialists want his money, too.

88 89
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Going nowhere, but you get there fast.

89 84 Who would have though that the safety net would include free or subsidized cell phones?

Posted by: RioBravo at July 13, 2012 12:27 PM (eEfYn)

Don't laugh.

http://tinyurl.com/3w48o25

90 "Who do I trust? Me that's who!"
Tony Montana in  Scarface
I live in California the most effen screwed up state in the union.
If you think we are not going off a cliff in this country financially, just remember 23 trillion is the tipping point!!! The whole point is to kill the Elephant.

91 Not only are they bat shit insane.....who the eff organized the layout on that site?!  Jesus H. Christ on a pogo stick.  You have to click on each comment to read it?!  Why it's like some bureaucrat laid it out.



(And considering the software we have here, that's saying something....)

92

Our Government has led them to believe that they CAN repeal the laws of Thermodynamics, and Economics... and create somthing, out of Nothing...

 

TANSTAAFL (There Aint No Such Thing As A Free Lunch)...

 

In a Capitalist Free Market?  The owner decides who gets lunch.

In a Democracy?  The mob becides who gets Lunch.

In the USSR?  The Party got Lunch, the Prols got the leftovers.

In Peoples Republic of China?  The Politbureo decides which country to deliver lunch to...

In Islamistan?  The guys get lunch, and the women get to wait on them, while watching a floor show of Stoning Gays and burning Witches... but its all the Jews fault.

In Socialism? the Government decides who the Corporations give lunch to... right up until theres no lunch left.

And in Obama's America? He gets his lunch... and your lunch.. and anyones lunch he wants.. while saying he is just giving the Poor Lunch.

93 I am also aware that there are people in this world who like to dress up in furry costumes and/or diapers to have sex with each other. Go on.

94 Remember Chief Warren's "you don't have roving bands of thieves" attacking your property because of the police that "we all paid for?"

That wasn't just a comment on everyone needing to pay their fair share--it was also a threat.

Read back to the comment about how if the homeowners want their homes protected, they'd better figure out a way to pay even more taxes--no matter if it means they can no longer afford their home.

The Democrat party is top to bottom full of these types of people--not just communists, beyond communists, the class of Pol Pot and Mao.

They don't see themselves as the one's face down in the mud with a bullet hole in their skull, they fancy themselves as the gilded class granted the glory they deserve safe back in the city as rulers.

95 Why don't they just ask Obama to open his "stash"?

96 The progressive road to prosperity:

1. Take everybody's money

2. When there is no more money to take, stage a few demonstrations featuring giant puppet heads.

3. ???

4. Profit!

97 @99 his stash is your ass,

98 "How many more of him are out there?
Posted by: Damn Sockpuppet"

Got one in my family, too. Brother. Fortunately, we disowned him, so the little f*cker is on his own now. Haven't seen him in three years, and my life is so much better for it.

99 100!

100

97...Clown Pron?

 

101 " I suggest they raise taxes -duh-...and...dress up in furry costumes and/or diapers to have sex with each other." I paint this! With the angelic host of St. Michael and the esparkly shit!

102 These people quite seriously do not understand what is wrong with taking money that I've worked for and saved and giving it to someone else. I suggest that we redistribute their ipads to prove the point. Posted by: alexthechick SMOD. Taste the rainbow. at July 13, 2012 12:27 PM

See my post above as to their definitions of "private property" and "personal property"

Like a little brat with the toy, you can't have the i-pad because it's MINE !!!!

103 I suggest that we redistribute their ipads to prove the point.

Posted by: alexthechick SMOD. Taste the rainbow. at July 13, 2012 12:27 PM (VtjlW)

 

 

Sometimes I'd rather redistribute their teeth.

104

Posted by: OregonMuse at July 13, 2012 12:28 PM (xm1A1)

 

 

Maslow's Heirarchy of Need.... Its all good fun going after OTHER peoples stuff.... right up until they come for YOURs.

105 Taxing wealth (assets) is no less ridiculous than taxing productive activity (income). Theft is theft.

106 Great example of this delusion via Jan Schakowsky http://tinyurl.com/7zwumkx

107 Taxing wealth is the next logical step
That one's just brilliant. Tax the wealth and you get ONE shot at it. Say you turn it into a high-speed rail line from Scranton to Wilkes-Barre that no one uses. Now what?Posted by: t-bird

What they are proposing is worse than that. They want to use it for ongoing expenses!!! Insanity.

108 "These people are too stupid to be saved.
Posted by: Mallamutt"

Then let's not. Let them eat each other.

109 More and more the iron fist is showing through the velvet glove of liberalism.

110

Posted by: RoyalOil at July 13, 2012 12:30 PM (kSaUf)

 

 

Private Security companies.... with Police Powers... they ARE almost inevitable at this point.

111 dammit, wrong thread. but hey, it works here too.

112 88 God help me, but I read the thread....the winner was the putz saying that all money should be illegal......what a utopian sewer they live in. Posted by: Hill County Texan at July 13, 2012 12:28 PM

Probably watches Star Trek TNG reruns every night

113 113 "These people are too stupid to be saved.
Posted by: Mallamutt"

Then let's not. Let them eat each other.
  But....that's MEAN!!!!

114 113
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We are not in the in the beginning of the middle or even the end of the middle, we are at the beginning of the end to paraphrase an old dead WASP.

115 dammit, wrong thread. but hey, it works here too.

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Common theme.....  "we are SO caring and SO compassionate,  we are willing to take all you have, silence any opposition, threaten naysayers, beat up opponents, lie about your leaders, cheat to win.... because we are the nice people at heart."

116 "One thing we probably need is a television station akin to Fox news that tells OUR side of the story. Maybe that would be a way to reach people." I don't think that's ever been tried before. Successfully.

117
Probably watches Star Trek TNG reruns every night

MAKE IT SO!

118 Growing up in Wilkes-Barre I was always jealous of those wealthy Scrantonians with their fancy kielbasa necklaces, unlimited perogie supplies from a secret stash...bastards.

They deserve everything they get in Scranton.

119 "One thing we probably need is a television station akin to Fox news that tells OUR side of the story. Maybe that would be a way to reach people."

I don't think that's ever been tried before.

Successfully. Posted by: Keith Olberman at July 13, 2012 12:38 PM

But those evil cable companies make you pay extra to get Current TV. Mom doesn't want to pay that unless I mow the lawn

120 >>Taxing wealth (assets) is no less ridiculous than taxing productive activity (income).

The way they tax income, I'll never accumulate any wealth to tax.

Yes, I realize this is by design.

121 Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure.

122 And the notion that money just "sits" there is so absolutely stupid and, at the same time, absolutely trusted as gospel to the left.

Money NEVER rests. It is always working. I may have $10k in my checking account. But that money isn't sitting there. 1) It's earning me interest*, 2) the bank has lent it out on a loan and it is earning the bank interest, 3) the home owner had paid it to the seller. That's at least three people it is working for at the same time it is "sitting" there.

Now, what in the wide, wide world of sports do these fucksticks think the corporations and millionaires are doing with their money?

Who do they do they think is buying GM stock?
Who do they think is buying the local school, fire, road bonds?

But, they have to have this myth that the money is just sitting there--it's a tidy conspiracy that excuses the JEF from failure.

*Except for the money I have in my IOLTA accounts, the state thinks it's fair that the interest earned on money I hold for clients can be confiscated to pay for indigent legal services.

123 122
Probably watches Star Trek TNG reruns every night

MAKE IT SO!
Posted by: Captain Jean-luc Retard at July 13, 2012 12:40 PM

I talked a Marin County chick who babysits whales into buying pizza and a beer for me by telling her we didn't have money in the 23rd century.  Try that the next time you're at a Starfleet bathhouse in San Francisco, you bald weenie cheese eating surrender monkey!

124 Money NEVER rests. It is always working. I fill my swimming pool with idle cash and splash around like Scrooge McDuck.

125 Holy crap they;'re scary.

Let's nationalize the police and fire departments to the Federal Level.

No, that's really an argument there... as though a one-size-fits-all solution has lowered costs and improved results for education; lets do it with EVERYTHING!  ... is even minimally rational.

I project higher costs, lower services, and no possibility of being able to even find someone to complain to who might have the authority to fix a problem (as with any bureaucracy.  But that's just me thinking the result from every time we've ever tried this in history might be repeated.

Clearly they know better.  Sure we're zero for...EVER but that just means we're due for one to actually work.

126

Why don't we just charge it to Mr Underhill's account?

127 BREAKING NEWS: US sends crack team of linguists and cowboy poets known as "The Story Boys" to solve Greek financial crisis.

128

21. $7.25/hour is not a living wage --do you suggest employees stop living?

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No petunia...I suggest the 7.25/hr jobs are perfectly suitable for teenagers and low skilled/low apptitude employees. If you find your self having to support a family on 7.25/hr, guess what?? YOU'RE DOING LIFE WRONG!! get two or three 7.25/hr jobs. And while you're toiling away think about what a fuckin loser you are by taking taking summer jobs away from little Johnny, Suzie and Corkie.

 

 

129 Wow, just read that DU page on Scranton.  There's an actual hardcore marxist socialist there demanding that it all be nationalized.  Sheesh, thought they had all died off by now.

130 Money fight !!!

131 Socialism, outside of being inherently totalitarian ---because there is never enough "social justice" and righteous 'thinking'--- is inherently imperialistic. If the Stockton model doesn't work because the productive flee --- (and they WILL) --- then you have to turn the whole state into Stockton. If California doesn't work and the productive flee, you have to turn the whole country into California. If the whole country doesn't work, and the glorious global government is not yet achievable, you build a wall to keep people in. DU to their darling: "Mr. Obama, build this wall up!"

132 132---" BREAKING NEWS: US sends crack team of linguists and cowboy poets known as "The Story Boys" to solve Greek financial crisis." I paint this!

133 I fill my swimming pool with idle cash and splash around like Scrooge McDuck.

Posted by: toby928© at July 13, 2012 12:46 PM (evdj2)

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134 Clearly, these people have never read Atlas Shrugged.  Everything that happens in the book regarding the government slowly taking over as things grow worse, continuing to expand their reach into every aspect of society and business, eventually leads to tyranny.  That is the only logical outcome socialism. 

135

Clearly the problem that the person who posted #89 (in the thread, not here) has is

a) racism, and-slash-or

b) poor messaging

 

She simply hasn't been told a good enough story.

136 Thanks for this post.  This issue has been burning a hole in my stomach lately.

Here in CA, i've run into people who have made comments like "Who would have ever predicted a city going bankrupt?"  .. to which I say "uhh you've never listened to ANY of my rants?  JEEZUZ"

Its maddening.  Heart attack inducing madness.  These things are so predictable its childs play.  I've long said that some people don't UNDERSTAND math.  They see it as some abstract thing.  They cannot do simple arithmetic in their head, as they've all grown up with calculators.  Its like someone born deaf.. If they don't learn a language, they will be a stupid, empty shell and an automaton.  We think in our native language, so without language, we cannot understand anything other than basic needs. 

Its the same with math.  If you never learn it, you cannot think it.  Numbers mean nothing to an entire generation.  It should scare everyone.  Obama the idiot is a person I KNOW doesn't understand numbers... So theres that

137 I used to spend hours chuckling at the stupid DU consistently produces. Then Obama got elected, and all I have to do is check the news to see the stupid in practice. The models, just like with Climate/warming/change/catastrophe do not agree with reality. Therefore, reality must be at fault!

138 I think some Republicans are about to be born on those DU threads.

139 My favorite so far:

"Someone with more than me is wealthy. Kill them, make sure their kids are strippped of all inheritance and make sure alll their property goes to the state."

140 Why don't we just charge it to Mr Underhill's account?
Posted by: Jon in TX at July 13, 2012 12:47 PM
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That's too simple. You see, it's all ball bearings these days, these kids and their Fetzer valves.

141

"and yes I have plenty of other ideas. Have you ever heard of socialism?"

 

There  are places in this world that already do that.  Right now.

 

Move there.

142

I miss DU.

I used to troll over there all the time. Just make a benign comment about how Reagan was a great president or how raising taxes kills jobs, sit back and watch the venom flow.

For double fun, slip in a pro-choice comment.

143

Has anyone devolved to calling people racist yet on the DU thread?

144

"I think some Republicans are about to be born on those DU threads."

 

Would be nice, but I believe still unlikely.  They'll just stop posting on DU, and move to HuffPo or somesuch.  More palatable  liberalism.

145 Years ago, I was banned at DU for asking why someone else was banned. Haven't been back.

146 Watching the DU inmates argue, is like watching monkeys trying to shove jello cubes up each other's asses.

Wait...I think I got that backwards.

147 These people really are evil.  I say this because they are ready and willing to disenfranchise others and violate their rights.  A good person does not do this.  A good person goes out of their way to avoid doing this.

The best way to deal with them is to do exactly what LauraW has done here: Shine a bright light upon them.

148 Notice how these idiots on DU want to tax anything that doesnt affect them? Most of them probably rent apartments, so they dont mind huge property taxes. I hate, loathe, and reject utterly the simple-minded childishness of the left wing of this country.

149

Notice how these idiots on DU want to tax anything that doesnt affect them? Most of them probably rent apartments, so they dont mind huge property taxes. I hate, loathe, and reject utterly the simple-minded childishness of the left wing of this country.

Posted by: The Drizzle at July 13, 2012 01:19 PM

 

Yet, they pay for those taxes in their rent.  Fools and liars.  That is the American left.

 

150 "Indeed! What could be simpler? Theft! Theft is the answer to all of our troubles. Works every time it's been tried."

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"Theft" is pretty mild - "Armed Robbery" is a little closer to what's going on.

151 They don't even realize that the police and firemen are richer than the people they want to raise taxes on.

We REALLY have to get the schools out of the hands of these idiots.  Just give everyone vouchers and let them sort themselves out.

And to the Teller of Hard Facts I would add that I have always considered Obama to be completely innumerate.  I don't think he has the slightest idea what a trillion dollars is.  Every number I have ever heard him mention has been wrong no matter in what context he used it... right down to not knowing how many states are in the union.

152 Too hilarious!  I have spent many a happy hour going through the threads on DU and would recommend it, HAZMAT suited up, of course. 

153 These people are unreal. Someone explain to me how they are alive.

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The rest of us are too kind to kill them.

154 Anybody catch this DU gem of a comment?

"One thing we probably need is a television station akin to Fox news that tells OUR side of the story. Maybe that would be a way to reach people."

Bwahahahahaha!!!

155 #157

Last time I was there, I burned out the logic board on my Fapometer, and I dare not risk visiting again until I get it repaired.

156 So, have any DUmmies done a survey of Scranton police, firefighters, and bureaucrats to see how many of them own their homes and possibly some real estate beyond that?

Might be a bit of an eye opener for them.

157

I like how one guy thinks the answer to our budget problems is to start locking up political prisoners (Grover Norquist) and siezing all their personal assets.

 

Yeah, that'll help. It's always awesome when governments start doing that.

158

Thanks for posting Laura.  Never been to the DU site, but it was worth it.  Absolute laugh riot, and at the same time very demoralizing that there are people in this country this consistently stupid.

The ringleader, or original poster, and a self-identified socialist was the most risible of the bunch.  As you summarized, every legitimate question of basic economics was turned away without comment.  These idiots will have their brave new world when the laws of basic arithmetic (to say nothing of economics and human nature) are struck down.

159 My income has already been taxed once. I am self-employed, so I've also had to pay self-employment taxes over the years. And no, I don't work as a banker, I don't exploit my workers (unless you call my own long hours at the job self-exploitation) and I produce a product that actually gets exported and brings money INTO the U.S. I don't trust any safety net to protect my retirement, so I have been faithfully saving for decades, in secure investments such as municipal bonds and CDs. I have accumulated enough to help my kids out with their college educations. And now, because I've been scrupulous about saving and a careful investor, this OP would levy an extra tax on me, for no reason except that I've socked away enough for a comfortable retirement? These are the most infuriating libtards out there; the ones who work and are fiscally conservative like this guy but keep electing democrats because they are unable to see the big picture. They think that since their business is small, they won't be in the crosshairs of the dependent class one day. So as long as the leeches of society target people who make marginally more than they do they are cool with it, even if they mostly share the same fiscal values as the more successful people. They haven't crossed the arbitrary income "threshold" that the democrat party has currently deemed "wealthy" so they are all on board with the entitlement culture. Fvck these people

160

So, have any DUmmies done a survey of Scranton police, firefighters, and bureaucrats to see how many of them own their homes and possibly some real estate beyond that?

 

I'm not going to 'bite' on rethuglican talking points. If you try to use sense or numbers I will scream nah-nah-nah I can't hear you.

161

Fvck these people

 

What is the point of such half assed sanitation? If I spray a turd with lysol will you wear it like a hat?

 

Say it or don't say it bvt what does making ovr cvrses Roman have to do with anything?

162 Sorry, force of habit

163

What would Washington or Jefferson think of this shit?

 

Take off and nuke it from orbit.  It's the only way to be sure.

164

Lots of people do it, highsmith. A more popular one is "f**k".

 

I don't get why. It seems like baby-splitting.

165 Obama would fit right in there. Soon we will question does the DUmp get their ideas from 0bama or does 0bama get his ideas from them.

166 Did we have police and fire protection 30 years ago?  Don't we have less police protection now?  Why should we pay more for police and fire now?

Having police and fire protection isn't the problem and they know it.  "Strawman" is a bit too substantial for their argument, maybe rotting-fungus man would be better.

167 Prior to 10 minutes ago, had never been to the DU site.  Holy SHTTTTTTT.  Not a comedy jam at all.  Terrifying.  These mouth-breathers vote.  Terr. If. Ying.

168 Clearly these geniuses haven't been anywhere near Scranton PA since the glory years of the 1930's.

169 + There's no more money! Oh noes!

* Sure there's money. It works like this:

Step 1: Raise taxes!

Step 2: ???

Step 3: Boom. Money.

See?

+ Maybe people  don't want their taxes raised.

* Those people are evil and greedy. And probably also millionaires with cats. Cat people suck. Tax them some more.

+ But what if they don't have money to tax?

* They're hiding it. I suggest rectal exams.

+ That's your solution to everything!

* Whatever works, brah.

170 While I occasionally *do* go read a thread at Democratic Underground just to get the full comedic impact, I usually just rely on the snappy synopsis provided by the <a href="http://dummiefunnies.blogspot.com/">Dummie Funnies</a>.

171 LauraW:
You owe me precious minutes of my life back for making me go there and read that.

172 Post # 89 has been removed. DU sucks.

173 @177, not only has it been removed, the entire thread's been renumbered--that comment is down the memory hole. The poster is likely an unperson. Wow. They really do love Big Brother.

174 "19 The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money Posted by: Margaret Thatcher at July 13, 2012 12:09 PM (84pE9)" ScrantonDetroitBernadinoEurope's problems is that they're running out of other people.

175 I posted for about 5 minutes at DU during the last election. They banned my IP very quickly when I had the gall to actually post facts.

176 Nothing But Thieves. We don't have enough money to construct a Great Social Project 900' statue of Bill Ayers? We'll just STEAL what we "need!" That'll fix the "economy." After the mass excuse-making over Fast and Furious, I'm pretty sure they're not crazy, just evil. Democrats - the party of "Murder (in Our Name) is Just Fine."

177 156 I have always considered Obama to be completely innumerate. I don't think he has the slightest idea what a trillion dollars is. Every number I have ever heard him mention has been wrong no matter in what context he used it... My pet peeve is his constant refrain of "millionaires and billionaires", without any apparent realization that there is a factor of 1000 difference between them. I've lately begun hearing lib callers to talk radio shows using that phrase.

178 <a href="http://markadelphia.blogspot.com/2012/07/dont-super-size-me.html">This</a> "useful idiot" (useful to whom?) proudly self-identifies as a Minnesota public high school teacher.  You want to know why the country's going the way it is, this blithering numbskull is a prime example of why.  That and the parents who aren't involved enough to know what crap their students are taught.

179 Thanks Laura for doing the work to get that posted. It was very entertaining and informative. That sounds like a lace wigs comment. Oh well.

180

They are what you call "selfless narcissists". they also suffer froma pathological inability to face reality.

In a sense, they are fucked in the head.

181 "Is it any wonder that when they're put in charge of a budget, it's like giving Lennie a puppy to play with?"

LOL. Now that right there is a keeper.

182 That commenter "mainer" in the second DU thread is a real hoot. She's apparently a businesswoman who has been frugal with her money all of her life and is now upset because the redistributionist policies she's supported and voted for all of her life are now coming after her pile of money.

Socialism is wonderful only when it's somebody else's money.