Prepare To Be Offended

So here is this weasel talking about how CEOs make more percentage wise than when he was a kid. So what? Is it the governments responsibility to curve that? Sure, we could go to socialism and watch everything go into the shitter, just like Europe.

The union boys are afraid of a global economy because it means less costs in some areas which is a nice way of saying that some people will lose their jobs to those overseas. Boo hoo. Get the hell over it, the world goes on and times change. It is shown over and over and over again that fair trade is better for the country in the long run than non-fair trade. That trade also includes the labor force.

During the president’s state of the union address, he talks about the border and immigrations problems that are present today. He said that he wants to establish a guest worker program and secure the border. That is all fine and dandy, but what pisses me off is when he got to two points.

1. Give employers the tools to establish the right of workers to work legally. Hello??? There are two, they are called the birth certificate and the green card.

2. What to do about the ones that are here. There is only one thing to do, send them home. Too costly? so what. They are working now. Tough shit. They are here ILLEGALLY, pure and simple. End of discussion. They are, by law, criminals and should be treated as such.

So Flyer and Fryer got pardoned this morning and they get to go to Disney World. However, in a strange twist Nancy Pelosi is really upset over this because they didn’t get to collect any estate taxes due to the turkeys’ deaths. The ACLU has also joined in and decided that this is discriminatory against other holiday fowl such as ducks and chickens while at the same time arguing that the turkeys’ civil rights were violated by being paraded around on TV for political gain. To complete the hat trick the ACLU also said that it was discriminatory against native Americans because, well, it just was.

Ok, how many jokes can we make out this one?? Apparently he was dickless to begin with, so he goes and gets an enlargement and isn’t happy with it so he decided to mail a bomb to the doctor? How messed up is that? Sounds like the guy went to the wrong kind of doctor!

Here is the article.

Face it, the middle class squeeze is a term designed to invoke an emotion against the rich. Pure and simple.

I did some reading around and the various viewpoints are quite interesting. Take for example this quote from AlterNet

Raising the minimum wage and indexing it to inflation is part of the middle-class agenda. Directing funding to make child care services available to low-income workers is part of the middle-class agenda. Strong workplace rights regulations that help Americans join labor unions is part of the middle-class agenda. Putting an end to predatory lending is part of the middle-class agenda.

Oh? I don’t remember any of that being on my agenda or anyone that I know for that matter. I don’t want the minimum wage raised. I don’t want government funding for child care services, and I sure as hell don’t want more labor unions as part of my agenda. Predatory lending practices? So you want to reward people for not reading the fine print?

Even so, how does all of this affect the rich? What, they are supposed to pay more taxes so that the government can tell you that they are helping you out? And you actually believe that crap?

Perhaps the middle class is being squeezed, and in two ways. First, they are being squeezed into a higher income bracket, according to the Cato Institute, citing August 2006 census numbers. You know what, I’ll bet those being squeezed into the upper income brackets aren’t working for union either.

The second way the middle class is being squeezed is by themselves. Yep, you are to blame for your own problems. Sure your taxes could be lower, sure college could be more affordable, and yes it would be nice if you didn’t have to worry about retirement or even health care costs. But let’s face it, most of these problems can’t be solved by the government in any kind of efficient manner. The middle class should be smart enough to take care of themselves without government intervention. Some common sense and planning would go along way to keeping your sorry ass out of trouble so you don’t have to go crying to the government for help. That old say “Piss poor planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part”. Amen. The same applies to this situation.

Look at it this way, if you are making 35k-75k a year and are struggling so bad that you want the government’s help, maybe you need to take a few lessons from the millions of illegal immigrants who are here making far less than you do, managing to live day to day and still send money home to their families. If you seriously think the government can do a good job at anything, then you must never have worked for the government. It is the single most inefficient organization there is. All it will do is raise the cost of everything it does because it can’t do anything without squandering money.

The only squeezing going on is by people squeezing themselves. If you didn’t have that $50,000 SUV, $4,000 TV, kept your hands off of your credit cards and all of the other amenities that just can’t live without you might be able to save a little bit of money and not feel so bad. But nah, that would be too easy wouldn’t it?

So before you start championing your democrat officials (who are by no means middle class I might add), why don’t you take a hard look at yourself instead?

Just how far will you go to get that nice new PS3? Will you perform some stupid act? Will you attempt to bribe WalMart? Or perhaps you would camp outside some store and then decide to start shooting people?

Yep, all of these things have been in the headlines. Remember this isn’t for tickets to the Rolling Stone’s fair well tour, or see the return of the Messiah, nope, these are people performing these acts to get a hold of the Sony PS3.

So, just how do you go about getting one and feeling good about? Do what most sane people do. Go to the store and if it sold out, go to another store. If it is sold out everywhere, wait till after Christmas. Really, it will be ok.

I’m not sure if this is real or not, but I got this email forwarded to me by my wife. I fucking love it!

This will warm your heart, especially if you have lost faith in human kindness. This letter was sent to the principal’s office after an elementary school had sponsored a luncheon for the elderly. An old lady had received a new radio at the lunch as a door prize, and was writing to say thank you.

Dear Faculty and Students,
God bless you for the beautiful radio I won at your recent Senior citizens’ luncheon. I am 84 years old and live at an Assisted Home for the Aged. All of my family has passed away. I am all alone now and it’s nice to know someone is thinking of me. God bless you for your kindness to an old forgotten lady.

My roommate is 95 and always had her own radio. Before I Received this one, she would never let me listen to hers, even when she Was napping.

The other day, her radio fell off the night stand and broke into a lot of little pieces. It was awful and she was in tears. She asked if she could listen to mine, and I said “fuck you”.

Thank you for that opportunity.
Sincerely,
Betty Smith

MSN has
this story about Borat’s victims being duped by his antics. Ok, the woman at the news network shouldn’t have gotten fired for letting him on the news for an interview, but these other dumb asses deserve it. Case in point, the college kids who got drunk and said a bunch of stupid — albeit funny — stuff are actually trying to sue. Can you believe that? They acted like morons and got exposed, so now they want to sue? What kind of bullshit is that?

If these cry babies can’t take a joke then piss on them. Sacha has got some big balls to have pulled off the stuff he did and I say bravo. He deserves every penny he gets from that movie. The way he offended people was both funny as hell and down right audacious. I loved it!

I hope he gets an Oscar.

While a bit overly alarmist, this is still pretty damn funny:

Let the Koolaid drinking begin!! So the dems take control of the House and by the end of the day they may very well take control of the Senate. While they are celebrating and patting each other the back I’m sure they won’t bother to think that the public doesn’t really want them in power. What really happened was that the public didn’t like what the republicans were doing and their only alternative was a democrat. That is a far cry from actually wanting the democrats in control.

If you think about it, this happened to Kerry in his run for president. People didn’t like Kerry, they just didn’t like Bush and therefore voted for Kerry. Even the democrats now keep saying “The people wanted a new direction”. True, they did, buy they didn’t offer any direction. Hell they didn’t offer anything other than a bunch of finger pointing and blaming. Granted, it got them elected, but now what?

It is a real shame because if the democrats had really come out with a solid agenda they might have done even better. Or just the opposite, if they had really spoken of their real agenda — which no one really knows — they might have lost completely.

Another interesting fact is that while democrats have won a lot of seats, the vast majority of issues that states voted on go against the democrats. Things like illegal immigration, taxes, etc. have all been victories for the conservative side (with the exception of the minimum wage) and the majority of the democrats that did win of the incumbant republican have been moderate to conservative democrats. It just goes to show that the vast majority of Americans still don’t like the hard line democrat policy; instead they just didn’t like the way republicans were running things.