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The Vermontese cali primitive:
cali (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-16-09 06:45 AM
Original message
Lobbyists: Hiring the homeless to stand in line for them to get into Congressional Hearings.
CNN just did a report on this. Senator McCaskill is introducing legislation to ban this disgusting practice.
The Wal-Mart primitive:
armyowalgreens (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-16-09 07:00 AM
Response to Original message
1. This sounds like an episode of Seinfeld.
cali (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-16-09 07:01 AM
Response to Reply #1
2. you're right. it does.
too bad that it's not.
armyowalgreens (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-16-09 07:03 AM
Response to Reply #2
3. That's the worst part. You laugh at Seinfeld because it's absurd.
This story sounds so absurd, I don't even know what to do. I think shaking my head in disgust is most appropriate.
armyowalgreens (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-16-09 07:06 AM
Response to Original message
4. Who the hell would unrec this?
rec.
cali (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-16-09 07:08 AM
Response to Reply #4
5. there are folks here who would (and have) unrec an OP of mine wishing DU a splendid day. I won't win any popularity contests here. That's OK. It's not why I'm here, and what can you do but laugh at that kind of infantile pettiness?
Hmmm. Very curious, very peculiar.
A few days ago, the cali primitive and the Wal-Mart primitive were at each other's throats in the anti-Semitism forum, the cali primitive winning, and now today, the cali primitive and the Wal-Mart primitive are buddy-buddy, chummy-chummy, lovey-dovey, kissie-smoochy, humpy-bumpy, in-and-outy.
Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-16-09 07:11 AM
Response to Reply #4
7. I haven't unrecced it..
But as someone who would be homeless but for the kindness of my daughter and son in law I find the attitude toward the homeless who will lose some desperately needed money a bit callous.
And we all know that nothing will be done to help the homeless who were making a few bucks off this.
But they're taking away the chance for some primitives to make a few bucks standing in line.
Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-16-09 07:08 AM
Response to Original message
6. Disgusting that a homeless person might be able to make a few bucks?
I find so many things in life are a matter of perspective..
If I were the homeless person Sen McCaskill was trying to put out of a very meager few dollars I might feel I was being targeted.
Things look very different peeking uprange than downrange.
cali (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-16-09 07:16 AM
Response to Reply #6
8. Being opposed to Lobbyists extending their crass efforts to own Congress lock, stock and barrel is not being opposed to the homeless. This is a disgusting practice.
Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-16-09 07:19 AM
Response to Reply #8
9. Do you think anything compensatory to the homeless will be done?
I don't, I think those homeless who will lose money on this are just SOL..
In fact I think it's somewhat likely that *accepting* money for this will be made illegal rather than *offering* money for it.
That's just the way America rolls.
armyowalgreens (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-16-09 07:29 AM
Response to Reply #6
10. The homeless should be given real support. Not an insulting "few bucks"...
Job training, counseling, temporary housing.
How you justify the exploitation of homeless people is beyond me.
Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-16-09 07:33 AM
Response to Reply #10
11. That's the next thing on the agenda?
Taking proper care of the homeless?
Right?
One wonders if the AdBot primitive was thinking of the Wal-Mart primitive:
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