Atman (24,383 posts)
A little story I wrote for all the people my age...
I posted this on my FB page this morning because, being from Florida, I see tons of my old school buddies hating on Obama. People who I alway took to be more liberal in nature now saying they love Romney and Ryan. So instead of just saying "you're wrong," I tried to address in a way that might make it easier to understand what Mittens and Paul want to do...
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This is for everyone my age, the Class of '77 (and any thinking underclassmen, too);
Imagine back when you were a teenager. Mom & Dad promised you that if you got a job and worked hard, and put at least $20 a week into a savings account, that when you turned 16, they'd match the money you had saved and buy you a new car. So get get a paper route, and you work at McDonald's and you mow some lawns,
In two years you've faithfully put your $20 in the bank every week, and now have over $2000 saved up. You've cut out pictures of your new car and taped them all over your bedroom ($4,000 would buy a lot of car in 1977), and you've envied the sweet rides your older brother and sister got with the same deal they made with Mom & Dad. And now, with your 16th birthday just a couple of months away, you can almost smell that new-car smell; you've even bought a couple of 8-Track tapes for the car's bitchin' stereo.
Better still, you can finally quit the stupid paper route because McDonalds has promoted you to the front line after years of cleaning toilets and deep fryers. In a couple weeks, you'll no longer have to ride your bike to work.
The week before your birthday, you bring your passbook and car pictures to Mom & Dad. That's when they drop the bomb on you...they want to take a two-month trip around the world. It's going to very expensive. Therefore, they're changing the deal; now you don't get the car until you're 20.
Oh, and about that money you've saved up...Dad has already withdrawn half of it from your bank account, but he's going to give you a coupon for $1,200 you can apply towards that $4,000 car. And good luck finding someone to give a loan to a 16 year old, because he's not going to co-sign the note.
Welcome to the Romney-Ryan presidency. People our age are getting royally screwed, and it doesn't have to be. Their budget plan cuts their millionaire taxes by a whopping 10%, raises our taxes, adds $4 trillion to the deficit, and does absolutely nothing to balance the budget. And you hate Obama why?
Horse with no Name (29,371 posts)
4. Nice.
I know that with a chronic illness and trying to keep in the workforce and trying to just keep sustaining with the high insurance premiums...until I was 65.
Now...honestly I don't know if I can hang on.
I'm 50 and all I can do is shake my head.
salinen (6,977 posts)
8. Sorry to say this but this'll reinforce their ideas that the government (represented by your parents) aren't there to coddle you anyway. Watch, they'll say something about "nanny state"
they always do.
Atman (24,383 posts)
9. So you reply with "integrity," "promises," "honesty," etc.
I fully expect that some will say what you suggest, but it is irrelevant to the larger point. No one is "coddling you" by keeping a promise made to you. Further, they are outright lying to you and stealing from you in this case.
But that sort of deceitful behavior is how the right operates. Just shining a little light on it.
Atman (24,383 posts)
26. Anyone, please feel free to share it.
I only hope it helps, even just a little.
Thanks for all the compliments!
I see tons of my old school buddies hating on Obama. People who I alway took to be more liberal in nature now saying they love Romney and Ryan.
Imagine back when you were a teenager. Mom & Dad promised you that if you got a job and worked hard, and put at least $20 a week into a savings account, that when you turned 16, they'd match the money you had saved and buy you a new car. So get get a paper route, and you work at McDonald's and you mow some lawns,
Atman (24,385 posts)
28. One Republican friend I went to HS with replied;
"Obamas plan says: Get a job. If you do well and make plenty of money, i'll take most of it and "help" the poor, lazy no goods who don't feel like working. It will be a wonderful Marxist society...."
Notice he doesn't address ANYTHING in my little story. Not the fact that the character in question HAS a job, and worked hard at a couple of jobs for years, and that while fulfilled a promise he made, his "government," Mom & Dad, totally reneged on their end of the deal. Not only did they renege, that actually took much of the money he'd already paid in, to use for their own adventures around the world.
I've gotten several 'likes,' but none of the positive comments so far are too earth shattering...
"And the plan removes funding for PBS, The national endowment for the arts and other programs. So we can fund the defense department but not the arts."
"Romneys plan says get a job and it better be a good one or else you need to pay my way too! Oh yea and if you get sick so sorry for your luck buh bye"
No of course he can't. When he tells a tale, it's dry as dust.
But
Is he allowed to say that on DU?
And Atman, nobody believes the lie that R2 is going to raise taxes. Obama on the other hand...
28. One Republican friend I went to HS with replied;
"Obamas plan says: Get a job. If you do well and make plenty of money, i'll take most of it and "help" the poor, lazy no goods who don't feel like working. It will be a wonderful Marxist society...."
Notice he doesn't address ANYTHING in my little story. Not the fact that the character in question HAS a job, and worked hard at a couple of jobs for years, and that while fulfilled a promise he made, his "government," Mom & Dad, totally reneged on their end of the deal. Not only did they renege, that actually took much of the money he'd already paid in, to use for their own adventures around the world.
I've gotten several 'likes,' but none of the positive comments so far are too earth shattering...
"And the plan removes funding for PBS, The national endowment for the arts and other programs. So we can fund the defense department but not the arts."
"Romneys plan says get a job and it better be a good one or else you need to pay my way too! Oh yea and if you get sick so sorry for your luck buh bye"
I don't believe Toast wrote that on his own. He probably plagiarized Biden or someone.
I graduated in 1963, had just turned 17. 2 or 3 of the rich kids found a new car in the parking lot the night of graduation. I knew there wouldn't be one there for me but daddy had said that if I graduated we'd see about getting me a car. The night of graduation, I asked him if I was going to get that car. He asked, "How much money you got saved up." I told him how much I had and his response was, "You can get a pretty car with that." No, "I'll match it" or "We'll go shopping for a new one tomorrow." Nope, just "YOU can get a pretty good car with that."
Well, I bought a one owner, low mileage '57 FORD....then he asked if I had insurance on it. I told him I was planning on putting it on his, OH NO. I had to find an insurance company that would insure a 17 year old boy. That was State Farm and I've had almost all my insurance with them for over 50 years.
I graduated in 1963, had just turned 17. 2 or 3 of the rich kids found a new car in the parking lot the night of graduation. I knew there wouldn't be one there for me but daddy had said that if I graduated we'd see about getting me a car. The night of graduation, I asked him if I was going to get that car. He asked, "How much money you got saved up." I told him how much I had and his response was, "You can get a pretty car with that." No, "I'll match it" or "We'll go shopping for a new one tomorrow." Nope, just "YOU can get a pretty good car with that."
Well, I bought a one owner, low mileage '57 FORD....then he asked if I had insurance on it. I told him I was planning on putting it on his, OH NO. I had to find an insurance company that would insure a 17 year old boy. That was State Farm and I've had almost all my insurance with them for over 50 years.
My story is similar. The parents of one of my best friends bought him a brand new Buick Regal for graduation. A pretty dark metallic grey. The Saturday after he got the car I told my dad about it and told him that I wanted a new car. He said, "alright, load up in the car and we'll go see what they've got." Before I could get in the car he asked what I intended to pay for it with. When I told him I had intended for him to pay for it he laughed and said, "well, in that case there ain't no need for us to go to town. I thought you had some money saved or something."
Maybe it's a southern thing?
He did let me keep my car on his insurance until I took my last college class.
Oh, by the way, I have to retract the comment I made when posting this.He should have collaborated with Nads. That would have been epic.
Where I theorized it was a first draft on Atman's part.
Appearances deceived me.
I'll bet he wrote, and re-wrote, the thing half a dozen times before he posted it.
:-) ...Talk about getting your bubble busted... :rotf:
Southern dads....yep, you ain't grown and your own boss until he's dead or to old to whip your ass anymore.
:-) ...Talk about getting your bubble busted... :rotf:
Southern dads....yep, you ain't grown and your own boss until he's dead or to old to whip your ass anymore.
This morning a writer named Atman posted this on Democratic Underground. He wants it to get more “shares,†so happy to oblige. Passing it along verbatim. Dude’s a few years younger than I am, but this still rings true.
WTF? I don't get a new car if Romeny-Ryan are elected? ::)The Tin Man doesn't get a heart.
The Tin Man doesn't get a heart.
The Scarecrow doesn't get a brain.
The Lion doesn't get his courage.
And Dorothy has tospendspread her legs the rest of her life in Oz.
The week before your birthday, you bring your passbook and car pictures to Mom & Dad. That's when they drop the bomb on you...they want to take a two-month trip around the world. It's going to very expensive. Therefore, they're changing the deal; now you don't get the car until you're 20.
Oh, and about that money you've saved up...Dad has already withdrawn half of it from your bank account, but he's going to give you a coupon for $1,200 you can apply towards that $4,000 car. And good luck finding someone to give a loan to a 16 year old, because he's not going to co-sign the note.
The Tin Man doesn't get a heart.But Dorothy gets $3000 worth of free contraceptives in Oz!
The Scarecrow doesn't get a brain.
The Lion doesn't get his courage.
And Dorothy has tospendspread her legs the rest of her life in Oz.