DUmmies Discuss Movies, Math, And The Filthy Rich (That'd Be You)

[GOBUCKS]

DUmmy napinumbers laments that prosperous people are delaying his handout:

napi21  (1000+ posts)        Tue Jan-26-10 11:43 PM
Original message
Do way too many people have too much money? Is that why
we as Dems are having such a hard time passing things like HC and jobs bills etc?

The reason I asked is because I just heard a news blurb about Avatar, a MOVIE, has made $1.8 BILLION so far! If things are so bad/, how do so many people afford to spend that kind of money?

Please don't think that I don't care about the unemployed and underemployed. That's not true. I've just been having a hard time understanding why so many people don't sem to care, and it seems like if the economy doesn't affect them directly, they just don't care!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7579600

Whenever democrats whine about people making too much and not giving it to them, it reminds me of Sen. Ernest Hollings, one of the vanishing breed of Deep South democrat senators. His accent and speech patterns made him sound like the model for Foghorn Leghorn. He once made that usual democrat complaint about people having too much takehome pay by famously saying, "There's too much consumin' goin' on out there."


DUmmy leftygolfer hates his Rethug brother-in-law:

leftygolfer (70 posts)      Tue Jan-26-10 11:45 PM
Response to Original message
1. to be fair, $8 for a movie isn't indicative
but i have a brother-in-law who has the cushiest job in history, travels the world on the company dime, and goes on gambling and golf junkets every few months. so some people definitely have too much. and some us, not near enough.

 
And of course DUmmies should decide how much is enough.

 
It's always dangerous when a DUmmy does math:

napi21  (1000+ posts)        Wed Jan-27-10 12:03 AM
Response to Reply #1
7. At $8 a pop, that's 225,000 people went to see that movie!
That's a LOT of people if you ask me!

DUmmy Electric Monk is a troll, displaying his Repug math skills:

Electric Monk  (705 posts)        Wed Jan-27-10 12:30 AM
Response to Reply #7
10. Decimal point fail. Missed it by a factor of a thousand.
1,800,000,000 / 8 = 225,000,000

Check out the billionaires down at the local multiplex:

TankLV (1000+ posts)      Tue Jan-26-10 11:50 PM
Response to Original message
2. I'd say it's because a select FEW have too much money...
not "too many"...

and these few control almost EVERYTHING for their own selfish benifit, damn the rest of us...
and, to be honest, I don't ever remember paying a BILLION DOLLARS to go to ONE ****ing movie, no matter how good it was said to be...

I only have one beautiful house full of wonderful things. Do I qualify for DUmmy Ozymanithrax's middle class?

Ozymanithrax  (1000+ posts)        Tue Jan-26-10 11:54 PM
Response to Original message
3. We live in a society of isolated consumers sold by the media...  
on this middleclass ideal. Television teaches us that the poor are poor because they are stupid and lazy. The middle class, the prefered class, have beautiful houses full of wonderful things. So, we live our life in pursuit of wonderful things and have lost our link with each other.

Our world is all bread and circus, both provided by the media and big corporations that make an endless stream of new must have gadgets.

Yep, by George, I do. This circus is great! Pass the bread, please.

bluestateguy  (1000+ posts)        Tue Jan-26-10 11:57 PM
Response to Original message
4. No
A few people have too much money.  

 
The jug-eared muslim is "fighting" to fix that.


If you can afford an $8 ticket, you're in DUmmy sandnsea's upper 40%!

sandnsea  (1000+ posts)      Wed Jan-27-10 12:01 AM
Response to Original message
6. 90% of people are employed
Although I've long thought the economy is geared towards the top 40% and they can still spend $8 on a ticket.

 

More DUmmy math:

Mind_your_head  (1000+ posts)      Wed Jan-27-10 12:37 AM
Response to Reply #6
14. Hehehe.... yeah, I'm one of the 90% employed of which you speak.....
I'm makine a WHOLE $9.00/hour now (way less than I made 25 years ago with a salary, benefits, AND the company paid for my school expenses).....
oh, but I'm 'employed' now. But, forgetting all of that, let's do some 'math' now, shall we?

$9.00/hour x 40 hours = $360.00
$360.00 x 52 (weeks in a year) = $18,720

WOW, I'm RICH!!!!!

Shoulda studied up for that drug test at the original job.


DUmmy StClone is not allowed to be within 1000 feet of a school:

StClone (1000+ posts)      Wed Jan-27-10 12:27 AM
Response to Original message
9. Why is Mylee Cyrus worth nearly a billion?
Many people spend money on small (Often faddish) things, repeatedly, especially the young. It adds up.

Will your daughter ask for a tat like Cyrus's: Miley Cyrus' Tattoo On Her Chest (under left breast for Christ's sake) says "Just Breathe." Just freaking breathe! Genius I tell yah.

 
 

dysfunctional press  (1000+ posts)      Wed Jan-27-10 12:34 AM
Response to Original message
13. too many people have too little money...and too many people have too much money...
and POOF went the middle class.

Anyone with more money than DUmmy dysfunctional press has too much. Everyone else doesn't have enough.
 

HiFructosePronSyrup  (1000+ posts)      Wed Jan-27-10 12:55 AM
Response to Original message
20. There's as much money now as there was before the recession.
This country's swimming in cash.

It's just not flowing through the series of tubes as quickly as it should be.

[NHSparky]

It frightens me to think that in their mind, I'm "filthy rich", and yet when I look at what kind of hours I have to put in to make that "filthy rich" money, I only get to take one 3-day vacation every other year.

[Carl]

napi21  (1000+ posts)        Tue Jan-26-10 11:43 PM
Original message
Do way too many people have too much money? Is that why
we as Dems are having such a hard time passing things like HC and jobs bills etc?

Think about what this person is saying...they have stumbled upon the exact purpose of liberalism.
Everyone must be reduced to poverty so a dependence on the government is the consequence.

[whiffleball]

Think about what this person is saying...they have stumbled upon the exact purpose of liberalism.
Everyone must be reduced to poverty so a dependence on the government is the consequence.

What they want is everyone living as slaves on the plantation.  Of course, the folks they idiotically vote in to bring about their socialist dream would not be living the same way.  They seem to be okay with the notion of the slave owners deserving more.

[Chris_]

Waaayyyy back in 1978 I remember hearing about a study that was done that showed that often during tough economic times movie and book revenues increase because both are escapist entertainment where one can for a short time forget one's financial woes. Kind of ironic since during that period of the 70's we had another "wonderful" dim pres.

[The Village Idiot]

Idiots.

BTW, 90% are NOT employed. More than half the country doesn't have a job. More than 15% who want a job don't have one.

[zeitgeist]

Idiots.

BTW, 90% are NOT employed. More than half the country doesn't have a job. More than 15% who want a job don't have one.

Kill joy.  Geeze just like some conservative to bring facts to a pity party. I bet you are the same guy who says businesses still manufacture things in Amerikkka!!!  The nerve I tell ya, the nerve.

PS....anybody catch the 'honest troll' post last night at the dump?  Some 22 post wonder was complaining about Obie taxing his meger $138 a week for $11 and getting some ^5's.  Inspired work.

[zeitgeist]

It frightens me to think that in their mind, I'm "filthy rich", and yet when I look at what kind of hours I have to put in to make that "filthy rich" money, I only get to take one 3-day vacation every other year.

Wait 'till you retire, you'll get even less.   (I can't imagine how I ever managed to work full time.  )   They would really detest me, fully insured and retired because I set a goal and stuck with it while others frittered their youth away.  It is all about choices ( and what luck you make along the way.) 

[USA4ME]

Whenever democrats whine about people making too much and not giving it to them, it reminds me of Sen. Ernest Hollings, one of the vanishing breed of Deep South democrat senators. His accent and speech patterns made him sound like the model for Foghorn Leghorn. He once made that usual democrat complaint about people having too much takehome pay by famously saying, "There's too much consumin' goin' on out there."

FYI, the distinct accent and speech patterns of which you speak is a dialect exclusive to Charleston, South Carolina.  The city has a lot of old money residents that combine the proper English with a southern accent.  It's still around there, but you don't hear it as much as you did 30 years ago.  BTW, great historical city to visit.  Just don't go during the summer or you'll die of humidity.

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[JohnnyReb]

The filthy rich, unlike the filthy broke, can take a bath and cure half their problem.

[Ralph Wiggum]

Other than a matinee, who is paying $8 for a movie ticket?

[thundley4]

Other than a matinee, who is paying $8 for a movie ticket?

We have a place that is cheap.  The Avon Theater is one of the few classic type movie movie houses, only 3 screens, and they're bigger than the ones at the multiplexes.

[GOBUCKS]

FYI, the distinct accent and speech patterns of which you speak is a dialect exclusive to Charleston, South Carolina.  The city has a lot of old money residents that combine the proper English with a southern accent.  It's still around there, but you don't hear it as much as you did 30 years ago.  BTW, great historical city to visit.  Just don't go during the summer or you'll die of humidity.

It seems like job mobility and television have nearly destroyed regional accents and dialects. When I was a kid, we could detect accent differences in people from just maybe 50 miles away. A southern accent only sounded like a southern accent to a yankee. To another southerner it could almost identify your county. I'm sure it was the same for accents among yankees. Except for the most remote rural areas, that seems to have disappeared from all but the very elderly.

[Spirit of Ronald Reagan]

Ever notice how you never hear a lib bitch about how much money george soros has?  These jackasses bitch about greedy people walking all over the "little folks" but laud this guy as a hero.  Guess insider trading and deflating currency to make a buck for yourself is okay as long as you hate republicans and conservatives. 

[NHSparky]

Other than a matinee, who is paying $8 for a movie ticket?

Dunno--our movie theater complex went bankrupt five months ago.  If I want to see a flick I have to go to Portsmouth.

[SilverOrchid]

It is close to $10 here. We do Netflix anyways.

[BEG]

Ever notice how you never hear a lib bitch about how much money george soros has?  These jackasses bitch about greedy people walking all over the "little folks" but laud this guy as a hero.  Guess insider trading and deflating currency to make a buck for yourself is okay as long as you hate republicans and conservatives. 

Or the evil greedy bastard Gore who is totally scamming people on "Global Warming".  They bitched about Cheney "profiting" from Halliburton yet don't say anything about Gore making millions off of Global Warming.  Gore is a fraud yet they give him an "exemption" from their witch hunt.

[delilahmused]

Well, I see Captain Platitude has poisoned the drinking water at the DUmp again.

Cindie

[Chris_]

Ever notice how you never hear a lib bitch about how much money george soros has?  These jackasses bitch about greedy people walking all over the "little folks" but laud this guy as a hero.  Guess insider trading and deflating currency to make a buck for yourself is okay as long as you hate republicans and conservatives. 

Don't forget that the DUmmies look at earnings on a "zero sum" basis.......they think that if the poor were to be economically elevated, the rich would have to relinquish wealth........

Stupid, I know, but that is the way that they think........

doc

[Ralph Wiggum]

Don't forget that the DUmmies look at earnings on a "zero sum" basis.......they think that if the poor were to be economically elevated, the rich would have to relinquish wealth........

Stupid, I know, but that is the way that they think........

doc

I had no idea people actually thought that way until I started listening to Rush nearly 20 years ago.

Of course now the examples of it are on display daily at the DUmp.

[md11hydmec]

If the DUmmies would spend half as much time trying to work as they do on their computers complaining  they wouldn't worry about the filthy rich.

[AllosaursRus]

Kill joy.  Geeze just like some conservative to bring facts to a pity party. I bet you are the same guy who says businesses still manufacture things in Amerikkka!!!  The nerve I tell ya, the nerve.

PS....anybody catch the 'honest troll' post last night at the dump?  Some 22 post wonder was complaining about Obie taxing his meger $138 a week for $11 and getting some ^5's.  Inspired work.

As most here know, I work part time at the Home Depott. 98% of what they sell comes from China, the Phillipines, Mexico, or Tiawian. Nothing, and I mean nothing, is "made in America"  any more! You can thank the Union Wage for that! When you get paid over $30 an hour for puttin' on lug nuts, somethin' has been lost in the skills dept. Why should we pay one of these Union thugs $30 when we can get the same work for $1/day? Hell, just ask Nike or Kathy Gifford.

[zeitgeist]

As most here know, I work part time at the Home Depott. 98% of what they sell comes from China, the Phillipines, Mexico, or Tiawian. Nothing, and I mean nothing, is "made in America"  any more! You can thank the Union Wage for that! When you get paid over $30 an hour for puttin' on lug nuts, somethin' has been lost in the skills dept. Why should we pay one of these Union thugs $30 when we can get the same work for $1/day? Hell, just ask Nike or Kathy Gifford.

No doubts in my mind union thugs putting on thirty-dollar lugs are partially responsible for the loss of manufacturing jobs in America.  That said, let me regale you with my latest hardware purchase.

 Several years ago I purchased three boxes of metal shelving from Wally World.  They were sturdy and “Made in the USA”.  Several days ago I purchased two more units from the same Wally World (and still “Made in the USA”).  When I opened the first box I determined these units were not the same quality as the initial units. I managed to built the first unit (although it was a pain in the a$$) but I was really unhappy with the lack of quality.  When I opened the second unit it had missing pieces.  I took this unit back, obtained a refund, and stopped at Lowe’s on the way home.  They had assembled models (also Made in the USA) on display the same size as my other units.  I bought one of these units which was simple to build, held twice the weight, and, cost twice as much.  I guess you get what you pay for even when it is "Made in the USA" (but not always).  

Today the unions are losing ground in the manufacturing sector while gaining in the public sector.  It appears the unions will do for the public employee what they have done for those in manufacturing.   I know my town employee costs are becoming unsustainable largely due to unions. Inflated union wages do not guarantee quality.    

(Don't waste your breath trying to tell a liberal unions are the problem, they know it is the evil corporations and Bush.)

I stopped at Lowe's because it was on my way back from Wally World, Home Despot is across town but would have been next on my list.