Author Topic: Shared sacrifice. bobo gets ignored a lot. (Read 4330 times)

thundley4 · « **on:** February 12, 2011, 07:20:58 PM »

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cali (1000+ posts) Sat Feb-12-11 08:25 AM
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I've said it before, I'll say it again: The "shared sacrifice" bit is such shit.

Edited on Sat Feb-12-11 08:26 AM by cali
It makes me furious when I hear sanctimonious assholes piously mouthing that shit as they bow to the wealthy and corporate interests. "We all have give up some of our "pet" spending. It's a vile lie. It's meant to deceive. It's the worst kind of cynicism.

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NuclearDem (1000+ posts) Sat Feb-12-11 08:26 AM
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1. We've given more than our fair share of sacrifice...

How about the rich do theirs too?

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GoCubsGo (1000+ posts) Sat Feb-12-11 02:59 PM
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30. Yep.

I have already given up my career, my life savings, my health insurance, the hope of ever having a decent job again, I'm about to give up my house, and I've given at least ten years off of my life from all the damn stress. What the **** else do they want me to give?

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socialist_n_TN (1000+ posts) Sat Feb-12-11 06:54 PM
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49. BINGO! I've also said this same thing before..............

Why does everybody have to sacrifice in the name of "austerity" EXCEPT for the rich?

We bailed them out DIRECTLY to the tune of something like .75 of a trillion tax dollars. THEN spent ANOTHER .75 trillion dollars to TRY and fix their mess. That 1.5 TRILLION tax dollars we've spent on or because of these ****ers in 2 years. Yet now when it's time to start paying for it, they're nowhere to be seen. It's disgusting.

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Solly Mack (1000+ posts) Sat Feb-12-11 08:28 AM
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2. K&R

I can't help from snorting when I hear it.

You can still afford cocaine? You haven't sacrificed enough.

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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Sat Feb-12-11 02:15 PM
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15. Even when Obama and other "Dems" say it?

Hi bobo.

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undeterred (1000+ posts) Sat Feb-12-11 08:35 AM
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4. You give up your health and home and I'll give up my 2nd yacht.

There, everybody's sacrificing.

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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Sat Feb-12-11 02:25 PM
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19. !
Except that they don't have to give up even the 3rd yacht... they just get more and more profits, until they can't even possibly spend it anymore.

Hey bobo, at least you have a "mobile home" .

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fasttense (1000+ posts) Sat Feb-12-11 08:55 AM
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5. And nothing will change until America's poor and middle class get out in the streets

Edited on Sat Feb-12-11 08:56 AM by fasttense
and Protest like the Egyptians.

How about next Tuesday?

Seriously? That requires effort. Isn't there someway that healing white light and pictures of hands will do the trick?

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somone (1000+ posts) Sat Feb-12-11 09:06 AM
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6. The working poor cannot afford the time off

without getting fired, and the poor don't have the means to get there and stay there for any sustained protest. They're trying to stay alive in their hovels.
Now the middle class might have time off, but they worry about parking and the crowds - and missing their TV shows.

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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Sat Feb-12-11 02:16 PM
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17. Isn't it funny how the Egyptians spoke up for poverty continually, yet the USian muddleclass

insists that any liberation is up to poor people themselves?

Lead the Homeless Persons Strike , bobo. Stop showing up on street and stop begging for change, that'll show them.

GOBUCKS · « **Reply #1 on:** February 12, 2011, 07:26:57 PM »

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GoCubsGo (1000+ posts) Sat Feb-12-11 02:59 PM
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30. Yep.

I have already given up my career, my life savings, my health insurance, the hope of ever having a decent job again, I'm about to give up my house, and I've given at least ten years off of my life from all the damn stress. What the **** else do they want me to give?

Die! Quickly! Please!

TVDOC · « **Reply #2 on:** February 12, 2011, 07:37:38 PM »

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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Sat Feb-12-11 02:25 PM
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19. !
Except that they don't have to give up even the 3rd yacht... they just get more and more profits, until they can't even possibly spend it anymore.

Err....bobo, I hate to break this to you, but the "rich" don't depend on government handouts. Cutting the budget won't effect them.......ever.

Should you and your fellow travelers attempt to confiscate their wealth, they will simply move their yachts elsewhere, like your hero John Kerry did......

doc

GOBUCKS · « **Reply #3 on:** February 12, 2011, 07:47:02 PM »

Quote from: TVDOC on February 12, 2011, 07:37:38 PM

Err....bobo, I hate to break this to you, but the "rich" don't depend on government handouts. Cutting the budget won't effect them.......ever.

Should you and your fellow travelers attempt to confiscate their wealth, they will simply move their yachts elsewhere, like your hero John Kerry did......

doc

Lurch swore he would pay the Massachusetts taxes anyway, as soon as his Rhode Island dodge was revealed. Never heard whether he did or not. I suspect he'll pay up right after he releases his discharge papers.

LC EFA · « **Reply #4 on:** February 12, 2011, 07:49:48 PM »

For the smarterest people on the internetsâ„¢they sure have a naive concept of wealth.

They seem to think that all the "rich" people just keep all their money in a big pile ala Scrooge McDuck and don't use it on investment in money making ventures thereby creating the jobs that these dummies won't do.

thundley4 · « **Reply #5 on:** February 12, 2011, 07:50:35 PM »

Quote from: GOBUCKS on February 12, 2011, 07:47:02 PM

Lurch swore he would pay the Massachusetts taxes anyway, as soon as his Rhode Island dodge was revealed. Never heard whether he did or not. I suspect he'll pay up right after he releases his discharge papers.

What discharge papers? Was Kerry in the military?

Boudicca · « **Reply #6 on:** February 12, 2011, 07:54:28 PM »

Quote from: thundley4 on February 12, 2011, 07:50:35 PM

What discharge papers? Was Kerry in the military?

What? I bet you haven't gotten the word yet that bobo is homeless. Of course, she does try to keep that nugget of info on the down lo.

TVDOC · « **Reply #7 on:** February 12, 2011, 08:03:59 PM »

Quote from: LC EFA on February 12, 2011, 07:49:48 PM

For the smarterest people on the internetsâ„¢they sure have a naive concept of wealth.

They seem to think that all the "rich" people just keep all their money in a big pile ala Scrooge McDuck and don't use it on investment in money making ventures thereby creating the jobs that these dummies won't do.

Well....when one lives in the insular echo chamber that is DU, and refuses to receive "news", from anyone other than Keef, Maddow, or Ed.........one can expect little else.

"A mind is a terrible thing to waste"......they find a way to do it however.

doc

Chris_ · « **Reply #8 on:** February 12, 2011, 08:40:40 PM »

What is Bobo's problem? She has an RV with an internet connection just like me. For the crying out loud.

Carl · « **Reply #9 on:** February 12, 2011, 09:05:39 PM »

Quote from: LC EFA on February 12, 2011, 07:49:48 PM

For the smarterest people on the internetsâ„¢they sure have a naive concept of wealth.

They seem to think that all the "rich" people just keep all their money in a big pile ala Scrooge McDuck and don't use it on investment in money making ventures thereby creating the jobs that these dummies won't do.

They truly seem to believe that at birth we are all granted a room full of wealth somewhere and the fact that they haven`t found theirs means someone has stolen it from them.

Airwolf · « **Reply #10 on:** February 13, 2011, 02:08:41 AM »

This is what I don't get. I haven't had health insurance since I left the military back in 2003. I haven't had anything serious happen and my family Doctor lets me pay as I can. We all know that the poor have their medical and sometimes their food and utilities paid for by the taxpayers so why has anyone on DU ,especailly Bobo the hobo got to bitch about? There are people with families in the military that have it just as hard but we don't hear about how the DUmp wants to help them get by. Most of what we hear from them is alot of ME,ME ,ME bullshit. Try living half of the years time in some crappy foxhole and running al over GOD's green earth just to have some ass tell you they set up in the wrong place and you got another 10K walk to do over again. Try living with peopole shooting everything from AK';s to artillary and see how your ****ing days go. What you clowns over at the DUmpo go throuh insn't shit compared to what most enlisted troops have to deal with

BlueStateSaint · « **Reply #11 on:** February 13, 2011, 05:00:19 AM »

Quote from: Airwolf on February 13, 2011, 02:08:41 AM

This is what I don't get. I haven't had health insurance since I left the military back in 2003. I haven't had anything serious happen and my family Doctor lets me pay as I can. We all know that the poor have their medical and sometimes their food and utilities paid for by the taxpayers so why has anyone on DU ,especailly Bobo the hobo got to bitch about? There are people with families in the military that have it just as hard but we don't hear about how the DUmp wants to help them get by. Most of what we hear from them is alot of ME,ME ,ME bullshit. Try living half of the years time in some crappy foxhole and running al over GOD's green earth just to have some ass tell you they set up in the wrong place and you got another 10K walk to do over again. Try living with peopole shooting everything from AK';s to artillary and see how your ****ing days go. What you clowns over at the DUmpo go throuh insn't shit compared to what most enlisted troops have to deal with

AW, ya wanna know why this is the case? Military people tend to have the notion of serving others down pat. The DUmmies want to be served, by everyone. They think that, due to the very fact that they're here on God's Green Earth, they're entitled to the fruits of the sweat of other people's brows.

Military people realize that we are the ones that have to sweat, so we should be the ones to get the benefits of that exertion.

diesel driver · « **Reply #12 on:** February 13, 2011, 05:07:50 AM »

Quote from: thundley4 on February 12, 2011, 07:50:35 PM

What discharge papers? Was Kerry in the military?

Why, yes.

Didn't you hear? John F'n Kerry served in Vietnam. It was in all the papers.

AprilRazz · « **Reply #13 on:** February 13, 2011, 09:38:46 AM »

Quote from: diesel driver on February 13, 2011, 05:07:50 AM

Why, yes.

Didn't you hear? John F'n Kerry served in Vietnam. It was in all the papers.

Every time I hear about Kerry's military service I always have a MASH episode pop into my head. The one where Frank Burns wanted a purple heart for getting shell fragments in his eye.

GOBUCKS · « **Reply #14 on:** February 13, 2011, 11:54:12 AM »

Quote from: diesel driver on February 13, 2011, 05:07:50 AM

Didn't you hear? John F'n Kerry served in Vietnam. It was in all the papers.

And he also asked a sporting good clerk in Ohio, "Can I buy me a huntin' license?"
Thank goodness for Karl Rove. If he hadn't shipped that bunny suit to NASA, and invented windsurfing, Lurch would have been president.

On the other hand, had Lurch won, we would not be afflicted with the Kenyan muslim today. Eight years of Tuh-RAY-zuh would have been a high price, but maybe worth it.

Gwitness · « **Reply #15 on:** February 13, 2011, 03:21:50 PM »

Quote from: thundley4 on February 12, 2011, 07:50:35 PM

What discharge papers? Was Kerry in the military?

He was in Viet-Nam you know......

JohnnyReb · « **Reply #16 on:** February 13, 2011, 03:34:28 PM »

Quote from: Gwitness on February 13, 2011, 03:21:50 PM

He was in Viet-Nam you know......

I hear that they even made a movie of his heroic exploits.

GOBUCKS · « **Reply #17 on:** February 13, 2011, 04:51:26 PM »

Quote from: JohnnyReb on February 13, 2011, 03:34:28 PM

I hear that they even made a movie of his heroic exploits.

Yes, they did. His boat was PT-109.

DumbAss Tanker · « **Reply #18 on:** February 13, 2011, 06:08:30 PM »

As far as 'Shared sacrifice' goes, I'll believe it when the Dems put the stability of the country's finances above their interest in the entitlement class all voting Dem by enacting a tax system where everyone who is employed contributes something, however small, and nobody collects back more from the tax system than they put into it.

AllosaursRus · « **Reply #19 on:** February 13, 2011, 07:43:34 PM »

Quote from: Airwolf on February 13, 2011, 02:08:41 AM

This is what I don't get. I haven't had health insurance since I left the military back in 2003. I haven't had anything serious happen and my family Doctor lets me pay as I can. We all know that the poor have their medical and sometimes their food and utilities paid for by the taxpayers so why has anyone on DU ,especailly Bobo the hobo got to bitch about? There are people with families in the military that have it just as hard but we don't hear about how the DUmp wants to help them get by. Most of what we hear from them is alot of ME,ME ,ME bullshit. Try living half of the years time in some crappy foxhole and running al over GOD's green earth just to have some ass tell you they set up in the wrong place and you got another 10K walk to do over again. Try living with peopole shooting everything from AK';s to artillary and see how your ****ing days go. What you clowns over at the DUmpo go throuh insn't shit compared to what most enlisted troops have to deal with

Durin' my first operation on my back, there was a guy that was admitted the day after my surgery. Apparently, he and his buds, after drainin' most of a keg, started playin' "All Star Wrestling" on the porch. He got slammed over the rail and landed on his neck, spiral fracturing a vertebrae. They had to outfit this drunk with a "Halo". You know, one of those metal bands that have screws runnin' in to yer skull in 4 places?

Turns out, the guy didn't have a pot to piss in, so the first people in his room, even before his relatives, were folks from the Welfare Department, figurin' out what programs he was eligible for.

I had Blue Cross at the time, and walked out with right around a $3500 bill, while he walked away without owin' a damn dime!

Tell me again Bobo the Hobo, how y'all have it so rough!

His surgery cost 3 times what mine did! I had to pay my deductibles! Now seein' as he caused this himself through absolute stooooopidity, why should I and others like me, have to pay for his drunkin' ignorance?

I'm sure you'll just tell me since I could afford insurance I should pay for some drunk muther****er to have fun, even if he gets hurt doin' so, right?

FOAD!!!!!!!!!!!! save me some money!!!!