Why do conservatives think that lazy, drug using, stinking hippies don't work?

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Johonny (9,810 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

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Why do conservatives assume Liberals don't work?
I was driving home the other day and saw a bumper sticker that read "Silly Liberals, paychecks are for workers"

At first I honestly didn't get it. I was a liberal driving home from WORK just like the other driver that must have thought themselves so clever. Other conservatives I know have started offering up such election season gems as McObama's where you order and the guy behind you pays etc...

The thing is almost every liberals I know works. Those that don't work wish they could work. Every study I've seen shows Americans are among the most work oriented people on the planet. They take less vacation on average, they work longer hours, they are willing to commute longer distances, etc.. It is pure fantasy to think liberals don't want to work, are lazy and just want social systems for a free ride.

But the worst part is most of the bumper sticker is a true statement. Paychecks are for workers. Look no farther than Presidential want to be Mitt Romney. Romney makes more money in a day than that likely that person driving home on the road with me. He doesn't make it with a paycheck. No, over the past 30-40 years the Romney's of the country have games the financial system to pay themselves more and more and us the workers less and less. Once you understand that despite generating higher and higher GDP, the Romney's of the world gain while your paycheck stays the same or goes down, then you start to be a liberal.

There's nothing silly about it. Liberals get it, in America paychecks are for the working class. Once you get that too you stop being an idiot with a stupid conformist bumper sticker on your car.

Lydia Leftcoast (45,210 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
1. AM radio listeners don't need no stinkin' logic

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They believe that Mark Dayton narrowly won the Minnesota governorship because "all the illegal immigrants and people on welfare voted for him. People with jobs voted for Emmer." Yo, are 51% of the adults in Minnesota illegal immigrants or welfare recipients?

They also believe that government employees contribute nothing to the economy and just "mooch off the taxpayers." Do they really believe that government employees don't buy anything in the private sector? (Oh, there are government employees who have the option of buying only in government-owned stores: they're called "military personnel." But military personnel are automatically good in the right-wing mind, just as military spending somehow doesn't contribute to the deficit.)

Anyone with half a brain knows that 51% of the people aren't on welfare. The real number is 48%.

Johonny (9,810 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
4. I always enjoy

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that the conservatives around me complain about lazy government workers and their fat retirements benefits. When these people themselves are retired with pensions that come from working for private companies who's major contractor was the government. So if the government gives that money to a private company, the company takes overhead off the top then pay a worker, that worker will work their ass off. But if the government pays a worker directly they will become lazy. How does that logic work?

Military personnel are always good until they come out as a liberal then some how they are a bad seed that gamed the system to cover their coward lying lazy ways, see John Kerry 2008 election.

John Kerry, who was in Vietnam, and Jane Fonda should suffer the same fate as ....

Agent Mike, I didn't say anything.

Speck Tater (8,797 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
5. Because Fox News trains them that "liberal" = "hippie" nt

Johonny (9,810 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
13. but then I don't get why they'd have such a sign on their car?

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I mean if they're assuming me the liberal ain't doin' that workin' thing then why do they assume I'm going to be in the work flow traffic to see their stupid bumper sticker. Or have I already thought more about the meaning of their bumper sticker than they possibly will ever do

You're on your way home from all night of partying while decent and civilized people are on their way to work.

Blue_Tires (27,753 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
7. for the same reason they assume black men are lazy, unemployed criminals

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black women are babymaking welfare leeches
feminists are man-hating goose-stepping dykes
etc...

He managed to get all of that hate in such a short post.

Taverner (48,988 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
17. We work more than they do, hands down

 

Yavin4 (16,667 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
18. It's Racism Pure and Simple

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Liberals = White people who enable Black and Hispanic people. You see, Black and Hispanic people are soooo inferior to White people that without government assistance, they would starve to death, so White Liberals take money from hard working White people and give it to Black and Hispanic people.

This message gets conveyed to conservatives every day on AM talk radio.

I thought Air America went off of the air!

[delilahmused]

Sheesh you idiots! You guys want to give EVERYONE ELSE'S money to people who don't work. Well that and the fact that the majority of people who don't have jobs and have no intention of getting one are usually Democrats.

Cindie

[FlippyDoo]

Johonny (9,810 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
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that the conservatives around me complain about lazy government workers and their fat retirements benefits. When these people themselves are retired with pensions that come from working for private companies who's major contractor was the government. So if the government gives that money to a private company, the company takes overhead off the top then pay a worker, that worker will work their ass off. But if the government pays a worker directly they will become lazy. How does that logic work?

Military personnel are always good until they come out as a liberal then some how they are a bad seed that gamed the system to cover their coward lying lazy ways, see John Kerry 2008 election.

I'll help you out here Johonny because I have some family that used to work for the government. A government worker tends to become lazy because it is often difficult to fire a government worker. Not all government workers will become lazy. Some are just naturally conscientious. Others have a tendency toward laziness. Those that have a tendency toward laziness, when they learn they can push the envelope without getting fired, will go toward their natural state: laziness.

With a union-free private company it is often easier to fire an individual so if a person is lazying around instead of earning money he or she is let go.

[obumazombie]

Capitalist logic doesn't penetrate very deeply into a socialist's head.

[hillneck]

 Hey Little Johonny, the bumper sticker must have hit pretty close to home.  Otherwise you would have paid no attention to it.   

[JohnnyReb]

Hey Little Johonny, the bumper sticker must have hit pretty close to home.  Otherwise you would have paid no attention to it.   

Actually, he was returning from swapping foodstamps for drugs in the ghetto when he saw that bumpersticker. Then he stuck his nose under his armpit and it dawned on him that the bumpersticker described himself to a "T". 

[Evil_Conservative]

Taverner (48,988 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
17. We work more than they do, hands down

Oh please.

Aren't you the DUmmie who can't even pass a drug test?

[jukin]

Hey SUper DUchebag

So if the government gives that money to a private company, the company takes overhead off the top then pay a worker, that worker will work their ass off. But if the government pays a worker directly they will become lazy. How does that logic work?

First, because it is true.

Second, because government workers are unionized.

It is a proven statistic that a government worker is more likely to die at work than he is to be fired.

[franksolich]

Now, this is funny:

.....such election season gems as McObama's where you order and the guy behind you pays etc.

[Karin]

When these people themselves are retired with pensions that come from working for private companies who's major contractor was the government.

 

Who the hell do you know like that?  Nobody gets a pension anymore, we're all 401K plans, that we have to contribute to.  Some of us are lucky to get a 50% match up to 5%, but otherwise it's all on us.  And how many companies get government contracts?  It's so costly to comply with 100,000 pages of govt contractor rules, you might as well not bid.  A small business certainly can't afford to have AIDS outreach offices, and a Director of Diversity.  

[WinOne4TheGipper]

Oh please.

Aren't you the DUmmie who can't even pass a drug test?

Stupid Repug, don't you know how much effort it takes to get high?

[Ballygrl]

McObama's where you order and the guy behind you pays

That's so siggy worthy!

[Evil_Conservative]

 

Who the hell do you know like that?  Nobody gets a pension anymore, we're all 401K plans, that we have to contribute to.  Some of us are lucky to get a 50% match up to 5%, but otherwise it's all on us.  And how many companies get government contracts?  It's so costly to comply with 100,000 pages of govt contractor rules, you might as well not bid.  A small business certainly can't afford to have AIDS outreach offices, and a Director of Diversity. 

My husband's company just started matching again.  They match up to 4% and my husband is putting in 4% right now.  When we get more debt paid off, he's going to contribute 6% and get the extra 4% from his company.  The company took away the 4% match around 2009, but have been nice enough to bring it back.  Thank goodness! 

[hillneck]

When these people themselves are retired with pensions that come from working for private companies who's major contractor was the government.



Again for all you lurking idiots from DUmmyland, to help you out I have picked out the key word here.  It's called WORK.  Get the hell out your mothers basement and get a job.  Sometimes you may have to work two or maybe three jobs to have the things you desire.  Life doesn't give a damn about you, your drugs, partying, or your sleep.  Get over yourself. 

[jukin]

McObama's where you order and the guy behind you pays

I was in a bar in Anchorage in the late 80s and the sign behind it read "We screw the next guy and pass the savings on to you!" I then paid $10 for a draft beer. I hate to think what it would have been if I hadn't of got those savings.

[BattleHymn]

Oh please.

Aren't you the DUmmie who can't even pass a drug test?

Taverner is always working really hard at hardly working.

[BlueStateSaint]

Taverner is always working really hard at hardly working.

Don't laugh--it's something to do between drug fixes.

[GOBUCKS]

Oh please.

Aren't you the DUmmie who can't even pass a drug test?

Taverner is a nodding intravenous drug addict, who could never hold a job of any kind.

His only activities are scoring dope and petty theft.

One of the funniest comments at the DUmp in years came from DUmmy Taverner, when he learned that cali had wallduded herself:

Taverner  (1000+ posts)        Mon Jul-25-11 12:26 PM
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36. What the heck happened?
Dude - can I help you find new work?

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Johonny
 
Why do conservatives assume Liberals don't work?

Because of things like this:

Look no farther than Presidential want to be Mitt Romney. Romney makes more money in a day than that likely that person driving home on the road with me. ... over the past 30-40 years the Romney's of the country have games (sic) the financial system to pay themselves more and more and us the workers less and less. Once you understand that despite generating higher and higher GDP, the Romney's of the world gain while your paycheck stays the same or goes down, then you start to be a liberal.

People who work don't buy into this "class warfare" nonsense.  Real Americans don't buy into this "class warfare" nonsense.  People who don't work are always talking about how they're getting screwed by the wealthy.

I highly suggest that if you indeed do work, Johonny,  that you start talking like a real American and drop the "class warfare" nonsense.  Otherwise, civilized and decent people are going to naturally conclude you don't work.

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[sybilll]

Because so many of you damned liberals are the Peggy Joseph's who think Obama is going to put gas in your car and pay your mortgage.  Or the ones that show up for free money from the "Obama stash".  I'd venture to guess if I took a poll of liberals that get "benefits" (how something you never earned is a benefit defies logic) from the government have no idea that it is really money from people who pay taxes.  Government to most liberals means money comes from some mythical Fort Knox type facility where money is just sitting around waiting to be handed out. 

[Paul Heinzman]

It has always confounded me how the chronically lazy embrace the various flavors of Marxism. I think they read the "To each according to his needs" part and then set the book down. If you DUmmies think you work hard under capitalism, just wait until you live under socialism and find out what the "from each according to his abilities" clause means. It means you will work as hard as the state thinks you should work, at whatever ability the state determines you have.

As for your "needs": your needs don't include , as that will only impair your "abilities."

[obumazombie]

I've also heard it interpreted "From each according to their means.

[whiffleball]

Because so many of you damned liberals are the Peggy Joseph's who think Obama is going to put gas in your car and pay your mortgage.  Or the ones that show up for free money from the "Obama stash".  I'd venture to guess if I took a poll of liberals that get "benefits" (how something you never earned is a benefit defies logic) from the government have no idea that it is really money from people who pay taxes.  Government to most liberals means money comes from some mythical Fort Knox type facility where money is just sitting around waiting to be handed out. 

Thank you!  I don't want that idiot's name and what she said to ever be forgotten.  She got Hope & Change down to a few words.  Now I want to know where she is, who's supporting her and how many more kids she has.

[AprilRazz]

Because so many of you damned liberals are the Peggy Joseph's who think Obama is going to put gas in your car and pay your mortgage.  Or the ones that show up for free money from the "Obama stash".  I'd venture to guess if I took a poll of liberals that get "benefits" (how something you never earned is a benefit defies logic) from the government have no idea that it is really money from people who pay taxes.  Government to most liberals means money comes from some mythical Fort Knox type facility where money is just sitting around waiting to be handed out. 

This popped into my head when I was reading your post.
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg6J1Skptbs[/youtube]

[Skul]

I was in a bar in Anchorage in the late 80s and the sign behind it read "We screw the next guy and pass the savings on to you!" I then paid $10 for a draft beer. I hate to think what it would have been if I hadn't of got those savings.

It would have been $3 dollars, sir. You were the next guy.