Sarah Palin, Republican Vice Presidential Candidate

[Remyo]

ITT Remyo thinks those AIG guys are working harder than a poor person and doing their job well for their multi-million dollar paychecks.

People are NOT paid according to how much they work.

this from the covetous jew? yea you can't fool me, when everyones back is turned your ilk will be ready to strike.

What opportunity is created by forcing a single parent or an elderly or handicapped person to choose between rent, medicine, or food?

What opportunity is created by cutting back on college loans and grants to students who otherwise can't afford to pay for college?

What opportunity is created by cutting funding for schools, and then telling them that they have to raise test scores of they'll lose even more funding?

And finally, what opportunity is created when capital gains, inheritance and estate taxes are eliminated at the same time?

unlimited opportunities can be as potent a cause of frustration as a paucity or lack of opportunities.

oh and let's tax capital gains so much it won't be worthwhile to sink money into the stock market, which will result in worse conditions than we are in.

Some of the poor are smug in their squalor, they shudder at the thought of life outside their familiar cesspool. even the respectable poor usually remain inert. it's only the newly poor who throb with the ferment of frustration. The memory of better things burns as a fire in their veins, and they are the only ones to join this cultist movement of obamanomics. it's because they were once well off that they want to return to that to have a second chance to repair their failure.

[Tristam]

Right, so she did energize the base.

How was I wrong? I never said that she didn't energize the base, I said that her candidacy is indicative of a larger problem with the electorate, namely that we have a hugely uninformed electorate. The article pointed out how low and crass this campaign has been and you're trying to say that's incorrect?

You give examples of candidates that run campaigns based entirely on religion and you think that's ok as long as it gets what you consider the base fired up? What do you think we're arguing about here?

[eunhye]

Now see I don't smoke pot but people who go to jail for 5 years for that? Just make it legal already and start taxing pot like tobacco/alcohol. Chemical castration is a good thing. Stops you from getting people you rape pregant.

[Woozie]

Some of the poor are smug in their squalor, they shudder at the thought of life outside their familiar cesspool. even the respectable poor usually remain inert. it's only the newly poor who throb with the ferment of frustration. The memory of better things burns as a fire in their veins, and they are the only ones to join this cultist movement of obamanomics. it's because they were once well off that they want to return to that to have a second chance to repair their failure.

Do...do you really believe this? Or am I being whooshed?

[Lampoon]

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[Remyo]

Do...do you really believe this? Or am I being whooshed?

there is a long standing history to this type of thing, people are so ready to jump on a bandwagon for what they feel will be their savior from average conditions. it usually ends up bad. see all the isms in the past.

also most of that was taken from hoffer, with a personal touch.

[Woozie]

there is a long standing history to this type of thing, people are so ready to jump on a bandwagon for what they feel will be their savior from average conditions. it usually ends up bad. see all the isms in the past.

This may be a stupid question, but what's an isms? Could you explain to me what that means or direct me to a webpage that explains it?

[Alleya]

oh and let's tax capital gains so much it won't be worthwhile to sink money into the stock market, which will result in worse conditions than we are in.

Let's ask Bush about the capital gains tax, and how he and other mega rich people like him use it to avoid paying higher corporate taxes. You know...evading the taxes, if you will.

Also, stop making stupid blanket statements about poor people. Not everyone who's poor is that way because of their own personal failings, just like not everyone who is rich is so because they worked hard for it. Shit's fucking situational.

[Olo401]

He was wrong.

Technically yes, but I would hardly call turning off and losing the votes of possibly half of self-identified Republicans voters "turning out the base".

[Dohorehn]

there is a long standing history to this type of thing, people are so ready to jump on a bandwagon for what they feel will be their savior from average conditions. it usually ends up bad. see all the isms in the past.

also most of that was taken from hoffer, with a personal touch.

Explain all the veritably wealthy people jumping on the Obama bandwagon then... (see all, Warren Buffet)

[Remyo]

This may be a stupid question, but what's an isms? Could you explain to me what that means or direct me to a webpage that explains it?

-isms, mass movements, obamaism, fascism, socialism, etc.

Also, stop making stupid blanket statements about poor people. Not everyone who's poor is that way because of their own personal failings, just like not everyone who is rich is so because they worked hard for it. Shit's fucking situational.

it isn't situational, give me an example of a poor person being poor that isn't a result of them failing.

[Zilong]

Someone who grows up in a shitty community and then having that shitty community being hit by a natural disaster that the administration then handles poorly?

[Dimmauk]

-isms, mass movements, obamaism, fascism, socialism, etc.



it isn't situational, give me an example of a poor person being poor that isn't a result of them failing.

You forgot Bushisms, McCainisms, adn Palinisms.

[Woozie]

it isn't situational, give me an example of a poor person being poor that isn't a result of them failing.

Me.

[Chicomagiko]

This may be a stupid question, but what's an isms? Could you explain to me what that means or direct me to a webpage that explains it?

Could be a reference to socialism, capitalism, communism... etc.

edit: i r teh slow.

[Deftscythe]

You forgot Bushisms, McCainisms, adn Palinisms.

Republicanism, Conservatism.

[Penthesilea]

-isms, mass movements, obamaism, fascism, socialism, etc.



it isn't situational, give me an example of a poor person being poor that isn't a result of them failing.

and capitalism and republicanism and conservatism and surrealism and prism

[Woozie]

My bad, I'm an idiot and didn't catch on to the -ism thing at first.

[Alleya]

it isn't situational, give me an example of a poor person being poor that isn't a result of them failing.

A skilled laborer making a comfortable living at $60,000 a yaer in a single household loses his job in an industrial accident and becomes handicapped. His savings run out, disability expires, and the only good paying job he's qualified to do he no longer can due to his injury. He gets a job at McDonalds working for just above minimum wage, which puts him over $19,350 a year, meaning he can't get government support. His neighbourhood becomes increasingly gentrified until personal property taxes are practically killing him, the medical bills from his injury are still piling up despite draining the savings he worked hard to keep over the years. He's forced to abandon his house when he can no longer pay for it and defaults on his mortage, leaving him in debt to banks and hospitals living on less than $21,000 a year.

This is a true story.

At what point in this did his personality or disposition factor in to him becoming poor?

[Chicomagiko]

I'm just curious how many of this forum's members will actually go out and vote.