Well, it’s a poor man’s SUV - a GMC Jimmy. With frighteningly high mileage. But anyway.
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I would be shocked if you don’t make more money than I do. Doesn’t mean I support the notion of Guy A working for his money, Guy B getting it given to him by the government (i.e., me and everybody else).
Stoid - Glad I could help!
Oh, no, you don’t! I ain’t falling for that “you show me yours and I’ll show you mine” stuff. Peggy Sue McCall pulled that on me when I was five, and it was thirteen years before she showed me hers! I wasn’t born yesterday, I just look this way!
Yeah, right, welfare queens, living high on the hog on our tax money. Uh-huh. While our poor, long-suffering CEO’s struggle to put a bit of decent brie on the table. You bet. Why if we reduce their salaries down to a measly few hundred grand, they’ll quit! Good. See ya. But nobody will take on such awful reponsibility. Wanna bet? Didn’t think so.
Come on, Milo. Put up a better fight than that! You take all the fun out of it when you offer up half-ass Reaganite platitudes.
Person A is automatically morally superior to B simply because he pays taxes? You’re shitting me, right? What if person A makes his living convincing your kids to smoke Camels? Person A (HMO guy) tried to shuck my Granny off her medical coverage, she tore him a new asshole, bless her heart!
And what do we do about Person B’s kids! Hey, too bad, kid, your old mans a lazy jerk, fuck you, go steal something. Show some enterprise.
Human rights above property rights, love above law. It’s not quite that simple, but it boils down pretty good.
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*Originally posted by elucidator *
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I’m mystified as to how this applies to pardons exchanged for money and/or political advantage. Or how Marc and Denise Rich qualify as the “poor and powerless” that the Democrats are supposedly aiding. It’s almost as confusing as the Lexus SUVs around here that sport Gore and Sierra Club bumper stickers.
Sleazy deals like these reek no matter which party benefits. I’m all for the current proposal that would mandate submission of proposed Presidential pardons to the Justice Department for comment (there still wouldn’t be any way to stop them, but at least the worst might be voluntarily halted by the public embarassment factor). I doubt this reform will go through however (current and future GOP crooks will want their piece of the action).
…trails off into the partisan mists, singing “Arise, ye prisoners of starvation…”