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CoolOnion Donating Member (860 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-05 07:43 PM
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Republican "Ownership Society" (Crony Capitalism) Bake Sale
The blog Corked Bats came up with this brilliant rebuttal to the "Affirmative Action Bake Sales" that young conservatives are doing on college campuses.

If there's an Affirmative Action bake sale at a college campus near you, why not have a counter "Ownership Society/Crony Capitalism Bake Sale" with cookies on sale at the following prices:

1) Friends and family of the president (nickel)
2) Friends of Tom DeLay and other congressmen (dime)
3) Wealthy heirs (quarter)
4) Owners of companies with offshore tax shelters (quarter)
5) Energy industry executives/Oil barons (dime)
6) Pharmaceutical Executives or Ad Spot Producers (dime)
7) People making more than 90,000 per year (they pay lower payroll taxes) (50 cents)
8) Gay Male Prostitute Posing as a Reporter at the While House (free cookie)
9) War Contractors (free cookie and we pay you a dollar)

10) Troops (piece of un-cooked dough because the military was unprepared) ($3)
11) Paying your way through school (cut Pell Grants) ($4)
12) Restaurant workers ($5)
13) Technology Student ($3)
14) Public school students and workers ($5)
15) Single parents ($5)
16) Any person not fitting the above requirements ($4)
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The Backlash Cometh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-05 09:06 PM
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1. Very nice.
My solution to the bake sale months ago when I first heard about them, was giving the cookies to white students that passed by for free, but handing it to them under the table.
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Wapsie B Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-05 09:23 PM
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2. Crony Capitalism is right.
The bush cronies are just lusting after those Social Security funds.
Wanna have a scandal bigger than the S&L mess of the 80's? Privatize those funds.
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ck4829 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-05 09:27 PM
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3. Great, I love it. Somebody should do it
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