Wingnuts are stupid

[TayTay]

Read this exchange from The Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2005/05/13/DI2005051301021.html

It's about United Airlines bailing on their Employee Pension Plan. What a jerk! (The Post writer had an article explaining the situation at UAL on this in Sunday's Post.)

Potomac, Md: You should out yourself as a supporter of John Kerry and the Democrat Party. If people like United Airlines employees are too dumb to save enough for retirement, they shouldn't look for a handout. They should go fight in Iraq and Iran and earn their keep. Not everyone is smart like I am, having gotten into Yale and paying full tuition. If you're not worthy of Yale, you don't get a free lunch from a government pension. You better save yourself, rather than look to successful Americans to do so.

Katherine Stone: It may surprise you to learn that even very smart and successful people do not always save adequately or wisely for their retirement. The Los Angeles Times just last week reported that a number of American Nobel prize economists have made very bad choices about their own personal retirement investments. These include such presumptively astute investors as Harry M. Markowitz, who won a Nobel Prize in 1990 for pioneering work in financial markets, George A. Akerlof,who shared the prize in 2001 for his analyses of markets with asymmetric information, and Daniel Kahneman, who shared the 2002 award for his pioneering work he has done integrating psychological research into economics. So clearly even the greatest minds can make bad decisions about their personal finances. Furthermore, even with the best decisions, no one can control or predict financial markets.

[LittleClarkie]

1. Why would you be saving as if you didn't have a pension

when you had every reason to think you did. These people didn't know the company was going to go back on their word. Why is it okay for them to go back on their word?

Go and fight in Iraq to save money? On a soldier's salary? Some grandpa is supposed to go to Iraq?

What the flying fuck is this person talking about!?

('scuse my french)

[TayTay]

2. Yalie, my butt!

This poster didn't go to Yale (Unless Yale is scarpping the barrel for recruits.) He barely went through 8th grade. C'mon. He can't even construct a logical argument. Just a dumb wingnut.

Hey, I had stuff come up at this weekends Dem Con that involves national positioning. I wanted your input. Check it out.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=273x27771#27819

[ginnyinWI]

5. that's what I thought too

The writer's grammar and sentence structures are poor for a college grad, esp. from Yale. Sorry, no sale with me! Not even considering the content of the writing, the quality is a definite tip-off.

[rox63]

6. But * is a Yalie

They were certainly scraping the bottom of the barrel there.

[globalvillage]

3. Well, Mr Potomac MD,

First, go fight in Iraq AND IRAN? OK. Maybe you have a bit more foresight than people you accuse of being 'dumb enough' to rely on their pensions to supplement retirement.
Second, I would ask Yale for a refund.

[WildEyedLiberal]

4. That reads almost like a liberal making fun of a wingnut

It hits all the right satire points, anyway.