WHY?

[kpete]

stolen from Grandpa Eddie on the Facebook
http://alterx.blogspot.com/2011/11/word_09.html

[EFerrari]

1. Nice.

[tnlefty]

2. Rec'd

and a :kick:

[Zanzoobar]

3. Who believes that?

Nobody.

[FarLeftFist]

4. The GOP easily believes that.

[Zanzoobar]

9. That's almost everyone between 18 and 65.

[The Doctor.]

15. That's correct.

Your point?

[Zanzoobar]

46. Maybe I misunderstood.

It sounded like the GOP believes the entire adult working population is lazy.

[CJCRANE]

32. That was a quick jump from "nobody" to "almost everyone".

I think it's probably somewhere in between.

[in_cog_ni_to]

6. Teabaggers/Rethugs. n/t

[riderinthestorm]

12. My mother believes that. A die hard Rethug, tea partier Bill O'Reilly loving, Sean Hannibot, Rush

dittohead.

You are very naive if you think nobody believes that.

[Uncle Joe]

22. How about the Boards of Directors governing American Corporations that decided to increase

the ratio of CEO pay to their average workers from approximately 29x the rate in the late 80s to over 400 times that of their average employees today.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/searchresults.html?q=ratio+of+ceo+pay&sitesearch=democraticunderground.com&sa=Search&domains=democraticunderground.com&client=pub-7805397860504090&forid=1&ie=ISO-8859-1&oe=ISO-8859-1&cof=GALT%3A%23008000%3BGL%3A1%3BDIV%3A%23336699%3BVLC%3A663399%3BAH%3Acenter%3BBGC%3AFFFFFF%3BLBGC%3A336699%3BALC%3A0000FF%3BLC%3A0000FF%3BT%3A000000%3BGFNT%3A0000FF%3BGIMP%3A0000FF%3BFORID%3A11&hl=en

They must believe the average American worker is lazy beyond belief to promote such a tragically ridiculous, and unjust disparity of compensation for services rendered or they truly believe as Michael Douglas's character in the movie "Wall Street" so succintly put it "Greed is good."

[Dont call me Shirley]

28. And John Snazil of 20/20 constantly promoting his "greed is good" meme.

[Pacifist Patriot]

29. Seriously? I've got a few guys I work with you need to talk to then.

[rhett o rick]

30. Is this going to be a short visit? nm

[TheMadMonk]

41. 1/4 of the population vote as if they believe that. /nt

[liberal N proud]

5. k&are

[defendandprotect]

7. ... because RW propaganda works -- and because Democrats are SILENT ---

Corporate money buys a lot of silence --

and we also have something like 40% of our Congress who are those "greedy" Americans --

many of them millionaires or multi-millionaires!!


"Our Congress is controlled by the oil and gas industry" -- Al Gore/Rolling Stone this summer


And keep in mind, Al Gore, himself, was sponsored life long by one of the oil comapnies!

[TheMadMonk]

45. Democratic voters are not so much silent as too invested in individual...

...causes.

Gay rights; educational rights; the rights of the bullied; race rights; healthcare rights; animal rights; etc.

Too many rights and too many people become distracted away from another's equally valid right, to defend their own.

And like it or lump it, we do have homophobic vegans, racist gays and dogfighting bullies amongst us. People who will sometimes deliberately vote to hurt others, even if ultimately it would be in their best interest to vote otherwise.

WTF is wrong with plain HUMAN RIGHTS for all?

Even HUMANE rights for everyone and everything.

Law which doesn't single out groups for protection, but forbids with all possible force, the singling out of others for harm.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

8. Because the right wing has spent a LOT of money pushing this propaganda

and it fits right in with the enslaving 'work ethic.'

I never understood the so-called American work ethic. Well, now I do.

There never was any need to push a work ethic. From the beginning of humanity, people have worked very hard. TOO hard, always to put money in the pockets of the powerful and wealthy.

The bullshit American work ethic was always nothing more than a way to encourage willing serfs to submit to a never ending workday, endless poverty, and to question NOTHING.

[freshwest]

11. +1,000. Sad and wasteful.

[dotymed]

13. So the actually "lazy" people could enjoy life instead of

being slaves to work.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

24. Exactly. It's a way to shut workers up, so they'll endure anything nt

[uponit7771]

17. +1

[Fantastic Anarchist]

34. Nicely said. ;)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=2283003&mesg_id=2288328

[unkachuck]

10. K&R....n/t

[mother earth]

14. To the point! K & R nt

[saras]

16. It works for me.

I'm not greedy, I just want my fair share - the same stuff all Americans have.

I am lazy, I don't want to work any more than I have to. I have other things I'd rather do.

So it's not hard to believe that other people are just like me but worse.

But to believe that only 400 people are so incredibly, overwhelmingly greedy as to confiscate most of the world's wealth and not even spend it on anything, but sit on it like Scrooge McDuck - no, that's fucking unbelievable. That's just insane.

So, yeah, I can see how people fall for it.

The gods USED to be crazy. Now they seem to be in the final stages of mad cow disease.

[tcaudilllg]

18. It's not just the GOP.

Seems like it's lots of extroverted thinkers in general, because they habitually overwork themselves.

[Beavker]

19. Perfect

I know people who think exactly this...the jobless are lazy, and it's all their fault.

Are there some? Sure. But it has to be a small minority that are happy living on the dwindling (now non-existant) unemployment insurance, and meager Government handouts.

And those religious zealots...what would Jesus think about your idea?

I'm guessing that there's a lower percentage of the 150 Million that are lazy and simply milking it as a freebie than there is the number of the 400 that aren't greedy.

[Liberal_in_LA]

20. because many of the poor and middle class have fantasies that they'lll be rich one day

[Uncle Joe]

21. That nails the hell out of it!

Thanks for the thread, kpete.:thumbsup:

[onlyadream]

23. Perfect.

I just copied and posted it to my Facebook. :)

[VPStoltz]

25. Because too many want to, but will never, be the 400!

[wakemewhenitsover]

26. Bingo.

[AngryOldDem]

27. Easy answer.

Far too many people still believe in the Horatio Alger, every-man-can-be-a-success, pull-yourself-up-by-your-own-bootstraps bullshit, even as they themselves hang by a rapidly fraying thread.

The American Dream is a myth that they're still buying into, and that the greedy bastards are all too eager to exploit.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

31. Word.

And everyone of those 400 are "rugged individualists" who made their fortunes in a vacuum without society's help.

We 99% are just lazy and envious. If we got up off our asses, all 300,000,000 of us can be in the top 400!!!

[Sarah Ibarruri]

35. Yeah, exactly. They multiplied their money in a vacuum, like Jesus with the loaf and the fish. nt

Aren't Repukes and the mega-rich they protect just SPECIAL? :)

[Fantastic Anarchist]

36. It's in there jeans, er genes!

Don't you know if you were born into a wealthy family, that you worked hard for that and earned it?

[Sarah Ibarruri]

38. It's definitely a well known fact that the rich are the hardest working people of all!!!!

They work harder than anyone! That's why they're rich!

(mumbling obscenities about Repukes) lol

[Fantastic Anarchist]

39. They have to work hard ...

It takes time and effort to swindle the majority of the world's population, and to convince them that up is down and night is day. Lots of overtime, they put in. They deserve every cent they get.

(also mumbling obscenities at my fellow humans for being so stupid)

;)

[Sarah Ibarruri]

40. You're right. I should be more appreciative of their intense swindling skills. lol nt

[Fantastic Anarchist]

42. See, us hoi polloi are just not appreciate enough.

Maybe all 7 billion of us can squeeze into the top 400!

[MrMickeysMom]

33. GRANDPA EDDIE FOR PRESIDENT!

K&R!

[onehandle]

37. Old bumper sticker of mine: 'Vote Republican - It's Easier Than Thinking'

'splains it all...

[PuffedMica]

43. It is easy because FOX NEWS works so hard

[PuffedMica]

44. K&R