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re: Let them eat cake?

Yeti — 5/5/2008 3:53:13 PM (archived)

"I don't think that someone who went to college and pretty much never left has much to say about hard physical work or elitism."

I grew up in a small rural Oklahoma oil town, where disputes were handled with fists or bricks or worse. As a child I did my share of farm work. I got through Undergrad with scholarships and living in basement apartments and working Pizza Shops, and grad school with stipends and Ramen Noodles. Sure, I had a few nice things, a bit of savings and I never went hungry, but there were many years where shoe shopping was army surplus combat boots and clothes shopping included a cruise of the goodwill.

I, at least, know how good I have it, and know what hard times mean. Its clear your lilly white self has no damn clue. Why don't you go ask 'The Workers'. They'll clue you in.

Yeti

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An unsettling trend with McCain - TB - 5/1/2008 5:18:29 PM
- And in in Gas Tax Holiday, which is monumentally stupid whether by JMcC or HRC (n/t) - Tony - 5/1/2008 7:28:00 PM
  - Gas tax holiday compromise - ER - 5/6/2008 5:42:56 PM
    - Not only that... - Mary Anne - 5/8/2008 1:31:33 AM
    - Not a bad idea. - TB - 5/6/2008 7:51:38 PM
  - Amen. - Mary Anne - 5/4/2008 4:28:35 PM
    - Gas tax - Buck Galaxy - 5/6/2008 6:47:37 AM
      - The dirt poor won't see a penny. - Mary Anne - 5/8/2008 1:31:09 AM
  - Agreed. - Yeti - 5/4/2008 5:49:50 AM
- McCain's a populist instead of a independent thinker? - Tony - 5/1/2008 7:26:38 PM
  - He also believes in creationism - Socrates II - 5/2/2008 4:03:28 PM
    - How many of these guys are there? - ER - 5/3/2008 4:22:00 PM
      - Creationism as a lost opportunity - FrankC - 5/3/2008 10:03:14 PM
        
        Satisfying the atheist - azstrummer - 5/5/2008 9:44:07 PM
        
        So where has this "Inquisition #2" been? - Lee - 5/6/2008 3:46:29 AM
        
        No Lee - azstrummer - 5/6/2008 3:29:17 PM
        
        I ask a question, you throw out names...and I'm a troll. - Lee - 5/7/2008 12:44:40 AM
        
        God as a lost opportunity - Yeti - 5/4/2008 5:28:49 AM
        
        Well said. - ER - 5/4/2008 11:38:10 AM
        
        re: Creationism as a lost opportunity - ER - 5/3/2008 10:14:33 PM
        
        Control - TB - 5/3/2008 10:56:13 PM
        
        Maybe not the worst... - ER - 5/4/2008 2:39:08 AM
        
        Probably - FrankC - 5/4/2008 1:07:43 AM
      - Polls - TB - 5/3/2008 5:58:00 PM
        
        "How much of our biology, geology and astronomy is ACTUALLY being influenced by this?" - ER - 5/3/2008 8:23:57 PM
        
        Funny, ain't it....... - publius - 5/6/2008 11:06:56 PM
        
        re: "How much of our biology, geology and astronomy is ACTUALLY being influenced by this?" - TB - 5/3/2008 9:30:01 PM
        
        Oh for Darwins' sake... - Jody - 5/6/2008 7:50:39 PM
        
        The "equal time" rules are for politics, not science. - Mary Anne - 5/8/2008 2:21:27 AM
        
        One small point... - TB - 5/6/2008 8:10:19 PM
        
        If schools weren't run by the government, not everyone would go to school. - ER - 5/3/2008 10:05:54 PM
        
        That's what the government keeps telling us. (n/t) - TB - 5/3/2008 11:02:41 PM
        
        All right, how about this? - Mary Anne - 5/4/2008 3:57:58 PM
        
        re: how about this? - TB - 5/4/2008 5:49:19 PM
        
        Always goes back to vouchers - azstrummer - 5/5/2008 10:31:16 PM
        
        re: Always goes back to vouchers - TB - 5/5/2008 11:38:14 PM
        
        It would be a lot more honest if they just called vouchers what they really are, "subsidies". - ER - 5/6/2008 1:20:31 AM
        
        I honestly have no idea what you're talking about. - TB - 5/6/2008 3:15:50 AM
        
        Don't be coy, TB. - ER - 5/6/2008 3:41:49 AM
        
        You make it hard to be polite sometimes. - TB - 5/6/2008 4:24:58 AM
        
        Well, try this. - ER - 5/6/2008 10:49:11 AM
        
        re: Well, try this. - TB - 5/6/2008 5:59:37 PM
        
        I have no trouble with wealth being redistributed down. - ER - 5/6/2008 6:14:09 PM
        
        re: wealth being redistributed down. - TB - 5/6/2008 8:24:13 PM
        
        Redistributing wealth upward - Mary Anne - 5/8/2008 2:41:46 AM
        
        When I was growing up... - TB - 5/8/2008 3:20:25 AM
        
        "redistributing wealth from people who don't have wealth is not easy to do." - ER - 5/6/2008 10:02:02 PM
        
        Let me tell you about home school. - Mary Anne - 5/4/2008 7:36:36 PM
        
        re: Let me tell you about home school. - TB - 5/4/2008 8:01:11 PM
        
        True, but last time I looked... - Mary Anne - 5/4/2008 9:29:02 PM
        
        Vouchers are a government subsidy for church schools... - ER - 5/4/2008 6:46:01 PM
        
        Entitlement - TB - 5/4/2008 8:08:29 PM
        
        In answer to your question. - ER - 5/4/2008 9:41:46 PM
        
        re: In answer to your question. - TB - 5/5/2008 1:40:38 AM
        
        You never answered any of my questions. - ER - 5/5/2008 2:41:11 AM
        
        Quiet desperation - TB - 5/5/2008 4:10:18 AM
        
        re: Quiet desperation - ER - 5/5/2008 12:32:18 PM
        
        Let's talk about desperation and the unaddressed cause. - SDAI-Tech1 - 5/6/2008 11:00:45 PM
        
        Propaganda - TB - 5/5/2008 6:12:05 PM
        
        Mountain View - Robert - 5/5/2008 6:05:41 PM
        
        re: Mountain View - TB - 5/5/2008 6:59:26 PM
        
        Let them eat cake? - Yeti - 5/5/2008 5:54:17 AM
        
        re: Let them eat cake? - TB - 5/5/2008 7:05:56 AM
        
        re: Let them eat cake? - Yeti - 5/5/2008 3:53:13 PM
    - So does Nancy Pelosi - TB - 5/2/2008 9:09:20 PM

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