Change brewing in the field.
This week, I’ve been studying people with a personal vendetta against “handouts”.
It seems you could say “The sky is blue” anywhere on the internet, and someone will come flying out of the woodwork screaming “In the real world, people have to earn their blue! You’re just looking for a handout from the sky! What makes YOU PEOPLE think you deserve free blue?!”
It’s amazing how demanding more jobs and lower taxes on the poor and middle class is seen as whining for a handout. Meanwhile hundreds of billions of dollars in handouts to oil companies gets ignored.
Come to find out, screaming “Get a job, you damned hippie!” at people who are protesting for more jobs makes you look like an idiot. Especially when it comes from a crowd of folks that raged over creating jobs a year ago.
Job creation was the backbone of their argument against taking tax breaks away from millionaires. Now they’ve dropped the jobs talk and just cling to the tax breaks for their masters.
It’s funny how we can’t go a day without a Regressive candidate telling everyone to go get a job. Somebody should remind them that they forgot to create any.
Have you ever been around dogs that have been trained to attack or fight? It is unfortunate, but I have. Have you ever seen them get fed? They snarl and snap at each other. Many times blood is spilled.
Have you seen what happens to these dogs when they eventually get taken from their owners? They get euthanized because in many cases their is no way to train the killer out of them. It is such a tragedy.
So what does it mean when approximately 1/5 to of our society is being trained to attack anyone who speaks out against their masters? The 1% have picked their pack of hounds well. Fox News and regressive pundits beat their feeble brains around the clock in order to “keep them mean”.
Is there any hope of rehabilitating these people? Is there hope for hair-triggered ragers that see the whole world as one gigantic food dish?
Can they ever learn to exist in a world where social justice is a widespread phenomenon? Or will they continue to bitch and rage for decades, long after the world has moved on without them?
Malcolm X had something to say about these types of people.
I’m a field Moosehammer. Here’s to strong blowing winds of change!
Here is to those strong winds of change. :love:
Does this mean the jerks aren’t really half of us? 😉
I’m a field Freebird!
Right on Moosehammer….brilliant and to the point blog!
As bad as things have become for the middle class in America, and the rest of the world for that matter, I can’t believe that the ‘Joe the plumbers’ haven’t figured out by now, that the party they support is really the party that is destroying them. Sadly, hope, Fox news and propaganda springs eternal, and as things get worse as they surely will, these same people will continue to blame the people who have their best interest at heart. Will the ‘Joe the plumbers’ every wake up and realize they are the 99%!
If we don’t take back the House and keep the senate and make Obama a second term president there is no telling whats going to happen to the shrinking middle-class, working poor, disabled or the homeless/jobless. We put up with that idiot Bush and the war criminal Cheney for 8 damn years, they are the ones responsible for all this to start with… It amazes me how fast people forget what has gone on, to get us to this place…but finally doing something and at perfect timing…. yes… the 99% protesters. Both Bush and that piece of crap Cheney should be behind bars, as well as the old Bush because he was the one leading W by the nose through his 8 years…
Remember Bush lost the second election,and it was his daddy that put him back in the Whitehouse. And what about Halliburton and Cheney???? How much money did they steal not just from Government contracts, but also all the money that was found in Banks and Container trailers, where did all the Billions of those dollars go????
It was the GOP that Illegally using the WMD’S as an excuse to invade Iraq, and have KILLED thousands of our kids as well as the civilians over there.
And what about the way Bush left this Country when he handed over the keys for the Whitehouse??? Don’t forget how shitty he left it, and this Country…And how about now, the same GOP wants to kill jobs, the Unions, Social Security for the disabled and the elderly, as well as the VA health care for out troops and Veterans.
And as those fools that call themselves TEA Partyist, they are nothing more than puppets for the republicans, banks, wall street and the 1%.
Where the hell do the tea baggers think they are??? The back woods in Dumb f–k nowhere’s land???? Just look to who they look up to as their leaders, people like Palin and Cain, now there’s a couple of winners..( sorry Charlie)…like your blog has stated they are being trained to take care of their masters!
But lately,they are finding out that the rest of us don’t care about what they think…lol…they tried to still the thunder of the OWS but failed…I too have been looking at the Polls!
Its important we all get out and vote and help acorn continue to help those who can’t do it alone. That’s one reason republicans are messing with our constitutional rights to vote…they know they are out numbered!
They just keep shooting themselves in the foot!
Later ❗
I have always been a Malcolm X fan.
I also like Robespierre.
I am not a communist. I am a Robespierre Democrat.
Nice parallel, Moosehammer :entertained:
Excellent question… Excellent blog.
Your analogy about the attack dogs is painful and frightening. I have wondered, as you are… Agonized about boxed rote wing phrases about “freedom” and the nanny state…
It is about morality and religion. I see no logic. Libertarian Jesus didn’t perform the miracle of the loaves and fishes. He told those slackers to learn how to catch a fish and get a job.
I see Zealots believing in the morality of deregulated and privatized everything because Capitalism in it’s God given form needs no softening. Fools. And yet urging Government to be big enough to mandate THEIR morality in religion, marriage, abortion and other personal matters.
The notion that this is about budget balancing and affordability is a shallow ruse. When the economy was peaches and cream Milton Freidman and the Randians believed the same. The collapse dancing toward their agenda caused they ignore.
“Handouts”… are immoral. God hates the poor.
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There was a comparison done between OWS and Tea Party members. It seems that more OWS protesters are employed than Tea Party members.