Posted on 10/27/2008 10:15:58 AM PDT by ganeshpuri89
Last Thursday while walking to lunch on the corner of Market and East Bay, I passed what appeared to be a homeless man standing on the corner of Wentworth and East Bay holding a hand-made sign that read, “Vote Obama, I need the money.”, I laughed to myself and admired the man for his misplaced, albeit blatant honesty.
Once inside one of my favorite restaurants, I noticed that my waiter was wearing a bright blue ,“Obama 08” tie; again I laughed to myself as he boldly and proudly advertised his political preference for all the world, and his customers, to see -- just imagine the odds of encountering two such 1st Amendment harbingers of change in less than 10-minutes.
When the check finally came I decided not to tip my waiter and explained to him that I was going to implement a practical application of Obama's Redistribution of Wealth concept as my own personal socialistic experiment. He stood there in stoic disbelief as I explained to him that I was going to redistribute his rightfully earned $10 tip to someone who I deemed more in need...a homeless fellow standing a few blocks north in front of the Harris Teeter parking lot.
(Excerpt) Read more at charlestonwatch.com ...
“What did Ayers, Alinsky, Farrahkan, Wright, et al see in Obama that made them want to pal around with him?”
Sarah Palin
Thank you! Reminds me of a recent cartoon of trick or treaters standing at a libs door being told they had to share their candy! When these things become practical applications in life these morons look at you as though you are the crazy one!
That’s pretty funny.
I wonder if the waiter got rid of the tie shortly thereafter.
schadenfreude
Be careful what you wish for (sic)
All your wealth are belong to us!
I think the author is a FReeper. I remember some guy posting that he’d done this himself last week.
heh heh heh
Love it.
Think we should all send it to everyone we know before election day. It makes Obama's socialist redistribution point perfectly and illustrates why none of us should assume we're the one's who are going to be on the receiving end of his plan.
Bump.
Thanks - that is hillarious.
It’s really sad that these dumbos have no clue what income redistribution is but it sure is funny the way they react when it’s explained to them. Even sadder though is the simplistic examples that are needed to make them understand it.
This is priceless!!!
I would think that this could be used for parents of “liberal/socialist” children that are over 18 who have announced their support of Obama.
Before the election announce to your children that you are going to take the money that you were planning to spend on their college/car/birthday present etc. and you are going to “redistribute” it! They may as well start getting used to an Obamanation now!
We all need to do this. Send a message.
Great story. Thanks for posting it.
And of the millions and millions of people in Chicago, why did Obamba choose these people to be his friends?
Students need practical examples of socialism to learn.
A great example in a politics class would be the distribution of grades. Since a C is average and weighted to 2 points, a class of 30 students would have 60 points to dole out for final grades. For every A (a 4), there would have to be a F ( a 0) to balance it out. For every B (a 3), there would have to be a D (a 1) to balance it out. The kicker would come in by randomly selecting 5 students to distribute the grades.
The diference between this guy’s solution and government redistribution is that the homeless guy knows where the $10 came from, and who to thank for it.
Let us never forget that Dame Hillary is cut from the same swath of cloth - Alinsky was the subject of her thesis at Wellesley. Her hubby, Prez Bubba, pardoned Ayers’ Weatherman buddies for their crimes just before he left office in Jan 2001. No, my friends, don’t cry that Hillary didn’t win over BHO - she would have been more of the same.
Rush Limbaugh just used your story!
LOL
It reminds me of a black businessman I once knew and worked with in New Orleans. Through his influence he was able to obtain for his girlfriend a coveted shop location on Jackson Square when the city had remodeled on both sides of the square and created much desired retail space that was prime for tourist shopping.
Some young blacks that knew them kept urging her to have a “black” theme to her clothing shop. Instead, he and she decided to go upscale and name the shop with her name, which had been inherited from a visiting Scandinavian sailor some generations before and hire a mix of black and white attractive young ladies, many of whom she had worked with in her own prior retail experience. She was a most attractive mix of the kind that abound there and the shop was a great success. It had not a hint of “blackness” as far as the heavy tourist traffic knew.
As French-Canadian clients who fled to Florida and opened busiinesses there after the Parti Quebecois took over used to explain. If half the business is of each ethnic group, you can’t do without either half.
It’s called small business enterprise.
Obama played black racist for years despite being of decidedly mixed race. Do we really believe his conversion away from it?
Does anyone have the coupon that goes with this story that can be printed out?
Does anyone have the coupon that goes with this story that can be printed out?
Someone posted a printable coupon to give to waiters letting them know their tip has been redistributed. anyone have it saved?
Bump if anyone has the picture of obama letting a waiter or someone know their tip has been redistributed. it was on here last week in a# of posts
While that story is actually a very interesting one, it doesn’t completely mirror a redistribution of wealth plan. You could have tipped the waiter a portion of that $10 and given the homeless the other portion. Obama isn’t saying only the rich will have to pay taxes and the poor get off free.
Taking it further, if you want to be even more fair, you should have increased the amount of tip because you would be a party that represents the entity who controls the most amount of wealth. Under Obama’s plan You would be making more than $250,000; the waiter would be under $250,000 but above something like $100,000; and the homeless man would be a single person making less than $40,000. The amount of redistribution goes accordingly.
So.. next time, to be completely fair, I would suggest tipping more. May I suggest a $20 tip, $8 to the waiter and $12 to the homeless guy?
While that story is actually a very interesting one, it doesn’t completely mirror a redistribution of wealth plan. You could have tipped the waiter a portion of that $10 and given the homeless the other portion. Obama isn’t saying only the rich will have to pay taxes and the poor get off free.
Taking it further, if you want to be even more fair, you should have increased the amount of tip because you would be a party that represents the entity who controls the most amount of wealth. Under Obama’s plan You would be making more than $250,000; the waiter would be under $250,000 but above something like $100,000; and the homeless man would be a single person making less than $40,000. The amount of redistribution goes accordingly.
So.. next time, to be completely fair, I would suggest tipping more. May I suggest a $20 tip, $8 to the waiter and $12 to the homeless guy?
As simple an example of socialism and Obama’s plan as this article is, judging by the comments on the blog post, some people STILL don’t get it.
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