they're paid twice as much are worth now... ohhh, they aren't getting paid now eh?
They STILL are paid TWICE as much as they are worth NOW!!!
Posted on 08/11/2007 10:40:02 PM PDT by neverdem
One of the most striking aspects about the left-wing blogs that have assumed a major place of influence in recent years is their unlimited self-confidence. From Iraq to trade to how to win a presidential campaign, these blogs assert that oblivious Democrats, conniving Republicans and the clueless mainstream media just don't get it – that they are mired in past assumptions and just don't understand how the world really works nowadays.
Now along comes a story about some of these lefty bloggers that is so flabbergasting it demands this observation: So we're clueless?
This week, Associated Press reported that “a loosely formed coalition of left-leaning bloggers are trying to band together to form a labor union they hope will help them receive health insurance (and) conduct collective bargaining.”
Um, just whom will they be bargaining with? Do these “left-leaning bloggers” understand that collective bargaining involves employees and employers – and that no one hired them to blog?
Or are they just beginning to edge up to the argument that grateful taxpayers should pay for their health benefits?
Hey, that's how to solve the health crisis: Have every American start a blog and be given health coverage for the effort. We expect this to soon become a major plank in the Kucinich-for-president campaign.
HOLD YOUR CALLS! WE HAVE A WINNER!
And you can guess who the losers are...
funny. You know that the idea of covering people in groups is just a marketing gimmick.
Only because the drive-by media endlessly pimps them.
A poorly remembered paraphrase of Sam Johnson
they're paid twice as much are worth now... ohhh, they aren't getting paid now eh?
They STILL are paid TWICE as much as they are worth NOW!!!
[Or are they just beginning to edge up to the argument that grateful taxpayers should pay for their health benefits?]
The leftist liberal agenda of stealing all monies from taxpayers to give to themselves and illegals and renegade nations who hate America and intend to strip her of her once glorius captalistic system.
And somehow this reminds me of that quip from Sid W Sodnagel:
“Sled dogs and Englishmen go out in the midnight sun.”
tooo funny, kinda like Pan-Handlers forming a union with Minimium Donation Rates...
I’ve just written these words and posted them on FreeRepublic (although FR is not a blog). I demand health care and a pony.
Incoming Blog Pimp...
For the most part I would say that left-wing bloggers are supported quite a lot - not only by the media but by many of the people who read those blogs and for some the potential of advertising money has become a big attraction. I don't see half as many advertising supporters for conservative blogs.
In all honestly, I started blogging because of FR - there was a time when I first joined that I would get FReep mail asking questions and in some cases finding myself having to type out responses multiple times on threads with a similar content. Eventually I started a blog whereas I could just direct someone to my views on a subject particular subject matter here that might have been rehashed several times.
In time you find yourself with a few loyal readers who are interested in your opinions or looking at news events from your perspective. My perspective is pretty much summed up in the name of my blog. As an American overseas I can look at events around me and then back at America - I see things from a unique outside perspective. The fact that I happen to live and work in a Muslim country makes it all that more interesting.
Loyal readers though want daily updates - and what started off as merely a hobby becomes a job at a certain point. Besides the huge amount of time spent, I had my wife ask me about a US180 phone bill once - and it was then I myself started looking at revenue models. Hey I'd love to get a digital camera (I'd love to put photos and stuff) and maybe upgrade and spend more time - but hey that costs money - it is a chicken and egg situation. Many of the left-wing bloggers get support from the minute they hit the ground. I've heard of left-wing blogs with only a hundred hits a day getting corporate financial support. Lets be honest about it, a successful blog is more or less like a magazine and even a free magazine needs financial support to keep going.
I think is typical for the left-wing bloggers to think that somehow the government owes them - that is after all the ideology that they promote. They can't accept the fact that even blogging becomes a capitalist profession. And... on that note... I'd like to thank my fellow FReepers for their support of my blog and "our way of life" - I'd also like to ask you to kindly support "An American Expat in Southeast Asia" surely you need a book from Amazon or something.
They should go on strike. That would show us all. I can’t even think about how much that would effect my life. Wait, now I can. It’s not one bit.
heard that...
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