Posted on 03/24/2015 12:49:38 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
You probably know from his weepy reminiscences that the speaker of the House, John Boehner, once worked as a bartender and a janitor, and took seven years to get out of college. Maybe you’ve heard that Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin is a preacher’s son who churned out burgers and fries at McDonald’s. And you had to catch that bit from Senator Joni Ernst about putting bread bags over her shoes while growing up kind of poor in rural Iowa.
People from humble beginnings often carry an extra load of empathy through the success of their later lives, a sense that, with a few bad breaks, things could have gone the other way.
And there’s the party of tough luck, pal. In the case of the three Republican leaders cited above, and most of those who aspire to be the G.O.P. presidential nominee next year, these Horatio Algerians for the new Gilded Age are working to keep the downtrodden down. They are traitors to their class, with all the strutting moral superiority that comes with the conversion.
Ernst, the lump-of-coal-hearted new senator from Iowa, and Walker, who always seems to be promoting something that needs actuarial tables to disguise, at times sound as if they actively despise the poor......
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LIBERAL mindset = the soft bigotry of low expectations.
>> these Horatio Algerians for the new Gilded Age are working to keep the downtrodden down
Shaddup, Timmy. You’re an idiot.
“Stripped to its essence, it’s a load of loathing”
Sounds more like lib dems
White people from the working class who work hard and make it are “class traitors”.
Black people who work hard and make it are “race traitors”.
Got it.
Load of Loathing would be a good name for a thrash or death metal band.
Work, discipline, and ambition tend to foster independence, and they simply cannot have that.
Timmy is OVERPAID for his words.
Call me a traitor to my class, then. And I despise the likes of Mr. Egan and his ilk, who are basically tell us that we forget our place.
When told by someone that “I read it in the Times”,my practiced response is “You read the New York Times? How quaint!”
Baffled silence ensues.
We have a situation in this country of more and more businesses either eliminating jobs or going to robots and self-serve. Bankrupting businesses or forcing them to move elsewhere does not help people in need of jobs.
What young people on minimum wage (mostly very young or very old) need to do is get training at a tech school to get a better job. It can be done.
Hey Timmy, are some of us supposed to apologized because we didn’t live down to your expectations?
Sod off!
Just stay in your perpetual junior high bubble.
Oh Joy! Oh Joy!! Once again, some idiot from the New York Slimes validates the brilliance of my tagline.
Thanks guys. My day is made.
Note to the NY Slimes. Look at every Democrat in the house and senate. If I had to guess maybe 1% of them has held a job in the private sector at some point in their miserable leftist lives.
Republicans are for the people. Democrats are for the government.
To slightly modify your statements, it’s people (who might just be called “leaders”) who work hard, make it by working hard and then expect others to follow their examples that are traitors.
Something we used to call, perhaps quaintly, “having a work ethic.”
The fact is that I don’t expect leaders like Boehner, Walker or Earnest to give me a hand up, let alone a handout, to help me succeed. I expect them to remove governmental barriers that prevent, or at least restrict, my hard work from leading to success.
Within reason, of course. No one is really arguing for no government, or taxation to support government, at all. The Founders/Framers largely had it right: the proper role of government as a success-enabler is to provide opportunity through things like common defense, some infrastructure (mail and post roads) and a few other things.
Funny how windbags like this talk so much about helping their fellow man, yet put in so much effort to make other people fund their views.
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