Why hippies shouldn't talk about economics

The Washington Examiner ^ | 30 July 2009 | Matthew Sheffield

[Zman]

The following video from a Santa Cruz, California city council meeting shows why some people really should avoid talking about economics. If you need a laugh this Friday morning, listening to the sage advice on display ought to do the trick:

[Zman]

Why California is in trouble and not an economic model for the federal government.

[cripplecreek]

Awww maaan.

[pgkdan]

Skip to view at home...

[Clock King]

Sure that’s not an act? That’s scary.

[xcamel]

4th post of this same brainless ‘chickie’

[cripplecreek]

I’m seriously confused. She sounds like she’s pro mining and liked Bush but she mixes it with that bizarre crap about silkworms and slavery.

[Radagast the Fool]

Well, like, dude, get with the, like,program!
I mean, like, well, land is free, and like, your’re cool, man, we’re like, all cool, and, like, there’s government programs, like for us all!

[NaughtiusMaximus]

Generating electricity from unicorn farts?

Oh Wow, Man, why didn’t we think of this before?

[Psycho_Bunny]

The one woman on the planet who might be stupid enough to marry me...

[org.whodat]

4th post of this same brainless ‘chickie’

Maybe the posters and the chickie have a lot in common!! DUH!!! Don't know what a search is???

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

It’s painful to watch. Her parents must be so proud, they raised the perfect dingbat.

I cannot understand why California’s state budget is a train wreck.

[70th Division]

She needs the “I wish these were brains” Tee Shirt

[Eric in the Ozarks]

So is she.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I think different sources (Powerline, Washington Examiner, etc.) link to the same video. Freepers post different sources, mayhap?

[xcamel]

Similar typws posting at will are having a devistating effect on the freepathon too.

[raybbr]

She could be a beauty pageant contestant....

[raybbr]

"Growing food is free. All you have to do is pay the farmers and pay for the land."

LOL

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

What’s the odds on whom she voted for?

[MrB]

Don’t do it man!
You’ll end up strangling her!

[Radagast the Fool]

Actually, didn’t we see her in the video with the people having the tree-funeral meltdown?

[Incorrigible]

This is why I sympothize with township councils that get police to escort the crazies that come to the microphone out of the building.

I know FReepers get into a tizzy at times when they hear stories about people thrown out of public meetings but of the ones I’ve attended, there are a lot of people like this woman who get up to speak.

[Jubal Madison]

“Why California is in trouble...”

I tend to agree. However, to be fair I know a lot of extremely intelligent people who freeze up, stumble over words or make idiotic comments when speaking in public. I don’t know where this lady would fit on the intelligence scale but she is obviously not a gifted speaker. It was good for a laugh this AM - thanks.-—JM

[SpaceBar]

Psychiatrists call it “word salad”.

[raybbr]

Actually, didn’t we see her in the video with the people having the tree-funeral meltdown?

It must be the spirit of a long dead hippie, stoned on pot for eternity, inhabiting their bodies long enough to make a video.

[newheart]

She could be a beauty pageant contestant....

In which case she would be talking about 'global warmification.'

[swain_forkbeard]

Gotta git me some of them vegetable trees.

[CitizenM]

LOL...maybe Obama could use her to talk to reporters! Vegetable trees? Silk worms? Making cars in stores and shops in Calif? And, my...no slaves used...like on the East Coast...because California is a union???

So sad for us that these kind of people voted to elect the POTUS and we are stuck because of them!

[Upstate NY Guy]

ping for later

[domenad]

Ping for later viewing

[cripplecreek]

So sad for us that these kind of people voted to elect the POTUS and we are stuck because of them!

She said George Bush was good and she appeared to be pro mining.

[Red_Devil 232]

DUH!!! Don't know what a search is???

DUH! Could be that a search was done on the title. Do you have an alternative way to search? Maybe we should just monitor xcamel's posts to see if he has found a duplicate post.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Definitely an Obama voter. Geesh.

[scory]

Yet another perfect example of why universal sufferage is a really BAD idea.

[org.whodat]

I don't know it's such important earth shaking news and since it happened about a year ago, maybe it should be breaking news.

[M203M4]

Sometimes I wonder why we have mandatory warning labels on chainsaws (”do not attempt to stop moving blades with face, hands, or genitals”). Thanks for the reminder.

An optimist would hope she is either a troll IRL or someone looking for free publicity (perhaps to bolster her client’s upcoming venture).

Me, I think this is nothing but typical ignorance made atypical only by public venue. I dread talking to people about politics and economics because this is the sort of stuff that usually dribbles out (albeit generally with a better delivery, but just as vapid in content). Especially when it comes to “free things” (from the government especially). The mind resets to early childhood - with the innocently assumed benevolence of caretakers, and the lack of comprehension of where scarce resources (in the economic sense) come from. It brings to mind that video of the hippy guy from way back, with the “I want the president to take care of me” view of government as parents (or God), with essentially a demand to return to the womb. Different mindset, same degree of mental immaturity.

[Red_Devil 232]

It did happen a year ago. Were you aware of the video then?

It did not show up on YouTube until last week.

Gees I guess nothing should be posted on FR unless it is Breaking News.

[Buckeye McFrog]

what, you mean people who came up with the concept of the Free Store should not be put in charge of the national treasury?

[Baynative]

"Her parents must be so proud, they raised the perfect dingbat."

There is a perverse pride in molding a young mind into uselessness. I am reminded of the empty vessel named Rachel Corrie who was indoctrinated in the loonie bin called Evergreen College and eventually got herself killed by trying to stop a bull dozer from flattening a building where terrorist arms were stashed.

These are Obama voters.

[Baynative]

This video is ZOOMIN'!

[3niner]

This is mostly an indictment of our educational system.

There was a time when a woman like this would have learned that she was far too stupid to offer advice to anybody about anything. However, she was probably raised to believe that "everyone is entitled to their own opinion", and the stupid person's corollary "everything is a matter of opinion".

[Zman]

For those who have viewed this previously, I profusely apologize. It was posted today in the Washington Examiner.

[ansel12]

She was praising President Bush for his small business loans. She sounds like a republican.

[ansel12]

These are Obama voters.

If we have to jump to a conclusion then we have to lean republican for her.

"In the Bush administration which is really good, he has government funding for small business owners."

[Phantom Lord]

self bump

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Rachel Corrie managed a certain vitriol and venom that this pathetic spectacle cannot muster. The striking thing about this woman is her utter vacuity. It is truly painful to watch her make such a fool of herself.

[housemouse 1]

“the wheels on the bus go round and round,round and round, all through the town”

[Verbosus]

Quote: "What’s the odds on whom she voted for?"

Now that post made my day.
Thanks!

[Baynative]

I used to live in Santa Cruz and you would be amazed at how many of those conversations you can hear on the street or in cafe settings.

[John Jorsett]

I’ve got to get me some of those vegetable trees.

[tweakDU]

I’ve lived in this most beautiful town off and on for over 40 years. I have to say she is one of the more brainer ones in town. The oatmeal for brains students march in lockstep with the goateed, marxist humanists at the University because it’s cool and they just don’t know. I had a conversation with a neo-lib neighbor last week and asked him how that hopenchange is working for him. He started screaming “I don’t want to hear it” repeated about 5 times as I watched in amazement. If one is a conservative, one doesn’t advertise as you are shunned and treated as less than human. I have fun tweaking my muscian friends with facts sometimes and it drives them nuts. You really should have been here in the 70’s though, WILD in every and all sense of the word. The guy’s post above about screaming against the “Man”, then going to collect welfare was spot on. Still, one of the most beautiful places in the world. Wouldn’t trade it for anything.