Posted on 12/05/2014 8:28:49 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
I don't know. That's some stiff competition.
Chris was never poor, never ghetto, never down with the street. Middle class black. He only acts like it when he does his routines.
Bingo! But what did you expect from a government that is leveraged to the max?
Even when consumers get a break on gas prices, the government is first to the pump wanting to raise the tax on fuel (and, effectively, prices).
Or to put it in terms Chris would appreciate:
There is no sex in the champagne room, and the free stuff in the first-class lounge isn’t really free.
And he is distributing his wealth, when?
Crickets .........
Elias Isquith,
This statement,
‘“America has no higher rate of social mobility than medieval England or pre-industrial Sweden,” Clark said, according to a report from Sacramento’s KOVR-TV. In fact, while Clark joins many other experts in finding that social mobility today doesn’t make good on the American Dream’s promises, he goes one step further and argues that it never did.’
Is what is called a factoid. A false premise or statement posed as the truth. You idiot. If this were true, the net worth of the United States today as the net worth upon the founding of this country. It is so absurdly false that it requires its own category.
When the 1st and 2nd commandments are abandoned, the next step is usually abandoning the 10th commandment (Thou shall not covet).
He looks into the toilet before flushing and is just amazed at how smart he is.
I ‘live like no one else now so that I can live like no one else’ in the future.
The only way I know to get there is through hard work and investing the excess. Living below my means for the future. There are fewer and fewer of us.
I, for one, was not surprised when I heard the results of a survey of 16-24 yo. 40% said they didn’t want a job.
I wish FR had ^ for their comments. I’d ^ your post!!!
People who rant about inequality really miss the point. There will always be rich folks like Rockefeller, Gates and Zuckerberg. Very few people have a problem with that. Except when they are unable to advance economically themselves. Then people think the game is rigged.
People aren’t coveting Virgin Airline first class flights. They want to not worry about the mortgage and the car payment. They want to be able to take vacations every year and a few great vacations in a lifetime. When even those simple things are denied then people start wondering why.
Which probably included many freepers. Most people, unless their parents give them a very good nest egg or inheritance, start off at zero dollars. There's three choices....stay at zero, go less than zero or increase wealth.
NPR played their puff interview with him yesterday on a range of topics, mostly comedy versus society. Despite their best efforts, he was inarticulate. Essentially he could give a comedy bit or spout a cliche but could not otherwis answer any questions in depth.
Actually, he's quite prescient. The riots are coming. Make no mistake about that.
I think there’s something intrinsically wrong with a society where entertainers are in the top 1 percent. Historically, they occupied a rung just above prostitutes and opium addicts.
Considering Chris Rock is in a position many whites would sell their souls to be in, yet he’s still whining about racism and ignoring all the progress that’s been made, little he says should be taken very seriously.
Living beneath one’s means is a lost art...sadly.
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