Posted on 03/12/2011 10:28:29 PM PST by wac3rd
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/255320/two-californias-victor-davis-hanson?page=1
In two supermarkets 50 miles apart, I was the only one in line who did not pay with a social-service plastic card (gone are the days when “food stamps” were embarrassing bulky coupons). But I did not see any relationship between the use of the card and poverty as we once knew it: The electrical appurtenances owned by the user and the car into which the groceries were loaded were indistinguishable from those of the upper middle class.This is what California has become.By that I mean that most consumers drove late-model Camrys, Accords, or Tauruses, had iPhones, Bluetooths, or BlackBerries, and bought everything in the store with public-assistance credit.
“In front of me were the welfare queens - dressed ‘to the nines’ - and with expensive-looking fingernails and jewelry”
Now they get tattoos, in addition to the clothes and fingernails, etc. And you KNOW tattoos ain’t cheap.
I travel to work via BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) and every day when I have to be home early (note, couched statement - LOL) the largely African-American women emerge onto the platform at 5:15 or so, wearing Pravda glasses, Gucci purses, faux-diamond encrusted I-Phones, D & G dresses, etc.
They work for the city/county/state in Oakland, San Francisco or Martinez/Hayward (courts).
They get off in terrible areas but seem to literally be exempt from the economic downturn.
That would be our fine set of elected officials.
I read the city is a literal cesspool, including Tressel.
I read the city is a literal cesspool, including Tressel.
I have come to the determination that those who espouse universal charity are really projecting charity for themselves. Though they might not need it, deep down they want the guarantee that its there for them.
They claim we should do this as a society. And since THEY don't need it, they are WILLING to help OTHERS. The reality is they want this a guarantee of society...but don't really admit to themselves that in reality THEY are part of SOCIETY, and thus really guaranteeing themselves, at the cost of others.
There's also the aspect that the rich should do more.
Why???...
Because they have more, is the excuse often given. I've come to believe that that is ONLY a partial reason.
The real reason is "if the rich give more, then I don't have to."
We have given over the labor AND the BLESSINGS of charity, to the government, so that WE don't have to be bothered. We allow the government to tax us a little bit, so that we can think we've done our share. Then when a need arises somewhere, we throw a little more at the situation, and call US good.
The rich become the scape goat, because "if THEY just did more" then there would be no need.
A man who sees God as sovereign and his provider, views his money as provided by God, and God is sovereign to give or take away as he sees fit. And who is man to argue with God? A man who sees God as sovereign and provider and Lord, looks at what God has given him and looks to see what God might want him to do with it.
The same man also looks to the 10 commandments and sees, thou shalt not covet, and thou shalt not steal.
He sees another with more than he has, BUT the God who is sovereign and Lord and provider of him, IS THE SAME for the other person. IF Gods sovereignty extends to one, it extends to another. If one dares not question why God doesn't give "me" more, who is he to question why God gives another more.
But our society no longer respects God. He is no longer sovereign. IF we acknowledge God, we demand "fairness" of him.
We demand guarantees of God. Man has created God in their own image. And we call it Social Justice.
But where does the idea of "Social Justice" fit with a sovereign God???
You should be angry, as angry as the young folks who work all day, pay taxes and watch and big chunk of their pay go to seniors who spend the money at the local golf course.
Life is unfair, but change is coming.
I really don’t mind “unfair” but the debt being stacked is another thing.
And you KNOWS tattoos isn’t cheap.
Or depending where in the country you be's.
And you KNOWS tattoos ain’t be cheap.
Yep. I’ve lived in the suburbs (Hilliard, 12 miles west) for 20 years and avoid Columbus except to go to Blue Jackets games.
Nice! I get what you’re saying.
RE: Tattoos. I’ve heard $100/hr. as a standard rate.
Like I wrote before, “Everything free in America!”
I am pondering winning the lottery and making a huge 30K acre ranch “private property’ somewhere in like New Hamshire or Idaho and inviting FReepers to settle there...
Good idea?
Unless you're an Ohio State football player.
My picks would be Alaska, Wyoming, Montana, Texas and Idaho. East of the Mississippi, forget about it. If you insist on New England, then it’s Vermont; best gun laws.
I suggest you piss and moan LOUDLY AND OFTEN to every congress rat, senator, radio station, et al. I know it seems pointless, but it DOES have an impact if we all join in. I hope your Dad is O.K. and please e-mail me if there is anything I can do. I live in the great state of Pennsylvania.
“You know, I really am not angry at the family or the children, the kids are innocent. I am mad at the system and the pandering, loser politicians (both GOP and Dem) who will do anything for power, even bankrupt us.”
Well, there you go - Angry, BUT . . . .That’s the whole problem with you: angry, BUT . . . not really angry at the family. Of course not. They’re only breaking the law and robbing taxpayers like you. You’ve got too big a heart to be mad at good people like that. Not their fault. They’re innocent. You’re not one of those hate-filled right-wingers, are you? Not you.
No, you’re angry, BUT . . . you’re ACTUALLY angry at “The System.” That’s it. That’s pretty safe. There’s no “System” at the check-out line. You can blame “The System” and still feel pretty good about yourself. You’re not actually angry at anybody, just a “system.” Oh, and also those “pandering, loser politicians” from both branches of the government party- you’re angry at them too, whoever they are. Nobody specific, and nobody who was actually there in the checkout line, mind you, because that would be hate-filled, and you’re not that kind of guy. And probably too nice to really wage your own jihad to change “The System” and to replace the pandering losers yourself, or with someone who thinks like you.
No. You’re angry, BUT . . . by now you’re probably angry at me, too. You were angry at the store, but it was safer to play nice there, more politically correct, think of them as innocents. It was not as hate-filled to come home instead and tell a bunch of people on FR how much you hate the system and generic politicians. That’s pretty safe. Make sure to tell us you’re really not mad at the family - that’s a nice guy. You have a good heart. Probably get some kudos here. It’s just that evil system and those evil politicians, you understand: and now this a-hole on FR who’s not buying my act - him too.
Look: Things won’t change if you’re too afraid to start changing them. And if they don’t change, and you’re that easily scared, and have that strong a need to be a nice, reasonable, caring guy, what useful role do you expect to play when the going gets really rough, when the SHTF, when our choices are limited to either fighting and killing, or being killed or enslaved. Do you think that’s not coming? Do you not see who these people are? How nice a guy are you going to want to be then? Are you going to do what needs to be done, or will your head and the heads of your loved ones be found on the roadside?
Just make a call to activist James O’Keefe and tell him you have an idea for his next undercover film. Just stand in line at Safeway and follow the perps out to their $40k dually diesel crew cab pickup after a charge to their food stamp card.
I understand what you are saying, but there are moderators here and using civility is probably the best course in the situation.
Question. I see a bunch of freeloading Mexicans at the grocery store in a $50-60K car, tricked out, and what do I do, scream at Jose, Jr. in the carseat for stealing from my Michael, who is his age?
I think the time has come to protect Western Civilization and I know what that means, I am not naive.
Here is the issue.
The direct cause of action calls you a racist, plain and simple. Profiling is an art perfected by the Jesse Jackson types who took 1 in 100 and made it on History Channel and NPR 300,000 times.
The politicians do not want to sell goods or services, they want VOTES TO KEEP THEM EMPLOYED. Their reality is selling social services for a vote, period.
What, do we, do?
You know, I may do that next time....great idea.
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