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Evan Thomas: 'White Men Dropping Out of Workforce' -'Going Hunting, Fishing'
Newsbusters ^ | December 29, 2012 | 10:40

Posted on 12/29/2012 2:42:23 PM PST by drewh

Former Newsweek editor Evan Thomas made a bizarre statement on PBS's Inside Washington Friday.

"Unexplored story of the year: white men dropping out - dropping out of the workforce, dropping out of elections, just plain dropping out, getting social security, not doing anything, going hunting, fishing, just not in the game" (video follows with transcript and commentary, file photo):

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2012/12/29/evan-thomas-white-men-dropping-out-workforce-going-hunting-fishing#ixzz2GU1AePnH

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To: dalereed
I hear ya!
If anything, white males are the 'techie' elite.
Cant build/maintain/connect/network anything without us!
Havent met a non-white and/or female who can read a complex electronics schematic.
Know some Asians, but, uh, they're guys!...
101 posted on 12/29/2012 5:55:17 PM PST by 45semi (A police state is always preceded by a nanny state...)
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To: montag813
Sounds good to me. Collapse the system.

You bet...There are ways to get real creative...Force the collapse of this corrupt government. Think hard...Don't play the game....

Avoid all unnecessary purchases...Make as little income as possible, pay as little tax as possible...No time payments, no credit...Cripple and kill the corrupt bankers....

Make it collapse on their heads. Crush them.

102 posted on 12/29/2012 5:55:27 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: LdSentinal

I estimate that half a million overseas and in the military didn’t get their votes counted, due to mail delays.


103 posted on 12/29/2012 5:57:33 PM PST by tbw2
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To: alphadog

Sounds beautiful.


104 posted on 12/29/2012 5:59:26 PM PST by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: MSF BU

and the admission GPA concentration as well. Half look to be of the Asian persuasion.


105 posted on 12/29/2012 6:03:00 PM PST by RitchieAprile (the obstreperous gentleman..)
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To: HeartlandOfAmerica

baby time off. LOL


106 posted on 12/29/2012 6:04:56 PM PST by firebrand
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To: eartick
Now pulling out in $9,000 increments so I do not have to fill out those nasty government papers for over 10K withdrawls

Pulled out my MM act. in cash back in early '08 and had no forms to fill out. ICBW, but I think the forms only come into play with cash deposits or purchases over $10K

107 posted on 12/29/2012 6:05:30 PM PST by Roccus
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To: alphadog

Your home sounds like heaven, alphadog. Absolute, serene heaven.


108 posted on 12/29/2012 6:12:02 PM PST by momtothree
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To: MissMagnolia

The “beast” is unstarvable since it can print it’s own food.


109 posted on 12/29/2012 6:15:01 PM PST by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: drewh

We’re playing the game, just not the one Obama wants us to play.


110 posted on 12/29/2012 6:20:50 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (....Let It Burn....)
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To: drewh

Are the Libs complaining, or gloating?


111 posted on 12/29/2012 6:24:32 PM PST by dagogo redux (A whiff of primitive spirits in the air, harbingers of an impending descent into the feral.)
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To: gaijin

Hmm... I should go into dentistry. I see so many cavities badly in need of filling.


112 posted on 12/29/2012 6:27:44 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: AC86UT89
This economy is coughing up 45-60 year old men of all ethnicities.

That, my friend, is the real untold story.

113 posted on 12/29/2012 6:40:00 PM PST by YankeeReb
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To: firebrand
lol. I was kinda distracted when I put that together. ;)

My baby time off-er was pesterin me. Owww. Did I type that out loud?

Oh. That don't sound good either.

Ok My wifey was pesterin me.

Guy could just about get hung for some of the thoughts he thinks.

114 posted on 12/29/2012 6:57:16 PM PST by HeartlandOfAmerica (Get in touch with your galtitude!)
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To: drewh

“...dropping out of the workforce, dropping out of elections, just plain dropping out, getting social security, not doing anything, going hunting, fishing, just not in the game”

Ain’t it a b!tch being you, working for some cheap rag and not enjoying life. But, I’ve paid my dues many times over, and so I’ve just sorta dropped out and enjoying the hell out of it. By the way, I do own guns, just so you don’t try to take it away or muscle in on it.


115 posted on 12/29/2012 7:06:47 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (Save the nation, have your family's progressives spayed or neutered.)
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To: drewh

I wonder how many of those people are part-time, cash or barter only, independent contractors or consultants. Betcha there are lots of those older dudes and dudettes that have valuable skills that don’t want to be part of the NWO collective.


116 posted on 12/29/2012 7:19:25 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (Save the nation, have your family's progressives spayed or neutered.)
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To: theBuckwheat
You are seeing Atlas shrugging. Let the ‘takers’ see how their socialist Utopia functions without a diminishing number of ‘makers’. The economy is going to duplicate Mugabe and Zimbabwe.

I see it happening across the economic, political, and social spectra, which I consider interrelated, anyway.

White guys, choosing not to commit or marry, not employed (or under-employed), not voting, etc.

Let's see how long this country can exist without it's traditional "worker bees" just dropping out of participation.

117 posted on 12/29/2012 8:35:51 PM PST by SIDENET ("If that's your best, your best won't do." -Dee Snider)
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To: drewh

He just may have a point - this white man took early retirement almost twenty years ago - tired of seeing more and more money taken out of my paycheck to “pay my fair share” the more I made - tired of putting up with stupid restrictions imposed in the workplace - impossible to discipline anyone without creating a “hostile environment” - tired of watching well-qualified white males shoved aside to accommodate minority and sexual affirmative action - once I stopped paying into Social Security, Medicare, and pension funds and spending extra money on differential taxes, lunches and gas, I was making only about $400 less each month than when I was working, easily replaced with a one day a week part time job - I’m lovin’ it..........


118 posted on 12/29/2012 9:18:19 PM PST by Intolerant in NJ
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To: Political Junkie Too
“Can you envision a world where the government forces people to be doctors to prevent Obamacare from failing?’

Think: Affirmative action government “services” are far more efficient than the public sector. Why didn't I think of that? OMG, this is hugh.

119 posted on 12/29/2012 9:28:24 PM PST by MasterGunner01
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To: Roccus

No, if you cash a check or make a witdrawl of 10K or more from YOUR OWN checking account the FERAL government wants to be notified.

I ran into this in 2010 when I cashed a check for some overtime back pay in excess of 25K. Told the Teller I wanted cash and she said I had to fill the government form to report it. I asked if I put in my checking and then withdrew it would I have to fill it out she said, yes.

Not sure when it was put into place. Stinking government.


120 posted on 12/30/2012 4:05:13 AM PST by eartick
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