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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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1 posted on 12/29/2012 2:42:26 PM PST by drewh
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To: drewh

Sounds good to me. Collapse the system.


2 posted on 12/29/2012 2:45:15 PM PST by montag813
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To: drewh

Yes, Going Galt.


3 posted on 12/29/2012 2:46:05 PM PST by gaijin
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"...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"

I resemble that remark.

4 posted on 12/29/2012 2:46:22 PM PST by Baynative
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To: drewh

Huh? Been doing that all my life.


5 posted on 12/29/2012 2:46:48 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: drewh

Meanwhile, Obambi the Deer Leader straddles all of the strife, calmly watching from above, sort of like God. Right, Evan?


6 posted on 12/29/2012 2:46:48 PM PST by rfp1234 (Arguing with a liberal is like playing chess with a pigeon.)
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To: drewh

going Galt


7 posted on 12/29/2012 2:47:10 PM PST by rolling_stone
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To: drewh

Odd. As a white, male, 61-year-old cripple, with several chronic ailments and a failing memory, I have people lined up at my door every morning trying to give me jobs.

I’m just too lazy to take one.

Maybe they’ll end up hiring some deserving member of a minority, who has heretofore been held down by melanin enrichment.


8 posted on 12/29/2012 2:47:24 PM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: drewh

Yep, I still vote and add disc golf to the list of what I’m doing that’s me all over!!


9 posted on 12/29/2012 2:47:26 PM PST by LooneyTick (Of all the things in life I've lost, I miss my mind the most!)
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To: drewh

Yeah. I think it’s called “retirement”.


10 posted on 12/29/2012 2:48:07 PM PST by Kenton
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To: drewh

How about us white women? That will be me in 2013!


11 posted on 12/29/2012 2:49:55 PM PST by myrabach
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Hey, if white guys have dropped out....
Who is paying for everything?
Oh wait, nevermind.


12 posted on 12/29/2012 2:50:31 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: drewh
Looks like all men are dropping out of the labour force by their own statistics.

Hmm...I wonder why? Is it because hard work is no longer rewarded (by both society and specifically women?). Nah...that couldn't be it.

13 posted on 12/29/2012 2:51:13 PM PST by AntiKev ("Within the strangest people, truth can find the strangest home." - Great Big Sea - Company of Fools)
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“Just not in the game” —what?

Wrong.

They are playing the game just as assiduously as ever, there’s just ONE little catch —they see the ever more vast forces arrayed against them, and they’re joining the OTHER side.

No hip-hop music, no baby-mommas, but just a very quiet, personal decision to stop milked, and then loudly maligned for BEING milked.

“You didn’t build that...!” You know what? At some point it’s just enough.


14 posted on 12/29/2012 2:51:19 PM PST by gaijin
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To: drewh
Labor force participation amongst black men has dropped by 3.3 percent in the past four years - 1.1 percent higher than the entire population.

The real story. Down with the cause brothers with not a drop of corn pone blood are beneficiaries of Obama's new normal America.

15 posted on 12/29/2012 2:51:55 PM PST by TADSLOS (I took extra credit at the School of Hard Knocks)
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To: drewh

Well, WTH do they expect? White men are vilified and marginalized and passed over in favor of less qualified minorities or other protected groups. Why should they be surprised?


16 posted on 12/29/2012 2:52:29 PM PST by Fast Moving Angel (A moral wrong is not a civil right: No religious sanction of an irreligious act.)
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To: drewh

I’d be golfing.

Best way to the undermine the Kenyan’s communist coup is still to go John Galt.


17 posted on 12/29/2012 2:53:23 PM PST by y6162
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18 posted on 12/29/2012 2:53:23 PM PST by drewh
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Post facto statistical follow-up:

The actual four-year labor force participation decline for the entire population is 3.34 percent (2.2 delta divided by November '08's 65.8 rate).

For white men it's 3.55 percent (2.7 divided by 75.9).

For white women it's 3.47 percent (2.1 divided by 60.5).

For black men it's 4.68 percent (3.3 divided by 70.4)

For black women it's 3.26 percent (2.1 divided by 64.5).

As such, white men have dropped out of the labor force at an insignificantly faster rate rate than the rest of the population and at almost the same rate as white women.

19 posted on 12/29/2012 2:53:54 PM PST by blam
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To: drewh
if they are on social security, they're prolly retired...
20 posted on 12/29/2012 2:55:02 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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