poor = not hard workers
I was absent the day they taught that little lesson in class. Damn chicken pox! If I had been there, I would have saved myself years of torment. Poor people are lazy and fat and stupid and don’t ever work hard and want everyone else to support them and wealthy people are the most deserving, honest, hardest working and decent human beings on the planet. Everything makes so much sense now!
The neighborhood where I currently live is not Republican at all. In fact, it’s where many of the Democratic politicians running this city live and breathe. Six or seven houses down from me is a beautiful flower shop/garden, blended right in with the rest of the neighborhood. Just a few months ago, the owner hosted a fundraiser for the reelection of the city councilwoman (a Democrat who of course won). You can’t spit in this place without hitting a Dem.
So, in a few years when I’m bitching about the circle of life, it will be about my now-richer Democratic neighbors, who in addition to making money because of whatever blah blah blabbity blah numbery real estatey appreciationy thing, will be contributing to the local DEMOCRATIC candidates of their choice. Cause see, greed is an equal opportunity employer.
Just because someone is making loads of money, one should never assume she’s a republican out to further the cause of more republicans.
p.s. if you don’t like me or like my point of view, stop reading my site. But it’s really crappy to insult me and imply that I’m not a hard worker just because I don’t have money.
Did I mention how crazy wealthy I am? And not just in that feel goody “anyone who has their health & an adorable little daughter is truly wealthy” way, but seriously, like roll naked in piles of money wealthy. Well, small piles of money. but still…
Also, I’m totally not a hard worker.
I’d say that was cause for some people to “Exit Stage Left!”
Or as I like to say, “See ya, bitches!”.
p.s. I love Christa. I love her site. I will not stop reading it. I am not wealthy. And, I am not republican.
p.p.s. Most, and I say most so I am NOT generalizing here, of the republicans I have EVER met have been incredibly judgemental, and are the first to start name-calling.
p.p.p.s I love Marianne, right now. I absolutely love her.
p.p.p.s. I also love Jonathan, right now. Just the thought of him rolling around naked in all his money is doing things to my insides. Thanks. A lot.
You know, reading all this stuff tonight has brought these relevant lyrics to mind:
We All Know That People Are The Same Where Ever We Go
There Is Good And Bad In Everyone,
We Learn To Live, We Learn To Give
Each Other What We Need To Survive Together Alive.
** “[I]f you don’t like me or like my point of view, stop reading my site. But it’s really crappy to insult me and imply that I’m not a hard worker just because I don’t have money.” **
I don’t believe I ever made the statement or implication that poor people don’t work hard. I fully believe that poor people work just as hard as rich people in a lot of cases.
** “Just because someone is making loads of money, one should never assume she’s a republican out to further the cause of more republicans.” **
I AGREE! You made the statement that the people buying condos elected a Republican. I made the obviously incorrect assumption that your neighborhood was predominantly Republican.
** “So, in a few years when I’m bitching about the circle of life, it will be about my now-richer Democratic neighbors, who in addition to making money because of whatever blah blah blabbity blah numbery real estatey appreciationy thing, will be contributing to the local DEMOCRATIC candidates of their choice.” **
AWESOME. And I have NO desire to take money away from the causes your Democratic neighbors wish to support and use it on things I feel entitled to.
Well then I think we’re all in agreement here: my neighborhood is Democratic, Massachusetts, a notoriously Democratic state, elected a Republican, and no one *wants* to be poor.
Just as a reminder: I don’t feel entitled to anyone else’s money (except maybe my mom and dad’s, only they don’t have any but if they did I would certainly think “hey gimme some!”), regardless of their political affiliation. I don’t have answers to the economic and class problems that arise in any civilized and democratic nation, so I’m not even going to attempt to talk about it. I’m not wealthy and I probably never will be, which really only bothers me when it comes to things like paying for school or buying a video ipod. I love money and I hate money but in the end, I don’t much care about it, evidenced by my handling of it.
My issues with Republicans tend to be on the moral and religious side of things. But I’m sooooo not in the mood to go there.
I am sorry for taking offense at your comments Brasten, I’m just easily bristled by the popular myth that poor people aren’t hard workers. I come from a long line of very hard working poor people, it’s in my genes.
Gina you are such a secret hippie inside that your hard outer republican shell makes me cry.
Now Jonathan, as leader of this here ragtag web site, I implore you to provide photos of your money trysts. Hurry! Before the old man gets home!
oh and I just want to make it known right now that I am very much NOT a hard worker. I get sensitive about the issue because so many people I know and love work their asses off and don’t have a pot to piss in. Not me! I work hard very rarely and I have way more than I deserve. I’m just defending my people, yo.
What we have here is a true gamut. Being a hard worker can make you rich and it can make you poor, and NOT being a hard worker can make you rich and can make you poor. Maybe in the end it comes down those inherent advantages that Marianne talked about (and a bit of luck)…it’s just easier for some people to get ahead than others based on the cards they’re dealt.
i know what you mean! and i’m an aquarius too. go figure.
i’m eating cashews. i wanted the honey roasted ones but i opted for the lightly salted boring less calorie ones. frickin A!
I love you guys!! Reading all this makes me so happy, frikkin A !!!
I can’t help you with the photographs of me having naked money sex, but here’s a particularly cute photo of Emerson.
She’s happy because her dad drives a Prius, with a bumper sticker that reads “Man of the People“.
Anyone else check out the new Intel Macs? Holy hell, they’re fast.
Like, REALLY REALLY FAST.
And sexy. But they’ve always been sexy.
I know, I totally want one. Badly…
CHRISTA!!…I FIGURED IT OUT!! HOW TO PAY FOR EMERSON!!
just marry gordo. figure if you have a “traditional” wedding and find someone to pay for it (phyll? momma dukes?..papa dukes?) then you can clean house with wedding gifts!!
just think about it. not a bad gig and since you and gordo claim to be “practically married” anyway, just turn it into the real deal and make money for it!
Marry that reprobate?!?! Hush your mouth, woman. It’s bad enough that they had sex that one time (from which a baby was born), why would you throw good money after bad?!!
Jonathan you are the living end!!
christa found humor in what i was getting at. she also said no.
so i lose.
happy?
oh yeah!…christa has a sexy new hair cut….
she looks fan fuckin tabulous!!
Lets see !!!
I havent done this in a while, so here I go, getting on my knees and:
All hail CJM and Ry-Guy!!!! All hail the world class, world wide web goddes-head CJM!!!! All Hail!!!!!!
Once we were cool.. Adored by the Loafe.. Now, not so much.. But still the Sea comes around and reads. Much like the Dude abides.
Pernicious
As Krull said in the movie Krull(1983) “Love is fleeting” .
The whole movie was to disprove that, but in the real world we know that love lasts as long as certain chemicals in your brain keep squirting when you think of a certain person, place or thing.
And when those chemicals stop squirting its time to move on to something that makes them start squirting again. Am I right people???
The Sea still makes loafe squirt!
oooh that sounds so dirty.
God bless the Sea.. Good thing you live not far from it!!