"people are poor because they are lazy."

[Another Bill C.]

I'm not sure whether this has been posted before. The article is good reading, though.

"At Harvard Business School, thirty years ago, George Bush was a student of mine. I still vividly remember him. In my class, he declared that 'people are poor because they are lazy.' He was opposed to labor unions, social security, environmental protection, Medicare, and public schools. To him, the antitrust watch dog, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Securities Exchange Commission were unnecessary hindrances to 'free market competition.' To him, Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal was 'socialism.' Recently, President Bush's Federal Appeals Court Nominee, California's Supreme Court Justice Janice Brown, repeated the same broadside at her Senate hearing. She knew that her pronouncement would please President Bush and Karl Rove and their Senators. President Bush and his brain, Karl Rove, are leading a radical revolution of destroying all the democratic political, social, judiciary, and economic institutions that both Democrats and moderate Republicans had built together since Roosevelt's New Deal."
http://www.glocom.org/opinions/essays/20040301_tsurumi_president/

[The Backlash Cometh]

1. Depression can easily pass for laziness.

In areas where poverty is endemic, it is still possible to have a wonderul community life. But it helps that you don't have people around calling you lazy.

[aquart]

7. Please remember, George thinks getting a job is easy.

And keeping it, even easier.

He's never had to work for ANYTHING. He has had zero experience with people who do.

[coloradodem2005]

16. Yeah, of course he thinks it's easy.

Asshole. "We are willing to have the jobs. People need to get retrained." What a fucker.

[The Backlash Cometh]

29. And of course, all of the Republican cronys control the board of

regents. Education has become a Republican money mine.

[JohnKleeb]

2. eew

Thats sick, hey George, was my great grandfather poor because he was lazy? he worked day in and day out in those mines, he was poor because he had a hard time speaking this language, he was an immigrant, yet he taught his children true Christian values. What a sick thing to say of him, I know it was the past but good god, this is also libertarian thought too.

[aquart]

3. Aww, faithful to his grandpa, the Nazi banker.

Ain't that sweet?

[Nite Owl]

4. Should be put in an ad.

We should play their game. Thirty years ago? So what, that's what they are doing to Kerry and with lies.
Something like:

"This man said 'people who are poor are lazy','Social security is socialism'
"Would you vote for him?"

picture of Bush

Then don't.

[Sparkly]

5. Right, so he's rich because he's a powerhouse of ambition

but people working two full-time jobs at minimum wage and unable to make ends meet are "lazy."

He is so despicable.

[getbushoutplease]

32. Amen

exactly.

[deutsey]

6. And Bush is rich because he grandfather did business with Nazis

If it were actually true that people are poor because they're lazy, shouldn't the Lazy W be destitute?

[WLKjr]

8. Heard it before, But what do you expect?

comming from a person who blew up frogs for fun and gives small fish he catches to his dog to play with. :shrug:

[XNASA]

9. So, it follows that, "people are rich because they work hard".

Phooey!!

I think that particular bit of subterfuge, more than any other....really ticks me off.

Morans.

[JohnKleeb]

10. yet some people inheirit it

yeah really hard work to be the son of a rich oilman aint it George. Makes me think that some of the poorest districts in the country wil vote for him.

[Monte Carlo]

11. Then all the poor people I know who bust their asses must not exist.

I could have sworn I just talked to them, too.

The "all poor people are lazy" is a half-baked slogan the idiot children of inherited wealth use to distract themselves from their own unproductive lives. It's the projection of shame and frustration on others.

[shance]

33. I think the accurate statement is rich people often sell their souls to

the devil in order to become rich.

[slutticus]

12. That sounds like something this guy would say...

...

[JohnKleeb]

14. Thats why I support Testaburger for class president

and he has said it, Fatass at least has or something simliar.

[beyurslf]

13. Of course he thinks that... being rich is easy when your grandpa

stole your family's fortunes form Jews in Nazi Germany.

[xchrom]

15. i'm shocked and awed, i tell ya,

by bush's brilliance -- what depth, what intellectual insight!
:eyes: :eyes:

[mopaul]

17. people who's last name are not bush are just fucked

people who's daddy's weren't billionaires who inherited nazi death camp profits are just fucked too.

i had a former wealthy republican friend say it to my face. fuck the poor if they can't keep up like me. former friend.

[mermaid]

18. NO STATEMENT IN THE WORLD PISSES ME OFF MORE!!!

Goddamn, that assertion of poor people being lazy just makes me completely fucking WONKY!!!

I bust my goddamn ASS!! There have been times in my life where I have held down THREE goddam jobs...and that son of a bitch wants to say I'M fucking lazy, because I'm poor?

No, poor people are poor because wealthy greedy bastard business owners are always looking to screw the little guy!!

GodDAMN it this really pisses me the fuck off!! I have observed, in Corporate America...the more money you earn THE LESS ACTUAL WORK YOU DO...and vice versa!!

Damn, I have been virtually unemployed for nearly four months, finally found a job, I start this coming Monday...meanwhile, just to make ends meet, I was dragging MY LAZY ASS out of bed at 2:30 in the morning, every morning, SEVEN DAYS A WEEK...to deliver a goddamn newspaper route that was seventy miles long...and all for a lousy $825 a month, and that is WITHOUT TAXES TAKEN OUT...and without the costs of gas or wear and tear on the car considered!!

SO...
I "made" 825 a month.
I filled my tank about 7 1/2 times a month, (once every four days) at 20 bucks a pop, for $150.
Now I'm down to $675.
Take out taxes, even at 10% the LOWEST Federal rate...82 bucks...call it 75 bucks for even figures...
Now I'm down to 600 bucks.

And this counts ZERO towards any wear and tear on the car, not to mention the oil change as normal maintenance...

So, 600 bucks, by 30 days is 20 bucks a day...and since it took me about 3 hours a day to do the damn route, I was earning roughly $6.67 an hour!!

Yeah poor people are poor becausee they are LAZY??

Well, Dubya-asshole, would YOU drag YOUR ass outta bed seven days a week, 365 days a year, no vacations, no sick days, no holidays, for that kind of pay?
and it gets better...if I ever wanted a day off, I had to find someone to sub for me...and usually had to pay them more than I would have made if I did the route myself...and if I ever missed a day, for any reason (sick, car trouble, overslept, just didn't feel like it...etc) ot was in my contract that I got docked SIXTY FUCKING DOLLARS for that day!! And this would even apply if my own mother had DIED...out of state!! I'd have had to find someone to replace me before I'd be allowed to go to her fucking FUNERAL!!

and this is "lazy??"

come call ME lazy to my FACE you god-damned mother-humper Dubya...I swear, I'd punch your stupid fucking head in if you DARED call ME lazy to my face!!

FUCK YOU, DUBYA!!!

On EDIT: I realized I'd referred to Dubya as a jackass! No good, since a donkey is OUR symbol, and I am proud of it!! No WAY will I give Dubya such a compliment as calling him a "jackass" So I edited it.

[Trailrider1951]

19. You go, girl!

Love ya!:loveya: :hug:
I know exactly what you're talking about. Kick @$$ and take names!

[UdoKier]

42. I really hope you find better work.

That's a bitch.

I make more than that, but I live in San Francisco, so I can barely keep food on the table...

[Burma Jones]

20. Feh, it's hard work being poor

I've been poor, I'm not now. It's just that the type of work changes. Frankly, I had to work a lot harder when I was not making much money.

It basically boils down to this: You can get paid for what you do, what you know or a combination of both. It's better to get paid for what you know and best to get paid for a combination.

Where the problem lies is that gaining knowledge to make your brain a more expensive commodity is vastly easier if you are a child of privilege. And if you're like the Chimp, there's nothing to do but sit back and let it all come to you.

Of course Chimp and his cohorts despise every sort of government program that has been instituted since that traitor to his class, Teddy Roosevelt, started busting trusts and had the gall to start the FDA.

Someone should tell this fuckface that:

the Serfs have always worked harder than the Aristocracy, AND

This nation was founded to reject the very class privileges that the Chimp has enjoyed his entire scumbag life.

To quote my 6 year old son: "George Bush is Poop."

[fudge stripe cookays]

45. That's a helluva kid

you're raisin there, new!

FSC

[enki23]

21. spoken like a true trust fund baby

.

[OnionPatch]

22. Right

and my mom was "lazy" when she worked all day spot welding for minimum wage after her Republican husband abdicated his responsibility for his family. I used to see her come home with her ankles swollen and tiny burns on her arms. Then she would cook dinner, do dishes and help us kids with their homework. Yeah, sure, she was lazy. This kind of thinking is downright sinister.

[rman]

23. Repubs seem to think there's an infinite amount of work to be done,

in spite of the fact that there is a finite amount of people and a finite amount of resources.
So you can just endlessly outsource, insource, off-shore, etc, and there will alway be plenty of jobs for everyone. Sounds like someone is trying to sell snake-oil.

[skygazer]

24. I'm reading a book right now

It's called "The Working Poor" and it talks about ALL the issues that affect poor people. Very enlightening. For one thing, it points out how something that is a minor bump in the road for the middle class is a catastrophe for the working poor, those who make minimum wage or less. If my car breaks down, I'll call in late to work and get it fixed - if a poor person's car does, they can't afford the repairs (the car is probably a piece of crap anyway) and they can't afford to miss work. Their apartment is likely filled with health hazards like mold or asbestos or old lead paint which cause health problems which limits their ability to work. Their kids get sick and they have no health insurance, etc.

Sure, some things are self inflicted, often because people are in despair and turn to drugs or alcohol to escape because nobody seems to give a shit about them. I know about this stuff - I've been there though I've long crawled out of it. Most people aren't lazy but many people have given up.

[mermaid]

25. Author, Please?

What is the author of that book, and where can it be obtained, please?
I want to read that!

[skygazer]

27. Certainly

It's written by David K. Shipler. I got it at the local library - it's a recent work and it won a Pulitzer so it should be easy to find. Very powerful and eye-opening.

Good luck with the new job, by the way!! :)

[Vickers]

26. Hmmmm...I'm poor because my last 3 companies went out of business

It ain't a good time to be in telecommunications, folks!

[TransitJohn]

28. Bastard. Total bastard.

My father froze to death on a drilling rig when I was 8. Subsequenty, my mother went to work underground in a trona mine, and had her foot ripped off her leg. I grew up poor. I busted my ass to get through college, and while paying off student loans am just barely making ends meet. This makes me lazy? :wtf:

[mhr]

30. Unemployed 4 Years, 2,500 Resumes Out The Door

Two college degrees - BSEE, MBA

Honorably Discharged Naval Officer

Commercial Pilot

Have not heard from a company for years.

George Bush - You can go Cheney yourself.

[TahitiNut]

31. And "women are raped because they ask for it"?

The two statements are every bit as morally bankrupt - blame the victim. The laziest fuck that's ever infested the White House, with over 40% of his time spent on vacation, hasn't even the beginnings of comprehension or compassion. He wouldn't last one week as a homeless person on the streets. He's still sucking on the teat of the Golden Calf.

[oscar111]

34. 15 000 000 job shortage causes poverty

to see Job Openings, go to DOL site, Project Jolt pages. Then click news releases...t of c page, click table for Job Openings Levels not Rates... then

subtract J. O.'s from unemployed... ~18 million inclucing discouraged.

result is 15 M .

the shortage forces folks to go without income... poverty.. leading to crime too. Explains many social ills.

If 15 M had tons of energy, but no jobs exist, how are they to not be poor?

Why is this stat so totally unmentioned?

[mermaid]

35. That Stat Won't Go Unmentioned In November

That stat will be mentioned LOUD AND CLEAR at the ballot box in November, and Bush-asshole will wonder WHY he didn't get re-elected...

Daddy!! You SAID I could be President!! You SAID!! Waaaaaaahhhh!!

FUCK YOU, DUBYA!!

Maybe YOU oughta know what being unemployed feels like you cocksucking motherfucking bastard, Bush!!

Oh, I HATE Dubya!!!

I have NEVER in my life encountered ANYONE that inspired in me such a level of absolute visceral hatred as Bush does!!

[Tsiyu]

36. And According to the Bible

that * seems to wear like a codpiece, people who despise the poor are going to hell. What is the REAL truth, Bushy baby?
Does Jayzuss hate the poor as much as you, or did he tell the rich dude to sell all he had and give it to the poor to get to heaven?

Repukes never read the bible, i guess.

[Pithlet]

37. If he had shown any evidence

of his views changing, I would have given him the benefit of the doubt. A lot of people hold really stupid views in their youth. When I look back and the stupid stuff I used to think, I cringe. But, he hasn't shown that he's changed one bit in the policies that he's been making in this administration.

[sadiesworld]

38. Calling A. Franken, R. Rhodes, J. Stewart...

Professor Tsurumi would make a fascinating guest.

[Iris]

39. Yesterday, I listened to Neil Boortz for 1.5 minutes.

There was an African American man on his show basically regurgitating this exact same thing. He said he had moved from somewhere in Florida to Blacksburg, VA. He has been working 2 job at the university there, but someone offered him a great job paying $14.00 an hour!

Then he went on to say how if you don't have a job, it's because you don't want to work.

Of course, Neil didn't bother to mention to him that here in the state of GA (where Neil's show is broadcast from), the poverty level for a family of four is an annual income of $35,000 or less. $14.00/hr comes to just under $30K. Now, I don't know about the cost of living in Blacksburg, VA, but that amount of money doesn't go a real long way, even here in GA.

So, yeah, sure, anyone can work for PEANUTS if they want to. Hell, I'm sure you could even work for free if you want to, but how is that going to add up in terms of buying power when there are people making 5, 10, or 15 times more than you who are competing for the same goods (namely housing) and services you are?

[UdoKier]

40. I know a lot of wealthy people...

...and few of them work more than 40 hours a week. They also have maids to help out with housework and childrearing.

The very notion that those of us who work for less are lazy is absurd.

For someone like Bush, who was born on third base, to say that is pretty illustrative of the right-wing sense of entitlement.

[WI_DEM]

41. now, now don't blame poor George Bush for saying that

remember like his father, in the words of Ann Richards, "poor George, he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth."

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

43. Yeah, those people busting their asses digging and picking

are just a bunch of lazy malingerers..unlike Harvard Business School grads with daddy's money behind them to fund the frat parties.

[soupkitchen]

44. People are poor Presidents because they are lazy