Cutesy Republican Cliches Pt I: "Spread My Work Ethic, Not my Wealth" . . .

[HughBeaumont]

Really easy to shoot this down - without equitably distributed "wealth", however great or small, there isn't going to be much work to have ethic FOR. Demand creates jobs, not noblesse oblige. Republicans don't seem to get that there can be no private wealth without existing public wealth.

There's another thing . . . why is it that anyone who says this usually is the polar opposite of wealthy? Is it refusal to accept you're a peasant?

[City Lights]

1. Willfully ignorant chumps. eom

:+

[n2doc]

2. If I got that I'd send back pictures of Paris Hilton and Nicole Richey. n/t

[ChoppinBroccoli]

4. That's My Standard Response

Every time I hear some right-wing mouth-breather going on and on singing the praises of the "hard-working" wealthy who are just inherently better people than the rest of us common folk, I ALWAYS invoke the name of Paris Hilton. It usually shuts them right up.

[WhiteTara]

3. So we should all become criminals? n/t

[gratuitous]

9. Indeed

Sorry if I don't find the robber baron ethic of the wealthy to be consistent with my philosophy of society.

[Brigid]

5. And here's something else these idiots forget:

What about the countless people who work two or even three crappy jobs, at equally crappy wages, to support their families? They don't have a work ethic? I would beg to argue otherwise.

[HughBeaumont]

7. I remember reading a Howard Zinn book . . ..

. . . he always resented the implication that poor people were poor because they were lazy. Observing his father's endless toil, he came to the early conclusion that the poor were some of the hardest workers he'd ever seen. He also observed how the elites treated his father, which further solidified his beliefs early on.

The useful idiots will never consider that luck and money factor in. They want to believe it was all "with their bare hands and gumption". Some people need more to make it.

[warrior1]

6. They can

spread their cheeks and shove it up their asses.

[SammyWinstonJack]

8. Corporate socialism....yeah that's some trickle up poverty...

:silly:

[MisterP]

10. the US can pretend it's a "frontier society" where everyone built their homesteads

with their own two hands (and all the guns and implemnents manufactured from New Hampshire to Chicago)
the US has a very weak left (even weaker than neoliberalized Europe and Canada), so there's far lower class consciousness
there's a strong asshole streak in this country--witness all the people cheering "we got 'im" about Hussein or Qaddafi or just some explosion in Afghanistan, and people literally saying "I've got mine, so hand off"