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Just Saying

(1,799 posts)
Wed Jul 31, 2013, 06:11 PM Jul 2013

"Everybody out of work is eating, they got big screen tv,

Probably have a car, probably have a cell phone that they're using. Uh and they got a place to live. I mean out of work is not poverty. It is true that the unemployed at eating for 99+ weeks and they're watching big screen TV or some kind of TV."

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"Everybody out of work is eating, they got big screen tv, (Original Post) Just Saying Jul 2013 OP
I know! burnodo Jul 2013 #1
You must be watching what I'm watching. Just Saying Jul 2013 #4
I didnt mention watching it burnodo Jul 2013 #8
I know, also. No one here will be surprised by the answer. Tikki Jul 2013 #7
I know right Just Saying Jul 2013 #15
Bill O'reilly? Neoma Jul 2013 #2
No, sorry. Just Saying Jul 2013 #11
I remember Fox News talking about how poor people are rich because they have TV's and refrigerators. Neoma Jul 2013 #30
Ripe Limburger....AKA Rush Limburger LongTomH Jul 2013 #3
Ding Ding Ding Just Saying Jul 2013 #10
I would have guessed Paul Ryan. Jackpine Radical Jul 2013 #17
It could have been any of thousands of clueless, out-of-touch Repugs. reformist2 Jul 2013 #5
True Just Saying Jul 2013 #22
Neo-DU Obama? tridim Jul 2013 #6
Okay Just Saying Jul 2013 #13
Rinse Jebus commondant of the rupukian cult ? olddots Jul 2013 #9
Al's point is that Rush is the one burnodo Jul 2013 #18
Republican Jesus? Marrah_G Jul 2013 #12
A festering boil on the ass of humanity? moondust Jul 2013 #14
I think that's the Latin meaning of "Limbaugh" Just Saying Jul 2013 #21
Would love to see him unemployed & soon..... think Jul 2013 #16
Why can't that Pigman fall into proverty, you know since everyone is Rex Jul 2013 #19
OK let's see gollygee Jul 2013 #20
Yes but you're talking about the reality Just Saying Jul 2013 #23
We're eating because we're living on our retirement savings. winter is coming Jul 2013 #24
At the jobs rally in KC yesterday, we heard from a young man who has worked in a fast food..... LongTomH Jul 2013 #25
Every Republican ever? Spirochete Jul 2013 #26
It is sad NewThinkingChance40 Jul 2013 #27
Yeah, dumbass, we have all that shit because we bought it whe we were WORKING!! MindPilot Jul 2013 #28
Limburger is way past his shelf life. City Lights Jul 2013 #29
You see, if people just didn't have food, they'd try harder and stop being so lazy. Shrike47 Jul 2013 #31

Neoma

(10,039 posts)
30. I remember Fox News talking about how poor people are rich because they have TV's and refrigerators.
Wed Jul 31, 2013, 06:55 PM
Jul 2013

It just sounds like some idiot on Fox News would say.

LongTomH

(8,636 posts)
3. Ripe Limburger....AKA Rush Limburger
Wed Jul 31, 2013, 06:14 PM
Jul 2013

This creepozoid is the defacto head of the GOP now. Everyone is afraid to tell him he's so full of shit that the whites of his eyes are brown!

Just Saying

(1,799 posts)
10. Ding Ding Ding
Wed Jul 31, 2013, 06:18 PM
Jul 2013

You got it!

Just saw him on Al Sharpton's show (well, on video from Fox, of course) spewing.

Is it worse how much contempt he has for the poor or how completely clueless he is to the reality of being poor? Truly a sick man! And you're right, the right wingers listen more to this disgusting, racist, sexist piece of shit than they do anyone they've elected.

Just Saying

(1,799 posts)
22. True
Wed Jul 31, 2013, 06:33 PM
Jul 2013

And they'd be mimicking Rush.

I actually heard one of them say "Rush is crazy, but he's usually right."

moondust

(19,988 posts)
14. A festering boil on the ass of humanity?
Wed Jul 31, 2013, 06:22 PM
Jul 2013

Yes, Rush, the unemployed need to stop eating so that you don't have to pay taxes.

Just Saying

(1,799 posts)
21. I think that's the Latin meaning of "Limbaugh"
Wed Jul 31, 2013, 06:31 PM
Jul 2013

"A festering boil on the ass of humanity".

I love how he criticizes people for having a TV! A car! Food!

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
19. Why can't that Pigman fall into proverty, you know since everyone is
Wed Jul 31, 2013, 06:29 PM
Jul 2013

living high on the hog without a job etc..

gollygee

(22,336 posts)
20. OK let's see
Wed Jul 31, 2013, 06:30 PM
Jul 2013

Probably do have a car because they can't get to the grocery store or the doctor's office without one, and it probably only runs part of the time, they can't afford insurance, and they put $5 of gas in it at a time when desperate.

They probably have a place to love with a leaky roof they can't afford to fix or some other major maintenance issue they can't afford to deal with. Does he expect poor people to live on the street? Because a lot of them do that as well.

Yes people eat. You have to be literally starving to death to be considered poor?

And TVs cost almost nothing. In fact it isn't hard to get a hand-me-down for free.

Just Saying

(1,799 posts)
23. Yes but you're talking about the reality
Wed Jul 31, 2013, 06:38 PM
Jul 2013

Of being unemployed or underemployed while he's totally clueless and enjoys continuing the GOP talking point of us vs. them, takers vs. makers and the 47%.

Rush and people who follow him think the poor deserve their lot. Instead of being grateful for their own good fortune, they blame others for not having the same.

winter is coming

(11,785 posts)
24. We're eating because we're living on our retirement savings.
Wed Jul 31, 2013, 06:42 PM
Jul 2013

We have a 9-year-old car a relative gave us. We have one TV that's 11 years old.

Yeah, buddy, it's the high life.

LongTomH

(8,636 posts)
25. At the jobs rally in KC yesterday, we heard from a young man who has worked in a fast food.....
Wed Jul 31, 2013, 06:47 PM
Jul 2013

.....restaurant for 10 years. Sometimes he has to go to his parents for food. He has broken molars that give him a great deal of pain; he can't afford the dentists bill.

 
27. It is sad
Wed Jul 31, 2013, 06:53 PM
Jul 2013

just how far of touch many of these people are. What if you had a great job, nice stuff, then lost your job due to something out of your control? You are apparently supposed to sell everything you own and start all over...

 

MindPilot

(12,693 posts)
28. Yeah, dumbass, we have all that shit because we bought it whe we were WORKING!!
Wed Jul 31, 2013, 06:54 PM
Jul 2013

Now we would like to find a job so we don't have to sell the TV to buy a burger.

Shrike47

(6,913 posts)
31. You see, if people just didn't have food, they'd try harder and stop being so lazy.
Wed Jul 31, 2013, 08:08 PM
Jul 2013

Work for $3 an hour and stuff. Work as servants. Like the good old days.

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