Socialist snow plows keep clearing all the roads around my house.

[madfloridian]

Love this. Seen on Twitter today.

The Baxter Bean @TheBaxterBean · 8h 8 hours ago

Socialist snow plows keep clearing all the roads around my house. Will this Obama tyranny never end? #BlizzardOf2015

Socialist snowplows.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. As long as its snowing (or flooding, or whatevering!) it had better not stop!

This is one of those times when government intervention really is the best option.

[madfloridian]

2. I remember when GWB came to FL after 3 hurricanes in 6 weeks.

He said neighbors should take care of neighbors. That would not have worked. That is when we need a government the most.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. EXACTLY right.

[madfloridian]

4. Be sure to read some of the tweets after it at the link.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. Oh boy...........they are too much!

[azureblue]

26. one word

Katrina. Bush will never be forgiven for this.

[kentauros]

39. Bush was just as useless after Hurricane Ike in his "home" state!

Sure, he got FEMA in here, and then FEMA proceeded to disapprove over 90% of all claims.

I can only guess that during his time in Texas that whenever there was a hurricane or devastating flooding from a stalled tropical depression (such as happened with TS Allison in 2001) that he was moved around the area literally with a blindfold on. It takes tremendous effort to ignore disasters in your own backyard, whether that's state-sized or country-sized.

[Beartracks]

31. Yep - That's precisely WHY we have a government.

Neighbors helping neighbors -- or bootstraps, bake sales, and barter systems -- only gets you so far.

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[KittyWampus]

45. technically snow plows are neighbors helping neighbors… just organized by government.

Wish I had a donut like your avatar right now...

[Beartracks]

48. Yes, you are correct!

Governmental organization and leadership makes it so more neighbors can help far more neighbors then would ever be possible by your church group alone.

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[BlancheSplanchnik]

47. so he was advocating Anarchized Charity.

Charity without structure nor leadership. Fabulous. The cracks for people to fall through would only be the equivalent of millions and millions of Grand Canyons.

[madfloridian]

65. Yes, he was.

Very good point.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

66. :)

Yeah...I must admit, that connection hit me and I said to myself, like, Yeah Self, that's what it is!

[treestar]

69. Well put, the cracks people would fall through

Right wingers never have an answer when you point out that we had government step in precisely because of that. There was charity in the Gilded Age but personal charity doesn't do enough and never will.

[lunasun]

5. Perfect ! Like sitting in an airport hearing tea idiots one day talking about gubermint

I am thinking do they know the FAA is gonna bring in the plane they are getting on???
It s OK when they need it!
Others?? Fuck off

[Maedhros]

7. Matt Taibbi figured out where that attitude comes from:

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/matt-taibbi-on-the-tea-party-20100928

After Palin wraps up, I race to the parking lot in search of departing Medicare-motor-scooter conservatives. I come upon an elderly couple, Janice and David Wheelock, who are fairly itching to share their views.

"I'm anti-spending and anti-government," crows David, as scooter-bound Janice looks on. "The welfare state is out of control."

"OK," I say. "And what do you do for a living?"

"Me?" he says proudly. "Oh, I'm a property appraiser. Have been my whole life."

I frown. "Are either of you on Medicare?"

Silence: Then Janice, a nice enough woman, it seems, slowly raises her hand, offering a faint smile, as if to say, You got me!

"Let me get this straight," I say to David. "You've been picking up a check from the government for decades, as a tax assessor, and your wife is on Medicare. How can you complain about the welfare state?"

"Well," he says, "there's a lot of people on welfare who don't deserve it. Too many people are living off the government."

"But," I protest, "you live off the government. And have been your whole life!"

"Yeah," he says, "but I don't make very much." Vast forests have already been sacrificed to the public debate about the Tea Party: what it is, what it means, where it's going. But after lengthy study of the phenomenon, I've concluded that the whole miserable narrative boils down to one stark fact: They're full of shit. All of them. At the voter level, the Tea Party is a movement that purports to be furious about government spending — only the reality is that the vast majority of its members are former Bush supporters who yawned through two terms of record deficits and spent the past two electoral cycles frothing not about spending but about John Kerry's medals and Barack Obama's Sixties associations. The average Tea Partier is sincerely against government spending — with the exception of the money spent on them. In fact, their lack of embarrassment when it comes to collecting government largesse is key to understanding what this movement is all about — and nowhere do we see that dynamic as clearly as here in Kentucky, where Rand Paul is barreling toward the Senate with the aid of conservative icons like Palin.

I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to determine to whom David is referring when he says there are "people on welfare who don't deserve it."

[madfloridian]

30. Thanks for the link to Taibbi's article.

[Enthusiast]

36. Maedhros, please make this an OP.

[Maedhros]

49. It was, back when the article first came out. [n/t]

[appalachiablue]

50. Thanks for this post. Using facts & realty to try to educate people so brainwashed by

distorted RW thinking & ingrained talking points is monumentally difficult, God knows. Not to mention their own hypocrisy. Back in 2006, well before the ACA, I contacted a private, non govt. county medical society in Florida for cardiologist referrals for a friend who had a heart condition. I mentioned how complex & for profit some of our medical practitioners & insurance companies are lately. The lady at the medical society replied, 'yes, there's just too much government.' Huh?

[calimary]

53. YEEEEESSSSSSSSSS!!!!!

This:

The average Tea Partier is sincerely against government spending — with the exception of the money spent on them. In fact, their lack of embarrassment when it comes to collecting government largesse is key to understanding what this movement is all about — and nowhere do we see that dynamic as clearly as here in Kentucky, where Rand Paul is barreling toward the Senate with the aid of conservative icons like Palin.

It's a KEY TO UNDERSTANDING... what moves these people and what makes them tick and makes them think the way they do.

And I'd bet the only thing they watch is Pox Noise, and the only thing they listen to is hate-radio. So that's all they know. And their sources do nothing but reinforce and reaffirm that. And if that's all they see and all they hear, WHAT ELSE ARE THEY GONNA THINK????

That's why it's so urgently important that WE be the voices to try to crack through that facade. It could be that if YOU attempt to speak up or shine a light or provide facts or tell the truth, it just might be the first time they ever hear anything like that. They may never have heard the other side (OURS) before, unless of course it's being distorted and ridiculed and misrepresented and flat-out LIED about. We HAVE to speak up, and be their only source for real honest-to-God truth. We HAVE TO. Especially when we're hamstrung by idiot media and flabby non-combative and spineless Dems.

[seveneyes]

8. As long as it's not the snow from your driveway

Or the snow they just plowed into your driveway or sidewalk.

Because *that* be unsociable.

[TexasTowelie]

9. Socialist snow plow demolishes giant snow penis at Texas Tech!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/107823065

Damn those liberal elitests and their Marxist education!

[progressoid]

54. Oh, the humanity!

[Politicalboi]

10. They don't need those plows

Why can't the neighbors and local churchs go out and shovel the streets.

[randome]

11. Put some bullets in those tires! This kind of thing can't be allowed to spread!

[hr][font color="blue"][center]The truth doesn’t always set you free.
Sometimes it builds a bigger cage around the one you’re already in.[/center][/font][hr]

[Politicalboi]

12. Maybe we can get those ninnies who

Blocked the buses of children to block the snow plows.

[Depaysement]

13. They're not red though

but they are plowing so they can't be Tea Party plows.

[chrisa]

14. Where are all the people shoveling the highways from private charities?

Why are these socialist snow plows doing it instead?

[longship]

16. Well, that would be on the church charities shoulders.

Of course, because of government endorsed faith-based initiatives, it is still government. The whole argument ends up swallowing itself... As does the entire universe.

Sic transit Gloria Mundi.

[DawgHouse]

46. Funny!

[appalachiablue]

51. Right, good one.

[jberryhill]

15. It's time for people to pull themselves up with their breadbags

Since they don't have bootstraps.

[madfloridian]

17. ......

[appalachiablue]

52. Great post, thanks! Folks in FL today say they're doing fine with 50s, 60s temps, nice.

But I don't know what this country is coming to with these Commie, Marxist snow plows. Everybody knows that neighbors, churches & charities take care of these things, like hurricanes..

[kairos12]

19. HaHaaaaa!!!!

[Coventina]

41. This deserves its own post.

(And a DUzy!)

[PosterChild]

18. They have to keep running , ..

..there's an invisible hand after then!

[kairos12]

20. Baggers should blockade their streets to prevent these socialist plows from corrupting their ideals

or snow, whatever.

[allan01]

21. hem

humbug

[kiva]

22. Saw the thread title, saw your name,

and went, Crap! It's snowing so hard in Florida they need snowplows?

[madfloridian]

23. lol I'm sitting back feeling very lucky to be in FL.

[madokie]

37. Isn't it about 100 % humidity there in Florida?

I'd rather have 30 degrees with a 50% humidity any day

[brer cat]

25. That was my exact reaction too.

I gave a WTH for minute.

[project_bluebook]

24. Damned commies

Wheres the t-baggers when you need them?

[madfloridian]

32. Lurking..

Got plenty around my neighborhood.

[clg311]

27. The free market (genuflect) would have done it better

for a small fee*

[smirkymonkey]

28. I have a proposal: From now on, all red counties clear their own roads.

Blue counties get their roads plowed.

[madfloridian]

29. There you go.

Good idea.

[blkmusclmachine]

33. ,

,

[underpants]

34. Hilarious

[Enthusiast]

35. That's a beautiful thing! Thank you, madfloridian!

[Jefferson23]

38. lol. Can I award this best thread title of the day?

It just says it all. K&R

[Coventina]

40. Thanks for the morning laugh.

[drm604]

42. Damned Communists! You don't have to put up with this.

Get out there with a shovel and put that snow right back where it was! That'll show 'em. Go on, put your back into it.

[FloriTexan]

43. K&R

[sabrina 1]

44. Lol! n/t

[Vinca]

55. I'm still waiting on the socialist snow plow.

Maybe I can get Saul Alinsky to put in a good word at the town garage.

[napkinz]

56. :)

[Iggo]

57. THOSE BASTARDS!!!

:shakesfist:

[KansDem]

61. This was predicted, you know!!!

First, the Commies would take SE Asia, then down through Australia, and then they'd be rolling down Main Street, USA!!!



Oh, wait...

[treestar]

70. Taking our freedoms away!

Our freedom to contract for snowplowing services ourselves and thus choosing the best snow remover on our own and deciding the value of that person's services by the free market! We could arrange it all properly by the time the snow melts, surely!

[mahatmakanejeeves]

58. Great response:

You call that snow? Look to Norway:



and then



and then



I didn't know that they drove on the left in Norway.

[madfloridian]

59. Is that for real? How do they cut through it all?

That would be terrifying to drive through it.

BTW I am loving all the responses to his post.

[Control-Z]

64. That has got to be dangerous

when it begins to melt. Like avalanch dangerous or like a glacier when a chunk breaks off.

I'm not sure I would drive through that.

[colsohlibgal]

60. You'd Be On Your Own In Wing Nut Paradise

No public snow plows, no police, no fire department, no road or bridge repair, none of that stuff but hey they don't want all that socialist stuff.

Crazy right wing politicians have been around forever. But now with 24/7 eight wing talk spewing forth incessantly now, it's up to the people to sort it out, and way too many people have failed to do that. I will day that the bit D democrats have not helped either, including Obama.

[cascadiance]

62. The thread title reminded me of a great old eighties tune by Shona Laing

Soviet Snow, for all of those stranded in the mess to help them bide the time there...

Here's the original from then...

Popstand remix...

Acoustic version...

Cover versions:

Tama Waipara

Ruby Frost (along with a cover of Shona Laing's other hit "I'm Glad I'm Not a Kennedy&quot

[napkinz]

63. kick

nt

[AverageJoe90]

67. ZOMG, it's a Stalinist Maoist Islamist Fascist nightmare!

A nightmare I tell you......a NNNNNIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGGGHHHTTTMMMMAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRREEEEEE!!!!!



In all seriousness, though, glad to see that the Northeast state governments got on top of this.

[treestar]

68. A Libertarian told me once there should be no such thing as society

I was like WTF? As if living in cooperation with other humans has no benefits.

[HappyMe]

71. THE HORROR!

How dare they?