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Mopar151

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7. Bob & Ray - "Great Lakes Paperclip Company"

Reply to phantom power (Original post)

Wed Feb 27, 2013, 08:41 PM

Feb 2013

This says it all - well worth the listen! "You can't wear shoes on 14 cents a week!"

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We are ruled by people who think $250,000/year means you're poor, but the minimum wage is too high [View all] phantom power Feb 2013 OP

But don't most people work at least 455½ hours a week? ( n/t ) Make7 Feb 2013 #1

wow Telling comment. oldandhappy Feb 2013 #2

We need to boil that down to bumper stickers and T-Shirts and Cleita Feb 2013 #3

Here's a site to make t-shirts out of them: Jamaal510 Feb 2013 #11

Interesting Live and Learn Feb 2013 #15

Here's a start: kentauros Feb 2013 #32

K&R forestpath Feb 2013 #4

This is perfect Ruby the Liberal Feb 2013 #5

They think minimum wage is too high because "the kids don't need any more money than that." Squinch Feb 2013 #6

Bob & Ray - "Great Lakes Paperclip Company" Mopar151 Feb 2013 #7

I've always been a big Bob and Ray fan but I've never heard that one. Mr.Bill Feb 2013 #9

If you called it "Gingrich & Rommney Stationery Supply", it would be right up to date. Mopar151 Feb 2013 #14

Somehow this satire of business became Wal-Mart's operating philosophy. tclambert Feb 2013 #16

"Write if you get work." reflection Feb 2013 #30

Part of the problem is Smilo Feb 2013 #8

We are ruled by a group of people who think those earning $250,000 to $450,000 per annum recently indepat Feb 2013 #10

We are ruled by that group of people earning $400,000 to $400,000,000 per annum Coyotl Feb 2013 #28

bingo! noiretextatique Feb 2013 #53

We are ruled by people who think $250,000/year means you're poor, but the minimum wage is too high. Jamaal510 Feb 2013 #12

Which is the really scary part. I'm sure that half the country isn't making that much. freshwest Feb 2013 #13

Who thinks $250,000/year means you're poor? oberliner Feb 2013 #17

The Romneys and their ilk if you haven't noticed. hobbit709 Feb 2013 #18

Well, fortunately, they didn't win the election oberliner Feb 2013 #19

"majority of Congress"-like the Orange Boner and his cohorts? hobbit709 Feb 2013 #21

Show me where any of them say $250k/year means you are poor oberliner Feb 2013 #23

They say it by their actions. hobbit709 Feb 2013 #24

Fair enough oberliner Feb 2013 #25

Yep, never trust what any politician says... awoke_in_2003 Feb 2013 #49

The Wall Street Journal shows how ending the Bush tax cuts will hurt average Americans-- Jackpine Radical Feb 2013 #34

Wow oberliner Feb 2013 #35

Quid Jackpine Radical Feb 2013 #37

But we are not ruled by the Wall Street Journal oberliner Feb 2013 #44

Give it up, awreddy, huh? $250k may not be poor Jackpine Radical Feb 2013 #46

There are wealthy liberals oberliner Feb 2013 #47

Nobody is denying that. Jackpine Radical Feb 2013 #48

Mitt Romney thinks middle income is in that price range. jambo101 Feb 2013 #20

Not poor though oberliner Feb 2013 #22

Did you miss all the posts around the discussion of tax increases? athena Feb 2013 #42

No one in that thread is saying that $250k = poor oberliner Feb 2013 #43

But, but, but....the private schools are necessary and the dinners out that run to $500 a throw too! Moostache Feb 2013 #50

So true... cilla4progress Feb 2013 #26

Hey - you own a refrigerator and a microwave - suck it up, your richer than most of the world tjwash Feb 2013 #27

I haven't had any such idiotic comments said to me as yet, kentauros Feb 2013 #33

That's why the 99% is pure bullshit Puzzledtraveller Feb 2013 #29

However, chervilant Feb 2013 #31

Kicked and recommended for a most profound observation. Uncle Joe Feb 2013 #36

What should be thrown back at those folks is LiberalFighter Feb 2013 #38

Oh, and poor people have TVs and drive cars and use microwaves.... Tommy_Carcetti Feb 2013 #39

$250K a year poor? jambo101 Feb 2013 #40

I always thought if I made "X amount of dollars" I would be comfortable not so many worries. redstatebluegirl Feb 2013 #41

The main people they talk about are business owners. bamacrat Feb 2013 #45

HUGE K & R !!! WillyT Feb 2013 #51

Ruled donnasgirl Feb 2013 #52