Who wants to be "Joe Sixpack", anyway?

[MonteLukast]

As Ted Paske of Arvada so puts it:

I have worked with and even been friends with some Joe Sixpacks over the years. These men are sad souls who have fallen victim to the exploitation of the working class. Their poor wives (if they haven’t left yet) lovingly clean up after them, understanding that their husband is, after all, trying as hard as he can to keep his job and make ends meet on his ever-eroding income. ... In my experience, Joe Sixpacks are not the kind of citizens who bother to vote. These are the men who have given up on the American dream.

I don't know about you, but I'm sick and tired of Americans going, "That's the way life is." I'm sick and tired of "optimism" that's just fatalism prettied up with, well, lipstick. I'm sick and tired of our own values being used against us, to keep us from taking action to actually improve our lives instead of merely telling ourselves that our lives will be better if we just change how we see things.

[prayin4rain]

1. Yeah... I don't think it is necessarily bad to be mediocre but why strive

for it and be proud of it??? Reminds me of the Love song of J Alfred Prufrock... at least it disturbed him a little bit.

[rcrush]

2. i dont know many people who drink a six pack of beers everyt night

Joe Sixpack might have a drinking problem.

[MadinMo]

14. Come to SW Missouri.

I work with 10 of 'em.

[amitten]

3. Yet another worthless bit of Republican imagery.

Creative, they ain't. <--- (my attempt at Palinspeak)

[WorseBeforeBetter]

4. I saw a guy driving a beater truck today with a "Don't Fear the Fish" bumpersticker...

and I'm thinking, who the phuck fears a fish? Joe Sixpack, evidently, for he also had a McCain/Palin bumpersticker. Their world is falling down around them, and they refuse to change.

[riverdale]

9. I believe that humans and fish can co-exist peacefully

[WorseBeforeBetter]

13. Make the pie higher! (n/t)

[MrSlayer]

5. I am one of the few remaining old school Joe Sixpacks.

The Joe Sixpack that they refer to was the middle-class, lunch pail Union man with a good job that featured annual raises, great benefits and the opportunity for upward mobility. He does still exist but only in strong Union towns like Philadelphia, New York, Chicago and Boston. The dreary Joe Sixpack of today does have a way out, it's called Organizing. Because we stand together they cannot flush us out, no matter how hard they try and it will work for them too. If the workers got together and voted as a bloc they could even turn the so-called "Right to Work" states. Sadly, so many of them have been brainwashed by the propagandists who exclaim the virtues of pure capitalism and anti-Unionism that they fuck themselves.

It's only the second week of October and I've just hit the Social Security cap. This might sound rich to a lot of people but it's only middle class, true middle class in this day and age as it applied back in the day. You make enough money to pay your bills, have some to improve your lifestyle and take a family vacation every year. That's what Unions do for you. As the Unions in this country have shrunk so too has the standard of living.

Turning from a manufacturing nation to a service nation has not helped either.

[TooRaLoo]

6. More of a Jane Kegger myself.

Kidding.

[radfringe]

7. more to the point

who can afford a six-pack these days? suggest we change Joe-six-pack to Tom-two-can.

[MonteLukast]

8. LOL

Although it does sound a little like Tom Toucan, as in Froot Loops. ;-)

[radfringe]

12. anyone still supporting mccain is a froot loop n/t

[meow2u3]

15. What about Two-can Sam?

[originalpckelly]

10. My name is Joe Sykspak, and I'm damn proud of it.

:P

[MonteLukast]

11. I wouldn't mind...

being Joe SESTAK, though. ;-)

[slackmaster]

16. You can call me Joe Premium 1.5 Liter

A die-hard Merlotnik.