So a couple of baggers come strolling into the restaurant I was eating at the other day

[NNN0LHI]

Just ragging loudly about how bad the economy is thanks to Obama.

One of them said we only voted for him because he was black and look at where we are now.

I turned to him and asked, "You voted for him?"

Bagger says, "No, no, no. I meant all the other people who voted for him."

Then he started complaining about being out of work. I said how long you been out of work? He said over a year.

I said do you know how much unemployment we got when I was laid off for almost two years straight once? He said no, how much? I said we got the initial 26 weeks and then one additional 13 week federal extension making a grand total of 39 weeks. And after 39 weeks they told you to hit the road jack and don't come back.

Bagger asks well when was that? I said the nearly two year long on layoff I was on began in 1984, but there were a few other layoffs even before that one.

About that time I swear I see out of the corner of my eye these two baggers using their fingers to count up who the president was back then. I thought for sure they were going to take off their shoes and socks and start using their toes to count with too.

The one louder bagger says, "Well I was doing pretty good back then. I was making $25 or $30 dollars an hour steady back then.

I said, oh, how old are you? You only look to be about 40 years old?

Bagger says "I am 42."

I said shit man, that only makes you about 10 years old back when you were making all that money during the 1980's when I was laid off.

Conversation was over. I got to eat the rest of my lunch in peace.

Don

[gratuitous]

1. Quit using facts

You're just going to confuse the poor dears, and they have enough to worry about. And, since they don't know who to blame for their situation, they're just going to settle on that Horrid Black Man.

[David Sky]

2. That was a GREAT story!...................

Tea Baggers and math, ( and logic) perpetual FAIL !!!!

By the way, I'm well over 42 and I remember the Reagan years well.

[dtexdem]

3. May not have made that much in the 1980s -- but still has the mind of a ten-year-old.

Well, actually, that may be stretching their intellectual prowess a bit; but certainly no minds beyond 10-year-olds.

[AngryAmish]

4. cool story, bro

[MarianJack]

5. Good Story,...

...K&R.

I always love showing baggers how stupid they are!

PEACE!

[MrNJ]

6. Way to ruin a nice fairy tale.

I hope you are proud of yourself...

(I would be)

[SoapBox]

7. My most recent run in with a couple of T.HaterBaggers/LaRoucheDouche types...

I've seen them around my area of So. Cal..

They have a little ice cream cart, with all of their "Obama as Hitler" posters and shit.

Always 1 white guy and 1 black guy or woman.

My most recent duke out was to ask them to talk to me about their positions...they won't do it.

What they did was to start talking in "goo-goo" baby talk...and simply say that I was nothing but
a "little girl" (trust me, I'm a man!). After playing that game for about 5 minutes, I said to the
woman, "Well...you certainly have proved that you have a big pair of nuts on ya!" That shut her
up for about 10 seconds at least!

...I went inside the Wells Fargo branch (in front of which they were standing) and complained
that I felt "threatened and feared for my safety"...they would NOT call the police...guess the
Banksters are in bed with the Baggers.