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jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
Wed Aug 29, 2012, 01:44 AM Aug 2012

Boehner's "bar full of guys looking for work"


What kind of work are they looking for in there?

Drinking?

Take away their unemployment checks and they'll start looking for work, instead of hanging out at the bar all day and throwing out that black guy who keeps bothering them.

Jon Boehner might know more about what's going on than we think.
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Boehner's "bar full of guys looking for work" (Original Post) jberryhill Aug 2012 OP
Rumor has it that Boehner spends a lot of time in bars. _Liann_ Aug 2012 #1
Also, those out of work guys have some money to spend or Cleita Aug 2012 #2
And if their families are going hungry ... GeorgeGist Aug 2012 #3
How do you know their families are going hungry? Cleita Aug 2012 #4
Strike-breaking cthulu2016 Aug 2012 #5
Boner is full of brown matter. Cleita Aug 2012 #7
When he was saying all of this about the bar... AsahinaKimi Aug 2012 #6
Boner walks into a bar. Cleita Aug 2012 #8
There is also the fact that AsahinaKimi Aug 2012 #9

Cleita

(75,480 posts)
2. Also, those out of work guys have some money to spend or
Wed Aug 29, 2012, 02:11 AM
Aug 2012

they wouldn't be able to buy stuff in the bar. If it's their unemployment checks. So what? At least the bartenders and the bar owners are getting some income. As an ex-bartender, I know that. So now does Boehner understand the the job's bill President Obama wants and that he refused to pass might help?

Cleita

(75,480 posts)
4. How do you know their families are going hungry?
Wed Aug 29, 2012, 01:22 PM
Aug 2012

That's what a RWinger would say. Many of them might be unmarried and don't have families. Many might be with a friend who is buying. Many might have a spouse who is working. I used to be a bartender and I never knew anyone to go drinking in a saloon while their family went hungry. You know why? Because the wife or husband would come to the bar and make them leave.

cthulu2016

(10,960 posts)
5. Strike-breaking
Wed Aug 29, 2012, 01:22 PM
Aug 2012

re: What kind of work are they looking for in there?

Seriously... there aren't many jobs recruited for in bars but that is probably one of them

Cleita

(75,480 posts)
7. Boner is full of brown matter.
Wed Aug 29, 2012, 01:33 PM
Aug 2012

Out of work people don't drink in the same up-scale places he does unless they are ex-Presidents or Congresspeople.

AsahinaKimi

(20,776 posts)
6. When he was saying all of this about the bar...
Wed Aug 29, 2012, 01:24 PM
Aug 2012

All I could think of, were those "Man walks into a bar.."Jokes. I would imagine Boehner knows many of those jokes. He's been the butt of them for a long time.

Cleita

(75,480 posts)
8. Boner walks into a bar.
Wed Aug 29, 2012, 01:34 PM
Aug 2012

There's a crowd of unemployed people in there..............

Where does the joke go from here? I'm not good at making up jokes.

AsahinaKimi

(20,776 posts)
9. There is also the fact that
Wed Aug 29, 2012, 02:01 PM
Aug 2012

there is nothing funny about being unemployed. I would imagine though, rich people probably have their jokes about the unemployed. That right there, is another difference between Republicans and Democrats.

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