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Tsiyu

(18,186 posts)
10. And being self-reliant means relying on jobs where a month's wages
Sat Jan 24, 2015, 10:48 PM
Jan 2015

won't even cover apartment rent in many places. Do the John Birchers believe one person should have to work 24 hours a day to have basic needs met?

Food, housing and other expenses have soared through the roof, while pay is less than it has ever been in decades.

You can't tell someone "hard work will bring you out" and then keep him a slave by not fairly compensating him for his hard work.

We are to believe that the wealthy deserve more than any human will ever need, and the working, the disabled, the children and the elderly deserve nothing they do not claw from the dirt with their own hands.

How does the rich man make his living? He hires workers others paid to educate. He uses roads and highways others paid to have built. He uses the courts, the cops and the systems that are paid for by the very same taxpayers he cheats out of wages.

And yet today's John Birchers call the working person the freeloader? Ha! Open your eyes, you ignorant fools.

Trouble is, you can't eat freedom. alarimer Jan 2015 #1
they mean they shouldn't be impeded from doing anything they want, but others should. ND-Dem Jan 2015 #19
The John Birch Society: WinkyDink Jan 2015 #2
I believe you don't need everything perfect and can survive on a little, but that little get pretty hollysmom Jan 2015 #3
One thing I don't believe is.... madfloridian Jan 2015 #5
That "enormous blessing of freedom" doesn't fill an empty stomach. Vinca Jan 2015 #4
Koch is all you need, Agony Jan 2015 #6
Daddy Fred Koch was a founder. In the current GOP crop I see John Birch Jr. is here. appalachiablue Jan 2015 #7
Ayn Randian philosophy...I got mine, don't care about you. madfloridian Jan 2015 #8
Yep, totally selfish & ruthless which the Dems. & we know well by now. Stop at nothing esp. after appalachiablue Jan 2015 #9
And being self-reliant means relying on jobs where a month's wages Tsiyu Jan 2015 #10
For years there's been no one loudly calling them out on it. madfloridian Jan 2015 #11
Newtie and Rush and then Rove and now FOX played a shame game Tsiyu Jan 2015 #15
+10. They don't really care if we have to work 24/7, we don't exist to them. Our entire appalachiablue Jan 2015 #13
Je Suis Debbie Downer! Tsiyu Jan 2015 #16
Back in the day, a man could shoot a buffalo and feed his tribe. Octafish Jan 2015 #12
What a disgusting picture. madfloridian Jan 2015 #14
Some people measure success Tsiyu Jan 2015 #17
It is interesting that this John Bircher is equating poverty today with poverty in the first decade jwirr Jan 2015 #18
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