"Rewarding laziness is called...Welfare!"

[Left Is Write]

This was on the marquee outside a local business I drove by yesterday.

It's been getting under my skin ever since. I am so offended not only by the sentiment, but by the fact that this business has no problem with broadcasting this sentiment. They have guaranteed that they will never get a dime from me.

I wonder how many hard-working, struggling families receiving assistance saw that sign yesterday. I wonder how it made them feel.

[Orsino]

1. Translation: "Ha, ha; I've got money and you don't."

[suninvited]

2. What the heck kind of business was it?

That's insane.

[Left Is Write]

4. A car wash.

[suninvited]

7. Well, then there you go

we know people on welfare are too lazy to wash thier cars, so they arent going to lose any business over it.

oh, and :sarcasm: just in case it is needed

[Sequoia]

32. Since car driving is down maybe they'll lose some business.

Then we'll see who's on welfare.

[suninvited]

33. Car washing is expensive

It would be very ironic to see someone with that kind of opinion end up on welfare because of todays economy putting them out of business.

Hell, it is almost too expensive to drive at all, much less pull into a costly car wash.

[guitar man]

15. oooh, perfect

I'd call the car wash and tell them that their wise words on the sign have inspired you, and now you realize that using a car wash is a lazy person's way to wash a car, so it's the garden hose, sponge and bucket at home from now on. No more rewarding laziness!!

:rofl:

[Left Is Write]

25. Ha! I love it.

[Courtesy Flush]

16. Wonder if he pays enough to keep his workers off assistance nt

[regnaD kciN]

21. What are the odds that he hires undocumented workers...

...to keep from paying a decent wage? And then fumes about how "illegals" are destroying this country's culture? :puke:

[Enthusiast]

3. This is just part of their propaganda.

I listened to Rush Limbaugh go on for an hour one day about how Social Security is a 'welfare program'. Ya gotta remember who the audience is.

[zingaro]

5. Have you written a letter to the car wash? Or a LTTE?

Sometimes people don't realize how their words hurt others until someone else points it out. And yes, I realize that they probably don't care but the optimist in me says we have to try. Is it a chain car wash or an independent business? A chain might be more apt to listen because their business base is wider. Of course, if they want to wash GOP cars, they won't care but it can't hurt to try.

There's a church here that puts political tripe on their marquis. Last election cycle there was something about abortion that was so inflammatory it spurred me to drop an email to a local columnist. The slogan was down the next day. This election cycle, my phone's camera is much better and I will stop and take photos first.

:)

[Left Is Write]

6. I only just saw it yesterday, but I do plan to write them a letter.

It's a chain, but it's a small, local two-store chain.

[av8rdave]

17. In the case of a church, I think it should be a project to attack their tax-exempt status

[regnaD kciN]

22. Strictly, speaking...

...the sort of "politics" that's forbidden to churches is "partisan politics" (i.e. explicitly backing one candidate or party for office over another). Commenting on important public issues that just happen to be part of the political debate is kosher. (Otherwise, during the '50s and '60s, progressive churches that got involved in the Civil Rights and anti-war movements could have been effectively shut down.)

It may be obnoxious, but it's not illegal.

[av8rdave]

30. I guess that's so....Oh well, at least it makes it easy to know what churches to stay away from!

[ghostsofgiants]

8. Rewarding greedy, heartless douchebaggery is called...Capitalism!

[zanne]

9. Some of the people I talk to are against universal health care because...

They don't want to have to pay for other people's health insurance. When I try to explain that eliminating the tax breaks of huge insurance corporations and drug companies will pay for most of this insurance, they just say that since they have to pay for their own, everybody should. I then explain that people will be paying on a sliding scale. Still not good enough for them. I think the psychology behind this trend is twofold. One, they feel that if everybody has insurance, their hard work is going unnoticed and unpraised. Second, they're selfish assholes.

[LSK]

12. ANY insurance program involves paying for someone elses health coverage

:shrug:

[raccoon]

14. I betcha these assholes would be singing a different tune if they lost their insurance.

Do they have insurance at work? Many people who do seem to think somehow that because their employer provides insurance, they deserve it. If somebody else's employer doesn't, it's their own fault, because if they deserved it they'd find a job where the employer offered it. Yes, I know that is convoluted logic, but I've encountered at least one idiot who believed that.

[regnaD kciN]

23. There are some people...

...who, if a plan could be developed for a perfectly fair, free, and secure society, where everyone would have a safety net and no one would have to pay more than what they're paying now for the privilege (or, in fact, would be paying less), would still be against it unless they could be shown that they themselves would benefit from it more than other people. :shrug:

[Left Is Write]

27. If these people are "paying for their own" health insurance through

an employer with a group policy, I wonder if they are aware how much of their share is being paid by the employer.

[NJmaverick]

10. What part of the country

can a business get away with this sort of BS?

[Wapsie B]

11. Some people will suffer a meltdown if they see someone with foodstamps.

But they'll think nothing of it when some corporation takes millions from the local economic development group in order to stay in that area. They refuse to see the disconnect here.

[regnaD kciN]

26. Actually, you're right...

...and those people would say it was because they were "helping out a successful business that was providing benefits to the community," and thus was simply "rewarding success instead of failure."

And, if progressives want to make any headway with such people, they need to acknowledge that such a rationale at least sounds sensible to many people, and thus needs to be refuted properly.

[raccoon]

13. I'd let the business know how you feel about that.

Let them know that, too:

"They have guaranteed that they will never get a dime from me."

[BrklynLiberal]

18. How come CORPORATE WELFARE is acceptable??????

[IndianaJones]

19. theres some truth there. nt.

[Left Is Write]

28. Is there?

What do you suppose is the percentage of welfare recipients who are receiving assistance because they are "lazy"?

[IndianaJones]

29. between 20 and 80 nt

[Forkboy]

31. LOL...here's a shock.

[regnaD kciN]

20. Nice to know wingers are still stuck in the past...

Welfare? What's that? Last I checked, it got effectively killed off...by a Democratic president at that.

Next thing, I expect that idiot to be proclaiming that fluoridation is a Communist plot or that we need tougher laws to protect us against "bomb-throwing anarchists." :crazy:

[plcdude]

24. Letter to the Editor

is probably your first move. Then if that doesn't do it I would go hold a sign out front of the business saying "Rewarding Ignorance is called washing your car here"

[Kajsa]

34. Another one--

" Make Welfare as Hard to Get
as a Building Permit"

is a bumper sticker I see occasionally.

It reveals their ignorance of the subject.

Those idiots don't have a clue what Social Services
is about!

[Left Is Write]

35. Ha! When I drove by today, the sign was GONE.