All my relatives who support McBush are all professional people or jewelry store owners

[NNN0LHI]

Doctors, lawyers and business owners. Every last one of them

All of them are in the over $250,000 per year bracket.

And every one of them would steal the pennies off a dead mans eyes. They would even steal from their own dying relatives with gusto. I have watched them in action.

Thats the truth.

Don

[EmeraldCityGrl]

1. So, how are they doing in the waning days of the Bush economy?

[NNN0LHI]

5. Panicking

[jtrockville]

2. Let's hope we outnumber them.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

3. my cousin is exactly the same

this streak was in him as a child.

[navarth]

4. that's pretty bad.

my condolences.

you can pick your friends, but you can't pick your family.

they'll wise up eventually...probably after it's too fucking late.

[2speak]

6. Wise truths. Self interests is what drives rw's.

Against socialism (collectively as a group for the common good of man) is your first clue.

[uberblonde]

7. I have to agree.

I was at a VERY expensive wedding this weekend and those were exactly the type talking about how they were voting for McCain.

[alcibiades_mystery]

8. I wouldn't mind if everyone over $250,000 a year supported Mccain

They're not in the majority (top 5%).

Luckily, many people who make that much have a social conscience and do not act merely on some twisted and individualized notion of economic self-interest. But even if they all did, it wouldn't mean a thing. There are many more of us.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

10. And at least they directly benefit from their greed.

Working-class and middle-class people who make far less and vote Republican boggle the mind.

[yardwork]

16. This is the key point. We can expect a certain number of the very wealthy to be selfish.

It's the millions of low-income voters that the very wealthy influence by owning all the media outlets that concern me.

[Sukie]

9. I know rich people

who shop at Walmart, go to yard sales and dicker about 50 cents, shop at the Salvation army stores and hoard all the little condiment packets at fast food restaurants. One lady once asked all her friends to go to the local Chickfila and grab as many mayonnaise packets that they could so that she would have them for a dinner party she was having. This is a lady who lives in a 1.5 million dollar home and has two beach homes to boot. It boggles the mind.

[NNN0LHI]

11. I had a rich aunt (deceased now) who took everything off the table before she left any restaurant

Salt and pepper shakers, napkins, silverware, everything.

And she would always make a big scene saying grace to impress the other diners too.

Don

[EFerrari]

32. Then we're probably related. My rich aunt does that, too.

I worked for her a long time ago and she used to make me empty the cracker basket into my purse.

[NNN0LHI]

34. My aunt would have took the basket the crackers came in I swear

[zbdent]

12. and ... I would bet they tell the seller "Oh, that ring is only worth $200."

and yet, the "seller" comes back a week later and sees the ring in the window ... $2500 ...

[Lex]

13. I'm a lawyer and I know a whole lot of lawyers, none of whom are McCain supporters.

Not one single one.

The only ones I know supporting McCain are fundies and barely literate.

[Sukie]

14. Who do you think a lawyer,

who makes his living handling foreclosures, would support? If we have a good economy, this guy wouldn't be making as much money. He is of course a repub.

[Lex]

18. I do know a lawyer who does foreclosure work for banks. He supports Obama.

I work with a lawyer who does bankruptcy work. He supports Obama.

[Sukie]

20. Wow, then that guy is one cool lawyer.

The one I know is so republican he has even indoctrined his kids to be repubs. He owns at least 15 cars, three homes, and makes his living auctioning off foreclosed properties. He and his wife are so against social programs that they start to literally turn red when they talk about it. Since he is the only lawyer I know, it is good to hear that they aren't all like him.

[Lex]

22. Obama himself is a lawyer.

Not all lawyers, not even *most*, are rich, greedy and republican.

[Sukie]

26. Well, goodness

I know that all lawyers aren't republicans. I am just talking about my experience with one who handles foreclosures.

[The Hope Mobile]

27. I have lawyer friends who say that the majority of lawyers are dems

one caveat tho is that this IS California and they are MY friends so the perspective may be a bit skewed.

[Ezlivin]

15. My neighbor owns a jewelry store and is solidly, rabidly Republican

Last year I said that the economy was suffering (based upon what far-flung relatives and the internets were saying) and he responded that the economy was "great!"

I said something like: You've got a jewelry store in a wealthy city (Southlake, Texas). Of course you think the economy is great! Your clients live in gated communities and their children drive Hummers to school. And we are living in a Texas bubble that is not yet suffering like the rest of the country.

He shrugged all of this off, saying it was "bullshit" and that if Democrats were elected his business would suffer.

He fully supports whatever war the Republicans are waging and when I asked if he would send his son off to serve, he quickly said "No". (I'm a disabled veteran and he knows this.)

It's sad, but he's a typical Republican in these parts.

[yardwork]

17. At least he's honest about being totally selfish.

What gets me is that many of these selfish Republicans also claim to be Christians. That makes me puke.

[Sukie]

21. A lot of jewerly stores have been closing theirs doors in my area

He better hope things get better because I don't doubt that if the economy keeps heading in the direction it is heading, his business is going to suffer.

[The Hope Mobile]

28. Here too.

[marions ghost]

19. yep

I'm with you on that.

Small business people (including Drs and lawyers) --always Republicans.

Their mantra: Get. The. Money.

[beac]

23. Their taxes really shouldn't go up until they get into the $600K bracket (they should stay

about the same.)

Maybe send them this aite http://www.electiontaxes.com/ that allows you to input your estimated info and calculates & compares your taxes for the next 4 years (fill in as little or as much info as you like).

If tht doesn't work, send them this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5kLreAmgGE (includes a sermon from amember of Sarah's 'Prayer Warrior' group-- no sound until 45 seconds in, BTW)

Ask them if they want Sarah Palin anywhere NEAR the nuclear codes?

[The Hope Mobile]

29. That website shows our taxes going up under Obama?!?

(and we're definitely NOT over 600K -or even 250K). I've seen others that contradict that. Check out Obamataxcut.com. or 2 great graphs that clearly illustrate the point are at http://chartjunk.karmanaut.com/taxplans/

[beac]

39. That IS weird.

Did you fill in all the boxes?

Anyway, thank for the link. I hadn't seen that first graphic.

[Horse with no Name]

24. I was at the mercy of the eye doctor the other day

Who started ranting he was getting ready to retire and was going to "live off the government" like everyone else. It was "his" turn to get his welfare (talking about retiring on SS).
I honestly have no idea what triggered this...I merely said I was having trouble seeing out of my left eye.
I didn't THINK I looked like a republican...but he treated me like we had common interests when we had none. Maybe because he saw I was in the healthcare profession. I really don't know.:shrug:
I didn't provoke or engage him, I let him rant.
He had sharp objects within poking distance of my eyes.

[beac]

38. It was the word "left" that sent him into a rage!

I find it so funny that none of his supporters seem to care that McInsane draws THREE different government checks every month-- Senate salary, SocSec & 'disability'. Shouldn't a rich man like him be willing to put 'Country First' and forgo those payments? And maybe pay for his healthcare out of his own pocket, since goodness knows it must be costing the taxpayers a FORTUNE to keep him sewn together? :shrug:



And good call on not enraging the man with the pokey things. Maybe switch eye doctors after the election and tell him why then?

Or just wear a "I voted for THAT ONE" T-shirt to your next appointment. :evilgrin:

[Horse with no Name]

40. It was a random eye exam

My vision has been deteriorating...I had a few minutes and I noticed the empty parking lot so I stopped hoping they could fit me in.
I'll never see the old fart again.

[cali]

25. well, let me balance that out. My mother, bless her ferragamo shod feet

is firmly and actively supporting Obama. My cousins, heirs to a fortune in the hundreds of millions, are all supporting Obama. And these four first cousins are all really good eggs who work in such fields as education. You'd never know they have that kind of money. They don't live in huge mansions and they haven't spoiled their own kids.

[lukasahero]

30. The only people I know supporting McCain are making way, way, way under

$250,000. They are under-informed and think that they are the recipients of Bush's tax breaks (or will be one day!)

All the professionals I know are supporting Barack.

Generic statements and anecdotes are fun, aren't they?

[Lex]

31. Exactly.

The broad-brush stuff is fun but rarely true.

[NNN0LHI]

35. These are my relatives not just the people I know

You must be a little confused here?

Don

[kaybea]

33. "would steal the pennies off a dead man's eyes" describes the Repubs in Chester Co. PA to a tee!

They'd also throw their mothers down the stairs for a ten cent tax cut.

[nonconformist]

36. That's better than some of the people I know who are supporting McCain...

They make way, way less than that. Nothing confuses me more than someone voting COMPLETELY against their own interests.

[deaniac21]

37. Tell them all to buy Ford stock!