"I am not a parasite" - funniest GOP fail of the day

[ProSense]

"I am not a parasite" - funniest GOP fail of the day

by SantaFeMarie

Think Progress scores again:

Farmer who put up sign claiming Democrats are ‘party of parasites’ has taken $1 million in farm subsidies.

A Missouri farmer has parked one of those ugly semi-trailer signs on his land, facing a highway, proclaiming "Are you a Producer or Parasite Democrats - Party of the Parasites".

However.....

The Kansas City Starhad a little nose around and found that said farmer has received more than $1 million in federal crop subsidies since 1995.

"That’s just my money coming back to me," Jungerman, 72, said Monday. "I pay a lot in taxes. I’m not a parasite."

LOL! But wait, there is more:

Jungerman said he put up the sign to protest people who pay no taxes, but, "Always have their hand out for whatever the government will give them" in social programs.

Crop subsidies are different, he said. When crop prices dip below a certain point, the federal government makes up the difference with a subsidy payment.

I look forward to the farmer's audition on Last Comic Standing.

[agentS]

1. Reason why I hate conservatives, Episode 9005

Not only is he a hypocrite, he is also a poor historian.

He also said that the sign is aimed at national Democrats, not local Democrats, many of whom are “are old-fashioned Harry Truman Democrats,” who Jungerman says are “more conservative than many Republicans.” For the record, Harry Truman campaigned on establishing a single-payer health care system and famously vetoed tax cuts, making him much more progressive than many of today’s Democrats.

Do conservatives study history or do they just make it up as they go along like this guy?

If Truman Democrats are like that, where can we find some of them to run for higher office?

[a kennedy]

7. Do conservatives study history or do they just make it up as they go along like this guy?

it's like limpballs, bleck and all the others that just spit all this stuff out whether it's true or not, doesn't matter, they just babble, and babble and babble some more until someone calls them on it. :mad: :puke: :grr:

[TalkingDog]

2. Between his farm and his business in Kansas

You've gotta wonder how much he is actually getting in tax breaks.....
I can't imagine he declared his business a Corporation just for the fun of it.

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[Enrique]

3. keep your government hands off my farm subsidies!

nice job, Kansas City Star! :thumbsup:

[Beartracks]

4. LOL..... Um, really, Mr. Jungerman?

I won't make the assumption that this man isn't productive or that he never turns a clod of dirt with his own hands. But to have the government pay you when you're NOT producing, due to economic factors beyond your control? Gosh that sounds a lot like when the government pays an office worker who got laid off because his employer was hitting the skids.

So, uh.... crop subsidies are different HOW, buddy? Let's edit a bit, shall we?

When crop prices INCOME dips below a certain point, the federal government makes up the difference with a subsidy payment.

Seems to me a subsidy is a subsidy (even if the farmer gets an actual FAIR rate for HIS subsidy, unlike our hapless office worker whose subsidy generally will NOT make up for his market value). But the notion of "people who pay no taxes but 'always have their hand out for whatever the government will give them'" is largely a conservative myth to: a) give them someone to hate/fear/feel sorry for/feel better than; and b) help them justify their own handouts and neediness (and thus sleep better at night).

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[ClassWarrior]

5. Wow, someone here unrecced this...

NGU.

[Jennicut]

6. Ah, crop subsidies, the last sacred cow of conservatives.

[lumberjack_jeff]

8. Giving him welfare would be much cheaper. n/t