Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
“Something went wrong.”
“My babies don’t deserve that.” Quite right. I hate what’s being done to these kids, even more than I hate what’s being done to the grown-ups.
The “glitch,” and the mystery aspect to it, are all inventions of course. What’s gone wrong is completely obvious: They have a non-self-sustaining economic model here, one in which the coin that acquires goods and services, is nothing more involved or helpful than simple cosmetic anger. One simply wanders into the “marketplace,” whelps in hand, and rants to get stuff.
Damn straight, something went wrong. The well ran dry. Now everyone’s in a crazy mad-dash Musical Chairs contest to not be someone; the “Julias” and their whelps are trying not to be the poor dumb schmuck left without the foodstuffs (and skills), and the bureaucrats, in turn, are trying not to be the poor dumb schmuck who’s blamed for the mess.
Thus ends the experiment.
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I had a good friend with a family on welfare. And Ted really was a good guy. He served in Nam, was wounded, got addicted to heroin afterwards and was shipped out with a dishonorable discharge. The problem was, Ted was always a tad on the lazy side. When his wife had kids, they went on welfare. She used to refer to the money as her “paycheck”. Things went along and they had three kids.
When Clinton got elected, he didn’t really worry until they started talking about welfare reform. He could see the handwriting on the wall and started looking for work. He found a job, moved out of the area, and I haven’t seen him since. There are folks out there that truly need help. Then there are folks that are willling to settle for that sort of life, as long as someone will pay for it. I’ve known people that would work harder at scamming a living than it would have taken them to earn a paycheck. If you don’t hold people accountable for providing for their families, some people won’t provide for them.
(And, as an afterthought, I’ve known several single moms on welfare. The smart ones used it long enough to get the kids into school and then went to work.)
- teripittman | 05/08/2012 @ 18:36Yeah, that’s the thing about this isn’t it. The concepts are as simple as can be; the stories are the opposite. You look closer and you can start to see it’s a mistake to presume that the circumstances can say too much about the character. Good people get hooked on this stuff and it’s hard to get off of it. Not-so-good people, once backed into a corner, find a way to adapt, maybe even contributing more to society than they’d otherwise be inclined to.
The one lesson I wish people would learn from this is, there’s really no more helpless position to be in, in life, than waiting for the government to do something. Especially when nobody is personally losing anything, by way of material gain or opportunity, when it is left undone. You do NOT want your kids’ next meal to be waiting on a situation like that.
- mkfreeberg | 05/08/2012 @ 19:43Was it just me being racist, or were most (all?) of those clients melanin enhanced? Is there a theme here I shouldn’t be noticing?
And why, or why can’t any of these people work and get a job so they can pay for food rather than continuing to feed an the public entitlement trough?
The attitude is unbelievable.
- pdwalker | 05/09/2012 @ 06:23Local liquor stores and tattoo parlors also noted a significant decline in business.
- Groucho Marxist | 05/12/2012 @ 12:32