why did the chicken cross the road ?

lol, lamearses got this thread moved
but it doesnt solve the case of the road-crossing chicken!

Why did Obama cross the road...

To tax the other side!

"Will you consider taxing the chicken 95%?"
"All options are on the table."

You've tried to argue that poverty could be abolished if people were allowed to keep more of their minimum wage.<<<

Uh, yeah, saving to buy education is one way up. 

You've ever referred to someone as "my (insert racial or ethnic minority here) friend."<<

required when we argue with liberals who insist that being a white adult means you have no experience of "real America"

You're a pro-lifer, but support the death penalty.<<

when an unborn baby is committing murder-suicide even the Pope supports execution.  called "indirect abortion"

You've ever referred to the moral fiber of something.<<

and you never been robbed by airport security or the post office

You've ever uttered the phrase, "Why don't we just bomb the sons of bitches." <<

Didn't know FDR was a republican

You've ever called a secretary or waitress "Honey." <<

didn't know LBJ and Carter was Republican.

You don't think "The Simpsons" is all that funny, but you watch it because that Flanders fellow makes a lot of sense. <<

he doesn't hit his kids!

You don't let your kids watch Sesame Street because you accuse Bert and Ernie of "sexual deviance." <<

no its cause Dave Chappelle really opened our eyes to the drug abuse and prostitution subtexts

You use any of these terms to describe your wife: Old ball and chain, little woman, old lady, tax credit... <<

didn't know Bill Clinton was a Republican

You scream "Dit-dit-ditto" while making love. <<

...

You've argued that art has a "moral foundation set in Western values." <<

I thought liberals argued that, as justification to remove 400-year old oils and replace them with 20th century shit smears

You think Birkenstock was that radical rock concert in 1969. <<

you think Birkenstock is a church shoe

You argue that you need 300 handguns, in case a bear ever attacks your home. <<

liberals take nothing but photographs and leave nothing but bloody drag marks in the grass

Vietnam makes a lot of sense to you. <<<

not as much as Korea
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1bhlh_rodney-dangerfield-sam-kinison_fun

You point to Hootie and the Blowfish as evidence of the end of racism in America. <<

Naw. Oprah marks the end of mainstream white supremacism.  We no longer have a struggle for nonwhite equality.  Now we have a struggle for nonwhite advantage.

You've ever said, "Clean air? Looks clean to me." <<

Ha, I live in California

You've ever referred to Anita Hill as a "lying bitch" while attending a Bob Packwood fund-raiser. <<

Anita Hill tried to make anonymous accusations and changed her story after a recess conference with Democrat Senators

You spent MLK Day reading "The Bell Curve." <<

never read it, heard they fudged the math.  race is acultural construct so extrapolation of IQ over a estimate of a subculture has too many variables to be debated as science.  Might as well claim that 750 annual measurements let you calculate global climate.

You've ever called education a luxury. <<

I read what Sallie Mae said when they told me to use my credit card for professional education

You look down through a glass ceiling and chuckle. <<

You take the Blue Jays seriously?

You wonder if donations to the Pentagon are tax-deductable. <<

They'd refer you to the treasury.  i believe it counts just as a payment.

You own a vehicle with an "Ollie North: American Hero" sticker. <<

Ollie North is a wanker and bumper stickers invite vandalism

You're afraid of the "liberal media." <<

I'm afraid of stomach cramps, hence, I avoid the liberal media

You ever based an argument on the phrase, "Well, tradition dictates...." <<

Hey, if you'd rather we fall back on our 300 bear-rifles like they do in 90% of the planet, okaaay...just that in this country, tradition dictates we don't burn the mutha down over interest rates

You've ever called the National Endowment for the Arts a bunch of pornographers. <<

Right, a man sodomizing another man with a whip handle is a farking masterpiece.

You think all artists are gay. <<

You know they could be and not know it.

You ever told a child that Oscar the Grouch "lives in a trash can because he is lazy and doesn't want to contribute to society." <<

You saw that Chappelle bit too!

You've ever urged someone to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, when they don't even have shoes<<

You applaud barefootedness as better for the soul

"You do know that some people cannot save anything they earn cuz they happen to live from paycheck to paycheck, barely scraping by? Thats my problem with republicans and how they view and treat poor people. You think that we are all the same. You think that we are all lazy, we dont wanna work and that we squander our money on drugs and other bullshit."

Should've payed more attention in school.

Chriss' response>

You've tried to argue that poverty could be abolished if people were allowed to keep more of their minimum wage.<<<

Uh, yeah, saving to buy education is one way up.

>>You do know that some people cannot save anything they earn cuz they happen to live from paycheck to paycheck, barely scraping by?<<

Yeah I'm one of them right now.

>> Thats my problem with republicans and how they view and treat poor people. You think that we are all the same. You think that we are all lazy, we dont wanna work and that we squander our money on drugs and other bullshit. <<

I believe most people who abuse drugs, end up on relief.  I believe most people who refuse to work, end up on relief.  I don't think most people on relief do drugs or don't want to work--and that majority uses relief as a steppign stone.  People don't linger on relief unless they let themselves go blooey.

>>Who the F do you think are anyways judging us and stereotyping us? Ive said this before, and ill say it again.<<

maybe I think i'm you...

>>REPUBLICANS LACK COMPASSION FOR ANYONE EXCEPT OTHER RICH FOLKS AND CORPORATIONS!!

Do you think we like being poor? Do you think this is fun for us or something? What about the middle class worker who loses his job due to layoffs and is struggling to feed his family?<<

Right now govt is doing its damnedest to avoid a recovery that helps any "rich" folks or corporations.  How's that working out for blue-collar guys?  Read the paper, how's it helping to have 1 in 10 adults out of work??

>>Do you blame him for that?<<

Where does blame come in?

>> Should we just tell him "too bad! get an education and deal with it!"<<

NOBODY is gonna get that guy a job but him.  NOBODY is gonna bang on his door and hand him his newspaper and a job.

>>Chris: The statement you made about poor people, i take personally. its insulting and very ignorant on your part. Id like to see how YOU wouild react to being laid off and being poor. I wonder if you would still be singing the same tune.<<

Well what was that statement

>>You've tried to argue that poverty could be abolished if people were allowed to keep more of their minimum wage.
Uh, yeah, saving to buy education is one way up.<<

Is the opposite true, that people should not get more of their wages? How does that help?

I've been down and out.  I took a $400/month paycut this year and if gas prices go up 25% I might lose this job.  It took me 3 months to find one and I might lose my apartment if I lose this one.  So what? Is that a federal problem?  I worked 50 hours a week AND went to "night" school before work, 2 nights a week, for 3 years to be a paralegal.  I scrimped and saved to put $500 on my credit card every 90 days to buy 1 class.  Everybody I know finished that course in 2 years and it took me 3.  Boo Hoo!  I couldn't borrow from the government again becuase it doesn't cover professional education.  boo hoo!  They wouldn't even stop the clock on my student loans while I went to school. Boo hoo!  And you know what, I don't really earn more money now.  Boo Hoo! Either I BUY MORE EDUCATION and take  a special test course and get to put letters after my name, and get a better paying gig, or I can BUY MORE EDUCATION  and learn to espeek espanol or korean and get a better paying gig (but riskier, because I think they want a bilingual paralegal so bad because I'd be giving legal advice)   I don't dance and I can't lift cargo and sales makes me sad within a few hours.  Boo Hoo! Maybe I gotta move to a different state, one that doesn't try to share the wealth, boo hoo!

How is that YOUR problem?  Or Barack Obama's problem?  It's MY problem, and guess who's gonna have to overcome or put up with it?

Lemme keep what I earn and I'll go farther.  I think that's true of anybody and that is all you asked--would poverty go away if people kept more of what they EARN? HELL YEAH!  either classes or tools, or sharper clothes, or more gas to keep merching, or pay off credit cards.  plenty helps

I'm going to hijack trucks

oops.

sorry I am sick, that sucks...did they fire you when you complained about the notice?  trucking is a hard industry right now..

Oh and an update

1 interview Monday for a job
2 interviews for probable places to stay, 3 more strong inquiries.

The blitzkrieg starts Sunday night!

Well it sucks cause current law allows them to declare me wholly at fault for a 'major accident'

But oh well... two more places to stay offeredmd, turned one cheapo down cause a two hour bus ride to downtown would suck

Lol from the land of the two hour rush hour!

I should make you live in NY City and commute to Pennsylvania! Then you will understand

About what?

I fail to see how having children makes it even more necessary to withhold more from minimum wage earners.
All wage earners should keep more of what they earn, just look at the state the country is in.  Clearly we need a paycheck to go farther.

Oh and I think we can move this to Politics now.