Whining about the whiners being called whiners
Posted by TFG on July 16th, 2008
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That is easily the weirdest Rick Moran post I’ve ever read. Lots of bobbing and weaving around political machination correctitude and crap about being elected and how horrid Americans are feeling about themselves, and how those Americans need Phil Gramm’s and the rest of the GOP’s empathy. I guess if all you want to do is get somebody elected, that’s important. I’m sure it’s important if you want to stop the election of someone else, too. And the boys on the bus pretty rapidly dropped the curtain on ol’ Phil, anyway, so he’s probably right, from that perspective.
However, there is no question that a very large percentage of Americans have grown up to be whiny little babies, encouraged by a lot of political so-called leaders and a media machine that has to grind sausage 24/7. Phil Gramm was right — don’t tell me he wasn’t, not when there are doofuses lining up at 4am to buy their third freaking iPhone in 18 months during the same week.
This is all Oprah’s fault, you know. Yet another Chicagoan. I’m beginning to grow a small bit of distaste for a city I’ve always enjoyed visiting. Maybe they’re just brainwashed into some faux 21st-century touchy-feely populism by 150 years of Daleys. I dunno.
July 16th, 2008 at 10:45 pm
First of all, I don’t want to whine.
Phil is wrong. Gramm has been such a weasel in the past, not just because he looks like one and continues to subject us to his neo-con outlook that all will be well if we just continue on the path we are on now. That’s not going to work guys.
Is $10.99 lb. ribeye (choice) hitting you?
When the Fed bails out these banks and mortage lenders, where do you think they are getting the money? They are’nt! They’re printing it. They are giving them newly printed Federal Reserve Notes and the buying power is tremendous for the ones they give them to. As all those greenbacks trickle-down, they lose value. With all those extra dollars in circulation the value of each dollar drops, and the purchasing power drops along with it.
If you are middle class or lower you are being wiped-out by the actions of the Federal Reserve. We are not whining, we are just being eliminated. That, is a fact.
Phil Gramm is an elisit asshole, voted out of office. He’s never put in an honest day of work in his life. I can’t see McCain associating himself with him, and if he continues to do so, puts himself at more risk for losing the election than he is already.
I don’t hear TFG being a whiner, or JD, or EI. Fuck Phil and the elitist old guard at the so-called GOP!
Al
PS - What’s the black dudes name? It escapes me. Vote Bob Barr.
July 17th, 2008 at 5:48 am
Al, that’s not a whine, it’s a pretty smart analysis of the money supply situation. But the main reason they’re printing those dollars lately is this bailout bullshit, which, of course, is a response to a lot of whining.
I don’t think Gramm’s comments viz whiners was targeted at the middle class, or I didn’t read it as such, anyway. There’s plenty of whining coming from the high-end, too.
We’ll differ on Phil’s elitism. He might be one, but I’ve always respected his economics.
July 17th, 2008 at 6:18 am
Hope I’m more of a complainer,or as my wife of 47yrs says,an old man who likes to bitch a lot.No doubt as a nation we’ve become spoiled & lost sight of our values.Your point well made about the no-lifes and the Iphones.Don’t know when the people that work,get their hands dirty,pay taxes and try to treat their family & freinds with respect,became 2nd class citizens to the elected pols,& the media people.I’m not smart enough to figure out this mortage bail out thing,but I’m pretty sure it will benefit the banks who made piss poor loans with no assets to back em up & the three piece suits who played with folks retirement funds,& leave the people who really need help still trying to survive.Sorry but i’ve been cold turkey on the booze since the 4th.
July 17th, 2008 at 6:51 am
For my money, here’s all you need to know about the mortgage bailout: Congress decided that more poor people should have houses, so they ginned up something that forced banks to make bad lending decisions, then the poor people started defaulting on loans they never should have had in the first place, and created a big mess that will take more federal dollars to undo.
In the process, that not only wiped out $100K in value from a house in Dallas I had to sell in the middle of the mess, but it wiped out a company I’d invested in because we couldn’t find more investors with cash money.
So, instead of whining about it, I just doubled down and started up my own new Tiny Bidness, and so far, so good. Now, if this thing goes kablooie, you might hear a whine. Or you might just hear me start the truck and drive off into the desert, never to be heard from again.
July 17th, 2008 at 9:34 am
It is all Oprah’s fault. I hate that bitch.
July 17th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
I think people spend too many generations in large cities and become provincial assholes all ‘way round. And Lord help ‘em if they’re black-run ghettoes like DC, and become little microcosms of Zimbabwe or something. So yeah, while Chicago sucks, so does NYC and LA and more than likely the teeming Hispanic megalopoli of the Lone Star State. Oh well, the best way to counter the loud and full of shit voices of Oprah, Daley, B. Hussein. O, and so forth is for the more-numerous rational voices to counter them day and night, even if said voices are a lot quieter.
And no foreign-born state governors ever again!
The R Man
July 17th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
for the more-numerous rational voices to counter them day and night, even if said voices are a lot quieter.
It’s very, very, VERY tireseome. Very.
Of course, it’s very tiresome to explain the laws of thermodynamics, or supply & demand, or the necessity of corporations, to fucking college graduates every night, too.
This is all why I like being in the woods. I cling to God and guns because otherwise I’m forced to interface with people who would have been village idiots toting coal for the blacksmith 100 years ago, and I can only do that with mucho cerveza. I don’t drink as mucho of the cerveza when I’m in the woods, either.
July 18th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
I like how P.J. O’Rourke referred to cervesa and other bevvies of the C2H5OH variety as “Liquid Berlitz”, and indeed, it does help bridge the language barrier as well as make some intolerable folks marginally tolerable and can unlock the bedroom doors of even the most hardnosed feminist PhD types, or something.
I, too, like being in the woods, and even the mundane chores like tearing up beaver dams and cutting up fallen trees on trails seem fun to me these days.
I *love* the river/kayak pics and commentary, sir!
The R Man