Mick claimed worst anology prize (although it wasn’t too bad) so I’m crowning this best anology:
Captain Obama: The last captain nearly ran this ship aground! I need to set it right! Batten down the hatches!
First Mate Republican: No.
Captain Obama: Wha?
First Mate Republican: No. I want to be captain and I’d rather see this ship sink to the bottom of the ocean than help you right it. So I say we DON’T batten down the hatches.
Captain Obama: Look, I’m the captain. You’ll do as I say.
First Mate Republican: Or what?
Captain Obama: Or… or… fine. How about we compromise by me doing whatever you say? First Mate Republican kicks Captain Obama in the shins
First Mate Republican: Fuck you!
Captain Obama: I’m sorry!
I keep hearing about ‘small business’ when all I can recall is Wal-Marts and other corporations putting all the small businesses out of business in my area.
Ya see, the government is like a burrito, okay? And everybody be like, “Whoa, we gotta fix this thing and put a new engine in it!” But the Quarterback is like, “I ain’t doing nothin’, Son! You go get me turkey pot pie!” And over here on the left hand side there’s like a painter without no paint and he’s all like, “Gimme some paint so I can make a submarine” but all the paint was drank by a hairy ass hippopotamus. So, of course, a pilot without a license is left to mow the grass! It’s basically porn difference that we pay trillions of dollars for and never get to watch on Mr. Coffee.
Ya see, the government is like a burrito, okay? And everybody be like, “Whoa, we gotta fix this thing and put a new engine in it!” But the Quarterback is like, “I ain’t doing nothin’, Son! You go get me turkey pot pie!” And over here on the left hand side there’s like a painter without no paint and he’s all like, “Gimme some paint so I can make a submarine” but all the paint was drank by a hairy ass hippopotamus. So, of course, a pilot without a license is left to mow the grass! It’s basically porn difference that we pay trillions of dollars for and never get to watch on Mr. Coffee.
everyone is not getting the shaft right now. unless by everyone you mean the middle and lower classes, then yes everyone is getting the shaft.
Hey remember back to the turn of last century in Russia, when the Bolsheviks rose up and dismantled the Tsarist autocracy? Remember how it was supposed to be a victory for the working man? With all the “rich folk” now out of the way, it was supposed to herald a new era of prosperity and equality for the Russian workers. I mean, who needs all those nasty rich folk, right? All they do is be rich. Right?
It’s just one of those things added to half a million things that make you look back on what you have and haven’t done, that makes you look at what you’re doing and what you probably will never get the chance to do, and makes you take in everything around you till one thought resonates through your head:
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one in six people… Those three words. Those three little words
One in six people can’t count that’s for sure.
WHAT. THE. HELL
Three words
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my apologies, I responded on my phone last night,
the font is small, I didn’t see the “what the hell.”
I thought you were calling “One in six…” 3 words
same with the misspelling with conservative. the phone font is so small it makes it hard to edit.
Capitalism is unequally divided riches. Socialism is equally divided poverty.
btw. if by socialist you mean what the Obama administration is being accused of… get yourself a library card (you know that socialist institution of knowledge) and learn a little something. because you obviously missed it in the first bastion of socialism, public school.
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The last few companies I have working for doing software engineering have only had around 30 people.
you think a software engineering company is a small business? in today software driven economy…guaranteed they profit more than 250,000.00. which makes it not a small business.
small businesses are ranked so by their profit not by how few people they can employ.
Late,
grmpysmrf
Ah yes! The Clinton years!
Boner time bonanza of prosperity!
“President Clinton signed into law today a sweeping overhaul of Depression-era banking laws. The measure lifts barriers in the industry and allows banks, securities firms and insurance companies to merge and to sell each other’s products.”
Clinton was actually the one who signed off on the legislation for banks to be able to bundle and sell the junk loans that ultimately was responsible for the financial crisis. This was also part of his platform that home ownership is the key for creating prosperity in America.
Here’s the inherent problem. One guy sets a time bomb to go off when the new guy takes over. Who’s to blame? The guy who set the bomb? Or the new guy for not catching it? I say both.
[reply]The last few companies I have working for doing software engineering have only had around 30 people.
you think a software engineering company is a small business? in today software driven economy…guaranteed they profit more than 250,000.00. which makes it not a small business.
small businesses are ranked so by their profit not by how few people they can employ.
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grmpysmrf[/reply]
That is NOT the only definition of small business, and whether or not a company is classified as a small business will depend on both average revenue and number of employees.
Your marker, though, of $250,000 is, for most industries, at least, quite off.
Ah yes! The Clinton years!
Boner time bonanza of prosperity!
“President Clinton signed into law today a sweeping overhaul of Depression-era banking laws. The measure lifts barriers in the industry and allows banks, securities firms and insurance companies to merge and to sell each other’s products.”
yeah, I could see how that could bankrupt the country what with that budget surplus he left for the country.
Clinton was actually the one who signed off on the legislation for banks to be able to bundle and sell the junk loans that ultimately was responsible for the financial crisis. This was also part of his platform that home ownership is the key for creating prosperity in America.
3 republicans got the glass stegall act overturned which lead to the housing bubble and the trouble the real estate company is in now
here is the important details just cause I know you will conveniently skip over them
[green]The repeal of provisions of the Glass–Steagall Act of 1933 by the Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act effectively removed the separation that previously existed between investment banking which issued securities and commercial banks which accepted deposits. The deregulation also removed conflict of interest prohibitions between investment bankers serving as officers of commercial banks. Some economists believe this repeal directly contributed to the severity of the Financial crisis of 2007–2011 by allowing Wall Street investment banking firms to gamble with their depositors’ money that was held in commercial banks owned or created by the investment firms.[4][5][6][7][8][9][/green]
Here’s the inherent problem. One guy sets a time bomb to go off when the new guy takes over. Who’s to blame? The guy who set the bomb? Or the new guy for not catching it? I say both.
funny you write this but anyone try to say how Bush burned down the country and no righty wants to hear it.
same bullshit.
Late,
grmpysmrf
[reply]Your marker, though, of $250,000 is, for most industries, at least, quite off.
not based on the plan Obama has been trying to put forth since he got elected.
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I don’t know what this plan is that you’re referring to. But “trying to put forth” is a little different than “what it is now”.
I work with and for many small businesses. Many of which are around 50 employees and have quite healthy profit.
As I don’t know what O’s plan is that you refer to I can’t really comment on specifics, but extrapolating from your $250,000 marker, it seems he only wants to help the smallest of the small.
A nation made up of donut shops and mobile carpet cleaners isn’t exactly the gold standard of economic progress.
It’s OK. You can still be a Democrat and still be upset that
the party you blindly root for kind of suck at playing politics.
It’s fine. I promise they won’t kick you out of the party.
And I promise it doesn’t make you a republican.
You wouldn’t happen to live in San Franciso would you Grmpy?
You sound a lot like my friends up in SF.
As I don’t know what O’s plan is that you refer to I can’t really comment on specifics, but extrapolating from your $250,000 marker, it seems he only wants to help the smallest of the small.
O’s plan was anybody making more than 250 Gs would have their taxes increase 3%.
A nation made up of donut shops and mobile carpet cleaners isn’t exactly the gold standard of economic progress.
funny you write that because according to the right’s talking points that’s all the businesses that make up America. and the right successfully scared those people into voting against their best interests.
Late,
grmpysmrf
It’s OK. You can still be a Democrat and still be upset that
the party you blindly root for kind of suck at playing politics.
It’s fine. I promise they won’t kick you out of the party.
And I promise it doesn’t make you a republican.
You wouldn’t happen to live in San Franciso would you Grmpy?
You sound a lot like my friends up in SF.
way to completely dodge everything i wrote.
No i don’t live in SF
and if you don’t want to be mistaken for an AM radio zombie it might help if you didn’t perpetuate their bullshit almost word for word
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grmpysmrf