Comments on: BIRDS OF A FEATHER

By: tristyjoy

tristyjoy — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 02:46:23 +0000

And how do you explain that the UPPER class has GROWN while the lower class has not grown any? What you have regurgitated onto your screen in propaganda spouted by those with another agenda.
In the last two decades we have seen the middle class shrink, the upper class grow and the lower class stay about the same. It follows, then, that more people are moving up into the upper class, with little to no downward mobility at all. This seems like an improvement to me – but I’m just a dumb, money-loving, middle-class conservative so what could I possible know…

By: Billie_Budapest

Billie_Budapest — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 01:17:24 +0000

Screw you proletariats with you DEMOCRACY and SMALL GOVERMNMENT!!!

By: Seth

Seth — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:07:45 +0000

Yup, the IWW is still around, although there are less than a thousand card carrying members left. We tend to do little things now, helping bookstore and gas station workers organize.

By: Guinny

Guinny — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:29:31 +0000

Hee. Why, thank you. I am quite likeable, if I do say so myself.

By: PortlandMark

PortlandMark — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 05:00:07 +0000

You, I like.

By: PortlandMark

PortlandMark — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 04:59:18 +0000

Also, I didn’t even know the IWW were still around. I’ve always had a rather romantic image of them being the tough freaking lefties that time forgot

By: PortlandMark

PortlandMark — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 04:58:02 +0000

No, I’ve been too lazy to get off my ass and help anyone else so far. I’m looking into finding an organization I can get behind; current leading contenders are Habitat for Humanity and Oregon Wild.

By: sparkly_1

sparkly_1 — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 04:55:03 +0000

…and may these birds never rise from the ashes. burn, baby, burn…

By: dropping in

dropping in — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:11:47 +0000

I would hardly call LBJ a shining example of a democratic president- I think he was AWFUL. I love Jimmy Carter, but yes, his presidency was a nightmare…partially bc he had to fix what Nixon and Ford did…but it is hard to separate.

But Class warfare…actually I kind of buy into this- but I do not think it is overt- by my reading of Rich Dad Poor Dad, the way you get rich is by taking advantage of others—-at least partly. I make really good money, and invest, and pay my student loans off- but apparently I am supposed to pretend I cannot afford my student loans while investing that money instead—I think that is wrong- but I think that many pp become or stay rich through those tactics- sounds like class warfare a little to me…

By: Rorsc

Rorsc — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:42:35 +0000

Class warfare is the most used tool by the Democratic party.

By: Spanky

Spanky — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:23:49 +0000

JDAM targeting acquired….Bomb’s away !

By: Guinny

Guinny — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:02:19 +0000

As stated before, this is ignorance at its best.

Let you in on a little secret: I am not middle class, and I’ve come by my ‘riches’ not by working so much harder than the average American (although I have put in a lot of hours, especially when starting my business, but so has one of my friends, and he went bankrupt) but through a whole lot of luck, being in the right place at the right time.

I consider myself very lucky to be in this position, and I am all for paying higher taxes if that’s what it takes to give the middle class some breathing room and get our beautiful country back on track. Paying higher taxes = patriotic

*feels self starting to lean left and wonders why she’s still fighting it*

By: hemcat

hemcat — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:45:09 +0000

That is the most ignorant thing I’ve seen written.

“You’re poor because you’re lazy!”

Sheesh, I didn’t think the conservatives were still trying to pass off that line. That is OBVIOUSLY the reason for the increasing gap in the upper and lower classes.

By: Jocasta

Jocasta — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:43:38 +0000

I suspect you’re not middle class.

By: hemcat

hemcat — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:43:06 +0000

lmao….. good one!

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:38:08 +0000

The middle class is the middle class because they chose not to work as hard as the rich did. There is a thought amongst people in this country that the rich don’t work hard for what they have. Plenty of rich people came from nothing. Don’t be mad at them because you only wanted to work 40 hours a week and chose to have your first child at age 19.

By: King Arthur

King Arthur — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:09:34 +0000

Bloody peasant!

By: Seth

Seth — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:36:22 +0000

Mark, were you ever involved in the Portland activist scene? Food not Bombs, the IWW, any of that? I knew a guy back in the mid 90s in Portland, name of Mark, who was in that scene. Wouldn’t happen to be you, would it?

By: Seth

Seth — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:34:17 +0000

Help! Help! I’m being oppressed! Come and see the violence inherent in the system!

By: PortlandMark

PortlandMark — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:15:25 +0000

What color is the sky in your world? I’m in management, and I can assure you, I’ve attended meetings where the sole subject is to find out how we can lower the amount we pay our (barely above minimum wage) employees.

I’m not real popular at these meetings

By: PortlandMark

PortlandMark — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:14:11 +0000

Monty Python FTW!

By: AdmiralSirJohn

AdmiralSirJohn — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:09:57 +0000

Besides, Democratic administrations have screwed this country FAR more than any Republican. Lyndon Johnson and Jimmy Carter come immediately to mind…

By: AdmiralSirJohn

AdmiralSirJohn — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:08:37 +0000

But “class warfare” is nothing more than a Democratic marketing concept. Those of us who live in the real world know it doesn’t really exist.

By: Khaaaaaaan

Khaaaaaaan — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:55:29 +0000

Well, that’s what it’s all about!

By: x-bert

x-bert — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:48:30 +0000

Oh, there you go bringing class into it again.

By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:16:29 +0000

face # 3 is Christopher Cox, Chairman of the SEC, in way over his head.
not sure about #4

By: Khaaaaaaan

Khaaaaaaan — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:13:18 +0000

FailBlog ref FTW!

By: scum-bot

scum-bot — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:12:30 +0000

lol

By: Seth

Seth — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:38:55 +0000

Class warfare: the rich started it.

By: x-bert

x-bert — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:17:32 +0000

… And how nice that they could all be pictured wearing their undetectable wigs…

By: um

um — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:01:10 +0000

FIRST!

and this is AWESOME!