Comments on: George Will Shills for Senatorial Candidate Who Blames Nation’s Economic Problems on “Poor People” http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/27/george-will-shills-for-senatorial-candidate-who-blames-nations-economic-problems-on-poor-people/ Firedoglake weblog Sat, 18 Feb 2012 07:53:53 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: DetroitSam http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/27/george-will-shills-for-senatorial-candidate-who-blames-nations-economic-problems-on-poor-people/#comment-1985819 DetroitSam Mon, 28 Sep 2009 06:03:07 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/27/george-will-shills-for-senatorial-candidate-who-blames-nations-economic-problems-on-poor-people/#comment-1985819 <p>“He worries that his children’s generation “will be the first to inherit a diminished country.” </p> <p>If he is so concerned about a diminished country why doesn’t he take his behind back to the home country and do something about the people there and the country?</p> <p>Cause it is easy to be a wingnut when you have everything handed to you. He learned from his parents who had the typical attitudes of the rich toward the poor in Cuba and brought such attitudes to this country.</p> “He worries that his children’s generation “will be the first to inherit a diminished country.”

If he is so concerned about a diminished country why doesn’t he take his behind back to the home country and do something about the people there and the country?

Cause it is easy to be a wingnut when you have everything handed to you. He learned from his parents who had the typical attitudes of the rich toward the poor in Cuba and brought such attitudes to this country.

]]> By: PaulaT http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/27/george-will-shills-for-senatorial-candidate-who-blames-nations-economic-problems-on-poor-people/#comment-1985518 PaulaT Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:14:05 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/27/george-will-shills-for-senatorial-candidate-who-blames-nations-economic-problems-on-poor-people/#comment-1985518 <p>It won’t even take a pamphlet. You are supposed to have the dignity to die when you no longer have any money to donate to the billionaires to compensate them for putting up with your unbearable lack of socioeconomic status. That’s why this whole health care reform thing really must be stopped. Well, stopped right after the part where everyone is required to buy private insurance, anyway.</p> <p>As it turns out, many political refugees come to America with a lot of wealth. I don’t live in an area with a lot of Cuban refugees, but we had an Iranian influx when the shah was going down and a lot of those people were getting out specifically because they had a lot of money and wanted to make sure they could get it out with them. Others came over after having lost everything or uncertain what they would be able to get out of the country, but not all of them.</p> It won’t even take a pamphlet. You are supposed to have the dignity to die when you no longer have any money to donate to the billionaires to compensate them for putting up with your unbearable lack of socioeconomic status. That’s why this whole health care reform thing really must be stopped. Well, stopped right after the part where everyone is required to buy private insurance, anyway.

As it turns out, many political refugees come to America with a lot of wealth. I don’t live in an area with a lot of Cuban refugees, but we had an Iranian influx when the shah was going down and a lot of those people were getting out specifically because they had a lot of money and wanted to make sure they could get it out with them. Others came over after having lost everything or uncertain what they would be able to get out of the country, but not all of them.

]]> By: sixtysomething http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/27/george-will-shills-for-senatorial-candidate-who-blames-nations-economic-problems-on-poor-people/#comment-1985413 sixtysomething Sun, 27 Sep 2009 22:03:37 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/27/george-will-shills-for-senatorial-candidate-who-blames-nations-economic-problems-on-poor-people/#comment-1985413 <p>I don’t know Rubios’ family history, but many of those who left Cuba in the days before Castro did come with much of their fortunes intact. Many of them settled in south Florida and along the Gulf Coast. But no worries, Rubio doesn’t stand a chance unless something really weird happens.</p> I don’t know Rubios’ family history, but many of those who left Cuba in the days before Castro did come with much of their fortunes intact. Many of them settled in south Florida and along the Gulf Coast. But no worries, Rubio doesn’t stand a chance unless something really weird happens.

]]> By: dakine01 http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/27/george-will-shills-for-senatorial-candidate-who-blames-nations-economic-problems-on-poor-people/#comment-1985325 dakine01 Sun, 27 Sep 2009 21:05:11 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/27/george-will-shills-for-senatorial-candidate-who-blames-nations-economic-problems-on-poor-people/#comment-1985325 <p><a href="http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/27/fdl-book-salon-welcomes-david-swanson-daybreak-undoing-the-imperial-presidency-and-forming-a-more-perfect-union/" rel="nofollow">Book Salon a couple of flights upstairs</a> with David Swanson’s <i>Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union</i> hosted by Glenn Greenwald</p> Book Salon a couple of flights upstairs with David Swanson’s Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union hosted by Glenn Greenwald

]]> By: Dameocrat http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/27/george-will-shills-for-senatorial-candidate-who-blames-nations-economic-problems-on-poor-people/#comment-1985313 Dameocrat Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:52:25 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/27/george-will-shills-for-senatorial-candidate-who-blames-nations-economic-problems-on-poor-people/#comment-1985313 <p>Supporting tarp hardly makes the other republican a compassionate conservative. Are there any democrats or progressives in the race?</p> Supporting tarp hardly makes the other republican a compassionate conservative. Are there any democrats or progressives in the race?

]]> By: Dameocrat http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/27/george-will-shills-for-senatorial-candidate-who-blames-nations-economic-problems-on-poor-people/#comment-1985312 Dameocrat Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:50:46 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/27/george-will-shills-for-senatorial-candidate-who-blames-nations-economic-problems-on-poor-people/#comment-1985312 <p>beautiful on the outside. buttugly on the inside!</p> beautiful on the outside. buttugly on the inside!

]]> By: Twain http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/27/george-will-shills-for-senatorial-candidate-who-blames-nations-economic-problems-on-poor-people/#comment-1985306 Twain Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:29:43 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/27/george-will-shills-for-senatorial-candidate-who-blames-nations-economic-problems-on-poor-people/#comment-1985306 <p>Rubio is married to a former Dolphins cheerleader.<br /> I’m sure he has very high ambitions and he certainly has the looks.</p> Rubio is married to a former Dolphins cheerleader.
I’m sure he has very high ambitions and he certainly has the looks.

]]> By: GREYDOG http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/27/george-will-shills-for-senatorial-candidate-who-blames-nations-economic-problems-on-poor-people/#comment-1985301 GREYDOG Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:21:20 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/27/george-will-shills-for-senatorial-candidate-who-blames-nations-economic-problems-on-poor-people/#comment-1985301 <p>classic prick</p> classic prick

]]> By: Gabriele http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/27/george-will-shills-for-senatorial-candidate-who-blames-nations-economic-problems-on-poor-people/#comment-1985300 Gabriele Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:20:42 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/27/george-will-shills-for-senatorial-candidate-who-blames-nations-economic-problems-on-poor-people/#comment-1985300 <p>Forgive me, for I am a little confused. When Rubio’s parents fled Cuba did they bring great wealth with them? If not how did they manage to become billionaires. It would be very useful for the average American to know this secret. Personally, I have noticed that even if you follow all the rules - you know, study hard, work hard, prepare for your retirement, buy a house, raise a family and all the other advertised values, they suddenly change all the rules. Your 401k is too scary to even look at, you can’t sell your house to anyone, no matter how low the price, your savings go for health care. When all your other assets have been taken, you’re single and wind up in a nursing home they take your house. Would somebody much smarter than me please write a book (maybe even a pamphlet) to advise the citizens on how to avoid becoming poor, so that we might not become a drag on all the upstanding billionaires.</p> Forgive me, for I am a little confused. When Rubio’s parents fled Cuba did they bring great wealth with them? If not how did they manage to become billionaires. It would be very useful for the average American to know this secret. Personally, I have noticed that even if you follow all the rules – you know, study hard, work hard, prepare for your retirement, buy a house, raise a family and all the other advertised values, they suddenly change all the rules. Your 401k is too scary to even look at, you can’t sell your house to anyone, no matter how low the price, your savings go for health care. When all your other assets have been taken, you’re single and wind up in a nursing home they take your house. Would somebody much smarter than me please write a book (maybe even a pamphlet) to advise the citizens on how to avoid becoming poor, so that we might not become a drag on all the upstanding billionaires.

]]> By: PJEvans http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/27/george-will-shills-for-senatorial-candidate-who-blames-nations-economic-problems-on-poor-people/#comment-1985299 PJEvans Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:16:04 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/27/george-will-shills-for-senatorial-candidate-who-blames-nations-economic-problems-on-poor-people/#comment-1985299 <blockquote><p>When George Bush said he was the president of the mores and the have mores, it was a bad joke by a scion of 150 years of Wall Street wealth, who cares about fewer people than Dick Cheney. Now, there’s a generation that thinks his perspective was a bright idea.</p></blockquote> <p>The idea clearly had been around a while, or George wouldn’t have said that.Reagan wasn’t too keen to have poor people (or students, or women) around, either. (Give you some idea of Bush’s views: people in West Texas were hesitant to vote for Reagan because he had a liberal running mate. My mother changed her voter registration because (a) she wouldn’t vote for Reagan, and (b) she didn’t think much of a guy who would change his publicly-stated views in order to get elected.)</p>

When George Bush said he was the president of the mores and the have mores, it was a bad joke by a scion of 150 years of Wall Street wealth, who cares about fewer people than Dick Cheney. Now, there’s a generation that thinks his perspective was a bright idea.

The idea clearly had been around a while, or George wouldn’t have said that.Reagan wasn’t too keen to have poor people (or students, or women) around, either. (Give you some idea of Bush’s views: people in West Texas were hesitant to vote for Reagan because he had a liberal running mate. My mother changed her voter registration because (a) she wouldn’t vote for Reagan, and (b) she didn’t think much of a guy who would change his publicly-stated views in order to get elected.)

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