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TsarTom

2011-10-19 04:02:56 PM

Cool.
Wish I had a dollar.

dletter

2011-10-19 04:20:36 PM

While I like the idea, I think some of the imagery is off....

20% Bill (new window, image too large to embed)

The low end of the 20% is around a household income of $90k. That is "wealthy" now?

I thought this fight was overbloated CEO salaries and Wall St. greed.... not poor people pissed off at the middle class?

/obviously the movement is fracturing already.

thismomentinblackhistory

2011-10-19 04:28:38 PM

Printing messages on money is not the best way to reach a large audience of poor people.

dletter

2011-10-19 04:41:03 PM

dletter: While I like the idea, I think some of the imagery is off....

20% Bill (new window, image too large to embed)

The low end of the 20% is around a household income of $90k. That is "wealthy" now?

I thought this fight was overbloated CEO salaries and Wall St. greed.... not poor people pissed off at the middle class?

/obviously the movement is fracturing already.

Never mind, that was a "net wealth" percentile bill, not an "income" percentile bill.

According to this: Link (new window), Top 20% net wealth low is having around $450k in net worth. Which is still not what I'd say the "fight" really should be "against", I mean, a middle class person nearing retirement could typically have $500k at least in their 401k, so, now they are "wealthy", for saving retirement funds?

Just a little disconcerting that we are somewhat muddying up the term "wealthy".... but, I guess that is all a matter of perspective.

clancifer

2011-10-19 04:52:00 PM

dletter

2011-10-19 04:54:53 PM

clancifer: dletter: While I like the idea, I think some of the imagery is off....

20% Bill (new window, image too large to embed)

The low end of the 20% is around a household income of $90k. That is "wealthy" now?

I thought this fight was overbloated CEO salaries and Wall St. greed.... not poor people pissed off at the middle class?

/obviously the movement is fracturing already.

It more likely the middle class is pissed off at the poor. You can thank the Tea Party and their rich string pullers for that.

That wouldn't explain using that graph though.... but, as I pointed out, that was an overall net wealth percentile graph, not an income percentile graph. So, it is not as skewed as I thought.

elchip

2011-10-19 05:03:43 PM

Screw that. What I do is, I've been sticking $30 in pennies up my ass for the past 11 years.

That's 3,000 pennies a day; 21,000 pennies a week; 1,092,000 pennies a year.

To date that's 12,012,000 pennies, 8 times the population of Nebraska.

You think you're better than me? Oh, you're not better than me. You handle my ass pennies everyday. You pick up my ass pennies for good luck. You throw my ass pennies in fountains and make wishes on them. You give my ass pennies to your little daughter to buy gumballs with.

shanrick

2011-10-19 05:17:36 PM

It's too bad that greed doesn't cause ass cancer.

namatad

2011-10-19 05:32:35 PM

clancifer: It more likely the middle class is pissed off at the poor. You can thank the Tea Party and their rich string pullers for that.

middle class pissed off at the poor? um no

teahaddists pissed off at the poor? yes esp poor illegals

From what I can tell, the middle class is pissed off at corporate greed and political corruption.

not_an_indigo

2011-10-19 06:13:07 PM

I may have to try this. Though I expect it to be as effective as putting my ex's phone number on $1's...

bigworld

2011-10-19 06:14:09 PM

Where do I put my wheresgeorge.com stamp then?

Molavian

2011-10-19 06:14:49 PM

F*ck that, do they have any idea of how much toner cartridges cost?

DarnoKonrad

2011-10-19 06:15:36 PM

For the rest of us that haven't touched paper dollars in years, just carry around a bunch of pie charts and graphs to annoy the person swiping your credit/debt card.

moothemagiccow

2011-10-19 06:15:50 PM

might have worked 10 years ago

fredbox

2011-10-19 06:15:52 PM

One of my stripper friends actually enters her dolla on wheresgeorge.com ..

jst3p

2011-10-19 06:16:10 PM

namatad: clancifer: It more likely the middle class is pissed off at the poor. You can thank the Tea Party and their rich string pullers for that.

middle class pissed off at the poor? um no

teahaddists pissed off at the poor? yes esp poor illegals

From what I can tell, the middle class is pissed off at corporate greed and political corruption.

I am in the middle class and I agree with these assertions.

jst3p

2011-10-19 06:16:54 PM

fredbox: One of my stripper friends actually enters her dolla on ~~wher~~whoresgeorge.com ..

FTFY

bugmn99

2011-10-19 06:17:32 PM

Does anybody actually believe that weak shiat like this will ever make a difference? Whose mind is this intended to change?

FubarBDilligaf

2011-10-19 06:18:26 PM

Because nothing screams "poor" like having a computer and printer to do this with....

moothemagiccow

2011-10-19 06:18:44 PM

and by the way, class consciousness has gotten me nowhere. I am poor. I didn't think I was that poor. Some people are incredibly rich, so rich I don't know what they do with their dough or how many people they had to screw to get it. I know this, but they're still rich and I'm not.

It's like seeing how small I am compared to the Milky Way Galaxy.

fredbox

2011-10-19 06:19:57 PM

jst3p: fredbox: One of my stripper friends actually enters her dolla on wherwhoresgeorge.com ..

FTFY

She doesn't have sex for money. If you're looking for a whore, buy a woman an expensive ring and give her a house and half your income when you break up. Also, DIAF.

ArcadianRefugee

2011-10-19 06:20:51 PM

What's a dollar bill?

/credit
//direct deposit
///screw you, hippies

Blink

2011-10-19 06:20:51 PM

bugmn99: Does anybody actually believe that weak shiat like this will ever make a difference? Whose mind is this intended to change?

So vote Republican?

OgreMagi

2011-10-19 06:21:22 PM

Britney Spear's Speculum

2011-10-19 06:21:34 PM

What Tea Baggers believe
i566.photobucket.com

What's really going on

Fish in a Barrel

2011-10-19 06:23:58 PM

What happened to the other ~150 million Americans?

JesusJuice

2011-10-19 06:24:28 PM

bugmn99: Does anybody actually believe that weak shiat like this will ever make a difference? Whose mind is this intended to change?

It raises awareness, which in turn creates more supporters and more popular demand for reform.

There's ways to be useful besides direct action.

jst3p

2011-10-19 06:24:44 PM

fredbox: jst3p: fredbox: One of my stripper friends actually enters her dolla on ~~wher~~whoresgeorge.com ..

FTFY

She doesn't have sex for money. If you're looking for a whore, buy a woman an expensive ring and give her a house and half your income when you break up. Also, DIAF.

someone neeeds a hug. Give your friend a dollar and she will give you one.

hbk72777

2011-10-19 06:25:04 PM

clancifer: dletter: While I like the idea, I think some of the imagery is off....

20% Bill (new window, image too large to embed)

The low end of the 20% is around a household income of $90k. That is "wealthy" now?

I thought this fight was overbloated CEO salaries and Wall St. greed.... not poor people pissed off at the middle class?

/obviously the movement is fracturing already.

It more likely the middle class is pissed off at the poor. You can thank the Tea Party and their rich string pullers for that.

We've been mad at them for years, at least since the 80's. When someone who doesn't work has better services than you do, when you work 60 hours a week. My aunt was on Welfare, took a GED, had her college paid for, all books, had the GAS to and from classes paid for, then placed in a $30 an hour job at Stoney Brook (and got her dropout druggie son a $22 an hour job doing laundry there) etc. This was in the late 80s, they have reformed it, but it's still not right,

DarnoKonrad

2011-10-19 06:25:11 PM

dletter: The low end of the 20% is around a household income of $90k. That is "wealthy" now?

80th percentile ain't shabby. Not that people making that much like to think of themselves as joe-six-pack, but they ain't.

jtown

2011-10-19 06:26:27 PM

FubarBDilligaf: Because nothing screams "poor" like having a computer and printer to do this with....

No kidding. Do "they" have any idea what ink costs?

Dorf11

2011-10-19 06:26:28 PM

This worked well in Canada, when we needed to spread the word that our government had been compromised by Cardassians.

DarnoKonrad

2011-10-19 06:27:14 PM

hbk72777: We've been mad at them for years, at least since the 80's. When someone who doesn't work has better services than you do, when you work 60 hours a week. My aunt was on Welfare, took a GED, had her college paid for, all books, had the GAS to and from classes paid for, then placed in a $30 an hour job at Stoney Brook (and got her dropout druggie son a $22 an hour job doing laundry there) etc. This was in the late 80s, they have reformed it, but it's still not right,

Huh, that ain't right? It sounds like the ideal way it should work. Take poor people, educate them, and make them and their family productive members of society.

there their theyre

2011-10-19 06:28:31 PM

Fish in a Barrel: What happened to the other ~150 million Americans?

negative net worth?

jst3p

2011-10-19 06:29:30 PM

DarnoKonrad: hbk72777: We've been mad at them for years, at least since the 80's. When someone who doesn't work has better services than you do, when you work 60 hours a week. My aunt was on Welfare, took a GED, had her college paid for, all books, had the GAS to and from classes paid for, then placed in a $30 an hour job at Stoney Brook (and got her dropout druggie son a $22 an hour job doing laundry there) etc. This was in the late 80s, they have reformed it, but it's still not right,

Huh, that ain't right? It sounds like the ideal way it should work. Take poor people, educate them, and make them and their family productive members of society.

BUT SOMEONE GOT SOMETHING I DIDNT GET!!!!!!eleventy!!!

Trackball

2011-10-19 06:30:44 PM

I like how people seem to think that the Democrats are devoid of corruption....and not rich.

KrispyKritter

2011-10-19 06:32:47 PM

moothemagiccow: and by the way, class consciousness has gotten me nowhere. I am poor. I didn't think I was that poor. Some people are incredibly rich, so rich I don't know what they do with their dough or how many people they had to screw to get it. I know this, but they're still rich and I'm not.

It's like seeing how small I am compared to the Milky Way Galaxy.

USA poor, or sitting in a public library to keep warm in filthy clothing, stinking to high heaven, really farking hungry and totally broke using free internet on library computer and got no where to sleep tonite poor?

DasSpaternator

2011-10-19 06:35:37 PM

jst3p: DarnoKonrad: hbk72777: We've been mad at them for years, at least since the 80's. When someone who doesn't work has better services than you do, when you work 60 hours a week. My aunt was on Welfare, took a GED, had her college paid for, all books, had the GAS to and from classes paid for, then placed in a $30 an hour job at Stoney Brook (and got her dropout druggie son a $22 an hour job doing laundry there) etc. This was in the late 80s, they have reformed it, but it's still not right,

Huh, that ain't right? It sounds like the ideal way it should work. Take poor people, educate them, and make them and their family productive members of society.

BUT SOMEONE GOT SOMETHING I DIDNT GET!!!!!!eleventy!!!

I believe the complaint is that sometimes it is easier to work less hard and be poor. I am currently paying my tuition with loans while the poor ex-con screw ups get theirs paid for through a "green jobs" program and they also get money for living expenses. I wouldn't care because I think it is important to educate people who can't educate themselves, but these are the people who screw around the most and waste every bodies time.

DasSpaternator

2011-10-19 06:37:00 PM

Trackball: I like how people seem to think that the Democrats are devoid of corruption....and not rich.

1/10 thinly veiled

mycatisposter

2011-10-19 06:37:08 PM

yawn

Barakku

2011-10-19 06:38:30 PM

KrispyKritter: moothemagiccow: and by the way, class consciousness has gotten me nowhere. I am poor. I didn't think I was that poor. Some people are incredibly rich, so rich I don't know what they do with their dough or how many people they had to screw to get it. I know this, but they're still rich and I'm not.

It's like seeing how small I am compared to the Milky Way Galaxy.

USA poor, or sitting in a public library to keep warm in filthy clothing, stinking to high heaven, really farking hungry and totally broke using free internet on library computer and got no where to sleep tonite poor?

I thought that was USA poor, as opposed to "I am starving to literal death" poor. Anyway I thought the issue was never supposed to be about poor, it was exclusively about the most extremely rich.

tweek46420

2011-10-19 06:39:43 PM

elchip: Screw that. What I do is, I've been sticking $30 in pennies up my ass for the past 11 years.

That's 3,000 pennies a day; 21,000 pennies a week; 1,092,000 pennies a year.

To date that's 12,012,000 pennies, 8 times the population of Nebraska.

You think you're better than me? Oh, you're not better than me. You handle my ass pennies everyday. You pick up my ass pennies for good luck. You throw my ass pennies in fountains and make wishes on them. You give my ass pennies to your little daughter to buy gumballs with.

dude, you can't buy a gumball for a penny anymore

Molavian

2011-10-19 06:39:50 PM

DasSpaternator: Trackball: I like how people seem to think that the Democrats are devoid of corruption....and not rich.

1/10 thinly veiled

So there are no rich Democrats who are corrupt?

skinink

2011-10-19 06:40:08 PM

↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑
The 1%
--------------------------------
The 99%
↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓

DarnoKonrad

2011-10-19 06:40:43 PM

DasSpaternator: jst3p: DarnoKonrad: hbk72777: We've been mad at them for years, at least since the 80's. When someone who doesn't work has better services than you do, when you work 60 hours a week. My aunt was on Welfare, took a GED, had her college paid for, all books, had the GAS to and from classes paid for, then placed in a $30 an hour job at Stoney Brook (and got her dropout druggie son a $22 an hour job doing laundry there) etc. This was in the late 80s, they have reformed it, but it's still not right,

Huh, that ain't right? It sounds like the ideal way it should work. Take poor people, educate them, and make them and their family productive members of society.

BUT SOMEONE GOT SOMETHING I DIDNT GET!!!!!!eleventy!!!

I believe the complaint is that sometimes it is easier to work less hard and be poor. I am currently paying my tuition with loans while the poor ex-con screw ups get theirs paid for through a "green jobs" program and they also get money for living expenses. I wouldn't care because I think it is important to educate people who can't educate themselves, but these are the people who screw around the most and waste every bodies time.

Yea, but it's a pretty strange argument to say that being poor with a criminal record is "easy." No, it's about pointing out the splinter in other people's eyes without regard to any practical economic and social concerns.

Molavian

2011-10-19 06:40:46 PM

tweek46420: elchip: Screw that. What I do is, I've been sticking $30 in pennies up my ass for the past 11 years.

That's 3,000 pennies a day; 21,000 pennies a week; 1,092,000 pennies a year.

To date that's 12,012,000 pennies, 8 times the population of Nebraska.

You think you're better than me? Oh, you're not better than me. You handle my ass pennies everyday. You pick up my ass pennies for good luck. You throw my ass pennies in fountains and make wishes on them. You give my ass pennies to your little daughter to buy gumballs with.

dude, you can't buy a gumball for a penny anymore

That's where his ass quarters plan comes into play.

peppersnail

2011-10-19 06:41:07 PM

Kali-Yuga

2011-10-19 06:42:19 PM

The 10% are horrified at our intending to do away with wealth. But in your existing society, wealth is already done away with for nine-tenths of the population; its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence in the hands of those nine-tenths. You reproach us, therefore, with intending to do away with a form of wealth, the necessary condition for whose existence is the non-existence of any wealth for the immense majority of society.

DasSpaternator

2011-10-19 06:43:16 PM

Molavian: DasSpaternator: Trackball: I like how people seem to think that the Democrats are devoid of corruption....and not rich.

1/10 thinly veiled

So there are no rich Democrats who are corrupt?

No, it just had nothing to do with the article or discussion whatsoever. I believe he was the first person to drag political parties into the thread for no other reason than to be a troll.

HellRaisingHoosier

2011-10-19 06:44:11 PM

hbk72777: clancifer: dletter: While I like the idea, I think some of the imagery is off....

20% Bill (new window, image too large to embed)

The low end of the 20% is around a household income of $90k. That is "wealthy" now?

I thought this fight was overbloated CEO salaries and Wall St. greed.... not poor people pissed off at the middle class?

/obviously the movement is fracturing already.

It more likely the middle class is pissed off at the poor. You can thank the Tea Party and their rich string pullers for that.

We've been mad at them for years, at least since the 80's. When someone who doesn't work has better services than you do, when you work 60 hours a week. My aunt was on Welfare, took a GED, had her college paid for, all books, had the GAS to and from classes paid for, then placed in a $30 an hour job at Stoney Brook (and got her dropout druggie son a $22 an hour job doing laundry there) etc. This was in the late 80s, they have reformed it, but it's still not right,

This sounds made up.
Simply because it's the world we NEED to be living in, and not reality.

Clean someone up, give them food, clothing, a place to live and a bit of spending money. Educate them and have transportation available to them so they can get back into the swing of society.

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