Dice, your blog sssssssuuuuuuucksssssss.

Column got a ribbon?

I like how he throws in time outs and spankings as if they have anything to do with his point, except that he thinks physical punishment should be expected from authority figures.

Yay! Is this the thread where we all share an anecdote about a single lazy, dumb, or otherwise incapable young person we've dealt with at some time in our life and come to the obvious conclusion that the whole generation is horrible and we're all doomed because everything we did when we were their age was always so much better and we're so much smarter than them?

"They are the "Cranky Old People" - a generation full of more greed and self-interest than anyone before or after. The result of social isolation, ideological masturbation, and the misguided concept that they are the only people with anything important to say.

I love the big "Chase" advertisement that takes over the page after a few seconds.

Hey, Republicans are the ones who cover their cars with stupid ribbon-shaped "Support our Troops" and "God Bless America" magnets.

doyner: I didn't read TFA, but I'm sure it is all about CEOs running their companies into the ground with risky, over-leveraged commitments, taking the economy into the shiatter, all the while expecting (and receiving) millions and millions in bonuses.

Amirite?

Nailed it.

"that reward is deserved and not earned"

I didn't read the article--but really, a right-winger is castigating CEOs who drive their companies into the ground and then take huge multimillion dollar payouts?

Surprising.

Maybe if this asshat had the balls to put on a uniform and serve with this "entitled" generation for a tour or more in Afghanistan, he might just change his tune. But no - he'll happily disparage them from the confines of his comfy DC apartment. The farkin' guy is begging for a good throat-punchin'.

Irony indeed.. the 1% generally haven't earned anything.

Isn't clownhall the group of people that get paid for writing mindless columns of things that their readers already agree with so that they can get paid for just being there while the other person has the same opinion he always had?

If anyone deserves criticism for being the participation ribbon brigade, it's the Townhall folks. And I doubt their sense of irony is sufficiently advanced to see it.

As opposed to those who earned the right to display these ribbons for their great sacrifice of... buying a magnetic ribbon.

I got one of those long, stupid e-mail FWDs from my Dad about "I'm Tired" of seeing the country go down the shiatter, so I responded to him and everyone on the CC list:

I'm 27, and I'm tired too. I'm tired of hearing about how we should all feel sorry for those who benefited from the very height of the American boom. How the generation that spent all the money, shipped all the manufacturing overseas for the tax breaks, and left us a crumbling infrastructure, and ballooned the debt into the trillions is poised to say anything about how we manage our money?

But the problem isn't really us. The problem is that they've learned to turn us against each other. They fuel our emotions with e-mail FWDs and sentiment about supporting the troops, regardless of whether or not we agree with how those troops are being used. We have people referring to a president as "socialist" whose policies toward business would have been indistinguishable from a Republican candidate ten to 12 years ago. We're being played, and we're not winning.

I get it. You don't want to pay for people who abuse the system. I get that. And I agree with that point. But that's not all your taxes pay for. Your taxes pay for the roads you drive on and the police departments that protect us and the schools that teach our children. And yes, a very small percentage of it goes to some asshole who refuses to get a job.

So yeah, I still support repealing the temporary Bush tax cuts that were extended by Obama. I'm willing to pay a little more if it means my country is able to take care of it's people and pay it's debts and obligations. I'll even pay to take care of Medicare Part D and the health costs of the aging boomer generation. That's patriotism, and in my opinion it's worth a hundred of those stupid yellow ribbon magnets. You keep pretending that having the lowest tax rates in the free world is somehow a crime and I'll be over here trying to figure out how to pay for all your health care shiat without raising the amount of money we can use to pay for it.

Anyway, I don't know what can be done. We have a toxic political climate that has used mass media to ensure an almost perpetual 50/50 split. We're at war with each other.

Kibbler: "that reward is deserved and not earned"

I didn't read the article--but really, a right-winger is castigating CEOs who drive their companies into the ground and then take huge multimillion dollar payouts?

Surprising.

If the shareholders and boards grant them the bonuses, then they are earned.

You get paid what your employer thinks you are worth. Why is this so difficult to understand/accept?

1/10 - this guy isn't even trying.

Bathia_Mapes: Seriously? Does this douchebag honestly think that it's only the "millennials" participating in the Occupy movement?

To be fair, it's generally the Millennials, spiced up with a large dose of the same people who protested Iraq and Afghanistan, and before that various other things. In other words, the professionally discontent. To the extent that Boomers participate, it's generally aged hippies who have been protesting this, that, and the other thing for the last 40 years.

dittybopper: Bathia_Mapes: Seriously? Does this douchebag honestly think that it's only the "millennials" participating in the Occupy movement?

To be fair, it's generally the Millennials, spiced up with a large dose of the same people who protested Iraq and Afghanistan, and before that various other things. In other words, the professionally discontent. To the extent that Boomers participate, it's generally aged hippies who have been protesting this, that, and the other thing for the last 40 years.

(rolls eyes) Oh you...

"They are the "Participation Ribbon People" - a generation rewarded and praised simply for showing up.

So it's like an entire generation of corporate VPs.

Douche: Watching the "Occupy Wall Street" mutants (as I less-than-affectionately call them)

Thanks for the clarification. Otherwise, the reader might have assumed that "mutants" was a term of endearment.