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The 47%
- Westy78
- IAC Addict!
- Location: Stumptown OR
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Re: The 47%
Chorizo, it's what's for breakfast.
- JLT
- Old School!
- Location: Sacramento CA
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Re: The 47%
I have been re-reading Kurt Vonnegut's God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater. Even after half a century, it remains the best book I've read about what's wrong with great wealth in this country, and how it fails to see the need to help those for those for whom society has no ready use, and who really do need some sort of government or charitable subsistence .
I have no doubt that Mitt Romney wouldn't understand a word of it. Neither would Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck or anybody who classifies himself or herself as a "compassionate conservative."
We had Mark Twain to speak for the common man in the nineteenth century, and Kurt Vonnegut in the twentieth century. I'm still waiting for whoever takes up the torch in the twenty-first century. It can't come soon enough for me.
I have no doubt that Mitt Romney wouldn't understand a word of it. Neither would Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck or anybody who classifies himself or herself as a "compassionate conservative."
We had Mark Twain to speak for the common man in the nineteenth century, and Kurt Vonnegut in the twentieth century. I'm still waiting for whoever takes up the torch in the twenty-first century. It can't come soon enough for me.
-- JLT
Sacramento CA
Present bus: '71 Dormobile Westie "George"
(sometimes towing a '65 Allstate single-wheel trailer)
Former buses: '61 17-window Deluxe "Pink Bus"
'70 Frankenwestie "Blunder Bus"
'71 Frankenwestie "Thunder Bus"
Sacramento CA
Present bus: '71 Dormobile Westie "George"
(sometimes towing a '65 Allstate single-wheel trailer)
Former buses: '61 17-window Deluxe "Pink Bus"
'70 Frankenwestie "Blunder Bus"
'71 Frankenwestie "Thunder Bus"
- Amskeptic
- IAC "Help Desk"
- Status: Offline
Re: The 47%
ME ME ME ME me me meeeeeee, where do I sign up??JLT wrote:I'm still waiting for whoever takes up the torch in the twenty-first century. It can't come soon enough for me.
Colin
BobD - 78 Bus . . . 112,730 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles