Lonewolf Diaries: Shut Up and Do Your Job, Dipstick!
by Steven CrowderEntitlement. It’s a silly notion. Almost as silly as the idea of “homophobes” or the “whitey,” yet it is still an idea that permeates the minds of much of America’s lower and middle classes today. Truth be told, I’m getting really tired of being made to feel guilty for other people’s shortcomings. When will people stop playing the blame game, suck it up, grow a pair and take control over their own lives?
I was at the Houston airport the other day and I couldn’t find my baggage carousel. I asked the employee there where it was:
“What does it say on the screen?” he asked grumpily.
“Well, it says Carousel 2 but…”
“Then that’s what it is. You should be old enough to know that,” he said as he went off mumbling about how they weren’t paying him enough.
Anyway, it turned out that Carousel 2 wasn’t working and I had to pick up my luggage at Carousel 3, but I digress. I had two more run-ins with airport employees, all of whom were putting out the same vibe that the crumminess of their jobs was somehow my fault. In this country, people are of such an entitlement mentality that they want to blame everybody they comes across, requiring them to legitimately do their job and serve a purpose. I hate to say this but…
More often than not, people who are poor…. are right where they should be.
Nobody likes being broke. As somebody who’s had to live out of a 1982 Datsun, trust me, I know. I also understand that the first step to improve your situation is to fix the problem that landed you there in the first place.
The mistake that all “long-term poor people” make is putting others under a microscope in an attempt to set blame. That right there is a true loser’s mentality (or “poppycock” if you will).
When a great fighter loses a fight, he analyzes his loss extensively to look for possible fixes. He’ll watch tape, review the footwork and counter-punches, but most importantly, he’ll take a good, long look inside of himself. He’ll figure out which possible repairs are within his control and take charge of it. That’s what separates the champions from the “bums,” as Burgess Meredith so eloquently put it.
The same applies to life. If you’re unhappy with your circumstances, then change them. Don’t blame the government or your boss or the guy down the street who’s better looking than you (exceptions include Hugh Jackman and George Clooney). Just take some Pepto-Bismol and be a man (or woman, for all of you bullish feminists).
Until then, how about shutting your mouth and doing the job you’re paid to do? We don’t need any more Sean Penn’s running around.
Doing your job and doing it well may result in long-term success. What a concept!
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Can I get an "AMEN!!!!!"
Hard work– the American way. Sit around, sponge off the government and blame the other guy– the Obama way?
I don't have to take this crap, Steve. I don't get paid enough to
Hugh Jackman…. *sigh* Sean Penn… *groan*
Well-written as always, Steven, and crikey sakes alive… I'll bet you WROTE IT YOURSELF. You've earned yourself a cookie for doing an excellent job without any government assistance.
Amen!
Its called "free agency". We have this beautiful gift from God that enables us to make choices,
we also live in this awesome place called America which enables us to exercise our "Agency"
to a degree unknown by most human beings,and have control of our lives !!!!!!!!!!!
The problem is that most people cry and complain about their circumstances when almost 99% of the
time it was brought about by exercising their "Free Agency" and making choices that OH MY GOSH…..
lead to CONSEQUENCES……….:O
Please people….take your ba11s out of your wife's purse and stand up and be responsible for your actions!
Funny how life works that way…… any way, peace and love to all you BH people !!!!!!
Das Kirche ist War !
what are you, a troublemaker??
Blue you are just one of the lucky ones, you won life's lottery. But, I am sure the harder you worked, the luckier you got.
If people would remember that "THEY" are the government they wouldn't be so quick to wait for hand outs. People think everyone else has it made and forget that the grass isn't green on the other side. "WE THE PEOPLE"
You can just use a charge card at Mickey D's if you haven't saved up the cash yet
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Perhaps this is a related thought on Mr. Crowder's post. Here in Birmingham(Alabama)a public housing project stands called Southtown. It is drug infested and overrun with thugs and criminals out to harm law abiding citizens.
The surrounding areas are long standing , stable neighborhoods and a University that is world renown(UAB)for its' research and medical strengths.
A redevelopment plan has been proposed(Magic Johnson, the Laker bb player is the lead player in this plan). The residents of Southtown are objecting to razing this site because it will deprive them of their "home". One resident, A 37 YEAR TENANT IN PUBLIC HOUSING, is very vocal about stopping this redevelopment.
I'm sorry, but, PUBLIC HOUSING IS SUPPOSED TO BE A TEMPORARY REMEDY to help someone overcome misfortune or a catastrophe. IT WAS NEVER MEANT TO BE PERMANENT. Where did this entitlement mentality come into our lexicon?????
The so-called Progressive tax system is the start of all this nonsense. So, you make more, you pay more.
Well, THAT seems fair. What happens if I make a TON of money, you kill me?
Can I use your card?
Poverty is a state of mind, a self inflicted wound in America.
Democrat constituency!
Its at the limit, sorry…
ah, airport employees… the most rude, impatient people on planet Earth. I fly out of Atlanta a lot. Southern Hospitality stops at the front doors when it comes to airport employees.
Amen, brother.
I hope what follows is not taken as bragging, but as a testament to what hard work and the right attitude can get you in this great country. My husband and I were both immigrants who each came here twelve years ago with only some books and a few clothes. We worked our way through university. I went on to a PhD, but hubby couldn't find employment in his field, so he worked as a bag boy at a grocery store. I knew this had to be a blow to his pride, but he never complained. His incredible work ethic and great attitude were noticed by a particular customer, who turned out to have connections in my husband's field. With this man's recommendation, my husband landed a good job, and has since risen in the field to the point that he's one of the most sought after engineers in our state. We went from $8 in the bank to a six figure income and comfortable lifestyle all because my husband was not too proud to be the best damn bag boy he could be.
That is what America is all about.
I think a huge problem is that so many of these people are told by our government that they can't do any better and basically shouldn't try. I myself know a few idiots who look at government assistance as "getting something from the system" (in their case, it's unemployment from jobs they didn't work all that hard at keeping). I feel like barfing whenever I hear it.
Anyways, if our government actually had their best interests at heart, they'd obviously be more encouraging…but then again 90% of the people in our government is either spineless or evil…so, there you have it. Straight out of the otter's mouth.
So, Steven, I take it that you are not supporting Judge Sotomayor. ( I think she blames it on Penelope Cruz )
Remember to call 911 if they're out of mcnuggets.
As for #4, I think maybe we should get the Government out of education, certainly the Federal Government. I would like to see the local school boards in charge of education and of course, school vouchers put in to use.
THIS is what they should be teaching in public schools. Hey, maybe you can get a govt. grant to develop a program to introduce this new, innovative idea to America's youth. Yes you can, can, can.
"Don’t blame the… guy down the street who’s better looking than you"
I used to blame Tom Cruise until I met him and found out he was roughly the size of a espresso maker.
It's hard for me to be upset with a hobbit.
You hit that right on the nose my brother……
Seems like you got that concept down as well……
Kreskin!
You read my mind.
When I was doing the crap jobs, I was saving and working to go for the better job. Now that I have the job I worked for, the waves of envy hit me daily, from people who thought life was a sitcom and they were going to be handed their dream twenty minutes into the program. I'm tired of "must be nice" said with a sneer when they hear what I do.
But also, always remember to tip the hardworking waitress, always be kind to the guy that's busy sweeping the corridors, because someday they might be handling your account. I'm good at remembering faces, and I have a tendency to recall who was crappy towards me when I was the clerk in the hardware store.
"pretty clear that an American has the right to "pursue" happiness, not have it handed to them."
Very Nice !!!!!
I can't wait to use that quote with my liberal friends !!!!
What's the number
Love it! You are a funny, funny–as in humorous–guy. Very true. I look forward to more of your musings.
Steven – you might benefit from a dose of your own medicine. Analyze the failings of your previous columns, look for mistakes, "take a good, long look inside of [your]self," &c (whining about the other guys at the gym, anyone?). This column is mostly whining about other people who are whiny. If I were you, I'd suck it up and realize that . . . well . . . sometimes people suck. Of course, you suggest that people ought to focus on "Doing your job and doing it well." If your job is to write a consistently whiny column, you're doing well. It always surprises me that a self-styled "Lonewolf" would spend so much time complaining about the people around him.
AMEN!!!!!
…"he said as he went off mumbling about how they weren’t paying him enough."
There's a saying I've heard in workplaces since the early 70s–> "They don't pay me enough to think"
After many years of dealing with help, mine is "They don't think enough to get paid"
Careful Scott, that Hobbit has powerful friends. . . with spaceships.
This is why every low-skilled person wants a government job. When there's no competition for providing a product or service, management has no incentive to improve service or make something (or someone) work better. So when the DPS person is snippy, or the city hall worker is too busy talking on the phone to answer your questions, it's solely because they aren't incentivized to do a better job.
But, hey! Let's create thousands of new government jobs as part of the economic recovery! And thereby thousands more union members, further nullifying the need for competition!
I'm embarrassed that this was the welcome you got from Houston.
I have had clients come tell me how they couldn't "afford to buy food." But they refused to give up their cable, they refused to give up their air conditioning or their second cars, they refused to stop renting/buying DVDs, they refused to give up their separate cell phones. . . etc.
There are a group of people out there who simply have no problems demanding other people's money and they know the lingo to use to get unsuspecting people to sympathize.
The new American Dream:
Sit around on your @ss drawing welfare until Jimmy Carter shows up to give you a house.
That is great and all so true! I did the same thing at the Houston airport baggage claim!
In all fairness, you've got to admit that Canada is hard to find. . . being behind the moon and all.
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Doing your job well can lead to long term success? You must one of them capitalist pigs I keep hearing about in my classes. LOL!
"When a great fighter loses a fight, he analyzes his loss extensively to look for possible fixes. He’ll watch tape, review the footwork and counter-punches, but most importantly, he’ll take a good, long look inside of himself. He’ll figure out which possible repairs are within his control and take charge of it. That’s what separates the champions from the “bums,” as Burgess Meredith so eloquently put it.
The same applies to life. If you’re unhappy with your circumstances, then change them. Don’t blame the government or your boss or the guy down the street who’s better looking than you (exceptions include Hugh Jackman and George Clooney). Just take some Pepto-Bismol and be a man (or woman, for all of you bullish feminists)."
I have a hurt friend who does this with the finesse of no one I have ever met. I need to show him this article. Boomin'.
Fortunately, I live near a volcano.
No, they just make you wish you were dead.
The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution guarantee the right to the pursuit of happiness, not the right to be happy.
They call these people Jobsworths in England — as in "I'd like to help you, but I'd be risking more than my job's worth." These are the people who use their superiors as an excuse to be an @$$hole to the customers.
Hey are you chanelling Joe Biden again?
Just got done discussing this at work with one of the girls. It's like you read my mind. Medicaid patients all day, yet the dames still have their nails done and are toting coach purses that would cover both my truck and insurance payments together. It's sick, really. Oh, don't forget to count the Blackberry phones and how many smoke.
I'm pretty sure that they can afford groceries, but that this is just part of their "con." Otherwise, where would they be getting the money to pay for the frivolous stuff? Plus, when people turn down their requests for money, they always seem to find enough to "just make it through."
I've found over time that it's actually fairly easy to tell the people who genuinely need help apart from those who are faking. The fakers tend to be demanding, and they are usually pretty bad liars. The ones who need help often seem to be the people who are least willing to ask for it.
Where this really angers me is that the fakers clog the legal system and make it so much harder for the genuinely needed to get help.
That could come in very handy if you need to get rid of a ring or two. Of course, you probably need to buy virgins in bulk to keep your house safe from the volcano.
Not to get conspiratorial, but have you noticed that they cancelled the plans to return to the moon right after Kraft Cheese made a significant contribution to key Congressmen? I guess they don't want the competition from all that free cheese.
I have to say that I've been VERY poor in life and I've never felt that anybody has ever "owed" me anything. I've worked hard all my life and I wouldn't have it any other way. Life is a challenge and it should be looked upon as something that can be overcome and conqured. No fatalistic attitude for me, I say bring it on and I'll kick it's butt.
"They don't pay me enough to think" To which you should reply.."obviously"
Xenu drops Thetans into volcanoes. Not as effective as virgins but I'll take 'em.
Didn't Sara Palin just quit her job?
Hey that's no conspiracy. You think the Apollo missions where for exploration? Think again! They where mining Goverment Cheese the whole time…….Kraft promised them an endless supply of a yellow,semi-edible, cheesey like substance (think generic Mac and cheese) and free lifetime peticures in exchange for ending the program. if you don't believe me check out the website http://www.unicornfarts.org.uk. They have some very compelling information on it!
Sorry That's all I got! Feel free to remove points for that one…..But it did kinda sound like Planet Hero No?
Right on. Most people's lot in life is determined by the choices they make. Good choices= success. Bad choices=failure. People who don't get an education, have kids out of wedlock, smoke, do drugs ( hold on to your hats..) generally do poorly in life. It is not rocket science. Problem is unions say a baggage handler at the airport should make $100 dollars and hour and get 3 months off a year.
There's two sides to every story.
Congratulations, but why _wouldn't_ you tell him? Nothing wrong with tooting your own horn when it' something truly worthwhile, like…saving a life! What if there was a promotion choice between you and an otherwise equal employee who _didn't_ prevent a death?
I've actually used the same comparison as it applies to affording health insurance. You don't need a car made in 2009 more than you need insurance. You don't need cable, cell phones, netflix, etc more than you need insurance. I know a guy that complains all the time that he's broke, but he has different ringtones for almost every number in his phone. On my phone, that's 2.99 each for ringtone times about a hundred. Really? $300 on ringtones? Maybe that's why you're broke. It's a matter of priorities, they'll spring for all the stuff they want, then when it hits the fan and their stuck with huge medical bills, they expect someone else to make it ok.
"More often than not, people who are poor…. are right where they should be."
This isn't limited to the poor. We all get what we deserve.
If you are in a bad situation, then you haven't done enough to get out of it. Life's tough. Deal with it or vote Democrat.
Could someone read the article and write a synopsis for me? I recorded MJ's memorial and I still have to run to MickeyD's Thanks
more raw sirloin for the grist mill…
As human beings on this planet we are entitled to absolutely nothing. That's your baseline. Now, what do citizens have a right, or 'entitlement' to expect?
1) Strong defense. The least our taxes should do for us.
2) Good roads. Makes sense.
3) Decent infrastructure. (see above)
4) Good public education. We're waiting…
5) Positive leadership. (see above- again)
As far as the rest, well, you're on your own…
Well said, Steven. I get so tired of the demand for "rights" (and the contortions people go to justify them) as an excuse for personal inaction and irresponsibility. I've often thought about what rights every human has, regardless of nationality, location, race, environment, etc. I've come up with a short list of guaranteed rights every human has once they are born (e.g. they cannot be taken away from you by anyone else at any time):
1. The right to know the difference between good and evil
2. The right to choose how you react to good and evil
3. The right to die
(I didn't put a right to live, as, tragically, people are willing to kill even the defenseless unborn). There may be other rights that cannot ever be taken away; those born with mental handicaps may not get even #1 and #2.
Any other additional rights are granted by citizenship in a community, such as those described in the Declaration of Independence, and can be lost through carelessness and apathy. However, the Declaration of Independence was pretty clear that an American has the right to "pursue" happiness, not have it handed to them.
Holy crap are you right! A friend of mines kid, now in the sixth grade at public school, had no idea if Canada was to the north or south of the United States. What? He could however tell you where BH0 was born and everything you ever wanted to know about Al Gore!
The kid starts at a Private Catholic School next school year!
It's humorous that you would use Entitlement as a topic in your entry since it is a topic my friend and I have been discussing for the past few weeks. (Mostly applied to the Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings scandal and a recent book that proves Jefferson's innocence….but I digress.)
2 weeks ago I chaperoned my church's group of teen girls at camp…nothing like roughing it on a bunkbed in the middle of no where with 14 year olds constantly chattering about "hot" guys and complaining about their circumstances. When I was their age (which is like 8 years ago) guys were just fun to fish with and I had to suck it up and deal with the heat and bugs. Any ways, a situation between the girls happened that has forever embedded the spirit of entitlement in my head.
One of the girls purchased some chips from the store and another girl "couldn't afford" to purchase food (even though she JUST purchased a $5 energy drink…) so she asked the "chip" girl in a whining and demanding voice, "Can I have a few chips?". The girl being kind hands her one and the instead of saying thank you the girl screams, "I SAID A *FEW* CHIPS!" I whipped my head back in shock and said, "HEY! She was kind enough to share with you and instead of being grateful you demand more. That is no way to act towards someone who was kind to you!"
I find more and more people in today's society pointing out that the kindness of others doesn't measure up to their "expectations" (aka greediness). They do blame people for their poor circumstances in life and when someone is kind they usually bite the hand that feeds them. Like you stated Stephen, change your circumstances, pull yourself up by your bootstraps and do something about it instead of blaming someone for not giving you enough. (Also learn to budget your money better by purchasing a bottle of water for $1 and having $4 left over to spend on food.
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The other day I saved a customer's life. I found an electrified gas line in a customer's house that was popping her circuit breaker. What would have happened if a spark led to an explosion? My boss will never know though. Saving lives doesn't figure in to productivity. Nobody will ever know what I did. Until today, that is. All of you BH people, come celebrate with me, as we all express true skill and professionalism in our jobs. Mine saved a life! But my boss will never know.
Hopefully it's not one of those places run by people who were all into what they called the "spirit" of Vatican II. I was raised Catholic, and I can't help but feel that that willful misinterpretation of the rules ruined my chances of ever being close to the Church. It struck me as just something you did on Sundays — there was no sense of the sacred, not even in that intuitive state that children seem to always have access to.
After twenty-odd years of Marty Haugen songs, peace handshakes and liturgical dance, I can't take my own religion seriously now. I feel like I've been robbed.
I guess your right. Even Bill Ayers couldn't get there…………
It's so sad that people if they really can't afford groceries that they won't sacrifice things for their own well being for themselves and at times their children. Then there are those who really can afford it but they decide to live off of others (and the government). It is the hard working people who pay for it in the end…such an upside down world we live in. John Smith stated to the colonists, "If you don't work you don't eat" Now it's become "If you don't work go on food stamps!". *sigh*
ETA: I am NOT judging those on food stamps because there are legitimate cases. However, the system is being abused by people who can provide for their families so that's who I'm pointing to in this case.
Nah. When you can envision the embodiment of every far left stereotype possible that stops short of avowed communism, where everyone is entitled except those nasty mean white people, especially horrible white males, who actually ends up demeaning everyone but his own special class, who can cry out against an injustice but in the same post reveals he is guilty of committing it, and then picture all of it together, just by reading his words, being delivered by someone who makes Perez Hilton's shtick look tame, then it sounds like Planet_Sub.
He was still posting over at a breitbart.com news piece, where the Occupant in Chief was saying the Supreme Court was "moving the ball" after the firemen decision, about how racism is so alive and well in the US, 4-5 days after the article first showed up. Get this one: It is proof of racism that there are not enough minorities at tea parties and NRA and RNC events, we might as well get out the robes and pointy hats. Earlier commenting, white people must still make up for slavery, regardless of who you are, due to the benefit of having white skin. Well, if this is a benefit I would seriously consider a reverse MJ and being "disadvantaged." Ah heck, if you can get recognized as transgendered without getting any work done, you are merely "in the wrong body," then the courts should recognize my "inner African-American-ism." Seems fair and just to me.
Cities around the country had these "projects" as the 60's humane answer to poverty. Invariably they became drug infested, crime ridden warehouses for the poor. Typical democrat solution. Take control of people then just give them enough to subsist, but more important, more reliant. Could never understand what the difference was between these projects and the slave quarters on some plantation.
I'm reminded of my sister-in-law who graduated from nursing school (LPN) but couldn't pass the state license exam. Rather than take the test again, she just bailed and went through a series of "dead end" jobs. She hated them all and it was always somebody else's fault. She loathed working at Wal-mart and was always complaining about it. I always felt that with her attitude and ambition that she was lucky to have the Wal-mart job. I'd also like to add that she was accepting a ton of goverment freebies which kept her in a cycle of "do-nothingness." What's the point of really trying when you are getting a housing voucher, food stamps, day care subsidy, etc.
So true! That has been my major beef with those who say they can't afford health insurance so national health care is a "must." I've started speaking out. When a nurse practitioner friend of mine commented on an anti-national health care article I posted on my Facebook telling me all about this patient of hers who had no health insurance and had to choose to between treating her breast cancer of feeding her children. She even threw in the MIchael Moore movie Sicko saing it was a great and accurate movie. My comment back to her was to ask her if her patient had a cell phone, cable, internet and more than one family vehicle (and also what kind of vehicle did she drive). I told her that I don't want my hard earned tax dollars paying for someone else's health insurance when it's clear they are making a CHOICE between luxuries and necessities. I also told her that I'd rather have my eyes poked out with a hot poker and have my skin flayed from my body rather than watch anything by Michael Moore as I knew better than to drink the koolaid.
Incidentally, this nurse practitioner is a diabetic herself – a hugely overweight (probably morbidly obese) diabetic who pretends to watch her diet by who justifies eating the regular (vs. sugar-free) dessert because she had a salad at lunch. We'll probably end up paying for her care at some point, too.
Incidentally, this nurse practitioner is a diabetic herself – a hugely overweight (probably morbidly obese) diabetic who pretends to watch her diet by who justifies eating the regular (vs. sugar-free) dessert because she had a salad at lunch. We'll probably end up paying for her care at some point, too. (1st comment is in moderartion?? I didn't use profanity or any derogatory words…..)
In that case I must ask you what your stance is on "renewable energy" since you are objecting to the use of a free and widely-available natural resource.
Barak Obama, choice of the freeloader.
Barak Obama: choice of the freeloader.
From the Great Society froward, public housing has become a generational blight from Appalchia to the southside of Chcago, it’s not a hand up but has become a lifestyle Democratic slavery if you will.
To quote my TEA Party sign: THE ONLY THING I'M ENTITLED TO IS LIBERTY
Waah! Waah! Waah! Whitey keeps the black man down. Gimme some money. I want food stamps. Gimme a better place to live. I want an easier job. Make me a citizen without all that mumbo jumbo. Stick it to the rich man. Waah! Waah! Waah! Waah! Waah! Waah! Waah! Waah! Waah!
The white man killed Michael Jackson. Waah! Waah! Waah! Waah! Waah! Waah!
She's a good little Democrat now, useless!
Too many Americans think they are entitled to "equal outcomes"
That was wrong on soooo… many levels.
Good one, Steve! My husband has an expression – "Showing up doesn't justify a paycheck." You have to show up and actually DO YOUR JOB. Too many people don't see it that way.
The worst people are employed at airports. I don't care if every one of them is closed for good. Great article.
Yes I get it. But when you are given health worries to deal with all your life, your grades do suffer and instead of being the engineer your teacher's predicted you would be at first – you are stuck in a cublicle working with people who do deserve to be there.
teachers
heh
That is an amazing, incredible story. Thank you for sharing.
word.
Needs more wolf.
Sgt,
The 1SG of C Co 2nd Bn (ABN) 503rd Inf (101st in 1973, my first unit) had a sign above his desk
"Lead, Follow, or get the Hell Out of the Way." More people should just shut up and do that.
NOW THAT'S THINKING WITH YOUR DIPSTICK, STEVIE!!!!!!
Sorry, that's what first came to my head. Good post, Crowder.
Iwwalker-you're a conundrum wrapped up in an enigma. Get a clue! Pffft.
We can always make sure he just never leaves the closet again..
agreed. We simply meant government (local as well) has a responsibility to offer basic education…
Harrumph!
So's mine. Way too many trips to Mickey D's.
Indeed. Originally the Democrats had all the slaves. Then they lost them, thanks to Republicans. Now, a hundred plus several decades later, the Democrats have their slaves back, but instead of using violence to subdue them, they used handouts.
AMEN!!!
No, not sponging off the government, sponging off group number 1: Hard work – The American Way. Government has no money of its own.
Yep, teaching inner city kids I had kids who wouldn't do the work. I'd ask them why. The response was often that they weren't getting paid for it so why should they. Then, when they grow up and don't have the education to get a decent job, they'll be the grumbling, grudging workers of the world who blame people like me when their discontent and poor status started why back when they refused to start working hard for success, and they'll never see it.
Yep, teaching inner city kids I had kids who wouldn't do the work. I'd ask them why. The response was often that they weren't getting paid for it so why should they. Then, when they grow up and don't have the education to get a decent job, they'll be the grumbling, grudging workers of the world who blame people like me when their discontent and poor status started back when they refused to start working hard for success, and they'll never see it.
A hollowed out volcano? with your own fortress and a tank containing sharks with lazers on their heads for getting rid of pesky infiltrators?
The Fed should be removed entirely from education except for ensuring that schools receiving voucher funds maintain certain basic education standards and maintaining resource centers for homeschooling parents and co-ops. And even those things can be delegated to a state level once the standards are set.
And if you make less, you eventually don't pay at all, so then you have a lot of voters who could care less what the government does with the money they steal from us so long as the government promises to hand a lot of it to them.
Most of my brother-in-law's family calls it "getting their paycheck." Thankfully, he's the blacksheep of that bunch.
I think there is a nice write up about Rights at the Ayn Rand site. Basically, there are two types of rights. One you have simply by virtue of being: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness would exemplify that type of right. It imposes nothing on anyone else for you to maintain or attain that kind of right. The other kind of right they classify as a welfare right. Those rights impose an obligation on others for you to maintain or attain. The right to marriage and the right to health care are good examples of welfare rights. You can't marry without the consent of the person you wish to wed and the one who performs the ceremony; therefore, it's a welfare right. You can't have health care without the services of others to maintain it; therefore, it's a welfare right.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: I loves me some Crowder!
Yep, a liberal friend on Facebook has been loudly complaining that we need socialized health care. He does it based on his experience needing an MRI when he got caught with health insurance. He has his own real estate business … and no health insurance. It's clear he made the conscious choice to have "nice things" rather than pay for health insurance and was outraged at the $5000 MRI bill that resulted from getting caught with his pants down. I finally made it clear after dumping the laundry list of my medical expenses on him and the knowledge that we sacrifice greatly to ensure that we have health care that I had no intentions of backing socialized health care jsut because he was an irresponsible idiot. His response was only that I should imagine all the nice things I could have with the money I would save if our health care was free. It was like a bad Geico commercial.
And sometimes, that's what you do when you need to move on to bigger and better things to improve your circumstances in life.
You find other ways. I have health worries too, but you do it and you find other ways to do it.
I completely understand your plight. My parents have had 4 kids with multiple surgeries, my father has fatty tumors that harden and cause pain and need removed, my mother has had vascular surgery on her leg. Even with insurance, the percentage they put out is a killer. But better some coverage than none. I've been uninsured since I was 19 and I'm not complaining. I pay for what I need out of pocket and care for myself homeopathically as best possible. Some folks just don't get it.
Yes, but it's HIGHLY DOUBTFUL that she's going to go to the state of Alaska looking for a welfare hand out.
Your point?
nadia,
Sweetie, I think you have fallen prey to the "I'm a victim" mentally our country has developed. You CAN do anything you want. As aharris said below, you find ways. If it means taking fewer classes and taking longer to get the degree, that's what you do. For your own sake, you should look into pursuing that engineering degree…one day, one class at a time.
Wow, I worked at a movie theater when Sicko came out. That movie was a total crockumentary. They only showed the "good" parts of socialized medicine, not anything else. The wait list for vital surgeries is way longer than it should be. It is not good medicine in any form. People are able to have surgeries within weeks of discovering the need and immediate care that is within hours. Socialized medicine is not able to keep up or keep medical professionals happy, either. How much of the care we are providing goes to people that are obese and have obese-related issues, anyway? They're on Medicaid, Welfare, and food stamps and are still able to put more food on their tables than I can. Not to mention their whining about not having money while they surf the net on their Blackberry. Oh, and don't forget how often they talk about suing previous doctors for malpractice. I've verbally gone off on a few patients about what malpractice lawsuits to do the doctors and the price of health care in general and I am still surprised that I haven't been yelled at by a superior.
Could not agree more! Spot on. I am so tired of whiners! Enough already!
"Doing your job and doing it well may result in long-term success."
It may. But "may" is tacitly accompanied by "may not." These low-level employees you dealt with may have started off doing their jobs well, and found themselves unappreciated and underpaid. After a while, they may have simply lost their enthusiasm and become bitter and burned out.
The old cliché "Work hard and play by the rules and you'll get ahead" has been replaced by a new truth: "Work hard and play by the rules and you'll get screwed." Maybe those grumpy employees have figured that out. Their attitude may not be one of entitlement but of justifiable disillusionment.
I believe in the old adage,'You reap what you sow' and if you sow crap, well, you can expect to reap it. Most public service employees like the airline workers you encountered still don't get that fine point without a tip. Sky Caps are an exception as their tips depend on this principle. So next time you want an answer, hold up a fiver, it will get you better service and a less grumpy response, usually. I do this whenever i am looking for my bags in an Airport. I just ask for the baggage person to locate them and hand them a fiver to cement the point. I don't even need to ask for the location of the baggage or wait for it at the broken Carousel 2. The baggage person will fetch it and bring it back to me while I sip my coffee.
I applaud you both. What a great story.
No she just tried to steal about $150,000 worth of clothes from the RNC and the McCain campaign. She would have gotten away with the theft probably but some Republicans with integrity sued because of —- ethics violations over the issue, right?
in my grad psych classes one of the pushes is multicultural crap. I can go along with the "be sensitive" parts – I want someone to see me for me and not my demographic or stereotype. (but sometimes folks prove the stereotype – another rant for another day). but one of the ongoing themes in career counseling (the awful class I am in now) is "oppression": racism, sexism, etc and the acceptance that it is always a given instead of a perception or expectation. And the counselor is advised to make all kinds of effort to become "culturally aware" while no/little mention of the fact that some acculturation will be REQUIRED to get and keep a job. I actually let my opinion loose on last night's assignment, I generally try to keep my head down and move forward.
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When I reply in a Crowder thread, the moderators usually block it. So why bother?
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Not mentioned in class, but a natural follow to "you can be as different as you want because you are a minority" is this sense of poor me when that attitude doesn't fly in the real world which then is formed into the sense of entitlement – "I tried to get a job, but they didn't appreciate that my culture has a different – and perfectly acceptable – view of time (or fill-in-blank), therefore I didn't get anywhere because they are oppressing me, so now the government owes me".
I guess I gotta do that sign-up thing if I'm going to keep opening my big mouth around here!!!!
No offense intended…I have multiple "Joe Biden" moments every day…..Kinda like a "Senior Moment", only with drooling…….:-)
Can't say I am suprised. I had a little discussion with him the other day, He was complaining that we are a bunch of "Republican Thugs" at Big Hollywood. I suggested that he might try "coming to the fight armed"…..The was the last I heard from him…….
I'm still working on my "Troll" imitation. I haven't quite got the name calling down yet….
You are right about Atlanta…….I usually fly American and change in Dallas but Airtran recently had the best price to New Orleans and I had to go through Atlanta. I will be paying extra and going to Dallas next time….I was appalled at the open rudeness of the employees and dirty facilities!
go top your shriveled excuse for brains up on rockefellcher fluoridated water
If you are really committed to that study, for which maybe you should be committed, study Perez Hilton and The Bird Cage while practicing walking around with your head tilted back and your nose so high that passerby can see any nose hairs that escaped permanent depilation. Yes I am serious. Be prepared to argue that Climate Change is obvious racism as it harms minorities while unfairly benefiting white people, especially white males, which is why all those mean conservatives will do nothing to stop it. You may be graded on your answer.
One side says you are avoiding your registered account so you are not automatically dismissed for the negative rating, the other side says maybe you are someone else spoofing that person who is automatically dismissed. 'Nuff said.
Ah finally, the troll responds with the long-disproven allegations he has been hoarding while they were decomposing, waiting for a good moment to smear them about just to provoke a reaction.
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Which is essentially bribery to get someone to at least do the job for the wages they agreed to take for it, and possibly doing some side business while they should be doing their being-paid-for job instead. My capitalistic instincts are conflicting with my morals.
Forgive him Kadaka, he’s from the 57th state of Blithervania, where he lives in the small troll village of Retardoville, he can't help it.
kadaka I don't think I am up for it. I can be as nasty as the next guy, but liberal trolls take it to new levels. I just don't think I can sink to that level.
I've always loved takeing things apart to see how they work, but in this case I think it will only end up in total bewilderment on my part. I have this sneaking suspicion that if I did disassemble a lefty all I'd find is green goo.
You clearly don't understand what it means to REALLY be poor in this country. You also don't fully understand our economic system. Not everyone can be rich not matter how hard they work. Not everyone can even be middle-class, as the term in and of itself means MIDDLE (between two extremes). You should get out and meet some of these "lazy" poor people who work, as MOST americans do…yet we have MILLIONS living below the poverty line.
Lastly, it is very ironic that while you allude to the guy working at the airport having an "entitlement" mentality, you didn't deem it necessary to find the luggage carosel on YOUR OWN. Just had to sit around and wait for someone else to do it for you hunh? I hate to say this, but more often than not…people who don't have their luggage don't have it because they haven't worked hard enough to find it…we should feel no pity for these people and in fact, should blast them as often as possible.
This is a common mistake, you start from the end where the sound waves actually emanate, not the end where you are certain the words had to come from.
I get dismissed both ways. But not always. It's disheartening to write something and not see it post. Just like talk radio; the left welcomes debate and the right evades it. At least, that's the way I see it. I'll save my thoughts on entitlements for a non-Crowder thread.
Unless you are getting the "deleted by administrator" message, you are merely getting hit with the automatic filtering that is getting everyone. Today I found a word that the unregistered person I was replying to was able to use but the filtering would not let me use it. So try not to feel you are getting "special treatment," this system is shafting everyone.
Yeah, you're are technically correct. I wish their job discription included the phrase, 'Wages include gratuities.' But I don't think so. So a little dinero greases the skids, gets you service with a smile and brightens their dull job. It's a harsh reality but one we have come to expect here in CA and most of the USA. Dipsticks always expect a little oil on the wick or the grears are left to grind.
I have a crappy entry level job where I'm not happy. I've worked in a call center for almost three years. It's the kind of job where they know full well people burn out.
I never, ever take out my misery on my customers. It is not the fault of other people that my job sucks and has gotten worse along with the job market. It is not their fault I can't afford to go to college.
We are all in this together, so I treat my customer with the kindness and respect I don't always get from the company I work for. It's just human decency, people.
Oh Dear God he is STILL posting on that topic! Now the minorities that do show up are "tokens!" There is just no pleasing him, ever. Oh wow, did you know most blacks and mexicans are anti-gun, and no self-respecting minority would go to these events anyway where there are GUNS and staring rednecks?
There are no signs of intelligent life on this Planet.
It's actually my old school he'll be going to. Thankfully they were not quite that bad. We got the usual things like Catholic Sex Ed, "Keep your pant's buttoned and you won't go to hell", and some of the other fire and brimstone curriculum, but generally it was all about learning. Not important things like mexican holidays or the greatest socialist leaders of all time, just things like reading writing and arithmetic (though the writing part never really stuck with me). The school is first and foremost about creating intelligent kids (oxymoron)
I do know what you mean though. My first 12 yrs of schooling where in Cahtolic schools so I was pretty burned out on religion for a very long time. It's a lot to lay on a kid! I hated it when I was there, but looking back, it was probably the best thing my parents ever did for me………..
Hey Crowder, your piece seems to imply George Clooney is better looking than you. I disagree. Hugh Jackman? Him neither.
You were entitled to think someone should help you find your luggage. Take your own advice and suck it up. Who cares if an airline employee is not helpful?
The airline employee you speak of was most likely a skycap. I could be wrong although that is who you mostly see at baggage claim. Skycaps work mainly for tips. I would venture to guess that is why you got the brush off.
I agree poor people are responsible for their situation. So are people that whine about things as ridiculous as their treatment at baggage claim.
Damn, you couldn't have proven Steve's point any better than with your post….thanks!
Damn, you coulDamn, you couldn't have proven Steve's point any better than with your post….thanks! dn't have proven his point any better than with your post…thanks!
I gather I have become jaded over the past 20 or 30 years of being in the workforce, these people open there mouths and complain and complain about anything that people will listen to. I think that this has become a way of life for most people that love mediocrity…… the true way of AMERICAN life was to strive and become better, the new OBAMA doctrine is don't worry WE THE AMERICAN TAX PAYERS with help you!!!!!! governement intervention….at its finest!
dcase your list is WAY too long.
We have exactly THREE rights.
Life. Liberty. Property.
That's all we need, just gimme those, stay the hell out of my way and I'll be fine thankyouverymuch.
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But you gotta admit it that to protect your three we need our five…
Being a Houston resident, I can completely understand your frustration with the airport "hired help".
Being a city employee means never having to say your sorry nor even give a care about one's job,
and unfortunately, we'll likely never be able to change that attitude.
I hope your next swing through town is a more pleasant experience. All the best. Keep up the good
fight.
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