Liars Can Figure: Leftist Idiocy

Uh. Yeah. Ok, I HAD to talk about this and you’ll see why as we go forward. I found this article at some leftist website that has 163,000 likes on Facebook, and well. . . well, oh boy. How about I start by telling you what it said. When you’re done laughing, we’ll talk about it.

The article made five points. Here they are:

(1) According to the Economic Policy Institute, “Almost half of Americans had NO assets in 2009”. This is because their debt exceeded their assets.

(2) According to the OECD, “inequality has increased by more over the past three years to the end of 2010 than in the previous twelve.”

(3) According to the IRS, “half of Americans are in or near poverty.”

(4) According to the Census Bureau, a family making $60,000 a year will pay $12,000 a year in taxes, $30,000 in food, housing, transportation, and “that total household expenditures [sic] will be about $50,000. That leaves nothing!”

(5) “As Congress continues to cut life-sustaining programs....” remember that “their 400 friends on the Forbes list made more from their stock market gains last year than the total amount of the food, housing and education budgets combined.”

Wow. The level of idiocy here is so high I want to find these people and slap them around on principle.... maybe rough up the corpses of their ancestors: “Why did you breed with your sister! What is wrong with you!” SLAP!! But I won’t, because I’m lazy.

All right, let’s hit this. First, let me point out that the obvious conclusion here is that OBAMA is a real monster. Yep. UNDER OBAMA inequality has skyrocketed worse than it did under Bush or Clinton. UNDER OBAMA, almost half of all Americans have NO ASSETS and live in poverty. UNDER OBAMA Warren Buffett and his 399 friends are sneaking into the homes of poor people at night and raping their pets... ok, so that’s not on the list, but it should be. Let me also add one our leftist friends forgot, that those without medical insurance has SKYROCKETED to 49 million from 43 million only three years ago.

Why does Obama hate the poor so much?

In all seriousness, if any of this was true, then we should start pointing this out over and over and over. Obama has been worse for poor people and middle class families than a Robber Baron administration. In fact, the only people who have benefited under Obama are the filthy rich... maybe it’s time to pitchfork Warren Buffett? This is a total indictment of the Obama/Pelosi years.

That said....

Let me point out a few things about the nonsense our slower cousins on the left are telling each other... no doubt in a frenzy of self-righteousness:

(1) Americans have plenty of assets. What they don’t have is net worth. There’s a huge difference. If they had no assets, they would be living naked in the park like an OWSer... without the iPads. And going with the net worth argument is idiotic because someone who owns a million dollar home could easily have no net worth. Should we pity them? Donald Trump has on several occasions managed to file bankruptcy because he falls into this category. Should we be taking up a collection for poor Donald? This is what happens when people without a grasp of economics or even the concepts of economics start spouting their beliefs.

(2) Inequality is a problem, I would agree with that, because it unbalances an economy in a great many ways. And we’ve reached a point where it is a problem because there is now a cap on the American dream for most people because of it. But that’s not what these assclowns mean. They’re just envious. They simple don’t like that others have more than they do.

(3) Does anyone believe that half of all Americans are in poverty? Have you ever stepped outside your mom’s basement, leftists? The federal measure of poverty is a phony measure created to guarantee that a sizable percentage of the population would always qualify for federal assistance. In other words, the Federal government ensures there will be poverty by defining it in relative terms rather than absolute terms. Said more simply, they say you’re in poverty if you have less than other people in the country, whether you are in any sort of objective poverty or not. By no objective measure is there real poverty in the United States outside of a few communities of crackheads and hillbillies. And it’s probably pretty insulting to people in third-world “paradises” to claim that people who drive $20,000 cars, own more appliances that middle class Europeans, and live in homes valued at $175,000 are “in or near poverty.”

(4) Subtracting $50,000 from $60,000 does not leave nothing. It leaves $10,000. Seriously, the next time you repeat the third grade, pay attention you retards. If you put that in the bank each year, you will have $3.9 million by the time you retire. Also, let me point out the irony that you don’t see the problem with those people losing 20% of their income in taxes... taxes you want to raise, you whiny bastards.

(5) Despite what your drugged out friends tell you, Congress hasn’t cut a penny of anything. Funding for nothing in the federal government has gone down in living memory. Moreover, what “life-sustaining program” are you talking about exactly? I don’t see anyone dropping dead on the streets no matter how much you may want that to happen. And even if that was true, then why are we blowing money on useless things like “clean energy” when there are poor people dying in this country?

Anyway, I really had no choice but to talk about this. This is what passes for “economics” on the left. This is why your liberal friends seem so stupid... garbage in, liberalism out.