And just wait until the predatory loans reset. Then all of them recently homed folks are going to be…

wait for it…

Homeless!

how obtuse does one have to be to equate a decline in homelessness to an increase in home ownership?

Um, I don’t know – how bone-stupid does one have to be to work for Fox News?

So “crushing” mortgages are a good thing?

That’s messed up.

I think we all know that San Francisco has been lavishing houses on the homeless.

Hmmmmm… how much do you want to bet that the decline in homelessness is due to how homelessness was being measured? After all, how do you think Bush-league and Co. achieved that lovely decrease in unemployment shortly after took office?

I remember it well. They simply declared you were no longer unemployed if you had been out of work for over 6 months! I was no longer unemployed for 5 months in 2000-2001 and knew lots of other no longer unemployed folks. It was a fun time, let me tell you.

Damn! they took office.

Everyone knows that crushing mortgages are a good thing as long as the banks are bailed out by the federal government. This is the case because everyone also knows that irresponsible and predatory lending is the fault of the lendee rather than the lendee. Why is this the case? Easy. Because large banking institutions have a lot more money that individual lenders, therefore making them necessarily *better* than the individual.

In all seriousness, it still amazes me that alleged individualists constantly root for the large, faceless collectivist, state-created institutions, over the sanctity of the individual. This GLARING inconsistency has never been explained to me by purported conservatives. I wonder when they’ll get around to it.

Edit: fault of the lendee rather than the LENDOR.

I heard a report on NPR that a big part of that number, in NY at least, is a redefinition of “chronically homeless”. It seems that families are now, by definition, not homeless, they just think that they are.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16088934

Good news? Let’s look at the Federal definition of Homeless:

§11302. General definition of homeless individual
(a) In general
For purposes of this chapter, the term “homeless” or “homeless individual or homeless person” includes—
an individual who lacks a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence; and

an individual who has a primary nighttime residence that is —

a supervised publicly or privately operated shelter designed to provide temporary living accommodations (including welfare hotels, congregate shelters, and transitional housing for the mentally ill);

an institution that provides a temporary residence for individuals intended to be institutionalized; or

a public or private place not designed for, or ordinarily used as, a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings.

Notice is says “individual”. So if you are homeless with you spouse and/or kids, you’re not counted in this statistic. Now isn’t that nice!

“Bush has made sure you have a job”

Absolutely true. He personally wrote my letter of recommendation. All I had to do was say I love Jesus, the GOP and America, in that order. Here is the text of the letter (you’ll have to imagine the crayon scrawl and backwards letters):

to Whoom it may concurn,

roofus is a Fine and up Standing citicen, and he will wurk gud for u. pleez hyer him and Let him ceep his Job for as long as i am prezdint.

yurs trueley, Gorge W bush

Gibson should pay a visit to New Orleans, where a homeless camp has sprung up across the street from City Hall.

O/t but by my calculations –

Malkin got beat by Ace

Hot Air got beat by Crooks and Liars

And PJ? Well, he still sux.

Bush has made sure you have a job

I know people joke about “Dear Leader”-ish statements Fox makes on Bush’s behalf, but I’ve never really seen one up close before.

homelessness is virtually over.

I’m going to ask that guy sleeping in the alcove near the employee parking lot how many points he had to pay and what rate he got.

Rufus: Tip: semiliterate people don’t use vowels! They make up for it by using ALL CAPS and lots of exclamation points!!!! (This doesn’t include whole languages that skip vowels)

My credit is so bad, they won’t klet me buy a spot under the bridge. Seems I was priced out by Gary, Kevin, tde, saul…

And just wait until the predatory loans reset. Then all of them recently homed folks are going to be…

Homeless!

Not if the White House gets to write the definitions!

“an individual who lacks a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence; ”

I’m guessing that, under the Bush Administration’s guidelines, old cars, pup tents and refrigerator boxes can be classified as an ‘adequate nighttime residence.’

Kathleen said, November 9, 2007 at 0:26

I think we all know that San Francisco has been lavishing houses on the homeless.

That seems a rather lavish statement to me, in my opinion, if you ask me.

El Cid said, November 9, 2007 at 0:47

Kathleen said, November 9, 2007 at 0:26

You fuckers.

I think we all know that San Francisco has been lavishing houses on the homeless.

What does this have to do with shower curtains?

Well, it’s good that they’ve opened some bed spaces in the shelters to make room for our returning soldiers.

I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to Sadly No for not including a photo of Gibson with this post.

I’m guessing that, under the Bush Administration’s guidelines, old cars, pup tents and refrigerator boxes can be classified as an ‘adequate nighttime residence.’

True, but for the old cars to meet the ‘fixed residence’ requirements, they have to be up on blocks. So there’s that.

Bush has made sure you have a job.

Pity a guy needs three of them to make ends meet.

So wait, homelessness has dropped… a year before the mortgage crisis hit? And this is a sign that we don’t need to worry about homelessness anymore? Wow, that’s brilliant! Guess we’re all done here!

Gibson wants to pretend there is no homelessness, because recent figures show that 1 in 4 homeless people are veterans.

Link

I wonder when all these brainiacs like Gibson will be officially discredited? Meaning even their own Corporate enablers have to let them go?

*personal, self-inflicted bitch slap*

Sadly, Never!

If you have money, move it to cash. My guiding principle on this is that George “Bizarro Midas” Bush has screwed everything he’s touched up; how can the economy not be next? It’s not a very sophisticated analysis, sure, but I’ll bet my assets, because I already have, that I’m right. The only question is whether or not everyone will be able to blame the new Administration.

Disclaimer: I am NOT a financial advisor.

Heck, even cash isn’t any good anymore – Gisele Bundchen wants to be paid in Euros instead of dollars because the dollar isn’t worth anything anymore.

I have come to the same conclusion as John O., except I didn’t think of anything as good as “Bizarro Midas.”

Max Headroom – the latter years, really should just take a stroll in NYC, stop the “homeless” he sees an ask them why they’re walking the streets instead of kicking it in their Manhattan lofts?

It’s true, g. I’ve said that if my money market dough, such as it is, tanks, someone is going to be held accountable.

Not sure how yet, but it’s what I do. I once got to the top levels of a major banking institute 20 years ago, when they admitted in writing that they effed up on my student loan repayment, to which I said, “No problem. Send me $20 and we’ll call it even,” at which point they said, “impossible, and subsequently I went into a meltdown mode, and made several mid-to-high level bank managers VERY uncomfortable by asking, “Wait. What do you to do me if *I* make a mistake with your rules?”

They of course charged me when I made a mistake. Which they all meekly admitted.

So, I said, hey, I’m just doing what you do. What’s the big deal? It’s $20.

They of course had no bureaucratic rules written for how to deal with me.

I spent about $1,000 of their time. It was fun, and funny, and listening to them squirm over their double-standard brings me joy to this day. I got so much satisfaction that I gave up before asking the VP I finally got to, “Why don’t you just pull $20 out of your fucking wallet and send it to me, you piece of shit?”

You should hear my story about the IL Tollway Authority, which got me a call from the IBI (IL Bureau of Investigation), which I naturally thought was fake until the Sargeant started reading me my obscenity-laced letter.

Good times. Beware The Man.

I know for a fact the bad news you hear isn’t nearly as bad as it sounds.

Coming from John Gibson, there’s something really ominous about that statement.

Just for the record, I gave a “shorter” version of my student loan nightmare.

Not only did they screw it up, they screwed it up AFTER I had sent them a letter explicitly explaining how they could screw it up, which proved to be, how should I put this?…geniusly prescient.

You want to hassle a bureaucracy? I’m your man. Send me the facts of your grievance, and I’ll make it work for you, at least emotionally.

For a fee. LOL.

this economy has insured you have a home

You just haven’t received your foreclosure notice yet.

John, I once pulled that same stunt with my bank. They effed up my deposit (crediting it to my wife’s account) so when I started writing checks, they of course started charging me overdraft fees.

When I was sitting there to straighten it out, the clerk told me the check was now properly creditied and everything was fine, and I asked about the fees. He said he would waive the bank fees, of course, but I said “Wait. What about the fees being charged by all the stores?” and he said they couldn’t do anything about that.

“So let me get this straight ” (in a loud voice) “When I screw up and overdraw my account, you charge me, but when YOU screw up … I also get charged!?!”

He grimaced and stood up suddenly, then went to talk to a manager. Then came back and sheepishly said yes, they would also cover the store overdraft fees.

The key is to do it in person, and be willing to make a scene.

Ah, but John, none of those fucks are actuallly held accountable, in the sense that most of them should be rendered jobless (if not homeless) & never allowed to participate in any financial activities again.
The fact is the entire economic system is a house of cards waiting to fall. I for one can’t wait ’til it happens. (Schadenfreude is the only thing keeping me alive.)

John O said, November 9, 2007 at 3:26

That was a completely awesome story.

Some other day, when the moon is just peeking through the trees on the horizon, and the traffic sounds are dying down, we will grow quiet, and hear the story of the IL Tollway Authority. Those of us there that night will become a brotherhood, a venture, and we will speak of it to others who will never begin to understand.

M. Bouffant, are you a young hot babe?

Because I want to meet you if that’s the case. I’ll even go along with, middle-aged semi-hot babe. 🙂

Your posts crack me up. And I agree with you 100% on this one. The whole system is built on a sand-foundationed house of cards, and I’m tired of being called “pessimistic,” or “paranoid.”

Depends what you are actually planning for.

If you just think the economy is going to slow down and suck a LOT, move your assets offshore, and keep them in euros. Yuan would be ok too, but you have lots more options to open a cayman is. acct in euros.

If you think the meltdown is going to be much broader and deeper than that, you are not going to have access to those assets, and they may very well collapse along with, or quickly behind, the dollar. In that case, gold, silver (it’s kinda heavy and hard to move), platinum, precious stones (don’t go for large stones – you’re going to need to use these as purchasing power) or commodities. Ammunition, cigarettes, booze, drugs, fuel, antibiotics – many things will take on a wildly overrated value in a time of scarcity.

Point simply being. Make your best, coldest prediction and move your assets to places where they will retain value and be useful AND usable in that environment…

mikey

El Cid, I can’t believe I haven’t written it down anywhere already, so I could just copy it, but I haven’t been able to find it yet. I’m sorry. Kind of a long story, and may not be as entertaining if you don’t regularly deal with the IL Tollway Authority.

But I’ve got another good one, if you’re really interested. I’m telling you, there isn’t a person on the planet that hates The Man more than I do, and I don’t care which Man we’re talking about. This will provide some flavor to the as-yet revealed toolway story.

http://jonorato42.wordpress.com/2007/02/14/wherein-i-attempt-to-obtain-a-passport/

Oh. Ain’t no real big secret here. If you’re curious, I’d be happy to tell you what I did…

mikey

mikey, lets get together privately and plan some sort of revolution. You may not agree, but I think we’re of like mind.

billy pilgram:

Stick with that bank. I was doing everything over the phone, since “the bank” was a long ride away, and it was a long time ago, but it seems to me you have some normal people working at yours.

Me, not so much luck. Sadly, Inevitably!, they’ve been sold several times, so now I barely know who I bank with.

Is there anything more pointless than a “The economy is better than you think!” article? Pretending that a shitty economy is actually great has about as much effect as telling a child who has just fallen down, “Aw, it doesn’t really hurt that much, does it?”.

It’s simple–people know when they’re doing well, and they know when they’re doing shitty.

Right on, Me. Everyone who tells us the economy is great has a great personal economy. OTOH, everyone I know, and that’s a generally high-income group, relatively, is shitting bricks.

It would be funny in some circumstances. Just not the ones we’re under.

If he lived in Seattle, he’d be equating the drop in homelessness to the drop in living homeless people…

Jesus has made sure you have a job, and Jesus has insured you have a home.
Fixed.
This certainly fits into Doodle Bean’s “personal relationship with politicians & celebrities” observation from a couple of threads ago.

Never mind, M. I checked your blog, and thanks for the credit.

Darn the luck.

Keep up the good work. The blogosphere is sneaking its way into the public consciousness, and even us triple-ZZCCVXVII bloggers make just a little bit of difference.

Every little bit helps.

Dood. I’m too old to lead the Revolution. But I might be a useful fellow traveler. You youngsters get things percolating a little, and I’ll show you some force multipliers.

It’s about message discipline, disciplined action and, when it comes down to it, fire discipline.

Let’s watch Pakistan. I’m deeply concerned there’s a model for us there. Either way it goes…

mikey

LOL, mikey. I’m an old 48. In many ways, I’ve given up and started hanging out at websites that make me laugh at the absurdity, so I can stay out of the nuthouse.

I was thinking it would be good if the blogosphere “boycotted Christmas,” in religious terms, meaning the message was framed around non-materialistic stuff; love thy neighbor, save the Mother Earth, stop supporting murderers…you know, framed in a way to insulate us from everyone but the extreme crazies.

Ideally, all of our “presents” would be spent at Act Blue, or by making homemade and sentimental, personal gifts. And so on.

But I have not the power.

I’ve given up and started hanging out at websites that make me laugh at the absurdity, so I can stay out of the nuthouse.

That’s an option. I drink scotch. And shoot pistols. I find both highly therapeutic…

mikey

I’m a rum and Diet guy. It works.

Whatever works for you I always say, even to my married friends.

I have two bank stories that I use to nurse my grudges against The Man –

One, we wrote a personal check to a person who did some household errands for us. We told her to deposit it on our direct deposit payday, WHICH SHE DID, but for whatever fucking reason, our bank bounced it. Her bank redeposited it and all was well. Then she did another errand, we paid her, and her bank told her they put a fucking ten-day hold on the deposited check, not crediting the funds to her account and merrily bouncing all her checks.

So she called us, very upset with us, and we checked the online account come to find out that the fund actually cleared our account and went to the bank the very same day she deposited it.

So – they actually got the funds FROM our account INTO her bank, but they didn’t credit her account for 10 days.

Story number 2 – our joint account was with a credit union associated with my spouse’s employer. Both our names on the account, both our names on the check, both of us having our paychecks direct deposited into the account.

We travel. I use my debit card at an ATM. Next time I try to use my card, it’s declined. I know there’s money in the account – it’s the day after payday. So I call the bank, long distance from a distant city. They tell me there’s a fraud hold on the card due to unusual activity (getting cash at an ATM out of town). I verify its me getting the cash, and ask them to turn my card back on, and then they tell me, “Well, we can’t do anything unless we hear from the account-holder.” I said, “I AM the account holder; it’s a joint account and my name is on it.” They say, “Well, your spouse is the credit union member, so we have to hear from that person.” I said, “Whoa, wait a minute, you’ve been getting direct deposits twice a week of $XK coming in from my employer, what the heck do you mean I’m not the account holder?”

“Tell your husband to call us.”

I meant “every two weeks.”

Welcome to ManWorld, g.

Horrifying, isn’t it?

Gibby did manage to get ONE somewhat accurate thought out in that verbal equivalent of cheetos in a toilet:

“So are doubts about all this good news the reason that Bush’s disapproval numbers are so high? I don’t think so.”

Can’t even argue with that one.

They tell me there’s a fraud hold on the card due to unusual activity

Tuesday night I ordered the eee pc (check it out, you can’t live without one) from newegg. No big deal, 440 bucks. Transaction goes thru clean. I get an email from newegg the next morning that the bank has cancelled the transaction. Before I can even react, I get a call from Citi, that they have suspiscious activitity on my card and can I verify the transactions.

Hmm. Say Whut, motherfucker? I used my credit card to BUY STUFF and you decided that was suspicious and you needed to fuck with me? Near as I can tell, the only suspicious activity you can do with a credit card is to try to jimmy a lock with it. And we ALL know a drivers license is better for that.

I called the fuckers up. I said, “why are you fucking with me?” I used my credit card to make a purchase. Which, last time I looked, is what THEY WERE FOR!!ELVEN.

They could not explain it. It triggered the “suspicious” flag on their software.

Skynet, anyone?

mikey

Kids, I once worked for a bank. It’s been twelve years,& all I know now is that the ability to confirm debits & credits to accounts is literally over night. Even if writing checks, they don’t even send the pieces of paper to be processed any more, they just scan those goofy looking #s on the bottom & electronically submit them,. Whenever you’re advised of a ten-day hold it’s complete bullshit. Two days maximum, anywhere in the U. S., & probably the civilized world as well.

Now as far as robot Nazis (or Nazi robots) @ Shitibank w/ algorithims that “know” how you should be spending your money, well, if you thought the Man was bad, wait’ll the Man’s main man is a Machine.

Puny humans, bow before me!

Vis a vis the homeless (not homme-less, as my uncorrected version said), I recall a story about some US city, can’t remember which one, from a few years ago.

Seems this city had slashed their homeless numbers almost instantly. “How?!?” I hear you cry. Well, they’d wandered around the streets giving brand new, non-grease-stained, large cardboard boxes to all the erstwhile homeless.

Voila! Instant domicile.

Uhm, excuse me….I hate to interrupt the conversation between Mikey and John O, but I’d like to post a comment in this thread.

OK, what was I gonna say? Uhm…oh, shit, I don’t know. I forget.

Ah, fuck it.

You were saying…?

So “crushing” mortgages are a good thing?

Hey, a worker terrified of losing their house is a worker who isn’t going to Make Waves. Even a young, healthy guy with no family who’s convinced himself he’s never gonna need health insurance will develop a healthy sense of paranoia if you make it clear that one misstep and he’s out in the crool streets with no place for his *stuff*! Our new corporate overlords, bringing new meaning to the term “chattel slavery”…

Anne Laurie speaketh truthily.

I spent the past fifteen years in the corporate feudal system, and believe me, I know whereof I speak. This is why,, at the age of 46, I have returned to college to learn a trade I won’t have to perform in corporate hell. Seriously, my entire life was like a Dilbert strip, only not nearly as funny.

Think about this: A person works for Citi. They have their mortgage through the company. They have their house payment automatically deducted from their Citi bank account. Their health care is through the company’s health insurance plan. Their auto loan is through Citi. 401K, ditto. Home, health, transportation, salary, retirement, all come through Citi. Or Wells Fargo. Or Principal Financial Group. It’s some scary shit, when you stop and think about it. Talk about owing your soul to the company store.

Welcome to ManWorld, g.

Well, that’s the thing. It really wasn’t about “ManWorld” – it was their stupid rule that you had to be an employee of the group that the Credit Union was part of to be a Real Human Being.

But even though my rational self knew that, my inner feminist went crazy when they told me I wasn’t capable of conducting my own financial affairs without a man to authorize it.

If I had been the employee – or if our joint account was at the Credit Union associated with MY employer, I presume – it would have been my husband who was treated like a child.

That would be an interesting experiment. Almost worth opening up another account for.

Candy: You know it, sister. I worked for Fascist InsectFirst Interstate Bank of California for almist 18 yrs. before being laid off, & my life has gotten worse every day since, even though I hated the job. Though it’s more like living in the Soviet Union than the company store. At least when they had co. stores you could run off to the next state & start over.

And speaking of banking, g, mikey & John O.: Money transfer is almost immediate. A ten day hold is absolute bullshit, even w/ paper checks they scan the MICR #s on the bottom of the check & send the info electronically overnight. I’d imagine almost every check in the country clears (or doesn’t) w/in two days, & probably in the civilized world (Canada) as well.

And mikey & John, if you think it’s creepy that the Man @ Shitibank has an algorithim that knows how you should be spending your money, wait till the Nazi robots (or robot Nazis) are running everything on behalf of the Man.

Credit Unions are weird. (They may be more closely regulated than banks.) I had a joint acc’t. w/ my mother @ the AFTRA-SAG FCU, specifically so that when she went to the big casting call in the sky there wouldn’t be any problem w/ my getting whatever money was there, but as soon as they found out she was dead they closed the account, leading to similar embarrassment to g’s w/ her card. Though they then opened a new acc’t. for me, as a legacy, or something, as I’ve nothing to do with AFTRA or SAG.

Sure homelessness went down from 2005 to 2006. Much of the entire Gulf Coast was homeless in 05 until they got that nice Astrodome and all those luxurious trailers to live in. Barbara Bush even said it was working quite well for them.

mmkay.

I’m just posting cause I tried to go to bed and I can’t sleep.

It’s really cold tonight and my feet are freezing. My spouse has a cold and it ‘s making him snore. And finally, the geriatric Rottweiler sleeping at the foot of the bed is farting. So – I’m being assaulted in three senses out of five.

I got up to put some socks on. I can’t do anything about the snoring and the dog-farts.

It ain’t fair.

Yes, fall is upon us. I’ll be wearing pants inside in a few wks.

I literally fell OUT of my chair onto my ASS onto the FLOOR when NI found out (a few years ago) exactly how the BLS comes up with its “unemployment” figures.

Brace yourselves, because you will too.

Wait for it…wait for it…..

They CALL PEOPLE and they ASK THEM if they HAVE A JOB!!!!!!!

Yes! That’s it!

They make random lists of phone numbers in targeted areas, call up and ask if the respondent is employed.

Of course, that begs the question of, uh…..like, a lot of people who don’t have jobs, also DON’T HAVE PHONES!!!!!!!

This almost beats the (true!) government tale of how they came up with 100% literacy: they sent out written questionnaires; everyone who filled it in and sent it back was cointed as (ta-da!) literate.

Gibson is pretty much just talking to his target audience at this point.

You know, the stupid and the corrupt.

They have their mortgage through the company. They have their house payment… health care … auto loan … 401K, … Home, health, transportation, salary, retirement, all come through Citi. Or Wells Fargo.
Hang about, I thought The Space Merchants was fiction. Did I miss an e-mail?

Herr Dok B., all dystopian sci-fi will come true if Bush & his ilk have anything to do w/ it. Mutants roaming the streets, hi-tech feudalism, you name it.

They make random lists of phone numbers in targeted areas, call up and ask if the respondent is employed.

So, what if they call when the person is at work?

I just quit a job (working for two Bush supporters, and in MA, at that).

It was the nepotism that drove me out the door. Extreme professionalism and absolute deference to authority was required of everyone – everyone except family members of the owners, who were totally unqualified, yet free to be as petty as they liked.

I think they are indicative of the whole high class crowd.

Well, just to alter the balance a little bit, I have a story of how I (sort of accidentally on purpose) stuck it to The Man, in the form of a major West Coast banking institution. Now this was 20-something years ago, back in the Olden Days, when dinosaurs roamed the earth and ATMs were brand-new technology that occasionally spit out thousands of dollars on very pleasantly surprised bank customers.

Anyway, I was in the City of Angels for about a year, and I had me a bank account with one o’ them newfangled ATM cards. Time came to pack up and return to the Right Coast, and I closed the account. In person in the branch office of the bank. Got a cashier’s check for the full balance and walked out the door. On a whim, I popped my ATM card — which the teller had neglected to take from me — into the machine just outside the front door and punched the buttons for my maximum daily withdrawal. Just to see what would happen, mind you — a science experiment, if you will.

Sure enough, out popped the cash. $300, I think. Suddenly, I was very very nervous. Because I had just robbed the bank. I assume that the computer systems were not integrated completely or something like that, so the ATM network didn’t get word until later that my account was closed. Since it was Friday, I considered the possibility that the information might not percolate through the system until Monday, meaning I might could snag another $600 over the weekend… but I was already certain that the police and the black helicopters were closing in on me, so I decided against that course of action. I just checked over my shoulder for the rest of the weekend and left town on Monday.

Interestingly, about two months later, I got my final bank statement forwarded from my old address, and the bank had somehow reconciled everything to zero. I never did figure that out.

“…got my final bank statement forwarded from my old address, and the bank had somehow reconciled everything to zero. I never did figure that out.”

They probably just took the money out of my account to make up the shortfall. I always wondered where that money went.

Gibson is pretty much just talking to his target audience at this point.

You know, the stupid and the corrupt.

Be fair. The stupid and corrupt deserve fair representation in the media.

Where I lived when ATMs first became available withdrawals were somehow not coordinated. That is, if you had money in your account, you could hit every machine in the city and draw the balance of your account (to the maximum the machine would dispense) each time.

God, if only crystal meth had been easily available then.

It’s some scary shit, when you stop and think about it. Talk about owing your soul to the company store.

Isn’t there a term for this sort of thing? What is it?…..mmmm, oh yeah, Fascism.

I just hope bush isn’t watching Pakistan and taking notes this week.

Benazir Bhutto is under house arrest with razor wire in front of her house.

Be fair. The stupid and corrupt deserve fair representation in the media.

I believe that they are overrepresented in the media. On the other hand, I really enjoyed it when the guy with the question mark suit went from crowing about how you could swindle easy money from the government to waving the flag and proclaiming your patriotic duty to take money from the government.

That is really the only thing I liked about 9/11.

“Bush has made sure you have a job, and this economy has insured you have a home.”

The fact is, these are the facts. Unless of course you are lazy or a classwarring liberal.

Gary, the pittance you get from the RNC for trolling doesn’t really qualify as a “job”. And while it’s nice of your mom to let you go on living in her basement and sponging off her Social Security checks, the credit goes to her, not to Bush. (Especially since the vicious little bastard’s done his inadequate-as-always best to destroy Social Security and put both your mom and you out on the street.)