Chatting with the Arborist in a post below, I noted something I’ve been meaning to write about, but I never got around to it.
On FOX News a few years ago in a conversation about those lazy masses dragging down good honest hard working ‘mericans, actor Craig Nelson famously said: “I’ve had hard times too. I’ve even been on food stamps and welfare. Did anybody help me? No.”
You can have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, or democracy. But you cannot have both.
Mr. Incredible on food stamps! That boogles the mind.
It is pretty funny that he doesn’t think of it as help.
Is he calling for a more consistent process? In other words it seems to me that a lot of anger the last four years has been aimed at tailored bail-outs: the auto bail-out; and the bank bail-out. He thinks let the bankers and union members go on the same welfare as everyone else.
I think maybe I see the logic a little better in that light.
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Actually Bruce, the way he disconnects himself is not uncommon. It’s along the lines of the Tea Party signs saying ‘hands off my Medicare”.
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Everytime I see that clip, it just makes me chuckle. It seems to illustrate the disconnect people have between their hatred o government and the services it provides that they find helpful when times are tough or even to help them get ahead a bit.
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Spuds, it’s classic denial. Hey, if it makes him feel better . . .
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