So this guy is bragging he doesn't need any help from the government yet he's got both hands out grabbing free school breakfasts/lunches for his three kids, gets back thousands in an earned-income tax credit for each kid, and doesn't have any qualms about Medicare paying for his Mom's two hip surgeries.

And if this dude has a low enough income that he qualifies for his kids' free school breakfasts/lunches, then how is he also able to afford to donate free t-shirts to his neighbor's Tea Party campaign?

What a phoney, lying, and hypocritical windbag this Tea Party suck-up is.

"What a phoney, lying, and hypocritical windbag this Tea Party suck-up is."

Dear Chris:

The Drudge Retort is for news.

Tea Party hypocrisy is not news.

Thank you.

Classic RW cognitive dissonance. One of my faves has to be the guys who are on here 23 hours a day, claiming they are captains of industry, working harder than the average Joe, and the smartest men who ever used the Bible as an economics/ecology/science/ civics/sociology/everything textbook.

I'd rather starve than take government money, but they literally FORCE us to take Mediscam and Social Security. Health prices would drop way down if the government got out of the way.

Dear Chris:
The Drudge Retort is for news.
Obama hypocrisy is not news.
Thank you.

#2 | POSTED BY MARYTYLERWHORE AT 2012-02-12 05:04 PM

I do not think he is a phony, rather he's ignorant of just how much he's already dependent on the govt.

I do not think he is a phony, rather he's ignorant of just how much he's already dependent on the govt.

Common, really? He's gotta be the biggest space cadet in history for that to be true.

More than likely he's just another person who feels entitled to it but will believe everyone else is one of them. There's always a them to be demonized and looked down on to make themselves feel better, and because it's about making himself feel better he'll never stop to think that those other people are no different than him.

#5 | Posted by glasshouse at 2012-02-12 05:50 PM | Reply | Flag: Butt-hurt Tea Bagger

I do not think he is a phony, rather he's ignorant of just how much he's already dependent on the govt.

#6 | POSTED BY MSGT AT 2012-02-12 06:19 PM | REPLY | FLAG:

Ignorant is one word I use for him.

but they literally FORCE us to take Mediscam and Social Security.

Ummm no they don't.

I know several people who do not use Medicare or Social Security even though they are entitled to do so.

#7 EXACTLY!!

The others are leeches, I deserve it.

This is typical white disconnect.

"I'd rather starve than take government money,"

Funny, my children used to say "I'd rather starve than eat that."
Guess what, none of them starved and eventually all of them ate the food they were given. Only children say they would rather starve than take government money, all of us would if we needed to. I'm thankful I don't need to but I don't kid myself, I know things can change in the single beat of your heart.

Health prices would drop way down if the government got out of the way.

According to reality-health prices will go down once medicine is socialized. Unless, of course, you ignore the rest of the world.

Health prices would drop way down if the government got out of the way.

The AMA, not the government, limits the supply of doctors.

I know several people who do not use Medicare or Social Security even though they are entitled to do so.

#10 | POSTED BY 726 AT 2012-02-12 07:45 PM

I doubt that

LOL
If this guy were a nation he would be libtard big govy America. We are as dependent on debt to keep big govy funded as this guy is dependent on government assistance. He's living his life just like America governs itself.

I doubt that

#15 | POSTED BY GLASSHOUSE AT 2012-02-13 10:45 AM | REPLY | FLAG:

I doubt you graduating middle school.

I recognize my example is purely anecdotal, but you do not have to apply for or accept Social Security or Medicare.

The people I know that do not apply for benefits are self employed, earn millions annually and are covered by private insurance. I give them credit, they have paid into the system for decades and still don't take it. One doesn't take it because "I don't need it, let someone else have it that needs it."

I know that is a foreign concept to you. I find it refreshingly altruistic.

Then I have another client that is worth $60 million and takes every penny. I can tell you he is definitely Republiturd. A birfer too.

I read this in paper and knew it would end up here....but of course it was in liberal houston chronical so it got big print and coverage, but thats okay...

yeah 726..that guy worth 60 million should just give it all to you I guess....its his fuckin money ...AT LEAST FOR Now...if butthole gets a 2nd term it might not be...

)COURSE>..if you want to make him split it between you AND ME...well then ...)

Then I have another client that is worth $60 million and takes every penny. I can tell you he is definitely Republiturd. A birfer too.

#17 | Posted by 726

Is he the guy pulling down 15% in munis?

5--Obama has nil to do with this thread. Do try to stay on point.

Good article covering the disconnect and dissonance between "ideology" and reality. It really isn't an ideology, though. There is something else at play.

Their difficulties, Mr. Gulbranson said, have made it hard to imagine asking anyone to pay higher taxes.

"I don't think most people could bear to pay more," he said.

*facepalm*

First off, you are a guy who is making so little he's not even paying federal income tax most years.

Second, you are trying to raise 5 kids on that paltry sum.

Third, you are thinking of removing your own EITC and taking food out of you kids mouths before thinking that maybe somewhere someone else isn't being taxed enough or that the military can't be reduced.

Dammit, the cognitive dissonance of the teatards makes ya want to slap some freaking sense into them but in the end you just sorta pity them and loathe the asswipes who filled their heads with derp.

Be Well.

Nothing personal, but in light of Spud's economical limning of Mr. Gulbranson, the struggling Chisagoan (Chisagoite?) reminds me of Eddie and more than a few other DR posters on the riight: they mean well but the cognitive dissonance just overwhelms all the good intentions by making them work so hard against their own interests.

Libtards sure love saying things like "cognitive dissonance." 3 times in this thread alone. I know, I know, "if the shoe fits," but jesus christ, get some original material. For people who style themselves as "independent thinkers," you sure do regurgitate the same buzzwords an awful lot.

Libtards sure love saying things like "cognitive dissonance." 3 times in this thread alone. I know, I know, "if the shoe fits," but jesus christ, get some original material. For people who style themselves as "independent thinkers," you sure do regurgitate the same buzzwords an awful lot.

#24 | Posted by joe

ok how bout this guy is an ignoramus, simpleton, blockhead, dimwit, dunce, fool, idiot, imbecile, know-nothing, moron, numbskull, addlebrain, blockhead, blunderer, bonehead, botcher, bumbler, butcher, butterfingers, clod, oaf, dolt, donkey, duffer, dunce, featherbrain, fool, foul-up, fumbler, harebrain, idiot, incompetent, klutz, mismanager, muddler, muffer, numskull, screw up

non compus mentus?

He votes to take money out of his own pocket, to take food off his children's table, to take health care from his sick mother.

There are too few words in the english language to describe his stupidity.

but the rich laugh at him.

#24 | Posted by joe

"ok how bout this guy is an ignoramus, simpleton, blockhead, dimwit, dunce, fool, idiot, imbecile, know-nothing, moron, numbskull, addlebrain, blockhead, blunderer, bonehead, botcher, bumbler, butcher, butterfingers, clod, oaf, dolt, donkey, duffer, dunce, featherbrain, fool, foul-up, fumbler, harebrain, idiot, incompetent, klutz, mismanager, muddler, muffer, numskull, screw up"

Joe? I wouldn't call him an ignoramus.

#18...and you typed all this shit on a computer in the County Library as usual.... didn't you.

The AMA, not the government, limits the supply of doctors.

#14 | Posted by snoofy

Yep. It's amazing how many people both right and left are ignorant as to how the AMA manipulates supply.

My wife works for the UofM health system. One of their subsidiaries literally has to kiss the asses of their nurses because nurses are in such short supply and they can't afford to lose any of them. Yet, I have a buddy who is currently in nursing school but was put on a 2-year waiting list to get in. The AMA is most directly responsible for this bottle-neck.

The AMA is most directly responsible for this bottle-neck.

Posted by JeffJ at 2012-02-14 03:14 PM | Reply

Isn't the AMA's monopoly protected by law (i.e. the government)?

#cognitivedissonace

for the win.

#24 it's considered unoriginal to use words and descriptions correctly?

it's considered unoriginal to use words and descriptions correctly?

No, it's unoriginal to repeat the same phrase over and over and over and over.

And you're an idiot if you think they are even using "cognitive dissonance" correctly. Cognitive dissonance is an uncomfortable feeling that results from holding two opposing beliefs. The libtards here use it as a synonym for hypocrisy, which isn't a correct use of the term.

"Cognitive dissonance" is the correct term if you read the article and the thoughts and feelings expressed by the quoted individuals.

One of their subsidiaries literally has to kiss the asses of their nurses

Where can I get that job JeffJ? True you may have to kiss a lot of frogcheeks, but there are some cute ones around U of M. And we're all suckers for women in scrubs...

As an aside, I have a close friend who worked in one of U of M's bio labs until her MS made that impossible. After a couple of years on the U's insurance company's disability program, they set her up with a lawyer and told her to apply for SS disability. They top up her bennies, but the primary source for $ and meds is the gummint. I wonder if you'd like to comment on this .

Stupidity like this keeps billionaires and their puppets in Washington and Academia shitting in high cotton.

I just *giggle* at Libs who have the gumption to hack at people that accept SS. Didn't they PAY into SS & Medicare? Do they not deserve the benefits they paid into?

I liken this to the Donny Douches/Warren Buffets/Hollywood types that are constantly saying how we should raise taxes, yet put their army of tax lawyers on the job of finding every single tax credit/loophole possible.

As Greese corretly shows, sooner or later, the progressive strategy of society/govn't always runs out of other peoples money. It has happened EVERY single time. One of the only way to counter this is aggressive expansion, in other words, you forceably take other/new resources, normally at the business end of a gun. The only other way to make suto-socialism work is to exploit the living hell out of your own exsisting resources. Countries like Denmark & even Canada do this now. Let me know when those countries start "limiting" their oil/gas/resource output? The U.S. COULD afford the needed tax hike to balance the budget yr in, yr out, but it would mean taking off the cuffs when it comes to American Natural Resources. Open up the vault on oil, nat gas & coal. We could be a large net exporter of all energy sources. Then we could afford SS, Medicare for ALL, higher education for all the qualify & choose to go to college. But then people would be working & not under the thumb of the Dems. Can't have that after all.

His 88 yr old mother getting medical help via medicare don't have one thing to do with him.
Most people are not eligible for medicare until age 65 - especially someone making $750 a WEEK??!! Why is this guy getting a penny from medicare?

His 88 yr old mother getting medical help via medicare don't have one thing to do with him.
Most people are not eligible for medicare until age 65 - especially someone making $750 a WEEK??!! Why is this guy getting a penny from medicare?
#38 | Posted by phesterOBoyle

He's not.

Next time, try reading the article.

Keep Government Out of My Medicare

That suggests that he is getting medicare. Like you whiners that blubbered, "Stay outta are beadroooms!" when slick willy got his willy slicked.

Keep Government Out of My Medicare

That suggests that he is getting medicare.
#40 | Posted by phesterOBoyle

Only if you haven't read the article.
Which you clearly haven't.

According to the Agriculture Department website, kids in four-member families that make less than 29-thousand dollars a year are eligible for free meals.
Families of four who make up to 41-thousand 348 dollars can get a 40 cent discount on meals.

Meanwhile, Medicare is now planning to pay for services and counseling to prevent obesity. The agency says Americans of all ages are challenged by obesity and prevention is crucial.

Y'know, the least you could do is admit you were wrong. It might help polish up your image, ye of the woeful, baleful countenance.

Medicare is now planning to pay for services