Now THIS is funny

[subdjoe]

But I expect that some here won't find it funny because it makes fun of Barrys policy.

As of November 5, 2008, when President Obama is officially elected into office, our company will instill a few new policies, which are in keeping with his new, inspiring issues of change and fairness:



1. All salespeople will be pooling their sales bonuses into a common pool that will be divided equally between all of you. This will serve to give those of you who are underachieving a "fair shake."



2. All low level workers will be pooling their wages, including overtime, into a common pool, dividing it equally amongst yourselves. This will help those who are "too busy for overtime" to reap the rewards from those who have more spare time and can work extra hours.



3. All top management will now be referred to as "the government." We will not participate in this "pooling" experience because the law doesn't apply to us.



4. The "government" will give eloquent speeches to all employees every week, encouraging its workers to continue to work hard "for the good of all."



5. The employees will be thrilled with these new policies because it's "good to spread the wealth." Those of you who have underachieved will finally get an opportunity; those of you who have worked hard and had success will feel more "patriotic."



6. The last few people who were hired should clean out their desks. Don't feel bad though, because President Obama will give you free healthcare, free handouts, free oil for heating your home, free food stamps, and he'll let you stay in your home for as long as you want even if you can't pay your mortgage. If you appeal directly to our democratic congress, you might even get a free flat screen TV and a coupon for free haircuts (shouldn't all Americans be entitled to nice looking hair?)!!!



If for any reason you are not happy with the new policies, you may want to rethink your vote on November 4th.



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[saunterelle]

Those of you who have underachieved will finally get an opportunity; those of you who have worked hard and had success will feel more "patriotic."

The notion that being rich is all because of "hard work" is asinine. This "joke" implies that there is no luck involved.

The last few people who were hired should clean out their desks. Don't feel bad though, because President Obama will give you free healthcare, free handouts, free oil for heating your home, free food stamps, and he'll let you stay in your home for as long as you want even if you can't pay your mortgage. If you appeal directly to our democratic congress, you might even get a free flat screen TV and a coupon for free haircuts (shouldn't all Americans be entitled to nice looking hair?)!!!

Why does the Right always feel the need to take their criticism's of Obama's policies to the extreme? He is NOT a communist. He is NOT a socialist. His tax policy will reverse Bush's tax cuts for the rich and put them squarely back to where they were under Bill Clinton (when life in America was better for all but the wealthy few). His health care policy will help Americans afford health care and mandate care for children. It is NOT "free" health care.

And what about McCain's proposal to spend $300 billion of taxpayer money to buy people bad mortgages? To me, that is more unfair than anything Obama has proposed. It rewards people for entering agreements for loans that they knew full well they couldn't pay back. But, of course, this "joke" fails to mention that.

[subdjoe]

Saunterelle whined: "Why does the Right always feel the need to take their criticism's of Obama's policies to the extreme? "

Maybe for the same reason that the progressives always make it sound that if the 2nd Amendment is enforced everyone will be required to carry a pistol on each hip, two hide out guns, a shotgun and a select fire long arm along with a load out of 500 rounds of ammo and 3 combat knives. (of course, many of them secretly WANT to go on some sort of shooting spree and mow down innocents) Or that if the free exercise clause of the 1st is enforced that means that every public meeting will turn into a chataqua event, women will be forced to wear burkas (sp?) and always be pregnant, and that the practicioners of the various eastern religions or the religion of atheism will be hunted down and killed.

And how is wanting to "spread the wealth around" via extortionate taxation not socialist?

[jgaffney]

Ronald Reagan said, "Only a Democrat can look at a fat man and a skinny man, and conclude that the fat man got fat at the expense of the skinny man."

Thanks for proving this, Saunterelle. My only regret is that I can only smite you once an hour.

[The New Guy]

author=saunterelle board=comedyclub thread=491 post=7272 time=1225130105]The notion that being rich is all because of "hard work" is asinine. This "joke" implies that there is no luck involved.

sorry, but i had to smite you for what is probably your dumbest, most assinine statement to date. implying that people who are "financially successful" got that way due to luck is ridiculous. sure, there are some who played the lottery every week and one day they hit it! those people are lucky. the others most likely worked their asses off to achieve what they have achieved. sure, it's nice to get lucky sometimes but people who work hard don't rely on luck.

i can't name one person who got lucky with the lottery but i can name plenty of rich people who got that way through hard and/or smart work: bill gates, donald trump, oprah winfrey, etc.

[subdjoe]

I will say that some of it is luck - being in the right place with the right product or service at the right time. But then, luck is where preparation meets opportunity.

[saunterelle]

Hard work AND luck. There are plenty of people who have worked hard their entire lives and don't have much to show for it. Maybe they chose to work in a field that is not lucrative. Or maybe they didn't have the right "connections" to make it big. Perhaps they invested a small amount of money and got lucky. You're fooling yourself if you think monetary wealth is a measure of hard work.

[harpman1]

From those according to their ability...

Obama will penalize good luck.
Obama will reward poor choices.
Obama will level the field so that, no matter how hard you worked or how much good luck you had, you will be penalized "according to the needs" of the rest.

Pure.
Pure.
Pure Socialism.

[saunterelle]

Again, was it THAT bad for rich people under Clinton? I don't think so.

[harpman1]

Just take the pain & shut up.
We're in charge now.
Don't make us "pay special attention" to you.
We'll decide who's gonna be rich from now on.

Thugs all.

Hoard ammunition, brothers.

[subdjoe]

Oct 27, 2008 18:03:01 GMT -5 saunterelle said:

Hard work AND luck. There are plenty of people who have worked hard their entire lives and don't have much to show for it. Maybe they chose to work in a field that is not lucrative. Or maybe they didn't have the right "connections" to make it big. Perhaps they invested a small amount of money and got lucky. You're fooling yourself if you think monetary wealth is a measure of hard work.

And just about everything you mentioned is a result of the choices they made. Maybe they made the choice to take fluff classes rather than hard science classes. Or join a feel good leftist club rather than a Young Entrepenures (sp) club. Or chose to take an initially higher paying, low advance potential job.

It isn't all about random chance as you imply.

[Mink]

Yeah, this was funny I'm looking forward to it !!