Heartless system hurting us - The Firearms Forum

Gun Geezer · 07-13-2011, 09:49 AM

The local newspaper where we are currently visiting has a daily column titled "Open Line" where people can call or email comments and have them printed on the back page. This morning, the following appeared:
Heartless System hurting us:
"Basic food should be de-monetized and all people should have a right to decent housing. How did we ever end up with this heartless system that enslaves us and makes us into willing idiots for exploitation by the wealthy. The way of nature is free, domestication is dumbestication and boy have we been dumbested, to the point of self-hatred and the ruin of our environment."

This is just the sort of entitlement mentality we have been seeing emerging from our current crop of uneducated, i-pod wearing, pot smoking, idol worshiping, liberal minded texters.
When people first arrived in the new world, they were given the option to work and eat or not work and starve. The only thing they were promised was some level of protection, religious freedom and opportunity. Our Constitution is an extension of these promises. No where do I remember a promise of free food, housing, health-care, rent subsidies, utility bill assistance or any other entitlement. Now if we try and cut-back or withhold any of these give-aways we are branded inhumane regardless of how much of a burden they place on taxpayers who are already facing hard economic times. My definition of humanitarianism is that we have become civilized to the point we no longer eat those lazy, bottom feeding scum.

woolleyworm · 07-13-2011, 09:54 AM

Goes back to the thread that was recently posted http://www.thefirearmsforum.com/showthread.php?t=92126

Those that CHOSE not to work and are able, deserve everything that they DON'T get.

Juker · 07-13-2011, 11:25 AM

Yup, that there's a heapin' helpin' o'socialism, alright.

These pinheads don't read it as "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness", but rather "life, except for abortion which is of course the mother's right to choose, liberty, which means freedom from having to work, and happiness, meaning I should get everything I want because everyone else has one."

And don't get me started on that Obama "Freedom Phone" - as if somehow, having a cell phone is a right. I don't even have a cell phone (by choice).

As for "self-hatred and the ruin of our environment"... If the writer is into self-hatred, that's their problem. I see a disparity here - they want free food and housing, and that takes agriculture, trucks, lumber, and a million other things that environmental commandos despise.

We need to start exporting these folks to France and Canada, and maybe we can get back to our regularly scheduled Constitution.

"For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat." (2 Thessalonians 3:10)

Juker · 07-13-2011, 11:52 AM

p.s. It'll be these same pole-smokin' tree huggers who (a) blame us when the economy collapses, and (b) come beggin' for food because they couldn't see the writing on the wall.

Might be nice to come up with a list of screening questions...

"Oh, you want this Ramen and this cup of water? Not sure you're qualified to be a citizen in our new country. Please recite the Declaration of Independence, then we'll vote on you."

"What color was the COEXIST bumper sticker on your car?" (Trick question.)

"Name ten lies Obozo told us."

ofitg · 07-13-2011, 12:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gun Geezer

The local newspaper where we are currently visiting has a daily column titled "Open Line" where people can call or email comments and have them printed on the back page. This morning, the following appeared:
Heartless System hurting us:
"Basic food should be de-monetized and all people should have a right to decent housing. How did we ever end up with this heartless system that enslaves us and makes us into willing idiots for exploitation by the wealthy. The way of nature is free, domestication is dumbestication and boy have we been dumbested, to the point of self-hatred and the ruin of our environment."

I think the gene pool needs some chlorine.

Double D · 07-13-2011, 12:31 PM

I watched an episode of hard core pawn. A customer brought in an item and wanted a couple hundred for it. They offered 40.00 for the item. The customer said, 40.00? I came in here to get 200 and you are gonna give me 200 for this item before I leave cause you have lots of money and I need it. They had to escort the person out kicking and screaming profanity because they are suppose to get what they want! It happens all the time. You got enough money so you should give me some! You owe it to me!

RunningOnMT · 07-13-2011, 02:15 PM

"Heartless System hurting us:
"Basic food should be de-monetized and all people should have a right to decent housing. How did we ever end up with this heartless system that enslaves us and makes us into willing idiots for exploitation by the wealthy. The way of nature is free, domestication is dumbestication and boy have we been dumbested, to the point of self-hatred and the ruin of our environment."

The way of nature certainly is free; I can't argue with that. Free to decide whether to work or starve. The way of nature is survival of the fittest. So maybe this person would rather live by "the way of nature" instead of in a society that provides a helping hand when needed.

RunningOnMT · 07-13-2011, 02:18 PM

I saw that one too DoubleD along with a number of others very similar. A sad state of affairs for sure. But that's to be expected in Detroit.

Double D · 07-13-2011, 04:05 PM

I am no longer "shocked" when I see it. It is so wide spread now I almost "expect" to see it. It has always been there, but it really surfaced when bozo got elected (if you call that an election). It was more like a racist mob installing its leader. But, when the video aired about the lady saying she no longer had to worry about her car payment or mortgage, it started coming in droves. These people wont stop until the rich folks split their bank accounts with them or give them everything since half wouldnt satisfy them. By god, you have money in your wallet and I dont. Its just not FAIR! Give it to me NOW!!! I want it now!!! Gimmmeee!!!

carver · 07-13-2011, 04:28 PM

And when it's all gone.............what then?

Insulation Tim · 07-13-2011, 05:20 PM

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Originally Posted by carver

And when it's all gone.............what then?

We start anew, just as we did those several hundred years ago.

K75RT · 07-13-2011, 05:27 PM

This is a relevant satire!

The ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER

This one is a little different.
Two Different Versions.
Two Different Morals.

OLD VERSION:

The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house, and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.

Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.
The grasshopper has no food or shelter,
so he dies out in the cold.

MORAL OF THE OLD STORY:

Be responsible for yourself!

MODERN VERSION:

The ant works hard in the withering heat and the rain all summer long, building his house,
and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while he is cold and starving.

CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, and ABC
show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with
a table filled with food.
America is stunned by the sharp contrast.

How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is
allowed to suffer so?

Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah
with the grasshopper and everybody cries when they sing, 'It's Not Easy Being Green.'

ACORN stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news stations film the group singing, We Shall Overcome.

Then Rev. Jeremiah Wright
has the group kneel down to pray for the grasshopper's sake.

President Obama condemns the ant
and blames President Bush, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the Pope for the grasshopper's plight.

Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper,
and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.

Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity and Anti-Ant Act
retroactive to the beginning of the summer.

The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and,
having nothing left to pay his retroactive
taxes, his home is confiscated by the government Green Czar and given to the grasshopper.

The story ends as we see the grasshopper and his free-loading friends finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the government house he is in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around them because the grasshopper doesn't maintain it.

The ant has disappeared in the snow,
never to be seen again.

The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident, and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize and ramshackle the once prosperousand peaceful, neighborhood.

The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest
of the free world with it.

MORAL OF THE STORY:

Be careful how you vote in 2012.

I've sent this to you because
I believe that you are an ant!

You may wish to pass this on to other ants, but don't bother sending it on to any grasshoppers because they wouldn't understand it, anyway.

millwright · 07-18-2011, 06:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gun Geezer

....."Basic food should be de-monetized and all people should have a right to decent housing......

This definitely needed removing from the gene pool befoe they procreated ! Alas I suspect its too late ! Apparently the writer doesn't realize food stamps are better than money ! Receivers aren't limited to staples, but can use them for jerky, lobster, steak etc plus beer, wine, and cigarettes if you know where to shop. Then there's any number of housing/rent assist programs .

IOW, what this socialist genius wants already exists ! Of course there's always the possibility he's having some fun "putting on the paper's resident liberals ! >MW

Rastminikov · 07-20-2011, 11:05 PM

What a maroon. Food in nature is free, alright, provided you can catch it. And oh goody! You are also free food for the bears, lions and tigers! Rather than being "enslaved" and having to work 8 hrs a day in an air conditioned office, you get to run around 12 hrs a day looking for food and trying to catch food in the heat! Need water? Find a river. Your home? A cave or whatever sticks you can put together.

How dumb are people? Seriously...

07-13-2011, 09:49 AM	#1
Gun Geezer Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Central Florida Posts: 1,710	Heartless system hurting us The local newspaper where we are currently visiting has a daily column titled "Open Line" where people can call or email comments and have them printed on the back page. This morning, the following appeared: Heartless System hurting us: "Basic food should be de-monetized and all people should have a right to decent housing. How did we ever end up with this heartless system that enslaves us and makes us into willing idiots for exploitation by the wealthy. The way of nature is free, domestication is dumbestication and boy have we been dumbested, to the point of self-hatred and the ruin of our environment." This is just the sort of entitlement mentality we have been seeing emerging from our current crop of uneducated, i-pod wearing, pot smoking, idol worshiping, liberal minded texters. When people first arrived in the new world, they were given the option to work and eat or not work and starve. The only thing they were promised was some level of protection, religious freedom and opportunity. Our Constitution is an extension of these promises. No where do I remember a promise of free food, housing, health-care, rent subsidies, utility bill assistance or any other entitlement. Now if we try and cut-back or withhold any of these give-aways we are branded inhumane regardless of how much of a burden they place on taxpayers who are already facing hard economic times. My definition of humanitarianism is that we have become civilized to the point we no longer eat those lazy, bottom feeding scum. --> Last edited by Gun Geezer; 07-13-2011 at 09:50 AM..

07-13-2011, 09:54 AM	#2
woolleyworm TFF Moderator/Host Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: SW Fort Worth Contributor Posts: 4,883	Re: Heartless system hurting us Goes back to the thread that was recently posted http://www.thefirearmsforum.com/showthread.php?t=92126 Those that CHOSE not to work and are able, deserve everything that they DON'T get. __________________ . What are you gonna do, talk the alien to death? -- (on Sigourney Weaver's worry about Guns in Aliens) "Safety is something that happens between your ears, not something you hold in your hands." "I carry a small gun to compensate for my huge Blue press." .

07-13-2011, 11:25 AM	#3
Juker Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Land of Lincoln Contributor Posts: 2,872	Re: Heartless system hurting us Yup, that there's a heapin' helpin' o'socialism, alright. These pinheads don't read it as "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness", but rather "life, except for abortion which is of course the mother's right to choose, liberty, which means freedom from having to work, and happiness, meaning I should get everything I want because everyone else has one." And don't get me started on that Obama "Freedom Phone" - as if somehow, having a cell phone is a right. I don't even have a cell phone (by choice). As for "self-hatred and the ruin of our environment"... If the writer is into self-hatred, that's their problem. I see a disparity here - they want free food and housing, and that takes agriculture, trucks, lumber, and a million other things that environmental commandos despise. We need to start exporting these folks to France and Canada, and maybe we can get back to our regularly scheduled Constitution. "For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat." (2 Thessalonians 3:10) __________________ SHOOT FIRST. SHOOT SECOND. MOST IMPORTANTLY, BE THE MAN WHO'S SHOOTING LAST.

07-13-2011, 11:52 AM	#4
Juker Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Land of Lincoln Contributor Posts: 2,872	Re: Heartless system hurting us p.s. It'll be these same pole-smokin' tree huggers who (a) blame us when the economy collapses, and (b) come beggin' for food because they couldn't see the writing on the wall. Might be nice to come up with a list of screening questions... "Oh, you want this Ramen and this cup of water? Not sure you're qualified to be a citizen in our new country. Please recite the Declaration of Independence, then we'll vote on you." "What color was the COEXIST bumper sticker on your car?" (Trick question.) "Name ten lies Obozo told us." __________________ SHOOT FIRST. SHOOT SECOND. MOST IMPORTANTLY, BE THE MAN WHO'S SHOOTING LAST.

07-13-2011, 12:31 PM	#6
Double D TFF Moderator/Host Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: North Florida Contributor Posts: 8,083	Re: Heartless system hurting us I watched an episode of hard core pawn. A customer brought in an item and wanted a couple hundred for it. They offered 40.00 for the item. The customer said, 40.00? I came in here to get 200 and you are gonna give me 200 for this item before I leave cause you have lots of money and I need it. They had to escort the person out kicking and screaming profanity because they are suppose to get what they want! It happens all the time. You got enough money so you should give me some! You owe it to me! __________________ I own a bunch of scary guns. You want em? Come and take em..... Liberalism is a serious, non curable, mental disorder... NRA LIFE MEMBER Oath Keepers Member NRA Certified Instructor 30 Yr CC permit holder.

07-13-2011, 02:15 PM	#7
RunningOnMT Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Akron, Ohio Contributor Posts: 4,720	Re: Heartless system hurting us "Heartless System hurting us: "Basic food should be de-monetized and all people should have a right to decent housing. How did we ever end up with this heartless system that enslaves us and makes us into willing idiots for exploitation by the wealthy. The way of nature is free, domestication is dumbestication and boy have we been dumbested, to the point of self-hatred and the ruin of our environment." The way of nature certainly is free; I can't argue with that. Free to decide whether to work or starve. The way of nature is survival of the fittest. So maybe this person would rather live by "the way of nature" instead of in a society that provides a helping hand when needed. __________________ "Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!"

07-13-2011, 02:18 PM	#8
RunningOnMT Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Akron, Ohio Contributor Posts: 4,720	Re: Heartless system hurting us I saw that one too DoubleD along with a number of others very similar. A sad state of affairs for sure. But that's to be expected in Detroit. __________________ "Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!"

07-13-2011, 04:05 PM	#9
Double D TFF Moderator/Host Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: North Florida Contributor Posts: 8,083	Re: Heartless system hurting us I am no longer "shocked" when I see it. It is so wide spread now I almost "expect" to see it. It has always been there, but it really surfaced when bozo got elected (if you call that an election). It was more like a racist mob installing its leader. But, when the video aired about the lady saying she no longer had to worry about her car payment or mortgage, it started coming in droves. These people wont stop until the rich folks split their bank accounts with them or give them everything since half wouldnt satisfy them. By god, you have money in your wallet and I dont. Its just not FAIR! Give it to me NOW!!! I want it now!!! Gimmmeee!!! __________________ I own a bunch of scary guns. You want em? Come and take em..... Liberalism is a serious, non curable, mental disorder... NRA LIFE MEMBER Oath Keepers Member NRA Certified Instructor 30 Yr CC permit holder.

07-13-2011, 04:28 PM	#10
carver TFF Moderator/Host Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: DAV, Deep in the Pineywoods of East Texas, just west of Shreveport, LA Contributor Posts: 11,285	Re: Heartless system hurting us And when it's all gone.............what then? __________________ Y'all be safe now, ya hear! Lamentations Chapter 5: 1. Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. 2. Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. 3. We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers [are] as widows. 5. Our necks [are] under persecution: we labour, [and] have no rest. 16. The crown is fallen [from] our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned! 21. Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.

07-13-2011, 05:27 PM	#12
K75RT V.I.P. Member Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Litchfield County, CT Posts: 309	Re: Heartless system hurting us This is a relevant satire! The ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER This one is a little different. Two Different Versions. Two Different Morals. OLD VERSION: The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house, and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold. MORAL OF THE OLD STORY: Be responsible for yourself! MODERN VERSION: The ant works hard in the withering heat and the rain all summer long, building his house, and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while he is cold and starving. CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. America is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so? Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper and everybody cries when they sing, 'It's Not Easy Being Green.' ACORN stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news stations film the group singing, We Shall Overcome. Then Rev. Jeremiah Wright has the group kneel down to pray for the grasshopper's sake. President Obama condemns the ant and blames President Bush, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the Pope for the grasshopper's plight. Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share. Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity and Anti-Ant Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer. The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the government Green Czar and given to the grasshopper. The story ends as we see the grasshopper and his free-loading friends finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the government house he is in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around them because the grasshopper doesn't maintain it. The ant has disappeared in the snow, never to be seen again. The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident, and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize and ramshackle the once prosperousand peaceful, neighborhood. The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest of the free world with it. MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2012. I've sent this to you because I believe that you are an ant! You may wish to pass this on to other ants, but don't bother sending it on to any grasshoppers because they wouldn't understand it, anyway. __________________ Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

07-20-2011, 11:05 PM	#14
Rastminikov Former Guest Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 102	Re: Heartless system hurting us What a maroon. Food in nature is free, alright, provided you can catch it. And oh goody! You are also free food for the bears, lions and tigers! Rather than being "enslaved" and having to work 8 hrs a day in an air conditioned office, you get to run around 12 hrs a day looking for food and trying to catch food in the heat! Need water? Find a river. Your home? A cave or whatever sticks you can put together. How dumb are people? Seriously...