Half of US social program recipients believe they

[discoberry]

"have not used a government social program"
www.boingboing.net/2011/07/08/half-of-us-social-pr.html
What Tea Bagger protest sign are you suddenly picturing???

[DeadpanDoubter]

I'm with the people who don't think there's a good reason for these people to consider tax deductions to be "socialism!!!1", although I know it's at least part socialist (after all, why would a completely independent individual need to get tax credits? just suck it up, bub), but even not counting tax credits there is so much MORE to jawdrop at on there.

[Smurfette Principle]

Why am I not surprised?

[Yla]

Jul 19, 2011 10:52:44 GMT -5 Smurfette Principle said:

Why am I not surprised?

[Ranger Joe]

Thats because people are stupid. ::nods sagely::

[catanon]

Jul 19, 2011 16:07:09 GMT -5 Ranger Joe said:

Thats because people are stupid. ::nods sagely::

Don't need to be a sage to know that. This has been obvious ever since the first moment one of those mouth-breathers set foot outside their houses with their crooked, badly spelled signs.

[Damen]

I love this little reply. It's not the first time I've seen it, it won't be the last, but I love it every time.

www.boingboing.net/2011/07/08/half-of-us-social-pr.html#comment-1158259

This morning I was awoken by my alarm clock powered by electricity generated by the public power monopoly regulated by the US Department of Energy. I then took a shower in the clean water provided by the municipal water supply. After that, I turned the TV to one of the FCC regulated channels to see what the National Weather Service of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration determined what the weather was going to be like using satellites designed, built, and launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. I watched this while eating my breakfast of US Department of Agriculture inspected food and taking drugs which have been determined as safe by the Food and Drug Administration.

At the appropriate time as regulated by the US Congress and kept accurate by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the US Naval Observatory, I get into my National Highway Traffic Safety Administration approved automobile and set out to work on the roads built by local, state, and federal Departments of Transportation, possibly stopping to purchase additional fuel of a quality level determined by the Environmental Protection agency, using legal tender issued by the Federal Reserve Bank. On the way out the door I deposit any mail I have to be sent out via the US Postal Service and drop the kids off at the public school.

After work, I drive my NHTSA car back home on the DOT roads, to a house which has not burned down in my absence because of the state and local building codes and Fire Marshal inspection, and which has not been plundered of all its valuables thanks to the local police department.

I then log onto the internet which was developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration and post on freerepublic.com and Fox News forums about how SOCIALISM in medicine is BAD because the Government can't do anything right.

[Thejebusfire]

Damen, that was full of epic win!

[VirtualStranger]

Jul 19, 2011 16:31:26 GMT -5 Damen said:

I love this little reply. It's not the first time I've seen it, it won't be the last, but I love it every time.

www.boingboing.net/2011/07/08/half-of-us-social-pr.html#comment-1158259

This morning I was awoken by my alarm clock powered by electricity generated by the public power monopoly regulated by the US Department of Energy. I then took a shower in the clean water provided by the municipal water supply. After that, I turned the TV to one of the FCC regulated channels to see what the National Weather Service of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration determined what the weather was going to be like using satellites designed, built, and launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. I watched this while eating my breakfast of US Department of Agriculture inspected food and taking drugs which have been determined as safe by the Food and Drug Administration.

At the appropriate time as regulated by the US Congress and kept accurate by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the US Naval Observatory, I get into my National Highway Traffic Safety Administration approved automobile and set out to work on the roads built by local, state, and federal Departments of Transportation, possibly stopping to purchase additional fuel of a quality level determined by the Environmental Protection agency, using legal tender issued by the Federal Reserve Bank. On the way out the door I deposit any mail I have to be sent out via the US Postal Service and drop the kids off at the public school.

After work, I drive my NHTSA car back home on the DOT roads, to a house which has not burned down in my absence because of the state and local building codes and Fire Marshal inspection, and which has not been plundered of all its valuables thanks to the local police department.

I then log onto the internet which was developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration and post on freerepublic.com and Fox News forums about how SOCIALISM in medicine is BAD because the Government can't do anything right.

FUKKEN SAVED for future use.

[Her3tiK]

Jul 19, 2011 16:31:26 GMT -5 Damen said:

I love this little reply. It's not the first time I've seen it, it won't be the last, but I love it every time.

www.boingboing.net/2011/07/08/half-of-us-social-pr.html#comment-1158259

This morning I was awoken by my alarm clock powered by electricity generated by the public power monopoly regulated by the US Department of Energy. I then took a shower in the clean water provided by the municipal water supply. After that, I turned the TV to one of the FCC regulated channels to see what the National Weather Service of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration determined what the weather was going to be like using satellites designed, built, and launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. I watched this while eating my breakfast of US Department of Agriculture inspected food and taking drugs which have been determined as safe by the Food and Drug Administration.

At the appropriate time as regulated by the US Congress and kept accurate by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the US Naval Observatory, I get into my National Highway Traffic Safety Administration approved automobile and set out to work on the roads built by local, state, and federal Departments of Transportation, possibly stopping to purchase additional fuel of a quality level determined by the Environmental Protection agency, using legal tender issued by the Federal Reserve Bank. On the way out the door I deposit any mail I have to be sent out via the US Postal Service and drop the kids off at the public school.

After work, I drive my NHTSA car back home on the DOT roads, to a house which has not burned down in my absence because of the state and local building codes and Fire Marshal inspection, and which has not been plundered of all its valuables thanks to the local police department.

I then log onto the internet which was developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration and post on freerepublic.com and Fox News forums about how SOCIALISM in medicine is BAD because the Government can't do anything right.

I... I must hug this person...

[Shane for Wax]

Jul 19, 2011 16:31:26 GMT -5 Damen said:

I love this little reply. It's not the first time I've seen it, it won't be the last, but I love it every time.

www.boingboing.net/2011/07/08/half-of-us-social-pr.html#comment-1158259

This morning I was awoken by my alarm clock powered by electricity generated by the public power monopoly regulated by the US Department of Energy. I then took a shower in the clean water provided by the municipal water supply. After that, I turned the TV to one of the FCC regulated channels to see what the National Weather Service of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration determined what the weather was going to be like using satellites designed, built, and launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. I watched this while eating my breakfast of US Department of Agriculture inspected food and taking drugs which have been determined as safe by the Food and Drug Administration.

At the appropriate time as regulated by the US Congress and kept accurate by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the US Naval Observatory, I get into my National Highway Traffic Safety Administration approved automobile and set out to work on the roads built by local, state, and federal Departments of Transportation, possibly stopping to purchase additional fuel of a quality level determined by the Environmental Protection agency, using legal tender issued by the Federal Reserve Bank. On the way out the door I deposit any mail I have to be sent out via the US Postal Service and drop the kids off at the public school.

After work, I drive my NHTSA car back home on the DOT roads, to a house which has not burned down in my absence because of the state and local building codes and Fire Marshal inspection, and which has not been plundered of all its valuables thanks to the local police department.

I then log onto the internet which was developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration and post on freerepublic.com and Fox News forums about how SOCIALISM in medicine is BAD because the Government can't do anything right.

Fukken saved for future use for me too.

And as someone who benefits from such social programs, I do very much believe that I have.

[Mlle Antéchrist]

I've definitely benefited from social programs, and I'm not ashamed to say it. I don't expect society to babysit me, but as someone who works and pays taxes that go towards funding these programs, I don't see anything wrong with asking for help in return when I really need it. I also don't have a problem with my tax dollars going towards helping other people -- as a society, we have a responsibility to take care of our least fortunate citizens, and I doubt we'd have survived as a species if we didn't act on it.

[DeadpanDoubter]

As a less fortunate (not nearly as bad off as some, but still need help) citizen, I'm fuckin' glad there are social programs in place. Otherwise, I'd end up like my dad or my mom-- either stuck in a dead end job struggling just to survive, or stuck raising a bunch of kids while praying my husband doesn't lose his dead end job.

[Amaranth]

Jul 19, 2011 10:52:44 GMT -5 Smurfette Principle said:

Why am I not surprised?

Because you don't have brain damage.

[Smurfette Principle]

Jul 19, 2011 16:31:26 GMT -5 Damen said:

I love this little reply. It's not the first time I've seen it, it won't be the last, but I love it every time.

www.boingboing.net/2011/07/08/half-of-us-social-pr.html#comment-1158259

This morning I was awoken by my alarm clock powered by electricity generated by the public power monopoly regulated by the US Department of Energy. I then took a shower in the clean water provided by the municipal water supply. After that, I turned the TV to one of the FCC regulated channels to see what the National Weather Service of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration determined what the weather was going to be like using satellites designed, built, and launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. I watched this while eating my breakfast of US Department of Agriculture inspected food and taking drugs which have been determined as safe by the Food and Drug Administration.

At the appropriate time as regulated by the US Congress and kept accurate by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the US Naval Observatory, I get into my National Highway Traffic Safety Administration approved automobile and set out to work on the roads built by local, state, and federal Departments of Transportation, possibly stopping to purchase additional fuel of a quality level determined by the Environmental Protection agency, using legal tender issued by the Federal Reserve Bank. On the way out the door I deposit any mail I have to be sent out via the US Postal Service and drop the kids off at the public school.

After work, I drive my NHTSA car back home on the DOT roads, to a house which has not burned down in my absence because of the state and local building codes and Fire Marshal inspection, and which has not been plundered of all its valuables thanks to the local police department.

I then log onto the internet which was developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration and post on freerepublic.com and Fox News forums about how SOCIALISM in medicine is BAD because the Government can't do anything right.

So... beautiful...