"You Just Want Free Stuff."

[liberalnarb]

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

1. Hey, just "cut it out."

[Old Codger]

3. Maybe

Add a "please" to that would do it..

[Helen Borg]

11. Please, cut it out... If necessary...

[monmouth4]

15. Every time I read that I think of Jack Benny..LOL..He said "cut that out" but still.....nt

[HughBeaumont]

2. "Pull yerselves up by the Bootstraps!!" - anyone who never had to.

[cheapdate]

5. Win!

[Enthusiast]

22. + a bazillion!

[Proserpina]

4. We want what we worked for and you stole

You 1%ers have very convenient memories, morals, and tax avoidance attorneys...

[Marty McGraw]

16. It's tragically comical

how life situates itself to reward such a small minority so lavishly who have this brain disorder. As if anyother profession out in the world means piss to the daily workings of ordinary life. Really makes one look around their entire life and feel ashamed. Sad

[On the Road]

6. It's Interesting to Note

that the cartoonist pretty much admitted Sanders's campaign is a money grab.

Saying Republicans want tax cuts doesn't really affect that point.

[edgineered]

7. Yea, right.

None of the other candidates had even considered that the office of POTUS might influence monetary policy. Well, looks like that cat is out of the bag.

[Akamai]

10. A great Joe Biden quote is this: "A budget is a moral statement.

Don't tell me what value. Show me your budget and I will tell you what you value!"

[Akamai]

9. Bernie believes, I think, that if society as a whole wants to help

all of its members, even if it requires higher taxes-- especially on the richest, who will suffer significant pain by paying more -- then it is moral and right to do so.

This is not being given "free stuff" but a realization that we are all in this together.

[noiretextatique]

18. The "point" is an idiotic rw non-sequitur

And clearly, you missed THAT point

[On the Road]

20. Rhetorically,

arguing tu quoque or "you too" is considered an admission. I know that's not what the cartoonist intended, but what he wrote suggests that both sides valid arguments.

[laundry_queen]

24. Um lol wut? nt

[Half-Century Man]

32. No, It's a counteroffensive in the Class War waged by the rich on us for the last 40 years.

It is an attempt at a Normandy landing.

Be glad we are saying the pillaging stops here, not give it back.

[tecelote]

8. Republicans love socialism as it stands today.

They bitch about food stamps but really food stamps are a gift to Walmart stockholders. Every dollar paid in food stamps is a dollar Walmart does not need to pay it's employees. The poor do not benefit, they work to sustain themselves. Stockholders benefit.

Endless war means endless profits. Our tax dollars are making war mongers rich while we are just creating more threats that demand more war.

[NorthCarolina]

28. I've heard Democrats issue the same sentiment.

Recall the hub bub here on DU about Bernie's free college tuition plan: "I don't want to pay for Trumps kids to go to Community College". It isn't JUST Republicans that have this mindset.

[99th_Monkey]

12. K&R - Why anyone listens to that bullshit Fat-cat mantra, is beyond me..

If we still had a Forth Estate worthy of the name, it would be met with guffaws and
laughed out of the room by the Press.

[Akamai]

13. 99th -- Amen, brother!!!

[Uncle Joe]

14. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, liberalnarb.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

17. That pile of cash is funded in part by government subsidies, infrastructure spending, ...

by government subsidies, infrastructure spending, gas taxes, defense spending on over-valued gold plated hammers, paying landowners not to grow crops, bank bailouts, ...., and trillions of dollars the government can't account for.

[Shandris]

19. I..I wouldn't mind a free relocation to a country of my choice. Can I have that Free Stuff?

Please? I promise I'll never vote against Republicans again if I can! ...granted, it's because I won't be here to do so, but still!

[yuiyoshida]

21. HEY!! WTF is wrong with FREE STUFF?

[Dr. Xavier]

23. CLASS WARFARE, CLASS WARFARE, CLASS WARFARE,

CLASS WARFARE, CLASS WARFARE, CLASS WARFARE, CLASS WARFARe, CLASS WARFAre, CLASS WARFare, CLASS WARfare, CLASS WArfare, CLASS Warfare, CLASS warfare, CLASs warfare, CLAss warfare, CLass warfare, Class warfare, ... class ... oh, never mind...

[grahamhgreen]

25. Not free, Equal.

[mountain grammy]

26. K&R

[CommonSenseDemocrat]

27. There is zero difference between collecting benefits vs. tax credits

[smirkymonkey]

29. K&R

[GoneOffShore]

30. For an interesting take on this, one needs look no further than here:

http://www.thenation.com/article/the-dickensian-politics-of-trump-and-his-fellow-ebenezers/

Unfortunately, the poor are still imagined as a burden by today’s political misers.

The debate about how to respond to poverty continues to this day—in much the same language Dickens recalled more than a century and a half ago. The poor are still with us, as are the Scrooges.

We’d best bless them all, with hopes that the ghosts of Past, Present, and Future will again visit those who are in need of some seasonal prodding.

[JHB]

31. “People who just want stuff”: 1860

From November 12, 2012:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021803220

“People who just want stuff”: 1860

With all the conservative whining and wailing going on about Obama’s re-election, saying that he won because of “people who just want stuff” and other assorted poutrage, it’s worth noting that this is a trope they’ve been playing for a very, very long time.

Below is a conservative political cartoon from 1860, engraved by Currier and Ives and published in Harper's Magazine.

Back then, when “The Party of Lincoln” was actually running Lincoln for president, it was considered the liberal/left party.

See if you recognize the playbook:


http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2003674590/

"The Republican Party Going to the Right House"

Lincoln rides in on a (fence) rail, carried by Horace Greely (anti-slavery editor of the New York Tribune), leading his followers into a lunatic asylum.
GREELY: "Hold on to me Abe, and we'll go in here by the unanimous consent of the people."
LINCOLN: "Now my friends I'm almost in, and the millennium is going to begin, so ask what you will and it shall be granted."

Younger Woman: "Oh! what a beautiful man he is, I feel a passionate attraction' every time I see his lovely face."
Bearded Man: "I represent the free love element, and expect to have free license to carry out its principles."
Man with trim beard and hat: "I want religion abolished and the book of Mormon made the standard of morality."
Caricatured black man: "De white man hab no rights dat cullud pussons am bound to spect' I want dat understood."
Older woman: "I want womans rights enforced, and man reduced in subjection to her authority."
Scruffy man with bottle: "I want everybody to have a share of everybody elses property."
Barefoot man: "I want a hotel established by government, where people that aint inclined to work, can board free of expense, and be found in rum and tobacco."
Seedy top-hat man: " I want guaranteed to every Citizen the right to examine every other citizen's pockets without interruption by Policemen."
Man at the end: "I want all the stations houses burned up, and the M.P.s killed, so that the bohoys can run with the machine and have a muss when they please."

Let’s go down the list, shall we?:
Supported by "liberal media": Check
Liberals will embark on profligate giveaways to THOSE PEOPLE? Check.
Flighty, emotional, entranced by charisma/celebrity? Check.
People conservatives consider sexual deviants? Check.
People conservatives consider religious deviants? Check (and how ironic, this particular turn).
Grasping minorities after special rights? Check.
"Feminazis"? Check.
There's a vast army of layabouts, terrorists, and outright thieves who want to take your hard-earned stuff? Check, check, check, and check.

A hundred and fifty years later, and they're playing the same effing tune.