Oy - Chris Matthews equates being a "real person"

[mandyky]

as someone who makes $50K a year. To me this is capitalism run amok. Being a real person has nothing to do with how much one makes a year or what they do to make it.

"Real people" care about their quality of life, yes. They care about their neighbors and comunities.
They have a moral code, that may or may not come from religion.

Good Lord, America is in trouble if we insist on exporting capitalism as well as democracy. And the world is in trouble if America has her way. Bush/GOP capitalism is as big a threat (or bigger) as communism ever was.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

1. I guess im not real

:shrug:

fuck you asshat

[neverevergivein]

27. Quick question re: incomes

Forgive my ignorance please, this is meant as respectful as I can be. Some of the posts on here make reference to how much income their family lives off of. I am amazed and in awe, but at the same time, shocked, if what I'm reading is true. I readily admit I come from a background that is way more privileged than I deserve. We're not super rich, but we do fine. Myself however, I make a good income (higher than Chrissy boy's real person threshhold) and I struggle to live within the budget. My wife works too, makes roughly the same amount, and we're always going paycheck to paycheck. So, my question is, How in the world do those of you who make less than the Chris Mathews real person line, do it? It is amazing and inspiring, but incredibly unfair. I totally tip my cap to you, and hope circumstances change and you'll never have to think about such a question again.

Sincerely,
Bobby

i guess I should add: someone said they are supporting a family of 3 on $12,000 a year? That's a mom/dad of the year and definitely deserve some support/recognition. Or am I just an idiot and this is more standard than I think?

[ceile]

2. I guess I'm not even 1/2 a "real person"

Oh, well. I guess I'll go jump off a bridge.

[mandyky]

4. Tell me about it

We make $12,000 a year to support 3 people.

[Blue_In_AK]

6. I'm right there with you...

I used to be real, but since I've been self-employed, I'm apparently not so real anymore.

[The Backlash Cometh]

3. In Chris Matthew's insular world, that would be accurate.

Everybody else serves to make life easier for those who can pull in the big numbers

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

5. Real person vs WHAT? Manimals...are we back to human-animal hybrids?

[SammyWinstonJack]

7. What would Tweety know about real people anyway?

Overpaid corporate whore that he is. And like you said, what does income have to do with being real?

[mandyky]

12. He was talking about the terrorists/Islamic " world,

but how the hell can we send "couldbe/would be" terrorists to college to train for $50K per year jobs when we can't even do that for American children?

[JuniperLea]

13. Maybe they will take that as an argument for raising minimum wage

So we can all be "real".

Brings new meaning to the phrase, "Keeping it real".

[CottonBear]

8. WTF? link?

DId he mean individually or as a family? If he really said this then he is really a freaking idiot. :(

Would this mean that the huge majority of AMericans are NOT real people?

[mandyky]

16. He just said it on Hardball

referring to terrorists and their motivations..

[CottonBear]

17. What was the context of this idiotic remark? n/t

[mandyky]

20. see posts 18 and 12 , I made

the man must see brown, because his head is up his ass for sure!

[JuniperLea]

9. Disgusting!

Real people? ARRRRRRGGGGHHHH!!!! No wonder they ignore the poor, hungry and homeless. They aren't real anyway. Bastards need a dose of Karma, and quick!

There are no dollar signs in a moral code, you ASSHAT!

[mandyky]

18. Exactly, and he was talking about how to "redirect" terrorists

If we Americans are insulted imagine how someone from an Islamic nation or third world country feels....

[JuniperLea]

19. I'd be insulted even if I made $100k a year!

Too rude to be true!

[CottonBear]

21. Thanks! I no longer watch those sort of shows. n/t

[dchill]

10. I'm not real to Chris Matthews.

Good. He is UNreal to me.

[Double T]

11. One thing is for certain; Chris Matthews IS NOT a real person........

in the REAL WORLD.

[DemonGoddess]

14. Add me to the roles of the

not real as well. :mad:

[SofaKingLiberal]

15. WTF? So over 90% of the world's population isn't real?

[JuniperLea]

24. That's what I get from this too

They really only care about the top 2% anyway, but what I don't get is that if you kill the rest of us off with all this neglect, who is going to "serve" them... and who is going to make things for them to buy?

[Yollam]

22. I think he's trying to say that real people are working-class people.

To someone like Tweety, $50K is peanuts.

I doubt he meant only people who make OVER that amount.

Of course, his ignorance of the fact that many, many households live on MUCH less than that is still appalling, but...

[mandyky]

23. Hardball will rerun at 7 PM ET

for anyone who wants an exact context of what he said. The "real people" label got to me, although I missed some of the preamble to it. I'll be rewatching at 7 PM to make sure I have the context.

[faithnotgreed]

25. well said mandyky

[mandyky]

26. 15 minute countdown to the replay

of Hardball

[ninkasi]

28. This means I've been unreal

for almost 63 years. If I'm not a real person, why do I have to pay taxes?