Daley: We're a country of whiners

[Freddie Stubbs]

Source: WLS

March 4, 2011 (WHEATON, Ill.) (WLS) -- Chicago Mayor Richard Daley says we're "a country of whiners."

The mayor spoke to several hundred people at Wheaton College Thursday.

The visit was in support of the school's J. Dennis Hastert Center. Daley took some questions, including one about how to restore America.

"We have become a country of whiners, my theory. We started whining about the Japanese. 'The Japanese are gonna take us over.' You know, we thought we defeated them in the Second World War, rebuilt it, they're taking us over in 1970. 'What's going to happen to America? They're gonna own our country. That's it. We're all out of jobs,'" Daley said. "Then we start whining about the Mexicans. 'We're losing all the manufacturing to Mexico. Look what's taking place. We cannot compete. We can't do this, we can't do this.' Now, we forgot about the Mexicans. Now, we're whining about the Chinese and the Indians. We're a country of whiners. That's all we are. We should have enough confidence that we can compete with people if we all sacrifice a little bit for the common good. If we do that, we can compete with any nation."

Read more: http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local&id=7994390

[still_one]

1. Yeah, we were whining when jerks like you sent our jobs to countries that don't need to pay their

workers a minimum wage, supply safety standards in the workplace, and do not need to honor environmental concerns

I will stop whining when ass hats like you are the ones that are off-shored, and not the people who are foundation of the country

[mascarax]

6. +1

Someone lives in a different reality. Like "not whining" is the simple solution for millions of people who need jobs.

[Taverner]

2. Someone's not getting the 'big picture' here

[opihimoimoi]

3. If there is Whining ...its them GOPers

[Kingofalldems]

4. Unrec for anti-Democratic party tone

[QC]

5. Not everyone had the good fortune to win the sperm lottery.

Some of us actually have to work for a living.

[treestar]

7. He's got a point, but then he needs to go into the positive territory

About what positive things we can build, create our own new jobs, etc.

[Drale]

8. Coming from the chief whiner

[CrossChris]

9. When people like that say "we", they mean "you." And the whining is over something they've done.

Almost every time.

[Dappleganger]

10. Oh fuck off.

Nothing makes the hurting feel "better" than a rich elitist politician calling us whiners.

Yet another stupid pick by the president.

[felix_numinous]

11. wow calling people who are standing their ground whiners--

you don't call people out in the snow whiners, how clueless can you get. People are just getting warmed up.

[pscot]

12. As with any sacrifice

some wield the knife while others do the bleeding.

[n2doc]

13. "Stop Whining" = "Shut Up and Bend Over"

I just love this "if we all just sacrifice a bit" crap. The rich (including Daley) NEVER sacrifice.

[Vinnie From Indy]

14. Like Dickie Daley has EVER had to worry where his next meal was coming from

Nothing pisses me off more than assholes like Daley, who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, telling the rest of America to quit bitching. FUCK that dickhead! He is a billboard for people that were born on third base and act like THEY hit a triple.

[NoGOPZone]

15. Is he chanelling Phil Gramm now? nt

[fishwax]

16. elsewhere in the speech, he whined about being unable to get teachers to work for free

:eyes:

http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/clout_st/2011/03/daley-were-a-country-of-whiners.html

Saying he was pleased but not satisfied with the progress of Chicago Public Schools during his tenure, Daley recounted asking city teachers to spend 15 more minutes to teach to help disadvantaged students, but the union refused without additional pay.

“Our teachers work six hours a day. Six hours a day. What do you think of that? Thirty hours a week,” Daley said. “I’m not condemning all the teachers, but you know, there has to be a time and place for everybody to have to give to the less fortunate. … Unions have to understand, that you have a responsibility. It’s not just a paycheck.”

[NashVegas]

22. When Does He Think They Grade Tests? Read Essays?

[fishwax]

27. probably while their chauffeurs drive them to the golf course for their afternoon tee time

since, after all, teachers are raking in the dough ...

[Kurovski]

17. That's always helpful.

[reformist2]

18. "We can compete with any nation if we slash our wages to $1 an hour." /parody

But seriously, this guy's a democrat?!

[MattSh]

19. Yep...

We're a country of whining millionaires.

Don't hear the whining in too many other sectors though...

[DefenseLawyer]

20. Man in a silk suit hurries by, as he catches the poor old lady's eye

Just for fun he says "Get a job."

[Rex]

21. Well if that ain't the pot calling the kettle black then I don't know what is.

"Let me whine a little about American citizens and how they whine about everything." :eyes:

[TheKentuckian]

23. Doesn't that dumpsterfire have some black plague to inject into his spine?

[HughBeaumont]

24. Shitpig uses same "whiners" ruse as another shitpig . . .

. . . who, like it's been said upthread, complain about people complaining about something their party DID:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/10/mccain-adviser-americans_n_111857.html

Not only are none of their thoughts and ideas original, but they almost always SUCK.

[Arkana]

25. Daley's wrong, but not completely.

We're not so much a nation of whiners as we are a nation of thin-skinned, impatient nudniks.

Americans as a people want everything immediately, and if they don't get it they just vote the other guys into office. How do you explain the cyclical nature of the past 3-4 elections?

Jimmy Carter went on TV 30 years ago and gave us what the media dubbed the "malaise" speech, where he told us exactly what was wrong with us--and how did we repay this honest assessment of the American psyche? By voting him out for the happy-talking, jingoistic, Alzheimers-addled moron Reagan. Why? Because we don't like having our faults laid bare to us.

Daley's assessment is misguided, and he's the wrong person to give the talk--kinda like Rahm Emanuel lecturing the public on civil discourse. But Carter was not wrong to tell us what he did 30 years ago, and someone needs to do it again now.

E: Flame away, I'm expecting it anyway.

[AsahinaKimi]

26. The people who DO that kind of whining are still around today

They are Called Republicans.

[DeSwiss]

28. You know who else thinks we're a nation of whiners???

- Way to go you fucking asshat. I hope Rahm raises your fucking taxes.

K&R

[Vinca]

29. It's time for people like Daley to be stripped of all their assets and

thrown out onto the mean streets as an anonymous individual trying to get a job that pays enough to support a family. Today I was reading an elderly lady's obituary in the paper and it said she had been a homemaker all her life, devoting all her time to caring for her family and friends. Wonder if Mr. Daley remembers a time when 1 income would provide for a family's needs. Average people have been screwed over by politicians, trade agreements and corporations. That's not whining, it's fact.