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Heading Corrected per BOW's catch, his math is better than mine.
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50,000, out of NYC's total 8 MILLION residents marched through that beautiful metropolis today to protest budget cuts headed their way from Albany.
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To put this into perspective, I ran the numbers, so my peanut brain could fathom how small 0.00625% is. Because 50,00 people IS a big number. Or is it? 0.00625 of the population is as follows,
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my current home Raleigh - 2375
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my hometown Louisville - 7500
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my old residences not in order
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Garner NC - 156
Lemon Grove CA - 157
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Waukegan - 575
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Not very big numbers when weighed against the population of STATES!! Unless you live in friggin Montana or Alaska. But it gets better, the protesters think that Robin Hood had it right!
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Protestors insisted Thursday that there's a better way. They're asking for what they call "fair tax reform" -- raising state taxes for New Yorkers making $250,000 or more on top of the president's proposed hikes.
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It never occurs to people like this that those making the "fair tax" amount will just move to a better tax state.
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I'm so glad my parents left L.I. before I was born. I could have been a brain dead idiot too!!
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Schteveo can do the math
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9 comments:
If someone works harder they make more.
So basically, to those protesting, it's fair to charge someone more because they work harder.
Hmmm. "Fair" to me is getting what you earn. Why do liberals have such a problem with the word "earn"?
OT - Take 2 minutes out of your life and watch this short clip, it speaks volumes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIHz5tevLAw
YO....
FingerPoot Sperm Count.........
100,000,000,000,000. (and dey kin awl vote in Chicago)
Now, Demz be numbuz!!!!!
These are the same professional protestors who come out whenever their free cheese is threatened. This also proves that once a handout program is created or expanded, it can never be reversed.
Welcome back bud!
"fair" is newspeak. it no longer means what it used to, now it means that "I deserve what you have, no matter what I have done for it"
I want things to be fair too. Somebody give me money for beer (A&W prefered) because I can't afford it, I have to make the mortgage payment on the house I can't live it because it is too far away from my job.
QUOTABLE QUOTES
“The importance of the distinction between freedom and democracy cannot be overstated. Democracy is living by permission of others, constantly subject to their whims, simply because they are the majority. It matters not whether the master is a government acting as the agent for the majority, or a lawless, un-ruly mob. Either way, the subject is a slave. It mustn’t be forgotten that it wasn’t freedom that killed the great philosopher, Socrates, but democracy."
– Free World Trading Company
It is very telling how the terminology of "money given to the needy" has changed.
For hundreds of years it was Charity. The givers gave because they wanted to. When was the last time you heard the term Charitable Organization? Now it's all about "support" or "outreach" or some such nonsense, even from Churches. It was one thing to be charitable, quite another to need that Charity.
Then the Depression hit and the gub'ment was the biggest "giver". Well, then it was "welfare". It was for the welfare of the families, the children, the nation. A noble cause to be sure. But people called it "being on the dole". Men wanted to work, but jobs weren't always easy to find. Again, they didn't want the hand out, even if everybody knew it was not their fault. "The Grapes of Wrath" is based on hungry people LOOKING FOR WORK, not free cheese.
At the end of the Depression came WWII. Young people who had grown up in the Depression, fought, died or worked their asses off to win the war. If you didn't have job then, you were a scrounge.
After the war, people wanted peace, and quiet, and a decent job, a decent home and an America they could count on. The families that started after the war, didn't consider a hand out. But somewhere, the tide was turning.
I'm boomer, as are most of us her, but it's mostly changed in my life time. The terminology and the sentiment both.
I have two cousins who were raised by a single, working, mother. My uncle, after providing the needed sperm for two daughters, decided he'd be happier in San Francisco, the in NYC. Maybe happier isn't the right word, GAYer is more correct.
After he split, my Aunt and cousins lived with my Grandmother, and after her death they moved to the Projects. The sole amount of support they got was reduced rent. No food stamps, no free cheese, nothing else. The rent reduction was based on my Aunt's salary as a book keeper. I remember my cousin's friends. Most of them had two parents and more than anything they wanted to get out of the PJs. Most of those people were there like my Aunt was there, some "thing" occurred to cause their need. They worked their way out of there for the most part. My cousins did, most of their friends did. By then the handouts were still Welfare and it wasn't something you wanted.
I'm not sure when I heard the word "Entitlements" first as to government hand outs. But I do remember thinking that it was NOT right. At some point, the people who give out government money decided the WELFARE was a dirty word. That it somehow denigrated the receiver of the funds. That they'd be better off thinking they DESERVED that funding. And it wasn't just rent either. It was for rent, food, clothing, schooling, transportation...you name it, there's an ENTITLEMENT PROGRAM for it. It's not only NOT shameful to take someone's money, they feel like they have a right to DEMAND it from them.
When people, some of them according to this article working people themselves, begin to accept as the norm a sense of ENTITLEMENT to things the did not earn, IMHO we are done. Piss on the gub'ment provided fire, and call in the Federally Funded USDA subsidized dogs.
I understand ignorant, poor people who have not worked, nor been trained to fend for themselves demanding money. But how brain dead is a person with a JOB, who demands someone's money? I understand collective bargaining, but a union member should understand the pipeline for how money is funneled and provided as a return for services rendered and acquired by the workers for that work.
And again, how is that these people always find the time to march, protest, demand? When I worked, I had places I had to be. My employers NEVER gave me the time to go march, protest or demand.
Of you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. If you teach him to march, protest, demand while carrying a banner or sign with a fish painted on it, you feed him for a lifetime.
I march, protest and demand, therefore I am.
Or maybe Churchill had the words right, but the situation wrong.
Never was so much, owed by so many, to so few.
The few of course being those making over $250,000 per year, who are about to be "fair taxed" into being part of the many.
Steve can not do the math. It's 0.00625 or 0.625%
But the dinero is still not there. How many administrators does it take to open the gate to the public school each AM?
5+ oversight
The glorified, paid attendence monitor, his secretary, 2 uniformed secutity guards and the parent coordinator.
Then the princpal, ass't principal and the guidance counselor all are in the background.
Almost none of the folks are needed, but they are all protesting the cuts and asking us to join them.
Bill,
I did the math twice before I posted it and again just now. I get 0.00625
I just saw it, brain fart.
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