This NYT article chronicles the adventures of a band of recently-unemployed Americans who are relying on unemployment insurance and Social Security to keep them afloat while they … protest “government handouts”. The author must have had a devil of time trying to keep the snark subtle.
Mr. Grimes, who receives Social Security, has filled the back seat of his Mercury Grand Marquis with the literature of the movement, including Glenn Beck’s “Arguing With Idiots” and Frederic Bastiat’s “The Law,” which denounces public benefits as “false philanthropy.”
“If you quit giving people that stuff, they would figure out how to do it on their own,” Mr. Grimes said.
I assume he’ll figure out how to do it any day now.
This naturally supports Jon Stewart’s theory of why crazy points of view dominate the news:
People that have ideology, people that believe, that is their lives. The people that went down to Florida and taped their mouths shut and wrote ‘LIFE’ on them don’t have shit to do.
Damnit, now I’m going to have to go listen to the Jon Stewart stand-up again.