I was just telling my boss the same thing

September 1, 2012 | Filed under American exceptionalism | Posted by

From the mouths of babes, huh?  Well, not babes in the literal sense.  Nor physical sense.  I don’t know in what sense at all, actually.  What do you want from me on the first college football Saturday of the year and opening day of dove season?

An 82-year-old woman with a rap sheet dating back to 1955 has been arrested on suspicion of burglarizing at least eight doctors’ offices throughout Torrance.  Doris Thompson was arrested Thursday after detectives tracked her down at a motel in El Segundo, the Torrance Daily Breeze reported.

…Thompson has a 21-page rap sheet that includes arrests from 1955 for disturbing the peace, burglary, forgery and grand theft from Los Angeles to the South Bay to Beverly Hills, according to the Daily Breeze. She was arrested in connection with a homicide in 1957, but was deemed insane and committed to a hospital.

The octogenarian previously pleaded guilty two years ago for similar burglaries, and reportedly asked if she would be serving the entire three years of her sentence. Thompson was released on parole in November.

According to the newspaper, she reportedly told detectives at her sentencing that she “wouldn’t do all this nonsense if the government gave us more money.”

Kim reported that Thompson served time in state prison nine times and has 25 known aliases.

That’s potentially 25 votes for you-know-who.  Frankly I’m a bit surprised Democrats haven’t latched onto multiple personality syndrome as a voter registration multiplier.  In the second term when he’s got more flexibility, perhaps.

 

If I help him he’s gonna help me.  That’s a great message to send to you daughter, Peggy.  The best day of your life is the day a politician’s speech leads you to believe you no longer have to worry about putting gas in your car or paying your mortgage.  I can’t help but wonder how the man who signed into law the bill creating our federal government’s “free money for poor folks” programs might feel about your comments…

“These Negroes, they’re getting pretty uppity these days and that’s a problem for us since they’ve got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we’ve got to do something about this, we’ve got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference.”

 

“I’ll have those niggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.”

Lyndon Johnson, ladies and gentlemen.  We always joke that when Democrats accuse Republicans of some imagined sin they’re projecting.  Remember how Democrats shrieked W was just an ignorant Texas redneck?  Yeah.  Well LBJ was absolutely right that it merely took a few baubles to convince blacks to almost universally support the party of Robert Byrd, Bull Connor, and Ross Barnett over the party of Lincoln.  He was dead wrong about making a difference, though.  We have created a permanently impoverished, dependent class of people in the US.

Contrary to beliefs in the major media, that includes people of all races and colors – not just blacks.  When folks like me complain that welfare is bad idea it’s not because we hate poor people.  In my case it’s more an acceptance of human nature.  If you remove incentives to work and provide a responsibility-free sustenance-level income there are plenty of people who are perfectly happy to live on the dole.  That’s a difficult cycle to break.

Of course, it’s easy for a politician to buy votes with promises of fighting to give you more of other people’s money.  Class warfare is easy to stoke.  Appealing to our inner four year old – it’s not fair the rich have so much and you have so little – is easy.  Self determination is hard.  Hard work is hard.  Saving is hard.  Why bother when there’s always a politician who’s more than happy to reach into your neighbor’s pocket on your behalf.

We have two 82 year old Californians in the news this week.  Democrats are quick dismiss one of them as deranged, senile, and confusedly spouting off a stream of words with no meaning or consequence.  But not the one with the 55 year history of mental illness and anti-social behavior who would mend her larcenous ways if the government would just buy her off.  That’s just sound social policy.  Nay, they’re trashing the 82 year old with a dry-cool wit, an Oscar, and flinty stare.

Doris Thompson is obviously in need of help.  Unfortunately she lives in California.  California is run by its public sector unions and governed by politicians who value high-speed white elephants no one will ride over fiscal sanity.  They can’t afford to give her the help she obviously needs.  Which would be bad enough if they weren’t compounding it by treating her words as guidance from the state comptroller.

Why don’t we just end poverty forever by having the Treasury department print up a crisp, new $1,000,000 bill for every man, woman, and child in America?  The multiplier effect would be huge and never again would anyone in America be faced with want or need.  Just think how fast our economy would grow if nobody ever had to work again!  It’s a solution whose time has come.  Just think of how much more we all could do if the government gave us more money.

 

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  • MithridateBovine53
    • http://opinion.ak4mc.us/ Scribe of Slog (McGehee)

      This spam is not made out of dead parrots, nor does it have a silly walk.

  • Commander_Chico_Cognoscente

    Of course there are a lot of crazies and retards who have to be supported by the government.

    It’s unavoidable if you have a free country and people can’t take them constantly starving to death on the street and ripping them off.
    The question is, how minimal, difficult and unpleasant do you make the wellie in order to deter those of able-bodies and minds from trying to take a long vacation?

    Same as mental illness, they used to lock them up, maybe too much. Now they are turned loose with minimal care and the choice of whether they want to take their meds or not. Again, part of being a free country.

    As for your proposal to give $1,000,000 to every American, something like that could have been done (say $100,000), but instead they gave the money to the banks instead. Ben Bernanke wrote his dissertation on the subject of ending depressions by “dropping money from helicopters,” but The Powers That Be prevented him from actually doing that – hence Quantitative Easing, Operation Twist, and the like.

    • jim_m

      Because it’s just too much trouble to actually advocate putting criminals behind bars. If they really want to have government support we should give it to them.

      • Commander_Chico_Cognoscente

        “Putting criminals behind bars” is more expensive than cutting a check to subsidize the crazy and borderline retarded, not to mention the costs to potential victims.

        The USA already has one of the highest rates of imprisonment in the world, if not the highest. Why is that?

        As usual, when it comes to prisons or wars, cost is no object to “conservatives.” Better to spend $50,000 imprisoning someone for a year than giving them a make-work job or wellie for $25,000.

        • jim_m

          And unlike our European friends, who are busy confiscating guns and giving mass murderers 18 year prison sentences, our crime rates are declining for the most part.

          And I am talking about the criminals not the insane. The cost of crime is far higher than you will admit. But then as a lefty, you are probably in favor of letting criminals walk the streets. They vote for your side.

          • Commander_Chico_Cognoscente

            Well, considering that European homicide rates are one-fourth that of the USA, Europe has a lot of catching up to do.

            It’s not a matter of “insanity,” it’s a matter of lower-grade mental illness and stupidity (aka retards). Criminals are mostly dumbasses who have poor judgment and don’t know they are dumbasses with poor judgment. Bad metacognition. Because of this, it’s tough for a lot of them to get jobs, too.

            It’s tough to calibrate exactly where to draw the line, but if you cut checks to some people, they will have enough to be satisfied with sitting on their asses watching TV and won’t be out breaking into houses and robbing people.

          • jim_m

            So you need to cherry pick the one crime rate that makes the US look bad. You are very efficient at criticizing the US. Hate it much?

            The US has a lower overall crime rate than all these EU nations. In 2009 the crime rate in the US (466 per 100k) was 1/5th that of the UK, 1/4th that of Austria, and half that of Sweden, Belgium and Canada. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1196941/The-violent-country-Europe-Britain-worse-South-Africa-U-S.html

            Crime is on the increase in Europe and has been for a number of years. Sorry if that doesn’t fit your lefty narrative.

          • SCSIwuzzy

            I am always skeptical of the international crime rate comparisons, since every nation records crime differently. Murder/suicides in Japan, for instance, are recorded as suicides.

          • jim_m

            I would maybe buy into it if they were all lower than the US, but here they are higher. Also I recall a study done out of the Netherlands that indicated that the crime rates may even be higher.

          • retired.military

            Chico doesnt count in the riots and mob rule that goes along with greek and other countries when they are told that their free stuff has broken the bank. He neglects to mention that that system worked out so well.

          • Vagabond661

            Ah, the teach a person to watch TV so they won’t rob you parable. I prefer put the crook in jail and he can watch TV there parable. Less chance of him robbing me then…or anyone else.

        • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ryan-Murphy/100001624276605 Ryan Murphy

          Just curious, Chico, do you count the cost of thier repeated crimes into your cost/benefit analysis?

        • retired.military

          ”
          Why is that?”

          Because in a free society some people choose to abuse that freedom. You find less people likely to commit crimes like stealing a loaf of bread fi they know they will get shot for it without a trial.

    • http://opinion.ak4mc.us/ Scribe of Slog (McGehee)

      Of course there are a lot of crazies and retards who have to be supported by the government.

      The Vice President, for example.

      • http://wizbangblog.com/author/rodney-graves/ Rodney G. Graves

        chicka for another.

    • GarandFan

      “As for your proposal to give $1,000,000 to every American, something
      like that could have been done (say $100,000), but instead they gave the
      money to the banks instead.”

      Oh really? And just how many TRILLIONS were spent on the so-called “war on poverty?. That money could have been divided amongst the “poor”, and today those people would be just as “poor”.

      Money isn’t “free” when YOU have to work for it.

    • herddog505

      Who are these “Powers That Be” who stopped Helicopter Benny from just passing out flippin’ great wads of cash to John Q. Public? And how did they do it? Did they threaten Benny’s children? Simply tell him that either his signature or his brains would be on the order?

      I must also point out that Barry blew through $850B in “stimulus” that went to… well, we’re not entirely sure where it all went, but much went to state and local governments (got to keep those swivel chairs warm) and unions. That’s about $3500 for every adult American; not a huge chunk of change, but it would have been welcome to many people who were struggling with their mortgages and other bills.

      Perhaps instead of wringing your hands over the actions of some shadowy “Powers That Be” or “TEH OLIGARCHY”, you might spend a bit more time looking at what actually DID happen and who did it.

    • SCSIwuzzy

      Don’t be so hard on yourself Chico. There are pharmaceuticals that can help you with the crazy.

  • Vagabond661

    “Frankly I’m a bit surprised Democrats haven’t latched onto multiple personality syndrome as a voter registration multiplier.”
    Thanks. Now we will never get the toothpaste back in the tube.

    • retired.military

      Who says they havent?

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