tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583157134881112619.post1891678228986181494..comments2024-03-10T23:44:30.359-05:00Comments on Racine Post: Chairs today, gone tomorrow...Dustin http://www.blogger.com/profile/10717778498642473701noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583157134881112619.post-21829371179069089532009-09-12T04:55:23.674-05:002009-09-12T04:55:23.674-05:00Get a time machine and send that message back to E...Get a time machine and send that message back to Emerson--he'd have liked it. For your information, the poor people I know work long hours for low pay. They are NOT lazy and complacent. You've been taught to blame the poor for their sad situation because the rich and the upper-middle class don't want to pay taxes to help them. Also, the treasure tyrants who run this sick system don't want ordinary people to see that it's a money-ocracy instead of a meritocracy. If the corporate porkers send your job to Dragon Country,YOU could be POOR. Stop bashing this system's victims and start changing the system!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583157134881112619.post-66350305134028089502009-09-11T22:09:08.626-05:002009-09-11T22:09:08.626-05:00Why don't the bickerers exchange phone numbers...Why don't the bickerers exchange phone numbers or email addresses and quit writing such hostile, non-productive comments on this blog. A lot of poor people got that way because they were brought up to not give a damn and take from others. The cycle has to break before they can expect to rise in socioeconomic class. They will only appreciate something if they've worked for it themselves. Everything the government throws at them will only serve to keep them lazy and complacent. There's a huge mission field in Racine. Get out there and share the Gospel!Bystandernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583157134881112619.post-37923106965430890982009-09-11T12:03:09.177-05:002009-09-11T12:03:09.177-05:00Dear 11:47 A.M., No, THE POOR will have the last a...Dear 11:47 A.M., No, THE POOR will have the last and best laugh when they roast Racine's arty-tarty downtown and the so-called historic district. Although I'm not a psychic and I can't provide you with an exact date, I CAN tell you that rising unemployment rates and despair will provoke the people you've dubbed "rodents" to punish the elite of this Mickey Mouse town by destroying its snob snuggeries. In the mean time, enjoy the Waxies' mini-Versailles before the peasantry and its lower-middle class allies take care of business.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583157134881112619.post-75909127312746484262009-09-11T11:51:39.541-05:002009-09-11T11:51:39.541-05:00Dear 11:39 A.M., Who the heck are you to dismiss a...Dear 11:39 A.M., Who the heck are you to dismiss anyone? As for taking the easy way out, if people didn't seek less difficult ways of performing tasks and surviving, our species would never have invented the wheel. Finally, I believe that seeking government assistance is honorable for disabled and severely-disadvantaged people. Believe me, the oligarchs won't miss the cash our tax collectors obtain from them to fund social programs. In fact, our local fiscal fiends could disgorge double the present amount and they'd still be able to play with their replica SICK=orsky seaplane and other toys.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583157134881112619.post-9281682126841515042009-09-11T11:47:20.279-05:002009-09-11T11:47:20.279-05:0011:39 - I'll get the last laugh because you ar...11:39 - I'll get the last laugh because you are responding to your own post - Take a look at the 11:27post ha!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583157134881112619.post-3873886763615019022009-09-11T11:39:37.513-05:002009-09-11T11:39:37.513-05:00Dear Anonymous 11:27, We'll see who has the la...Dear Anonymous 11:27, We'll see who has the last laugh. This deeply-divided community is on the verge of a socio-economic upheaval which could make the riots of yesteryear resemble high school cafeteria food fights.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583157134881112619.post-80371345182777688412009-09-11T11:39:02.991-05:002009-09-11T11:39:02.991-05:00Instead of saying I can't - find a way to say ...Instead of saying I can't - find a way to say I can. That is what real people do. They don't take the easy way out and expect the goverment to bail them out. I'm done with you - you are hopelesly miserable. You are dismissed!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583157134881112619.post-35806429376523686462009-09-11T11:33:56.297-05:002009-09-11T11:33:56.297-05:00Dear 11:15 A.M., YOU try volunteering when you'...Dear 11:15 A.M., YOU try volunteering when you're crippled due to arthritis, can barely walk, and receive no support from the government.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583157134881112619.post-27643739234803445202009-09-11T11:32:52.135-05:002009-09-11T11:32:52.135-05:0011:27 - You did not answer my 11:15comment. Is tha...11:27 - You did not answer my 11:15comment. Is that because you do nothing to improve the community - just spend your time whining?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583157134881112619.post-41419535779014968012009-09-11T11:29:13.448-05:002009-09-11T11:29:13.448-05:0011:27 Yada, Yada, Yada!11:27 Yada, Yada, Yada!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583157134881112619.post-47610319297398915802009-09-11T11:27:41.485-05:002009-09-11T11:27:41.485-05:00Dear 11:07 A.M., If you'd like different mater...Dear 11:07 A.M., If you'd like different material, just research the history of this municipality. Back in the eighteen-hundreds, we had violence galore. During the Great Depression and the nineteen-fifties, Racine experienced strike-related violence. In the early and mid nineteen-sixties, we endured race riots and wholesale looting in our downtown. I know you're trying to be funny, but references to the poor as restless rodents could incite them to carbonize Racine.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583157134881112619.post-56457442074762865802009-09-11T11:15:23.038-05:002009-09-11T11:15:23.038-05:0011:07 That is really BS - you do not have to have ...11:07 That is really BS - you do not have to have money to volunteer and obviously you have the time since you are positing out here. When you start to do something constructive in the community, then maybe we can take you seriously.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583157134881112619.post-72818892073499404812009-09-11T11:07:41.191-05:002009-09-11T11:07:41.191-05:00Dear 10:37 A.M., Sad to say, a person has to have ...Dear 10:37 A.M., Sad to say, a person has to have money or the leisure time which cash gives its lucky possessors to do the great things which you recommend.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583157134881112619.post-52509778638198116192009-09-11T11:07:22.176-05:002009-09-11T11:07:22.176-05:0010:33 - you've tried that material once before...10:33 - you've tried that material once before - how about some new material - the rodents are restless -ha,ha!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583157134881112619.post-80224237603477306402009-09-11T11:04:12.809-05:002009-09-11T11:04:12.809-05:00Dear 10:33 A.M., Calling people rodents--particula...Dear 10:33 A.M., Calling people rodents--particularly when they're poor and have plenty of good reasons to hate a bad system--won't solve our problems. If you ever saw angry paupers loot and burn a business district, you'd think twice about using abusive language. Back in 1967, Detroit's notorious Cass Corridor exploded in violence when thousands of oppressed people settled accounts with the advantaged classes. Later, in April of the following year, the poor torched shops and restaurants frequented by solovent suburbanites. Alas, I witnessed both of these urban insurrections. Please, for everyone's sake, DON'T insult and goad OUR less-fortunate residents!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583157134881112619.post-15566318671578911572009-09-11T10:45:35.113-05:002009-09-11T10:45:35.113-05:00Dear Al, Believe it or not, I don't hate the J...Dear Al, Believe it or not, I don't hate the Johnsons. What I despise is the arrogance and cruelty of our capitalist elite, a class to which they belong. If taxation and wealth caps knocked the viciousness out of our oligarchs and rendered them harmless, I could tolerate them and their antics. It would also be nice if the high-and-mighty private sector predators would stop dodging their property taxes. To people outside the cushy confines of the upper-middle class, buildings designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and his emulators are pricey status symbols which should be taxed accordingly.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583157134881112619.post-11422502207000458722009-09-11T10:37:29.200-05:002009-09-11T10:37:29.200-05:0010:12 - it takes no money to volunteer at the food...10:12 - it takes no money to volunteer at the food pantry, or at the literacy council, or Family Services, or Goodwill, etc, etc, etc. You are just a cop out - you whine, but do nothing to improve things in the community that youare so concerned about.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583157134881112619.post-4193443307766214872009-09-11T10:33:22.244-05:002009-09-11T10:33:22.244-05:0010:30 - You are the rodent I was referring to. You...10:30 - You are the rodent I was referring to. You are a miserable and sad individual. There is no hope for you. Enjoy your sorrow, no one else cares.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583157134881112619.post-18201836568699264832009-09-11T10:30:35.845-05:002009-09-11T10:30:35.845-05:00Dear 9:25 A.M., If our capitalist system didn'...Dear 9:25 A.M., If our capitalist system didn't reduce most of our people to penury and poverty, they could afford to buy the pricey chairs as well as help our downtown merchants survive. As for telling the poor to return to their rat holes, that type of arrogance spawns revolutions. Equating the less-fortunate with rodents will only make them angrier than they were before.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583157134881112619.post-14939291584310210002009-09-11T10:20:35.755-05:002009-09-11T10:20:35.755-05:00Dear 8:54 A.M., Given the minimum price of the cha...Dear 8:54 A.M., Given the minimum price of the chairs, I doubt that too many prospective purchasers will have cash left over to spend in local stores and eateries.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583157134881112619.post-5943101895210461082009-09-11T10:12:21.436-05:002009-09-11T10:12:21.436-05:00Dear Anonymous 9:55 A.M.,I have done very little b...Dear Anonymous 9:55 A.M.,I have done very little because I have very little. Only those who possess serious money and the power it gives them in this evil system should be required to contribute to society. Until we give all our citizens a level playing field and a social safety net,we shouldn't demand anything from ordinary people.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583157134881112619.post-91534487861020139692009-09-11T10:03:22.528-05:002009-09-11T10:03:22.528-05:00Dear Al, The fact that an oligarchic tribe occasio...Dear Al, The fact that an oligarchic tribe occasionally performs a decent deed shouldn't blind us to the crimes of the corporate oligarchy as a whole. The guilty Gilded Age robber barons remain what they are even though they sometimes cut checks to schools. (Let's face it, the only reasons the rich support educational institutions are tax deductions and the desire for a docile workforce. A certain family obtains well-indoctrinated elitist executives from Precious Airy Academy and obedient office help or temp labor from the other, less-prestigious schools it maintains in our sorry city.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583157134881112619.post-25166264043413537272009-09-11T09:55:43.623-05:002009-09-11T09:55:43.623-05:009:51 - do something about it persoanlly rather tha...9:51 - do something about it persoanlly rather than just whining here. What specifically have you done to improve the concerns you have?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583157134881112619.post-72522803587761330192009-09-11T09:52:52.857-05:002009-09-11T09:52:52.857-05:009:37 - They were all a great addition to the downt...9:37 - They were all a great addition to the downtown this summer - thank your wife for her hard work.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583157134881112619.post-85226797711567239682009-09-11T09:51:49.425-05:002009-09-11T09:51:49.425-05:00Right before the French Revolution, Marie Antoinet...Right before the French Revolution, Marie Antoinette and her clique were obsessed with arty furniture while the common people starved. A community which leads the state in minority infant mortality and poverty has no business playing with nonsense.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com