A Canadian's Version of David Letterman's Top 10

Started by Reality, May 22, 2013, 02:31:44 PM

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Reality

Been said before in different ways.

10) Only in America ...could politicians talk about the greed of the rich at a $35,000.00 a plate campaign fund-raising event.
9) Only in America ...could people claim that the government still discriminates against black Americans when they have a black President, a black Attorney General, and roughly 20% of the federal workforce is black while only 14% of the population is black. 40+% of all federal entitlements go to black Americans - 3X the rate that go to whites, 5X the rate that go to Hispanics!
8) Only in America ...could they have had the two people most responsible for our tax code, Timothy Geithner (the head of the Treasury Department) and Charles Rangel (who once ran the Ways and Means Committee), BOTH turn out to be tax cheats who are in favor of higher taxes.
7) Only in America ...can they have terrorists kill people in the name of Allah and have the media primarily react by fretting that Muslims might be harmed by the backlash.
6) Only in America...would they make people who want to legally become American citizens wait for years in their home countries and pay tens of thousands of dollars for the privilege, while they discuss letting anyone who sneaks into the country illegally just 'magically' become American citizens.
5) Only in America ...could the people who believe in balancing the budget and sticking by the country's Constitution be thought of as "extremists."
4) Only in America ...could you need to present a driver's license to cash a check or buy alcohol, but not to vote.
3) Only in America ...could people demand the government investigate whether oil companies are gouging the public because the price of gas went up when the return on equity invested in a major U.S. oil company (Marathon Oil) is less than half of a company making tennis shoes (Nike).
2) Only in America ...could the government collect more tax dollars from the people than any nation in recorded history, still spend a Trillion dollars more than it has per year - for total spending of $7-Million PER MINUTE, and complain that it doesn't have nearly enough money.
1) Only in America ...could the rich people - who pay 86% of all income taxes - be accused of not paying their "fair share" by people who don't pay any income taxes at all.

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Only in America ...could politicians talk about the greed of the rich at a $35,000.00 a plate campaign fund-raising event.

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simpsonofpg

Really good and all true.  I love #9, have you ever gone to the IRS or SS office.  I have and I haven't see a white person and I also have seen any one working.  Being a federal worker is a cushy job.
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walkstall

Quote from: simpsonofpg on May 22, 2013, 04:35:28 PM
Really good and all true.  I love #9, have you ever gone to the IRS or SS office.  I have and I haven't see a white person and I also have seen any one working.  Being a federal worker is a cushy job.

I take it you don't get out much.   In all fairness, I must say I have seen White, Blacks and Hispanic people all working in both the SS and IRS offices.   Not all Federal Worker have a cushy job.  I find that most that have to deal face to face with the public day in and day out do so very professional.  But again that is my perception.
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Reality

WT, I agree except in Washington DC.  The ratio of blacks to others in the Federal Force is much higher.

Yes, the population in DC is predominately black but Federal workers in DC and the surrounding area, for isnatnce the Pentagon is not in DC, come from MD, VA, and WVA also.

walkstall

Quote from: Reality on May 23, 2013, 04:20:24 AM
WT, I agree except in Washington DC.  The ratio of blacks to others in the Federal Force is much higher.

Yes, the population in DC is predominately black but Federal workers in DC and the surrounding area, for isnatnce the Pentagon is not in DC, come from MD, VA, and WVA also.

I live in the other Washington.  I did not see a Black person until 1940, when my father hired him to work on one of his crews.  Two year later dad gave him a crew of his own to run.
A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.- James Freeman Clarke

Always remember "Feelings Aren't Facts."

Solar

Quote from: walkstall on May 23, 2013, 05:00:20 AM
I live in the other Washington.  I did not see a Black person until 1940, when my father hired him to work on one of his crews.  Two year later dad gave him a crew of his own to run.
I have to admit, when I flew out of Sac, into Seattle, the crew in Sac was 10% white, more than 50% black and the rest Mexican white on the tarmac including TSA, in Seattle it was all white, much like my area in Ca. here in the mountains.
My theory is they don't like the cold. :unsure:  :biggrin:
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