Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Money, Money, Money

It's the number one problem in most marriages, according to independent experts.

It's the number one concern on most American voters' minds.

And John McCain could wipe his ass with it.

I'm talking about greenbacks, dividends, scratch and dead presidents. I'm talking about money.

Political analysts claim that when times get tough, people vote Democrat. When the country's doing fairly well but seems to be changing too quickly, the populace tends to swing Republican. That is interesting, but not surprising.

When people are worrying about making ends meet, they really don't give a damn if two men want to have a wedding in Vermont. When folks have extra time and money, then it becomes important to protect the sanctity of marriage. If you can barely afford to take care of the three children you have, it's probably easier to consider abortion when your teenage daughter comes home pregnant.

I'm guessing that's why black people have trended Democrat since the 1960s. After the liberals made their initial inroads with black folks by showing some token support for Civil Rights measures, (JFK is hugely overrated when it comes to this), they maintained that support by coming through with the money. Lyndon B. Johnson was a pretty typical good ol' boy when it came to his views about black people, but his idea for a Great Society was music to our ears.

Truth be told, most black folks will put up with racist attitudes as long as we don't have to be poor and put up with racist attitudes. Y'all know what I'm talking about. Many of you work with a racist prick right now, but you don't ream that person out because you need your job for the mortgage and groceries. You let the little stuff slide because you've got bigger fish to fry.

Like Lil' Tyrone's college scholarship fund.

What I'm wondering now is how do black folks convince our white brethren that they need to come over to our way of thinking for this election? It's obvious which candidate is going to put money in most folks' pockets, and which candidate is going to get more people fired. Obama is proposing tax cuts for the middle class, higher taxes for the rich and more regulations for companies. John McCain is proposing to finally get that beach house Cindy always wanted in Cabo...

Seriously though, this is a pocketbook election. Times are tougher than B.A. Baracus and I pity the fools who would select McCain to solve this crisis.

McCain suffered in a POW camp and I really can't comprehend what that was like. But, since he's been back stateside he's been living the good life, particularly after he hooked up with The Pharmacist.

With her beer money, and the bribes McCain has collected as a politician (Keating 5 for life homie!), they have been doing just fine. I don't know about y'all, but I would rather have somebody who used to be poor and worked to make themselves rich, than somebody who hasn't pumped gas in a decade.

So, how do we convince all the white folks worried that Obama is a Black Muslim intent on bringing jihad to American soil because his pastor hates Ameria that Barack is really a pretty smart guy who wants to put money in their pockets?

Well, first of all, we should just stop talking to anyone who thinks Obama is Muslim terrorist. They are a lost cause. And if they mention that Obama will only help the "coloreds", just back away slowly. Second, when we're discussing the election with white folks who think Obama is a bad choice, we have to force them to explain why they think McCain and the Republicans are better when it comes to money. Rather, they need to explain why they think Republicans are better at non-rich people more money.

Unemployment is ridiculous, we're spending billions in Iraq and the economy is shedding jobs like Star Jones moves weight. Unless you're a venture capitalist or a failed CEO, life probably sucks. And, we can lay the blame at the feet of George Bush, the Republican Congress and the man who voted with Bush so often that they might be conjoined twins.

We need to make people look at the facts and explain why they have such confidence in a man who once admitted that the economy really wasn't his thing. Keep pushing until these people are forced to seriously consider both candidates' economic policies. It may not change their minds, but at least they will be exposed to the truth.

Cause right now, times are tighter than frog vagina.

12 comments:

Anonymous said...

You are on point. Who in their right mind cares about who is marrying whom when the price of everything is not keeping pace wth earnings. Seriously when I heard McCain speak yesterday I wanted to smack the tv.

You are right about the racists, at my last gig before I hung out my self-employed shingle, I put up with a lot because with a house and 2 kids, I needed to keep the ducats flowing in. That's fact for most of us.

As always another good post!

Anonymous said...

"Tighter than a frog vagina" ?

And here I thought the "colder than a witch's tit" expression I picked up from mom (apologies to the wiccans) was the most down-home-yet-provocative phrase around.

I'm not sure that many of the McCain-Palin supporters are capable of articulating anything beyond the notion that "the GOP will make sure our businesses can prosper and somehow that will trickle down to us."

The legacy of good ole Ronnie Reagan.

But I'll try. Better than doing nothing.

Big Man said...

Yo, trickle down economics is the devil's work?

Do these people realize that life did not get better under Reagan? That Reagan's failed policies were the main reason why Bush the first failed?

It's crazy.

Anonymous said...

Wow, a frog's vagina... ewwwww

Good post, good post. It's true that the Barack-is-a-Muslim folks are a lost cause, they will always vote Republican no matter what. They're stupid.

It's good to see Obama hitting back a bit now, this beat down he was getting was ridiculous, was taking it as passively as Kerry took his.

This Palin woman is astonishingly ignorant, and what a pathological liar too. It's amazing. I can't believe that folks are saying she could run the country. Preposterous. Ridiculous. Frightening. Even more so than W.

Reagan's big legacy is securing the demise of the Soviet Union, which I think we can all agree was a good thing, in spite of whatever the hell else he did or didn't do with his presidency (was too young to vote at the time.)

Although Obama's tax plan is more fair, and I for one would welcome a middle class tax cut, it's true that if you tax businesses higher (not just GM and Morgan Stanley, but small businesses too), that will affect jobs. What they need to do is cut off all these loopholes though, raid all the banks in the cayman islands, get the money back!

BTW, has anyone ever been polled? Who are these people that pollsters call? I'm thinking that the cellphone only crowd is being completely left out of the polling... and this crowd is likely overwhelmingly pro-Obama.

Anonymous said...

Yeah, they've failed to notice that what trickles down to them ain't money. And it ain't green.

Big Man said...

Deac

It's green when you eat your veggies.

Anonymous said...

C'Mon, Big Man, these are Republicans. Only veggies they eat are potatoes and maybe some corn.

Oh, wait, they DO eat peas, by and large.

I bow to your insight. I stand corrected. ;-)

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Gye Greene said...

"Truth be told, most black folks will put up with racist attitudes as long as we don't have to be poor and put up with racist attitudes."

Quote of the Week, there! :)


--GG

Anonymous said...

haha, gye greene, that's pretty much straight out of the Chappelle Show... the segment called "When Keeping It Real Goes Wrong"

Man I miss that show! :)

Anonymous said...

You know, I have always been of the opinion that if you keep hitting people with the facts, then that is the way to go... this election has basically destroyed that concept...

or at minimum, facts don't matter when race is involved...

the scary thing about having no money is that it also leads to scapegoatism. Always has. Also, it is no surprise that Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin all came about during a global depression

OG, The Original Glamazon said...

"Tighter than a frog vagina" ?

LMAO...classic!

I agree!

-OG




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