Free Market Prosperity

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

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[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

I'll apply for the first one!

[hardblue.livejournal.com]

You cannot have freedom without losers. ;)

[geezer-also.livejournal.com]

I agree with that :P

The "freedom to succeed" is much more incentivised with the "freedom to fail"

[hardblue.livejournal.com]

I can believe, given human nature, that some inequality and a game of incentives may be necessary, but I cannot believe that it is genuine merit and work that differentiates, say, someone getting a hundred millions dollars a year in pay and another getting 75 cents an hour in brute labor. Something seriously smells in that - the scent of a badly rigged game.

[moonshaz.livejournal.com]

This.

[angelcerv25.livejournal.com]

But Jeff would say it's totally okay to see it that way because the 75 cents an hour guy, or in more modern terms the burger flipper, baby sitter and toilet cleaner, isn't doing REAL work.

[hurleyman.livejournal.com]

Didn't pull his bootstraps up enough!

[telemann.livejournal.com]

[moonshaz.livejournal.com]

Pretty decent photoshop, except his head is too big for his body! At first I thought it was just because McCain's neck was too fat for the skinny body it was shopped onto. (It actually like they may have extended the shirt collar to contain it, lol.) But the more I look at it, the more I think they should have sized the whole head down a little. It looks oddly out of proportion.

I'm not really sure what point this thing is trying to convey, though. It's funny even without that, but I have a feeling there's something I'm missing.

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

No, that's how his head is like in real life.

Also, he doesn't have T-rex arms in that picture, which is incorrect.

[telemann.livejournal.com]

It's a stream of consiciousness thing for me, I guess.

Walmart greeter, senior citizen stereotype contrasted with a former Republican presidential candidate and his their policies on safety net programs, and hostility to increasing the minimum wage. While I know Walmart doesn't use greeters anymore, that's still the one thing I think of when I hear "Walmart."

[deborahkla.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, the top one is sadly true. People don't want to pay anything above $30,000 any more, regardless of a person's experience.