The columnist says:
There was a time in this country when black folks did the kind of work that nobody else wanted – the hardest, dirtiest and most dangerous of jobs. That’s what we had to do to survive and get ahead in a racist society.” …White Americans aren’t exactly lining up for such jobs either.
But African-Americans aren’t high enough up the economic ladder to make the same choices. If you’re on the bottom rung, then you’ve got to climb the ladder in stages, which means you might have to work at a job that you don’t enjoy and for lower wages. It’s a start; you don’t have to stay there.
She’d better watch her step. With an attitude like that, she’s liable to be called a “black Republican.”
Related post: Vicente Fox, Racist?
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La Shawn:
As a “Rich White Male”, all my children worked at minimum wage jobs while in high school and college. And these jobs were difficult to find in Lubbock TX, a college town; students grabbed these jobs as fast as they were advertised.
Both finding and working these jobs were invaluable for my children.
I am unsympathetic for the Blacks who believe working at McDonalds is “beneath them”. If my children can do it, so can theirs.
And Fox is treading on thin ice – Australians have limited immigration in a big way, and their work is getting done – more efficiently than ever.
Mr Fox may learn that, after Americans have had enough of his venom, we don’t need any more Mexicans or anyone else.
“Many African-Americans are willing to get their hands dirty for themselves but not for somebody else.”
Best quote of the article in relationship to the underground economy. The basic undergirding for entrepreneurial urban development is there, but the question becomes how to tap it. This is the fundamental component, I believe, of urban change in America…the move away from social services, to true urban economic development.
Think about it, in the absence of what society considers the correct ’social morality’, and influenced heavily by the materialism of American culture it is logical that many young black men (moreso than women) move into the fast money scenario of the underground economy.
You got 50 Cent talking about robbing folk, every video talks about ‘bling’ and ‘whips’ (jewelry and cars for you ebonically challenged) and it is reinforced by shows like cribs on MTV.
The American dream has been distorted in its message from work hard towards the goal of wealth, to money is king and this is effecting not just blacks but also whites.
“The love of money is the root of all evil”.
That’s the naked truth.
I just read something the otherday in MSM lamenting that this year’s college graduates are “facing” dreary prospects that some would be inclined to go stay at their parents rather than take a low tier job and low-budget apartment. Something about if they can’t get that cool bachelor pad with the latest in style & furnishings, what’s the point. They’re discouraged when they can’t have it all like their parents from the get-go, nevermind that it took thei parents20 – 30 years to get where they are now. Especially since they aren’t finding that upper management position off the bat. Pu-leeze.
I wonder how much of that ist tied to that buddy relationship between parents & kids that in the end de-motivates kids to get out ASAP and make their own way. In a sense, parents have set that stage and consequently denied themselves the luxury of being just a couple again after the kids should have left the nest.
I always joke with my wife that when the kids trun 18/graduate from HS, I’m kicking them out of the nest so that we can do our own thing.
Of course we’ll be there if we really need to, but I’d rather they be self-sufficient sooner than later.
D. G.
It looks like you’ve gone from race-baiter to card-carrying communist! “The love of money is the root of all evil”
You sound like you have read some books. Here’s a recomendation; ATLAS SHRUGGED. You and I differ on so much. Especially when you come up with nonsense like that! It’s not love of money that that has so damaged the “black community.” It’s BAD CHARACTER! It’s people teaching concepts like “institutional racism.” It’s creating an atmosphere where people BUY ANYTHING from a creep like 50 cent! (including really far gone white kids!) I’ts “leaders” calling people Uncle Tom and worse for speaking english. These are big problems black Americans must deal with if they ever want a “peice of the pie.”
How could someone with such verbal skill advocate communism today? Russia-Cuba-China; economic catastrophe!
I wonder what you might accomplish if you started to believe in America. I’ll bet you have real leadership potantial. Just think if you used it for leading folks toward an honest and happier life.
Confused by the above statement?? It went from here to there.
Anyway, this ‘liberal’(since folks are tossing labels about on the internet) black girl agrees with the columnist 100%.
Oh, I wasn’t supposed to do that was I??
Where’s Andy when you need him. I still need saving from the MSM/DNC!!!!
LOL!!!
Good post, LaShawn.
News Flash!!! Most black people in America aren’t poor. It drives me crazy. The columnist is wrong, and as vigilant conservatives, you should see that clearly.
First, the idea that black people haven’t progressed in America far enough to eschew minimum wage jobs is wrong. What.do.you.think.Bill.Cosby was talking about? I for one, am glad that, collectivly, black people no longer want to toil for ‘pennies.’
Now that that rant is out of the way, let me put it to you like this…
In the 60’s-70’s, the Civil Rights movement was ripped from the hands of the ‘talented tenth’ and thrust in the hands of socialists. This flirtation with socialisim caused a shift in the black community and more importantly a rift between the black lower class and the black middle and upper classes. As a result, success, in the American mold was shunned. One didn’t strive any more, because that was ’selling out to the man.’
After a brief flirtation with some of these ideas in the late 80’s early 90’s, generations x (my generation) and y began to notice that, to quote Shawn Carter, “There’s money to be made, and [people] got the picture.”
As a result, there is a paradigm shift back to our capitalistic roots. Because of the removal of the black middle and upper classes from the purview of black society, this drive to success manifests itself as a drive to excess. This too shall pass.
But the ‘poverty pimps’ and other throwbacks to the ‘black power’ movement need to keep the picture focused on the ‘poor negores.’
I’ve said this before, but it bears repeating, there will always be black/white/hispanic poor. This will never change. Society needs its poor. But this mis-characterization of black people being poor has to stop. It is a myopic view and a logical fallacy that suggests- Milwaulkee (sic)is poor. Most of Milwaulkee’s poor are black, thus most blacks are poor.
Actually I think the substance of what both DG & Pajamzon just wrote is accurate. The two points go hand in hand.
Love of money = evil/bad character.
Stephen, good point.
Double-edged sword. Immigration, particularly the illegal variety, is very troubling. But here’s an example of the other sharp edge:
A manufacturing firm in Chicago with which I do business employs all Mexicans (legal, I believe) on the oily, noisy production floor. I asked the boss what the deal was with the all-Mexican crew, and his answer was very direct. He told me he hires Mexicans because they show up for work every day and do their jobs, unlike his dismal past experience with both white and black production workers. This isn’t minimum wage stuff, either. These guys get paid $12/hr to start, with piecework incentives on top that can bring them to $20/hr. And still he can’t find a dependable crew except for the Mexicans.
This is very sad, but not uncommon. In my own business, we have much the same trouble. We are really not all that demanding. All we ask is for folks to show up at 8, not leave until 5, and do that each of the five days of the work week. But I guess that’s asking too much.
Pajama…sigh…
I guess Jesus and the Apostle Paul was a communist?
“Matthew 6:24 – No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.”
“1 Timothy 6:10 – For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.”
I was quoting the bible…
You know, I was going to go into a long post on how I believe in Milton Friedmans basic theory of competitive capitalism, and decentralized federal power, and address how this theory needs to be modified to fit the social and moral goals we as blacks and evangelicals want to see in America.
But I think that would be spitting in the wind. So instead I will ask you some simply questions, since you understand the plight and the success of black people so well.
1. “It’s not love of money that that has so damaged the “black community.†It’s BAD CHARACTER!” — What is bad character and what is good character, how does one come about character, and what makes you think it is bad character that has damaged the black community.
2. “It’s people teaching concepts like “institutional racism.— Define institutional racism and what you believe it to be and then show how institutional racism isn’t a social reality.
3. “These are big problems black Americans must deal with if they ever want a “peice of the pie.— What is the piece of the pie you are talking about, and what material difference would this make for blacks in America. Also, why is it that when slavery was abolished blacks owned 1% of the national wealth, and in 2000 blacks owned 1% of the national wealth.
I actually set up a thread just for you to discuss you views without cluttering this thread…
http://www.urbanceed.org/blog
The post is titled, the Pajamazon thread.
I’m getting really tired of hearing how enthusiastic, eager, and saintly all the Mexican migrants/illegal aliens are for doing such horrible jobs.
The United Farm Workers (UFW) is holding Gallo hostage right now, claiming how their exploited grape pickers deserve a living wage and perks.
Can you imagine if Black slaves demanded Union protections?
The Janitors strike. The Grocery Workers strike. These Aliens are arrogant in a way Blacks never were.
Yes, these are jobs Blacks once held. But, at least Blacks didn’t use big Labor Unions to swindle even more entitlements out of Consumers and Management.
Cesar Chavez is a rogue and an absolute thief, IMHO !!!
Glamchild, good point. My 2nd grade daughter recently brought home an assignment to read this booklet extolling Mrs. Chavez. Talk about blatant brainwashing. But it provided me an opportunity to set the record straight with her, which of course the teacher didn’t appreciate. LOL
In my experience, it was never really the money, a la below minimum wage, it was the down and dirty hard labor that most turn up their noses at. Back in the mid-’90s, a construction worker in Austin, TX was making $12 – $15/hr regardless of legal status. And minimum wage was how much then? Once in a while, INS would sweep thru but within a few days, the same guys would re-appear.
D.G. No I won’t give you my e-mail address.
You illustrated my point beautifuly when you admitted you don’t know the diference between good character and bad. Good character consists of-but not limited to; Independence, Honesty, Strength, Consistancy. One gets it from learning the lessons life teaches. Many people acquire good character. I was not born with it. I was a bit wishy-washy when I was young. I had to learn a Man’s lesson. Your word is your Bond. Don’t give it if you don’t mean it. Keep it if you give it. Women can break theirs. Not Men.
Institutional racism is a WEAK EXCUSE for poor performance. It’s a laughable concept. If you can’t find any EVIDENCE of discrimination just make up some new way to avoid personal responsibility! Bias in educational testing is a great example of this. For years black “leaders” claimed IQ tests are biased in favor of whites.-because blacks as a group underperformed. Then we find out that asians outscore whites. On tests written by whites! oops! Here’s another book; The Bell Curve.
The “National wealth?” Is that a marxist term? Has increased a zillion % since slavery in America.
The Bible is not an economic reference book.
I’m just baffled at the idea of fair wages, or “living wage”.
Is it fair that Shaq makes millions?, while firefighters, who save lives, (talk about dirty work) scramble to support their families?
Why should Tom Cruise get 13 million per film?, when teachers, (a much more noble profession) are struggling to make ends meet.
That’s where my anger at Cesar Chavez lies. Chavez didn’t go out and fight for nurses, teachers, firefighters, and police—–people that actually save lives…… No no no, his whole beef had to do with treatment of migrants, illegals, etc…. people who are breaking the law (Cesar Chavez broke the law several times, himself)…. and the importance of farm workers at the expense of every other labor sector in society.
Nurses don’t get tips. Nurses aren’t in Unions. And, it’s grueling work. It’s the work nobody else wants to do. There’s a nursing shortage. And, you need some education to do it. So, why should Shaq get millions?
Because that’s what the Market will pay. Wages have never been fair, and they shouldn’t be, according to supply and demand principles.
Illegal Immigration, Migrant activisim, big Labor Unions…..destroys the Free Market.
But what really gets to me is all the belly-aching about how exploited and difficult the work that illegal aliens do, is.
I have a lot more sympathies for teachers, nurses, and firefighters…..now those are tough jobs!
Boy, that woman is taking her life into her hands, saying that. Perhaps she has a death wish.
My first job was at Burger King. I am a college grad (with honors, thank you, despite working 50+ hours here at the ad agency and attending class full time), talented, but a still a worthless secretary making very little, hunting for a new gig. In fact, I’d probably make more as a manager at McDonald’s than I do here! I don’t know why certain jobs are considered below some people. It’s a first-rung job, that’s all it is; it doesn’t have to be a lifetime thing.
Then again, perhaps if some folks won’t take it, they don’t deserve it anyhow?
Hey Glamchild, I beg to differ with you on the Unions a bit.My father was a Vietnam Veteran an he was a union man for almost thirty years in a tire plant the work my dad and many folks like him did was dangereous and backbraking work. My father even had at least 2 of his co workers to be killed on the job! Teachers on the other hand have all these perks and what do they do? they are a group who really don’t need a union they mostly sit on their butts all day.And given the crap they are teaching American Kids these days I don’t have the respect for teachers I used to have. Seems all they have been teaching is hate America, revisionist history, sex to eigth years olds, and pretty much everything else that has come from this postmodernism pap.
We constantly produce folks like Ward Churchill for crying out loud! Talk about perks look at what these academics make,you can’t fire em’ because they got tenure. Vincente Fox was right. And much of this can laid at the feet of black folks and black parents for teaching our kids a good work ethic and not teaching them the realities of life that you have start from the bottom up. Another issue that has been overlooked to in regards to this illegal immigration is the issue of Abortion. We would have had the workers now had it not been for Roe v. Wade. I think that issue should factor into the illegal immigration argument as well. Glamchild my father considers firefighters and cops his brothers in arms and they do have a tough job. Teaching now if tough with all these heavy regulations you see and no dicipline in the schools anymore, but the higher you go up the academic chain the better the perks are.
Pajama,
Because it was written in a book it is thus true?
You really must stop calling everyone a communist. It really isn’t the worst thing one could be called, and it is particularly laughable when you do it all the time.
And I really encourage you to stop believing the press when it comes to my people. If they weren’t right about abu ghrab, why should they be right about us?
Lashawn isn’t the exception among black people. She is the norm. (Albeit a great NORM!) Most of us are hard working, intellegent, and (gasp!) educated. Ok, so we all don’t have degrees, but neither do white folks.
My point is that at just 13% of the country, we are getting FAR too much print as being the source of the nation’s troubles. I mean, wow, because black folks don’t want to scrub floors no ‘mo, all the mexicans are flooding the borders. Gimme a Break (great show, Loved Nell Carter).
Personally, I’m not scrubbing ‘jack.’ Hopefully, my child will be industrious enough to make his minimum wage in an air conditioned office.
My father always told us about “old Grady”, who always said, “All my life, I wasted my time. Now I’m breaking my back instead of using my mind.”
I never wanted to be Grady, and I hope my kids don’t either. If that makes me a communist, then so be it, though–somehow I seriously doubt I’d be welcome at the Lennin Appreciation Day Banquet.
Agreed. Whenever Christians start railing pro-living wages, my thots turn to WWJS (What Would Jesus Say)
Mat 20:1 For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is a householder, which went out early in the morning, to hire laborers into his vineyard.
Read the rest of the chapter –HINT, it’s all about equality and ranking– and juxtapose that with Liberal christian dogma who of couse have it backwards.
Black kids were on the street as “scweegee kids”. They weren’t making much money doing it at all.
In Baltimore, in the summer on game days or special events, you will see Black kids and Black teens selling bottled water on the sidewalk or on the median strip of busy streets.
I have a lot more counter examples to the rubbish that “Blacks won’t work” screed.
I’ve always wondered why people, black and white, throw the terms African-American and Black around inter-changably with the same paper, paragraph, and even sentence.
I’m not being facetious or anything; I haven’t ever really understood why we need to be hyphenate Americans despite our cultural backgrounds.
Of course Fox was wrong to bring race into this. The work ethic stinks for both whites and blacks when it comes to entry-level and low paying jobs.
I mentioned the Chicago firm example. Let me relate two others, both in rural Indiana. A local excavating company recently hired two Mexican laborers, and a cabinet company hired one Mexican laborer. What makes this troubling is that just after that I was speaking to a couple of local young men, poorly educated laborer-types, who were unemployed and complaining that there simply were no jobs available in the area. Did they apply at the excavating company or the cabinet company? No, they did not. End of story.
Stephen J.
If you think capitalism is bad, you’re probably a communist. As for calling someone a communist “all the time” I’d say you’re mistaken. And what does “my people” mean anyway? If you are talking about blacks maybe you should just say that. Can I call whites my people? You guys who use their full names on the internet always try to sound so …lawyerlike! Talk about laughable! ” If it’s in a book it’s wrong! ” When Dell G. talks about “modifying capitalism to fit social and moral goals” (#10) he is echoing Marx and Engles. This is communism. Read about it.
Pajamazon, capitalism without morals is wrong.
Pope John Paul II, who DESPISED and helped bring down Communism also criticized capitalism when it operated without morals or justice. No system works without some kind of moral compass. It was precisely the lack of morals in a capitalist society which brought about unions (and I’m not pro union, BTW).
Ayn Rand is passe. If you still read her then you are stuck in the reactionary 60’s.
Wow, I’m sure she’ll get a lot of hate mail. If people have a work ethic and are taught to have one, they’ll work. I’m sure a lot of people who visit this blog have had bad jobs, but welfare and joblessness isn’t an option.
Caesar Chavez fired farm workers if they refused to participate in demonstrations. We need voluntary union membership so that workers need to bow only to one boss.
You guys who use their full names on the internet always try to sound so …lawyerlike!
Guess that’s cause I’m an attorney.
As for the rest of your post- Black people are my people. Americans are my people. Folks from Philly are my people. Hope that clears that up.
Riddle me this, Pajama, aren’t drug dealers the ultimate capitalists? Prostitutes? Pimps?
How about monopolies? Is $20.00/bag for ice appropriate in the wake of a hurricane?
Are you even aware what capitalisim is?
Because we have an economy BASED on capitalist principles, doesn’t make us wholly capitalistic.
Here’s a book for you, since you are so keen on offering suggestions.
Adam Smith- Wealth of Nations.
Take two and call me in the morning.
Signed
(Juris) Dr. Stephen J
leftbasher
I don’t accept the head of the Roman Catholic Church as an un-interested third party on matters of economics. And I don’t know what you mean by “still read?” Because I suggest a book doesn’t make it my Bible. But to say it’s passe sounds like groupthink to me. We agree on being “not pro union” but we differ on their origin. You give them much more nobility. I think they were founded as a way for con-men and criminals to sink their teeth into productive enterprises. If you want to see capitalism at it”s “Without Moral Compass” worst, go to China today. They scare me!
Christianity has always provided the moral leash on capitalism in America. If we want to remain capitalist yet honor our most charitable instincts, we should acknowlege our Christian roots as a nation and stop trying to remove God- as we know him-from our culture.
Leftbasher,
Capitalism is the economic system where people choose who gets what resources.
Socialism and Communism are economic systems where the government chooses who gets what resources.
Through unions and safety nets (government programs where taxes are levied and redistributed to those in need) and being a nation of laws (anti-monopoly, environmental, minimum wage, child labor) we have been able to make sure that not one entity controls too much etc.
Capitalism can’t have morals… it’s a system of economics. Capitalism is the very best economic system to make sure your country and people prosper and that people are able to exercise their free will.
People have morals or not. There WAS a need for unions and anti-monopoly laws and this and that regulation.
Now we’ve gotten into a situation where there are 1,000’s of regulations added each year, unions pull dues out of people’s paychecks every month and spend it on politics and the government taxes and spends too much and has 100’s of programs trying to help those in need creating hammocks for those who are able-bodied.
Speaking of tax,
Steve Forbes wrote again today. Good case for the flat tax made here.
http://www.forbes.com/free_forbes/2005/0606/031.html?
Additionally, he proposes that you cold file your taxes on the new way or old way with dual systems so nobody could say they lose in the new system. This is being done by Hong Kong right now.
Lisa Gilliam-
I’d like to know where these teachers get all those “perks,” because it sure isn’t where I teach.
In most states, teachers earn a very meager wage and have ridiculously expensive benefit packages.
This whole situation is about economics, but Fox was taking the opportunity to get his jabs in at us while he could. Employers know they can hire immigrants (legals or not) at a far lower wage (especially illegals) and improve their bottom line. Many groups of people (not just blacks) consider that type of wage below them and so won’t take the job…especially if they can find government assistance that pays better. Other groups find the type of work unappealing, so they won’t work…especially if they can find government assistance.
There is one other final motivation, which a commenter mentioned above. There is way too much “fast money” available. I see it daily at the campus I work at. Young men talk more about the “hustle” then they do about college. And why not? When they see their friends “getting their hustle on” and coming to school in new Phat Farm, Jordans and riding on shiny rims and putting gold on their teeth, they get lured very easily into that lifestyle. You can also see the evidence of this by examining our jail and prison population. There are two things that stand out: under 25, and a minority. Until parents and the community starts digging in and doing their jobs, and helping us at the schools win this battle to work hard and do what’s right…fast money will win a lot more than it loses. And the kids are the ones who lose in the end.
Chris, didya notice the reflexive bristling when Coz aimed the mirror at Phat Pharm and other Hip-Hop evangelists?
stephen j
You are going to pretend that by the words, “my people” in your comment # 17 you were really talking about all Americans?
Yes, you are a lawyer.
The big Labor Unions don’t want Blacks. The Migrants and Illegal Aliens are much more obedient and won’t question the Unions skimming 30% off the top of paychecks.
Blacks might have something to say about that.
Blacks might not wish to parade around in a circle, in the hot sun, carrying a sign for someone else’s agenda.
But, the Migrants and Illegal Aliens are more than happy to do it.
When Blacks held those types of jobs, it truly was a stepping stone to bigger and better.
Blacks didn’t want Unions, they wanted to quickly rise up and out.
Unions insure a permanent underclass, always tied to the Union, and negotiate ever rising wages, which means little incentive for the Illegals to ever rise up.
Speaking ONLY for myself, I have done a number of low-paying, no prestige jobs while doing what I could to make ends meet. I come from working class folks and I am nothing if not a working class dog, so I neither endorse or agree with the idea that any HONEST work is beneath anyone. As a result of willing to work and keeping MULTIPLE irons in the fire, I now have several income streams. I can’t quit my day job (yet), but I am blessed with the knowledge that I won’t ever have to beg anyone for anything. A strong work ethic is a good thing to have.
I have seen first hand how destructive being unmotivated to do honest work can be to a community. It turned the neighborhood I grew up into Dodge City in the 1980s. Guys and dolls were chasing fast money to get “bling” and killing each other like it was going out of style. I’d rather make minimum wage and eat my bread in peace than have to look over my shoulder while scarfing down a filet mignon. But that is just me.
I can only hope my example will motivate the young dudes and dudettes I come in contact with. All of the talk about capitalism and communism is just that: TALK. Values must be LIVED so that those that need to apply them to their lives can see that there is indeed value in doing things the “right” way. Those of us that are talented and/or prosperous can and should do more help others see what we already have figured out.
I just believe that unemployment isn’t an intractable problem. Sometimes it is just a matter of passing out a little information so that some young man or woman will know where to go to get what they need. It doesn’t take too much to take someone by the hand and point them in the right direction. All it takes is a little AGAPE…
Raf said: “Sometimes it is just a matter of passing out a little information so that some young man or woman will know where to go to get what they need.”
Well said. Sometimes it escapes us that guidance is often needed, even for some seemingly simple procedures such as looking for work. Take the two unemployed young men I mentioned earlier. They apparently never had the advantage of caring families to instruct them in the ways of the world. They seemed totally oblivious to the reasons they were unemployed. The connection between having a job and actually going out to apply for one was something they could not seem to understand.
Perhaps I should have done a bit of mentoring, and helped them to understand what needed to be done to find a job. All this is assuming that these guys would actually prefer being employed over being on the dole, and that question remains open.
Yup. Buy our clothes and cd’s but don’t actually try to live the lifestyle we glorify in our music.
Here in South Florida, poor African-Americans were long ago pushed up the socio-economic totem pole by migrant labor, most specifically Haitian immigrants. From construction, home health care, security, food service and hotel workers, cab drivers, etc.. All these jobs are now filled with either Haitian or Latin immigrants. Jobs that disenfranchised African Americans learned years ago lead virtually nowhere.
The United States sometime ago decided that a fair wage for such jobs did not necessarily mean making enough to live on. Therefore we have a whole class of workers that live just above Third World standards here in our country. Is it any wonder that we have people from the Third World coming here to take those jobs. Labor goes where the job are. The mirror of this is outsourcing, where corporations seek the cheapest labor elsewhere. Why pay middle income people middle income wages when you can outsource employees to some other country who will only expect a third of that wage. The ideal corporate labor model of the future will outsource every job possible to maximize profit margins.
I’m hoping to take this idea to the next level and start outsourcing CEOs to Mexico and Guatemala. Why pay 10 million a year for an American Vice President, when you can get a qualified Mexican to do the same job for 50,000 a year.
Great. More circular reasoning. And whining. The solution to that problem is to “grow a pair” and find a way to get the skills or education to raise yourself to the next opportunity level. Most people don’t want to take that risk/chance because it requires sacrifice and discipline. Some of you might think those words are harsh, but getting ahead is never easy.
Oh yeah, that is unless you are a Republican, then you are just given wealth and riches.
Hey, wait a minute! I’ve been hornswoggled! Where’s my Republican gift of wealth and riches?
[RedBeard searches yellow pages for a good lawyer]
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