tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post2385324556174550616..comments2023-12-20T04:18:41.617-06:00Comments on The Hunting of the Snark: Previews!Susan of Texashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00076915322771385454noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-89243900582997714802015-02-04T10:48:31.635-06:002015-02-04T10:48:31.635-06:00Noonan grew up on Massapequa in the 50s and 60s. S...Noonan grew up on Massapequa in the 50s and 60s. She undoubtedly moved into a suburban house like everyone else including people I know, whose parents usually had blue collar jobs but could afford a house and shoes for the kids, and even college. This was a time and place of prosperity.<br /><br />McArdle as you know grew up on the Upper West Side. She went to public school until jr. high I believe, which is where her little anecdote comes from. My kids went to a school with mixed income as well and it was extremely clear that some parents had a lot of money and some did not.<br /><br />McArdle went from being one of the better-off kids to being one of the less-rich kids when she went to prep school. We know how she thinks--"If I had to do something, you have to do it." I can see her telling herself that it's fine if some people are poor because poor is really rich and she was poorer than everyone else and she turned out just fine.<br /><br />Susan of Texashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00076915322771385454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-42295914064417383712015-02-04T08:40:39.632-06:002015-02-04T08:40:39.632-06:00The good Roger Ailes had a great takedown of this ...The good Roger Ailes had a great takedown of this Megan piece--he points out that she is 1) 22 years younger than noonan and just 4 or 6 years older than Ernst. Also that she didn't go to school with any poor kids since she went to a private grade school. <br /><br />Also: can she not stop posing as an interpreter to her readers of things that are arcane to them? Does she imagine that she is an anthropologist of poverty and of economics with her "payless sells kids shoes for 15 dollars and that is two hours of worker's time at minimum wage?" And then, presumably, because i'm damned if I'll read Megan in the original crayon and grease, she explains the economics of hand making shoes and how much better we have it since mass production. Of course we don't have it better since mass mproduction left the lowell mills and moved to China since the shoes are cheap but the labor has been offshored.aimaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03956073425680585780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-73739416601977365862015-02-01T08:15:02.929-06:002015-02-01T08:15:02.929-06:00ArgleBargle / 'Irresponsible not to speculate&...ArgleBargle / 'Irresponsible not to speculate' Noonan: Look how rich <b>America</b> has become.<br /><br /><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2015/01/29/3616743/campti-louisiana/" rel="nofollow"> Not quite <b>all</b> of America</a><br /><br />Cyniccynichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09988314910210445114noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-62086699117428127952015-02-01T03:35:08.314-06:002015-02-01T03:35:08.314-06:00Shorter Ernst/Noonan/McArdle: "We won't g...Shorter Ernst/Noonan/McArdle: "We won't give you a living wage, but we promise -- during election season -- to pretend to treat you with dignity! (Now quit your complaining, you moochers!)" Batocchiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02193752396025012825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-51827972066613536552015-01-30T14:03:21.589-06:002015-01-30T14:03:21.589-06:00Her boasts of castrating pigs (why this would impr...Her boasts of castrating pigs (why this would impress people I don't know) are actually boast of castrating <i>piglets</i>, you know: BABY pigs. Not quite so macho sounding!<br /><br />I DO remember wearing bread bags over my shoes to protect them from rain while waiting at the bus stop. We lived in the country and so no sidewalks. The side of the road was way muddy and about 1" - 2" deep in rainwater. But I didn't try to walk anywhere- the bags would have split. And I removed them once on the bus. Why yes! We poor rural folk had school buses!Kathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03176801494652946278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-5268328463191189702015-01-30T12:07:37.490-06:002015-01-30T12:07:37.490-06:00And all so she can say that Republicans have the p...And all so she can say that Republicans have the policies that will create jobs, like getting rid of Obamacare and removing trade barriers. She's a walking Republican cliché dispenser. Which I hear is better than her usual crazy talk.Susan of Texashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00076915322771385454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-42037337694001530602015-01-30T11:31:40.418-06:002015-01-30T11:31:40.418-06:00Plus there was also a bunch of commentary about ho...Plus there was also a bunch of commentary about how Ernst's family may have been poor at one time, but they seem to have been doing pretty well with various "feds pay the farmer" programs.<br /><br />EmilyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-36799289308298487822015-01-30T10:18:22.217-06:002015-01-30T10:18:22.217-06:00Ya know where I grew up in Minnesota we had these ...Ya know where I grew up in Minnesota we had these new fangled things called boots and wore them in winter.<br /><br />Jeez, now I'm beginning to think those jokes about an Iowa garbage disposal being a pig under the sink were actually true.fledermausnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-55344693208294004072015-01-30T10:07:55.266-06:002015-01-30T10:07:55.266-06:00Plus, the laughing at Ernst about the bread bags w...Plus, the laughing at Ernst about the bread bags was because she said she wore the bags on the outside of her shoes. People responded by saying, yeah, I had to use bread bags, too, but you're supposed to put them on the inside of your shoes. Otherwise they wear out after about 20 feet.<br /><br />EmilyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-45197238280217006422015-01-29T19:32:14.293-06:002015-01-29T19:32:14.293-06:00Evidently her math was off as well--shocker!Evidently her math was off as well--shocker!Susan of Texashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00076915322771385454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-39640793335734386332015-01-29T17:47:06.384-06:002015-01-29T17:47:06.384-06:00But all along, Americans got richer and things got...<i>But all along, Americans got richer and things got cheaper -- especially when global markets opened up.</i><br /><br />Needless to say, this is horse manure.<br /><br />Average Americans got richer thanks to unions. And this continued until PATCO Reagan came along. Not to mention, corporatist Dems like NAFTA Clinton and (maybe) TPP Obama.<br />~ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©https://www.blogger.com/profile/06252371815131259831noreply@blogger.com