GrokTV Special Interview - PickupPatriots (but too ashamed to be known as one?) - Granite Grok

GrokTV Special Interview – PickupPatriots (but too ashamed to be known as one?)

I didn’t spend ALL my time inside – I did go out a couple of times.  This time, I was recognized by someone "Hey, you’re Skip Murphy!" (ah yes, infamous me!  Or, in that crowd, nefarious me!). Immediately "camera up" and started to ask what I thought were softball questions – have a name?  Purpose for being there?

Well, just like the "I’m a Healthcare Voter" campaign, the "I can’t talk to someone with a camera", you saw that she took off (if you recognize her, let us know).  My thought was ‘well, in the arena of ideas, she retreated real quick!" (must have been coached by Zandra).  And then I looked at the flyer she was handing out:

Well, isn’t this a nice, civil message being put out by the PickupPatriots – once again, we see the old tired, shop worn message that Republicans hate everyone except themselves.  Those stingy people, those EXTREMIST legislators!  They have only one thing at the heart of everything they do; they want everyone else to

DIE!!!!

Doesn’t matter that there’s no money in the till, that their bought and paid for political lackies spent it all the last few years (25% boost in spending the last few years – certainly, they are not "are you serious?" folks.  People are tired of seeing the unions getting the Dems elected and then see the Dems pass laws and regulations that benefit their voting benefactors (for what ELSE can you call the Evergreen Law?).

These self-loving fools think that only they hold the moral…


….high ground, that they can really fool the general population that the middle class is made up entirely of union members?  The last year has been nothing but full of stories of the pain that the private sector (where unions make up only 6% of the working class) and the luxuriant total compensation packages of the public sector.  Note: the train is pulling out of the station on that issue, and Nov 2 was the first whistle, and WI, OH, and other states will be adding their toots as well – the present status quo is, as they say, unsustainable. 

The private sector has had to cinch their belt even as the number of belts has diminished. As with the now vanished "home equity binge" that families went on, the public sector now has to suck it and and those that have been fat, happy, and rich on the govt teat are rather irritable that their turn has come.

Problem is, the folks like "Too Ashamed" only believe that problems can be solved by government, can only be solved in and by the collective actions of "the collective";  personal charity be damned as individuals cannot be trusted to step up to the challenges – we ALL will take care of all the issues and all the people that WE believe to be important (your’s need not apply) AND we will, via higher taxes, have you pay for our idea of charity.  And equity.

Skinflints all, we are.  Or, as Zandra Rice-Hawkins (married to a union organizer, or so I’m told) still calls me a racist homophobe…

….feel the love…

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