"90 percent of refugee's can get jobs now," my sister said this at dinner

[DanCa]

We were just having dinner and my old man asked what can we do to help. And my sister said nothing because ninety percent of them can get jobs now if they wanted to. And if we did anymore for them they'll wind up living on welfare handouts like her words- "fat ass here" points too me- and gets up and walks out. The three of us just my mom and my old just looked at each other in complete amazement. Of course she's refering to my ssdi payments. Is this beyond republican table manners?

[whistle]

1. Right, in Houston they can join the army for five years

[wellstone_democrat]

2. I'm sorry, that is terrible of her

unforgiveable. What a mean-spirited thing for a sister to say. I wish that it surprised me but I have one of those too---she and *her* husband got a fat FEMA check for nothing in Florida in 2004 but she is fast on the draw this week with suggestions for people who can't scam fellow republican functionaries.

It was mean and I'm sure undeserved. I have a relative on SSDI and it isn't easy to qualify. Its beyond decent tablemanners even if you are a republican.

We like ya.

[FreedomAngel82]

20. You should remind her of that

How did she use that money eh?

[wellstone_democrat]

24. more toys they "earned it!"

because..."they deserve them" my brother in law once said that he is of the .....wait...."producer class"

He's a frigging middle manager of the corp hdqtrs of a national bug killing company (well, to be fair they have other types of subsidiaries but I call him "the bug guy" which pisses him off)

They believe that they have *earned* everything and that other people don't have "ambition" without details, let's just say that like many other people they benefited from family loans for their first down payment and have credit card bills up to their necks. Talk about 1 or 2 paychecks from disaster, these fine folks I'm related to are in as dangerous position as any wage worker from a Miss. casino if truth be known.

Want to guess who helps out my SSDI sister? Yep, this teacher not the wife of the "producer class"----and, just for gratuitous slaps: she's a "stay at home mom" by self definition. Problem with that? They have one son who is 23 and lives on his own in another state (another freeper). We like to say: "who you stayin' home for Mom?"
:evilgrin: we can even get my mother going on that one she likes to ask: "why don't you say housewife? that's not a bad word!" But, in her development, the marker of m-class status is "stay at home Mom" whether you have children or not! Go figure.

[SmokingJacket]

3. Um, she said that to you?

That's a person I wouldn't be talking to anytime soon.

What crawled up her ass and died?

[China_cat]

18. What crawled up her ass and died?

Jesus is the answer.

[girl gone mad]

4. Sounds like normal Republican conversation to me.

Leadership starts at the top. These people take their cues from Bush and his media enablers. She's just repeating what she's been told again and again by Rush, Hannity, Coulter and all of the other scum.

[cynatnite]

5. I heard 20-30% of the survivors were children

This just...I'm speechless.

Anything more and you're liable to flame me for what I'm thinking, DanCa.

[Generic Other]

6. Republican family values!

Your sister sounds like she needs to enroll in charm school.

[cornermouse]

7. I'm sure she's ready to repudiate her social security....

After all, according to the official rightwing handbook, its just another handout...

[AirmensMom]

8. Your sister must be related to my sister!

She says similar things on a regular basis. What's wrong with these people? :banghead:

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

9. If you're on SSDI,

you obviously have a serious illness. To imply that anyone with such an illness is "lazy" is not only heartless, it is stupid as well.

[Lars39]

10. She is toxic to your wellbeing if she thinks that of you.

[Cats Against Frist]

11. I'm sorry, Dan, but your sister is a mean person.

That's terrible. Isn't she a fundie, too? Typical.

[sakabatou]

12. What would she say if she was kicked onto the street?

[DanCa]

13. Usually she goes off once a week

Last time it was when pat robertson got in trouble.
She follows him around like he was Jerry Garcia.
This is the first time she opened her mouth in front of the old man though.

[charlie]

14. I'm telling you again

If we get your sis together with my bro, they'll make kids too dumb to reproduce. We really should pair them up and save the gene pool.

[DanCa]

19. Charlie have you seen soylent green?

I think we just solved the world food problem. Or to borrow a line from the movie motel H-e-l-o "It takes all kinds of critters to make farmer vincents fritters."

[charlie]

21. "It takes a tough man"

"to make a tender chickenhawk" :D

[FlemingsGhost]

15. Your sister is angry, but not at you, necessarily.

She attacked you, because you are "safe." You are family. She is crying out for help. Seriously.

The unraveling is beginning.

Good luck.

[KT2000]

16. Man, I am sorry about that

I have those experiences too (have an illness that is not visible and therefore not believed).

To understand how stupid white people can be - one must be black. To understand how heartless well people are - one must have an illness.

Your sister has a hard and mean heart. People like that don't age very well, it tends to show on their faces as the years go by.

Peace to you

(I know the illness you have and you may want to inform your sister that they are finding that pesticides can cause this illness. Repugs want no regulation so they can make even more ill. She may have a genetic link so she better watch out.)

[bliss_eternal]

17. ((((DanCa))))

I'm sorry that she treated you that way. I'm sorry to say this, but she sounds rather abusive.

:hug:

You don't deserve to be belittled because you need a little help right now.

[pitohui]

22. where does she get that idea

my husband has a job, a good one, & they're having trouble finding a building and housing so that he can start working again

[Kerrytravelers]

23. You might want to give your sister a friendly warning...

... something like that might cause her to draw on SSDI, too. Because, and I kid you not here, if one of my children were to speak to another one of my children like that, someone would find themselves with a fat, bloody lip... and I don't even spank! Imagine that!

[Cobalt Violet]

25. What about the evacuees from the nursing home?

Or the extremely sick? Or those who may not have been disable before this but now are? Could she hold a job if she just lost everything in her life including her home, children, bothers, sisters, parents, grandparents, and her friends.


She sounds pretty cold and heartless. She needs some serious deprogramming.

[DanCa]

28. I think those qualify under her ten percent quota. (nt)

[growlypants]

26. you should have stabbed her with a fork

[Catherine Vincent]

27. What a cold bitch your sister is!

[DanCa]

29. She is definetly a mcnugget short of a happy meal.

You know my old man put her through college. isn't that a hand out because she never paid him back?

[Catherine Vincent]

31. So true.

Knowing your sis, if she was told that, she probably would say you were supposed to pay, that is your duty.

[Nikki Stone 1]

30. Tell that sister of yours that my friend in NOLA,who has worked HER WHOLE

LIFE, can't get a job because she can't go home yet, and even if she could, there is NO COMMERCE, NO ECONOMY, NO NOTHING in NOLA at the present time. Her place of employment was flooded and no one can go back yet.

Tell her that I hate little spoiled rotten girls who have NO IDEA what the fuck they're talking about.

[DanCa]

32. I'd agree with you one hundred percent.

I am tempted to give you her email. :toast:

[Piperay]

33. I don't know your disability but

maybe your sister would like to trade places with you so that she can sit around on her 'fat ass'. I bet she wouldn't gripe then about ssdi.

[DanCa]

34. No secret its young onset parkinsons disease. (nt)

[Piperay]

35. Very sorry

to hear that you have it. :hug:

[REP]

36. Goldbricker! (see text)

(I'm also on SSD for early renal failure and hand neuropathy, etc)

Tell you sister to cram something large and pointed up her ass for me, would you please?

:hi:

[ModerateLee]

37. I'm sorry...

That must've been hard to take! Jeez!

[Warren DeMontague]

38. Compassionate Conservatism... Mixed With

Family Values!

I'm sorry about your sister, maybe a skilled surgeon can extricate her head from her rectum.