Posted with the caption “left in lieu of a tip,” author Michael Kindt put the following photo on his Tumblr wall:
Courtesy BuzzFeed
“As a direct result of Proposition 30,” the card reads, referring to California’s latest sales and income tax increase, “and President Obama’s insistence that I pay ‘MY FAIR SHARE IN TAXES,’ I find that I must cut back on discretionary spending and gratuities.”
“I wish it didn’t have to be this way for both of us,” the card concludes.
Kindt was unimpressed with the card: “Gotta love those Republicans, huh?”
Two points should be made.
First, because it’s unclear when and where the photo was taken, there’s no guaranteeing it’s not a hoax.
Second, if it is indeed a hoax, this wouldn’t be the first time that someone tried to gin up anti-conservative sentiment with a cock-and-bull story about a lousy tip.
In February of 2012, a blogger fabricated a story about a “banker” going into a True Food Kitchen, running up a three-figure tab, leaving a one percent tip, and then writing “GET A REAL JOB” on the receipt.
It was all fake and there was nothing to the story.
Therefore, until there’s confirmation on the “sorry I can’t tip” card, it’s best to remain skeptical. But if the story turns out to be authentic, it should raise eyebrows.
Kindt did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Final Thought: Real or not, there are two ways to look at this card. It could be argued that until people at all levels — even waitstaff — realize how government policies affect them, they won’t think twice about what’s going on in Washington.
It could also be argued, however, that the money it took to print the card could have been used to tip the restaurant worker — or the person could have left both.
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19RANDY59
Jan. 9, 2013 at 11:43amNobody is forcing this job on them
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WATER-THE-TREE
Jan. 9, 2013 at 11:49amJobs are hard to get now, you have no clue jerk!
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AvengerK
Jan. 9, 2013 at 11:54amAnd why are jobs hard to get now?
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13th Imam
Jan. 9, 2013 at 12:02pmBarry and the DEMOCRATS job creation plan created this 9% norm. And we have nothing to worry about as N Pelosi says unemployment insurance is a great stimulus to our red hot economy. Right?
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yiska8
Jan. 9, 2013 at 12:58pm@Water the tree
Obama is dismantling the private sector and that is why college kids will be waiting table into their 40′s if they are fortunate enough to be a waiter/waitress in Obamanation. The remnants of Obama’s “kill the private sector” through taxation and regulation will be felt long after he moves into his Illinois estate/Hawaiian/ or Kenyan estate. Kids have destroyed their own financial future with the touch of a ballot screen in 2008 and 2012. That is why they jobs are so hard to find. And most are too stupid or lazy to apprentice a trade where many jobs go unfilled because young people would rather be twittering and facebooking.
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WATER-THE-TREE
Jan. 9, 2013 at 2:26pmBecause of your demigod Bammy
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Freedomlover_US
Jan. 9, 2013 at 11:43amThis guy is a sc*mbag pure and simple; stiffing someone on a tip (who probably works a terriblr job because they need the money badly) because you want to make a statement is just being an *******.
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bfavre71
Jan. 9, 2013 at 1:00pmI disagree. The real ***** is the moron who voted for Barry Marshall Davis because he gets them excited. These are usually Gay Men like Chris Mathews, Women, and Racist Black People. Let these groups live in the environment they voted for. It’s called tough love.
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VanceUppercut
Jan. 9, 2013 at 5:03pm“Gotta love those Republicans, huh?”
Exactly. How ironic that a group comprised largely of “good Christians” are by and large the greediest, most selfish people you will ever meet.
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DontStopBelieving
Jan. 10, 2013 at 8:17am@vanceuppercut, please show me in the article proof that it was a republican. Stop shooting your mouth off with nothing to back it up.
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The Third Archon
Jan. 9, 2013 at 11:43am“Real or not, there are two ways to look at this card. It could be argued that until people at all levels — even waitstaff — realize how government policies affect them, they won’t think twice about what’s going on in Washington.
It could also be argued, however, that the money it took to print the card could have been used to tip the restaurant worker — or the person could have left both.”
LOL–AND I REST MY CASE! Even the editor of THIS VERY ARTICLE acknowledges the fact that this card, “hoax” or no, is an ACCURATE reflection of conservative economic policy and worldview.
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AvengerK
Jan. 9, 2013 at 11:53amBy all means ARCHIE..what’s the liberal “economic policy and word view”? Please delineate for me.
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3-Blue
Jan. 9, 2013 at 11:55amWhat an ignorant comment. You obviously do not know any ‘real’ Conservatives. Wake up before the lies you hold close to your breast as truth kill us all. Thank You.
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The Third Archon
Jan. 9, 2013 at 12:14pm@AVENGERK
I’m not going to delineate the (American) liberal economic view, because quite frankly I don’t CARE–I’m NOT a liberal, I’m a RADICAL. There’s a difference. In America, being actually LEFTIST (something most Americans wouldn’t know if they were slapped in the face with it, which isn’t really their fault because it’s not as if our political system wasn’t expressly DESIGNED to preserve the status quo) makes one a Radical.
MY view of the matter, and the Radical view, is that there are problems that emerge from not JUST the choices of individuals within society, but also from the CONTEXT that the structure of social, economic, and political incentives creates. It’s not enough, as conservatives do, to merely prescribe remedies that ignore a priori effects of the WAY in which our economic system is structured, or our political system is structured, or social hierarchies are structured. Do you think these things, products of OUR design and choices over time, are inherently perfect and don’t need improvement? Do you think capitalism is the ONLY socioeconomic system that has ever existed in history? Because you would be mistaken.
Among many other problems created by the status quo arrangment of these structures that Radicals, such as myself, advocate examining and changing, the principle one we share in common is a rejection of the system of parasitic private titular absentee ownership of capital goods (i.e. quintessentially capitalism).
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AvengerK
Jan. 9, 2013 at 12:29pmLOL…oh you’re a “RADICAL” (your emphasis) are you ARCHIE? What you clearly are is an idiot.
Loved your “RADICAL” euphemism for success by the way….you repeat the words your keepers tell you to repeat like a good lefty moron.
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The Third Archon
Jan. 9, 2013 at 12:40pm(1) Conservative hyperbole and delusional paranoia notwithstanding, there AREN’T “keepers” or whatever nonsense you want to call them, of “Radicals” or “Leftism” in America, because Americans are kept in complete ignorance of all but the most modest liberalism that passes for the “hard Left” of this country. There are probably a lot of REASONS for this–our anomalously religious culture (anomalous with respect to other industrialized liberal democracies), massive geographic size and population under a single political structure, the explicit DESIGN of our political system to make it difficult, nigh impossible, to achieve anything substantive, among other possible factors. But the fact remains that our “political center” is shifted far to the Right of the average of similarly situated countries (i.e. liberal democracies, and even more of an outlier if you narrow consideration to industrialized and/or “western,” culturally speaking, liberal democracies).
(2) ““RADICAL” euphemism for success by the way”…where did that happen? I used Radical in the original and truest sense of the word–an advocate for substantive structural change.
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progressiveslayer
Jan. 9, 2013 at 12:43pmThird Archon. Thanks for sharing your radical world view BS.
Capitalism built the formerly greatest country on earth,America.
It’s just in the last century capitalism has been under attack by radical progressives ie communist pigs.
The Marxist POS currently dismantling capitalism has his foot on the gas,thats one of the problems we have.When we reduce the size of government we will prosper.
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AvengerK
Jan. 9, 2013 at 12:44pmLet me show you why you’re an idiot ARCHIE….
You said the political system wasn’t designed to preserve the status quo? In fact the American constitution is specifically designed to preserve the status quo, that in itself is by it’s very nature a conservative virtue.
Some other nations revise their constitutions every decade or so…leaving the status quo to the whim of whoever is legislating at the time. But the American Constitution is immovable and with the exclusion of the amendment process, unchangable. It indeed preserves the status quo.
It’s lefties like you (don’t insult my intelligence with your “I’m a radical” idiocies..you’re a lefty through and through) that want the constitution torn up so you can impose your “RADICAL” (your emphasis) on society. The constitution the only real obstacle in your way and why is that again? Because it preserves the status quo. This is why the latest drum beat from the left has been to devalue and disparage the constitution. Liberal Supreme court judges telling young nations not to look to the American Constitutoin as a model for their own. Obama bemoaning the constraints congress puts on him (read: the constraints the constitution puts on him). The constant repetition from the left that the constitution is out-dated and ill-fitted for “modern” society.
You idiot, the constitution is what is preserving the status quo and the left wants to get it out of their way.
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AvengerK
Jan. 9, 2013 at 12:54pmLOL..of course you lefties have keepers ARCHIE, they tell you what to think and say…you’re a prime example of their indoctrination process. You repeat their rote like a robot as you just demonstrated..”substantive, structural change”..meaning…soak the successful, be the arbiter of who “deserves” what, and redistribute the wealth. You liberals have euphemisms for everything that you want to insinuate on society. “fair share”, “99%”, “raise revenue”, “invest in green jobs”..and one of my favourites..”reproductive rights”. You’re a fountain of lefty rote ARCHIE…you’re a regular ventroloquist dummy for your keepers. Tell me..can you speak while your professor has his hand up your shirt and drinks a glass of water?
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Free_Thought
Jan. 9, 2013 at 1:03pmI noticed that the patron didnt have the nuts to tell te wait staff personally. Instead like a total coward he leaves a note. What a pathetic coward. At least have the stones to stand by your convictions.
Typical comservative. Any excuse to screw the working class. What a pos.
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AvengerK
Jan. 9, 2013 at 1:05pmTypo: You said that the political system WAS designed to preserve the status quo.
And indeed the American constitition is designed to do just that? But why? Because succinctly..the forefathers of this country had the almost prophetic gift to know that lefties like you (again..don’t insult my intelligence with your “RADICAL” drivel) would seek to remove it from it’s position as the foundation of government in this country thus allowing the freedom of the people to be at the whim of idiots like you and your keepers. It’s the only thing stopping your kind from usurping power for themselves.
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The_Cabrito_Goat
Jan. 9, 2013 at 1:54pm1 question Archie
Why is it government can only fix a problem?
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DMONIC
Jan. 9, 2013 at 2:01pmI tip a waiter/waitress what they are worth. Who’s to say they didn’t provide really sh*tty service? Also, we are NOT obligated to have to give a tip- this IS still a free country. Typical liberal thinking- “Gimme what I dont deserve, I’m ENTITLED!” When the hell will it be open season on these radical leftist pukes, trying to destroy our country???
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LordOfTheArchons
Jan. 9, 2013 at 2:16pmWe Archons no longer claim you to be worthy of the title “Archon”. You’ve become an embarassment to us all. And by the way, you were adopted.
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shorelineliz
Jan. 9, 2013 at 2:19pmWhich one are you exactly?
ARCHON:
Archon (Gr. αρχων, pl. αρχοντες) is a Greek word that means “ruler” or the like.
Archon of Pella, a satrap of Babylonia and one of the Diadochi
Archon Basileus, a position in the government of classical Athens
Archon (Dungeons & Dragons), a fantasy race featured in the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game.
Archons, a villainous race of hyper-dimensional entities from the comic book series The Invisibles
Archons, the crew of the U.S.S. Archon in the original Star Trek episode “The Return of the Archons”
Archons, the leaders of the Dark Eldar in the tabletop wargame Warhammer 40,000
The Archon, the second book of the Oracle Prophecies Trilogy by Catherine Fisher. In the trilogy, the Archon is also the title of the God-on-Earth.
Archons, psionic entities in the StarCraft series from the protoss race.
In Series Stargate SG-1, an Archon is similar to an attorney for Tollans during a trial, they call Triad. Both parties have one and an unbiased other one is selected to create a majority during vote (First heard in the third season).
Archons, a group of ancient immortal beings that ruled over the primordial earth in The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel.
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Free_Thought
Jan. 9, 2013 at 2:42pmDmonic. Lame attempt. Keep swinging though. Sooner or later you might come away with a decent thought.
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BetsyRoss1513
Jan. 9, 2013 at 3:50pmThird Archon. What if the card cost 2 cents to make? Your logic is idiotic at best.
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donsfirstwife
Jan. 9, 2013 at 5:46pmWith my computer I could have used some inexpensive card stock and printed a few hundred of the cards at little expense. What makes you all think he went to an expensive printer to have a simple card like that printed? I print things with my computer all the time and I am definitely not a computer whiz, just a competent grandma.
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Balzy
Jan. 10, 2013 at 1:59ami’m sry archie, but the man is right. You other guys can’t seriously act like a conservative is a liberal and just simply get away with it either. A conservative is a traditionalist, so you can write off progressiveness immediately. furthermore the constitution would have stayed perfect if we just added rights and took VERY few serious ones away, but that’s the progressive liberal agenda. The government’s only role is to protect our freedom’s and enforce the law of the land, so why does it regulate everything? Because they think they know better than we do, because you buy into their crap when WE actually understand the agenda. Yes there are MANY different governmental systems, it’s funny how you think the founders were so stupid that they didn’t try other systems. THEY DID and guess what? They eventually found that the more free a people is, the less the government is involved in business, the more the people prospered and found reason to believe in government. It is the best system, because it doesn’t limit a person based on what the gov’t will let them do or simply do for them. The only limit is what the people put on themselves. Everyone must learn on their own what works and what doesn’t, no one is going to tell them how or what besides school. Can you imagine how much more time the gov’t would have to actually keep us safe, ALL OF US? like even our children, that they obviously don’t care about. I mean cmon, what kind of a future are they gonna have?
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TERM-LIMITS
Jan. 9, 2013 at 11:41amThe only time I will not tip, is if the waiter is disrespectful or provides terrible service.
If you can’t afford to tip the waiter, don’t go out to eat.
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JIMC5499
Jan. 9, 2013 at 12:18pmI am already paying for my meal, why should I have to help the owner subsidize his payroll costs? Don’t get me wrong, I am not against leaving a tip, if I get GOOD service, I am against leaving one for standard or substandard service. Why is it that only wait staff and bartenders are exempt from Minimum Wage?
A girl I dated got a job as a waiter at a sea food place in Florida. She was charged 20% of her customer’s bills, in anticipation that she would be getting tipped. At the end of her first week she OWED the restaurant over $200. Make the owners pay a fair wage, if I get good service I tip generously.
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Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Jan. 9, 2013 at 1:50pmI tip, but I will never understand why they put a line on the receipt for a tip at a buffet? I went and got my own food, the waitress just brought the drinks. Why should I tip someone at a buffet/Chinese food restaurant where you serve yourself?
I always tip at least 20% and I am conservative. I NEVER cut someone short unless they were rude, and even then I just give 10-15% instead of my normal 20. I know these people are struggling and they appreciate a good tip. i have daughters who work in a soda shop who make tips, so I know what it’s like.
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kickagrandma
Jan. 9, 2013 at 11:41amOK, guys. Fess up!
Who photographed that at the wh dining table?
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The Third Archon
Jan. 9, 2013 at 11:39am“As a direct result of Proposition 30,” the card reads, referring to California’s latest sales and income tax increase, “and President Obama’s insistence that I pay ‘MY FAIR SHARE IN TAXES,’ I find that I must cut back on discretionary spending and gratuities.”
“I wish it didn’t have to be this way for both of us,” the card concludes.
Kindt was unimpressed with the card: “Gotta love those Republicans, huh?”
I don’t know–it’s either a hilarious, clever, and accurate satire of conservatives, or some conservative being a typical *******–even IF it REALLY made the difference in, what, probably $20 or less? (I can’t imagine a tip for a single person running more than that anywhere a person who REALLY couldn’t afford a tip because of the reasons listed on the card), their ability to pay the tip anyone with tact wouldn’t leave an EXCUSE instead.
“First, because it’s unclear when and where the photo was taken, there’s no guaranteeing it’s not a hoax.”
Not that it really matters whether it is or isn’t, because the POINT is this is PRECISELY the REAL conservative argument that IS made (constantly) to, try to, justify their “trickle down” economic theory.
“Second, if it is indeed a hoax, this wouldn’t be the first time that someone tried to gin up anti-conservative sentiment with a ****-and-bull story about a lousy tip.”
Yeah, because it’s not EXACTLY a picture-perfect summary of the simplistic conservative economic prescr
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AvengerK
Jan. 9, 2013 at 11:45amStop whining ARCHIE….Darden Restaurants and some Omaha Wendy’s locations are cutting the hours of their employees because of Obamacare…don’t blame us, blame the empty chair and yourself for voting for the empty chair.
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Nancys Red Diaper Doper Babies
Jan. 9, 2013 at 11:50am“I don’t know–it’s either a hilarious, clever, and accurate satire of conservatives”
Apparently your standards for humor (and crtical thought) are pretty low.
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Apple Bite
Jan. 9, 2013 at 11:50amBut you’re still not getting a tip until things change. For all the arguing you do and seeking to change the way things are in this country, the best thing you can do for yourself is get a trade and work your way up. Not be a parasite scheming to make good off of taxpayers backs because you’re too damn lazy to do better for yourself.
Another way of saying this would have to be, you can’t pick and choose the things you want in life. Everything has a consequence. You chose Statism over Liberty. Live with your wretched choice.
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ChiefGeorge
Jan. 9, 2013 at 11:54amSolution is to print up and give every American a trillion dollar coin. So then everyone will have everything they desire. End of argument!
My 37 year old highly educated son-in-law said something to this effect when he and my daughter were discussing the high end products that my daughter was a sales person of at a local mall. Too bad he said that they could not just give you more of those profits.
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The Third Archon
Jan. 9, 2013 at 12:04pm@AVENGERK
Yay, focus on the symptoms not the problem like a good conservative! :D
@NANCYS RED DIAPER DOPER BABIES
Yes, because conservatives DON’T have a myopic focus on individual level causal explanations of economic phenomena alone, and they CERTAINLY don’t propound a backwards theory of stimulating aggregate demand by giving transfer payments to those with the LOWEST (rather than highest) marginal propensity to spend. Nope, that’s DEFINITELY not accurate. And no CONSERVATIVE would display disdain for the working class–that’s NEVER happened. LOL–you’re a riot, keep up the good work!
@APPLE BITE
LOL–Blazers, so full of assumptions about the personal life of posters’ lives on nothing whatsoever. I mean, you could at the LEAST make assumptions there is SOME probative REASON to infer, not just BLIND stabs in the dark. And, unsurprisingly, you’re completely out of the blue random assumption is totally incorrect–I don’t work for tips, I’m in a professional career, I just HAPPEN, apparently unlike conservatives, to be able to recognize what being an ******* to other people for no reason looks like. And I ALSO happen to have had the presence of mind to examine the socioeconomic structural CONTEXT in which individuals interact, not JUST their interactions and choices–also unlike conservatives who seem to suffer from a delusion that individuals exist in a vacuum and make policies on the basis of this delusion.
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Nancys Red Diaper Doper Babies
Jan. 9, 2013 at 12:06pmPerhaps I should make a card that reads, “Sorry my EBT card doesn’t allow for tips. If only the Goverment gave me more of other peoples’ money I could tip you with their money”. Would that be an accurate reflection of liberal economic policy and worldview. Probably more accurate than whatever it is that you think conservative economic policy is.
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The Third Archon
Jan. 9, 2013 at 12:17pmI don’t know, I think EBT cards DO allow tips–but regardless, someone with an EBT card PROBABLY isn’t eating at the kinds of places on tips at TOO frequently. That’s what people with disposable income do, which is a group becoming an increasingly smaller share of the population.
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SLEAZYHIPPOs ILLEGITIMATE OFFSPRING
Jan. 9, 2013 at 12:24pm@ THE THIRD ARCHIE….You seem to be terribly verbose without saying much of substance. You also like to paint with a broad stroke your stereotype brush of conservatives and how they feel/think all the while listing a straw man argument you then courageously proceed to tear down. I would say that makes you guilty of at least 3 logical fallacies. Unfortunately anytime someone makes 3 logical fallacies in one comment I usually just ignore them from that point on. Thank you…
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The Third Archon
Jan. 9, 2013 at 12:32pm@SLEAZY
LOL. The Blaze’s format isn’t exactly conducive to lengthy and in depth discussions, and you probably couldn’t appreciate them even if they were taking place right in front of you–I noticed your post just OOZED substance (the lack of it being terribly ironic considering the point you were attempting to make).
Articulate and verbose are not one and the same (well, maybe to morons they are).
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AvengerK
Jan. 9, 2013 at 12:34pmWell let’s see ARHCIE….the problem is Obamacare which is affecting the hours of employees of various enterprises. I am focusing on the problem.
Oh I know what you meant champ…don’t spit your pacifier…you meant that I’m not acknowledging your “RADICAL” (your emphasis) world view..read:delusions and fantasies of a lefty idiot. I’m happy to disappoint you there. Nothing more “radical” than laughing at a “RADICAL” huh?
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SLEAZYHIPPOs ILLEGITIMATE OFFSPRING
Jan. 9, 2013 at 12:55pm@ THE THIRD ARCHIE….you are correct, verbose and articulate are not quite the same, and I meant exactly what I wrote that you are verbose, which usually indicates an overcompensation (ie lack of substance) when arguing a point. You are verbose and have nothing of real substance to proclaim. Finally, my comment was direct and to the point, namely that you are easily dismissed as a fallacious debater. That is all the substance needed to expose your 3 fallacies (of which you never responded to). Finally, your assumption that I am not highly educated and understand as much or more than you exemplifies 2 things: 1) your elitist arrogant attitude common to many leftists (radicals) and 2) your hypocrisy since you criticized another for making comments about you without the slightest hint of who you are. Again, a common trait among those who hold your ideology. Your arrogance and pride is your greatest downfall to your posts and comments suggesting you are more concerned with bolstering your own ego than you are concerned with the actual ideals you supposedly support. Either that or you are so insecure that you must commit the logical fallacy of ad hominem (as you did in your reply to me) to gain a since of superiority, false though it may be. Now have wasted enough time on exposing your fallacies that even broke my own rules by responding back to you after it is clear you cannot argue without committing logical fallacies one after another. Good day.
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GeorgieJo
Jan. 9, 2013 at 1:52pmMe thinks ARCHIE needs a high colonic Barryum Enema.
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The_Cabrito_Goat
Jan. 9, 2013 at 1:59pm“You seem to be terribly verbose without saying much of substance”
always stealing what I wanted to say.
Indeed, TTA reminds me of an air headed academic: word salads and parrot talking points. Very little originality.
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Nancys Red Diaper Doper Babies
Jan. 9, 2013 at 5:16pm“I think EBT cards DO allow tips–but regardless, someone with an EBT card PROBABLY isn’t eating at the kinds of places on tips at TOO frequently.”
Yet people with EBT cards frequent strip clubs, casinos and liquor stores as evidenced by their ATM transactions at these establishments. Seems like the EBT card is the new disposable income from the Left.
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Zipit
Jan. 9, 2013 at 5:53pmAhchee! A simple but precise definition of verbose? Impaired by wordiness! It’s doubtful, that is the only thing you are impaired by, but it fits quite well!!!
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Kregneva
Jan. 9, 2013 at 7:41pm@SLEAZYHIPPO’S ILLEGITIMATE OFFSPRING
What’s Up, Doc? Good to see you are back at The Blaze. When you go to this site you see your handle, but your user name is different somehow … WATCHTHEOTHERHAND … is that it?
http://www.theblaze.com/users/watchtheotherhand/
I have seen this disparity of user names and handles sometimes – there has to be a simple explanation. But nobody believes the answers trolls give. Blazers all know you to be a staunch and true, and not a liar. Can you share that reason with us?
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objectivetruth
Jan. 10, 2013 at 9:20am@applebite
How dare you.I know you are mad at the poster but just really.C’mon many people work in a restaurant to put them selves through school.Be it a trade school or college.By the way it isn’t as easy to apprentice as you think it is.Especially if you have been out of school for a while.Depending on your age you may be competing with young bucks who by youth will win.Sorry to say some trades require the health and vigor of youth to perform.
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SLEAZYHIPPOs ILLEGITIMATE OFFSPRING
Jan. 10, 2013 at 4:00pmI switched my “handle” to poke fun at a liberal I often debated who’s handle was “sleazy hippo” on numerous topics and now I have kinda grown use to it. So many now know me by that handle that I decided to leave it. You can change what appears on the posts but the account name remains the same. Thanks. Have a good day!
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aproudinfidel
Jan. 9, 2013 at 11:38amWhat a jerk. If you can afford to go out to eat you can afford an appropriate tip. This was probably some cheap yuppy libterd trying to make a bad impression for conservatives. Waiters remember faces. Karma is real.
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searcher619
Jan. 9, 2013 at 1:20pmaproudinfidel
“What a jerk. If you can afford to go out to eat you can afford an appropriate tip. This was probably some cheap yuppy libterd trying to make a bad impression for conservatives. Waiters remember faces. Karma is real.”
Since you have no idea if the server provided the level of service which warranted a tip you are just talking out of your arse. It never occurs to people like you that maybe, just maybe, the quality of service the server provided warranted this.
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Desertcatn
Jan. 9, 2013 at 2:26pmMaybe the customer heard the server going on about how wonderful Obama is or what jerks conservatives are?
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searcher619
Jan. 9, 2013 at 3:01pmIt’s never their fault.
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shorelineliz
Jan. 10, 2013 at 9:54pmBush did it. Blame him.
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cmonnow
Jan. 9, 2013 at 7:24pmsure… so he went and typed and printed the nice little note.. nice try, Sherlock
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objectivetruth
Jan. 10, 2013 at 9:37amYou might have a leg to stand on if the card hadn’t been left.This if true was merely an excuse for the freak show to show off what a true jerk he is.C’mon if you are going to make a statement with the card then at least tell the waitstaff that served you and tip accordingly if only for the publicity of the card.
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searcher619
Jan. 9, 2013 at 1:25pmaproudinfidel
“What a jerk. If you can afford to go out to eat you can afford an appropriate tip. This was probably some cheap yuppy libterd trying to make a bad impression for conservatives. Waiters remember faces. Karma is real.”
Since you have no idea if the server provided the level of service which warranted a tip you are just talking out of your arse. It never occurs to people like you that maybe, just maybe, the quality of service the server provided warranted this.
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DUGinFLA
Jan. 9, 2013 at 2:34pmYou know what, I agree with you. But the challenge here is, you could assign blame in both directions with this (no one will ever know). BELIEVE ME…..I would love to pull this off my self. ;) Cheers and happy new year to you!
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searcher619
Jan. 9, 2013 at 1:28pmForgot to add that Karma is the creation of people who feel they are powerless. If you grew up and saw the world s it is you’d ask yourself, “If Karma is real then why do so many with wealth and influence hurt so many and never have to suffer the consequences?” Life isn’t fair. The day you accept that may be the day you figure out you have to become a bit more self-reliant and stop bitching about what others are getting away with wrong real or imagined. It’s laughable that people like you feel some unseen force out there will exact vengeance on your behalf.
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objectivetruth
Jan. 10, 2013 at 11:32amDefine the word hurt.There comes a time when someone rich and sociopathic doesn’t have an excuse anymore.Instead of giving your childish input try thinking.Some people around here who post are more than just hurt,Telling us to grow up and get over it will get you a piece of something you don’t want.You see we have been on the end of people, the likes of which you would have already broken and become what they wanted you to become.In jail or dead.In our case it isn’t about fairness its about justice.Its about being free of true monsters.True monsters who by the way have the same thing in store for you.
Then again I’m probaly wasting my breath on the likes of you.You aren’t likely stupid but simply f/n evil
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deeberj
Jan. 10, 2013 at 1:20pmWhose post are you responding to?
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shorelineliz
Jan. 10, 2013 at 10:00pmI love your posts and I have gotten free of “true Monsters” for months now. In and out of my family. leeches. Moochers. sickos. I don’t listen to their Liberal crap and whining any more. Not one bit.
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shorelineliz
Jan. 10, 2013 at 9:58pmDid your karma just run over my dogma or did my dogma just run over your karma? what the heck is catma anyway? Is there birdma?
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Mil-Dot
Jan. 9, 2013 at 4:29pmI agree, it has commie-prog written all over it.
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jakartaman
Jan. 9, 2013 at 11:37amI agree with the sentiment but not on hard working people.
Anyone that does not recognize the Barry is a screaming Socialist is delusional
Remember Plumber Joe
Welcome to America of Europe – The Western Nanny states
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DoOrDie
Jan. 9, 2013 at 11:32amYou people haven’t seen anything yet. Wait until Obama Care is fully enforced. America will be wishing we were only in a recession. Total chaos is ahead. Thousands of small businesses will go under because unemployment will skyrocket, spending will cease to exist, much like it already has, but worse. After 35 years in business, it is a daily struggle. Obama is winning.
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WATER-THE-TREE
Jan. 9, 2013 at 11:42amThat POS should not have stiffed the wait person, You do not know if they voted for Bammy of not. That server does not get a pay check. The only money that they get is from your tip. IF YOU DON’T TIP DON’T GO WHERE A TIP IS EXPECTED, eat elsewhere. they were wrong and I hope that “karma” pays them back!
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The Third Archon
Jan. 9, 2013 at 11:52am“Thousands of small businesses will go under because unemployment will skyrocket, spending will cease to exist”
So…you RECOGNIZE that diminishing aggregate demand is crippling the economy, yet you SUPPORT the wealth-centralizing economic policies and socioeconomic structures that CAUSE this diminishing effect? That’s called a CONTRADICTION–you can’t have them both. EITHER wealth will be highly concentrated and aggregate demand diminished as a consequence of lower marginal propensity to spend in those ABLE to spend OR wealth will be more decentralized and aggregate demand sustained by higher marginal propensity spend among those WITHOUT the ability to do so under the status quo regime of centralized, and increasingly centralized, wealth.
The Right is filled such arbitrary hypocrites–they’re PLENTY happy to bang the drum of individual freedom and empowerment, and decentralization of power when it comes to PUBLIC power, but when the EXACT same tyranny is PRIVATIZED (i.e. when it comes to turning the government into FEUDALISM) their parade of complaint is nowhere to be found.
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cosette
Jan. 9, 2013 at 4:16pm@ Water-The-Tree….Because my parents owned several restaurants and I was raised in the business I can attest to the fact that servers DO get a paycheck. The restaurant owner is, however, not required to pay minimum wage and servers DO depend on tips in order to eke out a living .That being said, I assure you this correction of your post is not intended to incite, it’s simply a matter of fact.
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Git-R-Done
Jan. 9, 2013 at 8:04pmArchie – Only bitter angry Marxists like you consider it tyranny when private business owners run their business how they want to and not how you want them to be run.
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SimpleTruths
Jan. 9, 2013 at 11:28amIf true then the restaurant guess is someone with an income over $400K or $450K and isn’t going to miss a few dollars on a tip. If not the case then they are looking for any excuse to bilk someone out of a tip.
Either way they suck. But it feeds the Blaze narrative therefore it’s front page news.
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13th Imam
Jan. 9, 2013 at 11:41amSocialist DEMOCRAT’s only use actual TAXPAYERS stolen money to fund their vote buying schemes. Fake or not , this message will become moot as fewer people will frequent watering holes and therefore the gratuities will dry up. The simpletruth is that DEMOCRATS are fiscal Looters.
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Jarhead 88
Jan. 9, 2013 at 11:50amIt keeps you coming back though, doesn’t it? Don’t give me the tired excuse that this is “entertainment” for yourself either, chump. This is your venue for spreading your hate and nothing more, you are the enemy of freedom and will suffer the consequences, that’s a fact.
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AvengerK
Jan. 9, 2013 at 11:55amReally SIMPLETON? What happened to $250K? Did you move your definition of “1%” per what Obama agreed to for the fiscal cliff debacle? Easily led aren’t you sport?
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My Two Cents
Jan. 9, 2013 at 1:22pm“If true then the restaurant guess is someone with an income over $400K or $450K and isn’t going to miss a few dollars on a tip.”
Leave it to a liberal to tell other people how they should spend their money.
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ArmedAndReallyPissed
Jan. 9, 2013 at 11:28amNo Gratuity Because Obama Insists ‘I Pay My Fair Share’…………………….
Palm to forehead : Why didn’t i think of that !!
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hauschild
Jan. 9, 2013 at 11:24amThis is absolutely the result of government intervention and it is absolutely intentional.
Who gives the least? Leftists, because they feel that by “paying their fair share”, that absolves them of any further need to be charitable in any regard. It’s nice and clean for them and they can wipe their conscience clean – just like when they pass more gun laws.
It’s sad that leftists want to the government to take over the reigns of charity, because “we” know that won’t work and “they” don’t really care. At the end of the day, they can point to the laws they pass and feign compassion – while those in need get the shaft.
I hate to sound brutal, but this is what it is going to take to get people outta their stupors. Charities at all levels are going to necessarily have to take a hit or the current mindset is not going to change. And, if enough people are adversely affected, things will change.
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Freedomlover_US
Jan. 9, 2013 at 11:44amYou’re an idiot – there is no reason to stiff a hard working waitress on a tip because you wanna be political
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shorelineliz
Jan. 9, 2013 at 2:26pmI intend to print up about 500 of these cards on my home computer and start using them. We know a majority of young people voted for Obama and that they work in food service. They should have to suffer the consequences of their choices. This is a no brainer for me. Also, I was a cruel mother when my children were growing up. They lost privileges. They did not get to sit in a corner for 2 minutes and then get nuggets, fries, dessert and video games. They were disciplined children. They ate their vegetables or didn’t get another meal. These young food service and wait staff people need a wake up call and hitting them in their pocket books is a good course of action. Cause they come into my store and buy 99 cent slurpees with their MasterCard and think nothing of charging tons of crap on their credit cards. Then there is Mommy and Daddy who have never let them feel a consequence in their lives. Make it hurt. It should hurt. They deserve it to hurt. Then they will think again about their choices.
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Mil-Dot
Jan. 9, 2013 at 4:26pmFreedom,
You are correct to respect the working man or woman. BUT, I will go out of my way to screw over anybody that I know voted for Obama. Why not? They do it to us. So F them. But, to be fair, it is unknown if the waiter was a supporter.
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Bastiatwasright
Jan. 9, 2013 at 11:24amWait staffs work hard so I still tip however I am considering cutting back from my standard 20-25 percent to 10 it will not work out for anyone if I have no money to go to a restaurant at all.
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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Jan. 9, 2013 at 11:33amThe few restaurants I can afford in the area (not including fast food) I try to tip as the workers often have their tips to fill in the majority of their weekly wages.
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Nancys Red Diaper Doper Babies
Jan. 9, 2013 at 11:43amPerhaps I’ll just start asking my servers who they voted for and I’ll tell the Obama supporters that electrions have consequences. Why should I voluntarily give someone money when they voluntarily voted to take money away from me? Then again maybe I’ll just lower my tip to Obama supporters from 20% to 10% and no longer tip them in cash.
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WATER-THE-TREE
Jan. 9, 2013 at 11:48amWaiters do not get a check, THAT TIP IS ALL THAT THEY RECEIVE IN WAGES, TO NOT TIP THEM IS LIKE THEFT, you might as well go rob their house! I think that everyone should for one year have to do waiting on tables. It would be a blessing to both the customer and the wait staff! If you can’t leave a tip eat elsewhere!
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13th Imam
Jan. 9, 2013 at 12:08pmHey Water
Many family’s have only one income. The Theft of their wages by greedy DEMOCRATS thru higher healthcare costs brought on by Barry Care, and all the hidden Taxes they impose, steal from their income. Why are you so worried about waitstaff? Is this an SEIU thingy from your minute brain?
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shorelineliz
Jan. 9, 2013 at 2:42pmI have already cut back my tipping to 10 percent or none at all and my eating out. i simply cannot afford to patronize these places anymore in the Obama economy. Elections have consequences. They need to be felt. Young people need to learn about such things. This is a great time to teach consequences. When they complain just ask them, “did you vote for Obama?” and when they say, “Yes” then tell them, “You voted yourself out of tips and probably a job.” They won’t like it but they need to hear it. All choices have consequences. Let them feel bad. Let them feel hurt and angry. Let it hit them in their pocket books. They deserve it.
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Nancys Red Diaper Doper Babies
Jan. 9, 2013 at 5:32pm“I think that everyone should for one year have to do waiting on tables.”
Great idea can we start with those on welfare? The Government robs me everytime they take my taxes to pay for someone’s Obama phone, or food stamps, or health care and they do it at the tip of a gun. I work harder and a get robbed more. Also, wouldn’t the Government miss my $30,000+ in taxes they’d collect for that year I spent waiting tables?
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Pablo
Jan. 9, 2013 at 11:23amThen there’s the people who are cutting back and didn’t leave a tip because they didn’t eat out.
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Metallicat
Jan. 9, 2013 at 11:22amMaybe I should send the same letter to my local pizza shop. I used to treat them well before Obamanomics ruined my income. Now i dont eat as much pizza,and when I do I cant tip the delivery person as generously as I used to.
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catty
Jan. 9, 2013 at 1:22pmthen don’t order pizza
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timarina
Jan. 9, 2013 at 4:04pmQuit blaming others for your failures. As long as you blame others you will never solve the underlying problem and will forever be a failure.
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Nancys Red Diaper Doper Babies
Jan. 9, 2013 at 5:36pm“then don’t order pizza”
Because that’ll help the pizza delivery guy keep his job.
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objectivetruth
Jan. 10, 2013 at 9:45amDon’t worry you are treating them well.Most restaurants know customers can’t afford to eat out as much.Your delivery driver also understands you can’t afford as much.Especially if you explain.They know obama sunk the economy.Its hard on everybody who actually works for a living.As you can plainly see though, by the other posters respones to you, many of them on here have never worked an honest day in their lives.There is no way that they could be so mean stupid and asinine if they had.
They don’t respect themselves so respecting someone else is out of the question.They can’t give what they don’t have.
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Cavallo
Jan. 9, 2013 at 11:21amIf someone really is going to do this kind of thing, make sure you don’t patronize the establishment a second time. They might remember you.
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miller721108
Jan. 9, 2013 at 1:38pmAnd if you’ve ever seen the movie Waiting you would never eat there again if they do recognize you for leaving the card.
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checkingbothsides
Jan. 9, 2013 at 2:26pm@Miller – I was thinking the EXACT same thing! Be nice to your servers folks, or you’ll find yourself eating a pube sandwich!
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YOURSENSEI
Jan. 9, 2013 at 11:20amThis is what you must know:
“Your tip went to pay for the Iraq War.”
It is so.
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Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Jan. 9, 2013 at 11:24amOr to pay for solyndra
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hauschild
Jan. 9, 2013 at 11:27amDon’t forget the 50% of bottom-feeding slugs in this country.
You tally up the cost of the Iraq war and then entitlements and we’ll see which dwarfs which.
How can anybody be so blatantly blind??? Ya’ll some evil bastards!
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Walkabout
Jan. 9, 2013 at 11:35amWango = pantloadin = Glennda = Your Sensei
You & Charles116 / Dora should get together & make babies. You’re both so smart that I am sure your kids would all be Einsteins.
You need to have kids to make new liberals, because you are not recruiting anyone here.
Liberals are dying from sheer stupidity.
“Ill-Fated Fellow Travelers Meet the Real Middle East”
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/zeno-cosini/ill-fated-fellow-travelers-meet-the-real-middle-east/
Maybe for benefits you could rejoin the Obama military except your re-up code is probably pretty bad.
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justangry
Jan. 9, 2013 at 11:41amAye, the waring that Obama expanded is expensive. Drones ain’t cheap.
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Walkabout
Jan. 9, 2013 at 11:50amjustangry
What color were your shoes?
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AvengerK
Jan. 9, 2013 at 12:00pmYOU’RE SENSELESS/WANGO/PANTY/HORSIE/GLENNDUH/ad nauseum. This is what you don’t know. The wars are on the credit card that Obama’s trying to raise the limit on.
Furthermore, the end of the Iraq operations is what Obama’s counting as a “spending cut” for his $1trillion spending cut idiocy you bought like a good useful idiot.
Bet you’re lousy at three card monty…..
Keep trying dullard.
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Frederick_Douglass_Republican
Jan. 9, 2013 at 11:18amMy generosity since November is now reserved for those positively known NOT to be Oweblamer voters.
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shorelineliz
Jan. 10, 2013 at 9:56pmMe too. I drew a line in the sand when the Obamabots thieved this election through massive voter fraud and 51% voted to thieve my taxes to get free stuff. Obama whores.
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jcldwl
Jan. 9, 2013 at 11:17amIf you can’t afford the tip you can’t afford to eat out. Plain and simple. Probably fake anyway.
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Cavallo
Jan. 9, 2013 at 11:47amYup, or patronize establishments that don’t have wait staff that live off tips. The vast majority of millionaires that I have had the pleasure of meeting all ate very cheaply, fancy dinners only once in a blue moon. That attitude of staying out of restaurants and overspending for food and dinning is one reason they became millionaires (most it is also an attitude left over from when they were dirt poor and couldn’t afford to eat out).
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The_Cabrito_Goat
Jan. 9, 2013 at 2:01pmI bet there’s a 5 dollar bill underneath it anyway
Plus, remember the “penny” tip the waitress “received” telling her to “get a real job”?
It’s not uncommon for these types of stories to develop.
What, it’s true. Look it up.
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YOURSENSEI
Jan. 9, 2013 at 11:16amThis is what you must know:
The cheap and selfish will always find an excuse to be that way.
It is so.
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The_Pointy_End
Jan. 9, 2013 at 11:53amI agree. Those are the same people who have made up their minds before sitting down at the table they aren’t going to tip. They pick everything apart so to justify their cheapness. The thing is they are only fooling themselves. Everyone else sees them for what they are.
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AvengerK
Jan. 9, 2013 at 12:18pmhmmm….is that why Christians and conservatives are the more generous donors to charities YOU’RE SENSELESS/WANGO/PANTY/HORSIE/GLENNDUH?
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13th Imam
Jan. 9, 2013 at 12:34pmYes. Cheap ans Senseless. The watchwords of today’s DEMOCRAT Party
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Kregneva
Jan. 9, 2013 at 7:29pmThis is what you must know already
Aussies are all about complaining, and leave no tip behind.
Spartacus would say so.
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YOURSENSEI
Jan. 9, 2013 at 8:40pmMr or Ms KREGNEVA,
This is what you must know:
All free men and women salute you.
It is so.
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Speak without Fear
Jan. 9, 2013 at 11:16amDon’t know if this incident is real or not…..but I feel the same way. The more this country pushes for socialism…..the more I pull back on my money.
These people feel entitled to do as little as they can to get by……..and then stick their hands in my pocket to make up for what they feel entitled too.
This happens…..when there is FORCED charity……and hard working people are taxed to death.
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shorelineliz
Jan. 9, 2013 at 3:17pmExactly. They vote Obama back in and Obamacare and more taxes and think nothing will change. Business as usual. WE are the people TEACHING them that voting has consequences. Choices have consequences. I have pulled back my money as well. Big time. Let them whine. And stand on the unemployment line. Maybe. Just maybe they will get a clue that voting for the Democratic Party has some “connection” to getting their hours axed or losing their jobs. I doubt it. They will just move back in with Mommy and Daddy and continue to suck on the teat. They never really got off it. Cause Obama, the Democrats, and Mommy and Daddy’s credit card never allowed them to grow up and be adults and work for their own life. Infants. We have a nation of infants who were never taught to be adults, stand on their own two feet and own the bad consequences of their bad decisions. They were always bailed out. I see it every day.
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Im_not_crazy92
Jan. 9, 2013 at 11:16amNice!
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Skan
Jan. 9, 2013 at 11:16amThis could catch on.
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ModerationIsBest
Jan. 9, 2013 at 11:14amCheapskates are hilarious.
“I have to pay more in taxes therefore I’m going to donate less. Take THAT poor people.”
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FightingBear
Jan. 9, 2013 at 11:29amThe poor people are already getting your tax dollars through all their entitlements.
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TADTAD
Jan. 9, 2013 at 11:29amCharity is at the discretion of the individual, vice the “Commonwealth.” Flush out your headgear, new guy. Semper Fi, Mac.
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booger71
Jan. 9, 2013 at 11:33amGiving a tip is not a donation oh enlightened one. It is for superior service
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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Jan. 9, 2013 at 11:34am@TadTad:
Indeed generosity is of the individual, I wonder how long until Obama tries to have a ‘generosity tax’ included as part of the health care legislation?
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progressiveslayer
Jan. 9, 2013 at 11:35amDo you even know what TIPS stands for? Just because a server serves your food doesn’t mean a tip is automatic.
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ModerationIsBest
Jan. 9, 2013 at 11:49am@PROGRESSIVESLAYER
It’s the same mindset.
“I have a little less money now, which means I HAVE to give less money to other people” whether tip or donation.
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The_Cabrito_Goat
Jan. 9, 2013 at 2:17pmOkay, he bankrupts himself on the tip and can’t be a routine customer anymore. Then the restaurant goes out of business and the waitress has less money than if she weren’t tipped at all.
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ResistSocialism
Jan. 9, 2013 at 11:13amJust leave them a scribbled note on one of the restaurants napkins. Something like. “So many wanted Obama, now live with it!”
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shorelineliz
Jan. 9, 2013 at 2:21pmAmen. Live with the consequences. I have had to reduce my eating out and tipping because of Obama’s economy. He owns it now! Blame him not me!
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Hotconchick
Jan. 9, 2013 at 4:01pmWe had to stop charitable giving except to Wounded Warriors and USA Cares. I don’t eat out- 15 years in the restaurant biz did that to me. I like to cook so it works.
This is what the economy is really doing- stifling charity. I do have to say if you can’t afford to go out then don’t.
Don’t use this as an excuse to be a cheap skate.
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