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Meet the Texas Family That Built a Fried Chicken Empire & Teaches Their Employees About the Constitution

Interview with Babes Chicken Dinner House in Texas

Babe’s Chicken Dinner House has the same success story as many American start-ups.  Humble beginnings, hard work and a great product leads to success. After starting with just one small country cooking restaurant in 1981, Paul and Mary Beth Vinyard have opened 11 more and now employ more than 1,300 people in the state of Texas.

The restaurant takes the name “Babe” from Mary Beth who used it as a nickname for years before her death in 2008. Her husband Paul keeps the booming business going with the support of his two children, Joel and Tiffany.

Interview with Babes Chicken Dinner House in Texas

Babes has a distinct, scratch cooking, comfort food feel of grandma’s kitchen in each unique restaurant. The atmosphere is as warm and welcoming as the crispy fried chicken, piled high on a family style over-sized platters. No corporate ownership or public offering here. And the customers love it. TheBlaze went to three locations and the wait was more than an hour at each packed location, all on a weeknight!

So what is the Babe’s secret?

“Hard work,” answers Paul Vineyard, sitting at a round table amongst a packed house of customers. Paul is an unassuming elderly man and almost got red when we asked him his official title.

“CEO I guess, but we don’t talk about that much” he says with a grin. He is flanked by his co-owners, his children on each side, who run the day-to-day of the business. “These are my co-owners,” Paul says proudly.

Interview with Babes Chicken Dinner House in Texas

The conversation shifts to President Barack Obama’s now infamous comments of, “If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that, somebody else made that happen.” Paul and his son Joel, who has worked at the restaurant since high school, called the comments both insulting and offensive.

“It’s terrible,” Joel says, noting that all good employers take care of and appreciate those who helped them build their business, “but you can’t take away the core responsibility, the piece that drives it. The job creation itself.” Paul seconds that.

“Each of these entrepreneurs have brought many other people along with them,” he says, “given them the money to raise families, educate their kids, paid for the insurance for them and given them success.”

Interview with Babes Chicken Dinner House in Texas

A floor manager named Jose adds how “grateful” he is to the restaurant. Jose describes his entrance into the Babe’s family when he walked up to a trailer in a parking lot where they were building the restaurant and was “hired on the spot.”  Jose has worked his way up in the chain to the position of floor manager without any prior experience: “It just goes to show that a family is family no matter where they come from” Jose says proudly.

Interview with Babes Chicken Dinner House in Texas

Paul adds that his mission is Babe’s employees. “We try to teach them a little bit about Christianity, honesty, integrity, character and we teach them about the Constitution.”  Joel adds that that is the “way we should do it.”

Paul makes a final note to punctuate the conversation: “The government has no money, other than what they take from us. So we built all of that that [Obama] is talking about.”

Pass the gravy & watch this Fried Chicken American story below:

Comments (110)

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  • another pucker
    Posted on August 23, 2012 at 1:44pm

    On a long trip back from Angel Fire New Mexico with friends after a ski weekend in 1993 they suggest we eat diner at Babe’s, then it was just Roanoke. I was not in the mood for fried chicken until we got there. After that it became a regular place on our list of diner out. I remember this fellow on several occasions showing me his box full of rattlers! Back then it was just fried chicken as your main course and it is still the only thing I get, although I go to Burleson now.

    XOXOXO

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    • JRook
      Posted on August 23, 2012 at 3:26pm

      Perhaps Texas should spend a bit more on education. My children all has in depth lessons regarding the Constitution in 7th. and 8th. grade. But that might change given the cuts made by our Republican governor who’s idea of economics starts with giving away tax abatements and cutting state funding to education. And of course his advice to voters was vote down any school levies to make up the difference in over $200 million in state funding for schools.

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    • self-reliant man
      Posted on August 23, 2012 at 5:08pm

      Yes JROOK because learning about the Constitution in 8th grade is enough for the rest of your life. As far as I am concerned it should be something that we study often and discuss more so that we don’t run into the problems we are having now. You see, we passed all other nations as a result of following the principles of the Constitution and as soon as we have stopped studying it and discussing it often and started focusing on reality tv shows and the host of other useless things available, we digressed and are in our current state as a result. If you think 7th grade is enough, then I can see why you believe what you believe.

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    • I am standing up
      Posted on August 23, 2012 at 5:11pm

      @JROOK Throwing more money at education is not what produces results!!! The District of Columbia is ranked # 1 in per-pupil spending while only having a 59% graduation rate; Georgia is ranked # 26 with a graduation rate of 54%. So please tell me how that works for your theory?

      I had the opportunity to meet Paul, Joel their wives and many of their employees while in TX and I can say that they truly walk the walk; wonderful salt of the earth people who truly care. Also if the government ran the country like they ran their business we wouldn’t be in the mess we are in.
      Oh and BTW the food is amazing!!!!

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    • self-reliant man
      Posted on August 23, 2012 at 5:11pm

      Why is education always the responsibility of the government? Why can’t parents teach there kids and supplement the learning?

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    • TreeTrimmerJim
      Posted on August 24, 2012 at 12:18am

      JRook…. When your community takes charge of educating the children, the seed of your communities growth, your community will no longer be dependent on getting permission from someone from out of town.

      Who would think its a good idea to have another community decide if your community is going to prosper or not.

      Who would think someone from out of town would know or care deeply about your community.

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    • BootsAreWalkin
      Posted on August 24, 2012 at 1:21am

      Rook, the main problem with education is not the money, it‘s the teacher’s unions that block merit based evaluations and promotions for good teachers so the crappy ones can all hang on to their jobs and suck a living out of the taxpayer while the kids they are supposed to teach graduate illiterate. This is compounded by liberal parents and blood sucking vampire trial lawyers who sue if cretin kids get in trouble for bad behavior, which destroys the ability of school districts to discipline or expel bad kids and maintain a stable, focused learning environment. This is what has destroyed the American educational system.

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    • TreeTrimmerJim
      Posted on August 24, 2012 at 3:22am

      JROOK… ask your attorney if he studies the Constitution in law school. Except for constitutional lawyers the Constitution is not part of their studies. They like precedence better. Which I think is a version of playing telephone with the Constitution. When I read legal opinions they have a lot of this person meant this or that in their decision therefore that means…..

      Instead of going back to the original basis for our laws, the Constitution… we have legal precedence, vague elegance.. Kind of like amending the Constitution without a public vote. Read Justice Roberts opinion on ObamaCare. Not the brightest bulb on the tree.

      Read Dred Scott or Plessey vs Ferguson and see if the Supreme Court is wise legally or wise politically. We knew most of the votes on ObamaCare before the Supreme Court even heard the case. Why? Because the Constitution is not taught in public schools, in college and in law schools… the phrase about the USA beating the Russian in 1980 hockey apply’s here… to dumb to know.

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  • bandi9
    Posted on August 23, 2012 at 1:40pm

    encinom is a regular idiot here. yes, he is a moron, but he is our moron…

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    • princessnutsack
      Posted on August 23, 2012 at 2:13pm

      lol. its like family.

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    • Sirfoldallot
      Posted on August 23, 2012 at 2:47pm

      2 funny

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    • The_Cabrito_Goat
      Posted on August 23, 2012 at 2:51pm

      This is exactly what the trolls want, you know. To take attention away from the American values in the topic, and instead focus on animosity and division.

      My advice is to ignore and report trolls wherever possible. If the mods did their job more often, we’d see much better topics with more insight. But instead we see shallow flame wars, thanks to trolls.

      Don’t play into their hands.

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    • afishfarted
      Posted on August 23, 2012 at 3:03pm

      @The_Cabrito_Goat
      bingo

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  • bandi9
    Posted on August 23, 2012 at 1:38pm

    i am hungry

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    • bigdaddyt46
      Posted on August 24, 2012 at 11:58am

      ditto! i have heard of this place for years, would love to try it but i’m stuck in bum fark egypt Wisconsin.

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  • jackact
    Posted on August 23, 2012 at 1:26pm

    Truly amazing.
    The private sector is teaching the US Constitution because our
    failed dept of education refuses too.
    There are going to be many changes in the future.
    Guaranteed.

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    • TreeTrimmerJim
      Posted on August 24, 2012 at 2:57am

      We the people are responsible for educating our children, no one else. If our children are not learning the Constitution, its because we the parents are not making sure its done. period

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    • AnAmericanToo
      Posted on August 26, 2012 at 12:04pm

      I was the last class in my public school system to have ‘civics’ taught to them. Our civics course required that we read the US Constitution.

      I have a friend with several children. Every summer he plans a ‘summer learning theme’ for his children when they are on summer break since he has no intentions of letting his kids slide through summer. Last summer he made studying the Constitution a theme for his children — they read it, discussed it, read books about the Constitution and Founders, and had to write him papers about different topics.

      He was telling me how shocked he was to learn that the teachers were asking the students what they did during the summer and so many responded “nothin’”. He said, “I am not going to allow my kids to waste their time.” His children take music lessons, play team sports, read, etc.

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  • LeadNotFollow
    Posted on August 23, 2012 at 1:25pm

    …
    They teach their employees a little bit about Christianity, honesty, integrity, character, and about the Constitution.
    That’s my kind of place.
    Wish there was a Babe’s Chicken near me. That food looks so good, I nearly drooled on my keyboard.

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  • MrBigBillyB
    Posted on August 23, 2012 at 1:17pm

    I live about 10 minutes from the Babe’s in Roanoke, (north of Fort Worth) and it is the best food. At this location they have only two choices for meat: Fried Chicken or Chicken Fried Steak. You don’t have any choice on the sides, just Masked Potatoes, Creamed Corn, Biscuits, Gravy. That’s it. Huge portions and great flavor. In my family, you get to choose where you want to eat out for your birthday, and almost without fail, all five of us choose Babe’s. You don’t have to be fancy and have 50 different items. Just make good food at reasonable prices, and the people will come.

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  • Texas woman56
    Posted on August 23, 2012 at 12:56pm

    The business owners and the regular tax payers pay all the taxes. We are the ones that have paid for the bridges and roads. But I would say that there is someone that has helped him build his business and that is God. I am sure he would agree. He has put in all the hard work and God has helped him in many ways, many not even known to him. I think it is very scary the way Obama tries to put the government in the place of God. He would say, turn yourself over to the gov and we will house, cloth, educate and give you happiness. Someone needs to educate him on the facts: the gov. is the taxpayers, how could the gov. do something for us that we can not do for ourselves. If you are not a taxpayer because you live off the gov. then you are a slave to the gov. not over the gov.

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  • blackbean
    Posted on August 23, 2012 at 12:54pm

    What a wonderfully refreshing story. It should be on all the talk shows as an example of what makes this country so great. I only wish I lived close enough to one of their restaurants!

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  • mikenleeds
    Posted on August 23, 2012 at 12:54pm

    only time government gets involved is to put more regulations on us and with their hand out for taxes and permits , the government is the root to all of our problems

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    • TreeTrimmerJim
      Posted on August 24, 2012 at 3:00am

      So far no amount of regulations have reduced the size of government, lowered government spending or increased any one’s freedom.

      If you know of an exception please share the information.

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  • DrKev
    Posted on August 23, 2012 at 12:51pm

    it does get any more authentically AMERICAN than these people… hmmm the same can be said for Paul Ryn and Mitt Romney AUTHENTIC!!!

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    • DrKev
      Posted on August 23, 2012 at 1:00pm

      oopps I meant it doesn’t get any more authentically AMERICAN than these people!!! next rime I‘m in DFW I’m may make this my eating spot lunch n dinner everyday- for breakfast L’ll be going to Cick-fil-A I wonder if Babes has gift cards — if they do that will simplify my Christmas list- gift cards for Chick-fil-A & Babes ♥

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  • Owt_Raged
    Posted on August 23, 2012 at 12:48pm

    Government keeps forgetting that without the money forcibly taken from private individuals and companies, they would be nothing!!! I think it’s time for us to cut off their food supply.

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    • encinom
      Posted on August 23, 2012 at 1:06pm

      Who will build the bridges and maintain the roads, what about national defense, or you talking about destroying the military and letting Russia and China divide the world. What about food safety inspectors, or should the meat markets return to what Sinclair reported in the Jungle, body parts of animals and people in the ground meat, unsafe foods sold to the public.

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    • TEIN
      Posted on August 23, 2012 at 1:54pm

      @encinom..You mean the Jungle book that was a piece of propaganda material for need of Unions and Fed food agency (to reflect the world industrial view), based on the internationally ran meat commodity market in Chicago, that Jungle book??

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    • steveh931
      Posted on August 23, 2012 at 2:27pm

      They haven’t forgotten, Amendment 16 is a perfect example of how well they understand it. The willingness of Progressives in Washington, D.C. to put their hands in our pockets anytime they want needs to be stopped, nothing but a bunch of pick pockets helping themselves whenever they see a Progressive cause. Time to take a paddy wagon to Washington and throw all the pick pockets in jail while shutting down all illegal and unconstitutional activities before the Declaration of Independence is lost forever. It will take years to clean up the U.S. Constitution and rid it of the foot prints upon it.

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    • The_Cabrito_Goat
      Posted on August 23, 2012 at 2:57pm

      Highlighting the areas of government we like doesn’t make the detested areas of the government disappear.

      The government that can provide you with everything can take everything away from you. The government that can provide you with clean water can instead provide you with water containing sterilants.

      What’s the solution? People with self responsibility. Build a well, use a filter, and use iodine with your water. We don’t need government.

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    • encinom
      Posted on August 23, 2012 at 3:32pm

      The_Cabrito_Goat
      Posted on August 23, 2012 at 2:57pm

      Highlighting the areas of government we like doesn’t make the detested areas of the government disappear.

      The government that can provide you with everything can take everything away from you. The government that can provide you with clean water can instead provide you with water containing sterilants.

      What’s the solution? People with self responsibility. Build a well, use a filter, and use iodine with your water. We don’t need government.
      _________________
      When the well is poisoned because of unregulated use and dumping of chemicals by corporations (Love Canal), when such unregulated industries dump toxic chemicals in rivers in such vast amounts that they turn flammable (Cuyahoga River), what are your measures going to do? You need the regulatory arm of the Government to keep corporations, whose only mission is profit, to stay honest. You post reeks of denial of this basic truth and the past that created the need for regulations.

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    • PALEHORSE
      Posted on August 23, 2012 at 4:55pm

      @encinom
      The private sector and would do it a much lower cost.

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    • encinom
      Posted on August 23, 2012 at 5:07pm

      Unless the private sector could make a profit, they won’t do it. So unless all roads become toll roads its not going to happen. But then, certain functions of the government should not be about being profitable, police, fire, etc. are not about dollar and cents but about the service provided.

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    • Rpfoster
      Posted on August 24, 2012 at 3:08am

      Ecinom., “certain functions of the Government should not be about being profitable.” Question: where does the Goverment derive any income? What good or service do they sell to collect an income. THEY DON’T! The only income they derive is taxes., taxes on the income of people who work. Don’t give me this crap about building roads and and schools, etc… The roads should be taken care of by the gas tax. Business pay a considerable higher amount based on transportation cost of raw materials and finished goods. School derive there expenses from property taxes. Currently 47% of the American people do not pay income taxes and many of them get money back.

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    • TreeTrimmerJim
      Posted on August 24, 2012 at 3:08am

      Encinom…. Roads are the responsibility of state and local governments. There are interstates because they are needed for national defense. That is why there are long stretches of straight interstates for landing planes, minimum bridge clearances and roadway thickness. There are old military roads to get supplies to forts.

      We have government to do what individuals,communities, counties, states alone can not. Federal government can not enter a state. The Constitution discribes as “among the several states”

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  • cause_glen_said_so
    Posted on August 23, 2012 at 12:47pm

    Just how big of a highway system does he think he could have built on his own? I bet if he got together with some others they could build a bigger highway to benefit each of them. They probably could pool their money and come up with some type of law group, lets call them police for instance. I bet they would not get the smartest of workers without some type of education, bet they could have some mopney go towards that too. Hmmm sounds like they need someone to manage all of this and, I know, lets call it Govenment

    Whoops…back where we started

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    • texaswoman
      Posted on August 23, 2012 at 1:03pm

      By your reasoning, everyone should have a successful business!

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    • BloodSweatandTears
      Posted on August 23, 2012 at 7:26pm

      Try this scenario;

      TARP:

      $700 Billion divided by 350 Million citizens = $2 Billion per man, women, and child.

      Personally I think I could build. protect, and educate my own village with an average $8 Billion dollars per family. Instead we scape by and the bankers get bonuses.

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    • bobbo1179
      Posted on August 24, 2012 at 12:40pm

      @Blood, please check your math. You’re calculator is busted

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  • PlaneDoc
    Posted on August 23, 2012 at 12:47pm

    You know Encidiot, if they sold bad food or food that made people sick , they would go out of business on their own…. POTUS wouldn’t claim to have helped then. The gubmint didn’t start their business and have done nothing to help them be successful, but everything to try to stand in their way…. just like every successful business. It is very obvious you are just like this administration, never owned your own business.

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  • Exidor
    Posted on August 23, 2012 at 12:46pm

    I have eaten at Babe’s several times and it is GOOD. The food is home cookling and the people are great. The place is always packed.

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  • The_Cabrito_Goat
    Posted on August 23, 2012 at 12:43pm

    Where there is poultry, there is principle?

    Chicken = freedom?

    If that’s the case, then i say BAWK!

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  • Sirfoldallot
    Posted on August 23, 2012 at 12:40pm

    Luv them 4 this. Rush said there r more morons out there & Obama wants to be there king, lol. this may be very true. Keep teaching the constitution.

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    • jcldwl
      Posted on August 23, 2012 at 12:46pm

      We ate there when in Dallas for Restoring Love and it was fantastic all around, food, atmosphere, service. Wish they would open one here in St Louis.

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  • facilitiesmgr
    Posted on August 23, 2012 at 12:37pm

    Good for them.

    The job of leadership is to help other people bring their level of thinking and performance to a higher level and that is only done through intentional teaching. It sounds like they’re doing a great job at that.

    I don‘t live in Texas but when I am there I will make it a point to go to BABE’S for a meal. I love supporting Biblical-based, principle run companies.

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    • oneshiner
      Posted on August 23, 2012 at 12:51pm

      Can’t wait to go to Texas and find one of their restaurants. Looks great in the photo. Love what they say.
      I can hardly stomach KFC anymore, skinny little chickens, full of breading & greasy.
      God bless Babe‘s and I’m on my way as fast as I can. Morals and value do make a difference in everything. Let‘s start supporting decent people like the ones who run Babe’s.

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  • Sirfoldallot
    Posted on August 23, 2012 at 12:34pm

    Add your comments

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  • angelcat
    Posted on August 23, 2012 at 12:33pm

    THIS is what America is about – not government taking the place of family, religion, and hard work to give to those who may have chosen not to be educated, not to sacrifice, not to work, and not to have a moral code. God bless this family. Since I live in Texas, I would like to take a long ride to visit one of the restaurants. I bet they have awesome chicken fried steak.

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    • BloodSweatandTears
      Posted on August 23, 2012 at 7:32pm

      Whoa -you’re making me think….all those things you mentioned….I’ve never felt. I wonder if it’s just not possible for some people to be any other way as you said….like it’s in the DNA? hmmmmm,,,

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  • Wango
    Posted on August 23, 2012 at 12:32pm

    They want in your wallet. Wake up. Conservative principles have been relegated to cheap marketing tricks by junk food chickenators.

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    • Landon410
      Posted on August 23, 2012 at 12:43pm

      obama want‘s everyone’s wallet, because me having money in my wallet is adding to the deficit according to Obama

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    • Just_Us2
      Posted on August 23, 2012 at 12:52pm

      I have been to Babe’s….awesome food, low prices. Wango, it’s called capitalism. Obama wants in MY wallet so he can support lazy bums like you….I see why you like Obama, but don’t expect those who pay taxes to support your lack of work ethic….and don’t pretend your words carry any weight around here…people on the public dole have no voice in the conversation regarding hard work and ethics.

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    • Sirfoldallot
      Posted on August 23, 2012 at 12:54pm

      @ Wango – if u & the Jerk r a Union couple & with that berad u have does this make u the female in the relationship ?

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    • TEIN
      Posted on August 23, 2012 at 1:08pm

      @Wango…The Libby/Progressive Demo’s want to own the markets, for me not to have a wallet, and to praise them for my daily porridge and crickets while they eat Kobe beef and ribs…just go back to your government provided “living space”…

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    • oneshiner
      Posted on August 23, 2012 at 1:59pm

      Thank you guys for ragging on that Wango, Whata jerk (as opposed to Whataburger)

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  • churchlady
    Posted on August 23, 2012 at 12:30pm

    How I wish we had a place like this in Utah!!!

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    • TEIN
      Posted on August 23, 2012 at 1:11pm

      That is the beauty of the country…create your own!!!

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    • churchlady
      Posted on August 23, 2012 at 1:22pm

      That’s the beauty of our country (used to be)…looked into it, I do not have enough $$$$ and too many regulations. I don’t live in Texas afterall ;)

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    • TreeTrimmerJim
      Posted on August 24, 2012 at 3:36am

      Ecinom…. US Highway 12, the first coast to coast highway started as a dirt road in North Dakota that lead to tourist attraction. The owner of the tourist attraction took it on his own to pave a few miles of it so people would take the road instead of the dusty alternatives. The word got out and people in other parts of the United States did similar work. Later it became US 12.

      As you said when people band together to do something that individually they can not they do so by giving up certain enumerated rights for the synergy of the band/community/government. We copied this idea from the Anglo-Saxon’s of the 5th century. Successful organizations are based on individuals, then small groups with a like purpose, groups of groups etc… Hence all our nations power comes first from We the People of the United States in Order to form a more perfect Union….

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  • tfmkeller
    Posted on August 23, 2012 at 12:29pm

    If Obama want to take the credit for building the Business….then he should also take credit for the fact that 90% of the new businesses fail in the first year……OK Barrack…….are you going to accept the failures too…….

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    • DarkJello
      Posted on August 23, 2012 at 12:35pm

      Silly, that would be Bush’s fault! Every lib spent hours to memorize that excuse.

      Also, probably some racism involved…

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  • 13th Imam
    Posted on August 23, 2012 at 12:29pm

    I see the crushing bootheel of the IRS on their throats.

    MMMmmmmm Fried Chicken

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  • encinom
    Posted on August 23, 2012 at 12:25pm

    Of course, he can trusted the standards of the food he serves because unlike the late 1800′s and early 1900s, today there is a FDA to inspect production. His supplies and customers arrive via a highway system paid for by State and Federal tax dollars. the majority of his staff learned to read in State and Federal tax dollar paid for schools.

    While he did build his business, you is profiting off of the investments made by the tax payers in the infrastructure need to make the business successful. The taxes he pays funds the infrastructure, again no man is an island unto themselves.

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    • SBR308
      Posted on August 23, 2012 at 12:43pm

      Your stupidity is beyond belief. Follow your messiah off the cliff in Nov.

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    • Jaycen
      Posted on August 23, 2012 at 12:53pm

      Those State and Federal tax dollars came from us, not from the magical “State and Federal Tax Dollar Fairy”.

      I’m not sure how you think all of this works, but the State and Federal Government are not benificent dictators who love their subjects. They TAKE from us, so that they can GIVE to others. These efforts weren’t free, nor were they voluntary at any step in the chain.

      1. Turn on brain.
      2. Shift brain from Neutral to 1st gear.
      3. Enjoy the sensation of thinking.

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    • jcldwl
      Posted on August 23, 2012 at 12:56pm

      Right and the government came up with the idea and structure of the business and put in all the money, sweat, and tears to make the business a success. As well as endured all the stress that goes with running the business. Not to mention the government makes sure to provide the great customer service you receive when you go to the business. And I think when I was there I saw the government was even in the kitchen cooking the great food. Planedoc you are correct Encinom is an idiot.

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    • Just_Us2
      Posted on August 23, 2012 at 12:59pm

      Nothing existed until roads and bridges were built? Government serves the people, not the reverse unless you are living off the government like Encinom. The rich do not need people like you Encinom and they don’t need the government and they certainly do not need to live in this country. The fact that they choose to do so is because of a welcoming business environment. Create hostility, and face having no one to fund your drug habit. Think before you speak Encinom….you may soon run out of houses to rob.

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    • encinom
      Posted on August 23, 2012 at 1:02pm

      @Jaycen, let me know when you think for yourself, instead of repeating the lies of Beck.

      Could this business owner build the roads, staff the schools and inspect food producers? Is he not receiving a benefit from these and other governmental services? Is there not a police force to protect his business, a court system to settle legal disputes. When he deposits money in banks, are their not regulations and federal insurance programs to protect his savings.

      This lie of the Republicans prays on the ignorance of the tea party and the fools in tri-corner hats.

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    • texaswoman
      Posted on August 23, 2012 at 1:05pm

      “you is profiting’? Looks like my tax dollars were wasted on your education! Again, by your logic, we should all have our own successful business!

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    • TEIN
      Posted on August 23, 2012 at 1:36pm

      @Encinom…just another fool trying to rewrite history…the township my grandfather help settle built their roads and infrastructure’s…my father and grandfather were educated by individuals paying for a school master…The business my grandfather started was him picking up eggs from rural farms and then taking the eggs to a market for retail buyers on roads built by county citizens…At that time there was no FDA, very few federal agency’s, and no personal income tax….I know my and my countries history, DON’T CHANGE IT!!!!

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    • encinom
      Posted on August 23, 2012 at 2:43pm

      TEIN
      Posted on August 23, 2012 at 1:36pm

      @Encinom…just another fool trying to rewrite history…the township my grandfather help settle built their roads and infrastructure’s
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      You proved my point, the Township, the local government, not any one person built the infrastructure. Of course the local roads contact to large state and interstate roads. You are the fool ignoring the truth and believing lies and myths. You say you know your history, tell me about the blood spilled by union brothers for 5 day work weeks and fair wages, how many women were killed by the greed of sweat shop owners in unsafe factories, how many children were denied an education to work in dark mines. Labor improvements to address these issues, the capitalist sent Pinkerton and other private armies of thugs to stop, are thanks to Federal laws that ensured the safety of the workers and of the products sold. Learn your history you old fool, not the myths your masters want to blind you with.

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    • The_Cabrito_Goat
      Posted on August 23, 2012 at 3:04pm

      Yes, that happened. But nowadays, we have just north of a bajillion laws (conservative estimate) to prevent those kinds of things from happening.

      But there came a point for companies where more energy and money were allocated towards complying with arbitrary government standards rather than satisfying the needs of the consumer.

      If you truly were for the little guy, you would help him get better access to food by relaxing all the restrictions that go along with making it.

      Of course in your reality, this translates to “maggot infested stew! Rotten beef!” but only an A-HOLE business owner would sell expired food to a consumer. Unless, he wanted to go out of business.

      That is why the free market works. Because it can easily regulate it’s self. Same with free speech. Remember super size me? That shockumentary about mcdonalds? The movie turned attention to the unsavory sides of the fast food business.

      And as a result, they changed their ways. It did not take the nanny state to come in and enforce happy meals, it only took a 30-something year old guy with a camera crew to help the consumers of America better understand the food they consume.

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    • TEIN
      Posted on August 23, 2012 at 3:37pm

      @encinom…. Are you really that deluded??? The PEOPLE of the township got together and built things!!! There was no GOVERNMENT!! The city was not incorporated!!! There was no tax base to build anything!!! IT WAS INDIVIDUALS that built the infrastructure not GOVERNMENT!!! And I know this will be hard for you to wrap your mind around,, but he built his own house without a permit!!! And the road leading to property??? Yes he built that as well!!! There are no UNION work hours for making a living, he and my father worked for and prospered themselves!! Get out of your socialist/communist bubble!!!

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    • TEIN
      Posted on August 23, 2012 at 3:42pm

      Sorry for the rant @encinom…it is not your fault that you had the Libby/Progressive reeducation system to form your view of the USA….I have just seen and lived in a way that seems is forgotten….

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    • encinom
      Posted on August 23, 2012 at 3:43pm

      @The_Cabrito_Goat
      Too much faith in a free market. While the free market will regulate the small mom and pop shop, it has little or no effect on the multi-national corporation. If it wasn’t for the EPA and federal regulations, do you thing BP would of attempted to clean up the Gulf Spill? The history of the love canal says they wouldn’t. Miners today are at a greater risk of dying in non-union mines than mines that are union run. http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/local/region/are-union-mines-safer-243008/

      History doesn’t support your Ayn rand inspired myth of the all powerful free market. Even Adam Smith acknowledged the need for government oversite and regulations.

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    • Lordcsmith
      Posted on August 23, 2012 at 5:18pm

      Well, the federal road and highway system was developed by Eisenhower to move troops around the country in case of a soviet invasion, not to move chicken to restaurants. It was an extension of the military. When it was realized what it would take to maintain the roads for military use, they struck a deal with the states to upkeep them. The citizens get to use them in return for their taxes to upkeep them. Local governments build surface streets and they mostly paved over the roads created by individual property owners. You would know this if you have ever purchased a large tract of land, say 100 acres give or take. You have to pay personally for that road to be constructed on your property, same with power lines and sewage. In the case of neighborhoods and commercial districts, the roads are constructed by developers. Street lights are paid by local businesses to get traffic to stop in front of their stores. It cost my business 100,000 to have one put in. Actually, government does very little road building, just maintenance by paying union thugs 30 dollars an hour to gather around one guy with a shovel. As for the schools, they are compulsory. No one is given a choice about school. John Taylor Gatto was able to point out that using military literacy recruitment tests from 1900 to present day, Americans are just plain getting dumber. And guess which political party and the largest union has had sole control of the Department of Education since its inception?

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    • TreeTrimmerJim
      Posted on August 24, 2012 at 3:41am

      Encinom… our nation’s history supports the power of free enterprise… Your buddy Karl Marx came up with ism term, capitalism. Free Enterprise is based on educated people.

      “If a nation expects to be ignorant & free, in a state of civilisation, it expects what never was & never will be.” ~ Thomas Jefferson, January 6, 1816

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  • hi
    Posted on August 23, 2012 at 12:23pm

    Okay. Now I’m starving and my mouth is watering….signing off.

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on August 23, 2012 at 12:44pm

      I’m with HI on that. Fortunately I have some chicken and potatoes in the oven right now.
      On another note, I expect the next Chick-Fil-A moronic attack wave to strike this family next. They after all did confess to being Christian.

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