Young Madison Socialist Reveals Popular ‘Noodles & Company‘ Restaurant Is Actually Harsh ’Dictatorship’
- Posted on February 28, 2011 at 11:02pm by
Meredith Jessup
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Don’t be deceived. Noodles & Company may look like a friendly neighborhood “fast casual” restaurant, but there is something much more sinister going on.
Their menu items look tempting. The Bangkok Curry might be a good choice:
The nationwide chain has several locations in Madison, Wisconsin. One young socialist, Rob Lewis, who is involved in the protests around Madison is now blowing the lid off the real story.
The videomaker notes:
Aaron Kennedy, the founder of Noodles, grew up on a farm with few to no connections to money. Like my friend Rob, Kennedy also studied at the University of Wisconsin. At 29, while eating at a Chinese restaurant, Kennedy had an idea, and scribbled his business plan on a napkin.
Scraping some money together from his friends and family and maxing out eight credit cards, Kennedy opened the first Noodles in his basement, and then put together a team with whom he’d build and operate 100 Noodles branches all on their own. It is now a $75 million franchise with 240 locations in 18 different states, providing jobs to over 3,000 employees just like Rob. This is what the American Dream looks like.
Under Lewis’ vision, however everything Kennedy has worked for would be taken away from him. The status he has earned for himself through his achievements would be reduced to that of one filling out an application for the very business he built from the ground up. Perhaps my imagination is limited, but I at the moment I cannot imagine a greater humiliation. This is what socialism looks like.
The discussion of the workplace horror at Noodles begins at 3:38 in the following clip.
Warning: Video contains graphic language. Viewer discretion advised.
For more on the International Socialist Organization (ISO) protesting with unions and other leftist groups, click here.
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Comments (631)
thechange
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 12:41amI just love that the whole video was ended with a beautiful capitalist moment. Perfect. It was sad for me to watch this kid. How does this happen? I know how it happened…….it just makes me sad.
Report Post »zteater
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 12:40amI lol‘d at Rob’s capitalism @ 6:35.
Report Post »royalstar
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 12:40amNo wonder you never see any socialist businesses run on these sick principles and class envy ideas. You just want to dumn down the system and destroy competition so your sub par bs can compete. Then everything will be subpar and 3rd worldish. You socialist are even sicker and evil than I ever imagined. A cathartic experience for me as well.
Report Post »A REPLY TO CATHARSIS
silentwatcher
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 12:40amto Cather
Wow, are you ever messed up in the head….you actually believe that you are owed (other than a paycheck) for your job efforts. I would argue with you on your thinking,,,,but I would have to lay down on the ground to stoop to your intelligence level,,,,,and my chair is too comfortable and you give me a headache.
Report Post »MJustice
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 7:57pmI’ve tried arguing with these types before….they don’t get it and never will. They are literally mentally ill. You can have them agreeing to and seeing everything you say as fact, but the next day they are right back where they started but refuses to discuss it further. You’re just wrong…they don’t know why…but you are…they just know it. Years later you find them on welfare, unable to find anyone who will hire them for longer than a few weeks or in jail for one reason or another.
Report Post »sandy21957
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 12:38amwhat an amazing idjiot…….fails to comprehend ownership and business model = sucess. I’d say his nonsensical ramblings would be classified as insubordination and grounds for termination. Maybe he should move to Cuba or North Korea, can’t think of any other communist-style economies he can be part of….
Report Post »Chris G
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 12:34amI hope his boss gets to see this video….& make him scrub the parking lot w/ a toothbrush!
Report Post »WAR PIGS CRAWLING
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 12:33am(To quote the movie Billy Madison)…Mr. Madison, [insert Rob Lewis] what you’ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
Billy Madison (1995) -Universal Pictures
Report Post »Waltermelon
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 12:56amYea, that was a great line.
Report Post »Chuck Biscuits
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 12:33amCathairball: commerce involves three agents of production: labor, capital, and entreprenuerial coordination. The capitalist employer provides two of those agents (in a small business more frequently all three), and assumes all of the risk of the venture. Who you describe as a thief I consider to be a hero.
Report Post »sandy21957
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 12:31amOMG can communist women get more B U T T ugly? There’s a group of scary dudes that by their own doctrines of eugenics should not be allowed to breed…….
Report Post »rojotx
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 12:28amnoddles unite! :)
Report Post »KINGRUDDY
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 12:25amThis is the attitude of all the bs going around the world, listen to this dude, he will change the restuarant he WORKS at because they tell him what to cook, when to be there, blah, blah, blah, what a clueless sheep, he has been brainwashed. Where did this mind set come from, proof that liberalism is a disease. He wants to form a union at the cost of somones own blood, sweat and tears, and tell the owner how to run his business, guess what, start your own business.
Report Post »This kids montra is not what makes USA a great country, we never win, WWII with youth like this.
Scary!!!
Contrarian51
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 12:24amYou forgot the part about who put their capital at risk to start the business in the first place. It’s a pretty important part of the process.
Report Post »nemphro
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 12:24amwhat a bunch of fruitcakes, yes noodles is a dictatorship u moron, its called a job. y do we surround ourselves with such blatant boobs?
Report Post »Chuck Biscuits
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 12:23amWhen I was in college in the 1970′s I tried to be a radical, then I realized all the radical chicks were butt-ugly, so I became a conservative. I see nothing’s changed.
Report Post »Iwillstandwithu
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 4:54pmhahahahahaha
Report Post »Red Max
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 12:01pmIt’s also the same burnt out hippies teaching the same thing 35 years later.
Report Post »Contrarian51
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 12:19amNice grip on reality, kid. How proud your parents must be. He had no clue that selling his magazine was classic capitalism.
And Mr. Imgrogno’s eloquence is second to, well, everything.
What a pack of losers.
Report Post »Waltermelon
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 12:17amTake your collectivism, and build your very own eurocracy somewhere else.
Report Post »Sjah
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 12:17amlol I love how a capitalistic exchange occurred at the very end of the video.
Report Post »Freefromyou
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 12:32amI was just thinking the same thing. I am sure the magazine was made with his input, for which he was made to explain to the collective exactly how it was that he could best provide for its creation only then did the collective allow his labour to provide a benefit.
Report Post »Conservative New Yorker
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 12:47amThat was TOO funny! The irony of the exchange was completely lost on this kid.
Report Post »Patrickj28
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 1:47amDOWN WITH CAPITALISM!!!! That’ll be 5 bucks please… LOL
Report Post »oldguy49
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 12:15ami would LOVE to see how these people would like the world they invision…….standing in long lines to get a roll of tollet paper -finding no bread at the store- no heat in the winter and no ac in summer…………………..oh! they already did that in the soviet union{UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLIC}
Report Post »Jabber
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 9:42pmBut that couldn’t possibly have really happened! Surely the Soviet people ALL came together and produced bounteous bread for everyone! And no one had to stand in line because everyone had equal amounts of everything! And they could not have desired toilet paper because that would have meant cutting down trees and having vile factories produce it while polluting the environment!
Are you sure that the Soviet Union (oooooooh…..a UNION) wasn’t a beautiful, harmonious, bountiful, equality based society in which everyone’s needs were met and all benefited in exactly the same degree?
Report Post »Waltermelon
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 12:14amLol, its called a job. I sincerely hope that noodles fires him at the first legal opportunity…
Report Post »silentwatcher
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 1:16amto CATHARSIS,,,
Just one question for you…If I have one hundred dollars in my savings account and you have ten……according to socialistic views,,,,,,do I have to give you forty-five dollars to make things even????
seriously,,,,I would like to know your answer on this one please?
Report Post »KenInIL
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 12:13amSo what is preventing him from getting a group of socialists together and starting a restaurant?
Report Post »silentwatcher
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 12:33amnobody wants to be declared the owner and told what they have to do.,
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 1:04amNobody will pay money for gruel.
Report Post »franknshadow
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 1:42amYeah, a group of socialists running a restaurant, exercising their own free will, unconstrained by rules laid down by some dictatorial “owner.” They can all cook what they want and then when their customers show their preference for one cook over another, which could only happen because of unfair advantage to be sure, then that cook can just work more, for the general success and welfare of all the “workers,” involved, and split the profits equally with all of them.. Even the ones that can’t cook worth a damn and have no customers, because ability and hard work are an unfair advantage..
Report Post »338lapua
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 6:35amA thought just popped into my coffee starved brain. In this country we do have tiny examples of functioning collectivist type businesses. They are called co-op’s. By doing business with one, I become a partial owner and every year I begin to recieve patronage(a check) if a profit was realized. For the long term I also recieve shares of stock which increases my stake in the business doing well. Because I now feel empowered by my ownership, I do more business with the co-op increasing my patronage and my ownership……Just like a perfectly running socialist system right?? Oh wait….socialism fails everywhere it is tried. Oh well, I love my co-op! I guess it isn’t like socialism after all.
Report Post »Jabber
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 9:32pmKENINIL said: “So what is preventing him from getting a group of socialists together and starting a restaurant?”
Well…let’s see.
First: someone would have to organize a meeting so they could all give their input. That would mean someone had to be “in charge”, and socialists don’t believe in anyone being in charge.
Second: There would have to be investment money presented in order to purchase the items needed to run a business, and socialists don’t have any money because the capitalists have it all. Not to mention they couldn‘t purchase anything for their restaurant that isn’t owned by every other restaurant.
Third: It’s really, REALLY, hard to run a restaurant all the “partners” (“makers”) come and go as they please and serve whatever they want to, when they want to serve it. Customers-even Socialist ones I assume-kind of like to know what is on the menu, when it’s available, and expect it to be served to them in an expedient manner in exchange for their money. It’s also impossible currently to grow food, cook food, eat food, or serve food without impacting the environment in at least one or two non-harmonious ways.
I’d love to ask Catharsis about something he/’she said. “Under communism, the whole of society will be the “owners” of the means of production, and will produce in the interests of all people in harmony with the environment. ”
*What happens when “the whole of society” refuses to participate in the “production”? Do they still get to benefit just like the “owners” who are doing all the work? Or will they only get the “crumbs” left over after the active owners have equally distributed everything else? (evil!) Or do you just kill them off/let them starve/or ignore them? If I don’t have to do any of the “work” but still get paid as an “owner” count me in! If I DO have to work then:
*What if I don’t want to be an “owner” of the means of production? Will I be FORCED to own stuff I don’t want to own? Will I be forced to “produce” in a job/field I don’t want to work in?
*What happens when “the whole of society” cannot produce “in the interests of all people”? If no one is “in charge”-then who determines whether my interests are being met or not met?
*Define what “in harmony with the environment” means. Just exactly what can “the whole of society produce” without affecting the environment? There could be no factories. No buildings. No breathing. No farming. No eating. No population growth. ALL of those things have a negative “affect on the environment”.
But then again, in the world you envision, bunny rabbits poop chocolate drops and leafy trees grow lollipops, and we all dance around in flowing clothing playing our lutes from dusk until dawn.
Report Post »Jabber
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 10:13pmTo 338LAPUA-
You are correct. It isn’t like socialism at all….which is why it works.
“Cooperative: a jointly owned commercial enterprise (usually organized by farmers or consumers) that produces and distributes goods and services and is run for the benefit of its owners”
Sounds an awful lot like CAPITALISM to me hon.
“Capitalism: an economic system whereby goods and services are exchanged on a for-profit basis”
“By doing business with one, I become a partial owner and every year I begin to recieve patronage(a check) if a profit was realized. For the long term I also recieve shares of stock which increases my stake in the business doing well. Because I now feel empowered by my ownership, I do more business with the co-op increasing my patronage and my ownership”
Yep. Definitely the description of “investing” in a “for profit” business. What you keep calling “patronage” and profit-most people refer to as CAPITAL. And the more CAPITAL you collect, and reinvest, and the more shares of stock you obtain-the more of a CAPITALIST you are. :)
Report Post »boblo1957
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 12:13amYou got it ass backward commie, yea you don‘t do WHAT I TELL YOU you’re fired!
taz1668210
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 3:27pmyour right boblo1957 its CALLED A JOB KID.
Report Post »Carl1
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 12:12amI think his noodle is under cooked…. Just another liberal / socialist that don’t want to work for a living.
Report Post »franknshadow
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 1:52amHonestly Carl, don’t you understand the universe according to this froot loop, and CATHARSIS.. You see, businesses, factories, stores etc. are just out there, functioning away with a bunch of, “workers,” working away when some rich people swoop in and take all the money.. Thats how it works right?? Risk has nothing to do with it?? Responsibility has nothing to do with it?? Investment has nothing to do with it right??
Socialists are fools.. Ignorant idealistic fools whose mantra is, ” they’re so uninformed.” Excuse me, my eyes are bleeding..
Report Post »Tek
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 12:06amIt must be incredible to be so delusional!
Report Post »Lesterp
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 8:57amWhat is incredible is these people need to go to classes to learn what to think. Real people learn by experience. Losers the whole lot!
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 12:05amThese people are diabolical.
Report Post »Has anyone in this generation read “Animal Farm”?
Sjah
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 12:08amProbably not many kids these days dont get allegorical stories and we don‘t have the soviets for a reference anymore so they don’t get it. Sad just sad
Report Post »KenInIL
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 12:17amThis guy has obviously never had to sell anything to reach a goal or worked on comission. If he were a server at the restaurant he would understand that. A server’s tip depends on service: poor service=no tip; excellent service and a smile=30%.
Report Post »lketchum
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 12:24amI know young people in their early 30′s whom have never in their lives read a single book.
Many are good young people, with specific skills, but precious few have the ability to communicate well. They do not think critically, because they do not think much at all, and they state as much – that thinking about things tires them and that they have chosen not to participate in our democratic way of life, because it upsets them. I think that many never learned that all of life is hard and that it requires constant effort.
Report Post »silentwatcher
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 12:29amI doubt it……after listening to the so-called ‘reasoning’ of that kid on the video,,,,I doubt very seriously he has the mental capacity to even understand it. Wow……………
Report Post »woodyb
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 1:32am@ KENINIL –
With extremely poor service, I leave a couple of pennies, because I want the server to know I am not completely ignorant of the concept of tipping. With OUTSTANDING service, I have left 50% on full dinners for my wife and myself!!!
Some say “you get what you pay for”, while I say “you pay for what you get”!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »walkwithme1966
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 2:52amI feel like I woke up and someone changed everything – nothing makes sense anymore and half the world is going crazy!! So now I am in shock and have no idea what to do! http://wp.me/pYLB7-I5
Report Post »338lapua
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 6:25amI am certain @catharsis didn’t!
Report Post »EP46
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 8:30amLike uh dude….do you mean he does not want everyone to have a government income….which I am sure he has figured out would be far, far below the current poverty level in the U.S. Dude, he is just saying he wants to live his life in the poorest, lowest, most decadent style possible. Dude, he only wants people to starve and die….but maybe if they have enough ‘nose candy’ they will not be aware when their dream comes true.
Report Post »earthrise
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 1:05pmFortunately this one is not a product of this “generation”. i‘m old enough to know better AND I’ve not “contributed” any offspring to said generation. if i had then i’d have done the same for my offspring that my father did for me…. long/short; apply his size 12 (mine is a 13, lmao…) to the appropriate orafice. he was firm but fair and I am the better for it.
i am happy to report that I have read the book……. ;) (there are still a few of us in this world with a bit of a clue.)
Report Post »illannoy
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 6:17pmTo Stoic One and also DKidcat: You may have forgotten that most of today’s children cannot read. By the time they get “passed through” to high school, they’re reading at 5th and 6th grade level if at all.
We’ve been told by Our Leader that every person is entitled to a college education, and this doofus has obviously made good use of his. Animal Farm? He simply wouldn’t get it. Neither would that harpy who believes that NOW is the time for revolution. Shet’s probably Catharsis. Or maybe the grey haired guy with the enchanting accent is Catharsis. All theory and no sense.
Report Post »N37BU6
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 12:03amI lol’d heartily.
Report Post »avgconservative
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 12:19amWhy don’t these people just leave? They hate the country the way it is, I’m sure Castro brothers, or Putin, or any other socialist country would love to have them. Just leave America alone. The majority of people love this country. YOU GUYS are going to ruin it with your Godlessness and stupidity.
Report Post »silentwatcher
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 12:27amShame on you Noodles,,,,,didn’t you know when you built your business that the people you hired were supposed to tell you what to do, that they make the decisions, and you have no input on how to run your business? Oh never mind…..I can’t play this anymore. I don‘t believe that I have heard of anything more stupid than what came out of that kids mouth regarding ’noodles’ and how they tell them what to do in their job. I also find that what the ‘kid’ was saying was offensive to the intelligence.
Ah, I get it,,,,join the union and then you have the ‘power’ to not work, come and go as you please, and just do whatever you please. What a dunce……..and with a load of steaming manure…………….
Report Post »Catharsis
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 12:29amTo repost a simple concept: Socialists want to create fewer takers by eliminating the social parasitic layer that just usurps everyones wealth and sits on it, creating financial catastrophes with their criminal games on wall street. Socialists want to create a society where everyone is a maker, and equally shares in the product of their social wealth, according to a democratic plan they have decided on themselves.
Socialism is not equal to welfare. Socialism is workers’ democratic self control of the economy.
Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 12:32amNoodles is an evil Dictatorship, we should lobby the UN to have Fudruckers and Red Robin to invade them, take down the fry cook, and then, equal noodles for everyone (Ramon). Then we need to go after that King, no more Burger King, down with the Tyranny.
The Clown and McDonalds and Jack in the Box are just puppet regimes for the biggest tyrannt of all, Jerod for Subway. He runs it all underground and gets you fat, just to work the pounds off again. Back and forth for what, just his entertainment?
We need to round all these dictators up, free the Fry cooks, the window workers, and the moppers, let them be free, then, Happy Meals for everyone, except without the fatty good food, and more like sticks and apples.
Report Post »Then we can all be equally poor, unhappy, and hungry. But we would all be equal. (sarcasm off)
13th Imam
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 12:38amKid is in for a rude awakening when he leaves the city of Shangri-la. If the owner doesn’t agree with us well,,,,, Hey Dipstick, come try and board my sailboat. you will be hoping a friendly dolphin happens by.Thank God for the young people I know, most are military and would swat this gnat like the pest he is.
Report Post »silentwatcher
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 12:42amCathsis
you have this ‘you owe me attitude’ that defies any logic. A business OWNER creates jobs,,,,and not with any thugs telling them they have to share the profits. What are you, the mafia?
Get an education if you want to make more money.
Fuul Aluuf
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 12:43amI say we all go to work for that crappy ISR magazine and when they don’t let us publish whatever articles we want, we unionize, take control from the ISR masters and burn the whole thing to the ground.
You gotta love his ideas for Noodles though… every employee gets to cook whatever they want? That sounds like heaven for a minimum wage employee but that’s not really what happens, in the end… once the workers take over, then the most powerful of the workers gets voted as their leader, who looks a lot like the old boss… It all works fine as long as people are eating there. But the liberated employees only “choose” to cook Ramen noodles and they “voted” for $100k salaries, so suddenly the business starts to fail. It then either goes one of two ways:
1) they all go home and get new jobs and try the same stupid thing all over again (cause they don’t learn from history) or
2) The new boss doesn’t want the business to close because he likes his new found power, so when implements reforms and a few of the employees start to object… “hey, I dont want to work hard.. ” WHACK! the newly appointed enforcers take them out to ensure that all the other workers just do what they’re told. Its time to work for the common good, and the common good is better served by employees that just shut up and cook Noodles the way the boss says! In fact, its even better if the new slaves make noodles 16 hours a day and no pay – for the Common Good! Welcome to Socialism. Then when it is finally burned to the ground some day, the ones left alive all go home and get new jobs and try the same stupid thing all over again (cause they don’t learn from history)
Report Post »silentwatcher
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 12:45amI guess that if I hire someone to help me bring in the hay and corn,,,,,according to their lame logic,,,,I have to share the profits with them!! Wow, what lameness. Guess what, lameness,,,,it ain’t happening.
Report Post »silentwatcher
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 12:46amWhat happens when someone is out in the back of the school jokin‘ and smokin’ instead of getting an education………….
DVT
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 12:49amDidnt that nutter in Arizona rant like this? Could we be seeing the preview of another shooting?
naed5048
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 12:51amOK blaze, you are a dictatorship, sure you have comments, but we have no input on the stories you run,, shame shame change your evil ways now!
Report Post »watchtheotherhand
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 12:53amWeeeell obviously, we got a freakin idiot up in Wisconsin park, they be climbin‘ in your windows snatchin’ all your businesses up. So hide your keys, hide your money, aaaaand hide your homes too, cause they be snatchin’ everthing up in heeree……………….. I love how this freakin’ idiot just assumes control over someone else business that they started and graciously would allow him to be an equal as long as he was useful. Is the dude reefer surfin or is this just lack of intelligence. This is a perfect example of liberalism/socialism thought process. This guy is simply to stupid to try and mask it with more PC disguised language.
Report Post »silentwatcher
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 12:54amBut then,,,,going by their (il)logical explanations of how it should be….
I think I’ll take a job on an oil drilling rig……wow, I can be rich in a day!!!
Report Post »Mannax
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 12:55amWere I the owner of Noodles, and I saw this… this idiot would be fired. Sorry bud, but if you think I am running a dictatorship, then I am deporting you to try to find a socialistic business you can work at. Come back when you wake up to the real world.
Report Post »silentwatcher
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 12:57amaaahhhhhhh….hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah
Report Post »silentwatcher
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 12:59amsorry Blazers,,,,,,but their thinking is so…..unbelievable that I absolutely cannot stop laughing and posting.
ok,,,,calm maintained…
aaahhhhhhhh……..hahahahahahahahahahhahaha
TurnRight
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 1:04amHey! I’m not smart enough to create a business of my own, so I‘m here to take what’s yours.
His parents must be so proud.
Catharsis
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 1:05amUnder capitalism, society is governed by a handful of rich elites who exploit the working class in order to extract profits. They are not concerned with what or how they produce commodities, as long as these bring them a profit. They have developed the state – bodies of armed men; the laws, courts, prisons, military, police – in order to preserve their privileged position. Under communism, the whole of society will be the “owners” of the means of production, and will produce in the interests of all people in harmony with the environment. Unchecked capitalism, or laissez faire, is inherently unsustainable and will ultimately lead to the exploitation of the working class.
CatB
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 1:12amLet me guess … Liberal arts major …. ??? LOL … what a maroon
Report Post »silentwatcher
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 1:13amto Catharsis
You mean ‘Noodles’ is guilty of all that for selling cooked food to the public?
Report Post »Catharsis
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 1:14amThe modern working class are the ones who really run the factories and businesses on a day to day basis, they are the ones who produce the wealth of society collectively. Yet they do not really share in the reward for their efforts. Sure they may receive a few crumbs in the form of bonuses and minor raises, but this is nothing compared to the ‘bonuses’ the capitalists get (it is not uncommon for corporate CEOs to get multi-million dollar ‘Christmas bonuses’!). What is needed is for this wealth to be distributed among those who actually produce it.
CatB
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 1:14amNO CATHARSIS
Under Capitalism .. you too can become rich .. just ask many many self made people in the country … if you are willing to take a chance, have a good idea, and work hard ….which is why socialists are such losers.
silentwatcher
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 1:26amto CATHARSIS,,,
let me ask you a question…If I have one hundred dollars in my savings account and you have ten……according to socialistic views,,,,,,do I have to give you forty-five dollars to make things even????
seriously,,,,I would like to know your answer on this one please?
Report Post »silentwatcher
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 1:34amI guess Catharsis ran away and hid.
Report Post »dr_funk
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 1:44amCatharsis has been duped.
Socialism only exists in practice by reducing everyone in society to the level of the lowest, poorest, least productive member of society. Anyone under socialism who works harder than that lowest, poorest, least productive member of society is crazy.
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 1:46am@ Catharsis
and the dumb kid….
I can tell from your comments that your head is fill with things a dog would not eat and a cat would want to cover up. Some where in your past life someone filled your head with buzzard vomit.
Report Post »WhatTheHuh
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 1:50amNot sure where he studied history, but he must have been out the day they discussed all the times socialism has failed miserably.
These people are truly useful idiots. I had to stop watching when he started complaining how it was unfair that he had to work at a place that told him what to do, when to come in, what to cook, etc. Uh, that’s how a business works! How does he think it’s going to work under a socialistic society? In that case it will be the government telling him what to do, and you know what? He won’t be able to quit that job. How ironic that he works at a noodle company, when apparently he has no noodle in his head.
Report Post »paperpushermj
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 2:05amThis is what happens when you give kids trophies for showing up. He has such an exaggerated sense of who and what he is. Him taking orders from someone else, he could not handle the thought that he is just an employee. He needs to elevate himself to an equal position with the owner. The scary thing is that he is not alone.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 2:17am@Catharsis ~
To repost a simple concept:
Workers are the employed.
There are union workers and non-union workers.
Unions have no business in government, fire departments, or police departments because they are paid with taxpayers’ dollars and have protections under the merit or civil service.
The socialists ARE the takers via unions and union dues. The union members’ pensions are bankrupting America; union members are all about money, and the union leaders are about nothing but money and control.
Capitalism is about starting a business, hiring people (creating jobs), selling the product, making a profit, returning the profits to the business to expand or improve the operation of the business and create more jobs.
Governments cannot fuel the economy because government does not make a product.
Go peddle your propaganda somewhere else. We don’t buy your Progressive crap.
Report Post »I CHOOSE THE RED PILL MR PRESIDENT
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 2:38amDude.. I’m like uhhhh totally smarter than all you guys… And I want to uhhhhh like find a way uhhhh where I don’t have to like uhhhh, you know, work…. Other people like uhhhh make like way more money than like I do uhhhh and I’m so much smarter. So uhhhh I want to like, uhhhh take their money from them. Because like my worth, uhhhh is so much more than I get credit for. Even though I don’t like uhhhh bathe regularly and I have like uhhh, no interest in learning a skill or a job well done. I think that I should like, uhhhh be able to take whatever I want because uhhhh, I like study Political Science from a really like Communist Professor. I’m special, like uhhhh give me your money…
His parents must be proud…
Report Post »I CHOOSE THE RED PILL MR PRESIDENT
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 2:52amIt‘s a Beggar’s Banquet folks. And the REAL workers, the tax payers are on the menu. Some of those standing in the buffet line? Unions, politicians, corporations who get in bed with the government, and general slackers like this idiot.
Excuse me, but I worked my butt off to get where I am and I‘m proud about that fact and I sure don’t want somebody else’s money. That’s cheating and it kills my accomplishment, self-worth (yes, self-worth comes from what you do, not what you think you deserve) and honor.
Capitalism rules. Only with capitalism can you create a box in your garage, sell it and make billions (Microsoft) or make millions on the “Pet Rock.” I reserve my right to make a ton inventing the next Snuggie or opening the next McDonalds.
Only someone with a limited mind thinks the wealth in the world is limited. It’s out there for anyone to go get. It’s not “bestowed.”
Report Post »quiet little lamb
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 3:38ami hope the owner of noodles sees this and fires the guy. It would be comical if it werent so damn sad
Report Post »staythecourse
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 3:53amidiots. They think they know what revolution is all about. Americans don’t know nothing! And this kid….that is really scary. No thought to what he is saying. No critical thinking about any of it. That is the result of a DOE that is a more interested in indoctrinating kids rather than teaching them to think. Teachers…you too have a thing or two to learn. Grow up and stop bellyaching. The world is more than about you. And …careful of what you are preaching. You might actually get it.
just another brick in the walll……
Report Post »Goobergregory
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 6:09amI hope with all my heart that the owner of his store sees this and makes this little puke’s life a living hell so he will quit. Give him the worst hours or the least hours and make them 2 hours shifts three times a day and then no work for a couple of weeks etc etc etc… He will never BE anything. The guy who gave him this job needs to know what kind of ppond scum he is paying to spew this vitriol… Biting the hand that feeds you can lead to some rancid suppers!
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 6:22amLosers, who have no good ideas of their own, and no initiative or ambition to come up with any, apparently think everyone should dummy down to them, making them the leader of the losers. I think someone should start a fund to send those who are unhappy with this country to the communist country of their choice (one way), with the requirement that they must stay at least 5 years. Also give them living expenses for one month, allowing them time to find a job.
Report Post »Mannax
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 6:25am@CATHARSIS
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 1:52am
Capitalism is not sustainable by its very nature. It is predicated on infinitely expanding markets, faster consumption and bigger production in a finite planet.
Hahahahahaha… Oh wait, you’re serious, let me laugh harder. HAHAHAHAHAHA
No, capitalism is based on the laws of supply and demand. The less of a supply, or the more of the demand, will cause the price will increase. The more supply, or less demand, the price will decrease. It has nothing to do with ever expanding markets. Frankly the government has screwed the free market and capitalism by keeping companies that should have failed afloat.
People learn more from their failures than their successes. When the government refuses to let people fail, they are keeping them ignorant.
Report Post »mickey16
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 7:03am@catharsis
Do you go to restaurants that serve you what they want? If you order ribeye and get boiled tripe, are you going to be happy with that? Study history. Socialism doesn’t work. Who do you think create businesses? The employment fairy? Why don’t you go start a business, pay your employees what ever they want, tell them to do what ever they want, and work as much as they want, whenever they want – and tell us how that works out for you.
loriann12
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 7:17amThat’s so funny. The workplace is a dictatorship? He has choices….he can choose to not work there. He can look for another job or live off his parents. That’s why socialism is so attractive to these people..they can get what they need, and want, without working for it, because the government is supposed to make sure everyone has the same things. That includes the person who busts their butt on the job and the loafer who does nothing. The lowly fry cook shouldn’t be making the business decisions for a restuarant. If he wants to not live under the “dictatorship” of the owner, let him max out 8 credit cards, raise money from his friends and start his own restuarant.
Report Post »diesel49
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 7:25amI have an idea for this jerk, put him in a room with the rest of his moron friends, then show them what the commies are really like. Machinegun half or them, then shot half of the remander in the head with pistols, then the rest will be good little commies. and if they rebel then they just disappear. Oh wait thats N.Korea.
Report Post »ishka4me
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 7:42amyoung socialist that never had a job, he could be president. from the current president, he is qualified
Report Post »kennyg933
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 7:52amI LOL’d too! So, here’s a question: Why are these hobos talking about worker rights? Other than being professional bums, some of them on the dole of the public nickle as ‘professor-bums”, professing to rail against a system they don’t contribute to anyway, what do they DO? What do they envision, design, mine, acquire, smelt, fabricate, assemble, QC, sell, distribute, account for, pay taxes ON? Is utopia like the former Soviet Union, where non-producing men drink for a living and long for capitalism and capitalists to bring purpose and opportunity? Socialism seems like a stupid roundabout way to teach people the lessons that socialism is a failed experiment in how to teach people to do nothing other than want to return to capitalism and have the opportunity to be capitalists. Of course, if getting high and playing the bongos is what you really want to do, socialism can bring an unemployed and bored audience to your sit in and maybe they’ll barter something with you for your CD/Weed/T-shirt, but that’s about all I can see as a benefit of socialism. Party-ON, Socialist Party! Here’s MY t-shirt idea- “I bought weed at the socialist rally with dollars I earned in my capitalist career.”
Report Post »Xcori8r
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 8:02amWhere’s Joe McCarthy when you really need him?
Report Post »Sinista Mace
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 8:08amLol.
Report Post »obfuscatenot
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 8:11amWow, scary……..advocating MOB rule! Do they understand their jobs in the horrible capitalistic system in the USA is better than most of the jobs in the world? Soooo, when we are globalized their wages will go down?!?! Workers of the world unite. Geez….
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 8:39amCATHARSIS, are you kidding sweetie? I really think you need to brush up on your history and look at the way citizens of communist countries are treated. You would really like to work for the government, doing a job you may hate, earning next to nothing with no choices whatsoever? You enjoyed being a child with either school or your parents telling you how to run your life, what you could do and when you could do it? Seriously? You don’t ever want the opportunity to work hard and be rewarded for hard work by making more money? How about you have a really great idea that could make you alot of money and you could help alot of people who truly need it with that money – are you going to give the idea to the government and allow them to make all the money and maybe, or maybe not, they will help the people you wanted to help. Sweetie, I appreciate what you are saying but you haven’t thought this through to the end of your life, which will hopefully be long and prosperouse, helping people at your discretion and not the governments.
Report Post »watchtheotherhand
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 9:02amObviously all you blazers are just arguing with known facts about what CATHARSIS has stated. America, as a capitalistic country, has been the greatest nation in the history of human kind with the highest standard of living that has ever existed. A nation that has produced more charity for other countries including sometimes its enemies than any other in human history. Has beat back communism, fascism, and tyranny with the blood of her sons and then rebuilt the countries she defeated, and has produced more freedom for more people on the globe than all other nations before her combined. It has produced the greatest health care system in human history. Fed itself and most of the world. Provided the most free and liberty rich country with the most representative government that man has ever conceived. So I ask all you conservative blazers on here……How is it that you cannot see America needs to become socialistic/communistic? It seems pretty obvious to me. (sarcasm added for emphasis)
Report Post »TexasCommonSense
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 9:06amIf you don’t like your “dictatorship”, find another job. Until then, the person risking his capital gets to make the decisions about said capital. If you want to be an “equal” to the franchisee, equal him or her in capital investment. Until then, shut up and do what you’re being paid to do.
Report Post »southsik
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 9:08amThis kid is so screwed now. Welcome to the end of your life as you knew it. LOL
Report Post »Failsafe
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 9:13amThey have great Pad Thai, probably because the workers know they’ll be sent to a re-education camp if they screw up.
Report Post »tvr54
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 9:14amLmao
Report Post »Tony
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 9:16amCatharsis
Using your definition of “socialism” there will be no “everyone else’s“ wealth for the the ”elites”, that group the majority of “workers” decide to vilify and demonize, to take and “sit on”. In your world, there are no individual or private property rights. Everything, including the clothes on your back belongs to that mysterious invisible all powerful group called “the workers”. And once the first group of “elites” are destroyed, that all powerful group called “the workers” will then turn on the
next “evil” group, always an easily identified minority, to destroy, and then the next and the next until “utopia” is reached.
Without exception, without one exception, every utopian “socialist” experiment ended with a brutal dictatorship stepping forward to end the chaos. And that is when “Catharsis’ and like minded find out who this “mysterious invisible all powerful” group called the “the workers” really was and the definition of “utopia”.
In the poorest of nations, from Ethiopia to Nepal, the one constant is the lack of individual or personal property rights, without exception.
Report Post »Dkidcat
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 9:49amI thought Animal Farm was required reading in public schools?
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NeoFan
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 9:55amOh so they want everyone to be unemployed and homeless like them.
Report Post »KHolmes
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 10:18amI laughed too, at his capitalist exchange at the end…”that’s how it works.”
Report Post »stogieguy7
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 10:31amThese people are humorous in a way, but if this is allowed to fester, it will eventually result in another civil war. There are too many people in this country who tend to think this way and more and more are being minted in universities each day.
Basically, the resurgence of communism that we thought was dead. The seed that the Soviets planted here in the 1960′s has grown into a large thicket whos tentacles actually reach into the White House. These are scary times.
Report Post »CultureWarriors
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 10:59amI’ve got a couple name changes for that socialist group that would be more apropos …
1) Losers of the World Unite!
or
2) Morons of the World Unite!
My god do these people not have parents raising them? I have never seen a more idiotic bunch of people. Pathetic. If this is what the education system in Wisconsin is producing, fire every teacher they have, because they are totally incompetent!
@avgconservative: The best thing we could possibly do is actually start a fund to pay to move these morons out of the country. Now that’s an investment in our future that would pay real dividends. Imagine how prosperous we would be without the loser liberals draining from the economy. We should export then to our rivals so they can be drain there.
Report Post »ilovethiscountry
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 11:06amCatharsis
Report Post »Under lewis’s plan there would be no Noodles, no job, no money, no group decisions, nothing. Kennedy would not have started the business, butif he did, there would be no quality control so people would have no idea what they would get once they got there and soon the business would have failed. Committees don’t do well when making decisions. If you want this type of life, join a commune. Oh! there are few left because they don’t work.
paperpushermj
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 11:11am@catharis
Report Post »Under communism, the whole of society will be the “owners” of the means of production, and will produce in the interests of all people in harmony with the environment.
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On paper this sounds good. BUT have you ever sat down and talked with someone who has first hand experience walking the walk under Communism…. No didn’t think so
keepthefaith
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 11:17amWow! Is it really possible to be so uneducated? Apparently so. I’m sorry but who are the greedy ones again? The ones who come up with an idea and work hard to make something of themselves or the ones who want to take everything away from the ones who do? I am so glad I homeschool my children. They don’t need to be taught this garbage. YIKES!!! Parents, please teach your children. Help them to see the brainwashing.
Report Post »nothingbuthetruth
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 11:17amTheir Penne Rosa with chicken and Feta is great! The bum who works or not works there is just ticked off becuase they dont take tips.
Report Post »OneFootRandy
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 11:33amProfit is a far more tolerable motivation than raw uncontrolled power. With the capitolistic model, sure you have little fifedoms created by entreprenuers, and if they are extremely successful they become or are absorbed by larger more powerful fifedoms. But their motive is still profit, and our stength as individuals is what fuels their sucess.
Now compare that to the motive of the government class. It seeks to govern, and its sucess is predicated on its power over its governed. The weakness of the individual is the ultimate sucess of the government class, since power, much more so than profits is a finite commodity.
Every relationship is ultimately defined by control. Whom does the individual have more power with, faceless nameless corporations that we can choose to work for or buy from, or to not, or with a government, that provides no option to choose another government.
Socialism is a power mechanism, and its power comes at the expense of its governed, this has been proven time and time again throughout the world, and throughtout history.
Our failure with capitolism is not a result of capitolism, rather the perverted alliance between the corporate class and the governing class. This perversion has been made more and more powerful and the power of the ruling class has been expanded, expanded I might add by the ruling class itself as it expands its influence to a wider and wider representation among the citizenry.
Chief among those perversions is the Federal Reserve. Unlike most of corporate America, the banking class has the ability to steer public policy to its own self interest and at a great expense to the citizenry. The Fed empowering a deficit model for governance most of all benefits the banking industry.
That aside, the lack of contraint and limits on government, the insane concept of granting constitutional rights of collectives such as corporations and unions, the obscene levels of capitol required to have a reasonable chance of victory in the election process all collude to create an unhealthy, even unholy alliance betweem capitolists and the governing class.
Those areas are what we as a nation should be debating and not this stupid idea about a failed philosphy such as socialism,that has ended in nothing but REAL oppresion and evil for its citizens.
colonial10
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 12:53pmThese people are wasting their own time. Jumping on the band wagon. This could be good because after the Islamic jihadist‘s use the unions and these groups to establish power they’ll probably be the first ones called infidels and dealt with. While, us the Tea Party and freedom fighters are fighting for our freedom. The honorable way. He says capitalism is destroying the Earth. Hmmm? Isn’t burning cars and creating violence harm it at a faster rate. Irrational people are not in control of their emotions.
Report Post »Uncle Crusty
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 12:55pmbrainwashed – the lot of them…useless people, serving the enemy of capitalism. how many do they have? the interview with the kid in hallway, did ya’ll catch the loud chanting on the background? sounded like a s__t pile of commies howling in there!
Report Post »Endstatism
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 1:17pmWe should start a project and raise funds for this idea. Offer to pay for the plane tickets and moving costs for socialists and progressives to leave the USA and relocate to the socialist nation of their choice. The one condition would be that they can never come back to the United States. Would there be any takers?
Report Post »VerySeniorCitizen
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 1:28pmYou know, guys, I was listening to Glenn on the radio this morning and (if you also heard) he had a female caller who was delighted to hear him say that (paraphrasing) ‘when you don’t get along with someone, if you disagree with them, if you don’t like them – you should still treat them with love and show them that you care’.
I was delighted to hear hiM say that – but less than 5 minutes later here was dear Glenn, slamming someone of a different faith – and this ‘Noodle guy’. It wasn’t very nice language – ending with a suggestion that these ‘opponents’ os his should be ‘SHOT IN THE HEAD’!
WHY DOESN’T GLENN PRACTICE WHAT HE PREACHES??
Report Post »N37BU6
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 1:34pm@VerySeniorCitizen
I like Glenn, but notice a lot of hypocrisy myself… but I guess it’s just human nature. We all do it.
For instance, he mocked people who believed in Genies. That’s pretty rich coming from someone whose religion was literally pulled out of a hat. And considering that all religions, even atheism are equally absurd when you think about it. Every explanation is a fantastical paradox that relies on the same excuse in the end.
Yes, he has a lot of emotion based bias that’s for sure.
Report Post »Templar Knight
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 1:36pm@Catharsis
You and your commie friends should take your so loved socialist President and go live in an actual communist country like Cuba (which you love so much), China, Russia, or North Korea (Lol). You have no idea what your talking about as Capitalism has made this country great. Socialism has destroyed cities in America such as Detroit. Socialism hasn’t worked in the past such as when the pilgrims first arrived in the Americas. Socialism begets mass murders by corrupt people in power such as the leaders of Unions. The second biggest murderer in history Stalin once called people like you useful idiots which is exactley what you are.
PS:
In case you didn’t know the first biggest murderer in history was Mao, another Communist. Go figure. Care to argue with that Mr. Catharsis
Report Post »dawg of gawd
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 2:09pmIt was the Chik Filet kerfuffle, wasn’t it. That’s what set you off. What’s next, calling cops and firefighters and teachers and nurses lazy whining free loading unionistas? Oh, Rush already did that. Sorry. Continue. On to your next feigned outrage. I’m sure you can dig up footage of some Minute(wo)man getting sent to death row . . . I mean, I‘m sure somebody out there is grading your kid’s algebra test, and they need to be denigrated. Chop Chop!
Report Post »mill
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 2:11pmwow…such unhappy people. they should go over and meet people in south america, asia , middle east, etc..that really understand oppression.
darn that noodles…they tell them when to get there, how to do things the way they want to, imagine that. we laughed as we listened to the silly childish rhetoric of the noodles employee, fire the ass.
Report Post »gotty
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 2:16pmGuys (and Gals, don’t wanna be sexist). This is seriosly disturbing. The fact that some little snot nosed kids thinks this is right. Hey Rob Lewis, Name one country that Socialism has worked and the “poor workers” were lifted up.
Report Post »RathlokSlam
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 2:30pmSeriously…. he has a straight face on when he says he should tell the owner what he is going to cook how to run …Noodles… and be equals too? The insanity is just flooring me
Report Post »DTOM_Jericho
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 2:55pmOdd. That buying of a magazine looked strangely like capitalism. I saw the change being handed back, but I did not seem the new castrati guy hand the camera man part of his socialist profit.
Report Post »A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 3:06pm@OneFootRandy,
“Profit is a far more tolerable motivation than raw uncontrolled power.”
This is true as far as it goes; but profit is the only beneficent motive for trading in the first place, in a free society. There‘s no reason to trade if you’re going to get either less or equal than what it cost you to produce something.
Bear in mind that labor is not the only factor in the cost of goods, but also utility – which is why someone who supplies, say, berries for dyes, is going to be paid different than someone who grows them for food. Same labor cost (for the sake of argument, not accounting for capital in berry production), but because of the value added to something else that uses dyes, the dyed product sells for more, and both the supplying dye maker and supplying berry maker can command a higher price.
Report Post »greekkid31
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 3:43pmso he sold something for money, but only cause he got something out of it. yet his boss makes money and sets the rules and its bad….hmmm im lost as to what he wants then. i mean other than to make up the rules as he goes along as to benefit himself.
Report Post »brotherhiram
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 4:00pmCatharsis,
Workers who want to build something should risk all that they have and start their own business, and fend for themselves, everyone in business for themselves, what socialism wants is to rob those who successfully build abusiness and redistribute it to the workers who in theory will work eagerly because they have a stake in the game… in reality history has shown us that when these concepts have been put to action, the workers figured out that regardless of how little they worked they still got paid the same… regardless of what crappy product they produced they still had a job and benefits (oh my God I think there is something going on in WI similar to this)…
Socialism IS SOCIAL WELFARE, because a socialist based economy hasn’t been able to produce quality and quantities to sustain a business without government intervention and funding.
Report Post »Sarah124
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 5:12pmBusiness school might be helpful for Rob…
Report Post »TheLascone
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 5:43pmDid this guy lose his noodle or what? Hey Mr. Entitlement ……
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N37BU6
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 6:28pm@VerySeniorCitizen
I just finished listening to today’s show… while my comment still stands, I have to say: Glenn wasn’t advocating for someone to be shot in the head. I knew that before even listening for myself, as that’s not Glenn, but assumed there was some joke involved that would cause you to say that.
You misunderstood. Glenn said that THEY would shoot the kid in the head once he’s no longer of any use. He’s pointing out how expendable these morons are.
Report Post »pajamash
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 6:33pmI feel like….I feel like….I feel like…I feel like these people need to go back down to their rooms in their parents basements and grow up a little bit. A little bit more education would not hurt either. Socialism has NEVER worked people!
Report Post »phd1147
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 6:43pmI can’t believe those guys took that much time away from world of warcraft. And I don’t want to sound sexist but liberal women are uuuuugly.
Report Post »phd1147
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 6:53pmCatharsis, you are just stupid. Communism doesn‘t work it’s an historical fact. And don‘t say that it just hasn’t been run by the right people because all people are flawed. Give anyone power over another and eventually they will justify giving themselves just a little more. Just in case you didn’t get it in the begining “YOUR STUPID”!!!
Report Post »lillymckim
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 7:06pmyes I agree Casto has a hut with a dirt floor with their names on it ….. mental losers with a capital “L”
Report Post »DisillusionedDaily
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 8:20pmI hope he invests his money in the establishment of a business of his very own so I can work for him and:
Come and go as I please,
Only do the jobs that I like to do,
Talk to my favorite lady on my cell phone whenever I please and
Demand weekly raises!
Seriously, I worked for a major company that hired nothing but young college graduates. The guy that had the office next to mine got very upset when the manager told him he could not use his personal cell phone during office hours. His reply was, “I don’t see why not! I pay for it, not the company!”
Report Post »Robotics_Geek
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 8:26pmThe SELF CENTERED AND SELFISH nature of socialism and communism is affront to every hard working decent person in America! It plays on the weak and lazy minds who believe 1 “If we can get this system in America I can have what I want, when I want and coast thru life.“ or 2 ”I feel bad for all those helpless, mentally, physically, racially or class crippled people but I can be their SAVIOR!!! and tell them what to do cause I care unlike the evil rich who don’t care and tell them what to do!” or 3. “I can have POWER and rule like a god!” No wonder socialism and communism ends in MILLIONS OF DEAD people!
Report Post »Taquoshi
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 8:50pmWow, obviously, this kid doesn’t know how to cook or even have a passing acquaintance with the basic science of cooking. There is a reason that a cook follows a recipe – it’s called reliable results. Once a person had made a dish a number of times, then one can experiment, but usually when recipes that people like change, there’s a fuss. Remember the Coke Classic uproar?
If you are going to run a restaurant, the cooks, sous chefs and wait staff have to be there at a certain time in order to have the food ready when the customers come. “Oh, hey, man, I’m sorry we were three hours late opening and you had reservations at 7. We all were at a party last night and the munchies were really, really good, so we got really wasted. Ya know how it is. Maybe we can get you a plate of scramble eggs or something.”
Can you just imagine going to a restaurant because the last time you were there they had fabulous burgers and after you ordered a burger, you were served a plate of spaghetti? “Well, dude, you see the cook in the kitchen wasn’t into burgers tonight. We decided we’re serving spaghetti. If you don’t like it, lump it.” (Feel free to insert your favorite colorful phrases in that little monologue.) Would you go back there?
There are communal restaurants. Moosewood was run by cooperative for a long time and one of our local restaurants was cooperative the last time I was there a long time ago. But sooner or later someone has to take charge. Someone has to order the supplies, pay the bills, etc.
The interesting thing to me is that he started out his statement by saying that there are only two scenarios in the world, work for yourself or work for someone else. Obviously, he’s unhappy working for someone else. So, it sounds like it’s time for him to work for himself. He’ll find out what fun it is. No paid vacations, no health care provided, no paid holidays, and you work until the job is done. No one gives you customers and if whatever you are offering doesn’t fly, well, then, welcome to bankruptcy court.
When a person has developed a business that employs others, things change. IRAs, health care, unpaid leave, OSHA, taxes, withholding and tons and tons of federal forms.
The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence, and he’s welcomed to try his cooperative ideas as a new business owner in the free market. It’ll be interesting to see what happens.
Report Post »AmericanPower
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 9:18pmwhat a freekin idiot
Report Post »davisgarvey
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 9:28pmThat poor misguided young man. This is what we get for not rooting out the socialists and communists from our public schools and colleges. Ignorance must be bliss for him. By the way, did you notice the “capitalistic transaction?” Giving the garbage-filled brochure in exhange for money…
Report Post »BoiseBaked
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 10:21pmHow did this country get here? Where did these pseudo-intellectuals come from? Did they live in a vacuum? Under a rock? All the crap that is coming out of their mouths has all been said before; there are no new ideas here. All this crap has been tried before and failed over and over again.
Hey, you idiots, go find your stupid island and create your own crap-a-stan. And when your crap-a-stan turns into another Haiti, don’t come crawling back to the USA.
Report Post »Lord_Frostwind
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 10:24pmNot to bash any further on socialist, it’s just too freakin easy, but they just don’t get it. The masses don’t create, they consume, they survive, they adapt, but it is the individual who wields the power of imagination and intelligence to change the world. The workers, the proletariat, the masses, whatever the monkey brained offspring of marx call themselves, exist to consume while the individuals exist to create.
Case and point, you put 100 of the basic workers at Noodles and company together without any instructions to follow and they wouldn’t be able to replicate or improve on the existing recipes. Or if you prefer, look at what happened to food production in Africa after the Colonial powers bugged out.
Report Post »frgough
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 10:51pm@Catharsis
It’s quite simple. The socialist looks at his neighbor and says: “No man should have so much.”
The capitalist looks at his neighbor and says: “Every man should have as much.”
The socialist is the crab at the bottom of the bucket pulling all the crabs climbing out back down. The capitalist is the mountain climber holding the rope so those below him can scale the cliff.
Learn it and you’ll be a happier, freer and more prosperous person.
Report Post »independentvoteril
Posted on March 1, 2011 at 11:19pmWhat they want is SOMEONE to do the work and take it over.. set their own hours .. own rules.. and MAYBE let the person who started the business to STAY and work for them??? LOL.. I AM SO GLAD this is NOT my kid.. I’d be ashamed to show my face..
Report Post »The Third Archon
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 2:09amBusiness owners do not create jobs–they rent their money to business run by managers, executives and workers who do the real work. Like feudal lords these capitalists extort rent from their title, except their title isn’t to land, but the even more abstract commodity, capital. And given that the very existence of capital is contingent upon the existence of social structure and the enforcement of a political and economic order by the government, the self-righteous claim to sole responsibility for ones position and wealth, and ones inherently just entitlement to it, is not substantiated by the empirical division of the work to create and protect rights and opportunities.
Report Post »komponist-ZAH
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 2:10am@Catharsis–
“Under capitalism, society is governed by a handful of rich elites who exploit the working class in order to extract profits.”
No, under capitalism, society isn’t “governed” or controlled at all, by anyone—as opposed to socialism, which requires the organization of society under the control of…a handful of powerful elites…who control all the wealth…hmmmmmmm….
Report Post »Jim S
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 9:11amThe young man realizes his inability to create a business. Unlike his boss, who left his boss, this guy can only take, he cannot build. That always seems the way with communists/socialists. Cuba has wall to wall 56 Chevy’s but cannot/will not make a car. They take over what FREE people have made, wring every bit of wealth they can and then let it crumble. It crumbles because they cannot invent, build, develop. Look at China once people were allowed to own ! The Chinese didn’t have some special school,diet etc. No people were allowed to dream, to build, they get rich, many employees get wealth. Then the rest of the employees get a wage, some will be happy with that, others will want more. Those people will build and create,get rich etc etc. In a free society, the story repeats over and over …in FREE societies, never in a closed one. This guy either grows up and makes something or he just ****** and moans, never improves his lot and grows into a bitter man who blames a system that allows success and failure.
Report Post »drbage
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 2:48pmATTENTION ALL PARENTS!! If you are planning to send your child to UofW with what is left of your hard-earned money, this is what you will get and as a bonus you get to keep the child on your health insurance until the child is 26!
Report Post »A couple of questions for Mr. Lewis:
1. Were you innocently walking down the street when the dictator, Mr. Kennedy, came running out of the restaurant armed with a gun and forced you inside to fill out the application form?
2. Does Mr. Kennedy come to your residence daily and goose step march you to Noodles and then stand over you and force you to work?
3. Has he threatened you or your family with violence if you do not continue to work there?
4. Does he not give you a paycheck for the time you spend there?
5. Would you prefer that Mr. Kennedy just give you a paycheck for NOT working there?
6. Has U of W closed down so that you can camp out at the Capitol or are you particpating in some sort of class project or are you just wasting your parents’ money?
Progessives=Fail
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 4:53pmAre any of these socialists actually not morons?
Report Post »VerySeniorCitizen
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 6:47pm@N37BUG
Where, in my post did I say that Glenn would actually DO the ‘shooting in the head’? That isn’t his style. He makes the suggestion and, if he makes the suggestion often enough there will be some crazed person who will do it for him!
Glenn INCITES others to do for him what he wouldn’t do for himself. When I suggest that he practices what he preaches I am saying that the ‘shooting in the head’ language is completely unnecessary if you are going to treat people with love and understanding – as he is preaching to others..
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