Yesterday some of our renters finally moved out. They are registered Dem, and I figure this is the OWS mentality. Here's a summary.

They can:
Have 3 kids (each w/ a different father)
Buy 3 TVs (Including a mammoth 55") AND video game consoles for every one of them
Subscribe to Dish Network
Subscribe to Netflix
Own pets (lease says no pets)
Buy new living room furniture
Buy new dining room furniture (from a rent-to-own place)
Put holes in walls (he's a "master carpenter" and does construction) let the bathroom floor rot from spilled water

What they can't do:
Pay rent
Turn off lights, fans, TVs etc when not in use
Take their own garbage out to the curb regularly
Take their kid to the doctor when he's covered w/ bug bites from playing in the woods
Fix their broken side view mirror on their SUV

But RWT and peanut will tell me this is my fault somehow. We probably made them feel bad when they saw me fixing and maintaining my home for the past two years. Or when we gave their kids hand-me-down clothes, or offered to pay him to help with some bigger home improvement projects.

Did you have a political affiliation question on the rental application?

The condition they left the house in and their piss poor attitude answers that question.

(10-31-2011 07:57 AM)Redwingtom Wrote:  Did you have a political affiliation question on the rental application?

What kind of stupid question is that?

It's a joke dude, lighten up.

But seriously, how do you know they are registered Democrats?

(10-31-2011 08:01 AM)Redwingtom Wrote:  But seriously, how do you know they are registered Democrats?

Talking with them and the campaign mail they receive that's targeted for voters registered Dem.

I get mail from the Republican party and Republican candidates all the time.

But Torch, I have known and talked with plenty of registered Republicans who are idiots, slobs and cheats. And that proves nothing with such a small sample. C'mon...you're smarter than that.

(10-31-2011 07:55 AM)DrTorch Wrote:  But RWT and peanut will tell me this is my fault somehow.

You two guys go at it quite often....is there some sort of history here or something?

(10-31-2011 10:15 AM)Redwingtom Wrote:  I get mail from the Republican party and Republican candidates all the time.

But Torch, I have known and talked with plenty of registered Republicans who are idiots, slobs and cheats. And that proves nothing with such a small sample. C'mon...you're smarter than that.

No he's not.

Btw, I could have bought a 50 inch LG plasma for about $275. Just because it is big doesn't mean that they paid a lot for it.

(10-31-2011 11:23 AM)smn1256 Wrote:  

(10-31-2011 07:55 AM)DrTorch Wrote:  But RWT and peanut will tell me this is my fault somehow.

You two guys go at it quite often....is there some sort of history here or something?

I had the gall to question Torch once on the MAC board. He says I was wrong and one person agreed with him.

I then found this forum on here and started posting. Torch was already posting here quite often so I "followed" him here.

Since then, he feels the need to comment on nearly every thing I post and go out of his way to call me out quite often in his posts. I try like heck not to do the same, but it's hard...lol

(10-31-2011 12:35 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

(10-31-2011 11:23 AM)smn1256 Wrote:  

(10-31-2011 07:55 AM)DrTorch Wrote:  But RWT and peanut will tell me this is my fault somehow.

You two guys go at it quite often....is there some sort of history here or something?

I had the gall to question Torch once on the MAC board. He says I was wrong and one person agreed with him.

Lots of people question me on the MAC board. Your approach was somewhat different.

It hasn't been particularly friendly since.

(10-31-2011 10:15 AM)Redwingtom Wrote:  But Torch, I have known and talked with plenty of registered Republicans who are idiots, slobs and cheats. And that proves nothing with such a small sample. C'mon...you're smarter than that.

There's something different here. You'll find idiot or cheating Republicans, I'll grant you that.

But what's unique here are these people won't even take care of themselves.

Slobs? Yeah, but that's a consequence.

I'll give you one more point. Last summer they bought a kiddie pool for their youngest. Used it one night, and left it right in front of their door. Two weeks later it was filled w/ mosquitos. Right in front of their door.

They couldn't miss it, they walked by it multiple times/day, nor could they miss the swarm of mosquitos in and above the pool. They couldn't use the pool w/o emptying it (I'd hope). Yet they didn't do it. Just left it for mosquito breeding.

These mainstays of the Dems are people who just won't take care of themselves, other than to vote for people who promise to take care of them.

That's fundamentally what this is about. Freedom, to succeed OR fail, or gov't intrusion running everything so it's "fair" for people who can't even clean themselves.

Again torch, you're extrapolating this one family and impugning half a nation. You're smarter than that!

(11-01-2011 12:38 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  Again torch, you're extrapolating this one family and impugning half a nation. You're smarter than that!

I'm not extrapolating. I'm giving an archetype. All of this has been said of Dems before. I'm giving specifics as to why this isn't a stretch or just some theoretical conjecture.

I can drive down to Baltimore and increase the data. I can do the same w/ Washington, Cleveland, Detroit, Philly, Chicago, Seattle, for even more data. And it's not just big cities. I've found the same thing in the Lima's of the world.

Go visit the housing projects of any city Tom. Dem voters.