Can you honestly admit your capacity for inhumanity ...... ?

[Stinky The Clown]

Try to answer this question honestly. There are no right or wrong answers.

Your neighbor has been a bushie from forever. He has all the regalia. That big fat black W sticker on the ol' Ford Behemoth. He favors women in burkhas(sp?). The War in Iraq® is just peachy keen in his mind, even though he managed to avoid any semblence of public service for his entire life. You and he have never even been able to speak civilly to each other at the neighborhood burgerfest.

Then it happens. His job is gone. Some guy in India now does it for 10% of what he made.

At the yard sale where he's selling the Skeedoo and the bass boat, your there fingering the price tag on that used John Deere riding mower he's selling and he comes up to you and sez: "..... yanno ..... maybe you were right."

What do you do?

Laugh? Show sympathy? Ask for the next-door-neigbor discount on the rider?

[Sammy Pepys]

1. I'm not going to rub it in....

Of course, I'll be thinking in my head "DAMN STRAIGHT!", but I'm not going to kick a guy when he's down over politics.

[unblock]

4. of course, banana republicanism is ALL ABOUT kicking 'em when they're down

not saying i would either, but it WOULD be justice to act like a banana republican would act.

"complaining about outsourcing? are you diagreeing with our president during a time of war?"

ooohh, the temptation....

[Sammy Pepys]

5. You know what....

Him saying "maybe you were right," is good enough for me. If he can get the point without me having to do anything, then I don't need to give him a hard time about it.

[seabeyond]

2. sadly and with empathy, i would say "of course i was right"

then i would buy what i wanted at the prices he had to help the best i could. i would also keep eyes and ears open to help him find another job. i owuld do whatever else i could do to help him turn his situation around

that.....

is the christian thing to do, wink

[tnlefty]

3. I hope that he's not selling his bootstraps in the yard sale.

He's gonna need those so he can grab them and pull himself up.

[NewWaveChick1981]

6. Hmmm...that's a toughie...

I think what I'd actually do is keep my smartass comments to myself (and believe me, there would be a whole bunch of them running through my head at that point!) and say thanks and I'm sorry his job was outsourced. At that point, I'd pay him for the John Deere that was made by a company that used be US-owned (not any more, sadly) and offer to show him DU and some of the other sane websites out there as well as where to start volunteering. (He'd have lots of free time on his hands.)

I'm not a an inhumane person---I've actually got a lot of compassion, and it tears me apart when I see injustice and inhumanity---but I'd secretly be snickering that he brought that situation on himself. There is something he can do about it, though---but it'll take a long time to undo the damage inflicted by him and others like him.

[Cobalt Violet]

7. Show sympathy.

If you really feel it, that is. It is probably a turning point in his life. Meaness is ugly.

[NMDemDist2]

8. that's a hard one H2S

but since he is admitting his mistake, I'd show sympathy

after a couple gentle "I tried to warn you!"

and I'd definately ask for a discount.... :evilgrin:

[ProfessorPlum]

9. Anybody that admits they were wrong gets a lot of credit in my book

In my experience, though, a guy like that would be looking to blame somebody else, most likely the Indians.

They never, and I mean never, go against the received wisdom of the Authority they have chosen to hitch their star to.

[msgadget]

10. Show sympathy, of course

The republican marketing machine and its with-us-or-against attitude sucked in a lot of people who, as instructed, ignored the liberal media reports contrary to what their leaders told 'em.

And, no, I wouldn't ask for a discount on the rider! :)

[jrw14125]

11. say "let this be a lesson to u, now go pick yerself up by yer bootstraps!"

[Brazenly Liberal]

12. Show sympathy to him ...... but

that's not as altruistic as it may sound.

You have very accurately described my neighbor, except that he is also a sleazy, finagling, bum who rants publicly about how PI lawyers are ruining the country while privately living off the $$$ he got in a personal injury insurance scam. (had a bad back for many years, claimed it was new and from a work injury) We haven't been on friendly terms with him for nearly a decade.

I would show him sympathy ............ because it would drive him right up the wall for me to do so. :evilgrin:

[Jeffersons Ghost]

13. give him a democrat bumper sticker, if he still has a car.

[ProfessorPlum]

15. Democrat-ic, bumper sticker, thanks very much

"Democrat" is not an adjective.

[Inland]

14. Say you've gone repub, want to cut unemployment benefits.

No, not really. Same thing you would always say. "I know I was right. Sorry about your job. Maybe there's something the country can do rather than bury its head in the sand and keep the same big business crony pigs in power." Even the last sentence is pretty gratuitious.

[marions ghost]

16. I would say

"I will try to forgive you. Anyone can be manipulated by the most insidious mind control methods ever perpetrated on a human population. Don't let it happen again. Just help us clean up this mess you made."