Listening in on a Labor Day picnic conversation

[spinbaby]

So I was just kicked back and relaxed at the picnic when a couple of good old boys, subspecies cranky old men, struck up a conversation near me. No particular surprise that they were in favor of nuking the middle east, frying convicts, beating schoolchildren, and believed that both Muslims and black people are inherently violent and must be punished until they are less violent. (Irony apparently doesn't register with them.) But then the conversation turned to the economy.

These good old boys were worried, very worried, about the economy. They talked about the vanishing middle class. They talked about how jobs with decent pay were disappearing. One blamed it on globalization. The other halfheartedly said that, yes, it was globalization and there was nothing the government could do about it.

Then they turned to health care. One said it was all the fault of Bill and Hillary. The other agreed that it was their fault for not pushing universal health care. The first said that, yeah, back then we could afford universal health care, but now it's too late and we can't afford it anymore.

Then the conversation wandered to light beer.

[acmavm]

1. Geez, what's with all the delusional people? Are the unwilling

to face reality or do they even have any idea of what that is?

[Greyhound]

2. Perfect example right there. Can't even consider the possibility that

it might be their own fault. We are so screwed.
:kick:

[zeemike]

3. I guess they are trying to keep those urban legends alive n/t

[OhioChick]

4. Judging by the conversation.......

I'm surprised they knew what globalization is.