I LIKE OBAMA & I'M 'SHOVEL READY'!! ARE YOU?!

[The Leveller]

Been seein' this brilliant piece around the internets, thought I'd share.

I like Obama. He has done some good things, but nothing that affects me directly.

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Also, as you know I am a big advocate for free single payer universal health care and need hospitalization for "exhaustion" from typing so much about it. Guess what? "Exhuastion" is not a "hospital admission" criteria (unless you are Jay Leno or Madonna), so if you are suffering from exhaustion and go to the hospital you will be forced to sit 10 hours in a hard plastic chair, and become even more exhuasted, and then be sent home with instructions to see your primary care physician, but when you call him up, his office supervisor will ask what insurance you have and if you say "none", she will tell you your best bet is to go to the hospital and sit in a hard plastic chair for 10 hours.

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I like Obama. I even bought a shovel. So I am "shovel ready". I'm patiently waiting to get a job building a bridge or I'd also like to build some infrastructre.

I even went down to the Interstate the other day with my shovel in hand and started to dig a hole, a big hole, for some bridge pilings. The police came by an asked what I was doing and I told them I was "shovel ready" and that I was getting a head start on a bridge I figured would be good spot for a bridge. They took my shovel and put me in the police cruiser. Now I am out of a good shovel.



Anyway, today I thought I'd concentrate on windmills since Obama said we needed to become less energy dependent on oil. I called every factory in the State and no one is working on windmills. I looked under the W's in the yellow pages. No entry for windmill builders.

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I'm a waitin' for that health care reform that will drop my annual premiums from $18,000 to $17,999 because of all the cost savings.

I'm shovel ready.

Submitted by JamesPB on May 27, 2009

Read the entire piece here. Look in the comments section:
http://smirkingchimp.com/thread/22007

[patrice]

1. Single Payer NOW!

I have a right to say that, because I've been shoveling (this round) since 2001. NEVER FORGET! and . . .

Let's do this thing!

[Iwillnevergiveup]

7. Please take Bernie Sanders' health care poll

http://sanders.senate.gov

K&R

[maryf]

12. Health care for all...

Gotta give credit to Bernie for trying...here's the direct poll link for you, for those who like polls... http://www.sanders.senate.gov/polls/

[blindpig]

2. k&r

Great piece, well worth reading.

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[mike_c]

4. excellent cartoon....

eom

[Orwellian_Ghost]

5. Brilliant Rant

Too true in all aspects. It's such a laugh and such a cry all at once.

K&R

[rhett o rick]

6. I read on another thread that we need to be patient and take baby steps.

I say bull shit. The river is at flood stage and we need to add more than one sand bag at a time.

[Butch350]

8. The river has crested and a slow fall is expected.

[rhett o rick]

11. Disagree. GM is continuing to file for bankruptcy, Congress is going

to pass a micky mouse health care bill, Pres Obama is refusing to punish war criminals, no action on don't ask don't tell, no action on Don Siegleman, etc. These indicate to me that the water is still rising.

[The Straight Story]

9. I'll bring the bodies, you bring the shovels

Oh wait, what were we going to use them for again?

[lonestarnot]

10. Get on down with yourself Don Quixote!

K & R!

[maryf]

13. K&R nt

[Orwellian_Ghost]

14. Freakin' hilarious

This dude hit some nails on the head like here:


Anyway, back to Obama. I like him. However him and Michelle shouldnt work only one day in a homeless soup kitchen. They should work everyday in a homeless soup kitchen. Until they cant stand it anymore. They should go from one homeless soup kitchen to another to another to another. Then they should wander the streets with no cash in their pockets. Then they should sleep in the ack of their car. Then they should send their kids to the worst public school in Washington DC. Then they should drop their health care policy and the next time they get sick, just go to the local Emergency Room, and see what its like to sit in a hard plastic chair for 10 hours.

[maryf]

15. hysterical...

laughed til I cried, then cried...

[obliviously]

16. There went two more minutes of my life! n/t

[anaxarchos]

17. With apologies to Langston Hughes...

Ballad of Obama

The pot was empty,
The cupboard was bare.
I said, Papa,
What’s the matter here?
I’m waitin' on Obama, son,
Obama, Obama,
Waitin' on Obama, son.

The rent was due,
And the lights was out.
I said, Tell me, Mama,
What’s it all about?
We’re waitin' on Obama, son,
Obama, Obama,
Just waitin' on Obama.

Sister got sick
And the doctor wouldn’t come
Cause we couldn’t pay him
The proper sum—
A-waitin on Obama,
Obama, Obama,
A-waitin' on Obama.

Then one day
They put us out o' the house.
Ma and Pa was Meek as a mouse
Still waitin' on Obama,
Obama, Obama.

But when they felt those
Cold winds blow
And didn’t have no
Place to go
Pa said, I’m tired
O’waitin' on Obama,
Obama, Obama.
Damn tired o‘ waitin’ on Obama.

I can’t git a job
And I can’t git no grub.
Backbone and navel’s
Doin' the belly-rub—
A-waitin' on Obama,
Obama, Obama.

And a lot o' other folks
What’s hungry and cold
Done stopped believin'
What they been told
By Obama,
Obama, Obama—

Cause the pot’s still empty,
And the cupboard’s still bare,
And you can’t build a
bungalow
Out o' air—
Mr. Obama, listen!
What’s the matter here?

[maryf]

18. Think he'd say no apologies necessary, nt.