Mike Lee wrote:
>
> Erik came up with a modest proposal to help the poor pay their fair share:
>
> > So tax color TV's and microwave ovens, if you can.
>
> And woofers. And anything made by Hostess. And fake fingernails. The
> National Enquirer. Velvet Elvis paintings. Burritos from 7-ll.
>
> Come to think of it, the poor are mostly responsible for each and every
> esthetic and culinary outrage perpetrated in America for the last 50 years.
>
> Just leave Taco Bell alone. I like Taco Bell.
Interestingly enough, what I like to get at Taco Bell runs to being more
expensive than what I like at most other fast food establishments. :)
I don't get it very often, though, because the most convenient one got
torn down to build a highway, and while I'm hoping that there will be a
new Taco Bell not too far from where the old one was, it wouldn't be
going in until construction was done in at least the *immediate* area.
(So I'm stuck with Sonic and Wendy's, mostly, for now. Sonic is OK,
they do a decent grilled cheese sandwich, IMO.)
Oh, btw, where does Weekly World News fall in that list? Taxable? It's
the only one that's really entertaining.
> > Let them eat cake....
>
> They don't eat cake. You know why?
>
> (a) To eat cake, one must save up $8 all at once to buy one at Albertson's.
> The poor can only save up that much all at once to buy drugs.
I can get sliced pound cake at Albertson's for $3. And they have
several types of pound cake available.
> (b) To eat cake, because Albertson's is closed before you get out of bed for
> the day, you must go to a 24 hour market and buy a cake recipe, eggs, milk,
> and a bowl, at the premium they charge poor people who refuse to conform
> their schedules to those of normal grocery stores. And a wisk. And clean all
> the dirty dishes and used condoms out of the oven unless you want the cake
> to taste funny. Worse than that, to bake a cake one must read and follow
> simple directions without considering it a mortal affront to one's
> dig-nuh-tee.
Um, while the *nearest* Albertson's may not be open 24 hours, there are
a couple of them in what now passes (at least for me) as "reasonable
driving distance" that are. And I think that one of the HEB stores near
me is open 24 hours, and I can buy pound cake there, cupcakes for
something like $3 or $5 for a package of 12, and cake mix and eggs and
oil and whatever else.
But the really, really good cake at HEB is $14.99. And it has a few
malted milk balls on top. (So now anyone close to an HEB store can
figure out what my favorite kind of cake is.)
> (c) Cake isn't made by Hostess. Hostess says they make cake, but that just
> proves that the government can't protect us against anything.
I assume that Drake's and Little Debbie fall under that, as well? :)
> (d) If a poor person really had a real cake, they wouldn't know how to serve
> it up, because they know better than to pull out a knife in the house while
> everyone else is hungry with their cake-jones on.
A dull knife might do, and why not just do the barbarian thing and rip
into it with your bare hands? I've seen cake-cutting jobs that were
about as bad as that would be.... (OK, maybe I'm exaggerating a little,
but still....)
Julia
whose father grew up dirt-poor, and at least 4 of his mother's 6
children went to college, if not more
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