by Jack
I have to ask the question, is our society is so immature that we happily reward pop entertainers many times more than our top scientists and doctors?
How else can you explain that Taylor Swift makes $170 million a year and the average Harvard MBA grad starts at a measly $120,000, and that is 
some $5,000 less than a year earlier! Thank you Obama for the lousy economy.
What does Taylor Swift know or do that makes her so darn valuable?
Get a grip society, she sings pop songs! In terms of true value she ought to worth maybe $60-70k a year! Her product has no lasting value.
We can live without a Taylor Swift, but can we live without doctors who makes a fraction of what this prissy, know-nothing, little girl makes? I think not.
And what value does Beyoncé’, Kanye, or any of the top paid 100 pop-culture entertainers bring to the table? Did you know, that together these people, with their a sub-average IQ and education, gross over $5.1 billion dollars annually? What makes them worth so much compared to our most brilliant educators, inventors, visionaries, engineers, designers, entrepreneurs, explorers, and authors? Is it because Kanye gave us this piece of literary genius that he can repeat really fast (excerpted from Kanye’s rap song FAMOUS):
“For all my Southside niggas that know me best
I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex
Why? I made that bitch famous (God damn)
I made that bitch famous
For all the girls that got di-k from Kanye West
If you see ’em in the streets give ’em Kanye’s best
Why? They mad they ain’t famous (God damn)”
In 200 years will Kanye’s rap filth be more valuable than this years greatest work of art? I suppose it could be… if we continue down this path of foolishly rewarding low class morons.
Last year Beyoncé’ made over $70M. I think of this as correlating to societies “collective intelligence” or rather lack thereof. Geez, c’mon, rewarding a pop singer or an actor with tens of millions of dollars… for what? So, I ask again, how stupid is that? The logical answer to a sober person is off-the-charts stupid. Me thinks there’s something terribly wrong with us and I can’t see how we’ll make it another 200 years.
“Paging Kanye’ West, rapper urgently needed in Trauma Room Three!”
“Thank you Obama for the lousy economy.”
You don’t think, perhaps, that this situation pre-dates the O-Admin? Try to remember that this “winner obsessing over the loser” thing has some well-documented psychological origins, i.e., guilt.
Libs, the Bush era recession ended in June 2009. I know both Tina and I have told you this before in previous post. Your denying it doesn’t change the facts.
Obama’s non-recovery recovery has gone on for 7 years and 5 months. Obama not only failed to bring back a robust economy and create enough good paying jobs to hire all of those college grads who had to move home to have mom and dad support them he robbed their future earnings by doubling the debt.
Grow up Libs, your walk on water god-like O-man failed you. He failed all of us and he knows it. He’s in panic mode because he knows what the history books will say and his ego bruised.
U.S. recession ended June 2009, NBER finds:
“WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — The U.S. recession that began in December 2007 ended in June 2009, making the 18-month slump the longest since the Great Depression, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Yet the NBER also cautioned that its findings bear no relation to the current state of the economy and do not represent a forecast about the future. If another downturn occurs anytime soon, the NBER said, it would constitute a separate recession. See NBER statement.”
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-recession-ended-june-2009-nber-says-2010-09-20
The Pelosi House and Reid Senate began in 2007 as well.
Bush and other Republicans had been warning their Democrat colleagues that something needed to be done about the lending situation since at least 2001. See here and here. Democrats denied there was anything wrong. See also here:
Once the 2006 elections resulted in Democrat control of Congress regulating F&F went out the window…by 2008 it was too late, as we all know.
Obama’s stimulus plans were flops and included such sterling solutions as cash for clunkers and shovel ready jobs that “weren’t so shovel ready.” Democrats are lousy money managers and do not know how to stimulate an economy as is the dying middle class. Obama managed to fundamentally transform a recession into a depression for many citizens (all but the wealthy)
Unhappily, it was 2010, when he got saddled with a “do-nothing” Congress. I know you like to call him a dictator, but you are, of course, and always, incorrect.
And it was this “do-nothing” Congress, and its idiotic notions of “market forces” that dictated six years of very, very, very slow growth.
Libby you’re full of beans.
The Hill reports that at least 400 bills passed by the House are stuck in the Senate. Some are due to procedural problems, others are stuck in committee, some with Democrats blocking a move forward. But Duh, this is the way Congress has always worked:
Obama has always been a my way or the highway “ruler” and he made that very clear early on.
Please explain how a Congress that’s “doing nothing” directs the economy.
Sorry old girl but the O man owns this less than 2% growth economy in which the rich got richer and the middle class vanished while the ranks of the poor grew!
I’ve told you how it happens, warned you in ’08. It’s not difficult to understand but you’re just too pig headed to get it.
Libs, you’re full of more than just beans.
Dirty Harry gets ALL of the credit for the “do nothing Congress” name. He was the king of “pocket vetoes” to protect Obama.
Included in the 400 plus bills he left sitting on his desk during his reign of terror there were several jobs bill that if allowed to come to the Senate floor could have put people back to work and improved our economy.
From the Washington Post 2014.
“When Democrats demand more problem-solving, they leave out an important step. On “Meet the Press” on Sunday, Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) observed, “Wages are flat, unemployment’s high, everything from gas to food to health care costs more for the American people. But you can’t address that situation if you don’t vote.” This is not “business as usual” or “the way things work” in Washington. “[W]e went for an entire year where we cast less than one vote on a Republican amendment per month. And in the Harry Reid Senate, that’s become the norm,” said Thune. “It’s become a factory for show votes where votes are made that are more interested in winning votes that are for Democrats in November elections than they are for winning jobs for the American people. And that’s got to change. The Senate’s got to function again. It is dysfunctional.”
The Senate has not voted on jobs bills sent by the House, any “fix” for Obamacare or a domestic energy development bill. The Senate will not take up a real vote on the Keystone XL pipeline. It will not take up Iran sanctions. It did pass Veterans Affairs legislation and Iron Dome funding, not exactly difficult votes. Other than that, not much of consequence has gone on in the Senate, but not because of Republican objections. The GOP would love to take up many of these subjects, debate them and offer amendments; it is Reid who either won’t take up meaty issues or won’t allow any minority amendments, a practice he has taken further than any modern Senate leader. Speaking to the press on Tuesday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said succinctly: “Well, if you look at the last six years, the president and his people, I think, believed they got just about everything they wanted legislatively the first two years.”
In essence, the Senate has become an adjunct of the White House. Reid’s side comes up with no innovative (or even non-innovative) initiatives of its own and doesn’t allow any from the GOP. It changed the Senate rules to rubber-stamp Obama appointees and won’t allow votes on things that will make the White House uncomfortable. It is not that the Senate has been unproductive; that would be an improvement. Rather, it has been counterproductive time and again. It propagates nasty partisanship. “The Senate majority did not want the president to be challenged on anything, which of course leaves him free to pursue his agenda through the bureaucracy, all of whom work for him,” McConnell said. He pointed out, “And of course that serves the president’s purpose because it gives him a Congress to run against and it gives him the freedom of his bureaucrats to pursue his agenda, largely unimpeded by the kind of restrictions on the spending process that Congress would normally write in to appropriation bills if they ever passed them.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2014/08/04/harry-reids-reign-of-paralysis/
LOL – The writing was on the wall or I should say in the WaPo article above warning Democrats about upcoming election losses. Thank God they didn’t listen resulting in their own demise at their own leadership’s hands.
“This is one big reason (the unpopular president is another) that Democrats are desperate to make the election about local issues. The more nationalized the election, the more voters will be inclined to sweep the do-nothing Democrats aside. But those local issues and the big major issues aren’t going to be solved so long as Reid thinks his job is to block and tackle for the White House. These very same Democratic senators who now plead for reelection voted him in and keep him there; they are therefore responsible for the current state of affairs. (Frankly, the one thing that might help Democrats would be for Reid to resign before November. We know that’s not going to happen.) So we return to the original question: Why do the Democrats deserve to be reelected and to keep the Senate? Ya got me.”
Excellent job, Tina and Peggy, of taking Libby to the woodshed! Applaud your efforts although it may be a waste of time since in order to be able to think, one must have something between the ears other than stale popcorn . . . .
These “celebrity” incomes are based on sales, not intellectual ability, skills, or socially redeeming value.
Off Topic
Replacing “On The Record”, Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show “Tucker Carlson Tonight” is just five days old and has already proved to be a hit. This is a must see interview from tonight’s show, November 18, 2016.
Tucker Carlson Destroys Roll Call Columnist Who Calls Jeff Sessions Racist [VIDEO]
“These ‘celebrity’ incomes are based on sales, not intellectual ability, skills, or socially redeeming value.”
Well said Pie.
Look at the wealth being generated from what are basically toys or amusements in today’s tech world.
When we set up a situation where governments (taxpayers) provide the essentials even poor kids find $300.00 for a pair of tennis shoes or $500.00 for an Ipad.
Government intervention has been no friend to doctors or their patients. Costs for doctors and patients have been rising steadily since 1965.
Right on Tucker! These nuts are going so far with their Alinsky game they look like absolute fools.
This too should outrage every US citizen and legal resident.
From Doug LaMalfa
Examples of Serious Crimes by Illegal Aliens:
“Illegal immigration is not a victimless crime. All across the country, Americans are having their lives forever changed by criminal aliens.
Watch the moving stories below.”
http://www.fairus.org/issue/examples-of-serious-crimes-by-illegal-aliens
Off topic a bit, but funny nevertheless – and a welcome chance from the bobblehead presstitutes these days!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3953728/Trump-supporters-order-TrumpCups-Starbucks-protest-against-Republican-discrimination.html
And they think this gains them respect?
Very odd.
Respect?
I’d say it’s a lot more entertaining not to mention ethical than say, promoting violent, destructive protests and killing cops…but that’s just me.