Wednesday, August 27, 2014

The other entitlement class

Someone asked me why I said I wrote my "Gratitude" post with "mixed feelings", and the simple reason is that I didn't want the message to be highjacked by a bunch of racist bitchings. I think we all know the welfare entitlement class is pretty much equal opportunity. We know examples of white welfare mooches with bad attitudes. It was just at that particular Walmart on that particular Saturday, the majority was black and Hispanic. Go to one of the other Walmarts in that town, and you'll get the African, Middle East and Indian welfare contingents. By far, the rudest and most abusive of the entitlement classes come from the northern African and Middle East countries. I could start a whole new firestorm by identifying the majority of these folks as Muslim (and I wouldn't be wrong). But the focus of the post wasn't race, it was the pervasive culture of entitlement that has grown in this country. When you don't see the source of the income, when you aren't personally involved in the work that goes into earning the money, you have no appreciation for the sacrifice. You cease to see the source of the benefits as the hardworking, taxpaying men and women of this country, and you substitute the government as the source. The money comes directly to you from the government, a non-entity who doesn't sacrifice hours away from family in order to earn the money that covers your EBT purchases. You don't have any sympathy for "the government"; you don't care about anything but getting your free stuff, forgetting that it isn't really free.

But now I want to talk about the other end of the entitlement spectrum, the privileged entitlement. As aggravating and enraging as the welfare entitlement class is, it's the privileged entitlement class that scares the bejeesus out of me. The first are The Takers, the second are The Plunderers. The welfare class votes, but who gets their votes? You got it, The Plunderers. Barack Obama is their King. He set the Gold Standard of Privilege Entitlement without Production. The man literally did nothing his entire life but show up, and now he's the leader of the Free World. That's a serious Oh Shit moment. These people started with the Gen Y's and Millenials; the spoiled, entitled kids of the upper middle to upper class who grew up with little real discipline, earning Participation Trophies, and being told they were exceptional for just breathing. Their parents provided the best of everything, requiring nothing in return. Best clothes, cars, schools, vacations. And all for being born to the right family. No wonder they feel a bloated sense of entitlement. No one ever held them responsible for anything. They showed up en masse a few years ago in OWS protests, sporting designer clothes, drinking Starbucks and blogging about Evil Capitalism on their MacBooks while claiming to be the 99%. Please. They are embodied by entitlement queen Sandra Fluke (rhymes with ..... duck), who truly believes the world owes her free birth control because.... well  just because. So understand that while the welfare class takes, it's the privileged entitlement whores who rise to power and plunder the working class in order to pay for it all. These are the ones to watch.

So what got me started thinking about this? I spent a few hours in the presence of a Prince of Privilege yesterday. I got to listen to him whine and complain about how selfish and unfair his parents were for pulling their financial support from him. The beasts. They had paid the outrageous tuition and fees for their little Prince to attend University of Texas last year, and he showed his gratitude by partying and flunking out. He also got into trouble for MIP (minor in possession) and DUI. They hauled his happy ass home to the Panhandle and laid down the law for the first time in his over privileged life. He had to get a job this summer, first of his life, and being the unskilled idiot he is, all he could land was a spot on he county road crew (pardon me while I snicker here). It was "humiliating, beneath him and his talents", he launched into a 30 minute rant of THIS was why illegals need to receive amnesty so they can do this kind of menial labor that is so far beneath him. I kept popping Tums and suppressing the urge to smack him. They also told their Little Prince that he was not getting another dime from them for his education, they also weren't going to co-sign a government loan for him. He was on his own. How horribly unfair! How outrageously shortsighted! Didn't they see his greatness?! Um, yeah, they saw his greatness flunk out in spectacular fashion. So his options came down to trying to find a better job with no skills or attend a community college to get his GPA up to snuff for scholarships. He acted like they were condemning him to a life of mediocrity, and that his future lack of success would land squarely on their shoulders. He had no concept that his future was placed in his hands, and all the results were his and his alone. Mercifully, I had to quit his presence in order to pick up the Cute Chicks from school.

We have millions of these privileged entitlement folks. They are the ones populating the Ivy League schools preparing for their rise to power over the nation. They have never worked a real job, never produced anything, never been allowed to fall on their faces, never been allowed to fail and deal with the fallout. They have no concept of reality, and sadly, most of us know them personally. How did you raise your kids? How are your kids raising your grandkids? How many of you see these little Princes and Princesses in your local schools and communities? Last year, a drunk driving homicide case involving a Prince of Dallas spawned the term "affluenza" to describe the phenomenon of privilege entitlement. It's sadly fitting, and it's an epidemic. So, while you curse the welfare entitlement class, it's the privilege entitlement class you should fear. They're the ones who are going to frame and sign the laws that will bring America to her knees.

12 comments:

Wraith said...

I kept popping Tums and suppressing the urge to smack him.

Suppressing your urges is so uptight and uncool, man. Just roll with it.

Jesse in DC said...

Well to me which group to worry about depends on what the scenario is. The plunderers use the levers of "government" to plunder you. Rules, regulations, laws, lawsuits. But highly unlikely that "they" will ever force you to do anything personally. And when TSHTF those levers will not work as usual, if at all. Currently their plundering keeps the takers sated, and down in the hood (or trailer park or whatever) When TSHTF, the takers are gonna take. See previous post here, New Orleans, Ferguson, etc. They will be dangerous, except that they are not good at math. Way more of us than there are of them. The plunderers, however, are doomed. The takers are going to go to the plunderers ( their long time enablers) demanding their take as always. If its not available, they are gonna take. And I for one will not lift a finger to help them out of their self made predicament. We can just let the 2 biggest loser classes devour themselves while providing copper and lead discouragement from trying it out on us.

Corey said...

I would kill for a full time job with the county road crew. I probably would have hit the kid

Bruce Wayne said...

Excellent. You are absolutely right. Your views on these people with "affluenza" is spot-on.

c w swanson said...

Precisely correct analysis. Hopefully the kid will learn and mature a bit working the highway beat. Probably the best education he will get.

Robert What? said...

What is going to happen as more and more actual producers realize that being a productive contributor is not rewarded any more? Who is going to pay for the all the moochers, takers and plunderers? They all seem to forget that when a host dies, the parasites die too. And right now the host is in grave danger of being overwhelmed by the parasites

Mike S said...

Well said.

Sara said...

Well said. That deserves a standing slow clap. I love you.

Jason Calley said...

Robert What? said: "What is going to happen as more and more actual producers realize that being a productive contributor is not rewarded any more?"

Going Galt is perhaps the last legal way to monkey wrench the system. The old saying of "starve a fever" applies here. We The People have caught one heck of a fever, and the name of the fever is "collectivism." Drop out. Stop feeding the monkeys.

buckeyecopperhead said...

Not sure which I despise worse: the low-class mooches or the elitist thieves.

Full disclosure: I get receive EBT, Medicaid benefits, although I wish I was in a position that I didn't have to. A college degree and 25+ years of good work experience has resulted in me now working two (2) part-time jobs at a pay rate barely above minimum wage, and neither of which gives overtime opportunities. I'm the sole wage earner in our home, as the wifey has a medical condition.
I try to rationalize the acceptance of benefits by hoping that if more did the same it would hasten the inevitable crash of the system, sooner better than later, but the welfare/warfare state just seems to keep chugging along.
Damn, I'm even more depressed after writing this.

hiswiserangel said...

Buckeye,
There is a distinct difference between those who have worked all their lives, contributed to the programs, and end up needing to tap into them in rough times, and those who never contribute, never work. The furst set of folks work hard to get off assistance as soon as possible, the second set work hard to stay on as long as possible. *hugs*
Angel

buckeyecopperhead said...

Thanks Angel. I would like to count myself as among the "furst" vs the other.