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Rick Perry to OWS Protestors: “Money is highly overrated.”

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 Rick Perry is ridiculous:

Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry on Tuesday advised protesters in the Occupy movement to worry less about income inequality.

“You know, we have young people who are today occupying Wall Street, that there are some people out there that are making too much money,” the Texas governor said at an education forum in Des Moines, Iowa. “And if somebody were to ask me what the best advice that I could give them? It would be that money is probably the most highly overrated thing in the world.”

“It’s good to have some,” he admitted. “Because I’ve been without and I’ve had some, and it’s better to have some.”

Lay off the sauce, buddy.

[via Raw Story]

[cross-posted at Angry Black Lady Chronicles]

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  2. 2.

    RareSanity

    Mo’ money, mo’ problems…

    However, when you have no money, you only really have one BIG problem.

  5. 5.

    Linnaeus

    Money is overrated, eh?

    Then let’s talk about dealing with that whole capitalist system that prioritizes the making of money. No, you say? Yeah, that’s what I thought.

  6. 6.

    RossInDetroit

    From his point of view, he’s right. From theirs, he’s wrong. Another $10K/year probably wouldn’t mean a thing to a governor. To a struggling twentysomething with $80K in student loans it would mean a lot.

    And the point isn’t so much that some people have and make a lot of dough, it’s that they’re shirking their responsibility to contribute to the cost of government. It’s not that they have so much, but that they pay so little of it in taxes.

  8. 8.

    Cat Lady

    Rick Perry talking about OWS AT ALL means that OWS has succeeded beyond my wildest dreams, and to make their point for them by being a clueless fucktard about being in the 1% is just pure win for OWS and ultimately the country.

  9. 9.

    Omnes Omnibus

    Paraphrasing Sophie Tucker. “I’ve been rich and I’ve been poor — and believe me, rich is better.”

  12. 12.

    scav

    And the obvious, if so, then why are you’ll so het up about possibly giving some of the not-so-important-stuff to the government?

  16. 16.

    Chris

    @Cat Lady:

    Rick Perry talking about OWS AT ALL means that OWS has succeeded beyond my wildest dreams, and to make their point for them by being a clueless fucktard about being in the 1% is just pure win for OWS and ultimately the country.

    What I love is the number of them who’ve spoken out just to say how unimportant and silly and unserious OWS was and how it wouldn’t last and didn’t matter at all and wasn’t anything like the Glorious Tea Party… etc.

    Like Nixon telling the public that he hadn’t even watched the anti-Vietnam marches when in reality he was going ape-shit.

  17. 17.

    Gin & Tonic

    Wow. 15 new threads since lunch. I don’t know about the rest of you, but I can’t keep up, so I’ll just drink wine the rest of the night.

  18. 18.

    Martin

    It would be that money is probably the most highly overrated thing in the world

    Oh, okay. Then if education, health, public safety, and so on are by comparison underrated relative to money, then we should have noooooooo problem raising taxes on the rich to pay for that stuff.

    I hope Obama is keeping a copy of all of this stuff in his iPad, just in case.

  19. 19.

    Little Boots

    ya know, I thought he’d lose. I thought with this economy he had no chance. then the Republicans started nominating people and … suddenly it all seems so different.

  24. 24.

    Villago Delenda Est

    ABL’s first line was my reaction to the headline.

    If money is highly overrated, then why is the parasite overclass so set against actually paying for the social infrastructure that benefits them?

    My experience in the private sector tells me that ordinary people, 99% types, pay their bills (mostly) on time, and understand that the services provided to them cost money, and they’re expected to help offset that. 1% types, on the other hand, consistently expect freebies.

  26. 26.

    Bullsmith

    Paris Hilton is a job creator. The guy who drives your kids to school is a worthless freeloader who’s lucky he gets paid at all, much less gets a “lunch” break. Since when did driving a bus require three meals? It’s not like he has to get his fat ass off the bus. He should be paid less and taxed more. There are rich people who need that money to create jobs, or statues of themselves, whatever God tells them in the moment.

    This used to be sarcasm, even satire. Now it’s the definition of bipartisanship.

  27. 27.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Chris:

    Like Nixon telling the public that he hadn’t even watched the anti-Vietnam marches when in reality he was going ape-shit.

    Not the first (or the last) time Tricky Dick lied.

    “I am not a crook.”

  31. 31.

    pete mack

    If you are looking for candidates separated at birth from blue-clad comic characters, look no further than Mitt Romney and The Tick.
    • can’t remember past beyond last 3 years
    • Loves to show off oversized chin
    • caricature of type, rather than genuine article

  33. 33.

    handy

    Shorter Rick Perry:

    Are there no prisons? Union workhouses, poor law in full vigour, etc.

    Merry Christmas Governor.

  36. 36.

    Chris

    @Villago Delenda Est:

    My experience in the private sector tells me that ordinary people, 99% types, pay their bills (mostly) on time, and understand that the services provided to them cost money, and they’re expected to help offset that. 1% types, on the other hand, consistently expect freebies.

    In my case, it’s not even private sector experience, it’s something I noticed in college. The group of friends I ended up in spanned the spectrum fairly well from dirt poor to filthy rich, with both liberals and conservatives in it: out of all of us, the absolute wealthiest one (who was also a Republican) was, to the best of my knowledge, also the only one whose family felt entitled to cheat on their taxes. (To the tune of something like six million dollars in an offshore Cayman account, something she proclaimed without a trace of embarrassment).

    That seems to be more or less the standard.

  53. 53.

    Mark S.

    I wonder if this is why abstinence education’s been such a rousing success in Texas.

    “And if somebody were to ask me what the best advice that I could give them? It would be that sex is probably the most highly overrated thing in the world.

    “Don’t do sex, kids.”

  54. 54.

    MikeJ

    @Mark S.:

    “And if somebody were to ask me what the best advice that I could give them? It would be that sex is probably the most highly overrated thing in the world.

    Lemony Snickit:

    People who say sex doesn’t matter are like people who say cake doesn’t matter—it’s probably because they’ve already had a few pieces.

  59. 59.

    MikeJ

    @RossInDetroit: Matthew Sweet *does* in fact have one perfect song per album. The rest of them are 99% perfect. But what do I know? I like My Bloody Valentine.

    Thank gopod he didn’t drag Big Star into this.

  61. 61.

    handy

    @RossInDetroit:

    About My Bloody Valentine:

    Loveless sold about 200,000 copies. This is the correct number of people on earth who should be invested in the concept of swirling guitars.

    That is pure win right there.

    Also the New Radicals, I actually did think it was a Todd Rundgren song when I first heard it.

  63. 63.

    fasteddie9318

    I was planning to do a shot for every lie Condi told during her interview with Stewart, but I was hunched over the toilet, blitzed out of my skull 45 seconds in. She’s got to hold some kind of fucking land speed record for being a lying piece of shit.

  64. 64.

    RossInDetroit

    @MikeJ:

    Girlfriend is probably one of the perfect pop songs of all time. There’s just nothing about it that isn’t sparklingly excellent. And I’ve spent quite a while looking.

    RIP Alex Chilton.

  69. 69.

    RossInDetroit

    Maybe Perry is trying to do young people a service. He could be telling them that slavishly following wealth is not the way to happiness.
    No, you go find happiness. We want the best for you. Leave the nasty wealth business to us…

  71. 71.

    RossInDetroit

    @Little Boots:

    Very fun.
    When the Ronettes toured England in ’64 (’65?) the Stones were the opener for some of their shows. Mick and Keith warmed up the crowd for three girls from Manhattan.

    I gotta call it. Work in the am. Try to behave.

  72. 72.

    bk

    @Svensker:

    Actually, it was Paul McCartney who called Sophie Tucker “our favorite American group” in the lead in to “till There Was You”, when they performed in front of the Queen in November 1963.

  74. 74.

    rageahol

    @wag #73:

    correct. that, of course, was Jimi Hendricks, the well-known Australian glockenspiel virtuoso. Wildly popular at the time.

  77. 77.

    opium4themasses

    Ugh. I’m in Texas. Governor Good Hair is a divisive figure. At least every time he opens his mouth assures less popularity for his actions in the state.

    My first thought:
    Rick Perry said Money is overrated and that you should follow your passion to be happy. I’m sure he and the business interests he protects/promotes would be more than happy to soak up that “overrated” money.

    Talk about some patronizing bullshit.

  81. 81.

    Lurking Canadian

    As the old saying goes, I am prepared to accept that money doesn’t buy happiness. All I want is the chance to prove it.

  82. 82.

    Paul in KY

    @Chris: I remember Paul McCartney musing on how when he was dirt poor & struggling, nobody gave him a thing. Once he became wealthy & famous, he got all kinds of free stuff: guitars, drugs, etc.

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