Obamanomics

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

At court the other day I noticed that most of the 400+ jurors weren't dressed well. many looked ratty and tacky.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I see that even at funerals any more...

 

[kbate]

So what?

I've seen teenagers and young kids go to mass wearing workout clothing.

You do know that nobody has dressed up to fly on a plane since the 70s. don't you?

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I do.

I dress for public. I have pride, that is something the Left has diligently trying to quash and replace with "self-esteem."

Self-esteem tells us that it is only what you think about yourself that matters...

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Its the Crackerization of America.

In Florida and Georgia white folks take ignorant pride in the false belief that a Cracker was admired and esteemed back in the old days. But that isn't true. Cracker was the 19th Century appellation for white trailer trash.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

heh...,


The White Trashing

 

[RobDownSouth]

I do.

I dress for public. I have pride, that is something the Left has diligently trying to quash and replace with "self-esteem."

Self-esteem tells us that it is only what you think about yourself that matters...

The only "pride" you have is a Charley Pride 8-track you picked up in the closeout bin of the Hoedown Music store in Branson Missouri.

 

[Ramone45]

Cutoffs and flip flops in the finest retaurants.
There is a lower quality of life now. Part of it is social, part economic. It has become a disposeable society. Quality and workmanship are no longer universally desired. That's why we shop ot "Old Navy". Also, many of us can't afford to go to places like "Bloomingdale's". The standard of living is absolutely deteriorating. It has been going on for two generations. Around the time we decided to become a welfare state. Around "The War on Poverty".

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Paul Fussell wrote CLASS IN AMERICA, and back around 1980 there were obvious distinctions within social classes. The Proletariat ranged from hobos at the bottom, to professional wage slaves at the top (anyone who earned a paycheck is proletariat regardless of income amount). Back in the 70s when I advanced from unskilled non-union labor to skilled union craftsman my clothes changed, my car changed, I bought a home and stopped renting, and I became Episcopalian and stopped being a Baptist. I dreamed of owning my own sheet metal/air conditioning company. That is, I wanted to be middle-class.

Thirty years later the proletariat all look like bums and have unskilled service jobs, if they work at all.

 

[bronzeage]

Paul Fussell wrote CLASS IN AMERICA, and back around 1980 there were obvious distinctions within social classes. The Proletariat ranged from hobos at the bottom, to professional wage slaves at the top (anyone who earned a paycheck is proletariat regardless of income amount). Back in the 70s when I advanced from unskilled non-union labor to skilled union craftsman my clothes changed, my car changed, I bought a home and stopped renting, and I became Episcopalian and stopped being a Baptist. I dreamed of owning my own sheet metal/air conditioning company. That is, I wanted to be middle-class.

Thirty years later the proletariat all look like bums and have unskilled service jobs, if they work at all.

And still had time to be a double naut spy and a social worker.

 

[Adre]

Some of you need to get out of the trailer park and look around, cos I'm not seeing the stuff you're talking about where I hang out.

 

[bronzeage]

Some of you need to get out of the trailer park and look around, cos I'm not seeing the stuff you're talking about where I hang out.

The last time I was called to jury duty, we were informed of the dress code. Anyone who showed up lacking faced a contempt of court charge. Of course, JB lives in Florida, so they may have to make special allowances in his neighborhood.

 

[JohnnySavage]

I've lived here for 25 years and never been called for jury duty.

 

[unregistered]

 

[Wrong Element]

I don't suppose someone will explain what any of this has to do with Obama, or with politics in any way?

 

[Adre]

I don't suppose someone will explain what any of this has to do with Obama, or with politics in any way?

Come on, everything is Obama's fault. You know that.

 

[dan_c00000]

At court the other day I noticed that most of the 400+ jurors weren't dressed well. many looked ratty and tacky.

Did you look in the mirror or did you just put on your Keystone Light hat and say "Fuck it."?

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

That's been the case here in laid back California for years. Nobody gets dressed up for anything it seems. When I was a young man we'd hit the town on a Friday night in three piece suits and were always well dressed when going out to dinner or hitting the nightclubs. You couldn't get into a decent restaurant without a coat and tie on. I went to work for thirty years in a suit and tie every day. Since being retired and with the exception of a couple of funerals, my suits go un-used. People go out to dinner in casual street clothes all over town now. I pick up my grand daughter at school ever day and I see teachers dressed like they do around the house. In my day teachers had to wear business clothes to school. Maybe we just don't take it seriously anymore.

I call it the crackerization of America. Work uniforms, work jeans, shirt tails out, shorts.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Did you look in the mirror or did you just put on your Keystone Light hat and say "Fuck it."?

I dressed business casual. Gray slacks, gray/green dress shirt (long sleeves), black leather belt, black socks, black leather loafers. I actually got plenty of female attention.

 

[JohnnySavage]

I dressed business casual. Gray slacks, gray/green dress shirt (long sleeves), black leather belt, black socks, black leather loafers. I actually got plenty of female attention.

It's the welding goggles that turned 'em on.