The most ironic statement in history
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Perhaps you've seen the video on "The Daily Show". It's Jon Stewart's favorite "Moment of Zen". The actor Craig T. Nelson decries government bailouts, and says this to Glenn Beck:"I've been on food stamps and welfare, did anybody help me out? No. No."
C'mon Craig, even The Beatles admitted they needed help.
"Help me if you can, I'm feeling down.
And I do appreciate you being round.
Help me get my feet back on the ground.
Won't you please, please help me, help me, help me?"
by Staraj in Six-Word Memoirs on Dec 05, 2012 | 
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accidentaltourist says,
Getting by with a little help...and all you need is love. I'm down with that.Staraj says,
I'm down with a little help, too. Especially if Paul McCartney suddenly felt the need to let me help myself to a cool million :-)accidentaltourist says,
Channeling my inner Blanche Dubois...kindness of strangers and all that.Wench says,
Isn't that sort of what food stamps and welfare are, though...Staraj says,
Of course, Wench. That's the irony that was lost on the actor. But he was too busy trying to come off as a pissed-off "self-reliant patriot" in front of Beck and Beck's stooges in TV land to realize what silliness he was spouting.Society decides what kind of government it wants. Presently, the government funds food stamps and welfare. If the majority of the electorate believes these programs should be abolished, legislative assassins will be dispatched forthwith to Washington to do the deed. No such dispatching yet. BTW – Below is the opening to the U.S. Constitution. One very long sentence, just as the Founding Fathers wrote it. Perhaps continuous for a reason. And take note of the words they capitalized because they wanted to stress their importance.
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."