CNN Shows How Tight Money Is in America Today, Unemployed Forced to Buy Flat Screens on Sale

Is no one responsible for themselves anymore? I am told that things are bad all over America, that people have to choose between food or heat, between food and meds, people who bought houses with ARMs when they knew they didn’t even have a job are losing thier homes…OH WOE IS ME!

Personal responsibility? It doesn’t exist. Take this CNN Piece for instance:

“Veronica McNeil has two kids,” said CNN correspondent Alina Cho. “She recently lost her job. Her husband’s an iron worker and the family is feeling the pinch.”

While McNeil was introduced as struggling financially, she then announced that for the right price she’d buy an unnecessary high-ticket item.

“If I’m here to buy baby stuff and I see a TV at a good sale price, I’ll grab it,” McNeil said.

Cho pointed toward “rising gas and home heating oil prices and Americans losing their homes” for money being “tight.” Unfortunately, Cho entirely missed the personal responsibility angle – if there is something you can’t afford, don’t buy it.

Cho also cited another shopper who complained “it seems like everything I buy is a little more expensive today than it was yesterday.” Still, the man was willing to splurge on a “big TV for the Giants game” because he’s a fan of the team.

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Meanwhile, because things are so bad, Congress is offering rebates to the poor, poor citizens, so they can go out and buy a bunch of other crap they can’t afford or don’t need. $193 billion so some jackass doesn’t have to watch the Super Bowl on a regular television. The government is, and has been, reducing the masses to a large collective, a group of dependents.

Give me liberty or give me death? Not anymore. Now it’s, give me a rebate so I can buy that flat screen I wanted. This isn’t what our forefathers died for. This is what Stalin and Lenin dreamed of. A willing group of drones, marching down the road to serfdom.