Saw a dude on the way to the airport the other day bundling his shit up under an overpass, trying not to freeze to death. Dude was working harder that I ever have. Homeless people work all the time, they just aren't making anybody any profits.

Right wingers don't care about them working, they want them to have jobs. They want their labor to be exploitable for profit.

It has nothing to do with work.

Rick Reuben wrote:
It is normal to work.

It is not normal in any way to refuse to work when you can work, unless you vow to never stick your hand out and beg for another man's earnings.

The norm is something that can be applied to both a body one wishes to discipline and a population one wishes to regularize
When power over populations, takes over it does so through a regulation of populations to some idea of a norm. Disciplinary power still operates, but does so to bring the individual body to a norm in the same way that regulation power brings a whole population to a norm. Foucault terms this convergence of powers as the normalizing society, a society in which the norm of discipline and the norm of regulation intersect.

steve wrote:Saw a dude on the way to the airport the other day bundling his shit up under an overpass, trying not to freeze to death. Dude was working harder that I ever have. Homeless people work all the time, they just aren't making anybody any profits.

Right wingers don't care about them working, they want them to have jobs. They want their labor to be exploitable for profit.

It has nothing to do with work.

And "liberals" don't want people to work? Just sit around and do what? It's funny because in our political world, both sides want to exploit the citizen.

All labor is exploitation, from the 18 year old kid flipping burgers, to the tired 50 year old in sales.

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There are simply no jobs available for an uneducated homeless person in a big city, and no amount of equivocation and cries of "liberal traitor!" and word-mincing bullshit is going to change that fact.

Generalize the second half of that sentence across most of Bob's posts.

The job market is already maintained at a labor surplus, especially in an economic downturn. How many employers are going to take a chance on a homeless motherfucker with no residence, possibly no identification, no contact information, no references, no clean clothes? A good person might, but good people are in short supply.

i dunno if this has been mentioned, but the grossest part of this shepard asshole's stunt is that he was taking up desperately needed space in a homeless shelter, which undoubtedly must've resulted in an ACTUAL homeless person freezing their toothless gums off in the cold.

Skronk wrote:And "liberals" don't want people to work? Just sit around and do what? It's funny because in our political world, both sides want to exploit the citizen.

My point is that suggesting that the homeless "deserve" their plight because they are "unwilling to work" is absurd, since being homeless requires a lot of hard work. Nobody pays them for it, and nobody profits from it, that's all. It's still work.

You know what this is a picture of? It is a bunch of cartoon characters trying to move a goal post.

Rick Reuben wrote:If they do work, then why don't any employers want them????

How would you answer this, RR?

ron paul sucks.