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To: SIer formerly known as Joe B. who wrote (42894)	4/21/2010 5:32:12 PM
From: Arthur Radley	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 62558

<<<Anybody out there reading this message making that kind of money While sittin' on their ass ?>>> I'm not good at math so you tell me what the take is on about 5 people splitting more than $2 billion a year and pays only 15% income tax rate while the average US workers pays upwards of 35% ----if your math figuring comes out to more than $156,000 for this Orleans guy......then I give you the name Paige Laurie as to your question, because she sure as *%$# is sitting on her ARSE laughing all the way to the bank! It ain't so funny when you are getting SGAT by a white gal!

To: SIer formerly known as Joe B. who wrote (42894)	4/21/2010 9:42:09 PM
From: dacoola	9 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 62558

You didn't even mention the entreprenurial drug income. What a shame...perhaps Barack will honor him in his next State of the Union message. Maybe he will have his nine kids stand up in the gallery as an example of what can happen to a struggling young business man in the streets.

To: SIer formerly known as Joe B. who wrote (42894)	4/21/2010 10:07:29 PM
From: Sr K	1 Recommendation Respond to of 62558

It happened in Feb 2004 in New Orleans. Google the name "Larmondo Flair Allen" and it's an easy search. Leave out the "Flair" and you'll see the New Orleans police report.

To: SIer formerly known as Joe B. who wrote (42894)	4/22/2010 12:15:12 AM
From: Buckey	4 Recommendations Respond to of 62558

8 bros and 5 sisters also

To: SIer formerly known as Joe B. who wrote (42894)	4/22/2010 10:23:46 AM
From: diana g	10 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 62558

Larmondo-- An on-topic piece of humor, imho. I think this story is humorous in the same way as a cartoon image of a man sitting on a tree limb while sawing off the limb he is sitting on. Warning--At this point in this post it may or may not be judged to go off topic, depending on your point of view, but there is a joke in the last paragraph so skip ahead to that if you are persnickity about what counts as humor. America created an environment in which Larmondo and his ilk could live & breed very successfully. Larmondo really was a highly successful person in the Darwinian sense in that he had many offspring. So were his parents and probably his siblings as well. His children will be likely to be similarly successful. The residents of 'Larmondo-world' are not perverse. They have simply have followed their natural inclinations. Being in an environment where they were given food, shelter, & health care and there was no restraint on their reproduction, they prospered and bred. We shake our heads & laugh because we recognize that American society/government, in creating and nurturing 'Larmondo-world', has been working at sawing off the limb we all are sitting on. Encouraging the excessive reproduction of the worst elements of the population. It is tragic but it is also funny. Anyone with 2 brain cells to rub together could have seen this coming. We have animal shelters to house & care for homeless dogs & cats. We don't want them to suffer & starve when there is no other place for them, but we neuter them because we recognize that they would multiply exponentially if we did not. Providing them food and shelter & allowing them to breed freely would be disastrous. In the not-too-distant past government wished to address the social problem of poor people being short of food and shelter. A few generations later we have the cesspit 'Larmondo-world' sucking up resources while its residents are breeding furiously. This was easily predicable, but the people making decisions when the welfare system was developed, and those dealing with it since then, decided to close their eyes to this and breed Larmondos wholesale. Isn't that classically comic? ---- Looking to the future with the example of decision makers' handling of 'Larmondo-world' in mind, we can see the larger joke on ourselves is approaching. The same sorts of politicians and bureaucrats who were so shortsighted and dull-witted as to fail dramatically at this relatively simple piece of social engineering are now going to deal with much more difficult global issues like weapons of mass destruction, acidification of the oceans, global warming, various forms of pollution, excessive population growth, etc etc. What are the odds they will do well? ---- It reminds me of the story about the big-rig truck driver coming down a steep hill into a town with tanker full of gasoline in tow. As he tries to slow his decent he realizes his brakes have failed and his speed, already much too fast, is increasing. Looking ahead he sees the town rapidly approaching and heavy traffic of both cars & pedestrians at the first intersection. On the seat beside him his partner is dozing. The driver reaches across and nudges him awake. Awakening, yawning and rubbing his eyes, the man asks "Why did you wake me up?" to which the driver replies-- "Didn't want you to miss what's coming up! You've never seen a wreck like this before!" --- diana ;-)

To: SIer formerly known as Joe B. who wrote (42894)	4/22/2010 3:27:10 PM
From: dan6	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 62558

Welfare in Louisiana - A family of three got about $7500/yr in TANF and Food Stamps in 2005. My SWAG is no more than $300/month/additional child or $21,600, for the extra six (and it's probably less) or $29,100 per year for the whole family. Still a lot. Points out the need for birth control, big time. There are a lot of sub-cultures in the US that think differently than you and I. I will guess that Larmondo would think it pretty f-ed up too that you are able to sit around at home fooling with your computer and make big bucks doing nothing. OJ: Why did Bach have 20 kids? His organ had no stops. -D.