How to get out and stay out of the Great Recession, by Michael Davis – Straight No Chaser #239
October 21, 2011 Michael Davis 0 Comments
I don’t understand how we ALWAYS find money for a war but health care?
Nope.
I also don’t understand how people with a grip of money frown on taxes for health care.
I’ve been rich, I’ve been poor.
I’ve been poor, then rich and I’ve been rich, then poor. Regardless of my bank account I frown on paying taxes because it’s a fucking bitch to deal with. I’ve NEVER bitched about the amount I’m paying or why I’m paying it.
It simply never occurs to me to be pissed as to why because I live in a country where my tax dollars go to shit like, oh I don’t know, POLICE? FIREMEN? ROADS? HEALTH CARE?
Well not Health Care if a Republican gets in.
I don’t get it but I have an idea.
We PAY to jail people who pay for or sell sex.
Right?
As if fucking is an issue that’s more important to spend money on than health care. If America insists on punishing people who want to fuck then Why the FUCK don’t we FINE those people or regulate the sex industry so we can STOP shelling out billions of dollars a year for victimless crimes?
It’s OK to gamble, It’s OK to kill yourself smoking, it’s OK to drink yourself into rehab, all of which we tax and regulate but pussy? NO. Health care? No.
Yeah-I can hear some GOP airhead now, “Selling sex is NOT a victimless crime. It destroys marriages, it destroys the family.”
Really?
Not MY problem. Not your problem unless it’s your husband or boyfriend on the prowl, Mrs. GOP. Wait a sec; you want us to use taxes and other resources to lock up the pussy that made your husband stray? Really? I’ll tell you what, I’ll pay for that with my tax dollars if you use your tax dollars to help pay for the minimum wage American who can’t afford health care for his family BUT he keeps his dick at home where YOU think it belongs.
What about our children you ask? What about their role models?
Clinton getting a blowjob was NOT America’s problem, it was Hillary’s problem. Oh-and Clinton will go down in history as one of the greatest President’s ever.
Oh, and about your children…be a FUCKING PARENT! I’m a grown man and I STILL won’t curse in front of my mother.
GET A CLUE!
Tax pussy.
We will be out of the recession by Tuesday of next week.
Mike Gold
October 21, 2011 - 7:56 am
Taxing commercial pussy will just drive it back underground — for one simply reason: it will leave a record. File your joint tax return, then drop by your divorce lawyer on the way to the mail box.
But if it’s a legitimate business expense, and those of us who have spent any time in the music and broadcasting businesses understand that all too well, and if you get a receipt — after all, it’s being taxed — is commercial pussy tax deductible?
And will Walgreens open up a cathouse next to their in-store clinics? Lots of money to be made on a cash business.
mike weber
October 21, 2011 - 9:44 am
Dunno about Walgreens opening a cathouse … but they already sell sex toys by mail-order…
Randy Milholland’s typically warped take on that little factoid begins here and continues for a few strips.
Probably NSFW unless you work at Nerdrotica.
Jonathan (the other one)
October 21, 2011 - 10:40 am
Booze breaks up families, too. And so far, I haven’t heard of anybody who went out, hired a hooker for a few hours, then got into his car and killed a family of five on the freeway.
Unregulated commercial sex *can* result in STDs, some of which are untreatable; however, smoking cigarettes, a perfectly legal activity, *often* results in the smoker contracting cancer. And with the state of health care in the US today, it might well go undetected until it’s untreatable…
Sorry, but none of the rationalizations for keeping prostitution illegal make much sense to me, not if we assume that it can be not only legalized, but legislated and regulated, just like every other service industry in the country. (You can’t even get a job flipping burgers at McDonald’s without passing a health-department exam on how to treat cooked food.)
MOTU
October 21, 2011 - 11:17 am
Jonathan,
The porn industry self regulates and have done a pretty good job of keeping their people from dropping like flies with STD’s.
I’m with you, none of the reasons make sense to me either.
MOTU
October 21, 2011 - 11:24 am
Mike,
the majority of people who pay for poon won’t care about ‘records’ being kept. Those husbands who get caught with thier pants down by the wife? Not my problem, not your problem.
Walgreens, Target, Sears and maybe even Toys ‘R’ US will get in on the act I’m sure. Gives an whole new meaning to, ‘Sam’s Club.’
Vinnie Bartilucci
October 21, 2011 - 3:35 pm
Jim Norton has a joke about prostitution (that was lifted by Family Guy) – Having sex for money is illegal, but having sex while another person is filming it, and then being paid for THAT is legal. So if you hire a prostitute, set up a camera. If the cops bust in, jump up and scream “OK, CUT!”
The mindset is simple – people want it, let them have it, just as long as the government wets its beak. Seems a slam dunk. But the problem is simple – certain vices have been declared verboten, and any attempt to change people’s mind will result in hopeless short-circuits and general confusion. After nearly a century of anti-pot indictrination, suddenly being told that pot is okay will just not go down smoothly, ad people will fall back on childhood programming and whine “But you SAAAAID…”
So too with prostitution. The most common reason somehting stays legal or illegal is there’s too many people making money off it one way or another.
It’s a great idea, just the odds of it happening are slim
Martha Thomases
October 21, 2011 - 3:43 pm
The only argument against prostitution that ever made any sense to me (not that I agree with it) is the one Susan Brownmiller made in AGAINST OUR WILL. She said that anything that can be bought can be stolen, so if some women sell their bodies, men will feel entitled to take them without paying.
As I said, I don’t agree with this, but it is at least somewhat reasonably consistent within itself. And if prostitution were legalized, like drugs, that would remove a lot of the less savory elements (pimps, pay-offs, lack of protection/respect for prostitutes).
MOTU
October 21, 2011 - 4:30 pm
Martha,
“…so if some women sell their bodies, men will feel entitled to take them without paying.
Good point, but NOW if an prostitute is raped the crime will most likely go unreported and the bastard may feel he can get away with it again.
If prostitution were legal then it would be a sex crime and thus the bastard would be subject to serious jail time.
Rene
October 21, 2011 - 5:23 pm
I think I will change my name to Captain Obvious by saying that Christianity still has a huge influence in most Western countries, and since sex outside of marriage is eeeevil, the only involvement the government may have with prostitution is to forbid it.
And frankly, I don’t see this changing in the next 20 or 30 years in America. You guys ever noticed that, while tolerance for gays has increased, tolerance for promiscuity is ever lower? Adultery seems to be as big a taboo as ever.
Even the GLBT community has adapted to it. Most of their efforts don’t seem to be in the defence of pleasure, of sexual freedom. It’s all about marriage, love, adoption, family.
Sometimes I think the next big rage will be Evangelical Churches for Gays. You will have gay people that are as hysterical in their defence of pre-marriage virginity and lifelong monogamy as today’s most strident Christians.
MOTU
October 21, 2011 - 9:24 pm
Captain Obvious
trademark & copyright 2011 Rene
Hey-you never know! 🙂
Rene
October 21, 2011 - 9:30 pm
Also, speaking very sincerely here:
Today I have a good job, I work out in the gym daily, I have broad shoulders, and I have a certain confidence with women, even though in many aspects I am still a nerd.
But in my teen years and early 20s I was scrawny and painfully insecure and full of hang-ups. So I have to say that working girls do a very important, very essential, sometimes a very necessary job…
Seriously, it’s almost a health-related industry. 🙂 It’s not just bored, cheating husbands.
MOTU
October 22, 2011 - 12:32 am
Rene,
It’s WAY beyond bored, cheating husbands but the Right would have you think thats ALL it was. You know, now that I think about it, Dads taking thier sons to a hooker is a rite of passage in America. So in a very real way prostitution is the American way!
Steve
October 22, 2011 - 5:47 am
1. STOP GETTING BUSTED WITH HOOKERS, Mike so we could be spared this sort of post!!
2. What makes you think the right has something a against hookers? Free enterprise, supply and demand AND no taxes. What’s not to like?
3. The crazy lunatic evangelical contingent is no more representative of the right than the psycho far left is of the Democrat is representative of your side. Are you saying the left is ALL the same and the right is ALL the same? I know for a fact you’re too smart to think that, why do you write as if that’s the case?
4. You right, you are still a nerd, but we love you anyway.
Steve
October 22, 2011 - 5:50 am
And for the record, I’m not into hookers and never have been. It just kind of grosses me out. But hey, to each his own disease…..
Steve
October 22, 2011 - 5:56 am
Oh, and the only good thing about Clinton was that he gave us great SNL skits!! And the whole lying thing? It wasn’t that he lied to Hillary, it was that he lied under oath to a Grand Jury in a case that was about his sexual harassment issues. Not appropriate to ask him about sex in that context? REALLY??? So I guess, it’s OK to just lie, under oath, to the court, if you just don’t think you need to tell the truth. Great President? If it wasn’t for Newt, love him or hate him, dragging Bill kicking & screaming to fiscal responsibility, God knows what those years would have wrought. Any good that cam from the Clinton years was the work of the Republican Congress.
Forget Japan, dude!!!
Martha Thomases
October 22, 2011 - 6:36 am
MOTU, I’m sorry, but fathers taking their sons to hookers is just creepy.
David Oakes
October 22, 2011 - 8:18 am
“Adultery seems to be as big a taboo as ever.”
Actually, it is an even bigger taboo than it has ever been before. And this increase has gone hand in hand with acceptance of divorce and even pre-marital sex. Americans don’t really care if you sleep around. But since they no longer believe that you should be trapped in a loveless marriage, they have an even greater problem with people that would cheat on a partner.
Rene
October 22, 2011 - 9:10 am
Martha, fathers taking their sons to hookers was very much an institution in Latin America too, or so goes the legend. In my own time, it was far more common for some more experienced buddies to take you to a pro, or at least give you pointers. So I missed having this sort of father-son bonding moment.
But I’ve heard of at least one case of a traumatized 13-year old boy complaining to a school counselor that his dear father was taking him to orgies with hookers. Story told by a teacher that is a friend of mine.
As for prostitution encouraging rape, isn’t that just a variation of the hateful idea that women, by having multiple partners and dressing sexily, are “inviting” rape? I think the explanation for rape is very simple: a few men are sick bastards.
I’m against glamourizing hookers, but traditional media has gone too much the other way. Anyone here has read SuperFreakonomics? There is a chapter about the prostitution industry in Chicago. Most of the girls are healthy, well-adjusted, affluent, and normal. Most of them don’t even have pimps.
MOTU
October 22, 2011 - 1:20 pm
Steve,
So now the Clinton years were great because of Newt? That’s like saying porn is great because of the story.
Put down the pipe man.
Clinton was proven NOT to be lying under oath don’t you remember? The Right never gives any credit to anyone on the Left no matter what.
Obama’s policies in the middle east has been met with cries of “He’s making us less safe” since before he was elected. The ‘3 am’ phone scare tatic was used by the GOP like it was thier idea. How’s that working out for you?
Here’s Obama’s 2011 AD:
Every time a bell rings an angel gets thier wings.
Every time the phone rings at 3am in the White House a terrorist gets a bullet in the head.
Here’s the GOP’s answer AD:
Obama’s bullets are NOT American!
MOTU
October 22, 2011 - 1:23 pm
Martha,
It IS creepy. What can I say except…’White people.’
MOTU
October 22, 2011 - 1:24 pm
Blam! RIMSHOT! I’m here all week! Try the chicken!
Mike Gold
October 23, 2011 - 8:03 am
Like most of Susan Brownmiller’s babble, her argument is specious and goddamned stupid. Perhaps we should stop selling food because people boost steaks. If a woman has a right to control her own body, then renting it by the hour is her right and her choice.
Men taking their sons to hookers to lose their virginity was extremely common here in the States until about World War II, although it did stifle their kid’s personal growth. Boys should figure out how to find a hooker on their own. Man-up to the challenge!
After the invention of the birth control pill this practice became unnecessary. After HIV, it became dangerous — for those who ignore the “by cheap, get cheap” rule.
I have no problem with prostitution, particularly if it’s subjected to reasonable health regulations. Hookers could ask to see their john’s badge, johns could ask to see their hooker’s health certificate. Quid pro quo. Sort of like the new health certificates that lurk in front of restaurants in New York City: you’ll go to an A, you might go to a B, but that C requires… special incentive.
MOTU
October 24, 2011 - 10:34 pm
Steve said,
“I’m gonna have to wait for the new iWhatever so that I can properly use the GetHo app.”
That’s being announced for the iPhone 5. Finally, a reason for me to get a new phone!
Martha Thomases
October 25, 2011 - 7:57 am
@Steve: Yes, a father taking his son to a prostitute is creepier than a mother explaining menstruation. The latter is educating a child about her body. the former is sharing a sexual experience with one’s child. It’s icky.
Rick Oliver
October 25, 2011 - 10:03 am
I gotta go with Martha on this one. The only educational value in a father taking a son to a hooker is that the son learns where to go to get a hooker and how much to pay them… not really a critical life skill.
MOTU
October 25, 2011 - 9:10 pm
Steve said,
“I don’t think it is “sharing a sexual experience”, Martha. Unless the father joins in with his son and the hooker.”
Ugh…white people.
MOTU
October 25, 2011 - 9:23 pm
I’ve said it a zillion times, you can’t regulate morality. If a Dad wants to take his son to a hooker,that’s HIS son. NOT my business.
What issues and problems that son may or not have-STILL not my problem not my business.
Let’s say I want to dress up in high heels, lipstick and a dress and have drugged fueled sex with a super HOT too die for Asian girl for days while reciting the Green Lantern oath over and over-that’s MY business.
I wouldn’t do that by the way-the Green Lantern oath is too long-I’d recite the Uncle Ben ‘great power’ line.
What?
MOTU
October 25, 2011 - 11:58 pm
Steve,
“Trust me…I’m your hero.”
He said as the super HOT too die for Asian girl texted him to say she read the comment and can’t stop laughing. “NO ONE will believe it!” I texted back to her. “I know LOL!” she wrote back.
Super Hot Asian Girl
October 26, 2011 - 12:07 am
First, thanks for the hat Motu.
I do so LOVE it when you surprise me in your hot black pumps and tight mini skirt. Boy-I’m so glad no one can see out texts…wait a sec…oh my…
Martha Thomases
October 26, 2011 - 6:14 am
@Steve: Sorry menstruation grosses you out. It’s a healthy part of life. Perhaps you should know more women?
Mike Gold
October 26, 2011 - 11:49 am
Women who don’t menstruate, Martha?
Comparing menstruation to taking your kid to a sex pro is a bit too apples and oranges to me. But since there’s always a however… however, menstruation was not talked about or even acknowledged (along with many, many other normal healthy body functions) in our pre-WWII society, whereas taking your boy-child to a sex worker was rather common during that same era.
It would have been better had mothers of that era told their daughters that sex is also a normal, healthy body function and maybe share some information about how to minimize the likelihood of pregnancy. Of course, such information was not legally available via the mail and, in print, was considered pornography subject to all the sanctions our Puritanical governments could conceive. Even today, sex education remains a controversial issue.
Stupidly so.
Whitney
October 27, 2011 - 1:32 pm
MOTU –
RE: MOTU in black pumps…Ewww, but of course they would be black.
But that should be a capital ‘B’, my brother.