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  • Americans with No Abilities Act

    Date: January 10, 2013

    Subject: Americans with No Abilities Act

    For Immediate Release

    Washington

    President Barack Obama and the Democrat controlled Congress is considering sweeping legislation that will provide new benefits for many Americans. The Americans With No Abilities Act. Advocates of the millions of Americans who lack any real skills or ambition are hailing AWNAA as a major legislative goal.

    "Roughly 50 percent of Americans do not possess the competence and drive necessary to carve out a meaningful role for themselves in society," said California Senator Barbara Boxer. "We can no longer stand by and allow People of Inability to be ridiculed and passed over. With this legislation, employers will no longer be able to grant special favors to a small group of workers, simply because they have some idea of what they are doing."

    In a Capitol Hill press conference, House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid pointed to the success of the U.S. Postal Service, which has a long-standing policy of providing opportunity without regard to performance. Approximately 74 percent of postal employees lack any job skills, making this agency the single largest U. S. employer of Persons of Inability.

    Private-sector industries with good records of non-discrimination against the Inept include retail sales (72%), the airline industry (68%), and home improvement 'warehouse' stores (65%).

    At the state government level, the Department of Motor Vehicles also has an excellent record of hiring Persons of Inability (63%).

    Under The Americans With No Abilities Act, more than 25 million "middle man" positions will be created, with important-sounding titles but little real responsibility, thus providing an illusory sense of purpose and performance.

    Mandatory non-performance-based raises and promotions will be given so as to guarantee upward mobility for even the most unremarkable employees. The legislation provides substantial tax breaks to corporations that promote a significant number of Persons of Inability into middle-management positions, and gives a tax credit to small and medium-sized businesses that agree to hire one clueless worker for every two talented hires.

    Finally, the AWNAA contains tough new measures to make it more difficult to discriminate against the non-abled, banning, for example, discriminatory interview questions such as, "Do you have any skills or experience that relate to this job?"

    "As a Non-abled person, I can't be expected to keep up with people who have something going for them," said Mary Lou Gertz, who lost her position as a lug-nut twister at the GM plant in Flint, Michigan, due to her inability to remember "righty tightey, lefty loosey." "This new law should be real good for people like me,' Gertz added. With the passage of this bill, Gertz and millions of other untalented citizens will finally see a light at the end of the tunnel.

    Said Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL): "As a Senator with no abilities, I believe the same privileges that elected officials enjoy ought to be extended to every American with no abilities. It is our duty as lawmakers to provide each and every American citizen, regardless of his or her inadequacy, with some sort of space to take up in this great nation and a good salary for doing nothing."

  • #2
    Re: Americans with No Abilities Act

    hahaha nice update to this classic.

    http://www.theonion.com/articles/con...ities-act,541/

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    • #3
      Re: Americans with No Abilities Act

      Not broad enough. Needs to add: Obscene Financial Rewards for Creating Nothing.

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        Re: Americans with No Abilities Act

        Originally posted by don View Post
        Not broad enough. Needs to add: Obscene Financial Rewards for Creating Nothing.
        More like for establishing systemic risk on absurd foundations.

        Frankly, I can see the AWNAA actually picking up steam. Everything else is handed out nowadays; might as well hand out jobs from reticent employers that discriminate against lazy people.

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        • #5
          Re: Americans with No Abilities Act

          I think we've seen this before . . .





          it ended badly . . .

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          • #6
            Re: Americans with No Abilities Act

            Originally posted by don View Post
            I think we've seen this before . . .





            it ended badly . . .
            I dont get these two paintings at all? Is that supposed to be Rome?

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            • #7
              Re: Americans with No Abilities Act

              Originally posted by ProdigyofZen View Post
              I dont get these two paintings at all? Is that supposed to be Rome?
              Yes.

              http://ajablokov.squarespace.com/reb...k-of-rome.html

              Although I think images from France before and after the Revolution might be more apt for what may come.

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                Re: Americans with No Abilities Act

                Originally posted by jpatter666 View Post
                Yes.

                http://ajablokov.squarespace.com/reb...k-of-rome.html

                Although I think images from France before and after the Revolution might be more apt for what may come.
                I read that piece and that is why I was confused. In the pictures above the ethnic makeup didn't make sense to me since I knew Rome was sacked by Visigoths and by Vandals who were not sub-saharan Africans. The portrayal is completely wrong.

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                  Re: Americans with No Abilities Act

                  Although I think images from France before and after the Revolution might be more apt for what may come.
                  Were there Bread & Circuses in pre-revolutionary France? maybe not.

                  I read that piece and that is why I was confused. In the pictures above the ethnic makeup didn't make sense to me since I knew Rome was sacked by Visigoths and by Vandals who were not sub-saharan Africans. The portrayal is completely wrong.
                  +1

                  Karl Briullov. "The sack of 455 is generally seen by historians as being more thorough than the Visigothic sack of 410, because the Vandals plundered Rome for fourteen days whereas the Visigoths spent only three days in the city"
                  Karl may get the sack on the historical accuracy of this one.


                  His most noted painting is the Last Day of Pompeii

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