Suffice it to say, that those who confuse dining with eating, are in danger of confusing service with “servant”.

So basically, magic.

Once I would like to just leave a tip and say “Give 100% of it to the guys in the back, please.”   Not all the time since I know waiters and waitresses work pretty hard.. but I think it would be cool just for them to know..

Same with putting my cart away in the right place in a grocery parking lot. I was an “01″ at a Kmart back then and man that sucked getting those together in the dead of winter.

What could possibly go wrong?

Dear “The 1%”
You, The 1% get rich selling goods distributed on roads built by us, the 99%, driven in lorries by the 99% and sold in supermarkets by the 99% or in some other way that mirrors this basic process.  The fact is that every single one of the 1% could not have amassed their wealth without help from the impoverished majority at some point in time.  You 1% could not survive without us.  We would survive more easily and happily without you. 
Owning money does not make any human being intrinsically more worthy than another.  If you are rude to one of the poor people because they are poor, or you cheat them out of money that they have legitimately earned because you begrudge paying forwards your fair share, it does not make you clever, it does not make you powerful.  In fact it demonstrates the opposite. You become nothing more than a parasite.  If however, you have the talent for making money, none of the 99% begrudge you the wealth you amass provided that you pay your share to educate our young, to maintain the roads on which we deliver your goods and to contribute back to the community without whom you could not possibly be financially successful.  If you do this, we all prosper.
Our patience however grows very very thin.  A new paradigm is coming. 
One by one, humans have tamed most parasites.  We have learned how they prosper and how they fail.  If the 1% continue to act as parasites, then your days will be numbered, your time will become limited because the 99% will not tolerate your continued existence and you will go the way of small pox.
We understand that you will never allow us to vote away your fortunes.
You must understand that unless you mend your ways, one day, we, the 99% will take all your toys away.

Yours sincerely

One of the 99% who has seen all the futures

P.S.  Even if you could build enough weapons to kill all seven billion of the 99%, who would drive the lorries on the pot holed roads so to maintain your fortune?

You can be as witheringly skeptical as you like but I suspect if you had tried the least little bit you could have caught on to what BunnyShank was trying to say.

*Of course, this is the exoteric doctrine of libertarianism. The esoteric doctrine is “finders keepers.”

It seems perfectly plausible to me.  I know people who would do shit like this.

Even so, I fail to see the relevant.  This is like kicking a small dog because you got cut off in traffic.

This is a guy who pays probably pretty good money to print cards to give to wait staff.  The cards explain that although this guy has enough money to print these cards and eat at nice restaurants, he’s not giving any to you because OBAMA.  Whether or not the server voted for Obama or voted at all.  And using the excuse that they “just don’t have enough money because of all those taxes.”  Even though they had enough to print the cards and dine out in the first place.

You want to talk about failures of government?  Minimum wage doesn’t apply to wait staff.  Most of their money comes from tips.  Even here in liberal taxachussetts wait staff get somewhere between $2 and $4 an hour.

This asshole is fucking with the livelihoods of people who can’t afford it to make a stupid political point.  He’s screwing people over who didn’t cause him any problems for no apparent reason.  And you think he has a really good point?

Whatever the guy’s argument is doesn’t justify doing this.  Even supposing his argument had merits it wouldn’t justify this.

In response to your specific questions:
1. Who said it’s a good thing?  Necessary is not the same as good.
2. When did the government stop delivering services?  I must have missed that.
3. When did the state default on its promises/contracts?  I must have missed that.
4. When you replace state functions that are supposed to serve citizens with private firms that answer only to money, you end up with a system where private security officers routinely overlook crimes committed by the wealthy but exaggerate or completely manufacture crimes committed by the poor to justify increasing their budgets and to feed the for-profit prison system.  Why do you think private industry is completely devoid of corruption?  The private sector is every bit as corrupt as the public but there’s no accountability in the public sector so you only hear about the most egregious wrongdoing.

Too far?

Some people lack compassion, empathy, common sense… whatever you want to call it and honestly think everyone finds their juvenile behavior charming.

Then again perhaps their “tip” was sincere, learned from personal experience on their part, and they were just trying to pass on the information to prevent others from becoming similarly brain damaged.