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MrScorpio

(73,631 posts)
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 12:55 PM Sep 2012

Good afternoon, Fellow Moocheurs and Moochettes!

Last edited Tue Sep 18, 2012, 07:50 PM - Edit history (1)

I don't know about you, but I'm feeling moocheriffic today. Now that Mitt has exposed our moocherosity for what it is, we can all just admit that we have to live with our propensity for moocherfication and potential for moocherescence.

If we got the moochertude, let's deal with it and express our Moocher Pride!

So, if Mitt doesn't want to deal with us, well he can just go mooch himself!

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Good afternoon, Fellow Moocheurs and Moochettes! (Original Post) MrScorpio Sep 2012 OP
Link to video? Kindly Refrain Sep 2012 #1
Here you go. Waltons_Mtn Sep 2012 #4
Here you go MrScorpio Sep 2012 #5
Moocho gracias, or thank you very mooch JHB Sep 2012 #25
LOL HangOnKids Sep 2012 #15
MrScorpio makes me laugh once again! madaboutharry Sep 2012 #2
I demand moocherfood Coexist Sep 2012 #3
Moochabunga, dude! pinboy3niner Sep 2012 #6
LOL livetohike Sep 2012 #8
It's 12 noon already? Time for lunch! KansDem Sep 2012 #7
Get off my couch! ellisonz Sep 2012 #13
I'm the biggest moocher here according to him. Cleita Sep 2012 #9
Here, here....Moochers of the world, UNITE! Grammy23 Sep 2012 #14
It's Moochendipity pinboy3niner Sep 2012 #19
Moocher here! Loryn Sep 2012 #34
I'm waiting on a workmans comp doctors appointment onethatcares Sep 2012 #10
I am a victim! Hear me mooch! GreenPartyVoter Sep 2012 #11
Thank you for a well needed chuckle. Whovian Sep 2012 #12
moocho crazy n/t rsweets Sep 2012 #16
I'd like my loot, but this year I filed separately from hubby--got no refund librechik Sep 2012 #17
I'm lazy bongbong Sep 2012 #18
Bravo! Well done. Lionessa Sep 2012 #20
I'm not a moocher. I'm a lazy, entitled slacker AND a struggling small business owner. kestrel91316 Sep 2012 #21
Is there a t shirt yet? yellowcanine Sep 2012 #22
Ya wanna bet ($10,000) Grammy23 Sep 2012 #23
I mooch from the government and all they hand me is this lousy tee shirt JHB Sep 2012 #26
That's it! loyalsister Sep 2012 #30
I'd read your post but I'm too lazy. When is the government truck going to pull up Arugula Latte Sep 2012 #24
We need the DUzys back. nt pinboy3niner Sep 2012 #27
Dammit, where the hell is my pony??!! hifiguy Sep 2012 #28
I guess that Minnie the Moocher must be an Obama-supporting Democrat! greatauntoftriplets Sep 2012 #29
Now I want to see THAT... FailureToCommunicate Sep 2012 #44
And a moochmooch afternoon to you, Moocheur. ananda Sep 2012 #31
Board game invented by rMoney Wednesdays Sep 2012 #32
Can I be Minnie the Moocher? I'm a low down hoochie-coocher. nolabear Sep 2012 #33
I am confused Did I Just Type This Sep 2012 #35
Yeah, maybe Turbineguy Sep 2012 #39
If You Cannot Afford to Throw Elaborate Orgies At Your Estate Yavin4 Sep 2012 #40
Because Freedom! JHB Sep 2012 #48
re:Good afternoon, Fellow Moocheurs and Moochettes! allan01 Sep 2012 #36
All the good mooching jobs have been taken by tv evangelical preachers, sigh. Judi Lynn Sep 2012 #37
Wasn't Mitt once talking about AsahinaKimi Sep 2012 #38
Moochin' Aint Easy! Yavin4 Sep 2012 #41
Being a lazy bum rules! CheapShotArtist Sep 2012 #42
Oh boy, I can relate on so many levels. Kalidurga Sep 2012 #52
UGH. Do you mind? Texasgal Sep 2012 #43
I recently retired so I guess that makes me a Moocherette. Shrike47 Sep 2012 #45
Don't forget our young Moochketeers! LiberalEsto Sep 2012 #46
Yea what do you want? I just back from cashing my unemployment check and ready to crack ArnoldLayne Sep 2012 #47
Faces of the 47% Bernardo de La Paz Sep 2012 #49
Need some music Generic Other Sep 2012 #50
You'll have to pry my mooching mammoth mouth from the government teat! L0oniX Sep 2012 #51

Cleita

(75,480 posts)
9. I'm the biggest moocher here according to him.
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 01:05 PM
Sep 2012

I live on Social Security, supplemented by a very small pension and Medicare. Never mind that my late husband and I worked all our lives and contributed to it. But I guess that doesn't count. I'm a moocher.

Grammy23

(5,810 posts)
14. Here, here....Moochers of the world, UNITE!
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 01:15 PM
Sep 2012


Like you I am one of the moocher class. I started collecting my social security in 2011 and my husband did, too, at age 62. We also get a portion of his pension. It is largely gutted to pay for our health insurance. About 3/4 of his pension goes to the premium for our health insurance. (Almost $900/month) So you can bet your sweet ass we are looking forward to next year when we will be old enough to go on Medicare. Yes, we'll still have to pay for that and we will be keeping a supplemental insurance policy to pick up what Medicare does not pay. But I think we just might get to keep more of that pension than we are getting now.

We both paid into the system for a long time. My husband went to work when he was 16 and his father was dying of cancer. He gave his mother his entire check (probably making $1.10 an hour) and she gave him back enough for gas to get to school and his job. The rest went to help them put food on the table and keep the lights on. His mom worked, too, but in menial, low wage jobs. I worked some during our marriage, was a stay at home mom for some of that time and went back to school later in life to get two degrees. Then I worked from 1990 - 2010, including the year and a half I was being treated for breast cancer.

If that makes me a moocher, so be it. I don't know when I have ever despised Mitt Romney more. He is despicable.

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)
19. It's Moochendipity
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 01:33 PM
Sep 2012

I've been receiving partial combat disability pay (non-taxable) from the Army since 1971.

"If that makes me a moocher, so be it."

Loryn

(944 posts)
34. Moocher here!
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 03:32 PM
Sep 2012

I too, like Grammy and Cleita am a moocher. I collect social security disability. It affords me my Bentley,
and, of course, my beautiful beach front home.

What say we all go downtown and pick up some government cheese! I'll drive.


librechik

(30,674 posts)
17. I'd like my loot, but this year I filed separately from hubby--got no refund
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 01:25 PM
Sep 2012

and had to pay, for the first time ever. I make under $40,000/yr.

Tax policy is fucked.

 

bongbong

(5,436 posts)
18. I'm lazy
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 01:31 PM
Sep 2012

How come they don't direct-deposit my daily welfare checks into my meth dealer's bank account?

 

kestrel91316

(51,666 posts)
21. I'm not a moocher. I'm a lazy, entitled slacker AND a struggling small business owner.
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 02:12 PM
Sep 2012

I wear lots of hats.

I blame Republicans for the fact that I no longer make enough to pay federal income tax. They are the ones who broke the economy and who are working overtime to keep it broken, and that hurts my clients, which hurts me.

Grammy23

(5,810 posts)
23. Ya wanna bet ($10,000)
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 02:36 PM
Sep 2012

That some enterprising person could come up with a Tee Shirt with "I'm part of the 47 %" or "Moochers Incorporated" on it and sell 'em as a fund raiser for our man, Obama??? I'd buy one or two, I promise!

 

Arugula Latte

(50,566 posts)
24. I'd read your post but I'm too lazy. When is the government truck going to pull up
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 02:37 PM
Sep 2012

and drop off the bags of money I'm waiting on?

Wednesdays

(17,380 posts)
32. Board game invented by rMoney
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 03:10 PM
Sep 2012


Instead of "Free Parking" there's "Freeloading," etc., and there's "Go To Jail" on every corner.

nolabear

(41,987 posts)
33. Can I be Minnie the Moocher? I'm a low down hoochie-coocher.
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 03:21 PM
Sep 2012

Well, upon occasion. But I DO have a heart as big as a whale. (Hi-dee hi-dee hi-dee ho)

 
35. I am confused
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 03:33 PM
Sep 2012

If I pay 30% in state and federal taxes (plus 6.25% in Massachusetts sales taxes), how does this make me a moocher on society?

Turbineguy

(37,343 posts)
39. Yeah, maybe
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 03:37 PM
Sep 2012

but you file those taxes and they are read by government employees and that makes you a moocher.

Yavin4

(35,442 posts)
40. If You Cannot Afford to Throw Elaborate Orgies At Your Estate
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 03:41 PM
Sep 2012

Then you must be poor, and therefore, you're a moocher.

allan01

(1,950 posts)
36. re:Good afternoon, Fellow Moocheurs and Moochettes!
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 03:35 PM
Sep 2012

tee shirt time say it with pride everyone who is a end user of government services is a moocher , you included mits . btw : where are your 7 years of income tax statements

Judi Lynn

(160,545 posts)
37. All the good mooching jobs have been taken by tv evangelical preachers, sigh.
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 03:35 PM
Sep 2012

We can't ever hope to hold a candle to them.

We'll have to do the best we can, in spite of it.

AsahinaKimi

(20,776 posts)
38. Wasn't Mitt once talking about
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 03:36 PM
Sep 2012

Returning to the Moon and building a base there? Maybe he wants to set up a colony there to aid in ridding the earth, by sending Moochers to the Moon.

CheapShotArtist

(333 posts)
42. Being a lazy bum rules!
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 03:44 PM
Sep 2012

I mooch off the gubmint with my student loans while going to community college. Oh how great it is to wait for the bus to get to and from school everyday in the hot sun instead of affording a car!
I'm just living the life here at my community college, so much that I don't even want to attend state college and get a better edumacation! Moocha moocha, moocha moocha!

Kalidurga

(14,177 posts)
52. Oh boy, I can relate on so many levels.
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 11:07 PM
Sep 2012

I am just a few months away from my first degree. I am going to a community college. I am funded by a pell grant and student loans and I have to take a freaking bus to school, so I get to be out in all kinds of Minnesota weather everything from the hot sun to near zero temperatures. The bus ride is one hour each way. Oh and this is no joke, I don't want to go to state college, not because of not wanting more education, I just like the school I am going to now and I get real professors teaching my classes and not a TA, not that there is anything wrong with that.

Texasgal

(17,045 posts)
43. UGH. Do you mind?
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 03:55 PM
Sep 2012

I'm too busy eating bon bons and having my pool boy fan me while I wait for my government check to come in the mail.

Later, I am going to get in my cadillac and cash it then buy some champagne and cigarettes!

See you fools later!

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