When I see those not so old yuppie photos its obvious to me that we have yuppies masquerading as simple back wood folks to sell the brand.

It shames me as an American to know how easily duped my fellows are and then I think well 6.5 million people watch this moronic program and that leaves 294 million of us who are not watching it.

Lets hope our collective IQ can be raised to the level that we no longer have TV executives feeding us shows like Honey BOO BOO and Amish Mafia and Storage Wars, all fake and foolish.

I wish the media spent more time talking about the NSA global spying thing that is the real issue in regards to freedom, I think shows like this help dumb down and stupify people.

Far more rubes care about the old man getting fired for his senile rants than care about Snowdens disclosures.

Its astounding that they admit all this yet people somehow buy into their dimwitted hillbilly persona.

Oh BS on that. Mom did not work either we have two income families now and most of them do not buy their kids sneakers at 200 a pop.

So? Do you think they devolved from cover boys of GQ to semi literate hillbilly for anything besides a staring roll in a reality show?

Who said it was a conspiracy? Its just another manufactured reality that some dullards take seriously.

I am old enough to remember the middle class. We lived in a middle class neighborhood. Some kids dads were cops other kids of union factory workers, a guy who owned a camera shop another dad who was a manager of lawn and auto at sears and all us kids had the same new Schwinn bikes and new clothes for school and medical care was not a financial crisis. We have sunk so hard so fast I think most people do not even notice.

Again most of you are just parroting the right wing corporate media.

Wallmart can afford to give its employees a raise without raising prices they would just have to take a little less in profit. Its a false choice to say more pay for workers is an automatic increase in prices.

Its a fact that each wallmart store costs taxpayers about 900,000$ per store in government aid to its low paid workforce. Its just sick to transfer tax payer money to support the Walton heirs insane take home pay, I think its 2 billion a year for each heir. Oh I forgot they
worked so hard to earn that ;)

Rosie ya know I love ya in my own special way and I do not blame you at all for being deluded after all we are bombarded by a 24/7 propaganda machine but because I care so much I will spell it out for you.

Reality TV is not real and the acting is poor and scripted.

Hmm on second thought you may be right.

I have to think about this.

I must ask myself

Would a reality TV show fake it for the ratings?

NAW that's just absurd.

Anyhow we all know the real issue of freedom today is not some semi senile reality actor dithering on issues that have little or no bearing on how most of us live our lives, the real issue is the NSA spying and that is the greatest threats to our so called freedoms.

We now resume our scheduled programing.... Its hunny BOo boo singing the national anthem....

I urge you to go to the link I provided if your not to buzy watching hunny boo boo

What if Wallmart rather than raising prices took a small cut in its massive profits to fund its pay increase? Each wallmart costs a community on average of 900,000 per year in food stamps and medical care and free lunches etc etc because of its low pay.

Or to drop into character for a reality TV show

Very interesting how they devolved from frosted metrosexual blond hair tips to some type of hillbilly that cant seem to dress for the occasion.

We all know how reality shows are just moronic TV. Check out this link with photos of the clan before they donned the redneck costumes.

America you have been duped..........again.

http://crooksandliars.com/2013/12/duck-dynasty-yuppies-red-neck-drag

I suppose if your so against unions you can give back your weekends, social security,child labor laws,health and safety laws,overtime pay etc etc.

n a stinging rebuke to President Barack Obama’s surveillance policies, a federal judge on Monday branded the National Security Agency’s mass collection of Americans’ telephone data “almost Orwellian” and likely a violation of the Constitution. Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden cheered the ruling.

Appeals Court Judge Richard Leon invoked Founding Father James Madison and the Beatles in a frequently scathing ruling. Leon, appointed by then-President George W. Bush, ordered the government to halt bulk collection of so-called telephony metadata and destroy information already collected through that program. But he suspended his order as the case works its way through the courts.

“I cannot imagine a more ‘indiscriminate’ and ‘abitrary invasion’ than this systematic and high-tech collection and retention of personal data on virtually every single citizen for purposes of querying and analyzing it without prior judicial approval,” Leon wrote.

The judge also dealt a blow to the government’s argument that such surveillance programs — a source of controversy ever since Snowden revealed their reach in a series of unauthorized disclosures — are necessary to thwarting terrorist plots.

“The Government does not cite a single instance in which analysis of the NSA’s bulk metadata collection actually stopped an imminent attack, or otherwise aided the Government in achieving any objective that was time-sensitive in nature,” he wrote.

Leon said Founding Father James Madison would likely be “aghast” at the NSA’s activities — but also conjured up a Beatles-themed image to rebut the government’s suggestion that it does not collect Verizon metadata.
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“To draw an analogy, if the NSA’s program operates the way the Government suggests it does, then omitting Verizon Wireless, AT&T, and Sprint from the collection would be like omitting John, Paul, and George from a historical analysis of the Beatles. A Ringo-only database doesn’t make any sense, and I cannot believe the Government would create, maintain, and so ardently defend such a system,” he wrote in footnote 36 on page 38.

Among Leon’s other flourishes, he warned that the so-called war on terrorism “realistically could be forever!” He expressed concerns about the “almost Orwellian technology that enables the Government to store and analyze the phone metadata of every telephone user in the United States.” And he said modern-day surveillance tactics would have been “the stuff of science fiction” at the time a precedent ruling was issued.

The White House had no immediate response to the ruling.
http://news.yahoo.com/judge--nsa-spying-%E2%80%98almost-orwellian---likely-unconstitutional-200101613.html

Of course you do that is how the servile corporate media spins the story and its hard to get real information.

I suppose when a city is built on labor tax dollars and you take those laborers jobs away killing the tax base and you replace the remaining jobs with automation you kill the tax base.

A brief reminder this all happened when Nafta was put in place and we all remember things were not this bad prior to that yes ups and downs but not a decade long downward slide in living standards for the middle class.

Last time I checked it was not the unions who wrecked the global economy LMAO it was the bankers we bailed out and then gave themselves bonuses. I have never seen a statement so empty of reality in all my life.

Nafta free trade and global capitalism wrecked Detroit. These results were forseen by many who were against them at the time.

Of course one can parrot the corporate controlled medias line all day but its not a well thought out statement.

There is no such thing as big labor in the US your argument is childish.