Link of the Day: When Work Is Punished: The Tragedy Of America’s Welfare State

[High Praise! to Zero Hedge]

When Work Is Punished: The Tragedy Of America’s Welfare State

For weeks now, Dennis Miller has been saying that if you make $40K-45K a year, you should just quit your job and go on the dole. According to the chart at the link above, he’s right.

When busting your hump pays the same as sitting on the couch, why bust your hump?

[Think you have a link that’s IMAO-worthy? Send it to harvolson@gmail.com. If I use your link, you will receive High Praise! (assuming you remember to put your name in the email)]

lolbama! Part 114

Submit entries to lolterizt@gmail.com

Meanwhile, pass ’em around, spread the love, and if you make your own, don’t be shy about dropping a link to your pics in the comments. The more, the merrier.


From Arik:

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From Arik:

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From Arik:

From Arik:

From Kris:


My favorites from the submissions using last edition’s uncaptioned picture:

From Arik:

From Arik:

From AT:

From CTCompromise:

From E Pluribus Unum:

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From Jeff:

From Katy:

From Og of Neanderpundit:

From me (Harvey):

From Travelwise42:


This week’s uncaptioned picture for you to play with:

That’s the original picture from the White House Flickr page. If you’d prefer to caption a version without the wives, you can use this one:


I’m going with E Pluribus Unum’s “Curly”, because that awesome line gets overlooked a lot.


PRODUCTION NOTES:
#1: When creating lolbama! pictures, please caption with either black or white text, as colors like red and yellow tend to blur badly when I compress the images.

#2: Standard image size for these posts is 350px wide by whatever high. If you can have your images 350px wide before you caption them, I won’t end up shrinking your captions into illegibility when I re-size the images.

MAKE YOUR OWN: The free lolbuilder from I Can Has Cheezburger.

STYLE NOTE: Short captions are usually better. Your goal is 10 words or less, with humor value tending to increase exponentially as the number of words approaches 1.

IMAGE SOURCES: Lots of great Obama pics to be found at the White House Flickr page.

Send your submissions to lolterizt@gmail.com and – if they aren’t obscene (IMAO is a PG-13 site) and don’t suck too terribly bad – I’ll post them for you. Remember to include your name (and blog URL, if applicable) so I know who to thank.