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FREE SNICKERS!
June 12th 10:54:59 AM
Very enticing, yeah?? Well, students at Portland State had the chance to play a fairly easy came the other day. Its called "Stand at the Line and Get the balls in the laundry basket and you will win a SNICKERS!!" - As i'm sure you can gather from the name, this game is fairly complex and difficult. Many students won! They were drawn in because they saw full size snickers bars: but when they got the balls into the bucket, they would receive a little tiny mini snickers bar. And that REALLY torqued their wrench- they would yell, "WHAT?!?!". Some would even try to take down the ostrich - thats just crossing the line!
I said, "Sorry, but the game is just modeled after our current social security system and if you don't like it and agree its unfair, then help out our cause - send a screw to your senators. Tell Senator Smith and Wyden, "I'm getting Screwed by Social Security! Secure our future!"
Bet you never thought we could tie Snickers bars into Social Security reform, eh? Well - when you're dealing with such an absurd social security system, its not hard to find things to help demonstrate those basic concepts of unfairness.
If you want to play the "Stand at the line and get the balls into the laundry basket and you will win a SNICKERS!" game, or bring it to your school to help tell others about the need for reform, let me know and I can hook you up with some materials!
Posted by Evan Dent
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