Have you become a fan of President Obama on Facebook? Add him. I’ll wait. It doesn’t matter if you’re a Republican or a Democrat, fan him. It’s the most eye-opening thing you’ll do this year.

Ready? Ok. Today Chile had an 8.8 magnitude earthquake. It was one of the strongest quakes measured in the history of all recordings. Incredible amounts of damage to Chile, plus tsunami warnings up and down the hemisphere.

Here is a small but unfortunately too-typical sample of how Barack Obama’s fans reacted to the President saying that America stands ready to offer help:

• What about the American people who need help? Gee, thanks Mr. Obama. Feels good to know you care about us.
• WTF that would weaken our government to make us go into a deeper recession!¡¡¡!
• A silent killer is more dangerous than an earthquake.CUT DOWN CO2 EMISSIONS IN AMERICA AND YOU DONT HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THE REST.
• I dont want to sound sinical or anything, but we had an ECONOMIC EARTHQUAKE, and should be helping our own before we give away billions of dollars away to another country.
• Thanks mister president now let’s wait for the arrogant President of Chile to accept the offer

It pains me  to see how publicly stupid people are.

Maybe it’s because I recently went to Chile, but I’m appalled at how Chile is being treated like an alien planet with no human beings occupying it. In fact, it’s a real success story, and a beautiful place to visit. It’s sad that their momentum is being derailed by human tragedy.

At least there was this one guy, who got it right:

Non-Obama supporter here…I don’t care how broke I am. If my nieghbor looses their home in a disaster, I’m gonna offer anything I have to help them out. The same should hold true for a country that just experienced a freakin 8.8 earthquake!!! So kudos to Obama for offering.

You don’t hear about the true concept of peonage much anymore:

peon -  peons a : a person held in compulsory servitude to a master for the working out of an indebtedness

I’m not talking student loans, here — that’s an investment that appreciates in value.

Peonage is getting into debt you’ll never get out of.

Peons buy as much house as they can afford, whether they need it or not.

Peons buy Valentine’s Day presents they have to make payments on.

Peons buy luxury cars and expensive clothes and then ZOMG they can’t make the minimum payments because their salary didn’t increase exponentially! Life is not fair!

“Peon” used to be a pejorative phrase. You didn’t want to be a peon. Wonder when it became the norm…