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The government screws up everything it touches...and you want to give them more? Really? Who do you think pays the majority of taxes in this Country? Who supplies the jobs? I want the government out of my life, not in it more. How can you say that paying more taxes will help anything? Maybe it makes you feel better about yourself to think this...but it's intellectually lazy and just plain out insulting to me and all the people I work with every day to try and make this Country and better place for EVERYBODY. How dare you imply that I and other Republicans like me don't care about the less fortunate. The government only keep the less fortunate down. How's that welfare worked out? Has any government program that was set up to "help" the less fortunate helped?" It's nice to say that from your million dollar home. Thanks for giving me that little insight. FYI: Go look at who that 1% gives their political donations to. Maybe then you'll really see what's going on here. By the way, the only friends we Jews have these days are in the Republican party. And your comments about Cain? A tad racist, don't ya think?
It is nice to know that you cannot keep something private.
If someone asked me to keep something private I would even if I disagreed with the person.
My first instinct would be to point out how many self-made billionaires have created jobs and wealth for millions of people AND support a lot of charitable causes. Can the lefties claim the same of their own actions?
Warren Buffett, George Soros, Bill Gates, Michael Moore. Those are democrats. That's the 1%. A lot of those trust fund babies out protesting have it real easy too living under mom and dad's roof.
I live in a million dollar home and have considerable savings, but still have the heart to care about those less fortunate.I truly believe that the republicans are about keeping the tax cuts for the extremely wealthy and let the poor working schmuck pay all the rest.
I don't live in a million dollar home, or even a $200K home. I own two business, have high debt, and barely have enough to pay the bills and loans. If richboy here wants to do me a favor, he can tell his democrats to get the hell out of my way. If he cares about poor working schmucks, he can open up his checkbook and donate himself. If richboy wants to see folks like me hire somebody, he can help pay my 30-45% federal tax rates, depending on my year. That doesn't account for my state, property, sales, auto registration, and gas taxes.
If Mr. Massachusetts wants to see the effect of what his democrats do, he should take a drive down Seven Mile in Detroit. Fifty years of democrats. Lawrence and Springfield in his own state may work too.
BTW - a little research will show that Republicans give far more to charity than Democrats!
He must still be pissed that he couldn’t get in to medical school.
Hitler was a national socialist. Your friend is more likely an international socialist. The difference is paltry in most cases.
Hildy you fireball. You'd make any conservative male proud (and us c. women too.). lol. I just love handing liberal men and women their ass in their hat :-D. They can't win debates or arguments. This is why they use character attacks etc.
Often if their heart and mind is open (or they just lost the debate :) they very much end up respecting me and know that BS ain't gonna fly and that they better watch what they say around me as I will challenge them. Life is good! You go Hildy.
Yeah I get annoying liberal political messeages on FB all the time. Then I just have to tell my two brothers to knock it off. LOL! They’re both getting Reckless Endangerment for Christmas presents.
That's the core of the liberal soul--"*I* get to live the lifestyle I criticize others for living, but *I CARE*!"
I was on Facebook literally one day and then deleted almost all my contacts except a couple I let on because of work associations. One friend, an ultra-liberal, just posted the most awful Nation stuff every day. I couldn't figure out where people got the time to post all of this garbage.
I just turned 46, and have admitted I'm becoming one of those 'closed-minded' sorts I used to hate. I'm just too fed up with the incessant stupidity from liberals who keep trying to change me. It seems I give their point of view a fair hearing, but they are dismissive and insulting of mine.
So I feel for you for getting this message. It's why I have very little of this kind of communication. It only infuriates, and life's just too short.
You could at least tell him to spell the name right...
You should say: "Really? The difference between you and me is that I give to the less fortunate because I choose to, not because I am forced to do so by the government -- which chooses to waste more of my hard earned money than to actually help the poor." And then say, "how's Barack (57 states, Hawaii is in Asia) Obama working out for you since he has driven the U.S. economy into the toilet and our country is a hell of a lot worse off than we were 3 years ago?" Then defriend him.
Be glad you no longer with this Putz! Oh and don't let him get the best of you. It's pathetic how brain washed some people are and they do not even know it!
Your friend exhibits the traits of those enlisted in the Utopian Brigade of Mark Levin's so-called "Ameritopia".
Next January you'll witness the blinds going up and the sun shining in on what has clouded this country for many years. Dictionary.com describes Utopia thus:
U·to·pi·a [yoo-toh-pee-uh] Show IPA noun
1. an imaginary island described in Sir Thomas More's Utopia (1516) as enjoying perfection in law, politics, etc.
2. ( usually lowercase ) an ideal place or state.
3. ( usually lowercase ) any visionary system of political or social perfection.
I can't wait for his new book because I've lived through a period in this country when trying to create utopia has been ever-present. The utopians have created a lot of 'bleeding hearts', and just how does one go about that? With a lot of knives thrust into the chests of otherwise healthy Americans, that's how.
Sadly, it doesn't end there; individual sovereignty is bled from the person as well. They'll gladly bequeath something of their own (rights) for the well-being of the 'collective' and their peers will hug them, feeling their pain at the recognition of the pain suffered by others while they trek the yellow brick road toward 'destination: Utopia', where life is perfect- almost (because nothing ever is)- and only a gifted few have the eyeballs to see it.
Forming "A More Perfect Union" was not intended to build Utopia, but a place where individual rights flourished beyond the reach of the statist/utopian. That place was America. My, how we have floundered and failed in this regard.
If there is any road back from Utopia it'll require suturing the bleeding hearts to stem the loss of self-respect for individual rights. We'll have to re-teach our little boys that it is alright to kick a bully in the nuts and our little girls to like the boy who does it. And to have many, many babies who'll grow up to do the same. Because, who was the bully that stuck grandma and grandpa in the heart- bleeding it- and screwed things up initially? Was it not a bully? And was it not the government who taught them to 'care' more about others than their own unborn or themselves? Did not, the Supreme Court take away rights people used to take for granted?
Were the road to Utopia not strewn with the bodies of millions of unborn fetuses, I might not recognize the danger ahead, but I do. I will not- get in the boxcar. I will travel no further. Nor will any that I care about. This Train Ain't Bound For Glory is all I need to know. I'm getting off in November 2012. The next media pundit who hollers, "All aboard!" better not do it standing next to me. Just sayin'.
Ask him why he’s such a RACIST???
Good for you Hildy. Absolutely right on.
If ignorance is truly bliss, this guy from MA must be the happiest cat on the planet!
Talk about mindless clichés...holy moley!
Meanwhile, in the REAL world, another euro country (Spain) is on the verge of dumping its socialist government.
I sometimes tend to think that many ‘liberals’ are simply liars and thieves who arrogantly think that they can sucker honest people into believing they seriously believe in a alternate liberal politic. When they ask questions like this, they aren’t being honest as much as they are probing to find the weaknesses in the thinking of an honest person and how they can work around their weaknesses.
I am a Republican BECAUSE I care about the poor.
The problem with liberalism is it defines “helping” the poor only in terms of giving them money. Give them money, problem solved.
This attitude represents extremely short-sighted thinking, actually exacerbates the problem of poverty, and shows how un-caring liberals really are.
I was poor. Actually I was pretty happy living in a mobile home, working a blue-collar job. Today, I would be defined as poor and worthy of a hand-out from the government. I would have squandered it, and never been motivated to go back to school and get my degree. By making the decision to not strive to better myself, I would have lost my dignity, and my self esteem.
There is something that goes awfully wrong when someone extends the hand and accepts money from government. We are not wired to be fulfilled in this manner-this is what liberals don’t “get” about their “help” for the poor.
It is cruel, dumb, and extremely selfish for liberals to ignore the psychological devastation wrought by their “give ‘em money-problem solved” thinking.
Freedom FROM government handouts should characterize any program designed to “help” the poor. Dignity is important. Maintaining self-reliance is important, and poverty can never be helped by destroying these two psychological imperatives for one to be happy and fulfilled.