Posted on 10/28/2013 8:49:03 PM PDT by Nachum
Along with their lemming armies.
If “that grouping” were not so very large, getting lumped in would not be notable. Of course some receiving checks from the gov is good, as you deserve it. Alas, the grouping is overwhelmed with the undeserving, and constantly qualifying statements is awkward in casual conversation. Thanks to the undeserving, your checks might just end as the money has already run out (the pipeline just hasn’t emptied yet).
“I can’t see how the Democrats can avoid this thing back-firing on their party. I can see thousands of people camped out at their congress critters’ offices demanding they DO something to fix the situation.”
You answered your own question. Dems will avoid this by constituents demanding they “do something”, which they will, rearranging the pain to satiate the complainers and irritate someone else, repeating the cycle and imputing blame on the Right. Always works. Nobody cares how the problem happened, only that “somebody DO something”.
I think both parties are in it deep. They are racing to see who gets to the bottom of the manure pit.
“I get a “government check” for my veteran’s disability.”
Government checks of all kinds - in aggregate - skew the recipients attitudes to be more favorable to the status quo and the continued receipt (and growth) of those government checks. Do you honestly believe otherwise? Remember, I said “in aggregate” and not making any statement of individuals.
The point is that in the end somebody has to make the money that is taken to fund the government check. We don’t have enough of those “sombody’s”. 49% receive welfare, according to recent statistics. There are also millions of government checks, like yours, that are not welfare that also must be funded by “somebody else”. The percentage is way over 50% of folks that receive “government checks” of all kinds - whether “deserved” or not. Use whatever standard you wish to determine who should get a check.
We do not have the money to pay them all. We do not have the political will to not pay them all, in fact we are making a concerted effort as a country to increase the number of people that get a “government check” of some sort.
I’m for reducing government to the point where we are paying down our debt, not growing it. I am one of the dwindling group of “somebody else”. I’m also a veteran.
If you can make the case that you should be given money that is taken from me - that I earned - no matter who you are and what the reason - feel free to make the case.
The conversation quickly becomes awkward in both directions.
I think we should have that conversation before we meet our collective doom and all the checks stop.
What is this "both parties" of which you speak? You have discovered a second party in American politics? Do tell!
The American "news" media.
They are first.
Maybe half a party, or a quarter...
Ok, you are right. The red wing of the ruling party.
The health care failure is only bad for the Dems if it gets blamed on them.
I heard yesterday that 22% of Democrats are Communists. I’d put that statistic on the low end but high for what America once was.
And the 1968 revolutionaries in Amerika WERE naked Communists. Mao spouting, Marx quoting, Viet Cong flag waving, Castro worshipping COMMIES.
Maybe that's when it completely died, but the fatal disease was introduced about 10 years earlier, when they discovered that they could indeed get away with anything they wanted, as long as they stick together, and that the media was enough in control to run interference for them.
From that point on, they've lost all semblance of self-restraint.
don’t worry....bonehead in the house will bail them out somehow with this talk of amnesty/immigration reform.
the single dumbest thing to do in politics is to change the topic when your opponent is drowning. and the gop wants to do just that.
"Hello, my name is Sandra F**K"
"Come again?"
Alfred E. Obama. Perfect!
My post and complaint was toward the asinine assertion in Post #6.
Tzimisce says “49% of the people in this nation are getting government checks. None of those people care about anything our government does as long as the checks keep coming.”
It is not only those on the left that plays fast and loose with facts and figures to exaggerate their pinhead point.
Did nobama increase the welfare rolls? Certainly, but not to half the population as some try to claim and who either conveniently leave out that a significant percentage of gubmit payments go to SS or somehow incorrectly claim SS and Medicare is welfare.
When Americans begin dying because the government took their health care away from them (which they truly are), the lives of Democrats who voted for this evil aren't going to be worth spit.
Democrat voters won't be the only ones demanding a solution. Plenty of our folks are going to get hurt by this too, and they're not going to abide the sort of 'solution' the Commiecrats will offer.
The country is going to explode over this. The fallout is going to be tremendous.
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