"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds."-Samuel Adams
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Posted on 08/03/2007 12:25:55 AM PDT by neverdem
There’s a wide chasm between political principles and cash in hand.
When have we stepped back from our slide into socialism? We are constantly expanding our government health care to include more and more coverage for children, the poor, and the helpless. We are teaching our children that they are entitled to more pay, free health care, free food. The Marxist Democrats will not be happy until we are like Cuba or Communist China.
Gee...I thought all the posters here on FR who stayed home in 06 to teach the GOP lesson cleared all those RINOS out...
Ping, Here we go......
Time to break out the T-Shirts:
Congress needs you to start smoking
I smoke for the Children
Please smoke - Kids need Medicine
Smoke “It’s for the Children”
There is something very sinister about targeting the children of America as a Trojan Horse way of forcing through Socialism.
SEND A MESSAGE TO THE WHITE HOUSE: VETO THIS BILL.
DEMAND EACH PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE TO PUBLICLY OPPOSE THIS BILL.
WRITE LETTERS TO EDITOR - THIS IS CREEPING SOCIALIZED MEDICINE.
SOCIALIZED MEDICINE IS BAD ENOUGH, BUT SOCIALIZED MEDICINE FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT FAMILIES IS GOING WAY TOO FAR!
"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds."-Samuel Adams
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MORE BAD BILLS FROM A TERRIBLE CONGRESS:
“Either way, Pelosi’s energy legislation deserves to sink. It contains a multibillion-dollar tax increase, authorizes billions in new spending, and opens up taxpayer wallets to lawsuits over the government’s inability to meet its own global-warming goals. The nation’s energy needs are best met when Congress keeps its hands off the market.”
“It’s simple—we sat back while the liberals brought up a generation of kids to expect government to GIVE them stuff.”
1) *I* am not raising liberal kids. I hope.
2) We need school CHOICE, and any conservative who is against school choice is unwittingly for the future socialist America.
3) The best way to fight that expectation is to fight that reality. Be against any and all welfare programs.
“No one here at FR would give up their Social Security check, I’ll wager.”
I would, so long as you stop taxing me on it too.
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I am very, very pessimistic about not only the 2008 election (I’ve written off the Repubs already), but—”
Pessimism is unwarranted. History hasn’t been written. This is an awful awful Congress, that is taxing and spending worse than any congress in a long time. Their incompetence is unprecedented and the badness of the bills passed is incredible.
With such a bad Congress, we have the opportunity to get people to WAKE UP and see how voting Democrat is bad for the country.
“I’ll just avoid all the silly posts about “bringing us down” and “quitting,” which is what one gets from the those wearing rose-tinted glasses around here.”
Telling people not to quit is not a ‘rose-tinted glasses’ comment. That is simply Success 101 - Winners never quit. You only fail if you give up trying.
Medicaid *already* covers the poor.
This bill expands it to cover the *majority* of ‘children’ up to 25 years of age. This is socialized medicine, in parts.
"You"? I'm not taxing anyone on anything.
Pessimism is unwarranted. History hasn’t been written. This is an awful awful Congress, that is taxing and spending worse than any congress in a long time. Their incompetence is unprecedented and the badness of the bills passed is incredible. With such a bad Congress, we have the opportunity to get people to WAKE UP and see how voting Democrat is bad for the country.
Pessimism certainly IS warranted. The "we have to wake people up!" approach would be fine IF we had the opportunity to do this. Where is the evidence that people WANT to be woken up? That's my whole point--every four years, more kids who've been brought up to think that liberalism is moderation are coming onto the voting rolls, not to mention illegals. Where is this "awakening" going to happen--home schooling? Dream on--the numbers aren't there. Look at the last election--Democrats made big inroads into Republican territory, while Republicans made ZERO inroads into democrat territory.
Telling people not to quit is not a ‘rose-tinted glasses’ comment. That is simply Success 101 - Winners never quit. You only fail if you give up trying.
Never said I was going to quit--I wrote that I would avoid those who equate realism with quitting. And believing that we will only fail if we give up is not realistic--sometimes you try hard and still fail, and it's fantasy to believe otherwise.
It's not advocating quitting to be realistic about the demographics of the 2008 election, and the media and education population being overwhelmingly leftist.
Everybody wants children to be healthy and full of vigor. So if you say, “it is for the children,” the apathetic will say “I agree with that.” But exactly what health care are we talking about? vitamins? inoculations? dental? accidents? mental health (ritalin)? birth control? weight control? other freebies and entitlements? Where does the parental responsibility end and the government intervention begin? Are parents too stupid and incompetent to care for their children? Or do the Marxist Democrats want to take them away from their parents like in Cuba, so they can be brainwashed by the government?
I hope you have a lot of money to lose.
I'm 48 years old, It would be a no brainer to get out the dollars I put in without any interest back and invest it myself.
I would do it in a heartbeat
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