So only the welfare class and lower vote democrat? And all who need healthcare are worthless?
Of course the nation swings back and forth politically, and it isn't nearly as split as you and your silly friends would like to think. The vast majority of people exercise common sense and think rationally. They don't mind helping folks that need a hand, and they work hard for what they recieve. Those are what makes this country great, not whiners and doom-sayers. Wasn't it you that was so offended by the suggestion that wealth would be re-distributed at some point? How come the pendulum can swing when it's going you're way but you want to stop it when it swings the other way?
I've have NO problem helping people, especially when times are tough.
For example, I applaud unemployement extentions.
I do have a problem with generation after generation of welfare recipients.
I remember reading an article, years ago, when the republicans were talking
about putting a limit on welfare (which they should, 3 years) and they
interviewed (insert name) who was herself a
3rd generation welfare recipient,
she was young don't remember her exact age with several kid of her own and
"just didn't what she was going to do". How about...closing your legs and getting
a job ??? There's a novel idea.
You talk about exercising common sense and rationality...wonderful. That would
include taking personal responsibility for yourself and your actions.
I've got no problem with a spouse with children that looses a loved one and
needs help, or the disabled, etc...I got a problem with people capable of working
and
chose not to and want others to do for them while they contribute
nothing while adding to the burdern every nine months.
The pendulim swinging the other way has not or should not include the socialism
or redistribution of wealth. Yea, I take offense to that. When the healthcare
plan goes thru, lets say they will take approx. $500 a month, 6,000 a year
to the tune of $30,000 from me 30,000 from my Daughter (she's 24 perfect health)
$30,00 from my son (he's 23, perfect health) for a grand total(just from the 3 of us)
of $90,000 for the five year period BEFORE THE BENIFITS EVEN KICK IN IN 2014
just so the aboved 3rd generation welfare recipeint can have health insurance.
And that's common sense to you and a good thing...:wtf:
The same insurance I've paying for MYSELF for the last 30 years by...here it
comes...wait for it...getting our of bed EVERYDAY and going to work...EVERYDAY.
There's that pesky personal responsibility thing again.
And your right, this country was no made great by whinners and doom sayers
and it sure as hell wasn't made great by people walking around with their hands
out asking for freebees or socialists. It was made great by people with a
vision of freedom and lack of government intervention spurned on by energized
people in the free enterprise system, the American dream if will, of actually
keeping what you earn.
I was thinking about this the other day, JFK and his historic speach...
when did being a Democrat change from...
"Ask not what you country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country"
to...
"where's my free stuff"