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originally posted by: Elementalist
Rather have the government become a parent figure to them and stablize their little worlds.
When greed and laziness become one witin the collective, things will never turn out well..
originally posted by: badw0lf
originally posted by: Elementalist
Rather have the government become a parent figure to them and stablize their little worlds.
When greed and laziness become one witin the collective, things will never turn out well..
Awesome, so people struggling and in need, are all greedy and lazy and want a government parent figure.
Take that you pesky losers, starving, struggling for what ever reason. You deserve to suffer in your jocks, and die. Us manly beastly men worked HARD for someone in order to make them rich and ourselves barely get by. How dare you take even 1 cent from me. I don't care if you're my neighbour or across the city.
Now excuse me as I give to charity to make myself feel better that some organisation will give 10 cents out of the dollar to some starving soul in Africa. It's the humane thing to do. Scumbags like you stealing my hard earned money, sheesh.
originally posted by: buster2010
It's funny to see the Trumpettes whine about "free things" when those "free things" are the best way to make this nation great again. Investing in the education and health of the general populace should be priorities of any nation.
a reply to: Metallicus
The problem is none of these things are FREE they are in fact Government helping themselves to what is in MY wallet and yours. Now you might not care because you are on the receiving end of all this free stuff and don't have anything to lose, but you are stealing from my family and jeopardizing my future and that of my children.
originally posted by: Metallicus
Lots of people on ATS the last few days wanting to give people 'free' stuff. There has been the universal income people, the free health care people and of course the free university people to name a few.
The problem is none of these things are FREE they are in fact Government helping themselves to what is in MY wallet and yours. Now you might not care because you are on the receiving end of all this free stuff and don't have anything to lose, but you are stealing from my family and jeopardizing my future and that of my children.
Basically freebie people want to change the rules I have played with my entire life and change them to legally steal from you and I using the Government to legitimize this theft.
If someone holds me up on the street I have the right to defend myself. Shouldn't I be able to use that same force to defend myself vs. the freebie thieves?
I saw someone in another thread use this self-defense argument to justify the shooting of a Congressman playing softball.
I am not rich, but I am comfortable and that is not by accident. I worked my whole life to make it that way.
I'm tired of people thinking they have the right to give my stuff away.
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Like it or not the universal income is coming.....we have no other choice. Think about it for a moment without bias. We already know truck drivers, taxi drivers, bus drivers are all going bye bye. After watching a company 3d print a house in 24 hours.... I gotta include carpenters too and production has in some places gone 100% automation....... then you remove all the people who make a living from those same folks by doing work for them like lawn care and stuff...... and you have to conclude that if we dont have a universal income in place and functioning it will be absolute chaos. We are talking despair that makes the Great Depression look like a kids little league game. Crime will run rampant as people who are already scared of each new day..... do what they gotta do to eat.
First person that spouts of on the virtues of simply retraining people...... dunce cap for you.
We can not allow our fellow Americans, who were happily doing a job and living a respectable life become desperate and afraid because of things beyond their control.. When can not have any of them becoming so distraught they see suicide as an option and if it takes a universal income... so be it. Money means nothing anyways.... it might as well be monopoly money. they can and do print as much as they want, whenever they want...as long as business is forced to keep prices frozen... after all they wont be paying millions of people so there is no reason for cost to rise
I guess it's ok that the government helps themselves and uses trillions of our tax payers dollars to support a war machine, overseas military basis, and foreign aid.
You may have worked your whole life and are comfortable but what about the people who have worked their whole life and are living hand to mouth,I am one of those people.
originally posted by: Metallicus
Lots of people on ATS the last few days wanting to give people 'free' stuff. There has been the universal income people, the free health care people and of course the free university people to name a few.
The problem is none of these things are FREE they are in fact Government helping themselves to what is in MY wallet and yours. Now you might not care because you are on the receiving end of all this free stuff and don't have anything to lose, but you are stealing from my family and jeopardizing my future and that of my children.
Basically freebie people want to change the rules I have played with my entire life and change them to legally steal from you and I using the Government to legitimize this theft.
If someone holds me up on the street I have the right to defend myself. Shouldn't I be able to use that same force to defend myself vs. the freebie thieves?
I saw someone in another thread use this self-defense argument to justify the shooting of a Congressman playing softball.
I am not rich, but I am comfortable and that is not by accident. I worked my whole life to make it that way.
I'm tired of people thinking they have the right to give my stuff away.
originally posted by: TrueBrit
a reply to: Metallicus
No I don't.
I am just aware that hard work and perseverance are not enough most of the time, for most people to make anything other than a Dickensian nightmare of a life for themselves. You ignore this demonstrable fact.
originally posted by: Painterz
You know how much tax money governments give away for free to big corporations?
It's a lot.
How about instead of subsidising big corporations, the government spend the peoples money on things the people might actually get a benefit out of instead?
You are selfish and greedy to think you are entitled to what others have. You are no better than a thief hiding behind the Government to make it okay to steal from someone who has never even met you.
That doesn't give you the right to redistribute my retirement savings or business assets.
originally posted by: JinMI
a reply to: Metallicus
I get it. My paycheck tells me every week. Have you ever thought which is the greater between corporate welfare and social welfare?