Originally posted by mental modulator
I will ask you some questions
Do you believe the United states government should provide financial assistance to its citizens if the person is unable to find work?
Yes, but only to the extent the federal government had "secured" from my own pay throughout my employment. No freebies. I believe this to be a very
crude and corrupt form of reprisal, but this is what it is right now and that's what I feel is fair considering the circumstances. You can only take
if you've put in.
Do you believe everyone should be taxed at the same rate?
I do not believe in a flat tax, but there are many ways to avoid unnecessary taxation that are not black and white. As I adhere to no one ideology, I
would like to see federal tax across the board dissolved and state's find more innovative and fair ways to compensate for their specific needs.
Do you believe healthcare is a right of for CITIZENS to enjoy?
No, I do not. Not when I have to consider that by "right" you mean federally funded and enforced. I do not want my healthcare to be determined by
the corporate protectionists and lobbying powers. I could only imagine what healthcare in America would look like if ran by the dog-chasing-tail
beauracrats in Washington D.C. Just as I don't believe that the current form of corporate (insurance) protectionists keep the people broke and big
business paid. We already have a considerable health epidemic in this country and the federal government is only going to make that worse.
simple questions,
But not nearly that "simple." Simple for you because you have no issue with being critical of both sides of the spectrum. Realistically, nobody
should answer these with such confidence considering what could happen if a Yes or No answer was given. And what happened to free will and choice? To
you, it's either one or the other. There's a million variables to be considered and you've decided out of two given to you by people who have gone
to considerable lengths to work against you. Look up Hillary Clinton's Universal Health Coverage debacle. I'm sure you'll find that interesting.
if you answered ANY different then we see things very differently and further prove that there is such a thing as RIGHT and LEFT.
Ridiculous. Three questions are supposed to divide and differentiate me from you? That's not how the universe works, that is how kindergarteners
work. If I am not with you does not mean I am against you. We may see things differently, but to object to one another instead of exploring the
endless possibilities would be "not wise" as you keep saying. I'm not here to be hearded by federal government officials that act as a good willed
shepard. I refuse to pick A and B because I feel as though I have to. I'm no robot and I, like you am a complex person and a complex mind. I feel
like you're doing yourself a disservice for being so submissive in thought. A shame..
The smart thing to do for is to acknowledge this and go from there...
That's the opposite of what I should acknowledge. Realistically, we are being forced to choose something that we may not fully agree with. If we are
letting them shape our own will between two choices, what does that say about us as free willed people? I am my own man, with my own reservations
about what is right and just, and very few of them have been passed down by public opinion or by government officials.
I like Ron Paul - BUT, I think many of his views are not compatible with THE modern day super power.
Super power? You swing left, but you want to classify us as a superpower? What happened to contentment? Where have the right/left led us equally? Into
the poor house where credit is what sustains us. We have no savings! We don't own our houses! We don't own our cars! Most of us don't even
officially own our education! Did either party stop the creditors/bankers from completely controlling our quality of life? No, neither of them did.
Some people from BOTH sides tried to rally against it, but both parties succesfully granted the fate of the people they served to multi-billion dollar
conglomerates.
I don't even want to consider more war, universal healthcare, or whatever bull# ideology these politicans are talking about. I want to our country to
become grounded! You can't build anything if it does not first have a viable, strong and consistent platform! That goes with politics as well! The
problem with all of these federal programs that are driving our dick in the dirt is the advancement of these unsound policies being built upon unsound
policies, which were built upon another unsound policy.
Dr. Paul and I couldn't be more different in life and politics, but I agree whole heartedly with what he is trying to do. His ideas aren't "dated"
they're infallible! They're not "old," they're everlasting.
It reminds me of the neighbor across the street who finances an Escalade, a boat, a sports car. His kids have the nicest bikes, baseball gloves,
clothes, his wife fake breasts, cologon injections, plastic smile. Then the next thing you notice the repo man is taking everything they own and their
house is foreclosed because they lived outside their means.
Where as Ron Paul would be the old guy across the street with a nice truck, paid off, decent car for his wife, paid off. Put all his kids through
college, but he made them work for it and never relied on credit. The house had been paid for 20 years and they can reap all the equity they've
accumulated because they were diligent in their finances. They have money for retirement, but still work because that's what they know.
It's the difference between bull# and contentment. We need to revert back to the basics.
Strong national defense, stable production economy, domestic small business employing Americans, strong industrial exports, and a real estate market
that is not based on sneaky accounting, but of financial responsibility.
Those aren't dated principles. That's sound policy!
Our lack of contentment created and enabled by the Federal Reserve and other banking institutions have single handedly forced this country into a nose
dive that may take decades to correct.
I like the guy, because realistically he wants what is best for us. A lot of us aren't looking for 13 extra dollars every week that we'll have to
pay interest on later on, we're looking for our out of control federal government to correct itself, even if that means wiping the slate clean and
begining a new with sound principles.
This DEM/GOP struggle exists because most questions can be answered with a yes or no -
= 2 options
= two parties reflecting those options
Am I left of right?
easy, and real as my computer
Fundamentally, they shouldn't be answered with a yes or no. Anything yes or no is injustice! You cannot express the complications of anything with a
yes or no answer and especially when there is ONLY 2 answers given for you to choose from. Then you wonder why there's so much misunderstanding.
It's not because the majority agreed on the wrong answer, but because that answer was a black or white one and didn't encompass any of the grey area
which is where 99% of life involves itself in. Such a simplistic, non-critical train of thinking that has gotten and will continue to get us nowhere.
A constant struggle assures life and ability to change/shift which is a nasty climate for
absolute tyranny....
Exactly, and this is where we evolve.
