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Originally posted by whatukno
This is the Conservative Right Wing plan for America, the loss of all personal freedom, helping only the multinational organizations, and making sure that YOU are a slave.
that bunk you added about republicans reestablishing slavery is beyond absurd. SLAVERY TO THE STATE .. that's a far left wing thing. Steal from the productive to give to the unproductive = SLAVERY TO THE STATE. Wealth redistribution (theft) = SLAVERY TO THE STATE. Work for money just to have to hand it over to the goverment = SLAVERY TO THE STATE. Your left wing nanny-state utopia is the real slave state.
Oh pish-posh. While I give you kudos for putting together a good thread, I have to disagree with your hypothesis. The conspiracy you speak of is founded in some rather rational thought.
The 14th Amendment isn't about citizenship, it's about Section 4. "The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned."
Why can't we question the public debt? When we spend like drunken sailors (apologies to drunk sailors everywhere) we need to know how much of a good time we had and how much it cost and why we needed it.
The elimination of the US Department of Education is not about making sure the wealthy have access to schools, rather it is about getting rid of a bureaucratic government agency that was formed in 1980. Since its inception, it has set "minimum standards" that has done nothing to improve the education of American students and has in fact gone so far as dumbing down kids so that they can no longer compete in a global workforce.
As far as the elimination of Social Security, I agree. What started out as a voluntary system to invest some of you wages into a government backed retirement account has now become a mandatory investment into government greed. Congress has continually looted funds from the Social Security account to balance budgets, fund wars, etc. ad nauseum. Let the people decide where and how to invest their money for retirement.
When it comes to healthcare, I am 100% against doctors, big pharma and hospital administration boards. I should be able to choose if I want to buy healthcare for myself and my family, not the government forcing me to buy it. Repealing healthcare has nothing to do with taking it away from poor people or letting cancer patients be denied insurance because of a pre-existing condition. It is about my choice to decide to buy it or not.
Do you have any links or is this just something else you made up off the top of your head?
Originally posted by whatukno
reply to post by survivalstation
That's what they want you to think, that's their propaganda working it's magic on you.
Originally posted by fooks
well i'll be darned.
Originally posted by whatukno
I know, many conservatives don't like Article I Section 8 of the United States Constitution.
They feel that section is a mistake and think that the government shouldn't do anything at all about environmental pollution and think that regulations on financial institutions is just unbearable.
I know many conservatives feel that every single Latino in the United States today is here illegally, despite the reality that some actually came here legally, or were born to parents who came here legally, but still, to the conservatives all Latinos are illegal.
I know many conservatives think that every Muslim is a terrorist and that every Muslim wants to destroy us.