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Originally posted by AnIntellectualRedneck
So are you saying that we should demonize those who have fallen on hard times and have to live off the government because they can't find a job just like people who lie and cheat and steal and screw everybody else in the country over?
I'm in the 43% who don't wind up paying federal taxes (it's total b.s. that I don't pay taxes at all as has been explained to you people ad-nauseum), and I don't take a dime of government welfare.
A lot of people on the government dime have jobs and need some extra help. More and more these days, people who have paid into the system their entire lives have to take advantage of those safety nets.
Yes, there are people who take advantage of it, but to make sweeping generalizations is really quite ignorant of what's actually going on in the world.
Right now the politicians we elect are the equivalent to the twits we always elected for our school governments. Self righteous, pompous asshats. But we still elect them, knowing what they are.
In a morally just society it wouldn't have been an issue to begin with, if we made informed votes and informed purchases. Only we can hold these people accountable, we can cut off their livelihoods for their immoral actions, and we don't need a bigger and more powerful government to do it.
Originally posted by Rockpuck
There is also a difference how we treat these two demographics, we demonize the self important executive who takes pay raises and bonuses as he lays off thousands of people, and we demand MORE free benefits for those that live off the government not trying to better themselves in anyway.