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I am not my brothers keeper.
I am not responsible for you and your actions, you are.
Stop whining about the world and make changes in YOUR life to better YOUR life.
Stop expecting everyone else to carry the bucket for YOUR gain.
Just because someone is wealthy does not mean they owe more to society. They own no more then everyone else.
Stop trying to force the plight of some onto all.
And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done [it] unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done [it] unto me.
Stop trying to tear down some to better others.
This is the biggest load of crap thread that I have ever seen.
Great trolling though. You got me to reply.
No. I think the problem is the "You have more than me so give me yours" attitude.
So, you are one of those "Me the Person" types? It's all about YOU, and Eff anyone else? Do you think that this might just be the real problem in America? The "me first" attitude?
No. I think the problem is the "You have more than me so give me yours" attitude.
You do get the hypocrisy engendered by your next statement, don't you?
Originally posted by whatukno
But I don't have that attitude, as I have said before, I don't take food stamps, I don't receive welfare, I don't get disability, I don't get any "entitlement". I don't want any of his, I take care of myself.
So you don't want "your" entitlements now, you want them later? This makes you better than the welfare queen how?
But what I don't want too is if the day comes and I DO need something like Disability, or my Social Security, to have it gone thanks to "ME First, Eff You-ers"
There are two misconceptions in this statement. Let's address them. 1) "Your Social Security": You do not have a SS trust fund set aside. Your money pays for today's recipients. You do understand that, don't you?
I don't WANT my Social Security given to Wall Street.
I am sorry, but there is no longer a "safety net" for any of us. The best net we could have had was a strong economy with good jobs for all who wanted them, but that is gone now. I blame the liberals for this. I blame the government and I blame the unions. They all contributed to the decline of our nation. The truth is people die, and more people are going to die. It is too late to stop that now. The best we could hope for is a complete collapse where millions will die in a short time frame while we rebuild and return to Constitutional governance.
I don't want that social safety net to be taken from people who need it by those that feel that people should starve and die.
Do you actually believe that to be true? Have you ever heard of "pell grants" and "student loans"? Those are not the only ways that the taxpayer pays for law enforcement training. My ex-wife became a deputy sheriff. She went to school with her FUTURE employer paying for her AS degree and paying for her to attend the police academy. Where did that money come from? Some from federal grants(our tax dollars) and some from the sheriff's department training budget(local and state tax dollars).
I brought this thread up to a friend of mine, I said to him, why is it that we are supposed to pay for training for military personnel? We don't pay for the police officers to get trained, a person nowadays needs a degree in Criminal Justice and have to go through the police academy in order to become a police officer. We the Taxpayer don't pay for that, why should we pay for a soldier to get trained?
Talk to your congress critters. Tell them to eliminate the GI bill along with pell grants and student loans. I would not oppose you.
Why should I have to pay for his Montgomery GI Bill so that he can go to college?
There is absolutely nothing socialist about the US military. It is a totalitarian dictatorship.
When Conservatives talk about ending "entitlements" they forget the biggest socialist group out there, the military.
LOL. Are you aware of the history of the Marine Corps? They actually pre-date the official USN. The Air Force was originall the Army Air Corps. It split from the Army for administrative purposes. I suppose, theoretically, we could just combine all branches into "The US Military". Would that make you feel better?
I completely understand that the Constitution says that we need an Army and Navy, why should we have to pay for the Air Force? Or the Marines? They aren't required by the Constitution.
In December of 1775, to aid in drafting plans in expanding the Continental Navy and to supervise the construction of vessels and procurement of naval equipment, the Continental Congress established a permanent committee for the Marine Corps,
Why aren't we? The military needs to return home imo. All foreign bases need to be closed and foreign aid needs to be ended imo.
When talking about cutting the budget, why aren't we talking about these things?
So you don't want "your" entitlements now, you want them later? This makes you better than the welfare queen how?
1) "Your Social Security": You do not have a SS trust fund set aside. Your money pays for today's recipients. You do understand that, don't you?
2) The money is given to "wall street": There is no money to give to wall street or anybody else. There is no trust fund, there used to be but as I showed in another thread a couple weeks ago, the demonkrats raided that fund years ago. It no longer exists. What we have now is a giant "Ponzi Scheme". However the base of the pyramid is too small and the ponzi will collapse as they always do when you run out of new "investors" to buy into the scheme.