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How about those who use the wrong words, such as "aloud" instead of "allowed" and "no" instead of "not?". That is almost as bad as being unable to spell.
You are against medicare, social security,disabilty? Isn't that something that is deducted from our pay checks every week? Hmm, do you pay taxes? I am entitled to what I have put into after working all these years. People like you who are so against the government should just opt out of all their services. That would leave you with no hospital visits, no police protection, no fire protection, no public schools, no vacations on an airplane, no roads to drive on. Shall I go on?
Also, I do not know of anyone living it up on welfare, lol. Do I believe people receiving government assistance should vote, ABSOLUTELY YES. I am not denying problems in the system with people taking advantage of it, but the majority need the help, especially on Long Island where I live a family making under 80k could get assistance.
You are against medicare, social security,disabilty? Isn't that something that is deducted from our pay checks every week? Hmm, do you pay taxes? I am entitled to what I have put into after working all these years. People like you who are so against the government should just opt out of all their services. That would leave you with no hospital visits, no police protection, no fire protection, no public schools, no vacations on an airplane, no roads to drive on. Shall I go on?
Also, I do not know of anyone living it up on welfare, lol. Do I believe people receiving government assistance should vote, ABSOLUTELY YES. I am not denying problems in the system with people taking advantage of it, but the majority need the help, especially on Long Island where I live a family making under 80k could get assistance.
Your post is a part, a big part, of the problem (or, rather, the attitude it conveys).
You can't seem to discern the difference between reasonable and rational levels of taxation, and spending on reasonable causes, and ludicrous extremes of both. Intellectually myopia - just blobs and light and shadow with no focus.
Whoa. It is not the politicians that are doing the corrupting, it is the business interests that are putting up the money to corrupt those officials.
The sold out politicians who are accepting the money and doing the wrong thing are definitely exacerbating the problem and they should also be held accountable.
The Tea Party is nothing more than a front for fat cats like Koch. They are not a friend to the middle class hard working American.
It is the influence of large campaign finance donations that is destroying our country and corrupting our laws and politicians.
You can thank Thomas and Scalia for their Citizens United vote. Both are hand in hand with the Koch brothers.
The Tea Party is nothing more than a cruel joke, and a bad one at that.
I offer that your post should get a pair of brain-glasses for it represents the ultimate in myopic thinking.
Voting is not an inalienable right, but a government granted privilege.
If there was no government - no reason to vote.
Inalienable rights existed before the creation of government.
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We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
So "We" meaning a select bunch of oligarchs? Re-branded monarchy?
Natural and legal rights are two types of rights theoretically distinct according to philosophers and political scientists. Natural rights, also called inalienable rights, are considered to be self-evident and universal. They are not contingent upon the laws, customs, or beliefs of any particular culture or government. Legal rights, also called statutory rights, are bestowed by a particular government to the governed people and are relative to specific cultures and governments. They are enumerated or codified into legal statutes by a legislative body.
When 'legal' rights are bestowed in excess that wrongfully infringe upon inalienable rights, it is the legal rights that need to have boundaries controlled/ managed, not inalienable rights (of individuals) further infringed upon. The supposition of this thread is bass ackwards.
Parasite is not a word I would ever use to describe any human being.
It has been used before whith some sad consequences.
Go back to your history books, should you have any.
I would ALWAYS call a Parasite a Parasite. Shame them until they change their vile, disgusting parasite ways.
No Welfare, No Parasites.
The only good Parasite, is a ... well let's just say they are ALL evil - there are NO good ones. Starve 'em until they blow away or stand up like men and women, not worms and slugs.
Everyone should get one vote, period. Though I agree that there are some "welfare" abuses (lazy people that never want to work, single mothers knocked up as teens then living off the system, and many more, and what about the handicapped?), they are not the only ones on welfare.
Many very proud members of generations of highly contributory working and middle class people are joining the ranks of the poor for many reasons.
1): unemployment, lack of jobs, jobs which are only part-time and don't pay a living wage
2): exorbitant medical bills due to inflation, lack of affordable insurance, etc.
3): loss of equity due to the housing plunge, stock market crisis, investments going down the tube, and higher cost of living
There are some real disaster stories, even by folks that were once fairly affluent by most standards, and now they have to live on food stamps.
It's the economy... and the system that now favors the upper class and corporations who have bought out the politicians, and now there is a lot less opportunity (even with a college degree). You can't deny that for a minute.
Everyone should get one vote, period. Though I agree that there are some "welfare" abuses (lazy people that never want to work, single mothers knocked up as teens then living off the system, and many more, and what about the handicapped?), they are not the only ones on welfare.
Many very proud members of generations of highly contributory working and middle class people are joining the ranks of the poor for many reasons.
1): unemployment, lack of jobs, jobs which are only part-time and don't pay a living wage
2): exorbitant medical bills due to inflation, lack of affordable insurance, etc.
3): loss of equity due to the housing plunge, stock market crisis, investments going down the tube, and higher cost of living
There are some real disaster stories, even by folks that were once fairly affluent by most standards, and now they have to live on food stamps.
It's the economy... and the system that now favors the upper class and corporations who have bought out the politicians, and now there is a lot less opportunity (even with a college degree). You can't deny that for a minute.
I'm sorry Frank, those people are apparently less than human and should be forced to starve to death. They should have had the sense not to get sick or lose their job or believe their real estate agent when they said they could afford a house on their income!
Oh, they also all can't keep their pants on and have too many children. We just have to make sure we keep comparing poor people and those on welfare to animals as often as possible so that we can justify stripping their right to vote from them!
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