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Republicans get angry when they see liberals, gays or people of color succeed. Its because Republicans are either rich elitists who don't want "common people" moving up or are jealous of successful people when they live in a trailer park and eat baloney sandwiches and live on welfare. That type prefers to scapegoat minorities and celebrities.
The question is, did Obama have anything to do with your current state of well-being? I highly doubt it.
It seems like your viewpoint is simply coincidental. It would be like someone winning the lottery a month ago saying "Why should I vote against Obama, since I won the lottery while he was president?"
You should look beyond yourself, look at the people around you, see if they have had the same luck as yourself. And ask yourself if Obama or Romney has the experience, knowledge, and skills to make the country in general as content as yourself.
Ask yourself what kind of country you want to live in. Ask yourself if society is becoming more like you believe it should be, or if we are heading in the wrong direction.
Reagan tied one's well-being (presumably financial) to the presidency with his "Are you better off today than you were four years ago?" when he ran against Jimmy Carter.
Republicans get angry when they see liberals, gays or people of color succeed. Its because Republicans are either rich elitists who don't want "common people" moving up or are jealous of successful people when they live in a trailer park and eat baloney sandwiches and live on welfare. That type prefers to scapegoat minorities and celebrities.
LOL what a bunch of Malarky
Farmers all live in trailers? Military people all live in trailers?
No republicans get angry when they are singled out and told they need to give more to the have nots. Not because they receive more in services, or somehow were given this money for free, but because they don't deserve to have it.
I am an Ind. I get where the Rep are coming from. I have skimped and saved my entire life so that I can have a good retirement. Why should I be expected to be happy about paying more in taxes so that others who were less ambitious or less willing to sacrifice can be rewarded?
More to the point why should anyone be expected to pay more until the fed cuts every cent of waste out of the budget first? yeah that means an end to the $16 muffin parties.
LOL I know just a drop in the bucket. Too bad the bucket is the size of lake erie and its over flowing.
LOL what a bunch of Malarky
Farmers all live in trailers? Military people all live in trailers?
No republicans get angry when they are singled out and told they need to give more to the have nots. Not because they receive more in services, or somehow were given this money for free, but because they don't deserve to have it.
I am an Ind. I get where the Rep are coming from. I have skimped and saved my entire life so that I can have a good retirement. Why should I be expected to be happy about paying more in taxes so that others who were less ambitious or less willing to sacrifice can be rewarded?
More to the point why should anyone be expected to pay more until the fed cuts every cent of waste out of the budget first? yeah that means an end to the $16 muffin parties.
LOL I know just a drop in the bucket. Too bad the bucket is the size of lake erie and its over flowing.
When did anyone say that Repblicans, and Republicans only need to give more to the have nots? Or is it your opinion that only Republicans are well off.
That things are better for me than anytime in my life? I'm 50, live in Dallas, and I feel like I have finally reached the stage in my life where I don't go to bed each night with money worries. Rich? Hell no! Comfortable and secure? Yes, I feel so. I've felt this way for maybe the last 3 years. No knock on Mr. Bush at all, but I was downsized twice in his 8 years. So when my Republican buddies ask how things are going they almost want to argue that I can't be doing OK. I make no bones that I plan to vote for Obama. Why shouldn't I? Things are fine for me and I have people say, "Four more years of Obama and you won't be". So why should I vote against him on what to me at this moment is a theory that 4 more years i'll be in ruins?
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0bama added 15 million people to the Food Stamp rolls in less then 4 years, that's over 300,000 people each month added to Food Stamps, living in poverty, and in the most desperate time of their life. Our economy and job growth this year has grown less then it did last year, and less then it did the year before. A very few will find their lives getting better, but that is just the way life is sometimes. You can be selfish, and vote for your own sake, but no country adds 15 million people, 5% of their population into poverty in four short years, and shrugs it off as a good thing.
Thank god for Food Stamps, and Welfare, and WIC, they are the safety net to catch people during desperate times. But 0bama has added 15 million people into poverty, we are at a fifty year high, for Americans living in poverty. That is the reality of a four year 0bama presidency. So go ahead, and view the lives of everyone else thru your rose-colored 0bamaville glasses, but the reality is 46 million people are suffering after his policies went into effect.
That things are better for me than anytime in my life? I'm 50, live in Dallas, and I feel like I have finally reached the stage in my life where I don't go to bed each night with money worries. Rich? Hell no! Comfortable and secure? Yes, I feel so. I've felt this way for maybe the last 3 years. No knock on Mr. Bush at all, but I was downsized twice in his 8 years. So when my Republican buddies ask how things are going they almost want to argue that I can't be doing OK. I make no bones that I plan to vote for Obama. Why shouldn't I? Things are fine for me and I have people say, "Four more years of Obama and you won't be". So why should I vote against him on what to me at this moment is a theory that 4 more years i'll be in ruins?
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Do you really expect us to believe you have these conversations? Please, we are not idiots here.
That things are better for me than anytime in my life? I'm 50, live in Dallas, and I feel like I have finally reached the stage in my life where I don't go to bed each night with money worries. Rich? Hell no! Comfortable and secure? Yes, I feel so. I've felt this way for maybe the last 3 years. No knock on Mr. Bush at all, but I was downsized twice in his 8 years. So when my Republican buddies ask how things are going they almost want to argue that I can't be doing OK. I make no bones that I plan to vote for Obama. Why shouldn't I? Things are fine for me and I have people say, "Four more years of Obama and you won't be". So why should I vote against him on what to me at this moment is a theory that 4 more years i'll be in ruins?
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So you vote for candidates, not on the issues or based on what's best for our country, but on your personal comfort level, and "what's in it for you?"
This attitude is how we've gotten into the mess we're in now. It seems that many people don't vote on principle as much as how they think they alone will personally benefit.
It's really a pity.
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