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"Smartened up and walked away!"
(set 26 days ago)
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Originally Posted by MTAtech
Now the Republicans can't even pretend that they're not engaging in class warfare when they always vote to cut programs for the poor and needy while pushing tax-cuts for the rich.
What did your democrats do when they had control of the house and senate? At anytime they could have raised the taxes for the rich to supplement all the democratic handouts - but did they NO - because that would have meant raising taxes on not only themselves but also on their backers who fund their campaigns.
We have more than enough social programs now to help out those who need it - unlike our grandparents who went through the depression - nutritional value - they were just happy to have something to feed their aching bellies.
Not many of us have the strength and fortitude to go it alone like they did in the depression due to all the gov't handouts. People have become so dependent on the gov't handouts that they no longer care or want to better themselves. I'm so disgusted that I'm about ready to join your so called poor - I'll give the house to the kids and apply for all the subsidies. Why should I fight it?
I'll get free rent so I won't have to pay a mortgage or taxes, free healthcare, I'll be able to go to a dentist which I can't afford now, my utilities will be covered, I'll be able to go into a retraining program for a new career, I'll get my free phone, and food stamps to boot. I won't lie awake at night going over how to pay the bills or how I won't be able to retire.
But I won't because I have pride - the only thing I ask is that you respect the fact that my pockets only go so deep - and if it comes to either me or you surviving - it's going to be me.
The problem is not with cuts. The cuts are just symptoms of the problem. The problem is 5 years into the "recovery" more and more are having to rely on food stamps.
Food stamps are not an answer to the problems facing the country.
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[quote=tkdmom;31481245]You know what really gets me is the myopic attitudes of the privileged middle class dick-holes complaining about poor people on welfare, but never say a freakin' word when greedy banks and corporations collect trillions in corporate welfare, or spend trillions on maintaining the war machine. [/quote
I am hardly privileged or middle class. As a matter of fact, my party, The Democrats, have had control of the house and senate more than the Republicans in the last fifty years - but I don't see my party doing anything about greedy banks or corporate welfare either - why - because they'd also be cutting off the hand that feeds them. Who do you honestly think funds them - the poor? The dems have just as much to risk as the reps when it comes to going after banks and corporations. And is it not our now Democratic president who wants to go to war?
Seems like those things aren't on your list either.
You've got to look at this for what it is - It's a non-starter - a liberal talking point - a complaint without merit or cause.
A 5% decrease in spending over a 10 year period of time for a program that exploded 150% in a 5 year period is hardly worth anyone getting their panties-in-a-bunch over ---
Left leaning dingbats whining and balling over something like this only serves to show that intelligence is absolutely "not" a part of their equation. It sort of destroys their credibility and puts them into the same bucket that all of those moronic wingnut right wing types are in ..
Won't pass the Senate or Whitehouse and just another indicator that the GOP is committing a slow form of suicide, kinda sad to watch actually, there was a day I repected the GOP, those days are over.
military funding can be dropped before a program like this is cut.
With the "War on Terror" growing stronger I doubt we'll see any military cuts.
Both the Dems and Repubs want to attack countries. Syria and Iran are high on the list for "proactive defense" attacks.
With the "War on Terror" growing stronger I doubt we'll see any military cuts.
Both the Dems and Repubs want to attack countries. Syria and Iran are high on the list for "proactive defense" attacks.
"War on terror" is big time corporate welfare for military/industrial contractors.
"War on terror" is big time corporate welfare for military/industrial contractors.
All of our virtual wars are now. The government/corporates finally figured out that virtual wars can go on forever.
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