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In 2003, sitting at my friend's house for her house warming party and my going away party, some liberal nut that I didn't even know sneered and mocked Republicans stating, "scoff! There's a dying breed".
Here we are, 2015...hmmm, wonder what's going on in the House and Senate....oh, yeah.
Well, nothing really, because the Republicans that we sent there last November are too spineless to do anything.
Hence, the downfall of Boehner, and the rise of Trump, Carson, Cruz, etc.
my 15 yo daughter already pays taxes and she thinks what the feds steal is way too much out of her pay.
A little de ja Vu here for me. A hundred years ago (in my youth) when I had a beautiful body and a head full of hair and my first job, I felt exactly the same way. While I do not in any condone much of the absolute waste all levels of government have, I do see positive result that my teenage eyes couldn't/wouldn't see. I took the paved roads I drove on for granted. I took the street lights for granted. I took myriad things around me for granted. Eventually ol' Dad grew up (which is where the Dad comes in) and I saw things differently. However, the really defining moment was when this bird flew out of the nest. Anyone out there (other than a 15 year old living at home) get the point? She will, as has EVERY generation since (and including) the cave dwellers.
Major repudiation of CNN's premise and it seems everybody except victorianpunk missed it. You don't need to be a genius to understand that CNN's puny 10 person poll is a joke compared to Harvard's 3,000 millenials poll.
From the article:
Quote:
"...young Americans’ attitudes are moving in a more libertarian direction, seeking fiscal discipline and social tolerance from their policymakers...."
"Harvard’s latest polls points to strong disapproval of the Obama administration among millennials."
"..a majority disapproved of how the president has handled all eight policy categories they were asked about..."
Why can't right-wingers understand that their days are over, millenials will take over decades and want to become like those Nordic/Western European, Australian/New Zealand labor and government type system where the government provides life/social saferty net and security, free/very low cost education at all levels, mandatory paid days off from work, universal healthcare, and free from debt! Invest the money on our people, not foreigners and nonsense spending on military, wars, etc.! Millenials are sick and tired of having huge student loan debts while some may not find jobs because it's crappy low wages with some even no benefits, high cost of living, competition and expensive homes/rents, expensive daycares, etc. making life for non-rich people difficult. We pay already high taxes but barely get anything back from them unlike in Europe!!!! Capitalism will eventually die out hopefully...
Cut foreign & military aid, invest on us!!
Such a post highlights the power and scope of the world's greatest propaganda ministry.
Capitalism ended in 1933. Americans have lived under "Emergency Rules" since 1933, that not only eradicated absolute ownership of private property (essential to "true" capitalism) but that they have consented to collectivism - the very remedy sought by the O.P.
Remember, fish in the socialist fish bowl may swim to the LEFT or to the RIGHT, but they’re still in the socialist fish bowl.
OOPS.
When Americans embraced the idea that it was a "good thing" for government to TAKE from one to GIVE to another, they embraced their doom. That ended absolute ownership (private property) and instituted collectivism with its compulsory charity, compulsory labor for the benefit of another, and expropriation of property for the benefit of another.
Guess how they were going to enforce that? Wheedle, “Pretty please, with sugar on top?”
They instituted a “benevolent” totalitarian police state, where everything not mandatory, is taxed, regulated, licensed, or forbidden.
Ironically, that means the millennial's dream has been the ongoing nightmare since 1933.
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REFERENCES:
Senate Report 93-549
War and Emergency Powers Acts
"A majority of the people of the United States have lived all of their lives under emergency rule. For 40 years (as of the report 1933-1973), freedoms and governmental procedures guaranteed by the Constitution have, in varying degrees, been abridged by laws brought into force by states of national emergency."
FREEDOMS ... GUARANTEED BY THE CONSTITUTION ... HAVE BEEN ABRIDGED BY LAWS ... UNDER EMERGENCY RULE ...
Constitutional U.S.A. (1787 - 1933) R.I.P.
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Americans have lived under a two party perpetually indebted benevolent communist totalitarian police state dictatorship* using emergency rules for 82 years (2015) ... and still haven't a clue that the constitutional government has been dead since 1933.
We’re on the threshold of the final transition to the People’s Democratic Socialist Republic of America.
“Takers” v “Makers”
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As long as the recipients can outvote the donors, nothing will change for the better.
I did not specify WHO the recipient parties were - which could be the corporations of the military - industrial complex, who have strategically located plants and suppliers in every congressional district. It could mean the bureaucrats, whose salary is dependent upon bigger and bigger government. It could mean the entitled masses, who enjoy the fruits of others' labor.
The bottom line is that all these disbursements of BRIBERY make politics into a corrupt exercise in legalized thievery.
And it's common sense that recipients will not vote to lower or end their own benefits, regardless of the consequences to the nation. Which explains why the Demopublicans and Republicrats can mindlessly drive the "Ship of State" into the rocks, and sink her. The hypocrisy of blaming the passengers for not "paying their fair share", is plainly evident - at least to anyone who is not blinded by partisan thinking.
Why can't right-wingers understand that their days are over, millenials will take over decades and want to become like those Nordic/Western European, Australian/New Zealand labor and government type system where the government provides life/social saferty net and security, free/very low cost education at all levels, mandatory paid days off from work, universal healthcare, and free from debt! Invest the money on our people, not foreigners and nonsense spending on military, wars, etc.! Millenials are sick and tired of having huge student loan debts while some may not find jobs because it's crappy low wages with some even no benefits, high cost of living, competition and expensive homes/rents, expensive daycares, etc. making life for non-rich people difficult. We pay already high taxes but barely get anything back from them unlike in Europe!!!! Capitalism will eventually die out hopefully...
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