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Originally Posted by jsarno
Yes, we are a divided mess. But we were all agreed to go to this war, some just decided to quit early. The ones that are quitting are dividing the country. Why start something you don't intend to finish?
You are also right that we have a different outlook on life. I firmly beleive in self responsibility and everything in your life, you have attracted to yourself, good or bad.
Do I feel bad for the single mother with 3 kids... well maybe. Are they from the same father? Did the HUSBAND die? Cause if she is just sleeping around and not taking resposibility for her actions, why does that responsibility fall on me and my tax dollars? I have no problem helping a woman that started a family and had a wonderful loving relationship in marriage, then the husband dies and she can't take care of that family. I feel for that. I have NO SYMPATHY what-so-ever for the single mother with 3 kids from different fathers that has never been married. NONE. Does that sound cold? Maybe...but again...I work and bust ass so that my family is taking care of, I shouldn't have to worry about what people with no morals or cares, or the people that have no responsibility are doing. My money should stay with me. I EARNED it, they did not earn my money.
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Your money is currently being used to fight a war against a country that did not attack us and has never used terrorists against us. It is also being used to fund tax breaks for the super wealthy, with the added insult that the resultant national debt will have to be paid off by you and your children. It is also true that a catastrophic illness can destroy you economically or kill you because of poor insurance; insurance companies are big contributors to the Republican party. While you're worries about the nickles and dimes that support the poor, you're being robbed by Halliburton and numerous other corporations who have their hands in your pockets. Further, your income is suppressed by non inforcement of anti-trust laws, as well as outsourcing and numerous bought and paid for governmental policies from the middle-ages that are designed to keep wages as low as possible.
Further, schools are terrible in most areas of the country, justice is obtainable only by the rich, your rights are being violated on a daily basis:
you are being spied upon, you are subjected to indefinate detention and torture if the government suspects you of being a terrorist, and your children are cannon fodder or potential cannon fodder while the children of the wealthy are ice skating in the alps.
As a fairly rich man, I can tell you that I have many tax breaks you can only dream about, enjoy the protection of the judicial system you could only enjoy by moving to a country like Sweden, and work only a couple of hours a day. I, in fact, think it both sad and faintly amusing when the middle class starts crying about giving the usual pennies to the welfare state and refers to me as "hard working" and deserving of the many thousands of dollars a year you dump in my pockets and actually believe things like the deficit doesn't really matter or that the Iraq invasion had something to do with democracy or terrorism.
We are in the middle east for power and money, and it's the middle-class and lower classes paying the fright.