All I need to know I learned in kindergarten

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Posted by DaveSZ on Feb-21-2004 13:52:

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Originally posted by Shakka
Oh fuck that. You're all trying to read into it and make stupid assumptions to justify your flawed personal philosophies. All the story is saying is that people who take it upon themselves to be personally responsible for their own destinies are in control of their own happiness and they owe nothing to those who choose to be lazy and who want to get by on someone else's buck. It's more a commentary on the issue of class warfare and the liberal rally cry of reallocation of wealth from those who created it to those who didn't do jack shit to earn it. In the end the hen chose to accept the way society worked by going on strike (much like Atlas Shrugged if you nitwits ever learned how to read anything above your 7th grade trigonometry book).

And Democrats/"progressives" do push a socialist agenda, they just don't want you to know it.

Who ultimately owns you? If you've got any pride, you know that YOU own yourself and that only YOU are ultimately responsible for your own fate in this world. If you can't deal with it and want to hand your rights over to your "benevolent" government, then so be it, but tell me this: Where will you get your tax credits from when the "rich" people decide that they're sick of your leeching and stop producing? What would you do then if you lived in a bankrupt society with nobody to blame except your own lazy selves? Personally, I find it offensive to know that I'm paying tax dollars to support your theiving, entitlement believing, second-handing looters.

Furthermore, I can only assume that you guys would like to be "rich" and successful yourselves? How on earth do you ever plan to achieve success and personal wealth if the only way you think that's attainable is by stealing it from the "rich" people who actually created the wealth in the first place? Isn't it hypocritical for you to criticize rich people simply because you aren't rich, but so badly want to be rich?

No need to get offensive.

I can respect your personal philosophy, but it's just that I also care about things like education, children, and the environment (which are human rights/human health issues).

Bush has now proposed logging the Grand Canyon.

As for the tax issue, three quarters of independent voters said their taxes went up or they saw no effect due to Bush's tax cuts in the latest CBS poll:

http://www.tranceaddict.com/forums/...threadid=162680

My parents are in the upper middle income bracket, and their local taxes actually went up because of Bush's tax cuts.

Also your assumption that all people on welfare are taking advantage of the system is false, but I agree with Occrider about having checks & balances. I think with welfare reform, we've taken a good step in that direction.

Posted by DaveSZ on Feb-23-2004 14:17:

Here We Go Again: Bush Exaggerates Tax Cuts
The President can�t keep his figures straight. And most people are getting less than he implies.

February 20, 2004
Modified: February 20, 2004

http://www.factcheck.org/article.aspx?docID=145

If you have ten homeless guys in a soup kitchen and Bill Gates walks in the room, the "average income" of that room increases dramatically. Bush is using this trick in justifying his tax "cuts" to the entirety of the American public.

He's clearly not as stupid as his detractors seem to think.

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