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Re: Re: My point was to show the difference between how the haves&havenots see stuf
Very well put, Guy! Now I remember why I've always admired your wisdom. I too vote holding my nose (while mostly - but not always - voting Democrat for lack of a better choice), but like you can only hope that We the People will find it in our hearts to extend our hands to one another. It's not as if our ancestors were "legal" aliens, but somehow we managed to make a system that worked despite our differences - and our dubious measures of securing the land we hold dear.
Now I need to put a lid on my opinions. I really hate debating, as it is almost always futile.
posted by
myrrhage_
on December 22, 2009 at 1:46 PM
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Re: My point was to show the difference between how the haves&havenots see stuf
Myrrage,
It seems to me that the Republicans think that every dime that goes to help ANYONE, comes straight out of their pockets. Everybody, (well, nearly all) works for a living, and pays sales and income taxes, etc. If some earn $15,000, and some make (EARN?) $500,000 a year, the gap will just continue to widen further, until the minimum-wage earners might as well be slaves to the rich. Now, the top couple percent of the wealthy, has more total wealth locked up in their family bank accounts, than all the rest of the population earns, put together. As Strat and Corbin would be happy to point out, poor people don't hire ANYBODY, and even the richest cannot afford to drag everybody's load.
I just wish that every administration, the dums and the repugs, would stop buying the friendship/loyalty (?) of foreign countries, when we need that money spent here. Charity starts at home, and buying one's friends never works for very long. How can the richest country on Earth, (Well, we used to be) have so MANY homeless people? Why are our bridges falling down, and our highways crumbling, our veterans are largely ignored, surviving on food stamps, and losing their homes and families?
Both major political parties are serving America poorly, and we citizens are losing our constitutionally guaranteed rights, one by one. If the Republicans hadn't strayed from the premise that government should be as small as possible, refuse to deficit spend, inflate our currency, and be irresponsible with our country's treasure, the line between the two parties that are allowed to win presidential elections, would be clear as to who stands for what. Now unless one sees an R or a D below a politician's name, it's hard to even guess what they stand for. Both parties are so close to being the same now, there isn't much difference between them.
Admittedly I lean a little bit more to the left, preferring to identify more with the hopeful dreamers of what could be, than with the self-interested, penurious and greedy. I vote, holding my nose, because as good as this system was designed to be, it now stinks
Guy
posted by
northsage_45
on December 22, 2009 at 1:10 PM
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Re: My point was to show the difference between how the haves&havenots see stuf
Maybe I wasn't too far off then after all, Guy. I've been very reluctant to share my opinion on things lately. Things get nasty too easily.
posted by
myrrhage_
on December 22, 2009 at 12:57 PM
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My point was to show the difference between how the haves&havenots see stuf
posted by
northsage_45
on December 22, 2009 at 12:25 PM
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Guy,
I'm afraid I might have partially missed the point of this post. Sorry about that. However, what does bother me is the tendency to place all people of a kind in the same category, i.e., all aliens take advantage of the system, all welfare recipients are lazy, all soldiers are war-mongers, etc. This post makes a good point, but it's scary how quickly it can be blown out of proportion. That was the "ugly" part I was referring to.
Sorry about what I originally missed. Illegal aliens can often make a huge mess of things, true! Sometimes I'm a slow learner :)
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myrrhage_
on December 22, 2009 at 12:11 PM
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Re: Ugly?
The brutal truth is that there are many who abuse the system. The ugliness is the mentality of those who place honest people needing a hand up in the same category of those only looking for a handout. The devil is in the details.
posted by
myrrhage_
on December 22, 2009 at 11:58 AM
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Ugly?
How can the truth be ugly? Brutal maybe.......
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on December 22, 2009 at 10:41 AM
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I don't mind the feeders at all I don't mind cleaning the poop, I just wish
they would learn to speak my language if they are going to come love at my place.
posted by
Kabu
on December 22, 2009 at 10:32 AM
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northsage45
Loved your bird feeder saga and I am very familiar with it. I would take action too except I live and am married to an Aussie bounty hunter looking for anyone that would do anything to animals. The language thing is a mess, just like Canada except we are more used to it and it won't be long before even Quebec will have to know Haitian and the rest of Canada will be speaking an Arab dialect I suppose.
†Merry Christmas†
posted by
WileyJohn
on December 22, 2009 at 10:29 AM
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When I was down and out, I found that the seed was never free. It came with impossible strings attached, and I could only actually get it after first being completely humiliated. Also, I had to be truly destitute to qualify for anything. My mother was turned down for food stamps because she had bought me a bed. I had been sleeping on the floor for six months.
I agree with Xeno, this is quite ugly. So much for the Christian Right. Christ gave things away for free all the time, and left the judgment up to G-d.
posted by
myrrhage_
on December 22, 2009 at 8:05 AM
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I have to admit this is somewhat ugly.
posted by
Xeno-x
on December 22, 2009 at 6:11 AM
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