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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTo the American Coalition of Hatred: you gotta level with me here . . .
Is it that you only want to see the POOR as nothing but "lazy system gamers who cheat and take mah taxez" while giving the wealthy "system gamers" who pretty much do the same thing a free pass?
Do you honestly believe that no one else worked as hard as you to "get where they're at today" and that everyone ELSE is a freeloading moocher?
Do you really consider everyone to the left of Joe Liebermann a Leninist/"Soshulist"/Communist/Marxist (pick two)?
Do you seriously attest that this is a country founded by the rugged individualist spirit and that no one else's hard work, no resources natural/man-made and/or no accident/fortunate circumstance contributed to it's success?
Is asking for any kind of help something to be ridiculed and used as a political issue?
Do you really believe that killing men, women and children in continuing occupations that have militaries the U.S. could pretty much flyswat without care is somehow "defending our freedoms"?
You don't find it even slightly stupid and rather unfair that you pay for your health care out of your own pocket more or less for the privilege of having a corporation's risk department decide if you're allowed to have that coverage or not?
Have you ever considered that people simply don't have an endless supply of cash to attend multiple trips to college if their career goes away?
Are the "have-too-littles" really the source of all things wrong in America today? What exactly drives this belief?
Do you actually believe that the top-heavy economic system we're seemingly stuck with is really the fairest and most equitable means of goods/labor/service exchange and distribution?
Finally, is it purely out of not wanting to show weakness or would you rather DIE than admit you were wrong?
bluerum
(6,109 posts)Pretty simple formula. They keep us on the edge, too afraid to demand they pay a fair share. And they keep spinning the "job creators" lie for their drones to propagate.
I think that's it in a nutshell.
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)That's the most galling thing about it . . . the "Temporarily Embarrassed Millionaire" syndrome.
Our failure to implement universal health care has caused more problems in terms of correcting the wealthy inequality and encouraging entrepreneurship than the average American thinks.
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts). . . this is the first link that comes up (well, aside from this post):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_Values_Coalition
libtodeath
(2,888 posts)that the government is standing in the way of them having the riches they deserve.
After all it was the government that gave those "uppity blacks" equal rights instead of staying where they belong.
It is the government that makes companies keep the water clean when they should be paying them money instead.
They view the world as what is in it for me,the most greedy and selfish bastards that have ever lived.