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In reply to the discussion: I wept today.... [View all]vlyons
(10,252 posts)51. Asking for help
What is it with this THING that Americans have about rugged individualism, making it on your own without asking for help? Why has asking for help, any help, been turned into a sign of weakness and some sort of a moral stigma. It's not just vets asking for help with mental problems, but poor people asking for food stamps, and low income workers asking to raise the minimum wage, and voters asking for an easier way to vote, and minorities asking for better schools, and kids asking for subsidized school lunches? Why is that?
Republicans don't want to help anyone, except themselves and their cronies.
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I'm guessing you're talking about AmeriCorps when you mention your national service?
Victor_c3
Oct 2016
#19
If its any solace, you're not alone in wanting to wear The Donald like a pair of rubber boots.
Hugin
Oct 2016
#12
Trump likes to talk tough, but he's not. He's a fucking jody straight out of central casting.
Tactical Peek
Oct 2016
#18
My dad was a Marine Raider, 1st Marine Division. Lied about his age &joined on December 8, 1941
catbyte
Oct 2016
#28
Thank you for your service Sir - over 50 years ago, so may men sent into harms way -
asiliveandbreathe
Oct 2016
#53
My heart goes out to everyone that was coerced into the armchair warrior's battles
erronis
Oct 2016
#61