Burtakus You sound like a pompous, arrogant UN-appreciative bloke who has little HUMILITY for others at this point in your life! Meaning, unless their story is like yours you don't respect them as worthy or as a human being of your status or of any entitlement in this world! Think about THAT concept Mr. Self-Righteous... and know thyself for what thy has become! I want you to print out this reply and keep it with you for when something bad happens to you or your family (and it will with all the BAD karma you are generating by the worthless and smug crap you spew about how YOU did it so why can't THEY). you can refer to it! Look it. NO ONE...not Obama and no poster on this board (who some assholes like to call "liberals" and blame for their anger and lack of humility) want to give handouts OR bailouts to anyone whether they are BANKS or otherwise. I don't want to walk the talk and have others think government owes them squat. BUT... the trouble is and why I cannot ever vote republican again is that they have lost TOTAL touch with other human beings and have evolved (or finally shown their true colors) AND demonstrated sufficiently to me that they are for the FEW and they not for the Country as a whole, United under God... a team where we all can reach the level we choose AND we all can make that contribution to this Country that we are capable of making ! To hardcore republicans, particularly further right, MONEY is their GOD! This is exceedingly hard to swallow since they are the party that claims to have a direct phone line to God and knows what God wants and dictates that religion and the bible are the driving forces in their lives. Yet they hate their next door neighbor (unless government steps in and says you cannot discriminate) but go home and say grace! This is the quintessential hypocrite model, and a sizable percentage of true, red hypocrites reside now in the right-wing of the republican party. IMHO! They makes no qualms about passing legislation or having government HELP THEM. DO they brother! The republicans have no problem getting benefits from the government like a reduction in THEIR taxes or bailouts of their banks and businesses like LTCM and others!? And in other ways they have no issue with government regulations and intervention so long as it helps them MAKE MORE MONEY! Do they brother! So the real issue to me is why are republicans such blatant hypocrites and cannot (or refuse to) admit it??! Why do many republicans (like we see sampled on this forum) lack just basic humility and a basic concern and yes, even love, for others when they can recite chapter and verse from the bible and consider themselves often to be devout followers of God??! Well now, I am not a licensed shrink, but part of the reason in my view is that many many who identify with the rhetoric from the right have SERIOUS or borderline personality disorders and in many cases border on sociopathic-like emotional issues and/or for personal psychological reasons in their upbringing and childhood have lost that component of their emotional make-up that regulates compassion and empathy. Serial killers have a "similar" component. They have no compassion for animals or life other than their own. (no i am NOT saying right-wing zealots ARE serial killers)! That is why republicans have always referred to anyone MORE REASONABLE (not more liberal) as a "bleeding heart" !! Because, you see brother Burtakus, in my humble view many admitted republicans have not been able to FULLY develop that portion of their personality that we all refer to as the HEART. But isn't God really love? You think on that one! In my view guys like you should be HAPPY as a pig in crap that you were able to LUCK out through what you call hard-work and maybe had the right stuff to make it in a seriously competitive dog-eat-dog world, as you allege! Thus my final point to you is this: ASK YOURSELF why the f-ck would a guy like you would be SO ANGRY? (and please do not deny that anger - go back and read your stuff, then look up the psychological definition of anger). Why are other self-professed republicans and alleged god-fearing persons in this right-leaning forum crowd also so narrow-mnded, resentful and angry !? What caused this resentment and, yes, anger towards ALL OTHERS who do not have what you/they have?! You could be a poster child for the republican party with your arrogant rhetoric! Therein lies the basic problem I now see with the Republicans; like you purport to be. They are not truly for truth, justice and the American way. Their brand of so-called patriotism only includes the FEW. What this does and what made me go for Obama this year is that they EXCLUDE! The republicans are a party of exclusion and what they use as the litmus test for inclusion and for exclusion turns me the f-ck off given this is the TWENTY FIRST CENTURY! If one is truly god-fearing then how the H can they NOT want to help others to help themselves!! I mean that is a philosophical, Socratic question based upon the self-professed religious component that most right-wingers assert. What? This religious biblical component does NOT include love thy brother, love thy sister, and do what you can to make this world a better place.... while you get yours'!?!!!!!!! When some non-ignorant republican right-wing poster answers that question fully, without name-calling or labels like liberal or evasive and non-responsive replies... then maybe I and millions of others will re-evaluate current views of the right-wing hypocrites (like karl rove and his ilk of criminal sociopaths) who have NOW clearly shown their true (and ugly) colors!
Informative chart, but again, it does not show WHO is actually RCEIVING the gimme's. It is most likely people that vote democrat.
You are just too fricking sad! Do you even KNOW what the fuck it means to "put American first and the Constitution above all else!? Did you go to law school (I did) or study the Constitution or did you learn from staying at a Holdiay Inn Express and reading copies of Readers Digest or having others tell you what to think?!! LOL Do you have more than a grain of independent thought in that brain? Sure doesn't sound like it since you use PLATITUDES rather than creative inciteful commentary and real THINKING to demonstrate your point of view! So here's your BIG chance for your 15 minutes, gnome! Tell us all what it means to you to: "Put America first and support the Constitution above all else" (and while you are at it explain how Obama does not do this in your low-brow view!!!!!!!? .........and don't forget genius to SUPPORT your position by more than insanity! Then after that if you are a good boy you can stand up in front of the room and tell us what YOU did on your summer vacation !
Well "Yannis" that is far better than you; an apparent right-winger who desperately needs a brain transplant... in order to become an independent thinker! ha ha LOL
Obama was willing to surrender Iraq to satisfy the netkook base of the Democrat party. This would have had disasterous consequences, handing al Qaeda a major victory and probably leading to a larger Middle East war. And Obama wouldn't stand up to reign in Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae by demanding Chris Dodd end the Democrat strategy of their afirmative action mortgage program. Of course this has led to a worldwide meltdown of the economy. Obama puts his political calculations first - America last...
I present facts and figures, you present "its most likely" without any supporting data. If you want to argue a point, come to me with facts. I don't care about your opinions. You can't persuade anyone with an opinion on any issue.
My Friend, you ask too much of a republican. They built their party around platitudes and bumper sticker slogans. If you look very carefully on any of their posts, you will never find facts or figures, but rather opinions and conjecture. When pressed for facts, they fall back on name calling. That happens when you are on the wrong side of an argument. I posted a chart above of the federal tax dollars paid and used by states. The comment was "The people in the red states who use federal dollars are democrats" No facts, just opinion. I, too, would love to see a republican back his argument up with supporting documentation and fact rather than their opinion and pithy stories, but I think this might be too much for them. PS The student in the story with a 2.0 GPA was George Bush, but he was then handed everything he has without working a day in his life. For bonus credit, would a republican please say why you SUPPORT that type of behavior? I thought you were the party of hard work and earning what you have? That storyline kinda falls apart for ya, don't it? Why do you hold up as idols people who are born on third and think they hit a triple?