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I was recently layed off in May after working for the same place for 13 yrs. I get 10 weeks of severence plus unemployment. In order to receive unemployment you have to be able and willing to look for work. I look everyday for something decent but most of the jobs pay less than what I receive in unemployment. I dont feel like getting it as a "entitlement" as I have worked full time since 1992, paid taxes etc.
The problem lie with the people, corporations and government who cheat the rest of us out of aid. I have seen the "welfare" recipients at the grocery store getting $300-500 worth of food monthly, that smell like s**t because they are so lazy to take a bath and leave in a brand new car:mad: Im paying for my groceries with either my savings or sometimes my unemployment. Obama talks of "change" but he is just the Head of State with cronies that have been running this country into the ground for decades. Why you ask? Because they are getting rich off of screwing Americans. Here are a few quotes of one of my heros as they hold true to this day-Thomas Jefferson Every generation needs a new revolution. History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is. I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. Never spend your money before you have earned it. No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Great man who I wish could be around today. |
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But I respect your opinion, Tom. You have many good points. And yes, let's bring ole Andy Jefferson back!! Harry PS: Thanks for your views too, BOXERFANATIC. I'm always open to another opinion ..... |
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You don't seriously believe that do you? I don't. Harry |
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Communism abhors even appropriate ambition, and quashes it to the point that only despotism rules. The only people who can rise to the top of Communism are those who are so absolutely amoral that they break the very rules they enforce on everyone else. Communism breeds the worst leaders, because the people who would otherwise be good ones are the ones who aren't breaking the oppressive rules. To enforce such oppressive rules, brutal tyranny is required to repress any dissent, which also breeds sociopathic, genocidal leaders. Like Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao Tze Tung, Mugabe, Hitler, Amadenijad, Hussein, Castro, Chavez, Ortega, Guevarra, and on and on... "From each according to their ability, to each according to their need" is a recipe for stagnation, and the death of the human spirit, and a ready-made way for tyrants to oppress the populace. Freedom is the only way to allow people to be better than their more base behaviors. Socialism, Communism, Fascism, Authoritarianism, despotism, and there are dozens more terms for the dozens of flavors of the rule of men over other men. Every tyrant thinks they have the slight adjustment to that oppressive formula, that will make it work this time, where it has failed every time before. And they are ALL wrong. Obama is wrong, as he thinks he is smart enough to have a new take on an ancient system that fails every time it is tried. My favorite movie, Serenity has a couple of VERY good lines. Quote:
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Its sad that the choices of a few hundred elected officials dictate the fate of our lives. The campaign promises gets them in and then they are bought out and we are forgotten.
We as Americans need a common cause and build on that. We need "change" but not in the way Obama describes. We need common sense government and society. |
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However, you are right, they are assuming more power every day, and they are less and less accountable to the people they swore an oath to serve. They swore to protect and defend the US Constitution. The Preamble of the constitution is a single sentence. Quote:
The verbs of the sentence are "do establish and ordain". The object being established and ordained is the Constitution itself. The constituting of the federalist-type democratic republic government of the united states. When they take that oath, they essentially say that they agree with, and promise to protect and defend that paradigm and system, where the government is instituted by, and thus is subjugated to the people it governs. That is where "Of the people, for the people, by the people" comes from. By violating that, they are breaking their Oaths of Office. Theoretically, that should be grounds for their removal from power, by impeachment if necessary. According to the Declaration of Independence, by force, if absolutely necessary, but I don't think that is the state of affairs anyone wants to reach. Remember, the next time you go to the ballot box, that "of the elite, for the special interests, by the powerful" is not what citizens should be voting for. And also remember that: "A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have." -Gerald Ford |
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you don't seriously think he wouldn't LIKE TO, and make you drive an electric car .... probably one built by GM (Government Motors)? |
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what if some of those "majority" of votes is ACORN fraud? ACORN will be partnering with the govt. for the 2010 Census. am i the only one worried about this? |
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