cowpuncher
10-27-2008, 02:46 AM
First a disclaimer: I am the sole Replublican voter in my extended family.
As a kid, my father repeatedly told us that "only rich people can be Republicans." According to his view, the "poor" HAVE to be Democrats. Makes sense when you understand his history.....
This is a man with a measured, genius IQ. Yet, after leaving the military as a Chinese AND German linguist in the 1970s, never worked for more than $8.00 ever since. He married my ex-stepmother in the eighties. She had two kids. And worked, and spent her money on drugs, so was on food stamps. When they got married, and she got pregnant again, he was making $7.00 and hour, in 1990. They went on every form of assistance they could get on. They stayed on it through her attending nursing school in the mid-nineties. They stayed on it after she started making $25.00 an hour as an RN in the late nineties. She's still on assistance, after their divorce, and her remarriage.
So, yeah, a guy that smart, who's that lazy, he wants all the handouts he can get. (I love my dad, don't get me wrong, but let's call a spade a spade!)
I went in the service right out of high school, under the Clinton administration. I saw my army torn apart with enforced downsizing, and that started my doubts. Then I got out and started a business. I had to pay almost half my gross into taxes, even though it was a one man sole proprietorship, with lots of overhead, and no employees. My first year, I GROSSED right around $85,000. After taxes (even with every deduction I could wrangle out of my accountant!), and rent and purchasing equipment, I netted just under $15,000. I did not go to the doctor one time that year. I didn't go to the dentist. I didn't do much besides survive.
Instead, because I lived in a very liberal Left Coast State, I paid for the medical and dental care of an awful lot of homeless and "poor" unemployed people that I didn't even know....
Why is it that the government should be able to tell me I HAVE to pay for your child's medical care? Why is that I HAVE to make sure your child eats? Because I worked an average of 85 hours a week? Last time I checked, every major religion in the world says that if you're gonna have kids, YOU should be supporting them. If I choose to offer assistance to the less fortunate, that's wonderful and noble, and MY CHOICE.
The government TAKING my money to give to someone who didn't work to earn it is immoral. It leads to one of the seven deadly sins, SLOTH!
"Spreading the wealth" is, in classical political philosophy terms also known as "forced redistribution of wealth." That means the government TAKES my money, at the barrel of a metaphorical gun, to give to someone else. That's theft by any definition. It's also called socialism and communism. I seem to remember growing up in the midst of a "cold war" to defeat those evils in the world.....
I don't care if you agree with my views on guns, or abortion, or the War on Terror, or anything else....but how many people are in favor of theft? Robin Hood didn't "take from the rich and give to the poor." He took back money from the Sheriff's coffers and gave it to back to the overtaxed working class. Robin Hood was a conservative.
My dad was/is wrong. Only people that are opposed to theft and communism are Republicans.
;)And remember...friends don't let friends vote Democrat!:p
:popcorn:
As a kid, my father repeatedly told us that "only rich people can be Republicans." According to his view, the "poor" HAVE to be Democrats. Makes sense when you understand his history.....
This is a man with a measured, genius IQ. Yet, after leaving the military as a Chinese AND German linguist in the 1970s, never worked for more than $8.00 ever since. He married my ex-stepmother in the eighties. She had two kids. And worked, and spent her money on drugs, so was on food stamps. When they got married, and she got pregnant again, he was making $7.00 and hour, in 1990. They went on every form of assistance they could get on. They stayed on it through her attending nursing school in the mid-nineties. They stayed on it after she started making $25.00 an hour as an RN in the late nineties. She's still on assistance, after their divorce, and her remarriage.
So, yeah, a guy that smart, who's that lazy, he wants all the handouts he can get. (I love my dad, don't get me wrong, but let's call a spade a spade!)
I went in the service right out of high school, under the Clinton administration. I saw my army torn apart with enforced downsizing, and that started my doubts. Then I got out and started a business. I had to pay almost half my gross into taxes, even though it was a one man sole proprietorship, with lots of overhead, and no employees. My first year, I GROSSED right around $85,000. After taxes (even with every deduction I could wrangle out of my accountant!), and rent and purchasing equipment, I netted just under $15,000. I did not go to the doctor one time that year. I didn't go to the dentist. I didn't do much besides survive.
Instead, because I lived in a very liberal Left Coast State, I paid for the medical and dental care of an awful lot of homeless and "poor" unemployed people that I didn't even know....
Why is it that the government should be able to tell me I HAVE to pay for your child's medical care? Why is that I HAVE to make sure your child eats? Because I worked an average of 85 hours a week? Last time I checked, every major religion in the world says that if you're gonna have kids, YOU should be supporting them. If I choose to offer assistance to the less fortunate, that's wonderful and noble, and MY CHOICE.
The government TAKING my money to give to someone who didn't work to earn it is immoral. It leads to one of the seven deadly sins, SLOTH!
"Spreading the wealth" is, in classical political philosophy terms also known as "forced redistribution of wealth." That means the government TAKES my money, at the barrel of a metaphorical gun, to give to someone else. That's theft by any definition. It's also called socialism and communism. I seem to remember growing up in the midst of a "cold war" to defeat those evils in the world.....
I don't care if you agree with my views on guns, or abortion, or the War on Terror, or anything else....but how many people are in favor of theft? Robin Hood didn't "take from the rich and give to the poor." He took back money from the Sheriff's coffers and gave it to back to the overtaxed working class. Robin Hood was a conservative.
My dad was/is wrong. Only people that are opposed to theft and communism are Republicans.
;)And remember...friends don't let friends vote Democrat!:p
:popcorn: