I don't get it? What do you mean they aren't helping themselves? I don't know what kind of welfare or government intervention you have in your state, but in Massachusetts, you must help yourself because after a year or two, your welfare is permanently cut off. They aren't being helped too much. They are supported long enough that they can get a stable job and figure things out without having to worry about say, food.
If you can't find a job in two years, there's a bit of a problem, which is why I'm saying that Obama's want to increase welfare is a bad idea, he's making it even easier for people to rely on getting a handout.
What kind of welfare system do you have, lol? I don't know about you, but I don't actually know a single person who has a job and doesn't pay taxes.
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/menu/top_50__of_wage_earners_pay_96_09__of_income_taxes.guest.htmlThere are a ton of weaker ones, such as Iran, Syria, Venezuela, North Korea, etc. The main point is that there aren't many allies, who really care about the US staying a superpower anymore. I can really count only two countries, Israel and the UK. Latin America is severing its ties with the United States - Brazil and Venezuela created some American organization that doesn't include the US so they can solve domestic problems. Europe is drawing away from the US because of the financial crisis - Merkel and Sarkozy have, as I said, criticized the US for how it's financial crisis created a worldwide one. Sarkozy and Brazil's man, again, as I said, want to revise the UN to include more permanent members. The US's influence is waning, and in many cases it can do no more then criticize and pout. And, tell me, how does a military stabilize an economy?
Nearly everyone you listed is still our allies, oh, boohoo, they don't like something we did, it's not like their little kids and immediately say "I'm not your friend anymore" they are still our allies, contrary to what you are trying to say. And how does a military stabilize an economy? By holding back Anarchy, and actually allowing a government, the Iraq government has a huge surplus due to our involvement, what do you think would happen if we left?
You've been successful? What exactly did you do? I'm sure being born into the right family takes a lot of skill. While on the topic, Communist China isn't even that communist.
Many people are born into great families and still mess up, and many are born into bad families and manage to be successful, it's all about your mindset. And my point was communism, not China, if it bothers you so much, make it North Korea instead then.
Oh, I'd love to see you get unlucky once. Then I want to laugh at you and tell you to live with it.
As I said, it's all your mindset, what happens to you becomes your history, what you do about what happens to you becomes your legacy.
That sounds an over exaggeration. Because if ALL of your money was split in HALF and both halves are given away, you would be dirt poor.
It was the same 50% I was referring to, learn to read properly, plz.
They are helping themselves, they would kill just to help their sick and feed their family. And that is a literal event. Those people are desperate, angry and dirt poor. Yet they don't receive your taxes but they pay taxes for others. Obama is giving ninety five percent working Americans families that makes under $250,000 a year will get a tax cut. Those families will have the opportunity to bring themselves back to their feet and may have a chance to keep pace with millionaires but could care less about taxes since it's just a dime. There is are certain people that will turn greedy, but there should be more people helping others by then.
As you can see in the above link, they already have a massive tax cut. There are already systems in place to get them back on their feet, Obama is just going to make it so people who are already leaning on those systems for complete support can get an even bigger hand-out.
That's not true. And what does feeding them have to do with anything? They KNOW how to fish, basically having a job and to feed their family everyday. One week payment goes down the drain by just feeding their family. Their yearly payment would go for accessories in the house, possibly a lousy car, taxes, clothes, electricity/water bills, and much more. Certain families have to pay the cheapest of the cheapest for savings, but it will not sufficiently help them. Having a dad with at least two jobs, a mom also with two jobs and their kids will soon get student jobs as they hit the age of fifteen is still not enough.
Secondly, the middle and lower classes definitely has to pay taxes. To keep in touch with history, look what the thirteen US colonies did to Britain and look what the lower classes in France did to their King Louis XVI and the queen Marie Antoinette. Frustrated over taxes. They don't have enough to help themselves yet they have to pay taxes
See the link I posted, and they need to learn how to use the fish properly, and you don't need all those things to live, sometimes you have to do without in order to eventually get up there, it's not the high cost of living, it's the cost of living high that is bringing so many people down.
Oh joy! I'm glad that's how things were hundreds of years ago, welcome to the twenty first century!
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So for those who think Obama will turn us into communism. Hi, welcome to reality.
First of all, your picture had nothing to do with what you said, secondly, it simply put the things that
didn't happen, there are tons of things that happened due to choosing to slowly degrade moral integrity, that picture simply took things out of context. And how does welcome to reality have anything to do with Obama going communism? He's not going to just throw us into communism, but he wants to bring us closer to it.
And a more socialistic approach can only help. Government intervention is good. Look at the business headlines: CONGRESS ABOUT TO ALMOST KINDA APPROVE BILL TO BUY 700 BILLION $$ OF BAD LOANS FROM FAILED COMPANIES. And Buffett says things'll only get worse without this.
Yes, in a perfect world where we all tried our hardest, and we all were extremely altruistic, but that's not this world. Some people would rather mooch off of those who put serious effort into life, and why should I want to work if I don't reap the benefits of it? There is no drive for me to work harder, if I just have to give anything extra to people who just hang out and take free handouts.
I could easily continue arguing this out, but it's basically pointless, I won't convince you, you'll just keep coming back with ridiculous arguments, so, adieu.
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