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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsYou know this is the party that the Republicans have become
They would surely oppose this concept today if it were novel, right?
ck4829
(35,091 posts)"Oh, what about the people who don't leave their states like ever? Why should they have to pay a fuel tax? SOCIALISM!!!"
LymphocyteLover
(5,654 posts)as they take they government social security and medicaid.
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)on the Social Security. That's not government money. People pay into that their entire lives, along with their employers. When government started raiding the S.S. trust fund cookie jar, they made it political. When people start talking about S.S. being a government handout my hackles rise up.
LymphocyteLover
(5,654 posts)SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)I know, you're talking about the hypocritical republiCANT'S here. If they only noticed how many times "socialist" things entered into their daily lives, they'd still be total hypocrites.
LymphocyteLover
(5,654 posts)RVN VET71
(2,698 posts)His Libertarian cousin complained about sidewalks. Said he never uses the damned things so why should the gummint make him pay for them?
Apparently the discussion up till then was rational and even interesting but that remark helped my friend lean starkly socialist. Sidewalks? Even sidewalks?
But thats the Republican way, isnt it? If it does me no immediate good, I do not want to pay for it. If your child needs medical care, dont you dare ask the government to cover it with my tax money. If my child needs medical care, on the other hand, then wheres the goddamned government when I need them?
Piss on them. All of them. The Greene-nazis and the Cheney-plutocrats. May they devour each other in a mutual fight to the death.
LymphocyteLover
(5,654 posts)AZizzy
(13 posts)Social security is govt $ in the same ways public roads are built/maintained by govt $. Its us deciding to tax ourselves for retirement, transportation, public safety, etc. It burns me that we keep talking about govt as us vs them. Govt is us (by the people) deciding every two/four years who will serve in our interest (of the people) to make laws that will provide for the security, safety and general welfare (read the constitution) of all of us (for the people). Unfortunately too many of us have swallowed whole the Reagan delusion that govt is something out there foreign to our everyday experience.