it's all a sense of entitlement. you give a man a fish he starts hanging outside wanting a fish every day, you teach a man to fish he says "no man, there's this other guy who is gonna give me a fish" the nanny state doesn't work. Time for people to live or die on their own merits. If they want to be criminals, lock em up, put em to death. if we actually executed people in public where everyone could see the consequences of bad decisions, maybe it would be a deterrent (and start executing a few do gooder candy-ass protesters and lawyers who muddle up the process with their p u s s y ass whining and pathetic appeals to emotion.
time to punish the weak and support the strong, the smart, the best of us. Fighting evolution for the sake of smug social niceness is the dumbest thing in our culture today.
it's all a sense of entitlement. you give a man a fish he starts hanging outside wanting a fish every day, you teach a man to fish he says "no man, there's this other guy who is gonna give me a fish" the nanny state doesn't work. Time for people to live or die on their own merits. If they want to be criminals, lock em up, put em to death. if we actually executed people in public where everyone could see the consequences of bad decisions, maybe it would be a deterrent (and start executing a few do gooder candy-ass protesters and lawyers who muddle up the process with their p u s s y ass whining and pathetic appeals to emotion.
time to punish the weak and support the strong, the smart, the best of us. Fighting evolution for the sake of smug social niceness is the dumbest thing in our culture today.
Eh but now we're getting into out and out Social Darwinism, which we've always had but we're gone about it a little more discreetly. Have you eaten any fish lately that you caught from a stream, pond, lake, etc.? I wouldn't advise it, factories have polluted most of them. I know Repubs keep perpetuating this whole "those who work will be successful and only those who are lazy are broke, homeless, etc." and maybe some of them have to to that to sleep at night, I don't know. I do know that those at the top of the food chain are so far up there because they've manipulated the system, always, but really the most recent stuff has come since Lord Reagan gave them the keys to the storehouse for helping him defeat communism back in the 1980s. Rules, laws, lobbyists, special interests, etc., run this country and they allow those folks to keep a stranglehold on the money supply.
Google wealth distribution by class in the US and you'll find that the top 10% own 90% of ALL the wealth of this nation. Now you can tell yourself whatever you need to about why that is the case, ala one popular opinion around here is that the middle class has disappeared because all the members of the middle class who cared and who worked hard are now in the upper class and the rest have fallen into the abyss, where quite frankly they deserve to be. I could go into why that's total BS, but why waste my time as breath.
If people who are able to work, but just don't want to, and don't try to starve then I guess at some point we have to let them. For those (and I believe this percentage is a lot higher than some around here do) who are trying but have been downsized and outsourced and who are struggling but giving it their best starve then I think we have failed as a nation. We've stood by for 30+ years while the wealthy, who already had almost everything, have pillaged most of what little is left and as long as it didn't hit us personally we just turned a blind eye to it, which makes us just about as guilty as those vermin at the top who have been stealing from the storehouse.
Oh and do I need to mention the DoD's budget? I certainly would never want to deny our troops the stuff they need to keep us safe but don't you think we've gone WAY the hell above that, considering over 1/2 of every dollar we spend goes to them? There's no fat there to trim? Hey, maybe we could develop a new program, "No Defense Contractor Left Behind". Sounds catchy, don't you think? And I"m sure Vlad Cheney and KBR who has made at least $40B of PROFIT from the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars SO FAR would be on board, don't you think?
I do agree with you that people need to live on their own merits and that we've lost that drive in this country and that we won't ever be #1 again until we get it back, but I could never go along with let's just let the poor die and execute the protesters (I'll give you a maybe on the lawyers part) but didn't you mention something to me about a dictatorship? What you just said in this post sounds just exactly like one and who gets to be dictator? Trump? Hilldog?
Go ahead and stand with those who have everything and who used varying degrees of"anything goes" to get it, I'm sure the air is a lot cleaner up there with them. I will just stand with those who don't have an armed army to make sure "they are too big to fail".
We do agree that the spending has to stop, but I'd rather spend to help keep people from starving than to help corporations have greater profit margins than they already have, and CEOs make 45X plus what their employees make (have you looked up how much we give out every year in corporate welfare)? I'm assuming you dislike all unnecessary spending and not just that spent on the poor, but I could be wrong. We have been fed and have to a large degree bought into the lie that those at the top deserve anything and everything they have because they got it legally. Well since they write the laws (or pay those who do) I'd say it's a little deeper than just "the free market". I've always found that those who tout the free market the most are those who are usually busiest in trying to circumvent it in as many ways as possible.
