Furnishedowner,
What is sad to me is that “that was it” for your dad… had he actually looked a little deeper, he would have found that Democrats are not for the poor, but are only interested in how they can control them… any dispassionate reading of history reflects this… I have voted for Rep’s, Dem’s and Ind’s over the years, but I can tell you that I don’t make it a habit of voting for the one that believes government can do it better than it’s people…
My mother was also from another country, and she didn’t some to America at 21-22 years old to have the government do it for her… Being one of thirteen kids growing up, she knew the value of hard work. You either got up at 5am to pick potatoes before school, or you didn’t eat. When my father died, she worked two jobs raising many kids refusing government assistance. She was an amazing women who ingrained the work ethic into her family, not one of dependance, … once that is ingrained, it is EXTREMELY hard to get out from under it, although in America, you stand a better chance than in most places in the world. She believed that if you fall, you get up and try again…
Immigrants don’t brave the rough seas, or any of the many other ways they get here in the hopes of getting on the government dole… they do it for the OPPORTUNITY to live under a system of Life, Liberty and the PURSUIT of Happiness… If we could just get the citizenry focused back on their Heritage, instead of sucking off the government nipple or leaching off of others labor wherever they can (with the latest being nationalized healthcare) imagine the potential that could be unlocked. You will never get the best out of your child by doing it FOR them, but rather letting them do for THEMSELVES… we should not expect LESS from adults…
“BASH LIBERALS site” - well, I guess if you are being asked to defend your assertions and it’s hard to do so, I guess you could fall back on that… it’s intellectually weak, and you could always “change the channel”, as it were, but I would think that conservatives, moderates, libertarians, etc. could all make the same argument.
“But I am bothered when it degenerates into the kind of toxic hate-bashing espoused by people like Rush Limbaugh.”- Honestly, it like you are reading from a liberal website, and not thinking for yourself… I don’t agree with Limbaugh on everything and if you don’t understand his shtick, it’s hard to “get” him, but I think you’ll be better informed if you read all sides of an argument… If you did, you’ll find that Limbaugh is for the people, of ALL classes, not the government…
With few exceptions… most “war zones” alot of REI’s go into did not get into that condition by people who are hard working people and living “by the rules”, but are rather those on government assistance, using or pushing drugs, no self-motivation, because they get a check from the government… I’m sure alot of people here who rent to Section 8 tenants, and other’s can testify to this fact.
The more and more government involvement, the WORSE it gets…
My question to you is when does this dependance on government stop? At what point should the individual take responsibility for THEIR life, liberty and THEIR pursuit of happiness?..
Simply put, there is NOTHING the government can do for you that you cannot do for yourself better…
If you don’t believe this, give control of your rental business over to the government and see how well they do representing YOUR interests… yeah, I wouldn’t either…
It’s hard to defend what you believe sometimes, and even harder when you have to look at your own hypocrisy (as we all have done) and dig back in to work for what you believe in… We all fall, we just need to exhort more people to get back up themselves, instead of lying there WAITING for SOMEONE ELSE to do it for them… If not, you just enslave them to what SOMEONE ELSE thinks their life should be…