Sunday, October 12, 2008
Jim, thanks for asking me to participate in your blog, as someone who is a liberal, I am sure to get challenged by the always RIGHT RIGHT WING. I am voting every who is in office out, and all newcomers in. I believe in term limits, simply because being a politician was not what I believe the founding fathers envisioned for serving your country. I use those simple words again " serving your country" It seems to me Judges, Senators, Congressman, are only concerned about staying in office. Yes! I said judges who are so "afraid of appearing soft on crime" they do not look at the person in front of them as a human being with family and needs. thanks terry
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Welcome!
Don't throw all the bums out - throw out the bad ones. If all incumbents lost, we'd have a GOP House again and that is how we got into this mess + doubled the national debt in 8 years...
Welcome Terry, not for the faint of heart but worth the effort. Good post.
Poor Rich gets whacked around a lot and could use the help.
So you are a Liberal huh? Income redistribution, welfare, affirmative action, that's your ticket? Really? So you want the small percentage of folks paying 90% of taxes to pay a greater share? To be fair, correct? You want folks to get a little help when they need it, right? And that social justice stuff is good for us? No one will over consume entitlements? The productive will not quit?
Well OK, if you say so but before politics there was human nature.
funny how you call fairness, income redistribution, and welfare of course is wrong according to the right, but i ask all wealthy people if they helped their own kid with his first car, first home etc. welfare to a single parent struggling to pay the neccessities of life for their child is somehow wrong
Welcome Terry,
I agree wholeheartedly with you on term limits. There are way too many corrupt congressmen on both sides of the aisle.
Rich seems to have tunnel vision at to economic matters, constantly arguing that only the last 8 years are the cause of this mess when it is very clear now that the mess can be traced all the way back to the Carter administration and an attempt at social reengineering. Also using Rich's argument then the last two years when the meltdown actually occurred are the democrats fault because they controlled congress which has the "power of the purse". Give people mortgages that cannot afford them using taxpayer dollars. How this little spark has caused a worldwide meltdown is a tragedy and should make anyone think twice about the ramnifications before they want the government to get involved in income redistribution too heavily. Here is another fact for you to ponder. The Bush tax cuts have put the highest percentage of people in history into the category of paying zero federal income taxes. About one third of the filers in 2004 paid zero taxes or where given money back in excess of what they paid. http://www.taxfoundation.org/research/show/542.html so much for them being just for the rich. I have prepared thousands of individual tax returns over the years and it is shocking how many people actually get money from the government back in excess of the amount they paid due to tax credits and the like. I agree wholeheartedly with Jim that everyone should have to pay something in. "skin in the game" as they say. Now we have Barry wanting to increase even more the amounts given to those who pay no taxes.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/09/obamas_patriotic_tonic.html Can someone please tell me how this is going to help us get out of the financial mess we are in now? I do not want to hear the tired old argument that by giving the poor more they will stimulate spending which will pull us out of the recession. We already tried this with the stimulus checks and I disagreed with it then and we can all see now that it was a momentary bump at best. Combining Marxist tax policies of taking from the bourgeoisie and giving to the proletariat in a major recession has never worked historically and will certainly not work now. But it will make us more like France which would please Rich very much.
Yes, T, taking someones money to help another is wrong. That's the argument. Are you going to argue that folks can steal from you if they really need to? How much do they need to need?
Don't confuse charity, an activity for which the "right" is well represented, with government coercion. We have some Libertarians on this blog and they are really tough.
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