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Originally Posted by memason
Here's what I find amazing... Anything can be turned to the extreme. If the President does nothing, people complain. If the President does something, people complain. ......people complain, is the common denominator.
I also find it very interesting that folks are more than happy to rebuild Iraq or Afghanistan; assisting Japan with Tsunami relief, etc. But, when comes to helping our fellow Americans, we have all these reasons why our fellow Americans are deadbeats, that they don't want to work... they don't want to pay their bills. Americans are somehow not worthy.
We support the demonstrating masses of countries that want to change their government, but we demonize those who would do the same in our own country (OWS).
We send billions and billions of dollars around the world to help folks, but we don't want to help our own.
Color my very puzzled...  |
So I guess you want to celebrate those who want to change our government? How, and in what way? You're no longer satisfied with the government as set forth by our founding fathers?
If that's what you mean, you're going to get a lot of opposition, believe me; and you can get as outraged as you want, but the socialist/communist form of government that the OWS is seeking is not going to be accomplished without resistance.
The President could be eliciting less opposition if he was working to increase opportunity instead of to increase redistribution of private resources. Endless handouts only serve to create a permanent underclass. That way of thinking only demoralizes the downtrodden and irritates those who's resources gained from hard work is confiscated. There's a better way, and that way is to open up the floodgates to opportunity by getting out of the way of business with a decreased and a certainty in taxes, and scaling back growth killing regulations. Particularly the regulations that handcuff the energy producers in this country need to be severely diminished.
I would also like to see the billions of dollars you point out that is going around the world in aid to be cut out entirely to countries that don't act in our interests.