If a free ride is a little help from time to time when a person needs it most, whether it be a child needing healthcare or a young woman needing low cost women’s services, or a mother needing food stamps, or providing our soldiers proper health care when they return from war, well I guess I am guilty. I didn’t say that the government was perfect, it is just that I would rather see my tax money go back to the people in ways of service and rebuilding infrastructure than in Tax cuts to the wealthy who pay a lesser percentage than their secretaries, or funding unjustified wars or subsidies to Corporations making record profits. This is the beauty of a Democracy isn’t it? We both want our tax dollars to count for something don’t we? So we vote, but holding the congress up from doing their job and walking out on debates isn’t debate or democracy and especially not compromise.
Just because people don’t live their life or think like you doesn’t mean they aren’t as good as you, all personalities, all societies, all nationalities…all types of people built this country not just you. It strikes me odd that Conservatives are always touting I’m the worker, I do what’s right, I’m the true patriot, I know the true Jesus…as if liberal minded people don’t. The I got mine, now go get yours …does it really work?
It sounds like you are upset with Obama for not doing enough as he said he would when he took office, are you disappointed in him because he didn’t save you? You didn’t even vote for him…if anything you made it harder for him to make the changes. Your party has fought him the whole way… remember for example, the birth certificate thing or the death panel thing?
I think what you are missing is that it is the banks & corporations who are behind all of the candidates, because you need almost a billion $$$$ to get elected president. Until elections are ran solely on public financing we will never get a real candidate of our choosing.
Look at your Tea Baggers, they are holding up the congress with their extreme ideas and It is not in the Countries best interest. Big Money ran a national campaign for Tea party Candidates, a national campaign for name recognition. They took a gamble as they got the Tea Party of America all riled up because they were turning on the Republicans and now the people are having buyer’s remorse. Look at the recall elections in Wisconsin and the state of Minnesota. They ran National campaigns so that they wouldn’t have to debate or interview in their own districts. Who would or could afford a National Campaign for a congressman, I’d say only Big Money with an agenda.
Here is my reality, I see first-hand In Brasil what it is like when there is a government who has failed its people and years have gone by…YEARS. Now they have a social divide between the rich and the poor, it is a huge gap. The haves live behind gates and the have not’s govern themselves. As good as the people are here and as fun as it is, there is little trust and respect for others. The handshake means nothing and you will never find a lost and found. Here everyone has experienced violence in some way at some degree.
America was an experiment in Democracy and it was an amazing blessing to our country. The teachers, public educators, the soldiers, the nurses, the small business person, the ambulance drivers, the firefighters, the construction workers, the police, and the social workers, etc… are the back bone of this country, they are who built America. Here in Brasil there is little respect for these jobs… not even the small business owner. Every idea is the same because the innovation is in Big business which leaves the rest to work for them. We need to take care of our middle class and help the less fortunate by education, offer services to the elderly and support our families and our workers…it is these ideas that give us strength as a nation. How we do this is with a democracy and with Democracy there is compromise and unfortunately you are never going to get your way 100% of the time but that is better than never getting your way.
