Heres the thing. Everyone starts from a point in their life, whether it be bad or not. I admit, for me it wasn't. But for my great-grandparents, and my grandparents, and my parents it was shit poor. Back in their day they never asked for welfare handouts, they did what they had to do to make my life better, and I hope to do the same with my kids. Every generation things became better because we realized, "we might not become rich in our lifetime, but hell, if I can let my kids live better than I did, I'll be happy." You said something about my SUV's not helping your kids, hey man, I hope you instal some values into them that gives them the persistance and hard work to obtain these things like my parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents did.
As far as affrimative action, I hope you arn't white and support it. It's racism, and no one can argue against that. Sure the playing field is unequal but colleges profile the quality of the high school and therefore the strength of academics accordingly. My problem is, they take it a step further and make it unequal by adding in race as a factor. It's illegal to hire people based on race, why is it not for "hiring" or accepting into colleges? Get past a persons sking color already and focus on academics which can really add and contribute to American Society.
I agree its a hatred for corruption but it is also a hatred against the rich and wealthy. It's liberal, socialistic ideas concerning economic equality which has created this class of degenerate rich hating people. Prior to the great depression we never needed a welfare system and President Roosevelt feared that this system would become to relied on by Americans. And seventy years later, he was right. There is no excuse for being on welfare, as long as your not handicapped or something. It's just an excuse for free-loaders to live off other peoples hard work.
And as for attacking Bush, come on it's pointless already. Much of the same can be said for Clinton, or even worse. For Christs sake, he had an affair in the oval office.
As for being un-patriotic, some of the things liberals say are. During a wartime, you don't suggest that Bush went to war to diffuse away from an Enron scandel, or say it was for any other political gain. That's seditious and irresponsible to suggest that a president would risk the lives of American soldiers purly for his own hide. I would have more trust even with a liberal president to make that accusation which democractic candidates make daily. There is a borderline between free speech, constructive critism, and saying things which undermine and destroy the moral of our troops. It's as if liberals want soldiers to die so they can yell, "SEE BUSH! YOUR FAILING IN YOUR WAR! WE WERE RIGHT!"
And the SUV, yeah it's very nice. I'm hoping to add this custom Bose sound system and leather chairs as well as a unneeded GPS, just for looks. But seriously, I made my money, and no one is going to tell me how I spend it, especially not after half of it is taken away after taxes.
why do anything if it doesn't help you personally in some way? that seems to sum up the whole conservative mindset to me these days.
What about the ACLU or trial lawyers? They are all liberal and care only for themselves as seen with ambulance chasing and law suits like the McDonalds coffee burns and the recent Cincinnati Police Issues. Christianity is more conservative than liberal, and arn't Churches fudning some of the wealthiest and most generous foundations toward the needy and uneducated? Although I love my SUV I donate tons to local churches and participate in my fundraising drives towards charities that I find productive and worthwhile.
Russia's economy is strengthening also and they run a set tax system of around 17-19% for all economic classes. Why can't we apply this? Our high taxes seem more like a deterant against hard work. We all agree our money isn't spent properly, and I won't be partison in my politics and say Bush hasn't made any mistakes. The HIV bill to Africa was an outrage for an example, as was the bill towards reconstructring Iraq. When I say this, I mean we should have used their oil for reconstructring, and reparations.
