If I've learned anything from recent Presidential elections, changing your opinions due to new information is a sign of weakness. One must make a choice and ride it all the way down.
When it becomes too difficult for a small mind to sort through all the data out there, there is a place where one can turn: the mindless belief of the religious.
Otherwise known as the ol' "If it isn't obvious to me, a god did it!" mis-thought.
All the paperwork to prevent adoption by gay people, or 'sexual offenders' who peed in public, etc... is all reactionary shit designed to appeal the craven 'protect the children' demographic.
Maybe we should fix that before we start dismanteling the welfare system. That welfare system helped my mothers family in the 1960s. They got government housing and food for a couple when my grandfather was injured and lost his job, and that let them keep going until more work could be found for him.
There are thousands of children in foster homes waiting for adoption, but nobody wants them. 'Welfare' as you broadly paint all social assistance programs, pays the foster parents to cover costs.
Churches don't pay property taxes for the services they receive from the locality. This causes everyone else's taxes to increase to cover the gap. I want that back.
Don't you know how taxes work?!
What else do the police do, other than protecting my person and property?
If you want better, you pay more for it. Do you think people who send kids to private school should get a tax rebate because they don't use the service?
If so...
I don't go to church, I want the portion of my taxes that supports those churches back. I have my own weapon and I'll defend my property myself, I don't want to pay for police services that others use.
Yeah you are right, it would be wrong for me to draw that conclusion based only on my experiences. But hey, my 'gut' says that the older generations are more trusting of government, especially given the "we are at war" fallacy that they have, in my experience, bought into.
The WW2 generation and their children have a sickening level of governmental trust. I heard the "we are at war" line from some old guy in the grocery store, but we are NOT AT WAR. The playtime in Iraq police action wasn't important enough to merit a declaration of war from Congress, nor a draft! I dunno about you, but I don't think we really need to be in Iraq. We should have kept in Afghanistan and found Osama, even if we did have to invade our 'allies' the Saudies.
The law exists to serve the people, not a subset of the people. I bet you hated the 'Underground Railroad' when you learned about it last year in History class, huh?
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If I've learned anything from recent Presidential elections, changing your opinions due to new information is a sign of weakness. One must make a choice and ride it all the way down.
Those 40,000 positions could have been re-trained to guard Halliburton convoys! Typical government waste...
Soon enough all the believers will arrive to say something similar to my post, except that they actually mean it.
When it becomes too difficult for a small mind to sort through all the data out there, there is a place where one can turn: the mindless belief of the religious.
Otherwise known as the ol' "If it isn't obvious to me, a god did it!" mis-thought.
If FireFox thinks it is spelled correctly, it is good enough for me. I don't need to spell, that is what the technical writer is for.
Unlike the douchebags who told us this honorless 'war' would take 6 months tops, and cost much less than $200 Billion.
Your troll is weak, but I feel like trolling too.
...that all peoples' claims be approached with a skeptic eye.
FISA, pre-Shrub, allowed 72 hours of surveilance to be done while the agents awaited a warrant to SPY ON AN AMERICAN CITIZEN.
Put FISA back to the way it was, and much of my complaints go away.
How did all those crazy rules and regulations come about, you wonder? The child-protection crusaders.
They track down the baddies who have wronged me? I've been wronged three times, and cops never found them.
I should get back the portion of my property tax that funds the police since I don't need them...according to your logic.
All the paperwork to prevent adoption by gay people, or 'sexual offenders' who peed in public, etc... is all reactionary shit designed to appeal the craven 'protect the children' demographic.
Maybe we should fix that before we start dismanteling the welfare system. That welfare system helped my mothers family in the 1960s. They got government housing and food for a couple when my grandfather was injured and lost his job, and that let them keep going until more work could be found for him.
There are thousands of children in foster homes waiting for adoption, but nobody wants them. 'Welfare' as you broadly paint all social assistance programs, pays the foster parents to cover costs.
You may want to rethink your unfunded mandate.
Churches don't pay property taxes for the services they receive from the locality. This causes everyone else's taxes to increase to cover the gap. I want that back.
Don't you know how taxes work?!
What else do the police do, other than protecting my person and property?
...Who Accounts for the General Accounting Office?
If you want better, you pay more for it. Do you think people who send kids to private school should get a tax rebate because they don't use the service?
If so...
I don't go to church, I want the portion of my taxes that supports those churches back.
I have my own weapon and I'll defend my property myself, I don't want to pay for police services that others use.
Socialized Medicine makes sure that the poorest and most vulnerable get decent care, which they currently do not.
I don't recall making the decision to support hateful religionists through my taxes, but 'churches' are tax exempt.
Get over yourself son.
Stop saying that. It denigrates real wars and those who sacrificed in those wars.
'alcohol related accidents' include events when a non-drunk crosses the double-yellow and crashes head-on into a drunk driver. I'm skeptical.
Yeah you are right, it would be wrong for me to draw that conclusion based only on my experiences. But hey, my 'gut' says that the older generations are more trusting of government, especially given the "we are at war" fallacy that they have, in my experience, bought into.
Is this when you come back with "My brother/sister/foster-mother/lover was killed by a Drunk Driver and attempt an appeal to emotion?
The WW2 generation and their children have a sickening level of governmental trust. I heard the "we are at war" line from some old guy in the grocery store, but we are NOT AT WAR. The playtime in Iraq police action wasn't important enough to merit a declaration of war from Congress, nor a draft! I dunno about you, but I don't think we really need to be in Iraq. We should have kept in Afghanistan and found Osama, even if we did have to invade our 'allies' the Saudies.
'Cause you're doing a shitty job, and I'm gonna hire some Puerto Ricans who'll do a better job for less.
The law exists to serve the people, not a subset of the people. I bet you hated the 'Underground Railroad' when you learned about it last year in History class, huh?
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This is what "the other half" means.