Gimmies are usually of the Liberal persuasion, mainly Democrats. If the President keeps spending and giving free stuff, as he has been in the past four years, without the Congress and Senate reeling in his spending, we will soon be bankrupt.
Not only are President Obama and the Democrats overspending, they are beginning to form a monolithic-type political system which is very large and powerful and difficult to change. Obama’s policy of my way or no way and using Presidential recess appointments to put more of his henchmen in important positions without the Senate’s approval, is part of this plan. The Speaker of the House, John Boehner, has said Mr. Obama was seeking to annihilate the Republican Party.
Both parties need to go to a middle-of-the road approach and try to solve the country’s problems before we get any further down the slippery slope.
Our country is in an unusual situation. We are in an inflation mode because of spiraling prices in the commodities market and in a recession at same time because of the loss of the manufacturing base and the housing market,
It’s a round robin effect because people can’t find jobs to make the money to buy the products the factories make and the factories cannot stay open and hire people to work if they cannot sell their products.
I don't know many people (always exceptions to the rule) that begrudge someone for getting temporary government assistance in a tough time. But at some point, the assistance has to stop. It should be a helping hand up, not a way of life. The fact that we have built entire complexes of government housing where people live their entire lives shows which of the two it is right now. The problem is the government is involved. Churches and civic organizations have helped those in need for the entirety of U.S. history. I'm not sure why liberals don't like that, maybe it's because the churches and civic organizations don't take your money at the point of a gun, or maybe it's because you can't buy votes with charitable donations, but either way it is immoral to take the honest earnings of one, against his will, and give it to another simply because they want or need it.
Finally, please control your deck of race cards. Democrats only give you one deck a year, so if you drop one during every discussion, you'll likely run out before Christmas, errr sorry "The Holiday Season".
I thought he had already been there for four years? You know the one that has kept the economy collapsing, put more debt on America than any other president, and raised tax rates on every working man and woman in the United states.
As far as the gimmies, it's not so much Grandma Jones who worked at the factory all her life and now gets a social security check, it's more about those people in front of me at the grocery store with three buggies full of cheetos and energy drinks, and they don't pay a dime for it because they are "entitled" to free food simply because they exist. It's those who go to the E.R. for their persistent back pain, migraines and nervous conditions and when they don't get their drug of choice, they go down the street to another E.R. and start the process over again. It's those who have been on unemployment checks for 3 years either because they would rather get free money than work OR because they can't find a job due to Obama's Hope/Change economy.
Your 47% quip is right on the money. That kind of talk no longer gets one elected. Democrats are willing to buy the votes of the poor, lazy and inept. Republicans should jump on board. Promising jobs and opportunity no longer works as well as promising free money and food.
Someone pointed out to me the other day that THE PEOPLE have spoken so I "need to shut up & get over it." I'm just trying I can survive it! I'm just hoping THE PEOPLE finally have to deal with the consequences of their actions, but of course, they won't see it as 'their' actions. It will be the Republicans or some other groups' fault, as usual!
I read your letter and was surprised that those on the right are still eager to those who are less fortunate as “Gimmies”.
Dude.....You channeled Mitt Romney’s 47%. That worked so well for the right wing on election night. So please keep it up.
I am very happy that President Obama was reelected. Not for any of the reasons you gave so here are a few of mine.
1. Obamacare will not be gutted by the right wing and their Tea Party Zealots
2. DOMA will continue it’s inexorable march towards repeal
3. Immigration reform will happen. Over the screeching of the right wing nutjobs.
4. The minimum wage will go up
5. Gun control regulations will be enacted
And finally…someone who actually cares about the middle class will occupy the oval office.
You rail against those who want “Free things”. Tell me who are they????
Might it be the elderly who paid into social security for decades and want their earned benefits?
Might it be those who pay for Medicaid wanting their Benefits?
Or how about those retired military that want their pensions?
But wait I just bet you are taking about the family of 4 whose job was outsourced by Mitt Romney and his GOP/TP cronies….
You know the one who everyone demands be drug tested to get unemployment?
The ones who try to feed their families on $ 350 per month….
That same family of four who work two to three minimum wage jobs just to not starve?
And when their children are sick have to visit the ER and listen to condescending nurses and doctors?
Sound OK to you? Yeah that describes the GOP/TP of today.
You Wrote: Gimmies are usually of the Liberal persuasion, mainly Democrats. If the President keeps spending and giving free stuff, as he has been in the past four years, without the Congress and Senate reeling in his spending, we will soon be bankrupt
I reply: You need to go back to school and take an economics class. The only ones bankrupting America are Republicans and Tea partiers. The nation ran a surplus during the Clinton presidency. The Obama administration has reduced spending more than any administration since the 1950’s. Only Limbaugh, Beck and the really crazies even bother to repeat that lame line anymore.
You Wrote: Not only are President Obama and the Democrats overspending, they are beginning to form a monolithic-type political system which is very large and powerful and difficult to change. Obama’s policy of my way or no way and using Presidential recess appointments to put more of his henchmen in important positions without the Senate’s approval, is part of this plan. The Speaker of the House, John Boehner, has said Mr. Obama was seeking to annihilate the Republican Party.
I reply: Add history to your school classes. Study the history of recess appointments.
I so hope President Obama annihilates the Republican Party. Please oh Please....Let it happen...
America would be better for it. Sadly that comment is just BS rhetoric from a completely incompetent drunk speaker of the house.
You Wrote: Both parties need to go to a middle-of-the road approach and try to solve the country’s problems before we get any further down the slippery slope.
I reply: This both side middle of the road meme is complete bull poop. Republicans and Tea Partiers do not know the meaning of the word compromise.
No..... they want Trans Vaginal probing, Drug Testing of the poor while handing billions out in tax cuts for corporations, concealed carry permits for everyone, Prayer in school, Deny climate change, Spend like drunken sailors till a democrat is president, Lie us into war that kill thousand of our sons and daughters, want to repeal the voting rights act and use class warfare every day.
You Wrote: Our country is in an unusual situation. We are in an inflation mode because of spiraling prices in the commodities market and in a recession at same time because of the loss of the manufacturing base and the housing market,
It’s a round robin effect because people can’t find jobs to make the money to buy the products the factories make and the factories cannot stay open and hire people to work if they cannot sell their products.
I reply: Again I recommend more education. This last paragraph is just nonsense.
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It's cranio-rectal impacted, legend-in-their-own-minds idiots like yourself who give Democrats and liberals in general a bad name.
You rail about people who 'deserve' without consideration of where those funds are going to come from? Do you have children? Do they not 'deserve' the fashions & toys the other kids have? If your income doesn't support purchasing those items, do you buy them anyway and not bother with the mortgage/rent & the power bill? (Perhaps if the DEMOCRATIC controlled government hadn't combined the Social Security fund with the General Government fund in the 1960's, Social Security wouldn't be in the mess it is today.)
Why do we need more gun control laws? The ones we have aren't enforced or even enforceable.
Who is going to pay for Obamacare? Again, I refer you to the home budget model. There is a limited supply of money - in government and in private homes. Some things have to be cut in order to fund others. It's all a matter of priority. WE CAN'T AFFORD FOR EVERYONE TO HAVE EVERYTHING THEY WANT!!
As far as education, perhaps it's time for YOU to graduate with your Liberal Arts degree and try to find a real job in the real world! THEN maybe you won't sound as ignorant as your post indicates.
Nonetheless this is something both sides need to work together on. The dems need to reform these social programs and the reps need to reform their corporate welfare programs.
*I realize there is also a lot of people who legitimately use these programs to get back on their feet. These people usually don't have time to sit around and complain.