Palin: "Bush Doctrine? Whaat?"

[steven787]

Sqrl said:

steven787 said:

 

Ok, here's where me as a libertarian who votes democrat comes in.

It's not a loan.  Your not lending money, it's a tax.  It all goes into a fund and gets paid out (plus some fresh bills)...

The government isn't asking, they're holding a gun to your head and saying, "Pay this tax, or you go to jail, if you try to fight, we use our guns."

This is the price we pay for having a nice clean, safe society where the poor people aren't rioting and killing.  That's just life.

As the poor get better educated and attain skills, they demand more of society (meaning the rich). Society is willing to give them what they want because they don't want to do with out those people's work and skills.

Sucks, especially since I'll probably be on the richer end of the spectrum some day but it's a hell of a lot better than living in some dirty smelly country where poor children won't stop trying to sell me chicle, I can't go out at night, I can't drink the water and old people dying in the streets. (Sorry for all the "ands")

Yes, in a perfect world we would all pick up litter, replace bulbs in street lights, volunteer to go to war when needed by our country, educate each others children, take care of our own medical and retirement needs.  In the real world lots of people don't.  When you don't pay the ransom the people act up, then you have to declare war on your own people and kill them or jail them - which ends up costing more than just paying for decent school, roads, education, and medicine.

 

I was under the impression that everyone wanted the government to work for them...not in spite of them. Idealistic I know..but still. 

 

Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do to keep them from putting you in jail. :P