| TheRealMafoo said:
You misunderstand me. You said "I can see how you would blame me for my position in life, choosing a career in the Army that automatically limited my income; and a second career that I enjoy but is not an extremely high paying job." This is the line that's playing the victim. I never blamed you for anything. Your position in life (one I feel is a very good one), you worked to achieve. There is nothing about that to blame. I don't blame you. You are not lazy, nor do you fit in the category of the lazy. And the government is not giving you anything. You offered up 20 years of service, to the point of death if that was what was needed from you, and you are being compensated for your efforts. That's a huge difference. As for the constitution, it starts with this line: We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. This means a lot of things, and the body of the constitution goes into it deeper. But in a nutshell, the government is to collect taxes for the sole purpose of providing benefit in return. Redistribution of wealth is in violation of my general Welfare, and my Liberties. When you take money away from me, and give it to those that did not earn it, you are indenturing me. That is in violation of my rights. This is what was done in the 30's, in the 90's with sub prime lending. Bill Clinton himself said he knew it was a risk, but we had a surplus at the time, so we could absorb it. That means co-signing on loans for those who do not pay taxes, with the money from those that do. Now when that didn't work, again, we are dipping into yours and my pockets to pay for those that the government feels needs it more. It goes against everything the Constitution is about. I don't mind paying for services that are for me. Welfare I have never taken a dime of, but I know I could if I needed to. It's a service I pay for, and have the ability to take advantage of. I am fine with that. What got us in this mess is not that, and what we are trying to do to get us out of this mess, is evan farther away then were we need to be. |
The Constitution was a frame, not a picture. The writers of the Constitution wrote it in a way that gave future generations a great deal of power in determining what it meant, although the writers did place many limits on the federal government because the states did not want to surrender too much of their power.
Like it or not, the federal government has intervened in the private sector because the public ASKED them to and elected officials who would do it. That and because the states have a much longer history of oppressing people than the federal government does.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
