I was poor, but a GOP die-hard

[Lucrum]

The guy is basically proud of being a fucking idiot and being bailed out by the government. At one point he says he financed a piece of shit car he couldnt afford while his wife couldnt hold down a job. Typical liberal proud of living off others due to his own poor choices.

The guy made basically every poor life choice you could, and then at the end he wants to blame the free market and wants the government to bail his ass out.

His choices are literally a checklist of what to do if you want to end up in poverty.

Having kids you cant afford when your 19. Check
Dropout of college. Check.
Finance things you cant afford on a military salary. Check.

BINGO!

 

[futurecurrents]

Yes he made mistakes when he was young and now he should suffer for the rest of his life for them. Because only dummies make mistakes when they're young. None of the ranting righties here ever made a mistake or got unlucky. The government should not be there to help people in trouble.

 

[Spike Trader]

Yes he made mistakes when he was young and now he should suffer for the rest of his life for them. Because only dummies make mistakes when they're young. None of the ranting righties here ever made a mistake or got unlucky. The government should not be there to help people in trouble.

Bush waited to fuck-up until he became president and brought untold misery to the entire world at the same time.

 

[Tsing Tao]

Yes he made mistakes when he was young and now he should suffer for the rest of his life for them. Because only dummies make mistakes when they're young. None of the ranting righties here ever made a mistake or got unlucky. The government should not be there to help people in trouble.

Everyone makes mistakes in life. But those who make them over and over and over again need to accept the responsibility for them and not blame them on rich people.

 

[Tsing Tao]

Bush waited to fuck-up until he became president and brought untold misery to the entire world at the same time.

Untold misery to the entire world. No hyperbole there at all.

Sometimes I forget this isn't a yahoo message board.

 

[dbphoenix]

Bush waited to fuck-up until he became president and brought untold misery to the entire world at the same time.

Although he wasn't alone. The funding of Iranians, Hussein, and militants in Afghanistan, one of whom was bin Laden, had been ongoing for years before Bush ever arrived on the Washington scene.

 

[DHOHHI]

Bush waited to fuck-up until he became president and brought untold misery to the entire world at the same time.

Ditto for Odumbo ............. he perhaps could have achieved his full potential as a community organizer. Maybe Jesse or Sharpton could have been his mentors.

 

[futurecurrents]

Everyone makes mistakes in life. But those who make them over and over and over again need to accept the responsibility for them and not blame them on rich people.

Absolutely. The argument is over where the accountability/assistance line is drawn. There should be both.

But income inequality is a problem that needs to be addressed by the government through policy. It has become too great. It wouldn't even be so bad if money did not equal political power as much as it does these days. And when corporations become people we have a problem IMO.

 

[Tsing Tao]

Absolutely. The argument is over where the accountability/assistance line is drawn. There should be both.

But income inequality is a problem that needs to be addressed by the government through policy. It has become too great. It wouldn't even be so bad if money did not equal political power as much as it does these days. And when corporations become people we have a problem IMO.

Holy shit, we agree on something. So why are you making the guy's story out to be anyone but his own fault?

On income inequality, it needs to be dealt with somewhat.

However, when the government is the reason that income inequality is so great, your answer is to have the government do more to fix it when my suggestion is for government to stop doing what it is doing in the first place.

 

[futurecurrents]

Holy shit, we agree on something. So why are you making the guy's story out to be anyone but his own fault?

On income inequality, it needs to be dealt with somewhat.

However, when the government is the reason that income inequality is so great, your answer is to have the government do more to fix it when my suggestion is for government to stop doing what it is doing in the first place.

I never said it was not his fault.

The government is both the cause and remedy of the inequality.