Get your facts straight, George.

tell a teacher who is trying to make ends meet in my area that $40k, $30-35k after taxes that he/she has a worthless degree, is a deadbeat, and plays the victim card…

someday I’ll be one, but I think it’s highly condescending of you to judge people whom you don’t even know much about with the help of your myths…

personal responsibility may sound like a good canard, but the problem with Republicans is that they selectively apply it. Should anything befall them, they always seem to blame someone else.

btw, I’m glad you’ve better off than you were 8 years ago, somehow working three jobs and managing to survive in this tough economy…

Ralph,

How is that a broad generalization? I said too much is directed to the poor. So in my opinion, if one lazy sob is getting my tax money, that is too much.

I am not sure where you are at on the income scale but I am trying to take care of a family of six and work three jobs. I typically work 60 hours per week. So, it pisses me off when I see people I know who (1) make poor decisions time and time again; (2) choose not to work; and (3) have more children knowing they cannot take care of them. They do these things and you know where my tax money goes? to give them yet another helping hand when I am working my ass off to just get by.

We need to punish people who do these things, not reward them.

June 16th, 2008 at 1:00 pm

Sounds like you had too many children to take care of, but to your point you support a president who forces you to work three jobs to support your family yet you fall for the “welfare queen” argument when Haliburton and Exxon get BILLIONS in tax breaks.

You are the poster child for “What’s the matter with Kansas,” a fukcing moron voting aginst his own self interest. The STUPID is strong in this one.

“They build up resentment against their scapegoats to distract the people whom they hurt through their economic policies in order to trick them into voting against their economic interests”

Well said.

HALLIBURTON AND KBR WELFARE COST so much more yet you don’t hear conservatives talking about waste even though billions have gone down the financial black hole. Note LFE does not blame our government’s willingness to not hold these companies accountable for our tax dollars, because it’s the fault of “poor, lazy people.”

for the richest Americans…

Well, when we stop spending 700 billion a year for alot of stuff we dont need you may have a point. Speaking of lazy SOB’s taking your tax money are you aware of how much the government hands out in subsidies?

…we Americans will all end up being nothing more than gardeners, houseboys and maids for the super-rich.

libforequity’s three jobs?

shoeless Says:
Wayne Says:

Then the price of the Iraq war and the missing 23 Billion must piss you off pretty badly then, no?

He isn’t allowed to talk about that. If he does, he will get fired from his three jobs

IO’m not sure that trolling on progressive websites under three different aliases counts as “three jobs”…

…we Americans will all end up being nothing more than gardeners, houseboys and maids for the super-rich.

Annie, don’t tell anyone, but that’s the plan.

Then the price of the Iraq war and the missing 23 Billion must piss you off pretty badly then, no?

He isn’t allowed to talk about that. If he does, he will get fired from his three jobs.

If someone loses a steady full-time job and is forced to pick up multipe jobs to make up a lost income, I’m not knocking those people. But to take up the arrogant conservative hype that relies on the “we’ll call you if we need you” employment system without regard to a person’s day-to-day financial obligations, including that of raising children and their ever-increading needs, is preposterous. Talk about licking the hand that doesn’t feed you.