have you/DH helped anyone less fortunate?
Posted By: nm on 2008-10-17
In Reply to: My reason for not voting for Obama... - voteinde
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I never said we should not help the less fortunate...
what I object to, again, is helping people who don't/won't help themselves. We all know people who are scamming the system. Why should DH and I be penalized for making a good living? We pay our fair share and then some, and O wants, in his own words, to spread the wealth around (socialism) to help those who are coming up behind us. Let those people do it like we did, with hard work and determination. Why should they benefit from our hard work? That makes no sense to me whatsoever. O's way will make for a society with no ambition; why work hard when someone else will do it for you and you can reap the benefits?
So your idea of helping the less fortunate is
to give them freebies all their life so they don't have to do anything to earn it, thereby encouraging them to do nothing else, have no motivation, and just depend on the government? I think we have enough of those as it is.
Too bad I don't hear Obama saying get yourselves up, get yourself educated, and go make a life for yourselves!!!
Proof to me he likes to keep them dumb and uneducated so he can be "their leader".
In a civilized society government does the less fortunate
sorry if you would prefer to live in an uncivilized country
and he has helped so much...
by spending and spending and spending, printing money, taking over banks and mortgages and car companies, and now with his eyes on health care. Yeah, he certainly has no responsibility in this at all.
This helped me understand it better
Your explanation really helped me to understand better what is going on. I'm not sure I would like the idea of people voting again. Talk about feeling like your vote doesn't count. I would feel like, what happened to my vote the first time? Why do we have to keep voting over and over and what if this happens again, and another recount, so just hold a third election until the outcome changes to favor who wants to keep having the re-votes (even though it might mean more poeple would vote for Obama this time - or maybe not - nobody really knows), but if their main concern is the delegates being seated then why don't they just split them down the middle 7 for Obama and 7 for Clinton or 10 and 10 (or however many there are, just make it an even split.
For some reason I keep hearing John Wayne's voice saying "What in tarnation is going on here". :-)
Thanks, MT....I am glad if I have helped you in any way....
to research on your own and make up your own mind, no matter which candidate you decided to support. Good for you! :)
It has helped me make my choice
After hearing most of Obama's speech I was really moved. If I had any doubts about supporting him in the past they are gone. I fully support him.
Wow, thanks. That helped me make up my mind.
I was on the fence between Obama and McCain, but now that I know that the boyfriend of the vice presidential candidate's daughter is an 18-year-old hockey player who uses bad words on his Myspace page, I could definitely never vote for McCain.
Thx - your explanation helped me understand it better
I understand that it had to be done, however, I guess I'm wondering is who is going to end up paying for it. Is it going to be us (people who make around $30K or so), or will it be the super wealthy millionaire, billionaire, and then the gluttonous people like Soros - now there's someone whose a slime lizzard). I did find this article written by Motley Fools. They are pretty good for writing things that even I can understand and they wrote an article listing the people responsible. So, I guess my questions is...Are the people who are responsible for letting this happen going to be responsible to get it fixed. After all, if I have a business and I run it into the ground nobody but me is going to pay for it. Anyway...think this is a good article...
http://www.fool.com/investing/dividends-income/2008/09/10/the-people-responsible-for-fannie-mae-and-freddie-.aspx
haven't the airlines already been helped? nm
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All the handouts we give them in California has helped our
No tax-refunds this year for those of us who work hard, pay taxes, and actually live here legally. This year all we get is *IOU's*.
Bush didn't destroy Iraq. He helped to liberate Iraq.
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