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Topic: Take My Country Back
alnewman Joined Sat 12/14/13 Posts: 4009	Mon 03/03/14 07:20 PM
Who has taken our country? As a result of advertising creating needs that are imagined, we Americans spend more than we earn. Because of the money in politics today, we elect people who have little connection with Main Street or the next-door neighbor, we elect people to Washington who make laws that create millionaires with dependencies on Washington�s largesse and make laws that benefit Wall Street and the 1 percent. Laws that benefit the middle class and the working classes are subjugated to the wants and wishes of corporations and their lobbyists. We want to take our country back so that anyone who wants an assault weapon can have it even though more young and old Americans will be being murdered. Exactly to what do we want to go back? We remember who we were and how life was a couple of generations ago. But what we can�t seem to get our minds around is who we were is not who we are. We are a nation of two-salary families, a nation of plutocrats and leaders whose selfish policies protect a privileged few, and a religious nation that idolizes lucre and claims that poverty is the wrath of an angry God. Instead of taking our country back, let�s take it forward to a future where the hungry are fed, the sick are healed, and the values of our faith are honored regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, politics, or the size of one�s bank account. Rather than focusing on who we were, let�s plan on who we will be. Read More: http://cubie1944.com/2013/11/19/the-way-we-were/ As one who started off dirt poor, having had to live with relatives down in Mexico who didn't even have electricity or running water (Bet no one here can even imagine such a life) until I was old enough, and had the money to return on my own; I take offence that because I was willing to work as many as three jobs at a time, only drive used cars, do without, ate by means of a rifle and a fishing pole much of the time, save my money and invest in things that goes up in value, that I'm greedy and/or selfish because I object to have others live off my labor by picking my pocket and take food out of the mouths of my family. In this country, even the poorest are among the Top 10% in wealth worldwide; and the Government does it by taking from those who earned it, to enslave those that didn't. With all due respect, Miss Harmony has the same mindset as which led to the French Revolution, the Bolsheviks Revolution, the Holodomor the Holocaust, The Great Leap Forward, and other nightmares the world over. Hunger teaches the lazy to work. Like a door on its hinges, is the lazy on his bed. A Fool eats all that he has, the wise have warehouses of oil and grain. Plow deep as sluggards sleep, you'll have grain to sell and keep. there a lot of middle class Americans who are fed up with entitlements, not because SOMETIMES someone might need a TEMPORARY helping had but because the wealthy , not the middle class, should be supporting those efforts when they are needed But they used to, in spades. The wealthy and middle class alike gave very generously to church funds. The churches helped those that needed a hand and had more than enough funds because do you know how hard it is to BS a clergy? But then came the government and viola.

alnewman Joined Sat 12/14/13 Posts: 4009	Mon 03/03/14 07:29 PM
most I know aren't upset that those in need get help they are more upset that corporations and the elite get loopholes and breaks that greatly overshadow any 'welfare' that the poor get to survive on,,,and with much fewer restrictions than the poor have As they say, the pen is mightier than the sword. And imagine those elitist and corporations having very expensive lawyers holding off those guns. And paying less would be welfare how? But you see the corporations also know something else, this entitlement system is great. All they had to do was establish the concept by allowing the freeloaders to have stuff at the expense of others and all is settled. But the good part is, very few actually realize just how much tax money is generated on a yearly basis. It's immence, so immence the government not only supports itself but gives away billions at a shot. And income tax don't count, it's not used to run the government, that's for the Federal Reserve for interest on the debt, your sweat for printing fiat currency. What a scam.

alnewman Joined Sat 12/14/13 Posts: 4009	Mon 03/03/14 07:30 PM
most I know aren't upset that those in need get help they are more upset that corporations and the elite get loopholes and breaks that greatly overshadow any 'welfare' that the poor get to survive on,,,and with much fewer restrictions than the poor have As they say, the pen is mightier than the sword. And imagine those elitist and corporations having very expensive lawyers holding off those guns. And paying less would be welfare how? But you see the corporations also know something else, this entitlement system is great. All they had to do was establish the concept by allowing the freeloaders to have stuff at the expense of others and all is settled. But the good part is, very few actually realize just how much tax money is generated on a yearly basis. It's immence, so immence the government not only supports itself but gives away billions at a shot. And income tax don't count, it's not used to run the government, that's for the Federal Reserve for interest on the debt, your sweat for printing fiat currency. What a scam. All those bankers at the Fed split up about $850 billion of America's sweat.