I have NOT said what percent I think agree with everything I believe. What I Said is the MAJORITY do not agree with the conservative agenda and that policy that the ten candidates exported last night! You try and twist the issue to me. The issue is the fact that the policies those ten candidates support ARE NOT what the majority in this country want!
Marxists throughout history have thought much as you do.
Your posts have consistently struck me as very out of touch with the mainstream. I get the striking opinion that you don't spend a lot of time with a lot of people in your day to day life.
Moreover, the foundation of your belief is based on ignorance. The vast VAST majority of people who are poor and receive welfare aren't retarded or disabled. They are simply people who made incredibly stupid choices and continue to do so.
I have met many people who are poor and as I've gotten to know them realized that even if you handed them everything, they'd ruin it and end up wretched any way.
But I don't base my beliefs even mostly on personal experiences but based on statistical fact. We know who the poor in this country are. There is a wealth of demographic information out there. They don't need public assistance they need to get off their asses and work.
But since people like you don't care about facts -- after all, you don't advocate that you pay extra in taxes, you advocate for other people to pay more in taxes -- you have no incentive to get educated.
Why is the burden on "the wealthy" to take care of the deficit? Shouldn't the 40% or so of Americans who pay nothing in federal taxes be worried about it too?
And why should I care if the federal government ends up bankrupt any more than the next person? Heck, quite the opposite. It's the person who pays nothing in but gets something out that should be worried.
I bet 90% would opt to increase taxes and they will not support major tax increases on the low and middle income workers. It is time for the wealthy to WAKE UP and look at the ultimate consequences of the fiscal policy we have been following! The wealthy will bear the greatest burden for making up what will be needed by the vast majority especially for Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid!
You'd lose that bet. Most people don't support higher taxes.
You aren't qualified to say what the consequences are by having a 2% GDP deficit.
You are quite mistaken, however, that the rich will bear the greatest burden. No, quite mistaken.
People like you are powerless because you are, ultimately parasites. The only reason you even have the ability it spout out your crap is because of the generosity of successful people who can, at a whim, take it away (whether that be here or elsewhere).
I have no problem bearing a disproportionate of the burden. I already do. I paid more in taxes last year than you've probably earned in your lifetime, Gene. It's about thresholds. I'm at my threshold now. It's time for "the people" to start being more responsible for themselves.
