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Because these people don't know how to do the whole adult thing and order their own lives. Thus, they scramble to find someone to do it for them. It's why they walk in lockstep like a hive and all say the exact same things.
I'm no more "tranny" than Trump is truthteller. I DO consider myself a democratic socialist and I can't imagine wanting to have the government control everything. I want the PEOPLE to control the government …. as it is supposed to be under our Constitution. I want everyone to pay their fair share (socialism), I want the Congress and Senate to work FOR those people, not for their political agenda, (democracy), and I don't want President that thinks HE is "the country" (Authoritarianism), and runs things with an iron hand (fascism / communism / Trumpism, etc.). Next question.
Crazy AL is a SOCIALIST but he does not want the GUBERMENT to run everything LMAO!!
Crazy AL can you SOCIALIST explain how you SOCIALIST are going to pay for FREE COLLEGE and FREE HEALTHCARE ???????? Help us out with the knowledge u possess SOCIALIST AL!
Some people want everyone to pay their fair share, which is always more than whatever they are paying. Others want people to pay as little as possible and only for that which is necessary.
Well, there ARE many who I think should pay more than I do. After all, 1% of the U.S. owns 80% of our money, largely because they've used their YUGE resources to "adjust laws" that allow them to keep even MORE of what's coming in. In the meantime, the urgent need for money to run the country (also DEFEND the country), to educate the people, to care for the peoples health must come from THEIR pockets. On top of that, the 1% (2%-3%-4%,etc.) hide much of what comes down to "their fair share" in offshore accts. so they wont have to pay it, citing "unfair taxes"! Pay it BACK and we'll get rid of the 1.5M in poverty, the unaffordable cost of education for those who NEED it, the unaffordable health care, the suffering elderly! THAT will MAGA!
As I've said before, the rich got richer even when they were paying an outrageous 90%! No need for THAT! MAGA should be a JOINT effort …. and proportionate to ones income (+)! Donate one of your yachts, one of your mansions, one of your exotic cars to MAGA. Pay your "earners" what they're worth, be a little more "socialistic" ;-) and capitalism will flourish even MORE!
This really is a full load Al. Poverty was steadily decreasing in this country for decades. Then the Dems decided to wage war on that poverty. Shortly there after, the poverty rate stopped declining, and all the poor got was a diabetes epidemic. Take more of other people’s money will not fix poverty, it will likely just expand obesity rates.
Where does your money come from Al? Does it just “come in” or did you have to do something for it? Do you have a problem with me buying a car with my own earned income? What if it’s a nice car? What about a boat? At what point do you become jealous and greedy enough to demand by law that I don’t get to keep what’s mine? How do you feel morally superior to people who push for laws to keep what’s theirs? It’s a joke.
If I’m going to take a bunch of your money and spend it on things you don’t agree with, why wouldn’t you hide it from me?
You have a right to what’s yours Al, that doesn’t make you greedy. You have no right to what’s mine, demanding it does make you greedy.
Poverty was steadily decreasing in this country for decades.
Bullshit. You are selectively picking and choosing information, as per usual.
But the nation’s economy has made far less progress lifting people out of poverty without the need for government services.
The findings by a group of academic researchers at Columbia University paint a mixed picture of the United States nearly 50 years after Lyndon B. Johnson announced in his January 1964 State of the Union address that he would wage a war on poverty. They also contradict the official poverty rate, which suggests there has been no decline in the percentage of Americans experiencing poverty since then.
My post relies on the official poverty rate. Your quote merely says that a group at Columbia contradict the official poverty rate. You want to use this to claim I’m cherry picking? Haha be my guest.
You don't seem to understand that 'the people' controlling the Government in your fantasy land will always be a minority of the population. All those people will be doing is controlling the rest of the country via the government. It would be the tyranny of the majority, well technically minority.
If nobody rules anybody, where do laws go? Do we live without them? Every man for himself? Law of the jungle? Is there a country in the world where they exist under YOUR scenario? Tell me about it.
I’m guessing you’re American. Have you no idea what the US Constitution is? It’s the greatest political document created in the history of mankind. That’s a great system to follow.
If you don’t know or understand it I have no problem getting into it
It’s the greatest political document created in the history of mankind.
No, that is just your retarded nationalist stupidity talking. There is no objective methodology with which to measure the "greatness" of something, so your statement is just predictably meaningless posturing.
The irony is that you only believe this tripe because the constitution is the only political document you've ever heard of!!! Try looking up the Magna Carta, you bloody imbecile!!
Great. Then according to that definition Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe was the greatest nation in history. If the rate of inflation is 80 billion percent then it doesn't matter what your GDP or average household income is you retarded little idiot.
Let me give you a free math lesson, you cretinous Nazi weasel.
If there are 5 people, and 4 of them earn 100 dollars a week, but their boss earns 1,000,000 a week, then the average household income is 200,080 dollars a week.
Well you can measure it simply because from nothing America became the greatest nation ever. Largest economy, highest living standards, huge cultural influence, massive military force (arguably good or bad what they did with that) etc.
The only thing holding America back is the left. From slavery, fascism, socialism to cultural Marxism, post modernism etc the left has only made things worse.
Yes Magna Carta was great, revolutionary (the 1225 version) and the pinnacle of Magna Carta and the ideas behind it and how the English Parliament made it almost redundant practically not historically led to the US constitutional
Oh, of course. You're not American. You just think the American Constitution is the "greatest political document ever produced". Obviously you're not an infantile liar with the same IQ as a slice of Edam. Heaven forbid, no.
Well you can measure it simply because from nothing America became the greatest nation ever.
But it demonstrably isn't the "greatest nation ever". It isn't even in the top eighteen:-
Furthermore, the fallacy of using the word "great" as if it were a blank tile in Scrabble, where it can mean literally anything you want it to, has just been explained to you. Instead of addressing it, or even arguing with the reasoning given about why it is a fallacy, you have simply repeated the exact same fallacy verbatim.
This is a waste of my time because you are an idiot. Your posts are literally not even worth reading.