Quote Originally Posted by El Kabong View Post
I'm glad that @Kirkland Laing could take his precious time to come into my thread and be a condescending prick. That's always so very kind of you. You assume a great deal about me, what I do, what I think, and how I live, and seeing how your head is so far up your own ass you doubtless think yourself a great judge of me. Allow me to point out some flaws in your logic or rather lack there of. I work for my money, I pay my taxes, I see no issue in helping others out I do it on a far greater scale than you would believe and I do not want to pat myself on the back because of it. My reward is that people become self reliant and achieve their own version of the American Dream. What I do not appreciate is the entitlement culture which was perfectly shown in the video I posted but which you probably haven't watched because of your hardline "I don't watch videos" stance . The issue is not "What percentage of the GDP funds welfare programs" (and it's not only welfare programs, if you watched the video you would have known that) it is that perfectly fit, capable workers, LEARN to be lazy due to those programs. There's nothing wrong in giving a helping hand to a neighbor, but America's "Safety Net" has become a hammock to more than a few and it's money others could use better. Is it wrong for me to expect my fellow countrymen to work for their living the same way I work for mine? Is it wrong to call out a perfectly capable person for being lazy and having no shame of living off of my tax dollars? From your side I guess it is...and that is very sad that someone who claims to be so smart cannot understand the most simple aspects of behavioral psychology which no doubt are hard at work. The entitlement attitude breeds resentment as well as laziness.


"The facts have a strong liberal bias"....$15 Trillion spent on Welfare programs since Lyndon Johnson declared "War on Poverty" in 1964 and we're dangerously close to the poverty rate he started with. This is of course adding in that President Obama has increased funds to such programs by more than $193 Billlion per year. Ooooh and check out this little nugget Federal Welfare spending totals more than $14,848 for every poor man, woman, and child in this country.

http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/PA694.pdf

Yes of course you'll figure out some way to try and weasel out of a straightforward argument because there is 0 way to defend what the people in that video do, but you go right ahead and try.


Also I'd like to thank you for again inferring that I am a racist, I had thought we had settled that some time ago, but it seems you cannot keep from doing that and therefore I'll communicate with you no more after this.
Without bothering to click the link I can tell you that federal welfare number includes social security and medicare, two things that people pay into the system all their lives for. They're not the kind of welfare payments we're talking about here. Maybe if you actually read alittle about this stuff instead of getting enraged by a dumb video you'd occasionally be right about something. Maybe even try reading your own fucking links occasionally.

Let me explain why you and a lots of your compatriots are currently furious about the entitlemant culture and the huge government spending on it. Since 1980 America has been deregulating and ending oversight and supervision of business. This reached its apex in 2001 when the Bush administration just got the hell out of the way and let the financial industry regulate itself. This created the biggest financial system (not economic) boom in history and Republicans told us that surging stock markets and real estate prices was bringing us a whole new era of prosperity now that the dead hand of government regulation had been replaced by the invisible hand of capitalism.

A few short years later deregulation had worked so well that the financial industry had to go to the government to get them to bail out the system -- to the tune of over tqwenty trillion dollars in loans and guarantees -- to prevent the total meltdown of the financial system and the colapse of the economy. As soon as they got the money they spent a big chunk of it lobbying the government to not ask them for the money back but instead to pay for the bailout by cutting government social programmes, things that had nothing to do with the huge debt increase or deficit but had been targets of the right ever since they were introduced.

So now the media is giving you a fulls court press om the debt/deficit. It's being blamed on workshy scumbags to generate enough popular support among voters who know nothing to give the government cover to slash ss/medicare. They're selling you the debt problem the exact same way they sold you Saddam's fearsome WMD and what they're selling you is equally truthful. Try getting angry at the right people you fucking dummy.