I'm all for taxing the greedy rich. It's about time they pull their weight and help out society. The facts remain if we tax the rich we can do a lot with it, and they'll still be richer than everyone else. And I am appalled at anyone who would suggest taxing the working middle and lower classes anymore. Obama won the electoral AND the popular vote. He won for a reason. And Florida was just salt in the wound. They're mad they can't get away with oppressing gays, women and immigrants. They're mad they can't get away with shoving their religions and imaginary friends and silly superstitions down our throats. And most of all, they're mad they, the rich, have to pay their fair share and pull their weight. They're greedy and don't want to let go of their riches. Fun fact: tax the rich, keep social programs that help people, and they will STILL BE RICHER THAN EVERYONE ELSE. But that's not good enough for them. Like spoiled little kids they hold onto their imaginary friends and riches and say "mine!" They don't know how to share. Well guess what? It IS a class war, and they are outnumbered, 99% to 1%.= Everyone has the right to healthcare. It's bs that there are people who are dying because the insurance companies say they have a "pre-existing condition". Conservatives think healthcare is only for the rich. If you voted Romney or voted conservative, you voted anti woman, anti gay rights, anti freedom. You voted based on an old book written by curmudgeon old men trying to oppress free thought. You voted based on your mental illness that tells you there's an imaginary man in the clouds watching you. Romney wanted to cut education, arts, and PBS. You voted to shove your personal beliefs, religion, and imaginary friend up in the clouds, down everyone's throats. As long as politicians are still attacking women's rights to contraceptives and abortion and Planned Parenthood, the feminist movement must move forward. Since when is it anyone's business but my own what I do with my body? Fact is, my body, my domain. You can call it a fetus, a zygote, a baby, whatever. I don't care. But if there is someone or something in my body that I don't allow, you can bet I will remove it, by force if necessary. Don't like gay marriage? Don't get gay married. Don't like abortion? don't get an abortion. Don't like cannabis? Don't smoke it. But don't stand in the way of people who love each other, people who have a right to do what they want with their bodies. It's really sick that we live in a world where politicians still think that they know what's better for a woman than she does. Isn't that the same mentality the people against The Women's Suffrage Movement had? That we women couldn't possibly know what's best for us? If Romney had won, you can bet we'd be thrown back into the dark ages. Fundies would push their archaic backwards beliefs down all our throats. Intellectual thought would be outlawed. The conservatives pissed off blacks, women, gays, lesbians, immigrants, and every free thinker. Good job. Here's the thing; many conservatives say they want to fix the economy; now that's all well and good, but then why are you hating on gays, women, and anyone who isn't a rich white male? Fun fact; tax the rich, fix many of our countries problems, and you'll still be up on the hill, richer than everyone else. Everyone has the right to healthcare. It's bs that there are people who are dying because the insurance companies say they have a "pre-existing condition". Conservatives think healthcare is only for the rich. Lesson learned; don't piss off women, gays, blacks, immigrants, etc.
do you just have hundreds of rants typed up on your computer that you're copy/pasting all over the forums now? you made like 10 threads in 10 minutes, all with long essays for the OP. it's either the copy/paste theory or you must be on a lot of coke.
Some of it is a bit of my own writings, but most is because I type 80 wpm. I chicked peck the keys though; don't stay at the home keys.
Here's the problem: your focus on women and the feminist movement is just as much a prejudice as anyone's focus against them. Women are no more oppressed in today's American society than men. Abortion is a tough one, but I understand. Men should in no way get the final choice on that one, I agree; but should women who decide to have babies get the right to tax the biological father a disproportionate sum for the rest of the child's life? Should they also get the default favor to be the custodial parent due to their gender? If a woman puts her child up for adoption, she does not have to pay child support to it's adopted parents. In some cases she even gets paid. Isn't that a double standard? Should people (usually men) be mandatorily arrested on nothing more than an accusation of domestic violence, where the cop gets no discretion at the scene, and no evidence is considered until the trial months later? Especially considering that just the charge -- even in the event of an acquittal -- will still be considered evidence in civil court, where rights to the children are adjudicated? These are just some of the injustices that have arisen from politicians pandering to the feminist movement. I think a people's movement would be better. We can call it democracy and name it America and see how that goes. You in?
Why is anyone who's rich automatically "greedy"? How are people who leach off the rest of society any better? Some people actually work hard to make the money they have. So when you say "rich," who exactly are you talking about? There is a big difference between someone who earns six figures and someone who's a multimillionaire. Romney is owned by the same corporate interests that own Obama, so it's likely there would not be much of a difference had Romney won. Wake up and stop being so brainwashed. You sound like a naive teenager who merely parrots the shit they read in Mother Jones magazine. None of it has any substance.
Probably not; though if you understand anything about Mormonism, there could have been some extra ridiculous crap. Nonetheless, it doesn't seem that people can really see how farcical politics have become. It's like some absurd cartoon that is just devised to sell toys to children. Politicomon. I'm still laboring under the suspicion that popular opinion can sway them into action on certain matters, but with regard to business, I worry that things might be hopeless. Every politician's campaign money gets funded from some special interest. American corporations don't care about keeping themselves in America anymore, and didn't NAFTA kind of give us the shafta? People complain about illegal immigration, but the driving down of wages in Mexico was due to NAFTA, and that's a large part of what's driven them here in much greater numbers than before. Can't say as I blame them. NAFTA happened over twenty years ago. Ever since, shit has really hit the fan, and it's everywhere. They blamed the recession on the housing market and big business, but didn't the slow defection of good manual labor jobs to places where the workers get paid dirt combined with the outrageous costs of two full-scale ground wars also have something to do with it? World War Two helped pull us out of a recession, because it created a manufacturing boon. Whose building our shit for these wars?
Because to be rich, you must be greedy unless you win the lottery. And you must stay greedy to stay rich. Your brainwashing is from the GOP. You parrot the con ideology in all your posts. Defending the rich, who created the $17 trillion national debt, is part of that con mantra. And looking down your nose at every liberal is just more of the same old tired con. Your posts are totally without substance. You never contribute anything positive, it's all negative garbage.
Far be it for me to defend rat, but your statement is itself a grotesque generalization. One example of people who don't have to be greedy to get rich: though they are definitely overpaid, professional athletes have to work very hard and make many sacrifices to outperform hundreds of thousands and in some cases millions of other contenders to gain the title of professional. The price of their participation in some sports can be crippling. Many of them give back to the communities they play in, above and beyond any mandated standards set by the leagues they play for. Also, a professional writer's life is a hard one. Many of us never even get a glimpse of publication, and if we want any chance to be that lottery pick that get's the big payoff, we have to work very hard to do it and hope luck is with us. Read Stephen King's book On Writing, where he tells the story of how he lucked out with Carrie while he was working two jobs and he and his wife were raising three kids in a trailor and sharing one car with a faulty transmission. Stephen and Tabitha King don't seem greedy to me, though I don't know them personally. They seem like just the sort of people that deserve all the fortune they got. I don't know how they feel about sharing it with the rest of the country, though. I'm not so sure the answer to our current economic crisis is the pretentious robin hood act of taking from the rich and giving to the poor. I think the real answer might be ensuring that employment opportunites in America are guaranteed, and that people who are not college material don't have to bankrupt themselves to get junk degrees so that they can then turn around and get junk jobs that barely pay off their student loans. Here's an idea that might solve the economic, energy and obesity crisis at once: people power. Set up a turbine system that is pushed by hundreds, maybe even thousands, of people. Put enough pulleys on it to make the pushing about as easy as walking and hire people to push it everyday and generate electricity. Same concept as wind power, right? People power. Put enough in every city to run them and enough in rural areas to run those. Employment, exercise, energy. What could be simpler? My guess is that if a high-school drop-out, trade school idjit like me can think of this, someone else already has, has patented it and put it on the bottom of a pile under a bunch of other ideas that burn up unrenewable but by association highly valuable energy sources, but I don't know. No doubt if this is the case (and this is the case with so much American business policy), than there is something to your generalization, but it is a generalization, not an abolute truth or fact.
I don't know about you, but six figures is kind of a big deal. That's a lot of money. Professional writer, incorrect grammar. Sorry, but I had to call you out on it. I do it to everyone. Now, back to the topic at hand. I do believe that rich people need to be taxed more than they're being taxed right now. For income taxes, middle and lower class people are being taxed at about 25-35%, and the upper class people are being taxed at something like 13% because of all kinds of tax breaks that they get, which is a pittance of what they have. If they were taxed at 35%, it would still be a pretty small amount of their money; however, the 25-35% for middle and lower classes has a larger impact for those people. I don't think that's right. There needs to be fewer tax breaks for the wealthy. As for the abortion, gay marriage, "imaginary friend in the sky" stuff... I don't agree with abortion (I feel that there is always another option unless the mother's life is in danger), but I support a woman's right to decide whether or not to get one. It's her body, it's her little parasite. Gay people, go for it- no one can tell you who to love! I believe in that "imaginary" man in the sky, but I also think that people rely on religion too much. It should be there when you need it, but then you need to stop using it as a crutch. You should be able to know the difference between right and wrong, but God is there when you need him to help you through troubled times. Also, we have to remember that the holy book of any religion wasn't actually written by God; it was written by humans who sometimes wanted to manipulate things based on what they thought was wrong and right. Now that's why we can't believe or practice everything in the bible, the torah, the koran, etc. It's just what I believe, and you're allowed to believe something else.
I agree. I'm in. When I had originally written some this rant it was just before the election, when Republicans were trying to take my reproductive rights, and I was PISSED! What you said is similar to what my husband said; rather than Feminist, Humanist.
Sunflower: Piffle on grammar! Let Updike have his comma splices and I'll have my stumbling soliloquies! Sapho: Problems on both sides. I'll help protect your right to do with yourself what you will if you help protect mine: https://www.************/VawaReformNoArrestsWithoutEvidence It's just a matter of communication. Concentrated thought and assimilation are necessary, but it's a worthwhile pursuit.
