LordDank said:
Just so you understand I dont have time to watch TV (wife,kid, and I run my own business,ohh yeah my garden
Okay - if you think a 'government takeover' is what was just signed by President Obama today - then you are misinformed. Period. This isn't about semantics, its about definition.
You are making statements that indicate that you get your news from Fox or AM radio - or the AM radio inspired right-wing web sites like Drudge or DailyCaller or some site like that.
Eitherway, since you have children, one cannot imagine you doing anything else but supporting the bill since - you already knew this I suppose - kids now can't be turned down for coverage because of some condition. How about you? You grow for anyone that is - you know - sick?
This is civil rights man, straight up.
LordDank said:
I know you think the Gov helps us out so much and they create all the business
What kind of extreme nonsense is this?
Glenn Beckian nonsensical tarring - believing that government is not inherently evil isn't the same as believing in a Soviet-style command economy. The two are not even close to the same in conception, definition, or initmation, and to imply otherwise belies what you deny: you get your news from Fox or AM radio.
I think the government has to tell business the ways they can and cannot behave. Left to their own devices, business isn't very nice and causes all sorts of problems.
LordDank said:
My philosphy is let the people have the money and spend it how "WE" want I bet if people werent taxed so much they might actually have cash to send there kid to college without looking to the gov for help or maybe I could help a family member in need instead of telling them to go sign up for gov aid
This is laughable. College costs - if you go cheap - something on the order of $15,000 a year. Or much more. The idea that some marginal tax rate decrease will magically make this amount of money show up every year in the hands of people who are experiencing increases in the cost-of-living year over year over year while the average wage remains flat at some $51,000/family?
Where does that math work for you?
"If my taxes were slashed, I could spend the 35% of my income directly on college"
What? Because college is the only expensive thing a family has to buy? What was the average cost for a private insurance policy for a family of four? Twelve-thousand some? Each year?
So college for one kid + private insurance for one year =$27,000/year.
In a country where the average income per family is still 50K. How's that math working out for ya?
Nevermind the legitimate government interest in promoting a well educated and competetive workforce.
The government should be promoting higher education.
Its not a handout, its good long-term macroeconomic policy.
LordDank said:
If you one of those people who believe they need the gov to show them how to live and what to do and where to go then go ahead and be a sheep.
Being a sheep?
Believing the government, properly applied, can be a force for good, isn't being a sheep, its being sensible. Having a measure of historical perspective when one evaluates politics and political developments.
stickerdick said:
Well said LordDankinstien, way to go SoB. Less govt. in my daily life and the better I am.
Careful what you wish for.
I don't have to know you stickerdick, to know that you wouldn't have made it this far without food safety standards, water safety standards, childrens' vaccinations, the fire department, or paved roads.
Really. Government is everywhere all the time doing good and facilitating your life.
Just - you know - look.