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Originally posted by smoothmoniker
It's not Bush. It's not "The System". It's not "The Government".
It's me. You come over to my house every month, take a third of every dollar that I earn, and use it to pay your rent. Regardless of how needy, how tragic your life circumstances, how difficult it may be for you to go out and earn a living, the basic reality is that I'm paying your rent for you. The fact that the IRS and SSI act as your agents doesn't obviate the fundamental exchange.
Given that reality, don't I have a right to argue against it? Shouldn't I vote for people who pledge to fight for my right to not pay your rent? And when those people follow through on their promises, shouldn't I applaud them?
I think I'll start a letter writing campaign of my own.
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I'd rather camp on the San Miguel until I'm 95 than take as much as a penny from you, your excellency. The money I now recieve is from SSDI, MY OWN money that I paid in to Social Security from MY earnings from MY work over an almost 30 year period.
By the way, of that 1/3 that the government takes from your paycheck, much of it goes to other things rather than social security. The government has been robbing social security for years and using it for things like George Junior's fiasco in Iraq. The American public, including you, is so ill informed that they don't even realize where their money is really going.
You have obviously never heard of the concept of enlightened self interest. You are too busy out there in fantasy land to look around you at the real world except maybe to kick a homeless person out of the way if he gets too close to you as you step into your limo.