I THINK WE THE PEOPLE NEEDS TO PROTEST OR SOMETHING!!!I WORK HARD BUT IT ONLY BASICALLY COVERS THE BILLS THEN IM BROKE ,,SO I CANT GET HELP ,GEUSS I NEED TO SIT ON MY BOOTY?SOME ONE DO SOMETHING!HELP THOSE OF US THAT WORK!!!!!!
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I am in complete agreement with you.  Compare what this government spends on the military that liberals are so fast to whine and complain about to what we spend on "social programs" - (which our PC driven society changed from WELFARE due to the deservedly negative connotation).\n\nWhy is it that liberals will vote to spend literally billions on those who:\n\n1) don't work (food, money, housing, health care, education)\n\n2) commit every crime know to man (food, money, housing, health care, education, legal defense)\n\n3) are hooked on drugs(food, money, housing, health care, education, legal defense)\n\n4) are too stupid to use birth control(food, money, housing, health care, education)\n\n5) did not prepare adequately for their own retirement (money, health care)\n\nYet won't support, in any meaningful manner, those ambitious souls who choose to start a business .  \n\nMost businesses failures are due to a lack of capitol.   \n\nWhen provided a solid business plan, they should at least be willing to provide the same money, (interest free, with an expectation of repayment) that they waste on defending and caring for some low life child molester.  \n\nIn addition to employing people who would have money to spend in the economy, the business itself would generate an array of taxes.  The return could be astronomical.\n\nTake a chance.  After all, they'll never see a penny of what was pissed away on the child molester.
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It is not fair.  There are alot of people who are able to work, but chooses not to, because it will cut into their free stuff.  They live better than we do.  My boyfriend HAD this friend, who came over to our house(I totally despised him)and wanted us to go to the store with him and us his link card to get groceries and give him cash, because he had no money to buy beer or cigarettes.  I went off on him and told him "You make me sick". Here we go off to work everyday and he could too, but he would rather drive around and get drunk everyday and we are paying him to do that.  I can not stand people like that.\n\nI would like to add:  I do not have a problem with some people who are on food stamps that are really trying to make ends meet.  I understand there are dead beat dads or moms that don't want to help with the expenses.  There are people that do need the help.  I just don't think its right when people are not even making an effort and have no plans to do so.
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Ill be there. If people aren't willing to join this protest than they are lazy beyond repair or very, very sad!\n\nMy Girlfriend will love this one. We protest like this everyday....sometimes more than once. This kinda reminds me of Lennons "bed in for peace". He knew what he was doing. All they are saying is Give "O" a chance people!
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Sorry, but I work for my own money. And thanks to the levels of freedom in this country, I can do what I like with it. And that includes giving it away to your version of an unworthy cause.\n\nHave you ever talked to a homeless person? Or some teenager on the street begging for quarters? Do you know what kind of shame and embarassment these people have to endure every time they have to look someone in the eyes and ask 'Any spare change mister?'\n\nAnd despite popular belief, homeless people, and kids living on the street are not just too lazy to get a job, they are not just too stubborn to do what they are told and go back home to live with their parents (for the kids). Not everyone who is homeless chooses to be homeless. Have you ever heard a 6 year old kid in an elementary grade class telling his teacher that he wants to grow up to be a homeless person, begging on the street to earn a living? I never have, and I doubt that anyone else has either. People don't want to be poor, they don't want to be homeless, they don't want to go to food banks, soup kitchens or beg for change either. But it's something that these people have to do in order to earn a living. Most of them are NOT alcoholics or drug dependant either.\n\nSo, get a job, go on welfare or something? Yeah, nice idea. But a little known fact about social assistance is that you have to already have an address to get some money. How do you pay rent with no money?? And how do you apply for a job when you have no address, no telephone for them to reach you? It's hard enough just to stay clean, considering that you don't have access to a shower or anything like that. Have you ever wanted to work with someone that smelled like old garbage? Probably not.\n\nHave you ever thought of what you might do if both of your parents were killed in a car accident? What if you had no other family to go live with? At 16 years old, could you fend for yourself? Or what if your parents didn't die. What if instead, they split up and neither of them wanted you? Then your mother moves across the country and leaves you with your 'dad'. He gets sick of your shitty attitude almost right away and kicks you out on the street because you're too much trouble to deal with. Without ever having graduated from high school, what do you do now?\n\nAside from that, there are plenty of homeless people that have become criminalized just to prevent themselves from freezing to death in the winter. I actually met a man who would commit a petty crime every year around October just so that he would have a warm bed and daily meals inside a prison for the winter months. But he wasn't a criminal. He did those things because he didn't have access to any other way to keep himself alive. He didn't know how to make the government programs work for him rather than against him. And with a criminal record, it became near impossible for him to get any kind of job, even one paying minimum wage.\n\nWith many cities making anti-panhandling legislation, even asking someone for spare change has become a criminal act. Do you realize that it is a crime to be poor? People treat you like dirt almost everywhere you go, and you develop a nasty suspicion that every time the police are around, they are there to do something to hurt you. Besides, you really think that it makes sense to give someone a fine for pan-handling when the reason they do it is that they already have no money?? What kind of sense does that make?\n\nAs for fining people that give poor people money, that is also an unfair idea. It's not against the law for you to give your money to the Heart & Stroke Foundation is it? Who has the right to say what I should consider worthy of my hard-earned money more than I do?? Hopefully nobody!\n\nAnd take some free advice: take an afternoon, walk down the streets where some homeless guy has had the nerve to bother you looking for a handout and take a minute to TALK TO
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Boy am i with you look at the question i asked a couple of hours ago!!!!\n\nI'm sick to the back teeth of handing all our hard earned wages over to them.\n\nWe will be taxed the "AIR" we breathe before long, and i don't think that is to far retched!!!\n\n\nI am with you all the way, good luck to you and yours.\n\nAnd this is to the people "Who have obviously have a few quid in their pocket" \nIt's not that we don't expect to pay tax, stop being so jumped up!!!\n\nWe are just fed up of getting screwed over????
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Stop paying for ridiculous things like the so-called War on Drugs, for one thing.\n\nEliminate the corruption and fraud in systems that pay out the People's money but don't get anything for it.  Eliminate welfare fraud, and get people who are collecting welfare to WORK.\n\nStop giving services to illegal immigrants, like free medical care that taxpayers have to fund when they go for routine medical stuff at emergency rooms.  Tell them they are sh!t out of luck and should have thought about the need for doctor's care before they came into this country illegally.  I'll be damned if I and every other taxpayer should have to carry the burden of MILLIONS of people getting free medical care!  It costs me $75 a phucking week to get coverage of my own!\n\nWe could also freeze congressmen's pay, or even reduce it.  Most of them are independently wealthy anyway, so they don't need to earn like $200,000 a year anyway!  And for phuck's sake, there's no way in hell that congress should be able to vote to give themselves their own phucking pay raises!!  Who the phuck thought THAT was a good idea?!\n\nSo Fine, you are proof of how confused and deluded the American public has become because of that lying scumbag Clinton.  You say he reduced the deficit to balanced?!  Gimme a break, how naive are you!?  He MAY have gotten a "balanced budget" passed, but that simply means that the government expects to take in at least as much as it plans to spend FOR THE BUDGET PERIOD. And it does NOT mean that he eliminated the DEFICIT, which was in the trillions and still is.  Face it, do you really believe that he somehow got the government to collect a few extra trillion dollars in 8 years?\n\nClinton's chicanery and fraud involved pretending that more money was in the government's coffers than was really there.  For example, his budget listed the asset of NY's Governor's Island AS IF it had been sold for $5 billion. The only trouble is, he let that $5 billion be counted as though the government had it as liquid cash, when there was not even a BUYER for it.  And so it went.  Anyone can "cook the books" and make it look to the casual observer as though everything's on the level.  But is it REALLY on the level?  Generally not.  What makes you think Enron and Tyco do this shit but proven lying scumbags like Clinton would never?\n\nIf I owed $1,000,000 to someone, I could still have a balanced annual budget.  I'd just have to make sure that I was earning as much as I was going to be spending for that year (including whatever payments I have to make toward the $1M).  In fact, I could maintain a balanced budget while NEVER EVEN DIMINISHING that million dollar debt.  (Lots of people do this with credit cards.)\n\nLearn to distinguish between a debt and a budget deficit.\n\n-Jeffrey
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Americans are willing to do the jobs that illegals do! When I was in high school I picked oranges in the summer and worked in packing houses, and so did a lot of my friends.  The difference is illegals work for next to nothing, something that Americans can't do.  The next time you say that they do the jobs that we are too lazy to do, please think about all the hardworking Americans that won't be able to earn a decent wage, pay taxes, and support our economy because an Illegal is  working for twenty-five cents an hour.  Those same taxes that their employers aren't paying are being paid by the rest of us, and when an illegal gets hurt on the job he or she isn't going to be denied emergency health care.  This ultimately causes the rest of us honest tax payers to cover that burden.  Thinking that illegals are necessary for our economy to function doesn't make any sense, the ONLY people it helps are the law breaking businesses who hire them.  Isn't it funny how liberals who are normally incredibly anti-big business are all for cheap illegal labor?
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I was thinking the same thing yesterday! I told my hubby I bet they WILL buy things, the first of the month is when they get their food stamps! They aren't fooling anyone! This country will be just fine without them! They are more of a drain our economy than anything else!
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It becomes an issue of public priority. There is an underlying American opinion that your supposed to be able to make it on your own if you work hard enough (even though this is some times a very silly theory in praxis). So theres a general discontent for things which some people see as freerider type things. You could argue there is probably a lack of empathy as many people favor as little government as possible by cutting social safety net programs for the poor. When people keep blaming the victim, these type of injustices occur. Not to mention there are quite a few government expenses that are on the board right now, so people who see us in a defecit think, well now certainly isnt the time to help these people out. It is certainly frusterating and sad but its a part of the american psyche and probably wont change any time soon.
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We need to wake up ourselves, and we need to get involved with our government. More people need to send letters to their represenatives with their worries and communities need to rally and show their government, OUR government, that we have more important issues in this country than tax cuts and banning gay marriage(which I am against). The people need to get involved. Vote! Rally! Write letters! Show that we're involved and that we need a government for the people, by the people like our Constitution says, not rich senators and represenatives concerned with popularity.
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You need to take it up with the union cause you need breaks, if nothing is done.  Call the labor department.
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we need to limit spending to bare minimums askall federal employees in these tough times totake a temporary pay cut till we balance the budget and get things under control .--like they do with airlines and auto manufactureres union members take pay cut in order that the company can make it thru hard times all federal and state employees should have to give back a little in tuff times .after all its the working man who pays the taxes and dont give me that crap about big co.paying taxes they just collect it from working people in inflated prises. its time 1/3 of this country ease up a bit on what there getting i doubt many government workers are without health care our retirement 20 yrs and 80% retirement then go work for a government contractor. still on the government payroll and good pay and more retirement.the backs of the workers in america cant afford this much longer.--so i suggest some pay cuts and reduced benifits the government is not the place to work and get rich its a place to serve.its a start local taxes pay for all services localy. no federal matching funds or grants to cover bad government by local communittys federal highways only and military  all other programs paid with income tax ended make it optional to pay additional taxes for nasa or cancer research all the places tax dollars go  we need to cut government to the bone.most congressmen are rich no salaries for life or benifits   in and out with a check like  a painter or carpenter would do   --when the job is over so is the money find more work .as some one who works for a living i am ticked off at the benifits we have to pay to people in pulic service lets put service back in it and take the self service out of it .
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What this country needs is to stop all the opposing party bashing and just get down to what we as american's want to know.  How are they going to fix the problems of this country? (i.e. the job situation, poverty, making employers pay a liviable wage, health care) I don't want promises they are never going to keep or even intended to keep.  I want to know how they are going to do it.  We are one of the most powerful nations in the world yet we can not seem to be able to keep work here.  It is all being shipped overseas, why, my theory is because of the rich people are to dang selfish and want to keep all the money to themselves so they send the jobs to china, mexico, or any other place they can get cheap labor.  It doesn't matter to them that the people in this counrty are starving, homeless, have no health care as long as they are lining their pockets.  These are the real issues that is troubling america.  I don't care if Joe Blow sent someone an email that was distasteful.  I don't care if former President Clinton did his secretary, housekeeper or his maid that is not the issue that we as Americans should be worried about.  \n\nOur people are in trouble here and no amount of any community or country service is going to do any good if we keep having people in office that just don't give a damn.  In my state we have a guy running for govenor who has sent so many jobs over to china, set up his own company in the Bahamas just so he didn't have to pay taxes.  I am sorry people like that I do not want running my state.  He says he is all for jobs, yea as long as he don't have to pay someone a livable wage.  As long as he can send his jobs to China what makes everyone think he is going to create jobs here.  \n\nPoliticans can promise you everything under the sun and so many people believe them.  I don't.  Unless someone who is running for office will put himself in the shoes of the poor in this country and work that dead end job for minimum wage and try to pay his bills, take his family to the doctor when needed without having any health insurance, drive a vehicle that is on its last leg because you can not afford to finance another one.  If they would do that without the help of any money they have coming from their big money jobs they have right now then I say let them do it.  I can guarantee you they will not beable to last a month.  \n\nA former govenor tried it here in my state but he was getting money from his accounts to live on and he said that anyone can live on a minimum wage job.  Needless to say he lasted one term.  Your idea is good but it would not work.  Just about eveyone I know good or bad has done what you are asking.  They vote for the idiot that we have in office now.  It doesn't matter if it is the congress, presidency, or your own state office seats that they are voting for.  They usually end up picking someone because they are from their favorite party and not looking at the issues and what would be good for the whole state or country instead they look at what is going to benefit them.  They usually end up losing in the long run.\n\nOk, I am done rambling.  I know some of you are probably going to rate this as a negative but that is ok because it is your choice.  That is what is so great about this country we at least still have a voice and we are able to make the choices that we do.  \n\nGood luck to you when you go and vote on the 7th.  I do hope you pick someone who is worth it and can do the job.
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The fact that anything is paid out of pocket is too much. Unions abuse and steal the workers "union dues". This isn't the 1800's anymore, workers need to think for themselves, and hold personal responsibility.
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No doubt you will get lots of replies to this one!  However serious answers only I guess I required.  How about sending emails to  millions of users requesting donations for a needy cause, You!! See how many are happy to send a donation!  Just think if everyone with a little extra was prepared to help those a little less well off individual circumstances for some could be greatly improved.  Redistribution of wealth, dig deep you fat cats (most of you dont deserve your exhorbitant wage packets anyway so c'mon - give a little back).
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it's true what you are saying about people taking advantage...but not everybody ...some people are really poor and need the help..laws just have to catch those that take advantage of welfare ..because not everybody should pay....the laws need to tighten up on those individuals...that are taking advantage...but give welfare to the poor especially with really sick parent that cannot work,and need food for their children.
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I feel the exact same way. I am more than willing to understand when someone is in need but at least work torwards a goal of getting a job. Do something besides just sit back and watch the paychecks come in. I totally agree with you. You are definetly not alone.