liberals:  what if you were forced to pay your own way?
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What you don't understand is that liberals don't want to take away those values, they actually want to make them possible. Without regulation, workers' rights protection, and a living wage, people do work hard but they CANNOT plan and these days the expected work hours are creeping up to a 10-hour day all over the world. We've lost the 8-hour day we fought so hard for. The purpose of this is to have time to be wtih family, where bonds can be created. If people have to work all the time just to survive, they can't properly raise a family... and then where will people get their family values or their morality? From the TV? If you care about family values, you should support higher wages, lower work hours, benefits, and health care. If people can plan for their future and live a decent life with the jobs they get, there will be more family values, less crime, fewer abortions... as a matter of fact just about all the things that piss off conservatives are best dealt with by taking care of the working class.
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I too am an independent, I learned how to think for myself at a young age, people like Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh are getting paid to go on air and get people who dont know how to make their own decisions and follow what they think is right to vote and think the way they do and sway public opinion.
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Liberals don't operate on the same value system as you and I.  They arrogantly assume that they are superior to others, and that only they are qualified to lead.  If they lose, they must blame something, ANYTHING else except themselves.
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capitalist..but the liberals want to make it socialist
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Liberals, for the most part, believe that the Federal Government should be in charge of most all decision making, basically saying we highly educated and well bread politicians know how to spend your money better than you do.\n\nAn example, the Liberals want a National Health care program so that everyone is covered.  Sounds like a good thing, right?  Then think about it, and look around the world at countries that have such programs.  Your choices will be even more limited than they are with Private Insurance, you add another layer of beaurocracy to the already too large Federal Government, you increase the need for higher taxes, and the quality of health care goes down.  At the moment, I know at least my local hospitals don't turn anyone away because they lack insurance.  However, they will usually be billed, some will try to pay with resources they dont have, some will get lower credit ratings.\n\nLiberals don't want to interfere with freedoms?  That's BS.  It depends on what freedoms you are talking about.  In this case both parties are guilty of hypocrisy, but I think the Liberals are more guilty.  Yes, the Liberals don't want the government telling a pregnant woman to carry her child to term, let's give credit where it's due.  However, liberals do want to take away your right to bear arms, they don't want you to have a choice about smoking cigarettes, as stated earlier, they want to control your health care, they want to impose all manner of restrictions and penalties on businesses.  Liberals make nice speeches that sound nice about good intentions and we must do it for the children, but in truth, we need balance.  Liberal ideas are welcome, but they need to be balanced with reason.  Liberals seem to believe a utopian society can exist, realist know differently.\n\nLiberals tout "tax the rich to feed the poor", but the rich include me, who makes less than $70,000 a year, and too often, the poor are those who have decided they don't want to work.  With the shift in congress back to Dems, if the Dems win the White house in 2008, prepare to see the value of the US dollar take a nose dive\n\nLiberals say they are tolerant, but that is only if you agree with them.  If you espouse Conservative ideas, liberals attack en mass.  Labeling them in a most non open mindedness fashion.\n\nThis is not to say conservatives don't have their problem issues as well, but I had to add a dose of truth after some people posted that Liberals are all that is good and right and truthfull in this country and Conservatives are all evil warmongering money grubbing souless A$$holes
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Absolutely not.  Our health care system is a mess, it's true, but I think the best way to fix it is with less government intervention, not more.  You see, as with everything else, you tend to get all the best and most expensive stuff you can when someone else is paying the bill.  Well, if the government is paying the bill, that really means the taxpayers.  It's not fair for healthy people to have their tax burden substantially raised because some others can't or won't take care of themselves.  Which leads to a related point:  If you're paying your own bill, you're more likely to take good care of yourself, so you don't end up paying more than you absolutely have to.
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if you caused it, you aren't entitled to anything.\nask for enough money to go back to school and learn how to spell
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You only get the rights you can afford. Disabled folk need someone to fight for their rights or get left on the wayside.
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A better question would be: What can we do to stop the bleeding heart liberals from taking even more of my hard earned money!  Simple answer: Stop voting for them!  \n\nNO MORE TAXES! LOWER MY TAXES!!! Just being a minority does not entitly you to my hard earned money!\n\nThere is NO RIGHT to shelter, food, or health care.  You have to earn those, not demand them from others who are willing to work!
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Can liberals think for themselves or they just spit out the talking points the DNC gives them?\n\nSS needs to be reformed.  Any program that takes 15% of your money at gunpoint and gives you a rate of return of about 2% is just wrong.  What if you die at 58?  Your heirs get $255.  \n\nW's reform plan is a good one.  Keep most of the revenue going in to the program to pay for the retirees AND allow younger workers to start their own accounts.  Every 5-10 years increase the percentage we can put into our own accounts.  In a generation we will all have our own accounts and not have to worry about the government borrowing from SS.  Then if we die at 58 our savings go to our heirs as it should.\n\nThe only reason liberals want to keep SS is because EVERY election they threaten old people that Republicans will take away their SS if you elect them.  They have been saying that for at least 25 years (thats as long as I have been paying attention) and it hasn't happened yet.
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Welcome to the real world.  They will take as much from you as you will allow.\n\nVOTE LIBERTARIAN!!
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Money  for nothing and the drinks are free.  Lazy and stupid.  And liberals fight laws limiting welfare.  \n\nKeep working, millions on welfare are dependant on you!  \n\nSilly liberal, paychecks are for those who WORK!
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In your example, I would hope the passerby is a Libertarian. \n\nYour typical Democrat would blame you for the attack. \n\nYour typical Republican would call the police, who would be underpaid, understaffed, and arrive too late to do anything but fill out a toe-tag. \n\nA Libertarian would recognize that your right of self-ownership is being threatened, recognize your right to defend yourself, and by extension, their right to assist in your defense, and logically conclude that it is in their own best interest to do so.
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You would still have to pay american taxes.
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believe it or not your parents know more than you do\n\nu dont pay your own way so u have to live by the rules that they put forth....... get a job..... show that u are responsible........ give your parents $20 a week........ act like an adult and u will be treated better........ but being grounded for not following their rules isnt having your rights taken away...... it is called growing up
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Absolutely!  I'd love to see America become entirely capitalistic.  Frankly, I'm sick of being forced to sacrifice my own needs and wants for those of someone else.  Want a hand out?  Hit up the Salvation Army.\n\nUnfortunately, the bleeding hearts here just can't stomach making someone take responsibility for his or her own actions.  Even more unfortunately, we'll probably always be the ones stuck picking up the slack.
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you need to pay them if you're self employed or don't have enough taken out of your paychecks.