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Vanity-The entitlement class is getting on my nerves.
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Posted on 08/29/2013 8:50:43 AM PDT by barmag25
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To: Lou L
Life isn't fair. Look, if some of that money can be returned (and I use that expression because it's what we are trained to say -- but there is no "return" -- there is just looting from today's taxpayers in order to pay other, more "deserving" people) but if some of that money can be returned in a way which is somewhat reasonable, then I am not opposed.
Personally, I see war and massive economic upheaval in our future. The notion that we should tally up some reasonable sum and expect our "just" compensation seems, to me, to fundamentally miss the nature of the mess we are in.
What I would like to see is a social infrastructure which allows basic food (rice and beans and not too much more) to be distributed so that even in the midst of the apocalypse we can keep starvation to a minimum. I think that sort of thinking makes sense as a "social safety net". I oppose any government program which would provide any sort of more comprehensive social safety net.
If you can think a successful way to give tens of thousands of dollars to each individual who has been conned by the Social Security scam, then I'll take my hat off to you. But I think we need to worry about more desperate problems.
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posted on
08/29/2013 10:26:26 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(21st century. I'm not a fan.)
To: Osage Orange
What's your logic? There is no money.
Far as I'm concerned I just won that argument -- unless you want to come right out and support budget deficits, confiscatory taxes and big government programs to redistribute wealth to benefit priviledged classes of the needy.
I'm on a Conservative site. Where are you?
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posted on
08/29/2013 10:29:30 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(21st century. I'm not a fan.)
To: ClearCase_guy
That's not my argument....
And it's not others here arguments either.
You know that.
I understand your points.
Do you discount my point?
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posted on
08/29/2013 10:31:57 AM PDT
by
Osage Orange
(I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
To: Osage Orange
Sorry. I honestly don't get your point. I think you want fairness. And I think you want government to stop coercing you to do things.
Is your point other than that?
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posted on
08/29/2013 10:34:10 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(21st century. I'm not a fan.)
To: LS
After Obama, we quit ALL charity.Marvin Olasky addresses this in his The Tragedy of American Compassion.
As the government welfare state grows, private charity shrinks.
To: zbogwan2
“I don’t have any money. All I have is this wedding ring”
They usually laugh and move on.
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posted on
08/29/2013 10:37:43 AM PDT
by
AppyPappy
(Obama: What did I not know and when did I not know it?)
To: barmag25
If I get panhandled I turn it around on them. “I was just gonna ax you for a dollar”
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posted on
08/29/2013 10:37:54 AM PDT
by
READINABLUESTATE
("If guns cause crime, there must be something wrong with mine." -Ted Nugent)
To: READINABLUESTATE
“No and if you find someone who is giving it away, let me know”
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posted on
08/29/2013 10:39:44 AM PDT
by
AppyPappy
(Obama: What did I not know and when did I not know it?)
To: barmag25
I think if you had gone to the ATM for the guy, he’d have had a gun in your face to walk you back and get more.
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posted on
08/29/2013 10:40:42 AM PDT
by
Cyber Liberty
(Uncle Miltie: Obama poisoned race relations for a generation. Everything is racial now.)
To: barmag25
You’re understandably annoyed at these beggars but they’re rank amateurs compared to the bankers.
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posted on
08/29/2013 10:41:37 AM PDT
by
steve86
(Some things aren't really true but you wouldn't be half surprised if they were.)
To: Berlin_Freeper
I tell beggars: no thank you. That's what I do.
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posted on
08/29/2013 10:42:16 AM PDT
by
Cyber Liberty
(Uncle Miltie: Obama poisoned race relations for a generation. Everything is racial now.)
To: ClearCase_guy
Are you making the case that FReepers need to give up on the Social Security?
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posted on
08/29/2013 10:44:25 AM PDT
by
Cyber Liberty
(Uncle Miltie: Obama poisoned race relations for a generation. Everything is racial now.)
To: Cyber Liberty
Read the thread. Lots of back and forth.
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posted on
08/29/2013 10:47:31 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(21st century. I'm not a fan.)
To: ClearCase_guy
So what is your recommendation? Should I send my SS deposits back to the Treasury and not file any med claims on Medicare?
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posted on
08/29/2013 10:51:05 AM PDT
by
nascarnation
(Democrats control the Presidency, Senate, and Media. It's an uphill climb....)
To: NativeSon
"We did the same. Whenever I'm at a store and the cashier hits me with the "would you like to give a dollar to...", I reply; "Obama got that dollar". If they look puzzled I say; "go ask Obama, he has all my money" I'm so stealing that---thank you, LOL. Seems like every time I go shopping I get hit up for some charity or another....and if it isn't at the register, it's people outside the door.
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posted on
08/29/2013 10:51:12 AM PDT
by
CatherineofAragon
(Support Christian white males----the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.)
To: nascarnation; Cyber Liberty
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posted on
08/29/2013 10:52:32 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(21st century. I'm not a fan.)
To: Aevery_Freeman
Amen! Social Security is the only gvt benefit that is NOT an entitlement. It’s MY MONEY in that giant slush fund and I want it back.
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posted on
08/29/2013 10:56:09 AM PDT
by
upchuck
(The nobama regime: a string of omnishambles that stretches, seemingly, to infinity.)
To: LittleBillyInfidel
My apologies, I assumed that everyone knew that the DemonRats had co-opted the word to mean welfare.
That's what assuming got me.
I was pointing out that, for many of us, social security is the only "entitlement".
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posted on
08/29/2013 11:02:15 AM PDT
by
Aevery_Freeman
(De IRS be my massa, sho' nuff.... / Repeal the Sixteenth!)
To: ClearCase_guy
I understand you now, CCG.
I suggest you man up, and take the first shot. I'm right behind you.
If you're not ready to do that, then I suppose we're still willing to trust in the full faith of the US Government a little longer.
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posted on
08/29/2013 11:03:10 AM PDT
by
Lou L
(Health "insurance" is NOT the same as health "care")
To: Aevery_Freeman
“It is my money and I am entitled to it!”
*Comment deleted*
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posted on
08/29/2013 11:03:11 AM PDT
by
dangerdoc
(see post #6)
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