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Ted Nugent: Independence is a beautiful thing; dependency isn't
The Waco Tribune-Herald ^ | May 20, 2007 | Ted Nugent, Texas Wildman

Posted on 05/20/2007 7:43:45 AM PDT by LA Woman3

You only deserve what you earn. No one owes you a thing.

Amazingly, many Americans are dumbfounded and utterly confused over these simple truisms.

Because of the culture of entitlement many Americans have embraced since the mid-1960s, we have created generations of Americans addicted to the government handout machine.

They are ballast in this experiment in self-government, solidly in the liability column simply because they choose to be.

Even more amazing are the politicians who would further want to entrench into our cultural and economic fabric the very system that has stripped people of their work ethic, pride and self-esteem.

The pathetic so-called Great Society of President Johnson didn't eliminate poverty as he claimed it would. Rather, it destroyed individuals, families, businesses and entire communities while flushing hundreds of billions of hard-earned tax dollars down the drain.

Only a hapless idiot or bottom-feeding politician trolling for votes would dare advocate more destruction through more bloated and ineffective government programs. Yet they do, calling for universal health care for all Americans, including many who obviously don't care about their health.

Nothing is free. Nothing. Someone has to pay for universal health care. That someone is you, the taxpayer. Call the newspaper and leave a message for me if you believe you are not taxed enough.

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1 posted on 05/20/2007 7:43:48 AM PDT by LA Woman3
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To: LA Woman3
Only a hapless idiot or bottom-feeding politician trolling for votes would dare advocate more destruction through more bloated and ineffective government programs.

Nuff said.

2 posted on 05/20/2007 7:48:06 AM PDT by Condor 63
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To: LA Woman3
The Nuge

3 posted on 05/20/2007 7:51:53 AM PDT by FreedomNeocon (Success is not final; Failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts -- Churchill)
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To: LA Woman3
You only deserve what you earn. No one owes you a thing.

Thou shall not covet they neighbors goods.

Oh, sorry. That rule has been removed from the public square and replaced.

Thou shall live off they neighbors assets. There. That's the new and improved PC way to read it.

4 posted on 05/20/2007 7:54:33 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: LA Woman3

Glad there is a person that can get heard stating the obvious. He’s talking for most of us here. Thanks Ted!


5 posted on 05/20/2007 7:54:33 AM PDT by ca centered
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To: ca centered
Glad there is a person that can get heard stating the obvious.

You've got that right. The Conservative politicians should be screaming it from the White House roof.

Ted has the ability and position to take his message to the next generation and get them to listen, too. They're going to get screwed even more than we have. The left isn't done raping and pillaging yet. Heck, their Stalinism is just getting started!

6 posted on 05/20/2007 8:02:44 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: LA Woman3
Independence is a beautiful thing; dependency isn't

Three words: Democracy in America

7 posted on 05/20/2007 8:06:18 AM PDT by Publius6961 (MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
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To: LA Woman3
Only a hapless idiot or bottom-feeding politician trolling for votes would dare advocate more destruction

Add to the 54% of dependent Americans a new amnesty for 12,000,000 additional social dependents and their extended families.

This country needs "A day with out Americans" tax revolt. Heck, a week or more would be even better. The only way to kill the beast is to starve it to death.

8 posted on 05/20/2007 8:12:03 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: concerned about politics
The Conservative politicians should be screaming it from the White House roof.

These days, Conservatives can't even make it to the ground floor of the White House, much less the roof.

9 posted on 05/20/2007 8:13:15 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh
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To: concerned about politics
The left isn't done raping and pillaging yet. Heck, their Stalinism is just getting started!

That's what the global warming push is all about, it's their best shot yet at brainwashing the public into accepting the loss of freedom and wealth confiscation that is socialism.

They also know that if they wait too long and the science shows that man cannot stop global warming and that he is not to blame for it, their chance will vanish. Hence the dire predictions about having only 5 years to save the earth.

10 posted on 05/20/2007 8:19:29 AM PDT by SteamShovel (Global Warming, the New Patriotism)
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To: Publius6961
"Three words: Democracy in America"

???!

Democracy, in America?

I don't think so.

11 posted on 05/20/2007 8:22:29 AM PDT by Hoof Hearted
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To: LA Woman3

Bullseye, Ted!


12 posted on 05/20/2007 8:27:00 AM PDT by karnage
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To: concerned about politics

You are 100% correct. The defiance of the Tenth Commandment is at the core of all leftist ideology.


13 posted on 05/20/2007 8:34:39 AM PDT by Phan of Truth ("Four legs good, two legs bad... Four legs good, two legs better."--Orwell Animal Farm)
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To: LA Woman3

“You only deserve what you earn. No one owes you a thing.”

That thinking drives liberals up the wall. What drives conservatives up a wall? Try, “I own myself.”


14 posted on 05/20/2007 8:36:48 AM PDT by gcruse
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To: concerned about politics

We need a amnesty for Americans who forget to pay taxes for the next decade. In 2018 we can issue a “Z-40” tax return that allows us to pay a small fine and get legal, regardless of the amnount of taxes skipped in the last decade.


15 posted on 05/20/2007 8:48:11 AM PDT by Jack Black
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What drives conservatives up a wall? Try, “I own myself.”

I have been a conservative all 50+ years of my life, and I agree with the statement "I own myself". I must be one of those libertarian conservatives.

Just curious, but if you do not own yourself, who does own you then?

16 posted on 05/20/2007 8:48:29 AM PDT by Hoof Hearted
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I’d say that’s a libertarian streak, too. Owning oneself undermines victimless criminality, something conservatism relies on for social control.


17 posted on 05/20/2007 8:56:28 AM PDT by gcruse
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To: LA Woman3

Nice thoughts; however, at last count something like fifty-two percent of all Americans were sucking a check from the federal teat.


18 posted on 05/20/2007 9:04:05 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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The Nuge hits the nail on the head. I was just thinking recently about all the reports I hear of America’s “poverty striken.”

Here in the South you can find them in the grocery stores, 400 pound women with two baskets of groceries, mostly steaks, fast food and sodas. They usually have four or five kids hanging off the basket, none with Daddys, an air conditioned car, and house with a trampoline and satellite TV dish.

If you go to the local emergency room you’ll have to stand in line for hours as these poverty striken individuals take up space needed for severely ill and elderly, since they use the ER as their primary care doctor. I have been in the ER with a severly ill elderly person and waited while some broad brings her kid in for the sniffles, compliments of TennCare, taxpayer funded medical benefits.

These folks have no pride, they are proud of being leeches.And don’t even get me started about the bad back scenerio here. Something in the water here has caused droves of young healthy individuals to have bad backs (disability checks). I know of one girl in her 30s who got a disabiility check because she was too nervous to be around people, therefore can’t hold a job. She spends her disability check every month going to nightclubs, dancing and flirting among droves of people.


19 posted on 05/20/2007 9:12:16 AM PDT by girlangler (Fish Fear Me)
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To: LA Woman3

Ahhhhh but........under communism, everything is viewed as being free because the government is supposed to pay for it. People don’t seem to realize that when the government pays for something, first....there are alway restrictions that must be followed in able to get that money. Second....the government gets its money for these handouts from who? You and me. The socialists and communists can’t seem to get it through their thick heads that they will finance government programs through higher taxes. Take control away from the government by lowering all taxes down to bare minimun.


20 posted on 05/20/2007 9:22:53 AM PDT by RC2
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