Posted on 10/28/2008 4:42:34 PM PDT by TheEaglehasLanded
I don't won't to spread my wealth around to someone without a brain. I also think it a good object lesson of stealing or spreading the wealth around socialism.
Also, Hope you can pay for gas in your car, insurance, books, room and board, etc.
I think if parents who are not supporting Obama put their foot down it could have a big impact.
I wonder how those stupid Hussein supporting kids will feel when they are looking for work, after their employer’s wealth was spread to someone else...
This post only works for parents with brains also.
My daughter will be registering to vote on campus for the first time. FWIW, it will be one more vote in Wisconsin for John McCain.
I think that is an excellent idea. You don’t have to think like I think, or vote like I vote, but I don’t have to pay tuition for someone who doesn’t think right either~!!
It's a catch 22 sending them to college nowadays.
Anyway, I threatened and cajoled and they both are going to vote for McCain.
I also told them Obama doesn't support people like YOU, People like my daughters are the PROBLEM! Inherited wealth, white, upper middle class from the suburbs. I told them he would spit on them if he could get away with it.
Plus, it takes money away from the Obama Indoctrination Camp
White kids from upper middle class suburbs attending expensive private colleges, with the tuition paid for by the hard work and pluck of their parents, voting for a candidate who thinks the white bourgeois is the Devil. Only in America.
Right now my wife and I only have a beagle. I told him the other day that if he supports Obama he’s out on the streets.
My daughter in college is a member of the NRA and a cool rifle owner. Lol She’s also a proud Republican and getting to vote in her first election this time. Last election (while she was in high school)- she was a precinct captain for the Republicans and worked the polls all day.
I love beagles. My “grandpup” is a beagle. My oldest daughter and son-in-law have a beagle. My other daughter bought him a bumblebee outfit for halloween. He is not too happy about that. Lol
I did the same thing with my college junior. I said go ahead and vote for the democrat candidate, but if he wins my State, your meal plan (he eats better than anyone else in my family; really, anyone I know) will be the first fatality. Then your car insurance, then your car payments, then the several hundred $$$ a month loan (gift) he has come to rely upon like a welfare payment.
Wow... he could be a real poor hungry college student then. Just like I was. Mac/cheese and dogs every day.
He was pissed by that, and told me that O would see to it that college kids were treated right. I said fine.
Three weeks ago he told me was voting for McPalin because he did not like the boys and girls (his fellow students) who were for Hussein. He said they were intolerant of any dissent.
The truth may be that he likes to eat 24/7.
We have an adult child now in his forties who lives in a very liberal part of the world. He remarked to me when visiting that taxes should never be cut in a recession, and we just don’t talk politics. I did tell him, though, about the hard lesson we learned back when we thought it didn’t much matter about the political party of the man we elected. So, we voted for Carter and were dismayed by the terrible outcomes of his administration . . . double digit unemployment, 21% interest rates, gasoline lines for a long time when one could even get gasoline, exorbitant heating bills, lectures from Carter blaming US and chiding us about wearing a sweater, military cut to the point where their families were on food stamps, military machinery parts scarce and demoralized by Carter’s bungling attempts at foreign policy at every turn, Carter’s dislike for the Shah of Iran and admiration for the Ayatollah Khomeni - and we all know what THAT got us, and we are still living with that little faux pas. Reagan replaced Carter, and straightened things out handily. Carter was a socialist, but he did make “THAT ONE” look like a socialist-communist champion. I’m real sick of Carter and sorry I helped elect him.
To all of us younger folks(I'm probably the same age, if not younger than your son). None of us have had to hunt for, or try to get a job in a truly bad economy, because we have never seen one. When I was a young child, Reagan was president. When I was becoming the age of when people begin to enter the workforce, Clinton was president. Me, and others like me have never really seen bad times, and don't really have any sense of how anti-growth policies on the part of the government can totally wreck the economy during an economic slow down.
It should be common sense. During economic down times, you don't put tax, regulatory, and union pressures on employers when you need to create jobs. Especially in this day and age when a company can simply shut the business down and move offshore. We didn't have free trade during past economic slow downs as we do today. We probably have no idea how bad it could get if the government pushes anti-growth policy against business owners and employers. I'm sure it's easy for a business to close the doors, move to China, and continue operations without a hitch.
AMEN! AMEN! AMEN!
IT IS THAT SERIOUS.
And could be the most educational thing to happen to the kids all year.
I’ve heard a variation on this, but I have to tell my true story with my college age daughter.
She is living in a house with 4 other people, one of whom has been unable to pay her rent but continues to live there (she flunked out of school, her parents refuse to pay her rent in order to ‘teach’ her a lesson, she has been unwilling to get another job and has taken to partying all the time). When the roommates told her that she would have to leave because they were going to get someone else who would pay, she was irate. She couldn’t understand why the rest of the kids in the house wouldn’t pay for her since she was having such a hard time and the others had parents who were able to pay. It wasn’t her ‘fault’ that she didn’t have the money.
My daughter (who is student teaching) was flabbergasted that someone who refused to work would expect others to pay her way. Earlier this year, my daughter had toyed with the idea of voting Obama. I told her that the situation in her house is just a microcosm of what Obama wants America to be...only we would be REQUIRED to keep paying for her roommate regardless of the circumstances. I also told her that should Obama get in, her dad and I would be losing money big time (he has his own small business), so she better get used to it.
She’s voting McCain.
bttt
I'm proud of her: good grades, works part-time, sorority officer, etc. Still, when she talks about how "tough" she has it, I tell her to bring back that car I'm paying for, and to bring a check for the last six months of insurance...LOL!
She knows better than to vote for a Democrat, and her friends share a like mind. Raising my kids in Texas has been a profoundly positive experience for them.
Texas! I bet it was a good influence. Try bringing up kids in Los Angeles. One is in college in Los Angeles and one is in art school in New York City!!! It ain’t easy to be different, but I always tried to tell them not to follow the crowd.
My son's travels with his 300+ marching band took him to Dublin, Ireland, London, and Washington, DC. My daughter's competitions pitted her team against the best from around the nation.
I guess my closest flirtations with a "world class organization" arose from my ROTC days in college, and my final two years in Germany, where we turned a mediocre ADA battalion into a combat ready force. My battalion commander "unleashed" his officers and NCOs, demanding innovation and imagination. That's all we had to work with, considering the budget cuts during the Carter Administration. To this day, I can't think of any position that gave me as much personal and professional satisfaction.
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