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Disabled son's mom wants GOP to pull 'union bully' ad
SacBee ^ | June 18, 2009 | not identified

Posted on 06/19/2009 10:40:49 AM PDT by radar101

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To: humblegunner

I sure can gripe while mommy has no job.
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Having no job doesn’t prevent a person from using the government schools and having the taxpayer pay for it.

Ditto for help for the retarded.

Hey! Listen, I **agree** with you. Parents should plan ahead for the possibility of a disabled child. If private insurance were available for this it would be a great help.

But...At least I am consistent. If parents should be prepared for a mentally retarded child they should also be prepared to **pay** for their schooling as well.


121 posted on 06/19/2009 5:32:39 PM PDT by wintertime
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To: humblegunner; wintertime

You totally avoided responding to her comment.

She’s right. It’s inconsistent to defend public education and gripe about helping the mentally handicapped.

If you object so much to government handouts because people should be supporting themselves, then why do you support the government handout of public education?

If you sent your kids to public schools, you’re leaching off the tax money extorted from other taxpayers to provide them with the education that you should have provided them yourself.


122 posted on 06/19/2009 6:50:21 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom
you’re leaching off the tax money

Leeching. The word is leeching.

You teach your kids with that vocabulary?

It’s inconsistent to defend public education and gripe about helping the mentally handicapped.

Normal kids go to normal schools. I resist paying for the mother
(in the thread, can you read?) to care for her defective kid.

Nobody deserves a living because they have a retarded kid.

Enjoy your weekend.

123 posted on 06/19/2009 7:14:39 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: metmom

Would you care to discuss the issues we were addressing, or did you just come in to chastise people who were not laughing at anything? Did you read the posts in this discussion carefully, or did you just see a dirty word and decide that people shouldn’t be saying it? If you have something positive to contribute, please do, but you can take the liberal PC control freak churlishness about a word that has been demonized until the meaning makes people like you say things like that out of here.

By the way, I am not the person who brought up “the word.”
And no one referred to the woman’s son as a “the word.”


124 posted on 06/19/2009 7:23:39 PM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: humblegunner

Having a retarded kid is now a free ride forever? Why is that?

Because the states closed all the state institutions for the retarded after the leftist lawyers sued.

And now people get paid by the state to care for their own or have someone else care for them. Just like the ones without family are cared for by state and federal grant paid workers. Disability care and PCA is the new substitute for factory jobs. Except factory jobs produced profits and disability care produces more disability and entitlement.

I drove with a disabled person the other day who was upset that she lost her funding to continue theraputic riding. She whined about it. Since she is strong enough physically I suggested that she find a barn she could work in for riding time and lessons. She said that instead she wanted to find some one with a horse who would just let her ride it. Entitilement.


125 posted on 06/19/2009 7:25:31 PM PDT by Chickensoup ("Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.")
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To: humblegunner; metmom
Leeching. The word is leeching.

Either word is acceptable. See leach or leech.

126 posted on 06/19/2009 8:51:14 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes (Dad, I will always think of you.)
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To: radar101

Okay then... We will see if the Republican party doubles air time for this obviously great ad, or if they cave and even offer an apology. It’s crazy these days - - I’m truly not sure what the Republicans will do. Pretty sick situation, ain’t it?


127 posted on 06/19/2009 8:56:31 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: radar101

BTTT


128 posted on 06/19/2009 9:13:49 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (Overproduction, one of the top five worries for the American farmer.)
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To: TheOldLady; metmom

Metmom did contribute well to this discussion. As she pointed out, the juvenile jokes were unnecessary. No one here is asking for “political correctness”. Only decency and maturity. And some consistency.


129 posted on 06/19/2009 9:32:40 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes (Dad, I will always think of you.)
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To: humblegunner
What is it with you? You only object to government assistance when a person is disabled? Let's remove the word "disabled" and tell us if you still agree with your own statement:

I'm rude because I object to some woman and her kid sucking off the public tit? If someone has a kid, that's rough. It isn't my problem, I should not have to pay for it. So how in the world should all of us have to pay for the upkeep of this woman's kid? I look after me & mine... The woes of the world are not my problem. If this woman cannot provide for her kid, she should have thought about that before becoming pregnant.

You see, just remove the word "disabled", and the same argument can be used against "free" public education.

I look after me & mine. I work, I pay into the system.

More than likely, you didn't pay enough to cover the "free" education for your children. Most people don't. You would have had to have paid approximately $10,000 every year for each one of your children in school taxes alone (not including the other taxes).

130 posted on 06/19/2009 9:51:53 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes (Dad, I will always think of you.)
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To: radar101

Another sob story ran out by the dimwits to avoid cutting spending.


131 posted on 06/19/2009 9:54:08 PM PDT by calex59
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To: Tired of Taxes; humblegunner
You see, just remove the word "disabled", and the same argument can be used against "free" public education.

I wish they would end "free" education. Neither the state or the Feds need to be in the education business. Humble Gunner is right on this one and you are wrong.

132 posted on 06/19/2009 9:57:52 PM PDT by calex59
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To: calex59; humblegunner

I think you misunderstood my post. I’M opposed to “free” public education. Humblegunner is NOT.

I homeschool. Humblegunner sent his children to public school. HE disagrees with you. Some of us have been arguing against “free” public education, and he’s been defending it.

So, now, when he posted what he posted about the “disabled”, we’re pointing out that his positions are inconsistent.


133 posted on 06/19/2009 10:57:32 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes (Dad, I will always think of you.)
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To: Tired of Taxes
You wrote***More than likely, you didn't pay enough to cover the "free" education for your children. Most people don't. You would have had to have paid approximately $10,000 every year for each one of your children in school taxes alone (not including the other taxes). ***

I have a flash for you, all my kids are in their 40's and 50's and I am 70 and still paying taxes to the schools...

Been paying school taxes since I was 20... We all end up paying more than just the education of our own kids by the time we die. We also pay for all the teachers second vacation homes....

134 posted on 06/19/2009 11:32:24 PM PDT by goat granny
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To: goat granny
My daughter sent her 3 kids to a highly rated private school and it didn't cost anywhere near 10,000 a semester or year...And the majority go on to university....they learn, they were not babysitter like teachers do in the so called public school...My son sends his 2 boys to a christian school, very good school, for a fraction of the 10,000 dollars that were talked about..public schools stink for the most part, but some have a few good teachers..
135 posted on 06/19/2009 11:47:10 PM PDT by goat granny
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To: trisham; humblegunner
All in all, I think that's quite a compliment.

That's certainly how I take it. I'm flattered. :-D

136 posted on 06/20/2009 4:57:37 AM PDT by Allegra ( Stand up for FREEDOM, Iran.)
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To: TheOldLady
YOMANK.

Huh?

137 posted on 06/20/2009 5:01:49 AM PDT by Allegra ( Stand up for FREEDOM, Iran.)
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To: Allegra
You Owe Me A New Keyboard, often used when a previous poster said something funny causing you to spit your drink on your keyboard.

Here is a link to the Free Republic Lexicon so that you can look up other acronyms that are commonly used around here.

138 posted on 06/20/2009 5:22:58 AM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: TheOldLady
Here is a link to the Free Republic Lexicon so that you can look up other acronyms that are commonly used around here.

Thanks. I actually participated in contributing one of the phrases on the lexicon. I jsut get buried in work sometimes and haven't managed to memorize them all.

I joined FR around the All Your Bases are Belong to Us Era. :)

139 posted on 06/20/2009 6:36:16 AM PDT by Allegra ( Stand up for FREEDOM, Iran.)
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To: Allegra

Memorize them all? You’re a better woman than I am. ♥


140 posted on 06/20/2009 6:47:10 AM PDT by TheOldLady
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