Posted on 04/10/2003 7:05:53 AM PDT by Apolitical
Moi?
I only want to see proof of her claims on this 'basic freedom to walk around nude'!
< / shocked expression>
This is obviously not an opinion you developed by knowing Bush personally, by knowing any of his friends personally, or by observation of his actions as President. So who told you this was the "truth"?
He does not give us universal health care, which is a universal right, nor does he do anything to strengthen laws to help our planet, on the contrary, he has been cutting them to pieces.
The US Senate voted down the Kyoto treaty 95-0. Universal Health Care has to paid for by somebody...is it a "universal right" to pick someone else's pocket to indemnify people against poor lifestyle choices like smoking and overeating? Again, someone told you this glib and shallow rationalization and you are just repeating it verbatim. Who?
How often have they been right? By most counts to date, zero seems to be the closest number.
here's why...check this new thread with this topic:
Bob Arnott was just on MSNBC reporting that he had traveled to many of the hospitals in the area and assisted in the care for the many children in the facilities that have been struck by gunfire (he's also a doctor). He said he was unsure what the mood in the hospitals would be but found the doctors and patients to be "ecstatic" that Saddam was gone. He then said that the gunshots were all made by small caliber weapons that the U.S. Army does not have and, when he inquired further about the cause of the wounds, he was told by parents and hospital staff that the paramilitary forces were shooting kids on purpose to make it look like the U.S. forces were inflicting civilian casualties.
This is why we need to use force sometimes, kiddo. You want to be the one to sit down with a true sociopath and discuss YOUR idea of peace over a nice cup o' tea? Guess what....he wouldn't give a flip about YOUR ideas of peace...
And would you care to back up that statement with some facts? Explain to me how it's the government's responsibility to give to people just because they exist. Who do you think pays for it? The Government? NO! You do! Your taxes. The taxes you secretly wish you didn't have to pay.
I have read numerous things on Bush and his connection with the oil industry, can you honestly tell me that he does not have that in his mind as he sends our troops off to war?
The US doesn't need to take over Iraq to have access to their oil. We could buy it at any time, and we have been. The US didn't need to take military action to have access to oil we are already buying. Some of the gasoline in your car right now was made from Iraqi crude. It is very narrow-minded and simplistic to think that oil was the motivation for this war. It was the threat of terrorism, both now and in the future.
I do not support anyone in the taking of innocent lives, but remember, all lives are innocent.
Was Hitler innocent? Was Pol Pot innocent? Was Saddam Hussein innocent? You are not thinking! Innocence derives from what people do or don't do. Hitler, Pol Pot, and Saddam to name a few, all forfeited whatever innocence they had when they embarked on their sprees of murder and mayhem. All lives are not innocent, except at the moment of their birth.
I dislike Bush because he does nothing for the majority of Americans, his thoughts are only with his pockets, and with the pockets of his funders and "rich" allies. He does not give us universal health care, which is a universal right, nor does he do anything to strengthen laws to help our planet, on the contrary, he has been cutting them to pieces. Does he care about this planet? Or is he just happy to line his pocket while he is here?
"Helping this planet" does not include hand-outs for everyone, which is somehow magically paid for out of thin air (in your way of thinking). Universal Health Care? Bad idea, for the simple reason that the cost is staggering, and the ones who would be saddled with the biggest burden of helping to pay for it (taxes) would be the very people it is supposed to help, namely, the poor. Where do you think jobs come from? They come from businessmen (and women) who make a profit on their business, allowing them to expand and hire more people. Jobs are created by businesses which are created by those who have enough money to start businesses, or buy businesses. Any government policy which is anti-business is anti-jobs, and anti-poor people. While your heroes, the Democrats (ask me how I know this...), run around saying how they are for the common man, the working man, they involve themselves with legislation that chokes businesses, taxes them to death, and makes it harder to expand and continue in business. In reality, the Democrats and Liberals are anti-business, and therefore anti-jobs, and against a strong economy. Ask yourself why that would be...
I'm glad you love America, and are glad to live here. but please realize that you are not "owed" anything for that, and it is not the government's job to "give" you anything. If you were truly a patriot, you would be in favor of less government, less intervention in our lives, less taxes for everyone (not just the poor), and more freedom to achieve and realize the American Dream. It isn't going to be handed to you on a platter, nor should it be. You're working your way through school, and that's good, so you're on your way. Just realize that when you expect the government to give you something, when you get it, you trade away a little bit of your freedom for it. Think about that....
You cannot possibly believe this, and expect to be considered a rational human being.
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