Posted on 08/09/2009 3:46:07 PM PDT by Indy Pendance
I know. I was speaking in, shall we say, fantastical terms. Of course it would never happen. But I wish it would.
I have an even simpler idea - restrict the vote to those who have served in the military or civil service for a term of time and left under honorable terms. One hitch in the military or 20 years civil service.
Heinlein had the right idea; the vote should only be given to those who have proved that they are willing to put the good of others above their own interests.
Ok, got ya. I’m for that. What I meant was based on your question........it could have been hide, keep a low profile, try to get our statesmen in office in 2010, violent revolution.
This country has already been there and done that.
I'm retired, not "government dependent", do indeed pay taxes out the yazoo and am not in favor of raising anyone's taxes.
Wanna see this econmy take off? Lower taxes. Liberals just don't get that.
War.
Wasn’t our founding based on “no taxation, without representation”? They had no problem being taxed as long as their interests were being represented in government. Wouldn’t that beg to say then that it would also be “no representation, without taxation”?
Ah, but there’s the rub: Are you ready to vote all of your benefits away?
The largest portion of our current government funding goes to pay entitlements ... social security and medicare / medicaid. Are you willing to do without that?
As you may proudly proclaim that we should cut “other things”, so is everyone else. The bottom line is that we all think we should cut the “other person’s program” —that’s politics.
I find that as I get older and closer to social security, I , too, want to “keep mine” even though I know full-well that the “Social Security Trust Fund” has always been a con. Social Security has been a Ponzi scheme from Day 1, and the money taxed today pays for today’s retirees.
I don’t get any. Social Security will be gone by the time I get there. Medicare/Medicaid will be gone. I have a 401(K). Never been on any form of welfare. Provide for myself. Not judging though, just stating facts. I just don’t see why the government should be involved in affairs of personal responsibility.
I don’t get any. Social Security will be gone by the time I get there. Medicare/Medicaid will be gone. I have a 401(K). Never been on any form of welfare. Provide for myself. Not judging though, just stating facts. I just don’t see why the government should be involved in affairs of personal responsibility.
Dang, why is it double posting? Thats the third time today.
One of the largest entitlements is government K=12 education.
I’m so over the GOP. Last year, and I’m a life long rep, I told the GOP to take a hike, WE ARE IN CHARGE! WE MAKE THE CALL! WE DONATE THE MONEY! Us citizens have to take back our country using the GOP as the means. Just get rid of the RINOS and the Libs. TELL THE GOP, NO MORE, TELL MICHAEL STEELE, LOL! We aren’t invited to their cocktail parties, WE ARE THE PEOPLE! Remove the RINOS! DON’T LET POWELL DEFINE WHO YOU ARE. LET THEM KNOW.
NO MORE RINO REPS!
I know of several people in the 30 - 40 age bracket who are rearranging their affairs to get off the salary treadmill where taxes and FICA are deducted in advance.
They are incorporating so gains can be treated as corporate profits, working on plans to generate income that can be treated as capital gains or they are looking for other ways to protect their income.
Wealthy people have been doing this for years but these are middle class people who are P.O.’d to the breaking point.
They and are determined to minimize the amount they are forced to contribute to the moocher economy Obama is building.
No, actually, I tend to vote against my interests almost always... I vote as if I was voting for the Constitution! It is much easier that way...
The problem is that both parties seem to be against the Constitution in so many ways that it makes it impossible to pick a candidate. Of course the Democrats have never won that battle, but the Republicans have only won by default.
So...what’s a voter to do...
WE ARE NOT THE ENEMY
Yes, we really do. Been doing alot of preparing myself.
It’s great to know you know people in the 30-40 year old bracket pissed off!
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