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Originally Posted by ProfessorNumber
Alright, if I'm reading this correctly, it would appear that you made a joke insinuating that I'm a homosexual. While your attempt at humor was pretty amazing, clever, and well-played, I am in fact a heterosexual person. It's great to see that your sense of humor is as good/intelligent as your mis-guided political views. Democracy and capitalism are what made this country great. The sense of entitlement, which is so pervasive today, is what makes this country bad. The very idea that healthcare should be free, or that gay marriage should take the front stage in political debates is beyond ludicrous. It's fucking absurd.
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Actually dude I wasn't making a joke about you being gay. Honest. You're being way over sensative. I agree with you that a sense of entitlement in this country is a real problem, but I think health care should be a universal right. As it is right now, only the wealthy can afford it. I just don't think that's right.
You say gay marriage is absurd, but how is it any different than the civil rights movement of the 60's? Replace gay with black. It's interchangable. Why are we denying gay people the same rights as everybody else? If you don't see why that's a big issue then I'm at a loss.
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Originally Posted by ProfessorNumber
Right now, I make less than $19,000 per year. Odds are Obama's tax plans would benefit me for many years to come. In fact, there is the slim possibility that I will never make enough money in order to fall into one of Obama's major-fuckover-tax-brackets. That's irrelevant. The priniciple behind the issue is what's important here. Obama wants to essentially take from the rich, in order to fund his socialistic agenda. I personally believe that's fucked up. Once again, I'm sure the American sense of entitlement will make a lot of lower/middle class people vote for Obama. You keep harping on this idea of being socially conscious. In the grand scheme of things, McCain's tax policies help out the country as a whole, and are focused on reducing goverment spending. Why should the rich have to pay more money for being successful?
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You're operating with the assumption that the rich got there from working hard. Do you take into account the cycle of wealth and poverty? The rich stay rich, the poor stay poor. I think it's naive to have some feel good, fairy tale outlook on America, that "anyone" can make it. I think that's false. Some, with a little bit of luck, can. But is that fair? Does a poor farmer, who works his ass off from 5 am to 6 pm, not work as hard as some CEO?
Look, I'm not promoting that we make the rich poor so that everyone is middle class. But I do think the rich, especially the very rich, can pay a little more in taxes for the good of all. The poor might get to live slightly better off lives, and the rich will continue to be rich, although perhaps not as disgustingly so.