Originally posted by Airhead
Uh... but we HAVE a very right wing Government.... Almost Fascist... and Henry Ford and his ilk DO control polotical power.
The problem we on the Left have in educating the Masses is that we can't convince you just how miserable you really have it. We try, but as long as you're busy making your mortgage payments on your 2400 square foot ranch style with built in pool and your car payments for your Beemer and paying the tuition for the kid's private prep school you're too busy making money to work for social change... indeed, you're too busy enjoying the fruits of your labor... to be concerned with those who are less fortunate than yourselves and have no labor with which to enjoy the fruits from.
You really should be ashamed.
Why is it that an immigrant can come to this country at the age of 40, with no English, and in the space of 20 years, with no help from the goverment, having mastered the language and redone a gruelling 7 year medical residency alongside men twelve years younger, raise himself to the enviable station where a 47% income tax is considered by some to be insufficient, while at the same time, an American-born citizen can complain, with great effect, that the hand he has outstretched for help isn't being filled with enough free dollars--many of which are coming out of the first guy's pay as he works 80 hour weeks?
That hand would better serve the second man if he used it to prop himself up and get to his own two feet--and who was more unfortunate than the man who comes here, with a family in tow, at the age of forty, without even the ability to speak the language and nothing but a small network of friends to lend him a twenty here and a fifty there?
The reason is that in this cycle is that people like you, who blindly support any and all measures to appease the whining loafers, have made it so easy to sit and beg that many choose leaching as a career rather than put in one tenth the work that some admirable Americans consider their duty to themselves and their loved ones.
There're more than enough hand-outs in the US. If you want to improve public education to give the masses a better shot at prosperity, try diverting a few billion from welfare and pay teachers more, give them more materials with which to work.
Speak freely. It's your right. Accept charity when it is offered, but keep your whoopee hand out of my already crowded pocket.
And keep your shame. You need it to drive you. I'm proud and thankful.
