Right Fears Entitlements Are Killing American Dream

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Cat74 wrote:

You will always need entitlements, because a certain segment of society will never work. We have created an entitlement culture. The American Dream is supposed to be realized through hard work, not mooching off others. I would hope we would barely keep those slackers going, but no. We provide them with housing, healthcare, food stamps, gas money, TVs, cellphones blackberries, Cars. Everything you workers have they have for doing nothing. That is not the American way.

voteearlyvoteoften wrote:

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Sooo, what % of your gross income do YOU pay??

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Son of SickNTired wrote:

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Last year I paid 33%.. Like most people who actually work and produce something.

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Eric Gustafson wrote:

One in every Five Texans live in poverty so a Texan would be the authority on living poor in America.
60% of Working Texans receive wage subsidies and income supplemental to lift them out of poverty.
and a quarter of the Texas population does not have health care insurance.
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Son of SickNTired wrote:

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Last year I paid 33%.. Like most people who actually work and produce something.

inbred Genius wrote:

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you should turn him in for the reward.

inbred Genius wrote:

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so you're saying its ok to take money from someone who earned it, and give it to someone who did not earn it?

Sheik Yerbouti wrote:

Originally entitlements were meant to be temporary. Some were designed to help the truly disabled and elderly while others were designed to help people through a rough time. They were never meant to be multigenerational nor were they designed to help people who breed irresponsibly. When I have to drive through Philly during the day I am always amazed by the number of young able bodied people wandering the streets. Once this recession is over the nation needs to take a very close look at entitlement programs. A couple of months ago I saw a news report about a woman in her 30's with 15 or 17 kids by three different fathers. When she told a reporter "someone gotta pay fir this" I almost lost it I was so angry! I think that working productive people are tired of being taken advantage of by layabouts!

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Ballybunion wrote:

If people are given "things" not earned in any way, first off, they don't value them and secondly, the grow to expect them. We all know how hard it is to decrease any so called "entitlement". The screams from the left at even not INCREASING one is called a cut. Right now at this very moment, the takers are equal to the payers. When more people are dependent on government for sustenance (and for some it's a very nice living for sure) than those supplying the means, we are headed for deep trouble. The American Dream is still with us, SOME OF US have just lost the will to do the hard work necessary. Instant gratification is NOT part of the dream.

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carey529 wrote:

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first it's blacks...what?
gays? what?
jeez!
focus dear...
read the article THEN post.

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NEW wrote:

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What he is doing is 100% legal......THAT SHOULD CHANGE.....BUT THE GOP WONT LET IT....

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Ballybunion wrote:

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Get your head out in the open, all that money spent was spent with the consent and CONNIVANCE of either the Democratically controlled house and senate OR at the express wish of Obama. LOL - that's how Obama is trying to spin that it wasn't HIM who spent all that money, it was "Bush's Fault"! LOL - right, if we just discount any and all monies spent prior to Oct. 2009 (When O was supposed to present and get passed a budget) we can somehow, in some convoluted way say that he didn't triple the debt, but only if we willingly suspend all intelligence and stop believing our lyin' eyes and ears about what we actually heard and saw.
What spin BTW? The conservatives yelled loud and long over spending that money, who's trying to spin things here? That you completely miss the point of my post or just can't grasp it, I was responding to a comment regarding bonuses paid to PRIVATE CORP. employees out of private corp. funds, funds earned by said corp. BTW. Any and all tax money spent to bail out anything or anyone went completely against the conservative mindset. It was the liberals that pushed for this not us. Spin all you want, the bailouts using tax money or borrowed money were and still are loudly protested by real conservatives, you may want to revisit the 2010 election if you still can't grasp that little bit of information.

inbred Genius wrote:

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so what your brother is doing is legal, but you are jealous of his ability to do so, and you want the laws changed, so it's not legal?
easy fix, vote for obama, he's already hard at work on making people pay more, and he needs your vote. Course, you might someday pay more too, but thats a risk worth taking, right?
And when they've run out of guys like your brother, who will they come for next? how long before they get to you?

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NEW wrote:

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I would be happy to pay 50% taxes if I made millions....WOULD STILL HAVE ALOT AND BE DOING GREAT..........Why do you greedy rich complain about paying 50% taxes on 100 million....?????You will still have 50 milion and live like a KING!!!!!!!!

inbred Genius wrote:

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so what your brother is doing is legal, but you are jealous of his ability to do so, and you want the laws changed, so it's not legal?
easy fix, vote for obama, he's already hard at work on making people pay more, and he needs your vote. Course, you might someday pay more too, but thats a risk worth taking, right?
And when they've run out of guys like your brother, who will they come for next? how long before they get to you?

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Tedsliver wrote:

The truth does hurt. We have created generations of lazy entitled people.
They are called liberals.

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Mykro wrote:

<quoted text>You don't have to worry about paying more. You don't pay any now. None of you backwoods trailer trash inbreds work. Some one must have donated an original Commodore for your posting pleasure.

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Bluebonnets-Thistle wrote:

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One big problem with over taxing the rich........they move elsewhere! California has lost many companies to red states due to high taxes and regulations. It's simple economics really. The rich liberals, Kerry's, Ted Turner, Robert Redford, the Pelosi's and others pay less taxes because they have "compost" piles on their lands along with a few green energy items. They're deductions go way beyond what they really have in place and get away with it. As soon as the left starts pointing that fact out instead of attacking Romney who is less rich than those, we'll talk.