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Originally Posted by baryl
I dislike Romney but these kind of politics I hate even more and sadly it works because it feeds off of emotions and usually has nothing to do with reality.
I remember someone introduced a bill directing police to use pepper spray instead of deadly force against minors or something to that effect.
His opponents spin?
"My opponent wants to pepper spray your children!!"
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All we here about is the sound bites like "Make people proud to be an American again." And this negative advertising. What exactly are either of these two going to do, to get the US out of the hole it dug for itself?
Yes it does matter to us in Europe as what happens here matters to people in the US.
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Originally Posted by Robbie
Why does a state govt. pay to feed seniors in a nursing home anyway? This whole country is becoming a nanny state it seems.
I literally had no idea that when you get old and if you go into a nursing home...then taxpayers suddenly have to give up their money to pay for you to eat. I wonder if all the homeless people know about this scam yet? All they gotta do is check into a nursing home (I'm assuming that these days it must be at taxpayer expense for old people to even check in to one)
What a load of horseshit. My grandfather spent the last couple of years of his life in a nursing home and died at age 90 2 years ago. We paid for everything in that nursing home. From his room, to his care, to his food. If I had only known that the taxpayers would have paid for it AND he could have ordered food like he was in a restaurant I wouldn't have paid a penny...
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And what a fine fellow you are, rich enough to ship your grandfather off to a nursing home, where he wouldn't get in the way. What are you most proud of, being able to pay or shipping him out of the way?
Those less fortunate can GFthemselves. Even though they paid taxes all their life. Part of which should be to ensure they are looked after when the time has come that they need this assistance.
I've worked since 1965 and paid taxes ever since then, some of into pension and health care. For the vast majority of that time I never needed either. So 15 to 58 the money was like an insurance policy. Then we all know what happened and I called on the State to back up it's promise of curing me. For the money I had paid into the system. And the State comes up trumps. Free of charge? No I paid the insurance all my working life.
It also helped the less fortunate, less successful and I'm fine with that. I live in a world of "It's about US" not a world of "It's about ME".
Yes taxes are misused, spent badly. Like declaring a war on a country for no real reasons, getting involved in countries where you haven't got a clue what's going on, building dirty great big admin and bureaucratic regimes that cost a fortune and borrowing money that brings your country to the verge of bankruptcy and sometimes into bankruptcy. But that's the fault of the fools who vote for these clowns. Based on reasons I wouldn't vote for someone to run the tap.