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Originally Posted by TheSquealer
Obviously we aren't going to agree. I'm not going to continue as i'm also working. I believe in helping people but I believe in the need for society to start holding people accountable for their behaviors and decisions. There needs to be standards and expectations. It's not OK with me for someone to pump out 6 kids by 25 as a single parent and expect me to pay for them.
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I don't support that either. For one thing the population of the US is mushrooming; doubling about every 50 years. I just don't believe there are actually that many people having 6 kids by 25. Ann Romney certainly knows how pump them out though.
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Solving poverty in the USA is a two way street. It requires the active participation of society and the individual who is poor. You can't make an addict sober by throwing money at him. He has to understand he has a problem, he has to understand what the problem is. He has to understand what the solution is. He has to understand he needs to change and then want to make that change.
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I don't know who you think is disagreeing with that.
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Walk down any street in the USA and tell a broke 25 year old that they don't need a new Iphone, expensive shoes, gold chains or nice wheels on their piece of shit car and see how far you get in changing people and their behaviors.
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Companies spend billions brainwashing people into thinking they need shit they don't. Of course, right-wingers have no problem with that. That's what America is all about, right? No, it's about (or should be about) looking out for each other; not trying to screw the last possible cent from everyone.
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The US has created a society of increasingly self entitled, irresponsible and unaccountable people that have dramatically shifted in their thinking which built the nation in the last 40 years or so from "i'm going to live the american dream, work hard, sacrifice and build a better life for me and my family" to "hey man, you owe me".
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I agree. And the man responsible for that disease of individualism, selfishness and sheer greed, Uncle Ronnie, is a hero to Republicans.
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By the way,,, yeah, I object to lotteries and gambling made easy. I don't object to gambling when someone has to have a job, save money, buy a plane ticket, hotel rent a car to do it. I object to gambling when someone with kids to feed, who is broke, unemployed or on welfare can walk into a gas station and blow their money because they are too dumb to do the very simple math and because the state is telling them its OK, because its for a good cause.
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My objection is that gambling generally targets (rips off) people who can least afford it, the poor and the desperate.