[PAA-Discuss] From Ridicule to Respect

[rscott77092 at oplink.net]

"Benefits they have paid for" is part of the problem. I'm sick & tired of
all the rich people who think they are "entitled" to social security or
medicaid just because "I paid into it, I deserve to get it back."

I can't tell you how many people I've known who
1) have a high-pay career
2) have their own retirement income gauranteed
3) claim they have a god-given right to social security just because
"that's MY money".
By that logic I'm entitled to a nuclear warhead in my backyard to aim at
whoever pisses me off.

And the icing on that cake is that those are the same people who cry like
babies about all those non-white people getting their "entitlements".

RMS



> Thanks very much for this post, Alyssa. The points you make below are why
> Ron Paul will never get my vote for president or anything else. People
> need
> to understand that the ONLY reason Ron Paul is against the ongoing illegal
> occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the incursions into Pakistan is
> because of the amount of money being spent continuing them. He doesn't
> give
> a shit about the people being killed and maimed in those countries. This
> attitude is typical Libertarian philosophy of every man/woman for
> himself/herself and screw your neighbor if he or she is unable to make
> ends
> meet. I get so sick and tired of hearing Ron Paul and Republicans call
> social programs that people have paid into for years entitlements. Well,
> goddamn it to hell, people are ENTITLED to benefits that they have paid
> for
> over the years, so he and anybody else that calls Medicare or Social
> Security "entitlements" can kiss my round white ass right in the hole.
>
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> Kris
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> From: Alyssa Burgin [mailto:aburgin4peace at gmail.com]
> Sent: Sunday, December 20, 2009 10:54 AM
> To: PAA discussion
> Subject: Re: [PAA-Discuss] From Ridicule to Respect
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> Oh, yeah, his colleagues are treating him differently because there's a
> growing class of neo-conspiracist, beyond-right-wing idealogues, take, for
> example, the Tea Party phenomenon.
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> Nothing about opposing stem cell research, fervently denying a woman's
> reproductive choice, favoring every conceivable tax break for the oil and
> gas companies, denying the reality of science (whether it's evolution or
> climate change), or being part of the Christian-sharia- "Family" crowd
> (read
> "Republican Gomorrah") is suddenly correct, moral, or politically
> acceptable
> in my corner of the world. Maybe yours. Ron Paul is a dinosaur.
> Appropriate,
> since I'm sure he believes they existed at the same time as man on earth.
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> Alyssa Burgin
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> On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Rick _lux <lux_88 at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6774366.html
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> He's been saying the same thing since 1971, and everyone ignored him for
> the
> longest time, then they ridiculed him for a good long time, now people are
> beginning to realize that what he has been saying is self-evident.
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