We have to accept our role in life. The vast majority of us are peasents and we have to face to fact that most of us will have to survive living day to day and never will reach higher income status.

But although you feel like you are stuggling and oppressed by the rich and Bush, you actually aren’t.

If you’re a single mom raising four kids, yeah, that’s tough. If your handicapped, you can’t do really much about your situation.

But in America, nobody starves. Each one of us has a roof over our heads, we pratice regular hygine, we have access to food, most of us have automobiles, entertainment like television, communication like phones and mobile phones and etc.

If you think your life is tough it may be, but it isn’t nearly as tough as it is in leftist dictacted 3rd world nations. Where people walk in sewer ran streets, no running water, living off the refuge of a city dump site and have poor hygine problems leading to diseases and parasites.

And you think Bush is the problems of your status?

I’m not sure what you took as a personal attack, in fact, I agreed that we need some sort of mechanism to help people to a degree.

If go get lost offended you it wasn’t meant that way. I was encouraging you to go enjoy it.

I would still like to hear your answer, and I hope you do.

The daughter came in calling her father a capitalistic fraud who flaunted his money and didn’t have compassion for all those people who didn’t have as much as he did. He should share his wealth she said.

Finally growing tired of arguing with her he asked her how she was doing in school. She told him she was working very hard and had a 4.0 GPA. She said she had no social life because you couldn’t party and study at the same time.

He then asked her how her friend Lisa was doing. She said the friend wasn’t doing well at all. She was a real party animal and got invited to every campus party. Several mornings she had been so hung over she didn’t make it to class. She was just barely carrying a 2.0 GPA.

Her father then said, “You should do to the dean and ask to have one of your gpa points given to Lisa. That way you would both be equal and have a 3.0. That seems to be the only fair thing to do”.

She angrily said, “I worked hard for my grades and she has done nothing but party. I’m not giving her a grade that I earned”.

Whereas the father said “Welcome to the Republican party.

Then life happened. And All that bullshit about ‘if you do xyz, abc will happen’.

No, life isn’t like that. I wish it worked that way, but for millions it does not.

A very long time ago on this blog, I defended you.

I don’t remember the circumstance now. I took hits from like minded posters for doing so.

You asked a thoughtful question.

I promised you a thoughtful answer.

Well you could not wait and stooped to personal attack.

You’ll not be getting your answer. In fact? I’ll be treating you as was suggested to me before.

And so NO Joe, it was not an excellent post hawkeye made.

Poor Joe.

I was you once.

I have known and worked with so many like you.

You don’t get it. And no arguement I could present would change that. Time may teach you, maybe not.

You’ll either join the fight to make things better. Or you’ll keep up the fight to make things worse.

My money is on the latter.

I WILL give hawkeye this:

“40 hour work weeks are for chumps.”

Sir?

Your proof of the death of the American dream.

But you make a great point, that most of the envyous people that scream about the rich and blame the “system” for their own problems or as an excuse in why they cannot achieve like other people who seem to have it all. The GOBN; They stoled it, Bush Economy and etc. It’s all lame. It’s really themselves. They are just looking for an easy way to live. To be lucky to win life’s lottery and waiting for that to happen.

You have to go out there and work hard and be proud and feel bless you live in America no matter who you are. It’s not easy. Some do have to much harder than others. If you came from a very poor situation as a child, you’re chances are harder. If you’re a minority, if you’re handicapped, if you’re ugly, if you’re not well educated and etc.

But you have the opportunity to achieve and to pursue what you want. Many people fail, but you at least have the chance to try. The opporuntity is at least there.

I work very hard in what I do. I don’t make a great salary, and most people wouldn’t and couldn’t do what I do based on the labor and work load I do. 40 hour work weeks are for chumps. And I still make time to enchance my skills, work on public projects, workout, stay informed on current events, vote (already voted in the city primaries) and blog on here every once in awhile.

And I still have a life. I love life and feel blessed (and I’m not a religous person at all), because it’s America and I’m an optimist. The American Dream is alive and well and I believe many people believe that too. That is why we are so great.

I’m sorry to hear that you feel that way. I believe taht what Americans want is an easy American dream and I don’t believe its ever been easy.

Soem well placed help may indeed be needed for the poor, but they also need to help themseleves by making good choices or making their kids make good choices to break the cycle, ie education.

Go get Lost:)

What is social justice to you. I have seen times on here when you have stated that the american dream doesn’t exist. Is this the land of opportunity?

What is your plan? Do we all just divide it up evenly? Would we always have the poor? Waht do we do.

The story isn’t perfect for sure but it does illustrate the point of what the rich provide in a very basic sense of course. Can they pay more, probably but how much more?

What could they do for you?

Why post something like that if you are not sincere in the sentiment?

I mean I’m glad you’re not.

I always saw you as an advocate for social justice Ksam.

That little story has none.

One guy has $59 and 5 have nothing? That is not a society that can survive.

Nor is it a society that deserves to.

I don’t agree with much you post, and I definately don’t agree with this. Someone sent it, it was interesting, I posted it.. I have NO political agenda! You all need to get real… life is more than politics.. geeeze!

This is the very reason I don’t post much anymore.. I have better things to worry about!

I’m not big into reading the Hate-America-Firster vomit that he usually spews all over the board.

I picture him without his daily Ritalin dosage, bouncing on his bed, hitting his head on the ceiling until it bleeds.

That’s a damn scary thought.

Can anyone from the Meet-up confirm the rumor that he has fang-like teeth?

Or is it just nasty, but believable, gossip?

Just skip ‘em!

“You CONs are like Lewis Carroll’s Humpty Dumpty, you make the words mean whatever you want them to mean.

It does make it easier to understand why you can delude yourself about W.’s splendid little war.”

Posted by: CapnAmerica | February 21, 2007 at 04:45 PM

Quite the tactic there, Capn. If someone disagress with you, call ‘em a liar and ignore the facts. Yep..effective discussion technique.

for a 4th grader.

Maybe a similar Kansas office will have to help chatty Kathy make the correct decision about the coal fired Holcomb plant.

‘Texas delays TXU coal-plant program’http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N21310634.htm“The Texas State Office of Administrative Hearings postponed the start of TXU’s air-pemit hearing by four months, until June 27, citing a state judge’s ruling late Tuesday that blocked the Texas governor’s effort to expedite permits for coal plants.”

Hopefully when enough people learn about the air pollution problems, and better alternatives (efficiency, renewables, etc) the permits will be denied.

As I said, I don’t doubt her story. I have a photo of a U.S. soldier standing in the middle of a room filled with gold bars/bricks. Not that I’m saying he took one as a souvenir…

Yes, there was widespread looting, both by Iraqis and U.S. troops. Just because it was done in WWII doesn’t make it right. Ears and heads were cut off in Vietnam for souvenirs, too, so I guess that makes anything okay.

Tinseltown Rolls Out Red Carpet for Obama as Clinton Camp Decries ‘Vicious’ Attack by Former Supporter

http://www.abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=2892321&page=1

I Love this comment in the article:

“Geffen also alluded to possible campaign distractions caused by Bill Clinton’s personal life should his wife secure the Democratic nomination, saying, “Everybody in politics lies, but [the Clintons] do it with such ease, it’s troubling.” “

I am sure you all will join me in being glad that capn is the judge of what is racist, homo-hating and anti-semitism. Does this mean freidman will be banned? The same freidman you people defended?