It might be slightly, but it isn't beyond the pale to call into question contradictions.
Conservatives tout "support the troops." Yet, they often do not like taxes. The logic short circuit is that taxes support the troops with pay, equipment, VA benefits, everything.
Not paying taxes is, failing to support the troops and that would've been self evident in World War II.
Just in case anybody doubts me.. If the tea party existed in 1941, they would've been tarred and feathered. After all "taxes kill the axis." Now, that's a more palatable version. More people will agree on "support the troops" than "support everybody." This is somewhat tragic given that many homeless people actually are veterans, and they tell you that right after your release, but whatever.
As for everybody else, it's a question of responsibility to make the world a better place v. taking whatever you can for yourself and screwing over everybody else.
Look, these however many millions of Americans who are unemployed are not lazy, or worthless or whatever. A couple years ago, they were employed and paying taxes. What the hell happened? They're the same people they were and they can be just as productive now. Through something they don't want and that isn't their fault, they are currently unemployed. The notion that people who don't have a job in this terrible economy are "lazy" is laughable at best and contemptible really,
because it's saying that millions upon millions of people are so worthless and lazy that they would actually let themselves and their entire family rot in poverty. I am openly and notoriously cynical as hell and even I don't think that all the unemployed people are so lazy as to let themselves and their loved ones die on purpose. "Personal Responsibility? " Romney thinks these people don't take "personal responsibility?" Who are the people getting foreclosed upon and losing their homes? Who are the people who have to do without? Who are the people who have to pay the brunt of this catastrophe we call our current economy while rich bankers somehow get bonuses? Personal responsibility? They're swimming in it, actually they're drowning in it. This coming from a man whose parents paid for his college and really his entire life. Personal responsibility? No wonder Romney misuses those words, he's never had any....
And all these people, who are drowning in that personal responsibility Romney says they don't have, can't fail. If anything is too big to fail, it's the 1 in 6 or 1 in 8 people in poverty (depending upon what survey you believe) in the US. How many millions of people is that? How can you continue to have a society when that many people are being left behind? You can't. The society we can't have if millions of people are left behind, is what made the rich people rich. They didn't get wealthy on a desert isle; people bought whatever they sold... the same people who many of them are now advocating don't matter.... need a lil help at the moment.
Even from a completely dispassionate, logical stance, all these rich people and companies, need a healthy middle class consumer base, or else there won't be any customers to buy all the stuff they sell..... It's in their best interest to keep what they rudely consider the "herd" healthy.
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