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you're here criticizing the right for being heartless bastards who just want people to suffer and die. But here is the interesting thing about all this overblown rhetoric from you fuckwits... Aside from a couple of sporadic periods within the past 15 years, the United States Congress has been controlled entirely by the Democrat Party. Even when Republicans had control, they lacked enough power to prevent filibusters and implement anything they wanted to implement. Everything that has been passed in Congress by Republicans over the past 100 years, has had considerable bipartisan support. Most of what has been passed was Democrat solutions, Democrat ideas, Democrat initiatives, Democrat objectives, and Democrat policy.
Wrong! The same thing happened as with HCR. Every democratic solution, idea, initiative, objective and policy has been twisted and bent to accommodate the Repubs. Just like refusing to get on board with a one payer health care plan the Repubs have taken every proposal and hacked at it until it ended up being a piece meal law.
Every social policy has become a maze for people to navigate with government more concerned with disallowing entitlement rather than helping people. Is it any wonder some people become embittered and attempt to abuse the system when the government is more concerned about finding ways not to help rather than help?
For the past 70 years, we've poured trillions of dollars into social programs to supposedly lift those in poverty out of it, and make their lives better, and to this day, we still have the same percentage of people living in poverty. We've adopted minimum wages, and raised them routinely, at the behest of Democrats, who whined and moaned and bitched and complained until we did. We've been brow-beaten into adopting hundreds of new 'entitlement' programs to help this group or that group, and yet... here you are, still complaining that Republicans are preventing us from helping people!
Your argument is illogical. Of course there are still poor people and there always will be poor people. That's why social policies are necessary. As long as people have to work to support themselves there will always be unemployed folks. That does not mean the same people are continually unemployed. While one person is helped and moves on another person experiences misfortune and requires help.
Nothing is static. There will always be newly unemployed and ill people. The idea is to have programs that are available immediately to serve those people rather than let them lose everything before they qualify for help. By the time they've jumped through hoops and lost their home, probably endured a family break-up due to the financial crisis/stress, we expect those folks to just jump up and get back in the game. Unfortunately, most lose motivation and many turn to drugs/alcohol after the government sat and watched them lose everything before offering a helping hand.
That's the problem. Instead of the government willingly offering to help they add to a person's lack of confidence and self-esteem by implying they are at fault and undeserving and the reason is some in government, mostly the Repubs, do not want to help so we end up with laws that claim to help while the reality is the effort is placed on finding ways not to help.
With ALL the political power at your disposal, the entire treasury of the country and all the credit we could muster, you've been given everything you've ever asked for and more, repeatedly, over and over, for years and decades....
Sure, just like with health care, right? Everything the Dems asked for like when the prospect of a universal health care plan would not even be considered for discussion even though every statistic, without exception, shows it is beneficial to citizens.
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You know, I've listened to you pinheads bash Republicans and rail against conservatives for weeks, months, and years, here at this forum and others. Taichung Pinhead started a thread to rail on the right for outsourcing jobs, you're here criticizing the right for being heartless bastards who just want people to suffer and die. But here is the interesting thing about all this overblown rhetoric from you fuckwits... Aside from a couple of sporadic periods within the past 15 years, the United States Congress has been controlled entirely by the Democrat Party. Even when Republicans had control, they lacked enough power to prevent filibusters and implement anything they wanted to implement. Everything that has been passed in Congress by Republicans over the past 100 years, has had considerable bipartisan support. Most of what has been passed was Democrat solutions, Democrat ideas, Democrat initiatives, Democrat objectives, and Democrat policy. For the past 70 years, we've poured trillions of dollars into social programs to supposedly lift those in poverty out of it, and make their lives better, and to this day, we still have the same percentage of people living in poverty. We've adopted minimum wages, and raised them routinely, at the behest of Democrats, who whined and moaned and bitched and complained until we did. We've been brow-beaten into adopting hundreds of new 'entitlement' programs to help this group or that group, and yet... here you are, still complaining that Republicans are preventing us from helping people!
With ALL the political power at your disposal, the entire treasury of the country and all the credit we could muster, you've been given everything you've ever asked for and more, repeatedly, over and over, for years and decades, and still... here you are, wanting people to believe that hasn't happened, and Republicans are standing in your way to help people make a better life. Republicans who have had absolutely NO power to stop the massive spending programs of FDR, Johnson, or Obama! Even when Republicans briefly gained control of Congress, the Democrats obfuscated, obstructed, kicked and screamed at every idea the right tried to advance, stating that our government was designed to give the minority the voice to object. Nothing that has been implemented into law from Republicans, hasn't had support of Democrats as well. Yet, from your perspective, all our problems, all our woes, all the misery the people are feeling, are solely the fault of Republicans who've stood in your way!
I don't really know what you want. Maybe you'd like to completely abolish the Republican party and let Democrats run a single-party dictatorship, but then, that's essentially what they've done the past century anyway. You'd still find some way to blame the abolished Republicans for the problems, even if we hunted them all down and sent them to gas chambers. It doesn't seem to dawn on you, the problem might not be the Republicans or Conservatism. It might actually be a century of liberal socialism, and runaway spending/taxation....nooo... let's not dare consider that! :eek3: