What would YOU do if YOU were in charge!!!

[mburbank]

"Compassion is not free when it is being taken out of my pocket. "

The chip on your shoulder school of thought. Damn those shiftless poor people, using the laws of our government to pick my pocket! Try walking in someone elses pocket for a change and stop being so defensive about your own. You remind me of a three year old guarding toys.

Why is it you are more aggrivated about the pitence from your pocket going to welfare programs than I am about the chunk going from mine to bombs for a war I feel "Isn't working"? Why is it I, a so called liberal, am far more willing to accept taxes that overwhelmingly pay for thing I don't like, than a conservative?

Because the very idea of some fictional, anonymous, person 'getting' some of 'your' money makes you vicerally ill. Don't be so proud and sure the day won' come when you need help.

Taxation isn't robbery, even if it goes to things you don't think work. I accept that about war, which I think almost never works. Taxation isn't our money. It belongs to the nation, it's part of our social contract as citizens. You Uber patriots do the the nation and citizzenship are important right? They aren't free. We collectively, through representative democracy, agree on priorities. That's big part of being American. It can't all be flag waving and explosions. The tattered. tiny safety net left wasn't imposed on us by an alien armada. It was voted for by representatives elected by the people of the United States of America.