Obama Steps Up For American People

It's not taking from Person A and giving it to Person B, it's taking it from Person A and giving it to the nation.

How about corporations? They certainly don't pay as much taxes as us. The Supreme Court basically said corporations are people, so they should be paying the same rate as others in the country.

Very well put and 100% agree.

"Too much" is a matter of opinion.

There are plenty of people who think I make "too much" money, and I certainly wouldn't agree.

And people do deserve a better quality of life than other people. It's called work.

If someone sits around and smokes weed all day and just wants a paper route as a job, that's their call. I defend their right to do that.

But if someone else wants to spend 12 years of their life and literally hundreds of thousands of dollars to go to college and earn an income that will be able to support themselves and their family at the level they desire; they DESERVE the fruits of that labor.

Taking from one person to give to another is the exact opposite if personal liberty and is actually the definition of socialism.

"Working hard" simply by itself is not enough. You have to work smart as well. This is what "rich" people have done.

And no one is saying that helpless people should starve. But it should be up to me how I spend my money - not the government.

If the government stopped ing stealing from me, I would donate more money to charity than I already do... But the fact is that I spend nearly half of my income paying for TAXES, much of which should be illegal to begin with.

"Letting people starve" is a preposterous notion that accepts the point of view that people are helpless to their situation. This is not true.

Are there people who are helpless? Yes. One of my very best friends is perhaps the most physically handicapped person that I, or anyone here, has ever met. Aside from people who are quadriplegic, he is probably more handicapped than anyone in America.

But you don't even want to see how the government treats him. He needed a new wheel chair because the previous one he had was deteriorating the tissue in his chest (because of how he had to sit in it). It took the government almost two years to figure out who was going to pay for the chair. And that's just a basic need of him to live. He now has permanent physical bruising and bone and tissue damage from the points of contact on the chair... Even then, the government decided he didn't "need" certain things on his chair, which they somehow determined without a doctor's opinion.

He had to pay for his own handicapped-accessible van when his parents couldn't afford it, which he thankfully was able to put a down payment on only because he happened to win a poker tournament.

Then you get into how much money he gets from social security. Keep in mind, this is a person who cannot physically work. He gets one check per month from Social Security for less than $700. How is a person supposed to pay for his transportation (he needs transportation so that he can go to the doctor's office, get medication, and just generally live), pay for his living expenses, and pay for his housing (if he weren't to be living at home) on $700/mo?

This is what the government provides.

I have helped him financially numerous times and I will continue to do so in the future, but I would like to help more -- I would be able to if the government wasn't stealing from me.

People want to argue about how people "will starve" if we don't continue unemployment and Social Security benefits, but they don't think about the fact that people are starving already because these programs are ing horsepoop to begin with. And it's not because they're underfunded. It's because the money is appropriated terribly by the Federal Government which has proven time and time again that it only knows how to bankrupt itself (just look at the US postal service -- how, exactly, does that lose money other than complete idiocy ruining it?)

You have to look at history and realize that simply spending money on things is not going to change it. There needs to be a shift of common sense in America.

We need to take care of people who PHYSICALLY CANNOT take care of themselves, and we need to stop babying people that just want to sit around and be pieces of poop, sucking the life out of society. those people, yes, let them starve if they want to spend their money on drugs or new rims for their car instead of health care. them.

Being "uneducated" is not a disability. Anyone can become educated. We have free libraries, free schools, and a ridiculously huge free source on the internet.

Being mentally disabled is, as the name states, a disability. And like I said, I can understand why those people need to be taken care of by others -- I don't think anyone would disagree with that. But if we stopped taking care of people that CAN take care of themselves, we will be much better able to take people who CAN'T take care of themselves.

I think our entire education system is beyond ed, and I would end federally-funded education, leaving it to the individual state - or even city - to determine education spending.

But if we're going with the existing system, I definitely agree that there needs to be a better education on how to take care of one's self. There needs to be classes on the following things that are MANDATORY...

• Personal finance
  
• Credit
  
• Choosing a Career
  
• Parenthood
  
• Living on your own
  

If these classes were taught, instead of the obnoxious crap we currently teach, people would be much better prepared for their futures and we would have less irresponsibility.

Being smart and working hard doesn't make you rich.

Being rich doesn't mean you are smart or you've worked hard.

Not necessarily, no. But being stupid and not working hard is usually a lock for poverty.