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Originally posted by sultan:
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Originally posted by HolyWarrior:
That's funny, Pikachu--You Dems always go around saying you're the party of the poor and disadvantaged.
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you know, that's a really good point! dems work so hard at trying to keep welfare and education funding up, and the disadvantaged show their appreciation by voting republican.
the dems ought to stop robbing peter to pay paul and put their money where their bread is buttered!
whoa... [img]graemlins/1dizzy.gif[/img] ...too many mixed metaphors [/QUOTE]I'll be the first to admit it's hard to help someone who doesn't help themselves...but then I can't get upset. You've hit on the number one reason I find myself getting angry at Republicans...they are a party for the rich (and there is absolutley nothing wrong with that), but they take advantage of peoples stupidity and get elected with these ad-hoc ideas that harm to people they were told would help.
My favorite example is the "No car tax" campaign in VA years ago...Gilmore used that one slogan to get elected. Idiots actually thought the day he was elected the car tax would be repealed. More to the point, when they did get rid of the tax A) the state ran out of money (Not just because of this, but it helped) B) The car tax actually took money out of poor counties and put it into rich counties. Most of the money from car taxes came from luxury cars...and that money, specifically, was ear marked for development in poorer counties.
As I said, it's hard to help people who won't help themselves. But then, can you blame them when the people who are supposed to be leading them are more like a cattle herder before the slaughter than a sheperd tending his/her flock.