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I got where I am: by starting in the military, served 14 years enlisted, so don't preach to me about sacrifice. I know all about sacrifice and earning my way. And I know all about public service as well. You don't know my past either, irony is I grew up for a good portion of my life in the projects as well, so don't give me that woe is me bullshyte. That dog don't hunt. What, you think I was born with a silver spoon and rich parents?

Think again buddy, I grew up a poor white boy in an Asian dominated projects, slum whatever you want to call it. I know what it's like to go days without a hot meal. And I swore I would never live that life again. I am not asking for pity, I earned my way to where I am now. I did it and I didn't sluff off of the backs of others either to get where I am. I EARNED what I have by WORKING my arse off and doing whatever I could to get ahead.

So before you start making assumptions about people and their backgrounds based on where they are today keep in mind many of us that are in the middle to upper middle class worked our arses off to get where we are. And in my case there was no help when I really needed it either I had to go it on my own. And you know what? It made me stronger and more resilient to have to make it on my own, it also made me more fiscally responsible as well. Everything I have I worked for and earned. Noone has a right to take that away from me regardless your justification.

Ron Paul didn't succeed because he has actual solutions that would work. He didn't succeed because he wasn't allowed to take on Obama or McCain in any debates. Why was that? Because he would have kicked them to hell and back with sound reason and solid solutions. That's why, and they KNEW they couldn't win a debate with Ron Paul which means they couldn't win the election. So what we got was the typical idiocy that modern Americans seem to be enamored with. The bickering and sniping and the story of how much some Alaskan Governors wardrobe cost. The last presidential race was a farce, a show and nothing more.

As for helping Ron Paul, I did and still am very active with the Libertarian party. But people wanted empty promises with huge price tags that will be their legacy to their children instead of a real solution to the fiscal problems, a real solution to the illegal war in Iraq and real solutions to many of the other issues we face today in this nation.

And what social contract is that? I didn't learn about a social contract in school that mandated I be taxed for success due to hard work... no I remember this though:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. ? That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, ? That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."

Nothing in there about forcing those who make their way in life to sacrifice for the lazy and unwilling to make the effort for themselves.

And nowhere in the Constitution does it define our "social contract" to the same effect. Charity is a voluntary effort, if I or anyone else chooses to donate, then that is our decision to do with what we own as we please. After all WE earned it.

As for blaming the Democrats... your right the Republicans have their share of guilt in this mess we are in now as well. We have the two party system with corporate control to blame for this mess we are in. Obama and is cabinet will only exacerbate the problem. Did anyone ever stop to ask... where is the money coming from? You tax the rich and companies they will leave... and then who is left to tax? Oh... that's right the poor, because Obama will have finally succeeded in wiping out the middle class.

I think the only one living in a fantasy world is you and other that blindly follow a junior senator that still hasn't explained how he intends to make his campaign promises come true. On top of that if you take your head out of the Obama smoke cloud you will see that in many ways he is already starting to back peddle on his promises. Mark my words... we are in for another 4 years of pain.; Posted by: Linux User 147560 Posted on: 01/07/09 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use