Do you want this country to be the land of opportunity or the land of entitlements?

[Lovebears65]

I sure want it to be a land of opportunities but its sure is getting to be the land of entitlements!!!

 

[Contumacious]

I sure want it to be a land of opportunities but its sure is getting to be the land of entitlements!!!

The land of entitlements.

Come on mendel , its not like we are a quadrillion dollars in the hole....its just 15 TTTTTTTTTrillion.

Chill out dawg and vote Socialist , vote Obama.

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[DaGoose]

I sure want it to be a land of opportunities but its sure is getting to be the land of entitlements!!!

If what you mean by "entitlements" is that I am entitled to receive something I've worked and paid for my whole life then it's BOTH.

I expect the government to live up to it's promises and so far nobody has shown me where we AREN'T the Land of Opportunity.

And so your point was?????

 

[007]

I sure want it to be a land of opportunities but its sure is getting to be the land of entitlements!!!

The answer certainly will depend on who is answering the question....


Conservative/Republican = Land of opportunities

Liberal/Democrat = Land of entitlements

 

[jgarden]

I sure want it to be a land of opportunities but its sure is getting to be the land of entitlements!!!

America is already is the land of "entitlements" for the wealthy - almost half of all member of the 2012 Federal Congress are millionaires, representing the best interests of the 1%!

- 60% of Senate freshmen and 40% of House freshmen were worth $1 million or more

- freshman class of the 112th Congress is worth $533.1 million

- $3.96 million is the median estimated wealth of a Senate freshman

- $303.5 million is the estimated wealth of the richest member of Congress, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), in 2009

- 261 is the number of millionaires in the last Congress, out of a total of 535 members

- $911,510 is the median wealth of all members in the last Congress ($25,149 is the median estimated wealth of an American over the age of 18 (2005))

http://theweek.com/article/index/213136/the-congressional-millionaires-club-by-the-numbers

 

[DaGoose]

I sure want it to be a land of opportunities but its sure is getting to be the land of entitlements!!!

The answer certainly will depend on who is answering the question....


Conservative/Republican = Land of opportunities

Liberal/Democrat = Land of entitlements

Really? Then why are the Conservative/Republicans the only ones crying about programs that we have already paid for?

Of course, you would NEVER stoop so low as to sign up for SS when you reach that age, right?

 

[Claudette]

Might have been nice if we had been ASKED if we wanted those programs.

Instead they were foisted on us by the dimwits in Govt.

I would take every dime I have invested in SS and Medicare out if I could. I can sure as hell take care of MY MONEY a hell of a lot better than some dweeb in the Govt.

 

[rightwinger]

I sure want it to be a land of opportunities but its sure is getting to be the land of entitlements!!!

Why can't we be both?

 

[DiamondDave]

I sure want it to be a land of opportunities but its sure is getting to be the land of entitlements!!!

Why can't we be both?

Because an opportunity is something you choose to grasp and the provider chooses to set forward... your entitlements are seized involuntarily and handed out like they are owed, simply because you exist, whether or not you try and do a damn thing by a government that grabs more power with every program

 

[Mr. Peepers]

Because an opportunity is something you choose to grasp and the provider chooses to set forward... your entitlements are seized involuntarily and handed out like they are owed, simply because you exist, whether or not you try and do a damn thing by a government that grabs more power with every program

I would wager (and win) that more real dollars go to corporate welfare, the MIC and "entitlements" for the wealthy than go to helping the neediest Americans and those out of work. A LOT MORE. Why is it ok for cash to flow up but an absolute butthurt to you for some of that to flow down... and only that you consider to be an "entitlement"?

 

[DaGoose]

I sure want it to be a land of opportunities but its sure is getting to be the land of entitlements!!!

Why can't we be both?

Because an opportunity is something you choose to grasp and the provider chooses to set forward... your entitlements are seized involuntarily and handed out like they are owed, simply because you exist, whether or not you try and do a damn thing by a government that grabs more power with every program

Bullshit. They may be that way to you but to most they want the money grubbing politicians to leave Social Security the fuck ALONE. It's probably the most POPULAR program ever created and any politician stupid enough to try and cut or eliminate it would have his ass handed to him.

 

[rightwinger]

I sure want it to be a land of opportunities but its sure is getting to be the land of entitlements!!!

I sure want it to be a land of opportunities but its sure is getting to be the land of entitlements!!!

Why can't we be both?

Because an opportunity is something you choose to grasp and the provider chooses to set forward... your entitlements are seized involuntarily and handed out like they are owed, simply because you exist, whether or not you try and do a damn thing by a government that grabs more power with every program

Is free education an entitlement? How about free roads? When was the last time you used your Fire Department?

Entitlements are in the eye of the beholder. The ones we use are justified, the ones others use are free loading

 

[DaGoose]

I sure want it to be a land of opportunities but its sure is getting to be the land of entitlements!!!

Why can't we be both?

Because an opportunity is something you choose to grasp and the provider chooses to set forward... your entitlements are seized involuntarily and handed out like they are owed, simply because you exist, whether or not you try and do a damn thing by a government that grabs more power with every program

Is free education an entitlement? How about free roads? When was the last time you used your Fire Department?

Entitlements are in the eye of the beholder. The ones we use are justified, the ones others use are free loading

Nope. He would NEVER consider those "entitlements" since he obviously made and makes use them. So they don't count.

 

[DiamondDave]

Because an opportunity is something you choose to grasp and the provider chooses to set forward... your entitlements are seized involuntarily and handed out like they are owed, simply because you exist, whether or not you try and do a damn thing by a government that grabs more power with every program

I would wager (and win) that more real dollars go to corporate welfare, the MIC and "entitlements" for the wealthy than go to helping the neediest Americans and those out of work. A LOT MORE. Why is it ok for cash to flow up but an absolute butthurt to you for some of that to flow down... and only that you consider to be an "entitlement"?

FOR THE BILLIONTH TIME... show where I support ANY welfare, corporate, personal, or anything else

Get rid of them all...

Now where the fuck do you stand??... that should take the wind out of your sails.... but you keep forgetting that I don't stand for any of it and STILL try and use it as a 'gotcha' point.... you're a fucking idiot

 

[DiamondDave]

I sure want it to be a land of opportunities but its sure is getting to be the land of entitlements!!!

Because an opportunity is something you choose to grasp and the provider chooses to set forward... your entitlements are seized involuntarily and handed out like they are owed, simply because you exist, whether or not you try and do a damn thing by a government that grabs more power with every program

Is free education an entitlement? How about free roads? When was the last time you used your Fire Department?

Entitlements are in the eye of the beholder. The ones we use are justified, the ones others use are free loading

Nope. He would NEVER consider those "entitlements" since he obviously made and makes use them. So they don't count.

Another winger idiot that tries to put words in my mouth...

 

[Mr. Peepers]

Now where the fuck do you stand??... that should take the wind out of your sails.... but you keep forgetting that I don't stand for any of it and STILL try and use it as a 'gotcha' point.... you're a fucking idiot

Sorry, I do not deign to give an answer to blisteringly stupid , myopic and blindly partisan corporatists who insult me for no reason.

 

[DaGoose]

Is free education an entitlement? How about free roads? When was the last time you used your Fire Department?

Entitlements are in the eye of the beholder. The ones we use are justified, the ones others use are free loading

Nope. He would NEVER consider those "entitlements" since he obviously made and makes use them. So they don't count.

Another winger idiot that tries to put words in my mouth...

Nope. Just giving your obvious answer.

 

[DiamondDave]

Now where the fuck do you stand??... that should take the wind out of your sails.... but you keep forgetting that I don't stand for any of it and STILL try and use it as a 'gotcha' point.... you're a fucking idiot

Sorry, I do not deign to give an answer to blisteringly stupid , myopic and blindly partisan corporatists who insult me for no reason.

You're being insulted because I have stated over and over and over and over and over and over and over again that I do not support corporate nor personal welfare.... no farm subsidies nor any other subsidies...

Nice try....

 

[DiamondDave]

Nope. He would NEVER consider those "entitlements" since he obviously made and makes use them. So they don't count.

Another winger idiot that tries to put words in my mouth...

Nope. Just giving your obvious answer.

I'll challenge you too... feel free to parse ANY of my posts... and find where I supported corporate welfare... as a matter of fact you will see hundreds of posts that speak out against it as well as personal welfare

moron

 

[Mr Natural]

I sure want it to be a land of opportunities but its sure is getting to be the land of entitlements!!!

Why can't we be both?

We are. Always have been, always will be.

And it works out just fine.