Hypocrisy and racism aren't related. Different words with different meanings entirely. If I was a racist how does that have any bearing on liberal hypocrisy? We aren't supposed to comment if you think we're racist? Liberals need simple answers to everything.
Concerns about global warming don't mean people have to go live in a log cabin or forego luxury. It means that we need to move to different forms of energy for the health of the planet. There's a lot of money to be made in alternate energy.
Thirty years ago, my asthma was "life threatening". On those days when the pollution level in the city hit 20 (considered high) nearly every day in the summer due to coal fired plants, I would end up in the emergency room with asthma attacks my puffers wouldn't stop. On more than one occasion, I made it to the hospital with minutes to spare - if it were 10 minutes longer, I would have been dead. That's when Canada and the US signed a climate accord.
As Canada has gone away from coal fired plants (they've all been closed in Ontario), the air has gotten cleaner and my asthma has gone away with it. There are no days when the pollution levels hit 20, it's seldom over 10. A recent bout of bronchitis caused a flare up of my asthma and I couldn't find my inhaler. The drug store said I hadn't refilled my inhaler presecription since 2013.
Republicans see all of the improvements we've made to the environment the past 30 years and say "enough". But global warming is real, and use of carbon fuels is certainly the cause of it since it began when people became dependent on burning oil and coal for fuel.
There are alternatives, and there's a lot of money to be made world-wide in research and development of cleaner ways to live.
Liberals dont' think that only Republicans are rich. We think that Republican policies ONLY HELP THE RICH.
Why don't you ever get the democrat divide and conquer political strategy? Why is it you all fall for their pathetic clichés?
I will ask you this. If those do gooder left wingers who supposedly care so much for the poor and want their own taxes raised then why do they themselves take advantage of ALL the tax breaks? Why don't they (Hollywood, Warren Buffet etc) just go ahead and voluntarily pay more? You know they all can, right? None of them do.
How you fall for the democrats line of shit every time is beyond us. Using some robin hood fairy tale and old familiar talking points to take advantage of your naivety and good hearted nature.
I have news for you. All of the democrats ARE RICH. What, you think they are not going to make sure loopholes are there for them and those millionaires and billionaires that donate generously to their campaigns?
Meanwhile, they do crush small business owners and they do hammer the middle class. Which, other than capturing gullible slow witted people from the poor class as automatic robotic votes, is their true socialist goal.
Both political parties hate the middle class. They are just educated enough to be able to think for themselves and not rich enough to make any real impact on their campaigns. They are the largest block of voters that turn out and the socialists have trying hard to turn them into brainless robots. If they can destroy the class, all the better.
Get a clue old lady.
Why don't they pay more taxes - they DO. Warren Buffet is notable for not taking all of the deductions they can. Then there's the charities and donation agreements under which 40 or 50 of the world's richest people have agreed to donate nearly all of their wealth to Charity - the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Warren Buffett, and many many more.
What is hammering the middle class is earned income credits, which is the Republican means of putting your money into the hands of underpaid low wage workers. Republican policies cut and spend consistently lead to market crashes, high enemployment and low wages. These policies have lead to a massive transfer of wealth to the top. Trickle down never worked, it was always trickle up.
Look at the comparison charts for wages, unemployment and poverty under Republican Presidents. Look at the same numbers for Clinton and Obama. Do some research on these topics.
Excuse me, but you are off base; in fact, waaaaaaay off base!
1. The rich are not always the rich. Just like every other quintile, people move in and out of all 3 SUPPOSED classes. Under Republican policy, there is much more mobility UP, while under Democratic policies, the classes stay much more stagnant. In other words, the rich stay rich, and the poor remain poor!
2. Your pal Buffet has a huge tax bill he has not paid; or weren't you aware of that?
3. People want to work, unless they don't want to because it costs them to much to actually get a job. If a single mother of 2 is getting 25,000 in help, she makes no profit until she makes 25,001. Suppose she gets a job making 30,000. Would you work for 5,000 a year? Your GOOD INTENTIONS has created an underclass that can not get jobs that pay enough to make it worth their while.
So here is the deal------------> Even if they go back to work and do NOT pay one penny in taxes, we are ahead as a country 25,000 dollars. Why? Because they support themselves!
You lefties have created a terrible problem. And when we even remotely suggest they at least do SOMETHING, ANYTHING for that money, you start calling us racists, elitists, anti-poor, and a dozen other names. You have created a repeating cycle of poverty with your ideas, and every time we want to try and get them out of it, you fight us tooth and nail.
And finally--------->
a. If you believed that laying out in the sun caused skin cancer and fought to warn everyone, would you constantly lay out in the sun?
b. If you believe that smoking causes lung cancer and preached it, would you smoke?
c. If you believe that drug use ruins lives and preached NO DRUGS, would you use them?
So then, how do people who claim that fossil fuels cause global warming, get on private planes with 3 or 4 people on them, own limos, own yachts, and own homes 5 times the size of ours and use energy of ANY kind in them, and you say, "they are NOT hypocrites!"
