That's the problem with those that support Obamacare. They think the subsidies to fund their Obamacare is owed to them.
So you waste your own life resenting those who are less fortunate than yourself?
Do you have any idea how pathetic that makes you appear?
I resent anyone who thinks me keeping more of what I earned working the hours I work is greedy yet thinking a penny of it that they didn't do a damn thing to get belongs to them.
If you think someone deserves what another person makes, give them more of yours voluntarily. If you aren't willing to voluntarily do what you think I should be forced to do, you should see the pathetic one by looking the mirror.
I DON'T ANYONE A DAMN THING NO MATTER HOW MUCH OF MY MONEY YOU THINK THEY DESERVE.
Thank you for confirming that you are just a pathetic, selfish, money obsessed conservative that doesn't actually live the "values" that you claim are American.
“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me:
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”
Wanting to keep what I've earned doesn't make me selfish. Someone piece of shit thinking that what they didn't earn is somehow theirs is.
You can quote all that you want. None of it means that one person should ever be forced to support another person. They are welcome to come legally but they aren't welcome to what someone else has earned unless the earned voluntarily gives it to them. If that support comes, it should come from a voluntary mode not because assholes like you think someone should have it handed to them. I don't go out and work 60 hours/week in order that someone working none has what I have to earn to get.
When you invite someone to your house do you insist that they must pay for their food and drink?
That quotation is an invitation.
Those that arrived here with nothing were fed and clothed and given the opportunity to make something of their lives and the odds are that amongst those poor homeless tired masses were your ancestors.
Your ancestors understood that in turn they should help those less fortunate than themselves just as they were helped when they needed it.
But that lesson is lost on the greedy "conservatives" of today who believe that they are "owed" the "right" to treat those less fortunate then themselves as less than human and less deserving than they are.
That you don't understand the social contract that this nation was built upon and prospered because everyone willingly contributed to the betterment of all. They weren't selfish like you. They knew that there but for a stroke of bad luck might be themselves in need of help.
E Pluribus Unum is not just a slogan, it is something to live by.
You are just lucky at the present time. Things can change and then it will be you who needs Obamacare because your job was outsourced in order to fatten the wallets of the Wall Street Casino Bosses. You might find yourself unable to work because of illness. You are not immune to what life holds. Then you will be the one who is being "supported" by others. It could happen on your way home today.
"When you invite someone to your house do you insist that they must pay for their food and drink?"
No, because it's my offer, MY money, and my choice.
"That quotation is an invitation."
It doesn't mean you can invite people then demand I pay for it.
"Those that arrived here with nothing were fed and clothed and given the opportunity to make something of their lives and the odds are that amongst those poor homeless tired masses were your ancestors."
You confuse being given an opportunity and being handed someone else's money. My family came somewhere around 1905 from E. Europe. If they received anything it was because those giving it did so by choice since the socialist welfare programs of today didn't exist then.
"But that lesson is lost on the greedy "conservatives" of today who believe that they are "owed" the "right" to treat those less fortunate then themselves as less than human and less deserving than they are."
I don't think I have right to treat someone with less than me as less than human. I also don't think that if they didn't earn it, the only way they get it is if those giving do it voluntarily like it was done IF my family got anything when they came.
" That you don't understand the social contract that this nation was built upon and prospered because everyone willingly contributed to the betterment of all. They weren't selfish like you. They knew that there but for a stroke of bad luck might be themselves in need of help."
I completely understand it. Your problem is that if those who do give it voluntarily don't give enough you think it's OK to take more from them. You equate someone not doing as much as you think they should means they should have it forced from them. Someone expecting a penny be taken from another person to give to them is selfish. They don't give a shit about anyone but themselves nor do they care where the money comes from as long as they have it handed to them. Many people are in a bad situation for no other reason than they made bad choices and now want someone else to pay the price. That includes the high school dropout, the felon that no one wants to hire, the drug addict/alcoholic, or the woman who made a choice with her body that she said was not my business when she made it but now can't afford her choices. I didn't make those bad choices nor is it my place to offset them.
"E Pluribus Unum is not just a slogan. It's something to live by"
Those that demand the taxpayers support them should start doing so.
"You are just lucky at the present time. Things can change and then it will be you who needs Obamacare because your job was outsourced in order to fatten the wallets of the Wall Street Casino Bosses. You might find yourself unable to work because of illness. You are not immune to what life holds. Then you will be the one who is being "supported" by others. It could happen on your way home today"
So you call luck as working my way to the #2 person where I work lucky? I guess you think the three college degrees I've EARNED, two of which are advanced played no role in that? I guess you think receiving a full ride by academic and athletic scholarships for my first degree was just a matter of luck rather than hard work in the classroom and the football field? I guess you think the other two, both mostly funded by tuition reimbursement, were luck?
I've lost my job twice. While I was at home for a brief period, neither time did I take a dime of taxpayer money. That means I practice what I preach. I could retire today financially and pay my bills.
I have no bills except my monthly utility bills. What I have for retirement would easily cover them and my wife, a nurse manager, works and does well. I choose to continue working because I’m still youn(er), I like what I do, my employer likes what I do, the money is good, and what my wife and I have after covering our basic bills goes toward school for out two children, an RV, plenty of trips, etc. I don’t continue to work when I retire so the money I earn can be taken to fund those who claim poor ‘ole me, I didn’t have the same “chances” as you. I’ll pay for my kids college but it’s not my job to pay for someone else’s kids to go.