What do liberals want the US to be?

[RKMBrown]

this is a serious question, please only reply with serious comments.

what specifically do liberals want the US to become?
Tell us exactly what you want changed, and why.

Seriously?

Liberals want a country that provides a level playing field for all people regardless of race, sex, sexuality or social class
Liberals want to help those who need helping

How do you level the playing field? By bulldozing anyone that stands out, right?

How do you help those who need helping? By stealing from those who don't right?

Your rights and standing are not eroded. Rather, the rights of every citizen, the opportunities for every citizen are enjoyed by each and every citizen. A level playing field does not mean bulldozing some, it means elevating everyone else.

How do you "elevate" everyone? Where's my elevator? I don't understand these liberal nirvana pipe dreams.

I got where I am by working. How can I get where I'd like to be on this free elevator? Where is this pipe dream tool you guys talk about?

 

[Nosmo King]

this is a serious question, please only reply with serious comments.

what specifically do liberals want the US to become?
Tell us exactly what you want changed, and why.

Seriously?

Liberals want a country that provides a level playing field for all people regardless of race, sex, sexuality or social class
Liberals want to help those who need helping

How do you level the playing field? By bulldozing anyone that stands out, right?

How do you help those who need helping? By stealing from those who don't right?

Your rights and standing are not eroded. Rather, the rights of every citizen, the opportunities for every citizen are enjoyed by each and every citizen. A level playing field does not mean bulldozing some, it means elevating everyone else.

How do you "elevate" everyone? Where's my elevator? I don't understand these liberal nirvana pipe dreams.

You elevate everyone by not conducting business based on bigotry. You elevate everyone by recognizing that rights are rights and should be enjoyed by each and every tax paying, law abiding, sober citizen. Discrimination does not elevate, it erodes the promise of America.

Every citizen should enjoy a right to education, and therefore equal opportunity. Each citizen should enjoy the right to conduct business regardless of his economic status, his religion, his race and his sexual orientation.

Equality does not mean taking rights from others to provide rights for others.. It means a level playing field and the chance at success.

 

[rightwinger]

this is a serious question, please only reply with serious comments.

what specifically do liberals want the US to become?
Tell us exactly what you want changed, and why.

Seriously?

Liberals want a country that provides a level playing field for all people regardless of race, sex, sexuality or social class
Liberals want to help those who need helping

How do you level the playing field? By bulldozing anyone that is smart, successful, wealthy, superior in some way, right? We can not allow profit!

How do you help those who need helping? By stealing from those who don't need help, right?

No, you level the playing field by repealing the supply side economic policies that have destroyed the middle class. Bring the upper tax rate to the 40% range, tax capital gains the same as earned income, cut the tax code to eliminate loopholes designed to protect wealth.

Returning to economic policies that served the nation so well, for so long is not stealing

 

[rightwinger]

We the people get the size and scope of Government we ask for

That is hysterically funny.

We The People didn't ask for Obamacare. It is very unpopular. Does that mean it will go away ?

Try to take away health coverage from 10 million people
Tell those with pre-existing conditions that they can't get insurance

People who don't want to work hard enough to take care of themselves like getting checks of other people's money. Wow, that's a great insight, big guy. Who would have seen that coming?

Americans work more hours and are more productive than any other industrialized nation.

They have less to show for it

Link?

Americans Work More Than Anyone - ABC News

Americans work more than anyone in the industrialized world.
More than the English, more than the French, way more than the Germans or Norwegians. Even, recently, more than the Japanese.
And Americans take less vacation, work longer days, and retire later, too.

 

[RKMBrown]

this is a serious question, please only reply with serious comments.

what specifically do liberals want the US to become?
Tell us exactly what you want changed, and why.

Seriously?

Liberals want a country that provides a level playing field for all people regardless of race, sex, sexuality or social class
Liberals want to help those who need helping

How do you level the playing field? By bulldozing anyone that stands out, right?

How do you help those who need helping? By stealing from those who don't right?

Your rights and standing are not eroded. Rather, the rights of every citizen, the opportunities for every citizen are enjoyed by each and every citizen. A level playing field does not mean bulldozing some, it means elevating everyone else.

How do you "elevate" everyone? Where's my elevator? I don't understand these liberal nirvana pipe dreams.

You elevate everyone by not conducting business based on bigotry. You elevate everyone by recognizing that rights are rights and should be enjoyed by each and every tax paying, law abiding, sober citizen. Discrimination does not elevate, it erodes the promise of America.

Every citizen should enjoy a right to education, and therefore equal opportunity. Each citizen should enjoy the right to conduct business regardless of his economic status, his religion, his race and his sexual orientation.

Equality does not mean taking rights from others to provide rights for others.. It means a level playing field and the chance at success.

Other than the bigotry against white males, who is conducting business based on bigotry?

Since when does one have to be sober, or tax paying to enjoy rights in this country? Huh?

The only legal discrimination in this country is against white males, how does that elevate white males?

What does "right to education mean?" Can you please talk in clear language vs nirvana political campaign speak?

Where are American citizen's refused to conduct business based on economic status, religion, race, or sexual orientation? What the heck are you talking about?

What the hell does level playing field mean? Where in America is chance at success removed for anyone but white males?

 

[RKMBrown]

That is hysterically funny.

We The People didn't ask for Obamacare. It is very unpopular. Does that mean it will go away ?

Try to take away health coverage from 10 million people
Tell those with pre-existing conditions that they can't get insurance

People who don't want to work hard enough to take care of themselves like getting checks of other people's money. Wow, that's a great insight, big guy. Who would have seen that coming?

Americans work more hours and are more productive than any other industrialized nation.

They have less to show for it

Link?

Americans Work More Than Anyone - ABC News

Americans work more than anyone in the industrialized world.
More than the English, more than the French, way more than the Germans or Norwegians. Even, recently, more than the Japanese.
And Americans take less vacation, work longer days, and retire later, too.

How about a link from "this" century.

 

[Wyatt earp]

You never heard of the good ol boy network? It still exist. I had to quit my last job , my dream job, because the owner wouldn't let me hire women or anyone older then 55 years.At my new job i could train a 30 year old Woman operator to replace a guy making $28 bucks an hour and she would do a better job.

 

[RKMBrown]

this is a serious question, please only reply with serious comments.

what specifically do liberals want the US to become?
Tell us exactly what you want changed, and why.

Seriously?

Liberals want a country that provides a level playing field for all people regardless of race, sex, sexuality or social class
Liberals want to help those who need helping

How do you level the playing field? By bulldozing anyone that is smart, successful, wealthy, superior in some way, right? We can not allow profit!

How do you help those who need helping? By stealing from those who don't need help, right?

No, you level the playing field by repealing the supply side economic policies that have destroyed the middle class. Bring the upper tax rate to the 40% range, tax capital gains the same as earned income, cut the tax code to eliminate loopholes designed to protect wealth.

Returning to economic policies that served the nation so well, for so long is not stealing

Yeah that's what I thought. Let the rich hide their wealth any which way they can. Punish retirees, small business owners, and professionals that make up the upper middle class with brutal tax rates designed to bulldoze them into the ground and make them leave the country or give up trying to better themselves.

 

[Nosmo King]

Seriously?

Liberals want a country that provides a level playing field for all people regardless of race, sex, sexuality or social class
Liberals want to help those who need helping

How do you level the playing field? By bulldozing anyone that stands out, right?

How do you help those who need helping? By stealing from those who don't right?

Your rights and standing are not eroded. Rather, the rights of every citizen, the opportunities for every citizen are enjoyed by each and every citizen. A level playing field does not mean bulldozing some, it means elevating everyone else.

How do you "elevate" everyone? Where's my elevator? I don't understand these liberal nirvana pipe dreams.

You elevate everyone by not conducting business based on bigotry. You elevate everyone by recognizing that rights are rights and should be enjoyed by each and every tax paying, law abiding, sober citizen. Discrimination does not elevate, it erodes the promise of America.

Every citizen should enjoy a right to education, and therefore equal opportunity. Each citizen should enjoy the right to conduct business regardless of his economic status, his religion, his race and his sexual orientation.

Equality does not mean taking rights from others to provide rights for others.. It means a level playing field and the chance at success.

Other than the bigotry against white males, who is conducting business based on bigotry?

Since when does one have to be sober, or tax paying to enjoy rights in this country? Huh?

The only legal discrimination in this country is against white males, how does that elevate white males?

What does "right to education mean?" Can you please talk in clear language vs nirvana political campaign speak?

Where are American citizen's refused to conduct business based on economic status, religion, race, or sexual orientation? What the heck are you talking about?

What the hell does level playing field mean? Where in America is chance at success removed for anyone but white males?

Businesses refuse to cater to some groups they hate and fear and then claim "religious freedom". How does one freedom eliminate another? Where are white males discriminated against? Do you, as a white male I assume, believe that everyone else getting the same treatment as you mean that your rights are being eroded?

Every citizen should have the right to an education. Education provides opportunity. Discriminating against citizens based on immutable characteristics means those citizens will not have an equal opportunity.

And if you don't pay taxes or if you're intoxicated, you have ceded your standing.

 

[Mathbud1]

this is a serious question, please only reply with serious comments.

what specifically do liberals want the US to become?
Tell us exactly what you want changed, and why.

Seriously?

Liberals want a country that provides a level playing field for all people regardless of race, sex, sexuality or social class
Liberals want to help those who need helping

How do you level the playing field? By bulldozing anyone that stands out, right?

How do you help those who need helping? By stealing from those who don't right?

Your rights and standing are not eroded. Rather, the rights of every citizen, the opportunities for every citizen are enjoyed by each and every citizen. A level playing field does not mean bulldozing some, it means elevating everyone else.

How do you "elevate" everyone? Where's my elevator? I don't understand these liberal nirvana pipe dreams.

You elevate everyone by not conducting business based on bigotry. You elevate everyone by recognizing that rights are rights and should be enjoyed by each and every tax paying, law abiding, sober citizen. Discrimination does not elevate, it erodes the promise of America.

Every citizen should enjoy a right to education, and therefore equal opportunity. Each citizen should enjoy the right to conduct business regardless of his economic status, his religion, his race and his sexual orientation.

Equality does not mean taking rights from others to provide rights for others.. It means a level playing field and the chance at success.

Who does not currently have the "right to education?"

Who does not currently have the "right to conduct business?"

 

[RKMBrown]

You never heard of the good ol boy network? It still exist. I had to quit my last job , my dream job, because the owner wouldn't let me hire women or anyone older then 55 years.

Yeah and any company that has a federal contract has to promote women and minorities irregardless of qualifications or loose the federal contract. Thus white male professionals get screwed again and again and again. What do you have against older women?

 

[Nosmo King]

Seriously?

Liberals want a country that provides a level playing field for all people regardless of race, sex, sexuality or social class
Liberals want to help those who need helping

How do you level the playing field? By bulldozing anyone that stands out, right?

How do you help those who need helping? By stealing from those who don't right?

Your rights and standing are not eroded. Rather, the rights of every citizen, the opportunities for every citizen are enjoyed by each and every citizen. A level playing field does not mean bulldozing some, it means elevating everyone else.

How do you "elevate" everyone? Where's my elevator? I don't understand these liberal nirvana pipe dreams.

You elevate everyone by not conducting business based on bigotry. You elevate everyone by recognizing that rights are rights and should be enjoyed by each and every tax paying, law abiding, sober citizen. Discrimination does not elevate, it erodes the promise of America.

Every citizen should enjoy a right to education, and therefore equal opportunity. Each citizen should enjoy the right to conduct business regardless of his economic status, his religion, his race and his sexual orientation.

Equality does not mean taking rights from others to provide rights for others.. It means a level playing field and the chance at success.

Who does not currently have the "right to education?"

Who does not currently have the "right to conduct business?"

Those 'learning' in inadequate schools teaching inadequate curriculums.

And have you read of same sex couples being turned away from public vendors?

 

[RKMBrown]

How do you level the playing field? By bulldozing anyone that stands out, right?

How do you help those who need helping? By stealing from those who don't right?

Your rights and standing are not eroded. Rather, the rights of every citizen, the opportunities for every citizen are enjoyed by each and every citizen. A level playing field does not mean bulldozing some, it means elevating everyone else.

How do you "elevate" everyone? Where's my elevator? I don't understand these liberal nirvana pipe dreams.

You elevate everyone by not conducting business based on bigotry. You elevate everyone by recognizing that rights are rights and should be enjoyed by each and every tax paying, law abiding, sober citizen. Discrimination does not elevate, it erodes the promise of America.

Every citizen should enjoy a right to education, and therefore equal opportunity. Each citizen should enjoy the right to conduct business regardless of his economic status, his religion, his race and his sexual orientation.

Equality does not mean taking rights from others to provide rights for others.. It means a level playing field and the chance at success.

Other than the bigotry against white males, who is conducting business based on bigotry?

Since when does one have to be sober, or tax paying to enjoy rights in this country? Huh?

The only legal discrimination in this country is against white males, how does that elevate white males?

What does "right to education mean?" Can you please talk in clear language vs nirvana political campaign speak?

Where are American citizen's refused to conduct business based on economic status, religion, race, or sexual orientation? What the heck are you talking about?

What the hell does level playing field mean? Where in America is chance at success removed for anyone but white males?

Businesses refuse to cater to some groups they hate and fear and then claim "religious freedom". How does one freedom eliminate another? Where are white males discriminated against? Do you, as a white male I assume, believe that everyone else getting the same treatment as you mean that your rights are being eroded?

Every citizen should have the right to an education. Education provides opportunity. Discriminating against citizens based on immutable characteristics means those citizens will not have an equal opportunity.

And if you don't pay taxes or if you're intoxicated, you have ceded your standing.

Huh? What rock are you living under where you think Affirmative Action is not an attack on while males?

I asked "what" right to education means. In response you said right to education means right to education. I'll ask again, what does right to education mean? Maybe I can help, who does not have a right to education in this country? How are we stopping you from becoming educated?

 

[Mathbud1]

How do you level the playing field? By bulldozing anyone that stands out, right?

How do you help those who need helping? By stealing from those who don't right?

Your rights and standing are not eroded. Rather, the rights of every citizen, the opportunities for every citizen are enjoyed by each and every citizen. A level playing field does not mean bulldozing some, it means elevating everyone else.

How do you "elevate" everyone? Where's my elevator? I don't understand these liberal nirvana pipe dreams.

You elevate everyone by not conducting business based on bigotry. You elevate everyone by recognizing that rights are rights and should be enjoyed by each and every tax paying, law abiding, sober citizen. Discrimination does not elevate, it erodes the promise of America.

Every citizen should enjoy a right to education, and therefore equal opportunity. Each citizen should enjoy the right to conduct business regardless of his economic status, his religion, his race and his sexual orientation.

Equality does not mean taking rights from others to provide rights for others.. It means a level playing field and the chance at success.

Who does not currently have the "right to education?"

Who does not currently have the "right to conduct business?"

Those 'learning' in inadequate schools teaching inadequate curriculums.

And have you read of same sex couples being turned away from public vendors?

Where are these inadequate schools and why are they teaching inadequate curricula?

I heard a couple of isolated incidents. Small-time, one-man-show bakery in whereversville didn't want to bake a cake for someone. This is indicative of a mass threat to equality? I thought right-wingers were supposed to be the paranoid ones.

 

[Nosmo King]

Your rights and standing are not eroded. Rather, the rights of every citizen, the opportunities for every citizen are enjoyed by each and every citizen. A level playing field does not mean bulldozing some, it means elevating everyone else.

How do you "elevate" everyone? Where's my elevator? I don't understand these liberal nirvana pipe dreams.

You elevate everyone by not conducting business based on bigotry. You elevate everyone by recognizing that rights are rights and should be enjoyed by each and every tax paying, law abiding, sober citizen. Discrimination does not elevate, it erodes the promise of America.

Every citizen should enjoy a right to education, and therefore equal opportunity. Each citizen should enjoy the right to conduct business regardless of his economic status, his religion, his race and his sexual orientation.

Equality does not mean taking rights from others to provide rights for others.. It means a level playing field and the chance at success.

Other than the bigotry against white males, who is conducting business based on bigotry?

Since when does one have to be sober, or tax paying to enjoy rights in this country? Huh?

The only legal discrimination in this country is against white males, how does that elevate white males?

What does "right to education mean?" Can you please talk in clear language vs nirvana political campaign speak?

Where are American citizen's refused to conduct business based on economic status, religion, race, or sexual orientation? What the heck are you talking about?

What the hell does level playing field mean? Where in America is chance at success removed for anyone but white males?

Businesses refuse to cater to some groups they hate and fear and then claim "religious freedom". How does one freedom eliminate another? Where are white males discriminated against? Do you, as a white male I assume, believe that everyone else getting the same treatment as you mean that your rights are being eroded?

Every citizen should have the right to an education. Education provides opportunity. Discriminating against citizens based on immutable characteristics means those citizens will not have an equal opportunity.

And if you don't pay taxes or if you're intoxicated, you have ceded your standing.

Huh? What rock are you living under where you think Affirmative Action is not an attack on while males?

I asked "what" right to education means. In response you said right to education means right to education. I'll ask again, what does right to education mean? Maybe I can help, who does not have a right to education in this country? How are we stopping you from becoming educated?

Do you believe that we are providing the best education opportunities to each of our citizens?

 

[Nosmo King]

Your rights and standing are not eroded. Rather, the rights of every citizen, the opportunities for every citizen are enjoyed by each and every citizen. A level playing field does not mean bulldozing some, it means elevating everyone else.

How do you "elevate" everyone? Where's my elevator? I don't understand these liberal nirvana pipe dreams.

You elevate everyone by not conducting business based on bigotry. You elevate everyone by recognizing that rights are rights and should be enjoyed by each and every tax paying, law abiding, sober citizen. Discrimination does not elevate, it erodes the promise of America.

Every citizen should enjoy a right to education, and therefore equal opportunity. Each citizen should enjoy the right to conduct business regardless of his economic status, his religion, his race and his sexual orientation.

Equality does not mean taking rights from others to provide rights for others.. It means a level playing field and the chance at success.

Who does not currently have the "right to education?"

Who does not currently have the "right to conduct business?"

Those 'learning' in inadequate schools teaching inadequate curriculums.

And have you read of same sex couples being turned away from public vendors?

Where are these inadequate schools and why are they teaching inadequate curricula?

I heard a couple of isolated incidents. Small-time, one-man-show bakery in whereversville didn't want to bake a cake for someone. This is indicative of a mass threat to equality? I thought right-wingers were supposed to be the paranoid ones.

Where are these schools? Appalachia, the inner city, small rural communities.

And the inadequate cirriculae are in places like Kansas where theology is taught in science classes. Wherever students are not afforded the technology necessary in 21st century education. Wherever schools are so underfunded, textbooks are a luxury.

 

[RKMBrown]

How do you "elevate" everyone? Where's my elevator? I don't understand these liberal nirvana pipe dreams.

You elevate everyone by not conducting business based on bigotry. You elevate everyone by recognizing that rights are rights and should be enjoyed by each and every tax paying, law abiding, sober citizen. Discrimination does not elevate, it erodes the promise of America.

Every citizen should enjoy a right to education, and therefore equal opportunity. Each citizen should enjoy the right to conduct business regardless of his economic status, his religion, his race and his sexual orientation.

Equality does not mean taking rights from others to provide rights for others.. It means a level playing field and the chance at success.

Other than the bigotry against white males, who is conducting business based on bigotry?

Since when does one have to be sober, or tax paying to enjoy rights in this country? Huh?

The only legal discrimination in this country is against white males, how does that elevate white males?

What does "right to education mean?" Can you please talk in clear language vs nirvana political campaign speak?

Where are American citizen's refused to conduct business based on economic status, religion, race, or sexual orientation? What the heck are you talking about?

What the hell does level playing field mean? Where in America is chance at success removed for anyone but white males?

Businesses refuse to cater to some groups they hate and fear and then claim "religious freedom". How does one freedom eliminate another? Where are white males discriminated against? Do you, as a white male I assume, believe that everyone else getting the same treatment as you mean that your rights are being eroded?

Every citizen should have the right to an education. Education provides opportunity. Discriminating against citizens based on immutable characteristics means those citizens will not have an equal opportunity.

And if you don't pay taxes or if you're intoxicated, you have ceded your standing.

Huh? What rock are you living under where you think Affirmative Action is not an attack on while males?

I asked "what" right to education means. In response you said right to education means right to education. I'll ask again, what does right to education mean? Maybe I can help, who does not have a right to education in this country? How are we stopping you from becoming educated?

Do you believe that we are providing the best education opportunities to each of our citizens?

Oh, so that's what you meant by "right to education..." the best education my income can provide for you free of charge. How much of my income do you want for this best possible education that money can buy? How much of my income are you willing to spare me? How much can I keep? How many months of the year do I have to work so that your life can be filled with the rewards of my labor?

 

[Nosmo King]

You elevate everyone by not conducting business based on bigotry. You elevate everyone by recognizing that rights are rights and should be enjoyed by each and every tax paying, law abiding, sober citizen. Discrimination does not elevate, it erodes the promise of America.

Every citizen should enjoy a right to education, and therefore equal opportunity. Each citizen should enjoy the right to conduct business regardless of his economic status, his religion, his race and his sexual orientation.

Equality does not mean taking rights from others to provide rights for others.. It means a level playing field and the chance at success.

Other than the bigotry against white males, who is conducting business based on bigotry?

Since when does one have to be sober, or tax paying to enjoy rights in this country? Huh?

The only legal discrimination in this country is against white males, how does that elevate white males?

What does "right to education mean?" Can you please talk in clear language vs nirvana political campaign speak?

Where are American citizen's refused to conduct business based on economic status, religion, race, or sexual orientation? What the heck are you talking about?

What the hell does level playing field mean? Where in America is chance at success removed for anyone but white males?

Businesses refuse to cater to some groups they hate and fear and then claim "religious freedom". How does one freedom eliminate another? Where are white males discriminated against? Do you, as a white male I assume, believe that everyone else getting the same treatment as you mean that your rights are being eroded?

Every citizen should have the right to an education. Education provides opportunity. Discriminating against citizens based on immutable characteristics means those citizens will not have an equal opportunity.

And if you don't pay taxes or if you're intoxicated, you have ceded your standing.

Huh? What rock are you living under where you think Affirmative Action is not an attack on while males?

I asked "what" right to education means. In response you said right to education means right to education. I'll ask again, what does right to education mean? Maybe I can help, who does not have a right to education in this country? How are we stopping you from becoming educated?

Do you believe that we are providing the best education opportunities to each of our citizens?

Oh, so that's what you meant by "right to education..." the best education my income can provide for you free of charge. How much of my income do you want for this best possible education that money can buy? How much of my income are you willing to spare me? How much can I keep? How many months of the year do I have to work so that your life can be filled with the rewards of my labor?

Do you willingly pay your taxes? Do you enjoy the benefits provided by your tax dollars? Do you think this nation can compete economically with others if we have inadequate educational opportunities? Can you understand the benefits that come from an educated citizenry?

Or is it only your bottom line that matters?

 

[Wyatt earp]

We need the best education possible, it is in our national interest. I am with the liberals on this, I see to many asshats in manufacturing

 

[RKMBrown]

Other than the bigotry against white males, who is conducting business based on bigotry?

Since when does one have to be sober, or tax paying to enjoy rights in this country? Huh?

The only legal discrimination in this country is against white males, how does that elevate white males?

What does "right to education mean?" Can you please talk in clear language vs nirvana political campaign speak?

Where are American citizen's refused to conduct business based on economic status, religion, race, or sexual orientation? What the heck are you talking about?

What the hell does level playing field mean? Where in America is chance at success removed for anyone but white males?

Businesses refuse to cater to some groups they hate and fear and then claim "religious freedom". How does one freedom eliminate another? Where are white males discriminated against? Do you, as a white male I assume, believe that everyone else getting the same treatment as you mean that your rights are being eroded?

Every citizen should have the right to an education. Education provides opportunity. Discriminating against citizens based on immutable characteristics means those citizens will not have an equal opportunity.

And if you don't pay taxes or if you're intoxicated, you have ceded your standing.

Huh? What rock are you living under where you think Affirmative Action is not an attack on while males?

I asked "what" right to education means. In response you said right to education means right to education. I'll ask again, what does right to education mean? Maybe I can help, who does not have a right to education in this country? How are we stopping you from becoming educated?

Do you believe that we are providing the best education opportunities to each of our citizens?

Oh, so that's what you meant by "right to education..." the best education my income can provide for you free of charge. How much of my income do you want for this best possible education that money can buy? How much of my income are you willing to spare me? How much can I keep? How many months of the year do I have to work so that your life can be filled with the rewards of my labor?

Do you willingly pay your taxes? Do you enjoy the benefits provided by your tax dollars? Do you think this nation can compete economically with others if we have inadequate educational opportunities? Can you understand the benefits that come from an educated citizenry?

Or is it only your bottom line that matters?

You asked, "do you willingly pay your taxes?" I willingly pay taxes for the legitimate functions of government. For example, at the federal level I willingly pay taxes for defending this country. At the local level, I willingly pay taxes for fire and police protection.

I do not willingly pay taxes to give free loaders like you the easy life.

You asked, "do you enjoy the benefits provided by your tax dollars?" What benefits? WTH are you talking about?

You asked, "do you think this nation can compete economically with others if we have inadequate educational opportunities?" Huh? What the hell are you talking about? What educational opportunities in this country are "inadequate?" Huh?

You asked, "can you understand the benefits that come from an educated citizenry?" What makes you think we don't have educated people in this country? Define "educated." Your whimsical statements are empty, meaningless, and vapid political campaign slogans. They mean nothing.

You asked, "or is it only your bottom line that matters?" Huh? How is my teaching you to GET UP OFF YOUR ASS AND DO SOMETHING WITH YOUR LIFE INSTEAD OF LIVING OFF ME, stopping you from GETTING UP OFF YOUR ASS AND DOING SOMETHING WITH YOUR LIFE?