Certainly NOT! Israel needs to take care of itself. They are NOT our responsibility. I support TOTAL elimination of ALL foreign aid. |
My mistake above..I mean 'you will respond with some examples', not 'you will respond with some answers'. |
You are wrong about Bush. I'm a Paleoconservative. I would've voted for Pat Buchanan in 2000. |
You mean your parents' money, right, OP? Because you're like 15?
If not, your political beliefs sound like a 15-year-old's and your "real conservative" line was the real kicker. In public school, I learned that the government actually does have the right to collect money from citizens through taxes and spend that money in the ways they deem necessary. That's what the appropriations process is - the process by which the government decided who to spend money. If you have ever driven on a road it gone to a public library or consumed food grown in the United States, you are participating in consuming goods or services subsidized by tax money. The notion that your person beliefs should dictate public spending is more Idi Amin than George Washington. |
OP, you know nothing of the world. Do some traveling, and not just to western Europe. Spend some time in truly impoverished areas. Watch small children actually starve to death in front of you. See people suffer from lack of access to medicine and clean water that you take for granted. Spend some time with teeneagers who fall into drugs because they have no hope for a better life. See the pure anguish in the eyes of a mother who cannot feed her child. Then come back and let us know if you want all that here in your country. Until then, no one cares what you think, because you have no real.experience at all upon which to base your "opinions." Your ignorance is appalling. |
Kindly shut up. I don't GIVE A DAMN about these people. |
This is strange logic. I'd hazard guess that the majority of this country (particularly the "I make $400K and am middle class" fools on DCUM) has never ever seen a child starve to death in front of them, or not have access to clean water. Does that render their opinions useless, because they've never seen extreme poverty? |
If you don't believe in welfare and public education, what do you think should be done with children, poor, middle-class or rich, during the day? Not all children can afford private school, and I doubt you'd want them all at your school. Should they just wander the streets, cluttering up the sidewalks and getting into small-time or big-time trouble? How would you order things, if you became emperor of the US? |
I bet you call yourself a Christian. How do you reconcile that with the words of Jesus? |
If you are unmoved by starving children, you lack a conscience, morals and basic human decency. Maybe you'll grow some in your twenties. |
LOL. Well the public school MY kids go to has an average ACT higher than what you got. |
I don't mind public school etc... I just don't think it is wise to pay for undocumented or immigrant offspring who are not paying into the system. |
Considering you're all over the College Forum looking for a good fit for college next year I think it's pretty safe to say that you're paying very little, if any, into our government at the moment. |
How do you get from home to that private school you attend? Not on a public road I hope. What if I don't want MY taxes paying for the road you drive on every day?! |
I think it is unwise to leave undocumented or immigrant offspring uneducated and at loose ends during the day. Rather than going to school, learning and bettering themselves, they would be shut out of school and working and left to get into trouble. Better, for them and for society, for them to be in school, at the taxpayer's expense. |