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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My lifetime is marked by GOP Presidents who increased wealth disparity by pushing for tax cuts the country couldn’t afford and slashing domestic spending, and weak Democratic Presidents who were unable to reign in the mess their Republican counterparts caused.[/quote]

The government is not supposed to be a transfer mechanism for wealth.

I understand the attitude changed to a sense of entitlement, but you really aren't owed.

JFK said it:   "Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country". He, as a democrat, would not recognize the USA today.

The democrat party has become totally alien to that, and just [b]expects handouts[/b] from others and keeps asking for more: free childcare, free healthcare, free universal basic income, free this, free that.   Why should [u]anyone[/u] bother working?

70% of the federal budget is transfer payments. It's time for that nonsense to end.  You're getting more than ever from other people and yet, it's never enough for you.[/quote]

Funny how you fail to acknowledge the wealth accumulation that happened during slavery that benefited many of the families that are the leisure class rich today, or the corporate hand outs, or the subsidies to farmers and other industries that are not the working poor. If you want to save money, start by taxing estates over 25 or 30 million, taxing income over a million, trust me, it won't curtail people's motivation to work hard and earn and save. Also, what do you expect those who you claim "expect handouts" to do when they are already working two jobs at minimum wage and can't keep their heads above water? What about those who are disability and can't work, many of whom are white, poor people who have diabetes and sit on their butts in Appalchia etc? We are supposed to be a wealthy country who take care of their poor and raise all boats, but if you want to consider people who are pulling themselves up by their bootstraps, then you also have to consider a lot of people were born on 3rd base as well.[/quote]

I'm tired of you griping about the poor.  You live in perpetual victimhood. That's on you.

"In his January 1964 State of the Union address, President Lyndon Johnson proclaimed, “This administration today, here and now, declares unconditional war on poverty in America.” [b]In the 50 years since that time, U.S. taxpayers have spent over $22 trillion on anti-poverty programs[/b]. [b]Adjusted for inflation, this spending (which does not include Social Security or Medicare) is three times the cost of all U.S. military wars since the American Revolution[/b]. Yet progress against poverty, as measured by the U.S. Census Bureau, has been minimal, and in terms of President Johnson’s main goal of reducing the “causes” rather than the mere “consequences” of poverty, the War on Poverty has failed completely. In fact, a significant portion of the population is now less capable of self-sufficiency than it was when the War on Poverty began. " - Heritage.org[/quote]

It isn't about personal victimhood, would you rather people are simply starving in the streets, that people just die because? And again, you fail to recognize people like Peter Theil, Marck Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are not self made billionaires. They all started life on 3rd base. They should have generations of progency set for life because of luck of the draw?

There are millions of Americans who grow up, save money, live a good life, worked hard and have a few hundred thousand or million to pass on, that is great and should be encouraged. But at what point is the amount of money a next generation needs to have a good start in life? 10 million? 50 milli0on? 5 billion? Some of that money should be taxed, because it is the conditions in the US that facilitated these people to make their billions, and the country should be paid back for some of that infrastructure, education or market conditions that enabled it.[/quote]

How many new migrants are you taking into your home? Have you adopted a family? Or are you for this mass immigration and content to just let our tax dollars pay for them?[/quote]

Unless you change the laws and international law, your bleating doesn't change the factors that push people to come to the US.

Corrupt governments
Climate change
American business owners rewarding illegal immigration by giving under the table jobs at slave wages

The list goes on.

A wall doesn't solve it, and besides, the wall has mostly fallen down and was easily scaleable with a simply ladder anyhow.

Unless the GOP is willing to implement eVerify, which they haven't done, to take the incentive for illegals "pouring" into the US, nothing will change. Maybe start with the Trump properties which are notorious hotbeds of illegal workers.[/quote]

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