Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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?!

PaleoConPrep wrote:When I talk to Liberals about gay marriage and abortion they often say " If you don't support gay marriage, don't marry a man" and " if you don't support abortion, date a woman who doesn't support abortion" So if truth is relative, and it's all about what we "want", why should I pay for
1. Welfare ( food stamps, Section 8 Housing, etc)
AND
Public schools and universities.
I DONT WANT to pay for these. Here's what I'll say. If you want public education and welfare, personally donate your money to the government, so they can specifically use it on this. You have NO RIGHT to use my money for these things.

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.

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.

PaleoConPrep wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

PaleoConPrep wrote:When I talk to Liberals about gay marriage and abortion they often say " If you don't support gay marriage, don't marry a man" and " if you don't support abortion, date a woman who doesn't support abortion" So if truth is relative, and it's all about what we "want", why should I pay for
1. Welfare ( food stamps, Section 8 Housing, etc)
AND
Public schools and universities.
I DONT WANT to pay for these. Here's what I'll say. If you want public education and welfare, personally donate your money to the government, so they can specifically use it on this. You have NO RIGHT to use my money for these things.

Living in a civil society, we have decided to provide welfare to citizens who need it. We do it partly out of charity and partly because we would feel bad to have people starve and die in the streets. We would no longer feel prosperous as a nation if that happened. We have public education as a foundation of our democratic form of governance, which you know because you've learned this in school.

Well, I'll help the poor on my own, and wth MY own money. The government has no right to TAKE my money and use it for that purpose. If you want to help them, help them yourself. I attend private school. Public schools are a joke.

LOL. Well the public school MY kids go to has an average ACT higher than what you got.

If you are unmoved by starving children, you lack a conscience, morals and basic human decency. Maybe you'll grow some in your twenties.

PaleoConPrep wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

I bet you call yourself a Christian. How do you reconcile that with the words of Jesus?

PaleoConPrep wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

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?

Anonymous wrote: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.

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?

Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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.

Anonymous wrote:

PaleoConPrep wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I DON'T WANT to pay for land wars in Asia started by presidents who lie to us, but I do.

Suck it up, buttercup.

I DONT WANT TO PAY for wars either my friends. I am STAUNCHLY Anti-War. Not all conservatives are the same. I'm a real conservative. I hate Bush, Limbaugh, Hanity, and all NeoCon trash. I'm a socially conservative, Anti-war, Protectionist. God bless Pat Buchanan and Ron Paul!

You missed my point. The only way we get to choose which things our tax money (or rather, my tax money, since I don't think you've actually paid any taxes yet) is by voting. There's no line item veto on the Form 1040.

And I'm sure if you were old enough to be paying attention in 2000, you would have liked Bush just fine.

You are wrong about Bush. I'm a Paleoconservative. I would've voted for Pat Buchanan in 2000.

My mistake above..I mean 'you will respond with some examples', not 'you will respond with some answers'.

Anonymous wrote:

PaleoConPrep wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I DON'T WANT to pay for land wars in Asia started by presidents who lie to us, but I do.

Suck it up, buttercup.

I DONT WANT TO PAY for wars either my friends. I am STAUNCHLY Anti-War. Not all conservatives are the same. I'm a real conservative. I hate Bush, Limbaugh, Hanity, and all NeoCon trash. I'm a socially conservative, Anti-war, Protectionist. God bless Pat Buchanan and Ron Paul!

Do you support funding for Israel?

Certainly NOT! Israel needs to take care of itself. They are NOT our responsibility. I support TOTAL elimination of ALL foreign aid.