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- Libertarian
I think liberals are stuck on equality of outcome versus equal protection of the law.
I think they want the poor, lower, and middle classes to receive more from... somewhere... without considering what implications that has on the entity providing more to them.
I think they want to force the terms of private employment contracts, forcing employers to pay more than they need to or agree to.
I think they fail to see the way need-based handouts encourage the culture to learn to be needy.
I think they blame a lack of savings on insufficient income rather than on people's choice to spend all their money rather than save any.
I think liberals want peace all around but fail to grasp some of the basics about financial incentives, basic human behaviorism, and individual rights.
I think liberals understand the delicate environmental balance we're ****ing with, but refuse to acknowledge how helping the poor and feeding the hungry and giving everyone a maximum standard of living is ultimately environmentally destructive.
Yep. The unintended consequences of "playing the system" have given us a massive increase in out of wedlock childbirth and single parent, no earner "families" that rely mainly on gov't handouts for their very existance. In order to "fix" public education and to pretend to leave "no child behind" we have instead let ALL of our children fall behind (based on world standards); it helps close the "achievement gap" but not by raising the bottom very much (if at all) but simply by lowering the average (and top?). Listening to many "youth" you now hear the words "like" and "you know" used as USELESS filler in nearly all sentences. All attempts to try to make "getting by" turn magically into a middle class existance, have simply lowered the bar while falsely increasing expectations that ANY job should somehow now provide a "living wage". The days of a highschool educated, semi-skilled trade worker being able to be Ward Cleaver are long gone in most parts of this country unless that position is in gov't and/or a union shop. USA, USA, USA...