As you were already told your ideology gets in the way of you seeing reality.
You don't even know my ideology. I'm a bit all over the map, because I am a historian. I'm not really allowed a shallow ideology to cling to. But what I do believe comes from facts, not an exaggerated idea of something that is not thought through and relies on a perversion of facts to exist. For example:
- Americans were screwed in the 1930s after our politicians and capitalist messed up the economy. Along came FDR and the New Deal to inject some confidence in the capitalist and democratic system. Then a wartime economy snapped its finger. But for decades since the 1930s, Republican conservatives attacked and attacked the existence of the New Deal until they could eventually partner with a Democrat (Clinton) to dismantle Glass-Steagall. Government wrecked the economy again, ushering in great hardship upon tax-payers. Government then issued bail-outs to the very banks and corporations that were freed to wreck the economy in the first place. Then Americans went on to continue to complain about socialism and bailouts as if they understood what the word even meant, until today. Now, because "times are different" we want to call government aid anything but the socialism that it is. Feeling hypocritical?
You are merely trying to preserve your busted ideology by re-defining what government aid is. Socialism comes with a definition. As does reality.
Like those who earned it as part of a contractual obligation? Sure.
- Don't fall for the GOP lie that payroll and state taxes don't matter, only federal taxes do. If it comes out of their paychecks, the government is holding their money. The funny thing is that now when they argue that the poor don't pay federal taxes, they ignore the fact that hooked up billion dollar cor[orations so that they don't have to either. Of course, while telling the poor American to work harder, they will offer those corporations bailouts...won't they?
- As for the homeless, whether of choice or of mental instability, meh. You have hundred billion dollar corporations paying zero taxes to a government that already provides tax subsidies, bail-outs, and a deployed military to protect their assets. Why should I care that one of my fellow Americans needs some soup and a band-aid?
Is it? The tired argument about impoverished Americans is that they should just get another job. But in these times, well-to-do Americans are in need so government should step in and step far. I'm not the one not making sense because his ideologies are showing its cracks. Socialism is socialism. The word and act does not depend on a person's idea of the times.
Besides being wrong, and unable to see reality for what it is, that spin is all in your own thoughts.
Socialism has a definition. It is the same no matter your idea of reality.
Again you fail to understand that things are different at this time.
Doesn't matter. Government aid is government aid. The time makes no different. It only changes the fact that now you need it, whereas before you did not. People who lose their jobs receive unemployment. Not because they needed it then, but because they need now. The time they need it does not change what it is.
:lamo No. Your ideology clearly clouds your views.
FFS, you can't even understand that things are different at this time.
Your whole position is just stupid and should be laughed at by everyone.
The problem is that most people, actually exercise their brains. What you see as stupid is just your inability to cope with words that you have long denigrated as somebody else's "political" problem. Now that you seek government assistance you need such words and government activity it to mean something else, less you be a hypocrite.
