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Originally Posted by NEJay
Valentine, you're arguing with someone that expects the federal government to go above and beyond their role to protect a percentage of the US population from their own stupidity. While you and I don't want to pay for lazy people's medical bills, retirement, kids, to bail out their mortgages on their McMansions, etc., (primarily because we work hard to have jobs that afford us such things, and show forethought before knocking up someone or maxing out our credit), there are a good amount of people that think we should pay for such things.
This rapid expansion of the heavy hand of government needs to stop, and Barack Obama, in all his unfounded, media and racially driven "change" glory, is the antithesis of that direction.
So is John McCain.
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This is where I'll step in. I hope you realize that, for people under the poverty line, which is who these so called "lazy people" are, it is more difficult for them to succeed than it is for someone in the upper middle class to fail. Taxation of the rich to help the poverty stricken is something I can see as appropriate. The only question is what annual income defines rich?