Correct 94.5% of which are veterans, working families, elderly, disabled and working families. Yes they desperately depend on people to help them as we vote to do. The wealthier group which pays more in taxes votes do that, out of goodness and care, maybe you should think on that.
Think on why you want those working families, veterans, elderly and disabled to go hungry to save yourself a few cents. Think about how clever you think you are when you criticize them having enough to eat and to feed their children.
You are truly a wonderful person
I don't have a problem with working hard and am happy that some of the money I earn goes toward helping people through government programs. Now, if we can get a large portion of the money currently being spent on defense re-directed toward helping our citizens, I would be even happier.
If you use those who are supported by Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF)--best described as a federal largess to indigent families with dependent children--as stated by the Dept. of Health the data suggests 1.7% of the total population that derive over 50% of their income from Welfare supports.
The number stated that receive any portion of their support from from welfare assistance--including food stamps--it is 29,900,000 or roughly 8% of the total population in the United States.
This breaks down to:
39% white 11,661,000 of 29,900,000 recipients
38% black 11,362,000 of 29,900,000
17% Hispanic 5,083,000 of 29,900,000
The strictest sense of the term though would be those getting income directly from the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services which is about 8% of the total population that receives some form of assistance and 1.7% that receive most of their income (50% or more) from these programs.
Such government as existed in the UK at that time was made up of privileged people ruling for the benefit of other privileged people.
Oh, pretty much the same as now, now I come to think of it.
You really do make a habit of being constantly wrong.
loke ye do no husbonde harme
That tilleth with his ploughe.
No more ye shall no gode yeman
That walketh by gren-wode shawe;
Ne no knyght ne no squyer
That wol be a gode felawe.
he was a good outlawe,
And dyde pore men moch god.
From the original Ballad (hard to read I know since it's 14th century) Robin instructs that you should rob no one who plows the fields (peasants) or Yeomen (effectively the free middle class) but you can rob people of the aristocracy (the wealthy).
It's true that he apparently opposed King John because (wait for it) his government favored the wealthy over the poor.
a class of persons holding exceptional rank and privileges, especially the hereditary nobility.
The government class
Yes he was a good man.
He didn't put up with tyranny. You know?
Indeed he had no patience for the tyrany of the rich over the poor.
"Wicked landowner he who makes merry from the labor of his sufferin ploughmen"
On the other hand no where in any of the founding Robin hood texts is taxation mentioned, EVER.
Permanent taxation was largely a 19th century capitalist invention
Landownership was hereditary or a station awarded by the king - landowners were nobles, members of the government. The Magna Carta was the members of government, the barony, compelling the head of government, the king, to recognize their legal status. Much as the taxpayer now works for the government.
All government is, inevitably, the product of the people's choice, even a dictatorship. When the people choose to eliminate a government they can vote it out or throw it out, both have precedent and merit.
Wealth at the time of King John was, as wealth is now, either accumulated in the hands of the state - now to the tune of $17 trillion in debt - or in the hands of those who are permitted to hold it. It is this latter condition that has changed. The accumulation of property was not, exclusively, at the tolerance of the state. At one time it would have been considered oppressive for the state to assert its "right" to claim a great portion of a man's property, not so today.
Today we consider it greedy to want to retain the bulk of ones property and justice for the state to lay claim to that same property as some "right" of those who have no claim to its ownership. Perhaps the consequence will be a reordering of property either at the expense of freedom, the allocation thereof by government edict(as is occurring) or a reassertion of the rights of free people to accumulate the product of their creation without government intrusion.
I am not hopeful for the latter.
Oh do some history.
The average man in the 14th century had no vote and no say in the government of the country which was vested (supposedly by god) in the hands of the king. Speak out agin the king and find yourself pretty quickly dead.
Can you show me where in my post I mentioned 14th century voting rights?
Certainly
"Landownership was hereditary or a station awarded by the king - landowners were nobles, members of the government. The Magna Carta was the members of government, the barony, compelling the head of government, the king, to recognize their legal status. Much as the taxpayer now works for the government.
All government is, inevitably, the product of the people's choice, even a dictatorship. When the people choose to eliminate a government they can vote it out or throw it out, both have precedent and merit."
Hmmm, no vote mentioned in there separated from the other condition, "throw it out." The Russian, American and French Revolutions all products of the people rejecting the legitimacy of the existing state. No voting required but the will of the people is required for all success in maintaining the existing government or in replacing it.
Maybe you don't know but he stole back
the tax money.....tax money......un rightfully taken by an evil ruler.
Kinda like what we have now.
He stole tax money... once and yes taxes from a king he did not support because he did not care for the poor. The rest of the time it was not tax money. My guess is you have never read the stories or ballads
He also wanted a country ruled not by kingship but chosen by the people... you know like we have now
The truth is I heard it all my youth and had the king behaved he wouldn't have done it.
That's pretty well how the rest of us feel when you don't get a break from taxes with out tyranny following.
Sometimes it's soft tyranny.
Federal law doesn't protect human life, full stop.
Sad to say, that's how it is.
I recently learned that that's partly because of Sandra Day O'connor and Ruth Bader Ginsberg. Supreme Court Justices who sold their souls to the devil of "a woman's right to do what she wants to with her own body". I learned about them while reading Norma McCorvey's (Jane Roe's) books "I Am Roe" and "Won By Love". Very very interesting and informative books about how abortion got legalized, not from compassion for the health of would-be mothers, but because of the ambition of a woman lawyer who didn't want her own child and so aborted it.
Foolishly wicked liberalism has invaded the Supreme Court slowly but surely.
The latest was when Justice Roberts stooped so low as to allow Obamacare to be claimed Constitutional.
If that's the kind of Justices we have, we might as well not have any. It keeps getting worse and worse, what with Sotomayor and that other woman Justice.
I used to think that Supreme Court Justices actually had to have a history of knowing what's legal and what's right.
I thought wrong. That big bench is not to be trusted anymore.
So you'd rather the mother risk their lives to give birth to children they don't want? To have those children shoved into some overcrowded orphanage to grow up into a life of crime and neglect?
Sounds great to me.
Sounded "great" (sarcastically) to Jane Roe too.
Until she came to the realization of what was going on.
I recommend to everyone---------read "I Am Roe" by Norma McCorvey (formerly known as Jane Roe, the woman whose case brought about the right for women to kill their unborn babies), and then read her second book "Won By Love". There are so many people in this world who don't even know the history of that case nor the history of abortion, and cannot understand how politics took precedence over human life, swayed a Nation to ignore the inhumanity of abortion while hollering for women's rights, how our Supreme Court Justices placed condemnation on all of us by even listening to the nonsense of a liberal lawyer and her husband who didn't want to make time for a baby they had conceived together.
If you think you're for abortion, both those books are for you. If, after reading those, you're still for abortion, then you're just too stubborn.
"Why is it that most of the people who are against abortion are people you wouldn't wanna *EFF* in the first place?" - George Carlin
I dare you to read the books.
That would actually challenge you to think and feel something besides the bigoted foolishness that comes outta the mouths of people like George Carlin (who, since you mentioned a line of his that refers to attractiveness, is not very physically attractive himself; so he's actually in effect mocking himself when he says stuff like that). And yet you buy into his rhetoric?! Wow.
And I don't give a whit what the Left thinks of me. I give a whit what they think about human life, and about our laws, because they've become quite effective at twisting right into wrong, and there needs to be some way to reach them before it's too late.
Brenda, there is a prerequisite for the books to have any chance of getting through. A person must first have a heart that outweighs their arrogance and selfishness enough to allow for compassion. Your presumption of the fulfilled prerequisite may be in error.
That may be true.
But it doesn't mean I won't keep trying.
There are many people who don't even know what happened during Roe v. Wade; they just parrot what other liberals have told them and what the Supreme Court said is okay.
They need to know the truth. Then if they don't "get it", that's their responsibility. Not mine. I will have told them the truth. Just like telling a person about Jesus. We must warn them away from the pit of damnation. Then if they don't listen, their blood is not on our hands, but on theirs. And I am an eternal optimist in a way, willing to try to pull them out of the fire, hating even the garment spotted by the flesh (Jude 23).
Norma McCorvey is a powerful witness for this, because her mind worked just like theirs did, until she met people who told her about the Love of God while also telling her she needed to repent. I am compelled to recommend those 2 books. They're not from someone who led an ordinary life; they're from someone who experienced so much bad, who was abused physically and mentally, but was able finally to open her eyes to see the good. I admit that there must've been some willingness inside her to look for the good all along. But indeed, I think that is in many people. I will not assume that someone doesn't have that, or doesn't have access to being able to change their thinking and their heart.
The abortion debate was never about compassion, it's about liberty, the line is drawn on whether you believe the state should have the right to force a woman to give birth against her will or not, whether you believe in basic human freedoms or not.
It was about selfishness and manipulation.
Read the books.
Selfishness and manipulation are the qualities of those who would force women to get their abortions in a back alley with a coat hanger rather than in a clean and sterile hospital setting with actual equipment, simply for the sake of misguided self-righteousness.
Carp.
Even with today's "abortion pill" and other procedures that seek to sterilize murder, it remains murder.
And your hero the woman lawyer who got Roe v. Wade approved, HAD the chance to give "Jane Roe" one of those "clean" abortions you think exist (she had already had one herself, since she had the money to do so), yet she didn't do it; she didn't want to help "Jane Roe" have a cleaner procedure, she didn't want to keep her from using a coat hanger! She didn't CARE! Don't you get it? Abortion got approved because of some people's personal ambitions, political greed, selfishness, lies, and manipulations.
Really, read the books!
Even if it was so in that instance that proves and demonstrates nothing about the majority of abortions.
The book won't change my mind because it's irrelevant, the question is simply can we as a moral state force women to give birth if pregnant or not. It's very simple and there are only two answers. Mine is a definitive no.
Perhaps you could argue that about the outright outlawing of abortion, although we would disagree because I believe there are two people's lives involved and perhaps you only see one. There is another dimension, however, which has always been about compassion. Saying otherwise has been wildly successful at shielding people from the reality of it, at least long enough for them to make a wrong decision which many will regret for the rest of their lives. It is about having the compassion to make sure the decision to end a human life is not made uniformed or casually.
Those few who genuinely lack the compassion to not end a life, when they see the ultrasound, hear the heartbeat, see the little fingers and toes, will probably live their lives with no regrets. All they are out is a little time and they can live their selfish lives in peace, no worse for experiencing what should be protocol.
Most, however, when exposed to this same protocol, will have the compassion to choose against killing the child, and will know this is the right decision for them. For these, by helping them face the reality and weight of the decision they are about to make, they are spared a life of regret because they are the ones who will come to this same conclusion sooner or later. Honestly and properly informing people before it is too late can avoid a life marred or even ruined by the abortion experience.
You can disagree, but if you do I am willing to bet you have never been or known anyone who deals with this regret everyday. Abortion is about ending a life, and certainly that merits, at the very least, full disclosure to provide some certainty that when the dust settles, the person can live with the decision they have made.
George Carlin was one of the most insightful comedians who ever lived.
I'll listen to his words before some book that is trying to create revisionist history.
Thanks, though.
Revisionist history?
Surely you jest!
I mean, seriously, those books are by the woman whose case was the heart of the Roe V. Wade court hearings! She's the one who knows the truth about the whole thing! She's the one whose mind worked like other liberals' minds work! Her third baby was the "Roe" baby! The baby she wanted an abortion for.
How you can call that "revisionist history" is beyond reason.
You'd probably be pleasantly surprised at just how "real" and how direct and with how much feeling she tells the story of her life, from a young neglected girl to a grown woman. She pulls no punches, whether about herself or about others. I respect her a lot for that.
And if she hadn't come to the conclusion she was wrong he would have read those books before you but he isn't going to risk infecting himself with ......dare I say? Christianity!
I have no problem with Christianity.
However, it does need to evolve with the times and stop trying to influence the political process so much.
While everyone has the right to worship whatever or whoever they want, that right ends when you start talking about making it the law of the land strictly based on the views of one religion.
I just think its funny that you use this as the basis for thinking that the courts should overturn Roe v Wade.
Its not about choice unless Christians are banning gay marriage, telling you that you don't have a right to healthcare and that any and all government programs are evil.
Again, that's why conservatives are more or less relegated to the kiddie table of American politics.
You right wingers are all ways banging on about freedom and liberty - until somebody actually wants freedom and then there is much screaming and rending of shirts.
If I had a uterus I probably would not have an abortion, but that would be my choice, not the choice of some freedom loving right winger who seems to draw the line on the sacredness of life at birth, after birth it's a free for all with the right leaning toward death.
Yup, put the women back in the kitchen...
I'd rather be thought of as a liberal than thought of as hard, rigid, strict; doctrinal, dogmatic, bigoted, blinkered, intolerant, narrow-minded; reactionary, unreconstructed, conservative, conventional, hidebound, nonprogressive, old-fashioned, orthodox, stodgy and traditional.
But if that's the way you want to be, go for it, I'm a liberal (so I'm told) and whatever you want to be is all right with me.
John, you neglected to mention judgmental. Just sayin...
We got you the first time you said you didn't know anything about socialism, there is no need for you to keep telling us that you don't know anything about socialism.
Quite a socialist concept there - the people being in control!
Keep it up, we'll make a leftie of you yet
Actually Socialism means no one is on control. That is why Socialism crashes into the ground.
Socialism = failure to launch because it does not work.
Wrong again, socialism doesn't mean no one in control,it means everybody in control.
Name me one truly socialist country, totally untainted by capitalism?
There isn't one....because people know better.
But without one example how can you be so sure it is so terrible?
That reminds me of
"I've never tried Marmite"
"Why not"
"Because I don't like it"
"so how do you know you won't like it?"
"I just know"
I would think that some of the stellar examples we are always given such as Denmark would take the plunge.
Consider it like a scientific experiment. people want to see it work on a small scale before they commit world wide.
Denmark is a mixed economy still with a very strong capitalist presence.
The mighty US would not tolerate a successful socialist country even on a small scale.
You know when Thatcher was in power she put the kibosh on an independent Scotland because she said it would be the most successful socialist country in the world!
You mean with our "forward thinking President" and administration you don't think someone could pull it off?
What has the President got to do with it? Even Bush couldn't control your army.
The President is the Commander in Chief.
Who do you think is controlling our army?
A figure head, somebody to take the blame when it goes wrong.
The generals run your army.
Well Generals are commanders but the President has final say and of course Congress.
Are you telling me a General will take an action without consulting his superiors which they do have?
Right.
I saw Norman Schwarzkopf speak once. He wanted to go get Saddam after Kuwait and Poppy wouldn't let him. He wasn't happy about it.
You could try making it large enough to read or put a link into the original. As it is it's totally illegible and pointless.
How Conservatives define "freedom": Oppressing minorities, women, and the poor while empowering only the rich and the affluent.
Once again.......aren't you glad you have talking points?
Aren't you glad you're using Facebook and its userbase as if it were a research document?
Irrelevant....at least I am being creative. You are really well conditioned. If I ring a bell do you salivate?
And you just don't realise how conditioned you are!
You do not know much about U.S. history, do you? Democrats have more of a history with oppressing people, not Conservatives.
There is not an iota of proof that Conservatives oppress any one.
<roaring with laughter>
How much proof would you actually require?
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