Esmeralda
Diamond Member
The alarming stupidity of people like the OP.
The ability to critically think is simply hammered by their inability to get beyond idealism.
Just a simple fact, although I am of course wasting my time...to the OP..the progressive/liberal social programs of the late 1960's - 1980's has done so much incredible harm to America's poor and minorities that to still support these same policies shows a clear handicap of the mind.
You have to either be young and stupid or in the dark of your parents basement to believe that Republicans have hurt poor people more than Democrats.
You have been listening to too much Rush Limbaugh and the like.
Social welfare programs do not damage the country. I know it is the 'thing' here for Repubicans to put down European economies, though you know almost nothing about them, but in the EU countries, where social welfare programs are working, we can see that it doesn't destroy the work ethic of the people. The economies there that are in serious trouble have those problems due to banking issues, just like in the US, not due to social welfare programs. There may be people in the US and in the EU who take advantage of such systems, but the vast majority of those who use them are deserving. As well, such programs help everyone, not just the needy. Would you actually want to live in a country where the children are not educated, where hoards of poor people were begging on the streets, where sick people did not have access to medical care?
As well, the percentage of $ out of your personal pocket to pay for food stamps is miniscule. I keep reading on here "I am paying for these people (food stamp recipients) to buy junk food." The fact is, an individual taxpayer is paying very, very little toward this program: it is only a small percentage of your tax dollar. So even if it were being mispent, it is hardly such big deal as to get yourself in such a self righteous rage about.
That is, without a doubt, THE most ignorant and uninformed post I have ever read.
I don't want to debate it with you because it would be like debating whether or not the Earth has an atmosphere with a 6 year-old.
The economies of Europe, most notably Spain, Portugal, Greece, Italy and to a lesser extent France, the UK are experiencing terrible problems because of their social entitlements.
Not to mention the effects of Europe's STUPID entitlement programs have on the culture -- Most young men living at home well into their thirties might be a contributing factor in the Birth Rate in Europe being disastrously low. So low that some are predicting the fall of Europe to Islam in the not-too-distant future.
I can't believe that someone would stand up and expose themselves as being so stupid.
Sorry, but there's just no other way to put.
That post was stupid. Beyond belief stupid.
Europe, with the exception of a few Countries, is a cultural, societal and economic disaster.
And it's only getting worse.
In Jan of 2012 the Euro Area unemployment rate was 10.7% and it is now at 12.2%
EUROPA - PRESS RELEASES - Press release - January 2012 Euro area unemployment rate at 10.7% EU27 at 10.1%
Euro Area Unemployment Rate | Actual Data | Forecasts | Calendar
No wonder Europe is in so much trouble. With people like you living and voting inside it, I'm shocked it's managed not to self-destruct already
You are the one who is completely wrong. European economies are in troube due to the world wide depression, which has to do with the same problems in the US, the banking and mortgage problems, not social entitlements. Social programs are suffering now because of the depression, but that is not what caused the depression. Young men and women in Europe do not leave home until they marry. That is the culture and it has always been that way. People are marrying later in life these days, as they are in the US: it is a Western cultural thing, marrying later. It is a European thing for young people to stay in their parents' home until they marry. Europe in no way is a social and economic disaster. Their economies are not in any worse trouble than is the US economy, and their social problems are not any where near as bad as in the US, not by a few thousand miles.
You are the one exposing your stupidity and ignorance.
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