LoneLaugher
Diamond Member
JoeB,
You and I agree - because if we're to read the constitution from a "maybe there isn't a creator" standpoint, then rights NESSESSARILY were not endowed by our creator.
On topic though. I grew up around poor people. There are system abusers. But the fact that people just love being poor, unemployed and on welfare (speaking of a majority who are) is blatantly false.
Try going outside. Political discourse is not really all revealing, but moreso an over simplification. You can't understand until you step outside of your bubble.
I never said it was. I'm sure they hate being poor and unemployed. But they also don't understand that the way to not be so is to work for it.
When I was in teh National Guard, in an inner city Chicago unit, we had a lot of guys with that mentality. They were showing up, they got a check. What? You expect us to actually take this training stuff seriously, Sarge? And unload trucks and set up tents?
My biggest complaint with liberalism is that it fosters a mentality that "the world owes you". My biggest problem with conservatism is that it has a mentality of "I've got mine, screw you."
Can't we get to a happy medium where work is encouraged as an ethic, but we all try to be reasonably fair to each other?
What bullshit.