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Originally posted by RMW 1:
nu2salt It's very simple yours and everyone elses rights end at my nose! I don't much care to labor for you or anyone else.(yes labor for after all that is what taxes are my labor for your causes.) I'll chose my causes and were I'll spend my labor not you Thank you! I don't mind paying my labor for the services I use but I get real bent out of shape when you or any one tells me who or what I should labor for.

As for safe and secure : I'll labor for that.

Better standard of living : Not for you to decide.

Poverty to end : Again not for you to decide.

Health care : let us all pay in at the same rate.What ever that my be. Not up to you to decide.

Crime is easy: Stay the F away from me and leave my guns alone!

Median income : I'll decide what I'll labor for and what I'll pay for labor not you!

The only way to make everyone equal is to make everyone poor because you can't make everyone wealthy.

Respectfully Don I will fish with you and I will play with you but try to take my labor from me and I will take up arms!
Don,

Very selfish and self serving!

What you apparently don't realize, is that you are already "laboring" for someone elses agenda, but apparently you don't mind laboring for the wealthy, you only object to laboring for those less fortunate than you.

And these aren't my causes, they are just causes that I support. I don't stand to gain a thing, just to see our country become an even better place to live. I guess you must be from that "ME" generation, that only worries about themselves.

You don't choose your causes, Bush, Corporate America, Wall Street, and the wealthy do! You're a slave, and you don't even know it! I feel sorry for you.

It's not that it's up to ME to decide anything; we live in a democracy. It is up to US to decide. And guess what? If the majority of us, through our elected officials, decide to embrace all or some of the goals I have suggested as the best way to further the interests of our nation, then I guess you're just stuck with it, aren't you?

Like I said, you apparently don't mind letting the wealthy tell you who and what to labor for, you don't mind making them wealthier at everyone elses expense, but you'll be damned if you're gonna labor for anyone who really needs it, even when it improves the standard of living for everyone.

Your answer to crime is especially entertaining. Very short sighted and simplistic. If only it were that easy!

You know all those guns you're so fond of talking about? I hope you shoot better than you view politics and economics, because otherwise you're gonna go around shooting yourself in the foot, and telling everyone you meant to do it, and you can do it if you want to, and they can't tell you where or how to shoot!

I'm not trying to make everyone equal, just to give everyone a truly equal opportunity, and to make everyone better than they are now. We have the means, but our greed, so adequately illustrated by your response, is what holds us back. Fortunately, guys like you are in the minority. Most people understand the value of teamwork, and community, and the concept that we are only as good as the least of our peers.

Good luck!

Jim