On Nov 18, 11:02=A0pm, Wes Groleau <Groleau+n...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Meeter wrote:
> > =A0http://onstrikeamerica.wordpress.com
>
> You (or who ever wrote what you recommend) want me to:
>
> # Stop all donations to charity.
>
> # Stop all volunteer work - teaching, mentoring, coaching, etc.
>
> In other words, because about 30% of eligible voters
> voted for Obama, you want me to punish people that
> have legitimate needs.
But the good number of people who pushed him over the
top are people who pay little- or no taxes. They are
voting for a candidate who will take from *others* to
give them what they want - using the threat of
government force to get it. Where I grew up, this is
called "stealing" and I want no part of it.
>
> Because an elected official wants to rob from the middle class
> to give to the poor, you want me to deprive the poor, most of whom
> will never actually benefit from this alleged redistribution.
This is unclear. I was raised very poor, and I am largely
unsympathetic to multi-generational poverty. While exceptions
exist, the majority of the so-called poor in the developed
West are so by their own foolish choices. Poverty is not
a disease without a cure. It is a condition of life remediated
by guts, grit, hard work, and perseverance. The examples
of poverty the politicians trot out were - in large measure -
created by the very ideas the politicians promote. Sup****ting
them, means sup****ting the ideology of those politicians.
In my book, that's cooperating with evil.
>
> I respectfully decline.
>
> --
I think you're missing my point. I deeply believe in voluntary
charity - it is the cornerstone of a civil society and part of
what makes us all better individually. But continuing to
sup****t the system at this time is a double insult: We choose
to sup****t those in need and are told "you're not paying your
fair share." Then they get the government's gun out and make
us pay for things that *they* decide are worthy, all the time
complaining about those of us who do have this conscience.
I don't want to deprive the poor. I want the many poor who
sup****ted Obama and his fellow-Marxists to feel the real
consequences of their choice. If history teaches us
anything it is that cooperating with evil never lessens it,
it merely emboldens it. I fully expect to return to a practice
of giving when and if the wealth redistributionists are banished
to the bottom of the sewer from which they arose. And I am
not alone. There are a good many folks facing this same
frustration. For example, see:
http://blog.skpnet.org/2008/10/cory-the-driller-miller/
In short, I refuse (as do others I know) to go along with this
nonsense any longer. When there are no jobs, let the
so called victims of poverty go to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
and see how much actual wealth the government produces.
Let them beg Saint Obama for their food and shelter and
future. Only when that absolutely fails them will they get
that the middle class and wealthy are not the enemy,
the government is.
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