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Location: Missouri | Bear - 2015-10-14 2:05 PM
Voting for Hillary Clinton because she is a woman is like eating a turd because it looks like a tootsie roll.
Unfortunetly, she will get a lot of votes because she is a WOMAN! Not because she is the best political candidate! It's a horrible thought that this country is more concerned with the Kardashians and what is the new gadget, then how this country is run! I'm 25 and can not believe the amount of people who are just so ignorant on EVERYTHING! I don't want you to vote like me but have an opinion and be KNOWLEDGEABLE about what and why you are voting. It doesn't just come down to the President either, know who to vote for at local and state levels as well. This is our future! It kills me to no end how ignorant and dumb our country has become. Idiocracy (sp) the movie is spot on. | |
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Location: Kansas | IRunOnFaith - 2015-10-14 2:28 PM I find it scary how many younger people fall for their crap. The government should not be stronger than the people. Ask most 20-30 year old young people or couples who they're going to vote for and why.
Most answers will terrify you...
ETA: This is my age group I'm talking about.....
Many don't even recognize the names of the candidates. Haven't got a clue.
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Location: Northwest Florida | IRunOnFaith - 2015-10-14 2:28 PM
I find it scary how many younger people fall for their crap. The government should not be stronger than the people. Ask most 20-30 year old young people or couples who they're going to vote for and why.
Most answers will terrify you...ETA: This is my age group I'm talking about.....
This is very true. I'm in that age group as well. Most of my peers that I'm friends with on social media are democratic/liberal. It's a scary thing.
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Location: Do I hear Banjos? | Did you see that line up last night? And they have the nerve to say that the GOP is the Party of Rich old White people????
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| I like my guns like the Dems like their voters....
Undocumented.
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Location: The best kept secret in TX | RidenFly - 2015-10-14 3:17 PM I like my guns like the Dems like their voters....
Undocumented.
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | BigStarBound - 2015-10-14 2:48 PM IRunOnFaith - 2015-10-14 2:28 PM I find it scary how many younger people fall for their crap. The government should not be stronger than the people. Ask most 20-30 year old young people or couples who they're going to vote for and why.
Most answers will terrify you...
ETA: This is my age group I'm talking about..... This is very true. I'm in that age group as well. Most of my peers that I'm friends with on social media are democratic/liberal. It's a scary thing.
You know what's scarier than the truly ignorant who aren't paying attention? The ones who think they know things because they read a headline or a FB meme. | |
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| Dinero10 - 2015-10-14 7:51 AM
It just makes you shake your head, at he the stupidity of these people. Where does the money come from? I guess from the never ending mopney tree, that I haven't found. I'm not to high supporting illegals, when I struggle to take care of my own back yard. makes a person want to scream, and pinch their heads off.
I work in sponsorships and yesterday I got a request that got me all fired up. Someone who receives SSI/Disability, has a job, but who doesn't want to work too much because she will lose her benefits. THEN WANTS OUR COMPANY TO SPONSOR HER BY GIVING HER CASH SO SHE CAN SHOW HER HORSES!!!!  And here I am with a full time job, husband with a full time job and he moonlihgts/works extra hours, two kids, truck that's almost broken down but can't afford another one, eating ramen and have cut out all but one playday a month so that we can make ends meet right now. And they are taking money out of OUR PAYCHECKS and OUR KIDS' MOUTHS to fund people like this??!!!! I almost wrote back "if you can work why don't you and you can fund your OWN hobby like the rest of us!" OMG...I am still so incensed by this ENTITLED kind of thinking. And then the sheer AUDACITY to ask for $5k so she could show her horses. WTH???  | |
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Location: Broxton, Ga | RodeoCowgirl4u - 2015-10-13 5:36 PM
Dinero10 - 2015-10-14 7:51 AM
It just makes you shake your head, at he the stupidity of these people. Where does the money come from? I guess from the never ending mopney tree, that I haven't found. I'm not to high supporting illegals, when I struggle to take care of my own back yard. makes a person want to scream, and pinch their heads off.
I work in sponsorships and yesterday I got a request that got me all fired up. Someone who receives SSI/Disability, has a job, but who doesn't want to work too much because she will lose her benefits. THEN WANTS OUR COMPANY TO SPONSOR HER BY GIVING HER CASH SO SHE CAN SHOW HER HORSES!!!! And here I am with a full time job, husband with a full time job and he moonlihgts/works extra hours, two kids, truck that's almost broken down but can't afford another one, eating ramen and have cut out all but one playday a month so that we can make ends meet right now. And they are taking money out of OUR PAYCHECKS and OUR KIDS' MOUTHS to fund people like this??!!!! I almost wrote back "if you can work why don't you and you can fund your OWN hobby like the rest of us!" OMG...I am still so incensed by this ENTITLED kind of thinking. And then the sheer AUDACITY to ask for $5k so she could show her horses. WTH???
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Location: SE Louisiana | Bear - 2015-10-14 12:33 PM
"From each, according to his abilities, to each, according to his needs."
- Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, and Hillary Clinton....and Karl Marx.
How many of you read "Animal Farm", by George Orwell, when you were in HS or Junior High? Were you taught what Orwell was really trying to say?
“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself.”
? George Orwell, Animal Farm
An outstanding and thought provoking book... and just what we're looking at. | |
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Location: Kansas | Sadly I have a nephew 40ish, as is his wife, depending on the government to take care of his three children. Now they're having a fourth child. No doubt in my mind it's to make sure those benefits don't run out as his younger ones gradually go off the grid benefit-wise. | |
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Location: Do I hear Banjos? | Frodo - 2015-10-15 7:09 AM
Sadly I have a nephew 40ish, as is his wife, depending on the government to take care of his three children. Now they're having a fourth child. No doubt in my mind it's to make sure those benefits don't run out as his younger ones gradually go off the grid benefit-wise.
This may get me roasted....But I have always felt that if you can't afford to care for your child/children...you should be on some sort of mandatory implanted birth control while on public assistance. No way should a person be allowed to further reproduce if they can't provide for what they have. Both men and women. How can they ever get back on their own two feet if they keep having more? | |
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Location: Bastrop, Texas | There was a time when people actually read newspapers and magazines, and watched the news to keep abreast of current events and important issues of the day. Even kids were required to read weekly readers, and were expected to have a grasp of the content. They were taught about government and the constitution and critical issues of the day were discussed in the classrooms.
They were actually tested on these things. I remember it well. Families often sat down for dinner together and important issues, including politics were the topic of discussion.
Now it's much simpler....we have memes. | |
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Location: Missouri | Am I the only one that thinks that you should be put on mandatory birth control if: you do not have a job/do not make "X" amount a year, are on any kind of welfare, food stamps, or government hand outs. Our population is getting over run by lazy, ignorant, and completely worthless people. The people who should be having children, are avoiding having children because they are afraid of this society. Why have children when you're already paying for about 100 or so children on welfare? Our society is out of control and if I see one more person using a I Phone while paying for 3 children's groceries with food stamps and having to put items back so they can buy their cigarettes, I am going to SCREAM! I see this on a regular basis. I have no issue with food stamps if you are like my girlfriend, who was a full time nursing student, a full time nurse, and had 1 kid. She is at least contributing back to society and is only on food stamps for a short duration. She is now off of them and working as a nurse. | |
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Location: Missouri | TrailGirl - 2015-10-15 7:32 AM
Frodo - 2015-10-15 7:09 AM
Sadly I have a nephew 40ish, as is his wife, depending on the government to take care of his three children. Now they're having a fourth child. No doubt in my mind it's to make sure those benefits don't run out as his younger ones gradually go off the grid benefit-wise.
This may get me roasted....But I have always felt that if you can't afford to care for your child/children...you should be on some sort of mandatory implanted birth control while on public assistance. No way should a person be allowed to further reproduce if they can't provide for what they have. Both men and women. How can they ever get back on their own two feet if they keep having more?
I saw you posted this RIGHT after i put my comment up. AMEN!!! Mandatory birth control!!! | |
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| Agreed - Here's a novel idea, I understand an accident. I will pay for your first child and help you find a job to remove yourself from the welfare system. BUT, that is it. You get knocked up again, that is on you. You are responsible for your own actions,pay for the child and take care of the bills associated.
However, we live in a society that is driven by lack of responsibility. You don't like your situation, it MUST be someone else's fault. People (as a whole) no longer take action to change their situation, they've been taught that the government will bail them out, give them money, give them food, give them health care, etc.
It also ****es me off that my generation(20-30 somethings) as a whole have been babied by their parents. We've been coddled. We've been taught that if we scream loud enough, someone else will take care of the situation. I am personally glad that my parents didn't do this - we were taught a work ethic, taught to respect ourselves and others, and taught to take care of our own situation. Sadly, this isn't the status quo. | |
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| "Republicans hate big Government unless it's for something they want."
Republicans and BHW political junkies love to invoke the specter of Hitler when referencing our Democratic President, but apparently government mandated birth control for poor people is acceptable. Huh!
www.newsok.com (The Daily Oklahoman) ran a story this morning that 85,000 jobs are unfilled in Oklahoma because there are not enough qualified applicants in healthcare, IT, finance and truck driving. This following a story yesterday that companies are unwilling to move there for that very reason. Uneducated people in the state are uneducated for various reasons, like only 30% of eighth graders are proficient in math, but also because the unafforability of college for them. Knowing that, all the political representatives, voted in office in arguably the redist state in the union, don't want free community college that would enable most of the 85,000 jobs to be filled by then tax paying contributors to society.
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Location: Opelousas, LA | FinneyQuarterHorses - 2015-10-15 8:56 AM "Republicans hate big Government unless it's for something they want." Republicans and BHW political junkies love to invoke the specter of Hitler when referencing our Democratic President, but apparently government mandated birth control for poor people is acceptable. Huh! www.newsok.com (The Daily Oklahoman) ran a story this morning that 85,000 jobs are unfilled in Oklahoma because there are not enough qualified applicants in healthcare, IT, finance and truck driving. This following a story yesterday that companies are unwilling to move there for that very reason. Uneducated people in the state are uneducated for various reasons, like only 30% of eighth graders are proficient in math, but also because the unafforability of college for them. Knowing that, all the political representatives, voted in office in arguably the redist state in the union, don't want free community college that would enable most of the 85,000 jobs to be filled by then tax paying contributors to society. Sometimes "free stuff" is for the common good, and ultimately isn't "free".
Sounds great! Of course those receiving free college would have to do well enough to pass classes and graduate, then have the drive to go out and find a job. Those that want better for themselves will find a way, those that want to mooch off the system will find a way also. We need to make it easier for those that want to do for themselves and harder for those that don't, more free stuff is NOT the answer!
I know of three farms within a half a mile that have a job opening right now, salary works out to around $10 an hour and the farms provide a place to live, all bills paid and we can't find anyone to work. The problem isn't lack of education, it is lack of desire to get off your a$$ and do something to better yourself.
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Location: Missouri | Barnmom - 2015-10-15 9:16 AM
FinneyQuarterHorses - 2015-10-15 8:56 AM "Republicans hate big Government unless it's for something they want." Republicans and BHW political junkies love to invoke the specter of Hitler when referencing our Democratic President, but apparently government mandated birth control for poor people is acceptable. Huh! www.newsok.com (The Daily Oklahoman) ran a story this morning that 85,000 jobs are unfilled in Oklahoma because there are not enough qualified applicants in healthcare, IT, finance and truck driving. This following a story yesterday that companies are unwilling to move there for that very reason. Uneducated people in the state are uneducated for various reasons, like only 30% of eighth graders are proficient in math, but also because the unafforability of college for them. Knowing that, all the political representatives, voted in office in arguably the redist state in the union, don't want free community college that would enable most of the 85,000 jobs to be filled by then tax paying contributors to society. Sometimes "free stuff" is for the common good, and ultimately isn't "free".
Sounds great! Of course those receiving free college would have to do well enough to pass classes and graduate, then have the drive to go out and find a job. Those that want better for themselves will find a way, those that want to mooch off the system will find a way also. We need to make it easier for those that want to do for themselves and harder for those that don't, more free stuff is NOT the answer!
I know of three farms within a half a mile that have a job opening right now, salary works out to around $10 an hour and the farms provide a place to live, all bills paid and we can't find anyone to work. The problem isn't lack of education, it is lack of desire to get off your a$$ and do something to better yourself.
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| RodeoCowgirl4u - 2015-10-14 4:36 PM Dinero10 - 2015-10-14 7:51 AM It just makes you shake your head, at he the stupidity of these people. Where does the money come from? I guess from the never ending mopney tree, that I haven't found. I'm not to high supporting illegals, when I struggle to take care of my own back yard. makes a person want to scream, and pinch their heads off.
I work in sponsorships and yesterday I got a request that got me all fired up. Someone who receives SSI/Disability, has a job, but who doesn't want to work too much because she will lose her benefits. THEN WANTS OUR COMPANY TO SPONSOR HER BY GIVING HER CASH SO SHE CAN SHOW HER HORSES!!!! And here I am with a full time job, husband with a full time job and he moonlihgts/works extra hours, two kids, truck that's almost broken down but can't afford another one, eating ramen and have cut out all but one playday a month so that we can make ends meet right now. And they are taking money out of OUR PAYCHECKS and OUR KIDS' MOUTHS to fund people like this??!!!! I almost wrote back "if you can work why don't you and you can fund your OWN hobby like the rest of us!" OMG...I am still so incensed by this ENTITLED kind of thinking. And then the sheer AUDACITY to ask for $5k so she could show her horses. WTH???
I have a hard time dealing with people like the one you are describing. I cannot deal. There are hard working people like you and I that make sacrafices and do what we have to do without ever asking for a handout. Then you have people who feel like it should be handed to them. UGHHH. | |
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