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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: BEEF JERKEY who wrote (708476)	10/23/2005 3:44:41 PM
From: GROUND ZERO™	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Most republican types take more than their fair share out of society - why do they resent those who have so little? That's an interesting generalization of most Republicans... certainly, and as well, there are those among the ranks of the poor who abuse the welfare system and ruin it for everyone else who truly needs assistance, but would anyone ever say that MOST poor people abuse the system? Why do you find it necessary to accuse MOST Republicans? You comment is highly revealing about how you view your world... so sad... GZ

To: BEEF JERKEY who wrote (708476)	10/30/2005 1:38:55 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 769667

" I hear nothing from you re. that except to complain the poor get welfare" I don't get this resentment towards the poor. Yes, its a bit strange until you think about who these people are. Go back to your childhood........they were the kids who had all the great toys but refused to share unless you played their way. They were the ones with an candy bar who wouldn't give you a bite. They were the ones who stood back when everyone was horsing around, playing at being good buds. They were the ones who got others in trouble at school. They've had a long history of not being very nice, and so its normal for them to begrudge anyone who gets anything 'free' including the pittance people get under welfare. I don't mind that some get welfare - it isn't some sort of lavish lifestyle for nothing. Lots of people have lots of reasons they can't earn their own living. Sick, mental illnesses, incapability - no economic opportunity. Actually, the whole system is fairly contrived. The people who receive welfare barely get enough money to survive. The shortage is intended to motivate them to get a job but instead, causes them to live in fear and spend all of their energy focused on how to get from one welfare check to the next without starving. There are a few overachievers who eventually manage to get off welfare but the rest succumb to the futility of it all. Its rather sad........no other developed nation in the world is so niggardly with its public assistance. Most republican types take more than their fair share out of society - why do they resent those who have so little? That's the ultimate irony......the rich who usually belong to the GOP get richer and richer while the poor get poorer. Study after study shows the rich gaining a greater and greater percentage of the nation's resources and wealth. The lesser people of the GOP help to support and maintain this travesty. I would laugh if it weren't so pathetic.