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<blockquote data-quote="HCCA" data-source="post: 7144724" data-attributes="member: 571196">You really want the Gov&#039;ment to run everything? You mean...like all the other Gov&#039;ment success stories? Social Security? Will be bankrupt in 2016. Medicare? Medicaid? Broke. You mean like the Fanny &amp;amp; Freddy success stories? (Quasi-government entities). Post Office? Broke. State &amp;amp; Federal employees retirement funds, underfunded, or broke.The Great Society is a redistributionist scheme, and it has redistributed easily six-to-seven trillion dollars, from the haves to the have-nots, and yet the same arguments have only intensified.&nbsp; We&#039;re more unfair than we&#039;ve ever been; people are in more poverty than they&#039;ve ever been; the country&#039;s best days are behind; we&#039;ve lost our promise.&nbsp; We&#039;re not what we should be; we&#039;re not what we once were; we&#039;re not what we can be.&nbsp; If it had worked, the last time that we tried unchecked Democrat power, then there wouldn&#039;t be any arguments the liberals could make today.&nbsp; The fairness argument would be out the window because everybody would be happy and everybody would be equal.&nbsp; But it&#039;s human nature, and it&#039;s been proven around the world, people who have things provided for them end up miserable, because even during such times there is massive redistribution, there are still people who are a cut above and work their tails off to overcome the limits that government places on them via redistribution, and that just makes you liberals even angrier.Proximity&quot;If the top 1% of the people in this country living a little less lavishly so the other 99% can live a little more lavishly isn&#039;t fair, then what the **** IS fair?&quot;How about they earn it themselves? That would be as fair as it gets.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="HCCA, post: 7144724, member: 571196"] You really want the Gov'ment to run everything? You mean...like all the other Gov'ment success stories? Social Security? Will be bankrupt in 2016. Medicare? Medicaid? Broke. You mean like the Fanny & Freddy success stories? (Quasi-government entities). Post Office? Broke. State & Federal employees retirement funds, underfunded, or broke. The Great Society is a redistributionist scheme, and it has redistributed easily six-to-seven trillion dollars, from the haves to the have-nots, and yet the same arguments have only intensified. We're more unfair than we've ever been; people are in more poverty than they've ever been; the country's best days are behind; we've lost our promise. We're not what we should be; we're not what we once were; we're not what we can be. If it had worked, the last time that we tried unchecked Democrat power, then there wouldn't be any arguments the liberals could make today. The fairness argument would be out the window because everybody would be happy and everybody would be equal. But it's human nature, and it's been proven around the world, people who have things provided for them end up miserable, because even during such times there is massive redistribution, there are still people who are a cut above and work their tails off to overcome the limits that government places on them via redistribution, and that just makes you liberals even angrier. Proximity [B]"If the top 1% of the people in this country living a little less lavishly so the other 99% can live a little more lavishly isn't fair, then what the **** IS fair?"[/B] How about they earn it themselves? That would be as fair as it gets. [/QUOTE]

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