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fucktoyprincess -> RE: In response to Pat Robertson's comments, Liberal Talk Show Host Mocks Tornado Victims (3/7/2012 4:50:29 PM)
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Of course I get certain benefits. I pay taxes every day.
The working poor pay taxes too, so this makes you no different than anyone else who receives some sort of benefit from the government.
So why waste your time pointing fingers at others when you are EXACTLY the same.
Your statement is one of category error.
You equate any and all benefits as equal, thus I am no different than anyone else who receives some sort of benefit from the government.
It's akin to if you receive one you receive them all; one benefit is the same as another. It's definitional - benefit. But is that accurate?
Is a farm subsidy benefit equal to the benefit of, say, the armed forces? Is the benefit of roads the same as food stamps? Is the benefit of private insurance the same as public?
The simple fact is that not all people are the same categorically with respect to receipt of government benefits. The distinction as to the differences is what you seem to avoid.
100 posts later and you still don't get this do you?
Well, one of us certainly doesn't.
You just want, desperately, to believe you are somehow different. But you are not. You are just like all the rest of us. Someone who pays taxes and gets government services in return. Sorry, but the distinctions you are trying to make don't wash. Everything you list above including roads are REDISTRIBUTION. You don't support the concept of redistribution. And now you are making a very sad attempt to categorize the benefits that YOU receive as somehow being above judgment, but the benefits that OTHERS receive as being wrong. This is again hypocritical. It is all redistribution. You can define and redefine all you want in your own head. It is still all going to be redistribution from society's perspective. Someone who pays less for food because of farm subsidies is not really all that different from someone who pays less for food because of food stamps. My tax dollar has gone to make food cheaper for BOTH of you. You really think you are self-sufficient?!
Look, I understand the huge dissonance that you must be feeling. You are a beneficiary of government services. I know how difficult it must be for you because you feel you want to be independent and not rely on government at all. In fact I don't know how you are able to live knowing that practically every purchase you make, even of food, is government subsidized. Then perhaps, and I mean this sincerely, you really should consider a different country of residence, so that you don't have to be burdened with either taxes or with having to take all this government assistance that you are currently taking. Again, no one is forcing you to stay here and put up with having to spend other people's hard earned money. You can take your own money (and your home) (well actually, part of your money and your home is actually mine because my tax dollars helped subsidize your yacht - the yacht building industry is a huge recipient of government subsidies, but regardless) take what's currently yours and sail to some other part of the world, and not pay taxes, and not rely on the U.S. government. Again, unless something prevents you from physically moving, you can do this and save yourself the obvious anger that you feel because of REDISTRIBUTION. But you are, as long as you live here, a recipient of countless government assistance programs. Countless.
Hypocrite - a person who acts in contradiction to his or her stated beliefs or feelings
p.s. poverty can never be solved. It is part of the human condition. The only thing that can be addressed is whether we are civilized enough as human beings to manage poverty in a somewhat humane way. Again, you don't have to be part of civilization if you don't want to be.
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