TastesLikeChicken
Lifer
- Sep 12, 2004
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I misspoke. I am not a "social" conservative, I am a "fiscal" conservative. My apologies. Mistakes happen when there are so many trying to pile on at once, as is so often the case in here.Another straw man.
You claimed to be a social conservative, then told us you didn't believe in the same things as social conservatives. Well, other than looking down on poor people & raving about welfare abuse. That's decidedly conservative. You go on as if not being poor is some sort of moral superiority. When are people sufficiently needy to suit you, anyway? When they're homeless & hungry? When their kids go barefoot because they can't afford shoes?
Abuse the system? Sweet freaking Jebsu. Billionaires paying no taxes & crowing about how smart they are abuses the system. Repubs' version of healthcare reform abuses the system. Cutting assistance to needy families to increase military spending abuses the system.
Then again, I am not a social liberal either. More likely I would be described as somewhere in-between. Programs for the poor are necessary. However, those programs should never be intended to provide support in perpetuity. Those programs should be provided as a means to help people out of poverty. Are there people with mental/health issues who will never be able to make their way out of that hole? Yes. Other programs should assist them.
There's also another group, those who simply don't give a shit. Yeah, I know that you hate to admit that they exist, but they do. Nobody want's to live in poverty but there is that subset of people who lack the motivation to remove themselves from that situation, even though they do have the mental capacity.