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Originally Posted by Mr Mephisto
I'm far from lazy. I guarantee that I do more for social or liberal causes than the majority of people on this board, and I don't mean that in a boasting manner. I also work hard, pay LOTS of taxes and don't lament the fact. I simply get on with it, whilst retaining my sense of right and wrong.
Raised, as I was, by hard-working parents who gave much more (and continue to give much more) to society than they took, I absorbed their humanist, liberal, socially responsible outlook on life. I don't particularly see that as lazy, or appreciate it being called as much.
Mr Mephisto
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All rules have exceptions. I myself know some hard working liberals, I know some with genius IQs, I know some who give back a ton to the community. It is not for these people that we have self defeating programs like social security, welfare, food stamps, Medicare, racial quotas etc. Liberalism as practiced appeals to the lazy. Let some other hardworking slob pick up the slack (again much like communism). To succeed it needs people to be like you, but there isnt enough self-motivated people. They are lazy and will take the easy road most of the time. As such motivation fails when the motivation is working for a better society (what’s in it for me eh?!) and you get the reality. Welfare doesn't get people out of poverty, it creates a permanent underclass, but if your intentions were good who cares right? Hell I'd be happy to live in the socalist Utopia, provided it would work, but as long as people are people, alturism will always fail long term.
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