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Originally Posted by Tully Mars
Yeah, I said it before and I'll say it again. The tea bagger motto ought to be "I got mine, fuck you."
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Isn't that the motto of most people in general. Warren Buffet is a billionaire, yet talks about how his tax rates are lower than those who work for him, he could give his money to the government, pay his people more, or even lower the prices on the goods and services he sells. Pres. Obama has millions spent on his inauguration with no benefit to poor people but he "fights for the poor". Speaker Pelosi wants to control Wall St. wages but flies in a private jet, has a chauffeur, is filthy rich, takes a government paycheck - and I bet would vote herself a raise in pay.
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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."
—John Kenneth Galbraith
[I recently posted this on Facebook regarding an article about low-income earners in Arizona who now face life-and-death situations regarding organ transplants. (Arizona just cut their budget.)]
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Interesting. Again, I am curious, do you really believe the above quote only applies to conservatives?
When you say Arizona cut their budget, don't you really mean that Arizona cut its budget? Is the suggestion that because there was a budget cut that "Arizona" wants people to die? Is it possible that the state just does not have the money to address all budget items and had to make difficult choices? Is the cut in the AZ budget being off-set by some other source? Is it possible that the costs have gone down, or the need? What will you say if Canada has to make a similar budget cut?