Amen MasterP.
What amazes me is when certain politicians think they have the right to someone’s money, just because they have more of it than someone else does. (Actually it doesn’t really amaze me. Politicians are honestly filthy creatures.) Its class warfare plain and simple, steal from the rich and give to the poor and the poor will vote for you just to keep the goodies coming. The sick part is that the definition of rich keeps falling and falling. (This sort of makes me happy because the caring liberals of CA will get the hell taxed out of them because they make more than the rest of us do on average.) I mean $120,000 a year isn’t really that much money. #5 and I will be making at least that much straight out of school. It galls me to no end that some people who were either too lazy or incompetent to go to school and make good choices will somehow steal some of my money. I made my good choices, I studied hard, I worked, I saved to get to and through college and the government wants to penalize me for my success. Make no mistake, this isn’t just some good fortune that fell into my lap, there is not a day that goes by that I don’t get up and work my *edited* off to get ahead. People who work hard and don’t give up see success; those that don’t, fail and apparently are allowed to leech off of the rest of us. It’s not that the majority of the poor are somehow less lucky in life, its that they make poor decisions and take the quick and easy road. Do they ever stop and reflect how they got there? I don’t know, but they might find out how to be successful if they were cut off of the government teat. Work as a requirement of welfare all the way, and limited time on welfare as well. The only way to break the cycle of poverty is some tough love.
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