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In reply to the discussion: Questions about unemployment from a conservative. [View all]LWolf
(46,179 posts)1.) How many months or years do you think unemployment should be granted to a person who is fired or laid off?
Your answer:
For as long as it takes to get them a living-wage job and back on their feet. In reality, I'd like to see a safety net of a minimum amount of money, enough to live on, granted to every person who isn't working, whether or not they ever had a job or can get a job. That covers the disabled. I'd like to see a job guaranteed to anyone who wanted one; a job at a true living wage.
2.) Is it okay with you that many unemployment recipients cheat the system?
Your answer:
First of all, I think the statement that "'many' unemployment recipients cheat the system" is false. Do you have some verifiable data for that? If not, you should rephrase the question to leave the unsupported assumption out of it. Second, it's okay with me that there might be some that cheat. I'd rather fund all the cheaters than let one person fall through the cracks. It's called compassion and generosity.
3.) Do you think Obama's motives to fundamentally transform America are pure? Is he doing it for America -- or HIMSELF??? (Now, be honest here. You are absolutely brainwashed so I already know I won't get an honest answer.)
Answer this, then: Do you think MOST men who want to make all people dependent on them are doing it for the people? Or to further themselves and their own agendas?
Your answer:
I'm not sure what the question about Obama, or about "MEN" has to do with unemployment. I don't think I've ever seen Obama motivated to "fundamentally transform America." He's a politician. He's a politician that Republicans SHOULD be loving, because he's friendlier to Republicans and DINO "Reagan Democrats" than he is to the principles and issues that bring me to the polls. If he's "transforming" America, he's doing it to benefit neoliberals, and that's not something I support. Your brainwashing statement is ironic, to say the least. I, at least, am not brainwashed into thinking that the world is polarized into good/evil, black/white, republican/democrat absolutes.
4.) Why do you think dems like people to be dependent? Do you seriously believe they are trying to help "the least of these?" Even when the middle class is being hurt by their antics the MOST??? They want to make middle class people dependent as well. WHAT message does that send to you specifically?
Your answer:
I don't think Democrats like people to be dependent. I think your perception of Democrats is wildly ludicrous, and that you spend too much time listening to people like Beck, Limbaugh, and others like them. See my comment about "ironic" above. I think SOME Democrats, myself among them, like a more equal playing field and would like to give everyone more equal opportunities to take their lives where they choose. I think it is neo-conservatives and neo-liberals who are hurting the middle class, and that the neo-conservatives and the tea party faction in the Republican party and the neoliberal faction in the Democratic party are those damaging the middle class. I'm not a partisan bigot; I don't find either "side" innocent in destroying America's middle class. And again, the notion that "they want to make middle class people dependent" is delusional. What "they" want is a large population of ill-educated cheap labor and cannon fodder who believe and do what they are told, whose quality and quantity of life is sacrificed to benefit those at the top of the heap.