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LWolf

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8. My answers:
Mon Dec 30, 2013, 03:27 PM
Dec 2013

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.

Answers TomClash Dec 2013 #1
Gawd, I would hate to know this person first hand. nt MrScorpio Dec 2013 #2
Answers... gcomeau Dec 2013 #3
+1 FreeJoe Dec 2013 #10
I liked that answer too. notadmblnd Dec 2013 #30
Superb Set of Answers ProfessorGAC Dec 2013 #26
Yeah I've met the type plenty... gcomeau Dec 2013 #28
She was coming of age during Eisenhower Kennedy ErikJ Dec 2013 #33
That is so arrogant and condescending I would never speak to the person again Matariki Dec 2013 #4
I don't know... Blanks Dec 2013 #25
Oh Gawd bonzaga Dec 2013 #5
CORRECT Skittles Dec 2013 #36
Of course Jesus never used to help the poor, the needy, the sick CJCRANE Dec 2013 #6
That is because Jesus wanted them to become dependent. bvar22 Dec 2013 #22
See? They're completely dependent on him to excuse their daily behavior. Egalitarian Thug Dec 2013 #43
The example from the bible that I like best... Blanks Dec 2013 #29
These people are a dime a dozen... Shandris Dec 2013 #7
My answers: LWolf Dec 2013 #8
My answers Motown_Johnny Dec 2013 #9
Thanks to all! Good answers. ErikJ Dec 2013 #13
Reasoning with a Conservative is like wrestling with a pig Motown_Johnny Dec 2013 #35
Answers in italics. Chan790 Dec 2013 #11
Answers Demo_Chris Dec 2013 #12
Did Jesus want to make people dependent? What other motivation could he have had? Bandit Dec 2013 #14
It's pointless because she's framing the ( very loaded ) questions through her own confirmation bias Populist_Prole Dec 2013 #15
Would this "fundamentally transform America"?: JHB Dec 2013 #16
Why would you waste your time with this? el_bryanto Dec 2013 #17
Sheesh. 2, 3 & 4 the very premise of the "question" is loaded bullshit. Gidney N Cloyd Dec 2013 #18
Have you stopped beating your children yet? Loaded questions based on false assumptions. uppityperson Dec 2013 #19
Alright, I'll take a crack at this: Xyzse Dec 2013 #20
The underlying suppositions in EACH of these questions--is BULLSHIT!!! CoffeeCat Dec 2013 #21
Another thought: These aren't "questions" at all. It's more akin to a "push poll" Populist_Prole Dec 2013 #23
Answers Chisox08 Dec 2013 #24
I would ask the following. Jazzgirl Dec 2013 #27
subject The Second Stone Dec 2013 #31
Those questions are only important to someone who has an agenda to sell for their own profit. haele Dec 2013 #32
why do you bother with that hateful woman? Skittles Dec 2013 #34
She thinks Obama is fundamentally trying to change America and then calls *you* brainwashed? pa28 Dec 2013 #37
Yes, my oldest liberal sister says she has "the Mom gene". Her mind was made up by 10 and has become ErikJ Dec 2013 #39
This message was self-deleted by its author MFrohike Dec 2013 #38
My answer to all 5 q's: "fuck off". Pretzel_Warrior Dec 2013 #40
Let me try jmowreader Dec 2013 #41
this person's questions do not warrant an answer FatBuddy Dec 2013 #42
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