I'm losing hope that anyone will listen ...
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but please, please, for the sake of this party, will someone read this? If it's really true that the Democrats have become a party of entitlements, and I"m afraid they are, based on the things I've read about all the things "OBama's government" will give to us that we've never had before, then we are done.
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/06/25/the-acorn-obama-knows/
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/06/25/the-acorn-obama-knows/
The press is leading you down the wrong road.
I will post a blog.
This new voter registration drive they came up with - which mainly consists of the generation of entitlement - the younger voters who were never interested in politics, has suddenly taken over; and they're being guided by leaders who feel entitled themselves.
It has taken the steam out of us who've fought hard for decades against the elite. And it's sad to see that the elite are suddenly sitting at our table, taking everything for themselves.
Arrogance will not benefit any ordinary voter. Arrogance and invisibility will not reclaim disenfranchised voters. We were once the party of the people, for the people. Where did that Democratic Party go?
Arrogance will not benefit any ordinary voter. Arrogance and invisibility will not reclaim disenfranchised voters. We were once the party of the people, for the people. Where did that Democratic Party go? "
What a perfect way to put it! It went away from me, that's for sure.
Now the Democratic Party seems to be exclusive.
That's where the Party has lost its way with these leaders - Howard, Nancy, Donna and Barack.
They aren't inclusive, listening to all sides concerned; they are exclusive, if you don't fit their mold you're not included.
That leaves millions and millions of ordinary voters out of the picture.
There are millions of us who cannot have that Starbucks because we have to put that liquid in our gas tank.
WHO WILL SPEAK FOR THEM NOW?
WAKE UP DEMOCRATS!
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Secondly, the largest entitlement programa we have is Social Security (SSA), Medicare and Medicaid. We all pay into SSA and Medicare. Medicaid is funded by the States but the dollars are given to the states in part by the Federal government.
So tell me, which of these three programs would you like to do away with?
Always, it seems, Obama supporters take the concern/issue and flip it upside down without ever addressing it head on.
WHY?
Why can't you just take this concern and address it?
WAKE UP AMERICA!
"Entitlement is a guarantee of access to benefits because of rights, or by agreement through law. It also refers, in a more casual sense to someone's belief that he/she is deserving of some particular reward or benefit.[1] It is often used as a negative term in popular parlance (i.e. a 'sense of entitlement'). "
And you're right, we ALL pay for Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps - actual entitlement PROGRAMS - and we're all entitled to draw from them. Who benefits from token hiring? From Affirmative Action? A philosophy can be just as unfair as drawing from taxpayer funds.
what strange bedfellows we end up with sometimes....
for those who are not familiar with the hate-filled rants of Michelle Malkin, here's a sampling:
Michelle Malkin: "I'm skeptical of anything with 'Bill of Rights'"
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Michelle Malkin accuses Edwards bloggers of "foul-mouthed nutroots diatribes":
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Michelle Malkin and friends on the "Hildabeast" and her pathetic little song parodying Hillary's defeat:
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and let's not forget, Michell Malkin's "Hillary Accountability Project"
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the list goes on and on, seriously i don't know why anyone would give credence to this person whose only goal is to ridicule and damage liberalism.
that just doesn't make sense.
Let me tell you my kids father is disabled has been for two years.... they think he has lung cancer... he has been trying to get on any sort of aid for his family him and his wife have a total of 5 kids.... she workd night at mc Donalds cause they can not afford day care..... yet they are told they make to much for welfar (she only makes 8 bucks a hour and he has no income) they just now got food stamps and medicad.... sad part is whenever they have to go and apply for this stuff their are people down there with suv's with huge rims, or fast sports cars.... wearing designer clothes.... they are there picking up their money and yet my ex and his wife are told they do not qualify. If it was not for me our kids nor his kids with his wife would have clothes or be able to go swimming or do anything. That is the sort of injustice these programs bring.... you get taxed out of the ass to pay for them and when you need them you dont need them bad enough to get them. Sucks and it is stupid
this is is a republican frame that only damages our democratic causes. please try to use different terminology, because the term "entitlement" is a republican ploy to make all government programs look bad.
your comment about flashy cars and all that, well its your observation, but as a person who was raised in a single parent family on welfare, i can tell you with certainty and from personal experience there is nothing "entitled" about it.
the objective is to protect children from living in sub-poverty conditions, and that is a public program (my term to substititute for "entitlement program") that we as liberals and progressives should be supporting with all our energy.
it took a lot of hard work to get off of public assistance, but we eventually did.
i believe the question was "why?"
Why post divisive, discouraging, and damaging things about liberals when this is a site whose sole purpose if building liberalism up?
there's plenty here who wonder why people are so angry they want to take it out on liberalism.
i'm proud of being a liberal and i'm not taking the crap Michelle Malkin spits out her mouth for one moment.
I wasn't aware that it became the Liberal website building the Liberal Party.
as a person who was raised in a single mother family i can tell you i would probably be dead or in jail if it wasn't for the life-saving godsend of foodstamps.
you want to deny impoverished children food, what the hell is wrong with your mind?
i'm all for investing in education and universal healthcare, but civilized societies NEED a safety net for those who are hard hit by unfortunate circumstances.
Your Reaganesque characterization of welfare recipients is inaccurate and insulting, and your tying of welfare and "entitlement" programs to the issue of reparations is a perverse attempt the conflate two entirely different issues: the majority of welfare recipients are non-urban WHITES.
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one day this will truth will be recognized.
i mentioned that most welfare recipients are white only because of jenniforhillary's post trying to tie "entitlement" and welfare to "reparations," just more of the same black white mythmaking you are arguing against.