If repukes want us all to be self-reliant, then why do we

[Deja Q]

have to pay taxes at all?

support their wars?

Vote for them?

Blindly support their decisions?

sign up and die in their wars? (this is quite the opposite of self-reliance... it's suicide.)

spend money for trinkets when the corporations who sell them to us don't want to pay us wages and would rather not employ paid workers at all, given any opportunity? (see offshoring, the bastards also whine trhat $3/hr is way too much for Chinese labor! Sheesh, $3/hr to make a sports shoe that costs over $100 is not a bad wage... from the CEO standpoint but if they're so blinded to money...)

not demand they stop giving out huge corporate subsidy checks to Fortune 500 companies?!

How much further must I continue? They want things both ways; typical MO.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. Please don't take this the wrong way, as if it were a pat on the back

for Bin Forgotten... but once I did hear a speech given by him (on American MSM) translated which mentioned "the criminals in Washington"... perhaps we now have evidence that this one reference was accurate.... and no I don't have any respect for nor do I condone anything this man has done... except for when he helped prevent the Russians from obtaining a warm water port.... things were a tad different then.

[ThoughtCriminal]

2. Also - If they are big on "Self Reliance"

Why do they hate the Inhertance Tax?

[Tux]

3. It's all about

The wealthy getting more, working class getting less, and middle class finding their jobs in India and China.

[TreasonousBastard]

4. It's a lie...

they want us to believe that everything, good or bad, that happens to us is entirely our fault.

That way, we don't whine when we get screwed, and we don't complain when they get their freebies.

If we don't have the right connections for a good job, or the right parents to inherit millions, we just have to work harder 'cause it's all our own fault.

[abluelady]

5. Unless it is about our bodies

That they want to have total control of! Ridiculous.

[TreasonousBastard]

6. Of course...

and that's off limits when they talk about "taking government off our backs."