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Old 03-09-2010, 04:16 PM
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Top be honest, when I hear your people make excuses and I see illegals sneaking into the country and outperforming your people I assume you don't have any real clue.
My people?



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Originally Posted by Kevin View Post
Tom Delay made that assertion. I did not. I simply stated that welfare has to end at some point.
Kevin, I was responding to your statement in this thread -- "There are jobs out there and if that fails, there's entrepreneurship" -- admittedly through the filter of other comments you have made in the past, like
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And as far as being unemployed, I don't see how it isn't the worker's fault? Or that it should be up to the employed to subsidize the unemployed. Poor savings/spending habits, choosing to work in a doomed industry, etc. These are all personal choices or at the very least, they are gambles that turned out poorly. That's part of life in a non planned economy.
If you're now saying that this statement doesn't represent your opinion, great.

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I don't think simplistic or real thinking is happening right now in Washington. At least nothing that is focused on cost/utility as it should be (unless the desired outcome is political capital).
No thinking at all, huh.
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