Why this philanthropist and public servant should serve as a role model.
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126 - THE REFOUNDING FATHER
Jeannie,
How is the Tea Party movement "childish, selfish, and ignorant?" Please fill me in.
By wanting our government officials to remember they work for the people and not lobbyists?
By not wanting a government to meddle in our lives so much? We want a smaller government, not a bigger one. Their main job should be to protect us.
By not wanting to be a "Nanny State?"
By reminding people that health care is NOT A RIGHT? People who have good health care plans should be taxed because of it. Most of those that do have them, work hard for them. Why should they pay a penalty for it? (By the way, the people who most often abuse these "Cadillac health care plans" are government and union officials).
You don't help the poor by bringing down the rich. That's not the way it works. You help the poor by empowering them to help themselves. Sorry, but that doesn't come in the form of a handout.
You don't help anybody that way. You just put another band aid on a problem that will resurface next month.
Tell me, how will the government make health care more affordable? How will the new plan cover every American? They already said it won't. It's just a way to redistribute wealth.
While I do believe the health care system needs an overhaul, that overhaul should NOT come from the government.
Those are some of the things the Tea Party movement stands for. If that makes us childish, selfish, and ignorant, then so be it.
For me, I think it makes us true Americans and supporters of the Constitution.
- THE REFOUNDING FATHER
127 - THE REFOUNDING FATHER
Correction: People who have good health care plans should NOT be taxed because of it.
My apologies.
128 - Jeannie Danna
Shouldn't you be making some sort of public statement right now about the earthquake in Haiti?
Senator, it is this 'me me me' attitude that I find so distasteful about you..and if I were a voter in the State of Montana; I would try very hard to make sure that you do not see a second term.
When I looked at your thread this morning, I was reffering to the last comment made.
Now, unless you are the one that typed that little ditty, then you should not be so offended..
129 - THE REFOUNDING FATHER
Jeannie,
Let me first say that the earthquake is a tremendous tragedy. The people and their families are in my prayers. I know the Red Cross is doing everything they can and I know the U.S. will help in any way as well.
But, that's not what we were talking about. You besmirched the Tea Party movement and I stood up for it. What's wrong with that? How is that all about "me, me, me?" (And of course I didn't write that crap from our little poet).
I realize that you're concerned about the earthquake victims (as am I and most of the world), but I ask that you respond to the post I wrote itself and not another subject.
Thanks,
THE REFOUNDING FATHER
130 - Ruvy
Golly Gee Senator,
If you would just step this way, you can speechify about the earthquake victims in Haiti to your heart's content. Not only that, but you can add them to your extended remarks in your state (or commonwealth's) legislature.
Happy refounding!
P.S. I prefer coffee (originally from Kaffa Province in Ethiopia) to tea anytime, but the teabaggers are at least trying to do something good in your country. It has nothing to do with the nanny state - it has everything to do with honesty, openness and accountability in government, which the several past sitting regimes have been distinctly lacking in in the United States, extending about - six decades or so....
I bid you a pleasant evening from the mountains of Liberated Samaria, about 50 kilometers north of the Eternal Capital of the Children of Israel, Jerusalem.
131 - STM
Jeannie ... unfair to criticise TRF and lump him in with the earthquake in Haiti.
Sorry, but I don't see the basis for any correlation on this, nor is it right to do so. We all understand what a tragedy it is, I'm certain.
132 - Ruvy
Ah Senator,
I forgot to mention: your podium is just to the left, the microphone is on and is live, the camera is at an angle just at the level of your eyes, and there is a glass of mineral water available for you for you to whet your whistle as you may require it. Will you need anything else, sir?
133 - Jeannie Danna
STM #131,
I am not criticising this man.
I simply asked him Why? Why, when the subject at hand was the earthquake and the suffering of thousands of souls, he instead went after me?
I realized that Roger, Cindy, and Jordan brought him to his highest knowledge level and then flew above and beyond him...thus, many of these responses are starting with the name, Jeannie.
I knew he didn't type out that little song! At least, I would hope not!