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As long as people demand more government, they will get it. Government reflects the people.
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August 19th, 2012, 11:11 PM
Medicare Candidates
Posted by Laurence Vance on August 19, 2012 07:35 AM
Romney and Obama have been trading insults about each other wanting to cut Medicare. The details are not important. Both are Medicare candidates. Both candidates fully support forcing some Americans to pay for the health care of other Americans.
I hate to break it to the peeps, but your chances of being killed or wounded in a terrorist incident are so close to zero that they might as well be zero. Worry far more about slipping in the tub.
Slogan/motto:
"A day is as a thousand years" is about perspective. Two hours on the highway, to a five year old, seems like an eternity! To a 50 year old trucker, it's just the start of a good morning
I'm only 54. Who do I vote for to steal other people's money to pay for my care?
I'm 55 plus, so the Romney/Ryan pledge is to leave my Medicare benefits untouched but I don't trust Romney and I'm not just concerned about myself (which Romney seems to be hoping for) so, I'm voting for Obama (again).
Slogan/motto:
Try to be civil in the face of incivility. This is a test.
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August 20th, 2012, 06:55 AM
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Originally Posted by bigbang123
I'm 55 plus, so the Romney/Ryan pledge is to leave my Medicare benefits untouched but I don't trust Romney and I'm not just concerned about myself (which Romney seems to be hoping for) so, I'm voting for Obama (again).
Location: Matrix, or Indiana, what's the difference?
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Christian
More left than right
Slogan/motto:
Being a slave to Christ is freedom, and being free from Christ is slavery (to the world).
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August 20th, 2012, 12:53 PM
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Originally Posted by bybee
The difference is, as I see it so far, Romney, like him or not, is a pragmatist.
And, Obama is in lala land.
Pragmatist. Is that a nice way of saying, self-serving? Romney, like many of you here, is only looking out for hes personal interests, even if others suffer in the process. I expect that out of a Mormon who sees himself as a future god; but, those of you who call yourselves Christian really have to go through some severe idiological contortions to rationalize your selfishness.
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Luke 21:2-4
2 He also saw a poor widow put in two very small copper coins. 3 “Truly I tell you,” he said, “this poor widow has put in more than all the others. 4 All these people gave their gifts out of their wealth; but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on.”
So was this woman a fool?
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Luke 10:25-37
The Parable of the Good Samaritan
25 On one occasion an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
26 “What is written in the Law?” he replied. “How do you read it?”
27 He answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’[c]; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’[d]”
28 “You have answered correctly,” Jesus replied. “Do this and you will live.”
29 But he wanted to justify himself, so he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”
30 In reply Jesus said: “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he was attacked by robbers. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him and went away, leaving him half dead. 31 A priest happened to be going down the same road, and when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side. 32 So too, a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. 33 But a Samaritan, as he traveled, came where the man was; and when he saw him, he took pity on him. 34 He went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he put the man on his own donkey, brought him to an inn and took care of him. 35 The next day he took out two denarii[e] and gave them to the innkeeper. ‘Look after him,’ he said, ‘and when I return, I will reimburse you for any extra expense you may have.’
36 “Which of these three do you think was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of robbers?”
37 The expert in the law replied, “The one who had mercy on him.”
Jesus told him, “Go and do likewise.”
So those who considered themselves religious failed to be compassionate and generous, while one Samaritan cared for a stranger whom he'd never met enough to donate his time and several days wages, and he was held up as an example to us by Jesus. So which of these men do you most resemble? Do you consider the man beaten on the roadside a leech and the Samaritan a fool?
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Isaiah 5:20
Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness; Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
"As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities."
"It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere."
"The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker."
The difference is, as I see it so far, Romney, like him or not, is a pragmatist.
And, Obama is in lala land.
Romney is a liar who is offering the average person less and claiming that it is more - while at the same time giving the well off another tax cut the country can't afford on top of making the temporary Bush tax cuts permanent.
This is voodoo economics on steroids. What is pragmatic about that?
August 20th, 2012, 06:55 AM
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