Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 10:59:58 -0400
From: Tarus BALOG
Subject: Re: Democrat activists on this Chatlist
On 09/02/2014 07:28 AM, Chatham Chatlist wrote:
> From: Taylor Kish
> Subject: Democrat activists on this Chatlist
> I NEVER got anything from the government but fees and taxes I had to
> pay. EVERYTHING I have I worked for.
Really? You never got anything from the government?
Where do you get your electricity? I can’t think of a way you could have posted your little rant without electricity, but that is a market that was created by and is maintained by the government. I’m not saying that the government invented modern power distribution, but the fact that almost everyone has access to it at set rates and common voltages and frequencies is due to government regulation.
Do you own a car? If you do, you got something from the government. The government makes sure they are safe to operate and they provide the roads on which you use them. They provide standards for fuel that make it possible to travel great distances.
How did you learn to write English? Were you home schooled? If so, where did your parents learn? My guess is that some point in time in your family’s history someone went to a public school. Who gave you that opportunity? The government.
Finally, are you beaten a robbed every day? If not, you can thank the government. We have created a society that includes police men and women who keep the country from falling into anarchy. In fact, the money that someone would take from you in a robbery is another government product.
For the record, I am an unaffiliated voter. There are things I like about both major parties but there are a lot of things I dislike about them – mainly this “us versus them” partisan bickering which is doing nothing but hurting this country. You seem to think the Republicans have all the answers, and you perpetuate the myth that Republicans are more fiscally responsible, but the fact is that there is strong evidence that shows the government spends a lot more with Republican presidents than with Democratic ones:
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/obama-spending-binge-never-happened-2012-05-22
Also, for the record, the only political party I’ve ever belonged to was the Republican party, but I left when they starting policing my morals, dictating to me how I should behave, and spending money like sailors on shore leave.
Trust me, I believe in hard work and at the moment neither political party looks out for my interests. My business is not “too big to fail”.
You also seem to have a thing against immigration. I interact a lot with the Latino community in Chatham County and I find almost all of them to be a lot more hard working than the average native born. My grandfather immigrated to this country to work in the coal mines of Pennsylvania and he died of black lung before I was born, but that was the start our family needed to allow me to sit here and write this today.
Our country is hurting and we need to somehow heal this “us versus them” wound that comments like yours just perpetuate. We need to get back to the point when compromise didn’t mean defeat. We need to reward hard work as well as create opportunities for meaningful work for those who don’t have it.
People who promote these values get my vote – and I could care less about what party they belong to.
-T