Being a Dean supporter, I understand why he's angry. I go to college and will pay back all $60,000 worth of my loans myself, which does not at the current time, nor will it in the future, make me rich. It's hard to not be upset that there are people out there who don't believe in basic human rights like food, shelter, healthcare, right to work, etc. And it's difficult to imagine members of the human race that are so coldhearted that they do not care about suffering around the world and here at home. As far as taxes are concerned, I will give up 30% of my paychecks willingly, to know that people eat and get some sort of support here. I will not give up 30% of my paychecks to pay for corporate welfare so that people like Cheney can walk off with 37 million dollar pensions while laying off wage earners of their companies. And I don't believe a man can be an adequate president if he drives his own oil company into the ground. It's a simple question of management and responsibility. This is why Dean's rage is real. It sucks to work towards a better world to have rich white college kids who have paid their way through ivy league schools, come out the ass-end with mediocre grades abuse the government of the most powerful country on earth. There are better things to work towards than what are on this admin's agenda.
Posted by Anne at December 2, 2003 01:45 AMSadly for you Anne, Dean is one of those "rich white college kids who have paid their way through ivy league schools, come out the ass-end with mediocre grades abuse the government of the most powerful country on earth".
And by the way, why is health care a human right? You may be willing to give up 30% of your income to pay for things of that nature but, also sadly, you are already paying closer to 50%. How much more are you willing to pay? Another 30%? Why would you deny those who refuse to pay their own way the right of health care so that you can keep more than 20% of your income. You are so greedy!
Sorry hon, but health care is already available to anyone who wants it. You just have to pay the premiums. If you aren't willing to do that, then you have chosen your own destiny in that respect. Remember, if you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. It is something called 'Responsibility'. They don't teach that in college, do they?
Oh and Anne, if you weren't paying so much in taxes, maybe you could pay off those student loans earlier, thereby saving on interest and giving you greater time and opportunity to become wealthy.
Posted by analog kid at December 2, 2003 02:55 AMFirst take a breath, paragraph breaks help. It looks like you would attempt to say all that in one breath.
Second you don't get it at all............
You are not working class college girl, I am. I sweat to earn, not sitting on my ass in class all day and complaining about injustice, the whole time milking the system that I'm bitching about.
You overlooked everything I said in order to justify Dean's bad temper. In my world little girl, Dean is the enemy, he would trash an imperfect system for a fictional paradise that only exists in so called progressive minds. It's a fantasy, a fiction. A very expensive one, and don't play the class warfare horseshit on me girlie, to me YOU are a fatcat. You are the rich, you are my enemy when you say higher taxes are just fucking peachy (as long as YOUR pet causes get funded of course). You just don't get anything at all.
How many lower middle class never gonna see a day in college whites do you see at Dean rallies? How many? You college kids wanna save the world.....fine. Start by dropping the wildeyed Bush lies and distortions so popular among the left, middle America will tune you out.
You say you want to help the little guy, the common people,..........so why in the fuck are you college kids standing there alone with the dem hard left? You say Union, that's a joke, they represent less than 35% of working America, and a Hell of a lot of the rank and file (Hi mom!.waves at crowd) votes GOP sister. Thirty percent of my pay is a fucking lot to me, you wanna,...then write a fucking check and leave me the fuck out of it alright?
I don't trust Dean
Don't like him
don't intend to vote for him
and hope he gets his big fat insult spewing piehole glued shut.
Does that about cover it?
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So then...what's your major anyway?
Posted by Mark (puggs) at December 2, 2003 03:35 AMBTW, nice volly AK, good form.
Posted by Mark (puggs) at December 2, 2003 03:40 AM[i]basic human rights like food, shelter, healthcare, right to work, etc.[/i]
Really? You want to show me where that's written, please? Because as far as I know, most people on the left like to call their pet causes "basic human rights".
Figure it out, girlie. Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness doesn't mean that life gets handed to you on a silver platter. You can whine and complain about your college loans, but some of us never got the chance to go to college. I'm one of them. And I'll be damned if I vote for some socialista utopian dreamer like Howie Dean. He's a liar, a fraud, and a crook.
Posted by Raging Dave at December 2, 2003 04:42 PM