poor people.....the back bone of the american economy!

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...instead of people just confessing their loyalty to one party or the other, maybe they ought to be confessing their loyalty to the country.

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the majority of people in both parties, the politicians and the voters, care about "winning" at all costs, even if they dont like the thing they won. often its simply more about the other side "losing" than it is them "winning".

and since the "values" of a party are often all over the place, or simply change, what does that say about you? what exactly is it that you believe in? do you even know?

what is this guy talking about? what is it over a trillion dollars spent on entitlement programs?

at least one of the parties must care about the poor wouldn't you say?

that's such a nutty thing to say and not based in fact

it might be more accurate for him to say neither of the parties cares about the middle class, there might be some truth in that statement

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for the love of god john leave the republican party go home democrat. your daddy was a mailman!

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I remember pre-Trump, I would watch Kasich on Fox News and he was pretty good. Once Trump decided he was going to run for POTUS Kasich and many other conservative talking heads completely went off the deep end. George Will, Krauthammer, Beck, Levine, all the Bush's, Romney, etc. Trump exposed them all as conservative wannabees.

John kasich sucks. Wtf is he even talking about.

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why do you assume that most if not all people who get government assistance got there because of "horrible choices".

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Why do you assume otherwise? the VAST majority of the drain of welfare are the result of bad decisions - sometimes bad decisions over three generations - all made possible by the lure of the 'get stuff free' mentality engendered by the DEMs since LBJ.

This system has fostered the rise of unwed mothers - who are instantly celebrated and pampered by the system. It has seen the decimation of the self-starting ethos that has been the hallmark of American success since its inception. It has substituted faith in hard work for faith in 'govt checks' in the youth, who have gone one to reproduce two or three generations of like-minded parasites.

Yes - there are some bad-luck cases out there. But they are swamped by the leeches and professional grievance-searchers. I have seen kids who cannot absorb the simplest mathematical concepts who are absolute geniuses in the recitation of their 'rights' which to them means that no matter what they do, any problems are someone else's fault.

The old adage of a 'safety net' vs a 'hammock' is absolute truth. I feel really bad for the few people who are trying to use the safety net to get back on their feet - they are being elbowed out of the way by fat asses with sleeve tattoos, gold teeth, flashing bling, 55" flat screens, 28' rims and six kids who don't know who their baby daddy is. The only 'research' any of them perform is in finding out new 'disabilities; that they might 'qualify' for.

Almost every social ill we have in America today trace directly back to abuse of the welfare system. = and this abuse has been egged on solely by the DEM party.

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you can do everything right and still fail.

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This is true - but that is the way life works - always has worked that way and always SHOULD work that way. - If you ensure that everyone succeeds regardless of how bad an idea they were working on, then you snuff out the power of good ideas to advance the common good. Just because you worked hard at a bad idea - or even an idea whose 'time has not yet come' - should not entitle you to the same success as someone whose work naturally 'paid off.' If Edison had been rewarded for his initial failures - and he had thousands of them - then we the public may still not have the light bulb.

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sometimes people just have bad luck. sometimes they get fricked over.

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And there is nothing wrong with helping these folks out - temporarily - until they get back on their feet. It is wrong to begin celebrating their bad luck and setting them up for a lifetime of hammock rest. Only the very strongest of self-starters can resist that siren's call. Only a malicious government can make it happen - but even the government cannot make it succeed. The end result of this scheme is reduced prosperity for everyone - and more sharing of the misery associated with dysfunction.

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sometimes they have health issues

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Everyone should have catastrophic health insurance - paid for by themselves. If they choose to not take care of this important self-preservation solution, then they should be treated no more sympathetically than a person who speeds down the wrong side of the freeway with their lights off during a rainstorm.

There should be charity hospitals where these people can be treated if they cannot afford to provide their basic survival needs. Privately funded charity hospitals have long been provided by religious organizations. If that is insufficient, then there should be 'intern hospitals' set up to take care of indigent people's basic needs - but no pampering of lazy idlers.

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its important to help people when they need help.

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There is no argument about this. Conservatives are just as considerate for people who need help as are 'progressives' - and I would say more so. Conservatives are doing it with their own money out of the goodness of their character, while 90% of 'progressives' are signaling that they want the 'rich' guys to do it and all they participate in is registering them as DEMOCRATs.

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im the atheist here, im supposed to be the one with no morals who doesnt give a frick about anyone but myself, so why is it that so many Christians on this board would simply tell those people to frick off?

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You are wrong in just about every phrase of the above rant. Your atheism is a cross you must bear - and I hope it serves you well in the last minute of your life. You are confusing 'morals' with political expediency, but I know absolutely nothing about your morality, but from what you have written in this post, you seem to be pretty focused on political power rather than 'good for society' focus. That doesn't fit my definition of 'morals' which involves doing the right thing even when it doesn't benefit you directly, but especially when it works to your financial or professional detriment. For instance, I doubt you would donate one dime of your money to a person who worked to defeat your political ambitions regardless of how needy they are. Conservatives do this routinely - and almost exclusively.

There are no Christians on this board who would tell needy people to 'fuch off.' There are some who tell able bodied baby-daddies to stay in school, get a job, and take care of their children. You interpret that any way your atheism dictates.

Kasich is 100% accurate here. Democrats exploit the poor for their vote, Republicans allow their wealthy donors to exploit them for profits. The poor have been exploited since this country's founding, and that will always be the case.

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its important to help people when they need help.

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Not when some of those are too lazy in seeking their own help and by help I'm talking about working for a living instead of mooching for a living. Our governor here in Ark. just signed a bill concerning Medicaid that a person has to show proof of seeking employment, if they are physically able to work, in order to receive Medicaid.

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its important to help people when they need help.

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Your "help" has created a helpless sub class.

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There is a laundry list of ways the privileged class has worked to limit upward mobility opportunities

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Wrong. It benefits those at the top to "help" the poor.

We're not having to bring in millions of illegals to work for nothing. The opportunities are there, the desire to move up is not. Millions of people from South of the border and the far east are coming to the USA and moving up the mobility ladder with ease.