I wish our resident Dems would actually explain their support for Dem policies

I have a good friend that is very liberal. He's a teacher. We rarely talk politics, but he is one of those rare libs that actually makes a little sense.

The other day we were talking about fundraising that his students do to earn their semi annual class trip. He was saying that most teachers put all the funds the students raise into a general fund. But he puts his students funds into separate accounts for each student because he doesn't think it's fair that certain students do all the work and don't get rewarded.

I was speechless.

So you cannot explain leftist policies?

You cannot raise enough fricking taxes to “pay” for all of the idiotic ideas of the left.

Never

No way

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Im curious how with lower taxes and smaller budgets we have increased our national debt to over a trillion dollars

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In what year did the US have a smaller national budget.

Ummm...our national debt is well over a trillion dollars...What are you talking about?

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would actually explain their support for Dem policies

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Obedience without question. Loyalty until Underverse come.

Their general philosophy works as follows based on the premise that no one should ever be poor.
Level the playing field through government intervention, regulation and taxation so that the bottom rises up and the top comes down to a perceived “utopian” sweet spot.

Healthcare is a big one: they believe that no one deserves better access to healthcare so if they can Force the wealthy into a watered down gov system, it lessens the divide between the top and bottom since the bottom gets access to that same watered down system. This also leads to less power for the employer who no longer doles out health insurance through work. Note that Bernie and eliz warren are dead set against employers offering private health insurance. Take away power from the employer.

Otherwise, it’s all about economic spread of wealth. The problem becomes what to do when you run out of other peoples money and/or the natural resources that they’d need to generate money.
Russia relies on their oil money to fund their government. Well it get dicey when that price drops...
then consider the desire to move away from fossil fuels and there is no resource that the gov can use to fund itself! Lol. Total imbiciles.

Oh, and They don’t tell you that the government workers and politicians are exempt and end up in the upper economic tier.

Conservatives have come to the realization that poor people will always exist. There’s no point in trying to rig a system to level it out. Survival of the fittest comes into play. Get yourself prepared for life and strive to succeed. Free markets will sort it out.

The middle ground is where America has generally been but it’s shifting to a Europen socialistic model. Healthcare and Private wealth is in the crosshairs right now.

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Explain to me the relationship between fiscal responsibility and the national debt? Im curious how with lower taxes and smaller budgets we have increased our national debt to over a trillion dollars? What national crisis have we experienced? Why dont you talk about ther numbers more often or we just going to ignore facts per usual

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ROFLMAO

OP, "Will Democrats explain they're stances?"

mailmoron "Nope, not gonna do it, your ideas are bad"

The rest of you in this thread SUCK at spotting a thread derailer.

Mailman's entire purpose with his post was to change the thread away from the OP question and you all fricking fell for it

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ou think this was his intention though? Looked to me like just took a wrong turn in Albuquerque. Unknowingly. Maybe just went off on a wrong tangent

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yes it was obviously his intention. how long have you been on message boards? They do this literally every time. if a thread is started where they don't like the subject they simply come in and get everybody else to talk about a different subject

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So he is a hypocrite and doesn't even know it?

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Pretty much. I feel like he is one of those that grew up Democrat because his parents are hardcore liberals and he just hasn't grown out of it.

It just cracked me up when he said all that about deserving to keep what they earned and it wasn't fair for it to go in the general fund.