Just like all successful liberals. To think they think the conservatives are putting the poor down.
Well, actually, this begs all sorts of questions for both the dysmenopausal Kansas schoolteacher and the mike_c primitive, both on the public payroll, and both within the next few years destined to retire with healthy pensions; pensions financed by our capitalistic system.
If the dysmenopausal Kansas schoolteacher and the mike_c primitive are so against our "system," why don't they reject the benefits the "system" gives them, such as their pensions?
I'm sure the pension funds of both are healthy because of investments in industries with whom the dysmenopausal Kansas schoolteacher and the mike_c primitive disagree; armaments, pharmaceuticals, petroleum, whatnot.
Both the dysmenopausal Kansas schoolteacher and the mike_c primitive allege to be morally superior to we materialistic money-grabbing conservatives and Republicans; why don't they prove it then, matching their actions with their mouths?
franksolich alas finds it necessary to wax autobiographical now, with the standard and usual
caveat that one must always keep in mind franksolich has no wife or children or others dependent upon him, and so finds it easy to make the decisions he does; if the well-being of someone else were involved, the decision would probably be different.
In 1987, I received notice of an inheritance from a late aunt of mine, who had left me $16,187 and some cents.
At the time, I was just out of college, poor as a church-mouse, living on my wits (and no social services); just poorer than Hell, poorer than a Mississippi sharecropper.
I turned down the bequest, much to the indignation (and sacrifice of a few friendships, too) of others.
Turned it down; didn't want to have anything to do with it.
This particular aunt had always loathed and detested my parents (my mother was an older sister of hers), for reasons never explained to me. But later in life, long after my parents were dead, for some peculiar reason she took a liking to me (although similar amounts were left to other nephews and nieces).
My attitude, as I explained in a letter to the estate attorney, was that my long-dead parents had already given me all and everything I needed, and so I didn't want to have anything to do with it.
Now, if the materialistic money-grubbing selfish right-winger franksolich found it easy to reject benefits from something he found morally repugnant, how much easier it should be for the dysmenopausal Kansas schoolteacher and the mike_c primitive to reject those benefits offered them from sources they despise?
I think it should be pretty easy, and I encourage both of them to follow franksolich's lead.
