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Offline ChuckJ

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Entitlement mentality
« on: March 21, 2010, 05:43:01 PM »
From where does this entitlement mentality that the DUers and other liberals have come? You see it almost every day on DU. This health care issue just seems to magnify it. I don't fault anyone for needing helping hand. Almost all of us at some time or another in life need some sort of helping hand, but the DUers aren't interested in a helping hand. They want a handout. Which part of the Constitution grants them a handout? Even the Declaration of Independence (clearly not the law of the land) does not grant handouts. 
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Re: Entitlement mentality
« Reply #1 on: March 21, 2010, 05:51:17 PM »
Some species or off-shoots within a specie are not fit for survival. DU'ers--primitive though they are--are award of their unfitness but still desire survival. They would have their survival subsidized by their betters.
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Re: Entitlement mentality
« Reply #2 on: March 21, 2010, 06:03:08 PM »
You have to put yourself in the mindset of a 5 year old to grasp things.
That is their mentality and view of the world.
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Re: Entitlement mentality
« Reply #3 on: March 21, 2010, 06:08:44 PM »
They are a product of the fact that our medical science, and nanny state now allow the "shallow end of the gene pool" to survive, when a scant half-century ago, most of them would have been "selected out".....

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Re: Entitlement mentality
« Reply #4 on: March 21, 2010, 06:09:02 PM »
Quote from: Mr Snuggle Bunny on March 21, 2010, 05:51:17 PM
Some species or off-shoots within a specie are not fit for survival. DU'ers--primitive though they are--are award of their unfitness but still desire survival. They would have their survival subsidized by their betters.

Snugs nailed it. DUmmies are to sick, stupid and lazy to fend for themselves. Darwin would have claimed them when they were young if it wasn't for the Democrat Gubbamint keeping them around for their votes.
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Re: Entitlement mentality
« Reply #5 on: March 21, 2010, 06:19:09 PM »
Personally I think it is a bunch of losers who have gotten together and figured out they are a bunch of losers.  When that happens instead of telling each other what they SHOULD be telling each other they slap each other on the back and say "Well, you gave it your best shot.  It's best if you just give up now instead of continuing to try and fail".

No one wants to be the only loser in the pool so you try to pull everyone back in with you and keep as many there as possible.  When someone does manage to climb out you make fun of them and try to embarrass them in front of all your loser buddies.  You try to get that one back in the pool so you can point to their failure as yet another reason not to try.

That's just how I see it though.  You watch their bitching, pissing and moaning and you realize they are nothing but losers who surround themselves with losers and throw rocks at anything successful. 

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Re: Entitlement mentality
« Reply #6 on: March 21, 2010, 06:26:48 PM »
Quote from: Carl on March 21, 2010, 06:03:08 PM
You have to put yourself in the mindset of a 5 year old to grasp things.
That is their mentality and view of the world.

5 year olds function on a higher level than the DUmmies.
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Re: Entitlement mentality
« Reply #7 on: March 21, 2010, 06:37:46 PM »
Quote from: blitzkrieg_17 on March 21, 2010, 06:26:48 PM
5 year olds function on a higher level than the DUmmies.

Closer to two year olds.  They can sit there on the floor playing happily with their own toys until another kid shows up with something they don't have.  They would rather break all the toys than to let someone have something they don't don't.
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Re: Entitlement mentality
« Reply #8 on: March 21, 2010, 07:06:55 PM »
Quote from: ChuckJ on March 21, 2010, 05:43:01 PM
From where does this entitlement mentality that the DUers and other liberals have come? You see it almost every day on DU. This health care issue just seems to magnify it. I don't fault anyone for needing helping hand. Almost all of us at some time or another in life need some sort of helping hand, but the DUers aren't interested in a helping hand. They want a handout. Which part of the Constitution grants them a handout? Even the Declaration of Independence (clearly not the law of the land) does not grant handouts. 

Difference is that you would humbly ask for it and they demand it.
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Re: Entitlement mentality
« Reply #9 on: March 22, 2010, 04:42:13 AM »
Quote from: ChuckJ on March 21, 2010, 05:43:01 PM
From where does this entitlement mentality that the DUers and other liberals have come? You see it almost every day on DU. This health care issue just seems to magnify it. I don't fault anyone for needing helping hand. Almost all of us at some time or another in life need some sort of helping hand, but the DUers aren't interested in a helping hand. They want a handout. Which part of the Constitution grants them a handout? Even the Declaration of Independence (clearly not the law of the land) does not grant handouts. 
I think it started when schools decided that everybody had to win and there were no losers. Tellin the kiddies that "they were oh so special" and that "they deserved everything they wanted" without having to work for it.
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Re: Entitlement mentality
« Reply #10 on: March 22, 2010, 07:18:13 AM »
With all due respect to those of you from that generation, this entitlement mentality comes from the Baby Boom generation, in my opinion. Their parents survived World War II--and before that, the Great Depression. Their grandparents survived World War I and the influenza epidemic.

They were handed a country where America was the dominant superpower--even during the Cold War, was there any real competition? They were handed the keys to the number one economic machine in the history of the world. They treated it like a spoiled teenager treats a house when his parents are away for the weekend.

That generation forced the removal of prayer in schools. They forced the legalization of abortion. Their "sexual revolution" gave the word AIDS and explosive outbreaks of STDs.

Thanks, Dr. Spock. Thanks, Baby Boomers.

--of course, there are exceptions to this rule, but not enough, unfortunately.
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