AlphaCentauri (1000+ posts) Fri May-02-08 12:14 PM
Response to Reply #3
9. we have so many freedoms but we are not free
Here we go again!
we do not own our homes the mortgage company does at least for the next 40 years, that is half of the live of a human.
Your home is considered an asset and an excellent investment if you didn't pay too much for it. It builds equity...make your payments on time, pay a little extra on the principle when you can, make improvements that will add to it's value and it will have been worth it. The mortgage company, unlike a rental, won't tell you you can't add another bathroom, get new carpet, or paint it orange and pink. Unless you're looking to refinance or use some of your equity for something they don't even bother to show up and inspect like owners of a rental do. It's YOURS.
we can become homeless in a day going to the emergency room, we know poverty is part of our freedom.
No we can't. No one ever walked into an emergency room in the morning, was treated for a broken arm and walked out homeless, unless that person had already defaulted on their loan. Poverty may be "part" of our freedom (though I don't honestly think one has anything to do with the other) and so is the opportunity to lift ourselves out of poverty.
We have to pay taxes if not we can go to jail, that is part of our freedom too.
Taxes are NOT part of our freedom. And really, social programs take the biggest chunk of our tax dollars...just WHO is responsible for the majority of those?
We can't afford college education for our kids, that's going to make them free.
We're already free. Education and freedom are two very different things. There are community colleges everywhere. They're inexpensive and the quality of the education is as good as any 4 year college, you may not get a degree in astrophysics but there are plenty of 2 year programs that can lead to a fine and satisfying career that adequately pays the bills. You can use that equity in your home (provided you didn't lose it when you went to the emergency room for a sore throat last week) to pay for college. You can instill in your child from the beginning a good work ethic that opens the door to many scholarship opportunities. And college isn't the only route to a successful life. Not everyone wants to major in Russian Literature. Military service, apprenticeships, etc. can be avenues to great careers.
We can't elect our president by popular vote, thats another part of our freedom.
Well, I guess this is one thing we have in common with Cuba then, because they can't either. As someone from a small state, I appreciate the way our founders set things up. New York and L.A. are hardly the backbone of the nation, their "wants and needs" shouldn't overshadow those of us in flyover country (by the way...the next time you are flying by, you might want to look down and see where your food comes from and then try to imagine what would happen if your big city wet dreams and environmental whackoism decided they knew more about growing food than farmers).
We have to elect our representatives on tuesday so the lower working class don't have a change to vote.
OK, this one has me a bit stumped. Do we make "lower working classes" work from 6 in the morning until after the polls close on election Tuesday? I live in a vote by mail state, but it hasn't always been that way and I've gone to a polling place many times. I was under the impression they generally opened fairly early in the morning, were open during lunch hour, and stayed open into the evening giving everyone who wanted to a chance to vote. If it's important to you, you'll find a way...one of those silly little "responsibilities" we have to endure to protect our "rights".
Freedom freedom freeedom...
yep! here in America we can only achieve 1 or 2 priorities what about the rest..
You could move. I'm so sick of you idiots complaining all the time. Say these things in Cuba or China and someone will be knocking on your door in the middle of the night. Say them in Iran and they'll probably be knocking with one hand and have a sword in the other. Honestly, I think you guys get some kind of thrill saying you're an American...but you don't want to be, because if you really felt that way, you'd move somewhere more to your liking...if dirt poor Mexicans can do it, then by God you can. Maybe you can borrow the raft of the next group of Cuban refugees and offer to take it back for them.
Cindie
