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1. Barack Obama On Best Political Blogs » Redistribution Of Halloween Candy?
   October 31, 2008 - 09:25 AM on October 31st, 2008

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3. snowy egret
   November 1, 2008 - 08:28 AM on November 1st, 2008

   And demacrtas get absolutly nothing from the GREAT PUMPKIN but a bunch of rotten pumpkin seeds

4. gary considerate
   November 1, 2008 - 09:44 AM on November 1st, 2008

   Maybe the kids that the candy was going to be taken from were kids whose parents are wealthy enough to buy the candy factory, or maybe they even own the candy factory. Maybe the kids that were going to be given the candy by the democrats are kids that can’t go trick or treating because they are sick and can’t walk, or live in neighborhoods where it is not safe to go out at night trick or treating.Why is it that republicans always believe that everything government does is something bad. If it truely is, then we need to work on the honorable intentions of our government issues, not on the stingy attributes of wealthy republicans.I was always taught by my parents to be generous to those less fortunate.

5. Pam
   November 1, 2008 - 10:03 AM on November 1st, 2008

   If the democrat wants to give it to sick kids, dig into your own pocket, buy a gift and give it to the kid(s).

   Unsafe neighborhoods? Really? And who is to blame for that? “I didn’t see anything”..let’s not pretend you don’t know what I am referring to. Malls are a great place for the kids on Halloween.

   I believe you missed the part of the lesson that it was your money that you were suppose to use..

6. gary considerate
   November 1, 2008 - 11:49 AM on November 1st, 2008

   Actually, I think you hit the point when you said….if the “Democrat” wants to give……we are all Americans

7. Pam
   November 1, 2008 - 01:55 PM on November 1st, 2008

   What does the fact that we are all Americans have to do with it..and in case you haven’t heard, taxpayers money is funding Obama’s illegal alien aunt, that is a fugitive from the law..So let’s get back to the point..the point is, I will decide who recives my money..not you..Start using your own money before you start tapping into other people’s.

8. Robert
   November 1, 2008 - 03:24 PM on November 1st, 2008

   ESPECIALLY if the kids that the candy is taken from are rich, then nearly ALL should be taken! Because those kids are likely white racist oppressors! Then their parents should be sent to reeducation camps, or gulags, until they are ready to accept the new religion!

   Now if any of that sounds good to you, you must be an Obama supporter!

9. Robert
   November 1, 2008 - 03:26 PM on November 1st, 2008

   btw those who want to destroy traditional America, who want to throw out the Constitution, who want to plunge America into Socialism/Marxism and destroy what our Founders created, are NOT Americans.

10. joeschmoepolitico
    November 1, 2008 - 09:52 PM on November 1st, 2008

    Gary Considerate, have you never heard the expression, “Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he will eat for a lifetime?”Your statement, “Maybe the kids that the candy was going to be taken from were kids whose parents are wealthy enough to buy the candy factory, or maybe they even own the candy factory,” I find to be extremely troubling. Kind sir, I suspect your ideology is part of what is wrong with our great nation; yes let’s instill dependency on our children at a young age. Maybe somewhere back in time, a descendent of that wealthy family came to America and was indentured into servitude for seven years. And maybe after they served their time to pay the passage for their voyage, and maybe they still had enough time left in their lives to save a little money and pass it on to their children when they died. And maybe that cycle of working hard, saving their money, and passing it on continued for a few generations, until those benefactors bought their freedoms from the constraints of working for others. Society tends to forget that even if a person was born with a silver spoon, somewhere along their line of descendents, there is somebody that worked hard to achieve that wealth. We also tend to forget, that many white people came to America as “indentured servants;”many of whom were treated no better than slaves, yet they still pulled up their bootstraps and walked on. Factually, they sold their selves into slavery, so they could make a better life for their selves and their progeny. ? To me, that is the American dream, it is not owning a house, a car, and 1.5 children.
    It is my belief that our tax dollars were meant to go to our nation’s infrastructure; roads, water projects, the military, etc . . . Social security was to pay for itself; instead it has led to a society equivalent to that of a welfare state. I do not mind sharing my candy with those who CANNOT provide for themselves or with those who have worked hard all their lives and are no longer capable of providing for their selves; but I do mind sharing my candy with those who WILL NOT provide for themselves, and I do mind that the government leaves me no say as to who they intend to share it with. There is a sensible reason for the expression, “God helps those who help themselves;” It is just like at Christmas when they say “it is better to give than receive.”In helping yourself, you improve yourself; bettering ones self, betters those around you . . . it is contagious, just as a cyclical welfare state is contagious, and it feels good to help others and it is a part of what makes people better people. Likewise, constantly receiving help innately injures one’s pride if they have any self conscience. Furthermore, working hard may also allow a person to save enough money so they can move to a neighborhood that is safe for their kids to go trick or treating. Conjoined by the desperation exhibited in their surroundings, the cycle of perpetual handouts only reaffirms the feelings that one is doomed to failure. In the end, even if there is no wealth passed on, instilling frugalality and a good work ethic helps a person’s descendents self actualize and better provide for their selves. As a 10th generation American, I must agree with the words of Thomas Jefferson, who said, “I hold these truths to be (sacred and undeniable . . . his original wording) self-evident that all men are created equal; to me that equality not only means that they are equal in the liberties they possess, but that they are also equally responsible for working hard to provide for their existence. At the same token, they and equally responsibility in keeping our country the great place it was meant to be, anything else is treasonous. And for the record, if you come trying to collect my hard earned candy without a justifiable reason; you will have to pry it from my cold dead fingers, along with a few other of my possessions.

11. Robert
    November 2, 2008 - 10:07 AM on November 2nd, 2008

    The Leftists/Socialists/Democrites have changed that expression to suit themselves: Create a system that provides fish, and as more people become dependent, the providers remain in power.

12. Nadia
    November 2, 2008 - 11:08 PM on November 2nd, 2008

    Gary Considerate, you said, “I was always taught by my parents to be generous to those less fortunate.” Well, then, you should not need a government that forces you to be generous. Sure, we should all give more if we have more. That is generosity and charity. When you are forced to “give”, it is no longer any of those things.
    If you went to a nice restaurant and ordered a steak with a baked potato, soup, and a salad, and the waitress asked you if you would be so kind to donate your soup & salad to the table in the corner over there because those people were starving and poor, sure. If you ordered the same thing and they did not bring your soup or salad and charged you the same price. . .then when you questioned said that they donated them to someone less fortunate, admit it. . .you would be ticked off. It is only charity and patriotism and neighborliness and of that when it is a choice made by each person, not when it is forced.

13. gary considerate
    November 3, 2008 - 07:47 AM on November 3rd, 2008

    Nadia, I appreciate your comments, however, in my opinion, it all depends. If I was sitting in a restaurant, and there were two people at a table, and I watched them order one of everything on the menu, and they just kept ordering and ordering until they had so much food that they good feed the whole restaurant, and there were 2 people sitting in the corner of the restaurant that looked like they hadn’t had a meal in a week (and not because they are lazy and don’t work), I would hope that the server would redirect a little bit of the first couple’s food to the starving couple.That’s how I feel, whether anyone on this site likes it or not…..period!

14. Pam
    November 3, 2008 - 08:18 AM on November 3rd, 2008

    Well Gary, if you are sitting there and you see those 2 people sitting in the corner of the restaurant that looked like they hadn’t had a meal in a week (and not because they are lazy and don’t work), why not get up and give them your meal? Why are you giving away someone else’s meal?

15. gary considerate
    November 3, 2008 - 08:27 AM on November 3rd, 2008

    Pam, the answer is that I would give them some of my meal, maybe all of it. My only point is that there are some people who have so much and never even think about the world and people around them, such as the execs from the banks and investment firms that would take money from our gov & still retain their extravagant lifestyles, and not think twice about it.

16. Robert
    November 3, 2008 - 10:10 AM on November 3rd, 2008

    And the Limousine Liberals who “feeeeeel” so compassionate but dine on champagne and caviar lunches or jet around in their private jets and give a paltry sum of their income to charity even as they demagogue and pontificate about how wonderful they are.

    While the hated, mean spirited Republicans who give a substantial portion of their income to charity just quietly give even as they are assumed by the stupid to be the evil misers the Democrites paint them to be.

17. gary considerate
    November 3, 2008 - 02:00 PM on November 3rd, 2008

    Robert, I think you need some help with “assumption management”. I don’t remember saying anything in my previous comments about whether the people who were gorging themselves with 10 times as much food as they could ever eat themselves, were Democrats or Republicans. They could have well been Democrats. That’s exactly why I said in one of my first set of comments, that we are all Americans. There are grossly wealthy people who are tremendously selfish, who are Democrats, Republicans, Independents, or political athiests.

    Robert, I don’t hate you, I don’t hate republicans, I don’t hate anyone because of their political beliefs, or any of their beliefs, unless they try to curtail my own. A person who is an evil miser can be Republican, they can be a Democrat, so relax, nobody is trying to paint you or your afilliated party badly. If it makes you feel better, I’ll say that the 2 people gorging themselves at the restaurant were Democrats. Do you feel better now?

18. Pam
    November 3, 2008 - 02:23 PM on November 3rd, 2008

    Gary, who are you to decide what is so much? What about the kid that busts his ass in each school that gets him the degree he needs to enter the workforce making a 6 figure salary.. his buddy does just enough to get by and graduate high school..he enters the workforce in an unskilled job and the best he can hope for is maybe mid 5 figures…Does the successful one owe the less successful one a handout?

19. Pam
    November 3, 2008 - 02:23 PM on November 3rd, 2008

    And Gary,

    Why are you concerned with what other people are ordering?

20. Robert
    November 3, 2008 - 02:46 PM on November 3rd, 2008

    Gary I never said you said anything about Democrats or Republicans. I was simply making my own point that so many of the Libs and Democrats who talk about the poor are hypocrites.

    That’s why I call them “Democrites”.

21. blah
    November 3, 2008 - 03:29 PM on November 3rd, 2008

    ha !You people are so weird.By the way, are comments supposed to be as long as a 2 paged essay?!

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