Comments on: Redistribution Of Halloween Candy?

By: blah

blah — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:29:27 +0000

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

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 20:46:23 +0000

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”.

By: Pam

Pam — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 20:23:38 +0000

And Gary,

Why are you concerned with what other people are ordering?

By: Pam

Pam — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 20:23:02 +0000

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?

By: gary considerate

gary considerate — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 20:00:23 +0000

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?

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 16:10:44 +0000

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.

By: gary considerate

gary considerate — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:27:23 +0000

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.

By: Pam

Pam — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:18:17 +0000

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?

By: gary considerate

gary considerate — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 13:47:23 +0000

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!

By: Nadia

Nadia — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 05:08:58 +0000

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.