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You don't know jack about my lifestyle, bub.



On Nov 6, 2008, at 9:57 AM, Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:

> > > I want to stop killing
> > people so oil companies can line their pockets.... I want them to  
> > stop
> > torturing people. I
> > want kids to stop being bombed.
>
> "Oil Company Pockets" is a bogus boogie man.  The real source of the  
> war is
> consumerism.  If the US had not invaded Iraq to stop the oil non- 
> dollar oil
> bourse, our economy would have collapsed years ago.  Every person  
> who is a
> non-producer, the executives, those on pensions, those on SS, those  
> living by stock
> [former] stock profits, those on disability, those who work "jobs" of
> coordinating this and facilitating that, but who produce nothing ...  
> all those people
> have been supported by the rest of the world paying us a petro-dollar
> dividend.  Hussein was about to end that with a major non-dollar oil  
> bourse.  The war
> had way more to do with keeping you in a diesel truck than it had to  
> do with
> oil company profits.
>
> > I want them to pay  attention to the environment.... . I want solar  
> > and
> wind power explored. ...I'm willing to pay my fair share for that.
>
> Are you?  It isn't about taxes.  Go to your breaker box and pull the  
> main
> breaker.  Then go get a couple of heavy duty truck batteries and run  
> your house
> today on only the electricity from those.  THAT's what you pay for  
> solar and
> wind.  It means you get less electricity, far, far, less.
>
>
> > I want every  > single person in this country to know if they get  
> > sick,
> > they can get
> > cared for.  I'm willing to pay my fair share for that.
>
> There's a price to pay for that too.  Every person who is simply  
> obese or who
> wrecked their health through bad habits or a sedentary live could  
> not get the
> same level of medical care as those who are actually sick.  THat  
> universal
> coverage could not cover imagined illnesses such as ADHD, restless  
> leg syndrome,
> and all those people who just want sympathy and attention by self- 
> diagnosing
> all manner of illnesses.
>
>
> > > Tax me, but live up to the bargain, and do the right thing. Stop
> > spending America's blood and tears for private profiteering.
>
> We are spending America's blood and tears to preserve your  
> lifestyle, not for
> profiteering.  It isn't about taxes, it is about consumerism.
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