I just think that it's splitting hairs over someone you already didn't care for. It's just a fact that Veterans Day honoring all Vets... and Memorial Day honoring deceased Vets is a pretty close thing no matter how you look at it.
I disagree, the difference is big. One day is to honor all Veterans for their service and one is to honor all who gave the ultimate price. The second is a much larger honor. It still comes down to either he did not know the difference, did not care about the difference or used a very special day for political gain. It’s really not about defending McCain or Bush who both gave very nice tributes to the fallen, as it is calling out Obama.
Well hence the rub. The programs you think a relevant and important others may not and have preferences of their own. In a representative democracy or Republic there are going to be some things some people don't care for that others absolutely see as a necessity.
Yes but no one would be funding what they think is frivolous, many republican projects would fall by the way, like the bridge to no where and I am sure other things I don’t even know about but if I did I would be spittin mad. I think the list would be larger with Dems since they are more big government, but lately maybe the list would be a lot closer since the new republicans are as big government as democrats.
Well that's all good but you must be aware that your circumstance is certainly not everyone's circumstance. I've known people in bad economic times that couldn't get anything over minimum wage quickly after making 5 times that. They could not support their family on that. They needed a little breathing room to job hunt. And they ended up finding something that only cut their pay by a third after 2 or 3 months of searching.
I should have been more specific on the unemployment. I am not against it but it is really abused. I have a lot of friends that worked at the cannery, they like the job because canning fruits and veggies is a seasonal job, they work a portion of the year then they get their unemployment benefits till the season starts up again. They could easily make the same money working somewhere else but why if they can get the check and fill a form out once a week.
The job I ended up taking instead of doing the waiting week paid min wage and was still more than the unemployment benefits, when I ask others what they get paid from unemployment it usually is the check is about the same as min wage, but they think working for min wage is beneath them. I do not think me working for min wage to take care of myself so other tax payers do not have to take care of me is beneath me.
But I am all for the program when used appropriately.
I don't see educational grants as stealing from anybody. I see them as a very smart and useful way to not only help people but help the overall economy, that then helps everybody else as well. Plus it strengthens our nation as a whole... we're overall smarter.
We'll just have to agree to disagree on this one.
It is just that I know poor white kids who could use the help as much as me, yet they do not get anything. And I do not like the stigma of people wondering did I succeed because the government gave me a hand out or because I pulled up my boot straps and decided I wanted a better life than the one I was born into. I do not know if you are a minority or not but when you are one and people have ask about any of your successes it is so irritating (at least for me) when I can read the faces of people who wonder if you did it on your own or did you get special treatment because of your minority status.
But that's not true. The Federal governments money that goes to planned parenthood is spent on contraception and sex education and sexually transmitted disease and a whole host of other sex related areas. Now they do also provide abortion services to women but those are paid for by the women themselves they are not free.
If I pay your rent and buy your food monthly that sure leaves you a lot of extra money for beer. It is the same thing here. If the government is paying for their staff and building and education exc. They have more of their own money to do what they like to do most, give apportions. And no not everyone having one pays for it. Many get them free and none really pay full price. Did you not hear about the donors who called to want to donate money just to abort black babies? And the receptionist assured them that Yes you can! The whole program is horrid. I wish it had zero federal dollars and was taxed like a business.
I don't see it ever being that way though because it's an overall democracy issue. The majority sets the course
People using their tax money to pay for programs they approve of would work, I understand what you are saying, the majority rules. But don’t you agree we have to change the way things are done in Washington? YES WE CAN! Have hope! Don’t just accept politics as usual. See I am buying into some of the slogans too
Really we could if it was well thought out. At least the controversial issues like money that goes to planned parent hood, and on the right side, money that goes to religious schools. It could be done if we wanted to.
John McSame put up some do nothing Bill that he knew wouldn't pass, that even his own Party rebuffed just to run and hide from the reality that he likes the troops a lot when they're fighting. 
